TV airplay chart: Ashanti and Ice Cube give an urban tint to TV in the New Year, with Eminem and Ciara among the challenges too.(TV)

1. Ashanti

Making a 137-69 jump on the radio airplay chart, Ashanti's new single Only U is enjoying even better support on TV. The video--which features one of R&B's favorite pieces of eye candy in no fewer than 30 fetching outfits in the video--is clearly the charm and helped the track to register 204 spins from Music Control TV panel members last week. Major contributors were Flaunt (58 plays), Kiss TV and BS (41 apiece) and MTV Base (40).

2. Ice Cube

Proving its retail mettle by spending a fifth straight week in the OCC Top 10, Ice Cube's You Can Do It has slowly been winning radio and TV programmers over, reaching new highs on both charts this week. Its TV profile is second only to Ashanti's Only U, as it leaps 7-2 this week, the culmination of a 10-week climb, which has seen it increase support every week on its way up from a debut position of number 98.

 
TV Airplay Chart 
 
This  Last 
Week  Week  Artist Title                                Label   Plays 
 
  1     4   ASHANTI ONLY YOU                          MERCURY     379 
 
  2     7   ICE CUBE FEAT. MACK 10 
            & MS TOI YOU CAN DO IT       ALL AROUND THE WORLD     340 
 
  3    12   GOOD CHARLOTTE 
            I JUST WANNA LIVE                            EPIC     328 
 
  4     3   LEMAR 
            IF THERE'S ANY JUSTICE                       SONY     327 
 
  5    11   BLUE FEAT. KOOL & 
            THE GANG & LIL KIM 
            GET DOWN ON IT                           INNOCENT     326 
 
  6     6   KYLIE MINOGUE 
            I BELIEVE IN YOU                       PARLOPHONE     324 
 
  7     8   DESTINY'S CHILD 
            LOSE MY BREATH                           COLUMBIA     310 
 
  8     2   GREEN DAY BOULEVARD 
            OF BROKEN DREAMS                          REPRISE     297 
 
  8     9   DESTINY'S CHILD FEAT. 
            T.I. & LI WAYNE SOLDIER                  COLUMBIA     297 
 
 10    17   BRIAN MCFADDEN & DELTA 
            GOODREM ALMOST THERE                         SONY     288 
 
 11    13   GWEN STEFANI WHAT 
            YOU WAITING FOR                        INTERSCOPE     275 
 
 11    19   EMINEM LIKE TOY SOLDIERS               AFTERMATH/ 
                                           INTERSCOPE/POLYDOR     275 
 
 13     5   NATASHA BEDINGFIELD 
            UNWRITTEN                              PHONOGENIC     268 
 
 14    32   CIARA FEAT. PETEY 
            PABLO GOODIES                              LAFACE     267 
 
 15    14   EMINEM JUST LOSE IT                    INTERSCOPE     246 
 
 16    24   CHRISTINA AGUILERA & 
            MISSY ELLIOTT CAR WASH                    POLYDOR     227 
 
 17    32   UNITING NATIONS 
            OUT OF TOUCH                                GUSTO     215 
 
 18    36   THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS 
            GALVANIZE                          FREESTYLE DUST     203 
 
 18    34   SCISSOR SISTERS 
            FILTHY/GORGEOUS                           POLYDOR     203 
 
 20    10   GIRLS ALOUD 
            I'LL STAND BY YOU                         POLYDOR     197 
 
 21    28   ROOSTER STARING 
            AT THE SUN                             BRIGHTSIDE     196 
 
 22    18   JAMELIA STOP                           PARLOPHONE     182 
 
 23    22   THE KILLERS 
            SOMEBODY TOLD ME                      LIZARD KING     181 
 
 24    47   ERIC PRYDZ CALL ON ME                        DATA     179 
 
 24    29   LUCIE SILVAS BREATHE IN                   MERCURY     179 
 
 26     1   BAND AID 20 DO THEY KNOW 
            IT'S CHRISTMAS?                           MERCURY     174 
 
 27    15   U2 VERTIGO                                 ISLAND     173 
 
 28    21   USHER & ALICIA KEYS 
            MY BOO                                     LAFACE     172 
 
 28    41   KINGS OF LEON FOUR KICKS             HAND ME DOWN     172 
 
 28    29   ASHLEE SIMPSON LALA                        GEFFEN     172 
 
 31    26   MAROON 5 SUNDAY MORNING                         J     169 
 
 32    65   COMMANDER TOM ATTENTION                      DATA     158 
 
 33    46   HOUSTON AIN'T 
            NOTHING WRONG                             CAPITOL     154 
 
 34    39   NELLY NA-NANA-NA                           ISLAND     153 
 
 35    16   RONAN KEATING FEAT. 
            YUSUF FATHER & SON                        POLYDOR     152 
 
 36    78   BRITNEY SPEARS TOXIC                         JIVE     150 
 
 37    40   JOSS STONE RIGHT 
            TO BE WRONG                            RELENTLESS     149 
 
 38    45   DARIUS LIVE TWICE                       BRILLIANT     148 
 
 39    49   FEEDER TUMBLE AND FALL                       ECHO     145 
 
 40    63   RONI SIZE/BEVERLEY 
            KNIGHT/DYNAMITE MC 
            NO MORE                                FULL CYCLE     144 
 
(a) Highest Entry 
 
(b) Highest Top 40 Climber 
 
MTV MOST PLAYED 
 
This  Last  ARTIST TITLE                                        Label 
 
  1     4   GWEN STEFANI WHAT YOU WAITING FOR              INTERSCOPE 
 
  2     4   KEANE THIS IS THE LAST TIME                        ISLAND 
 
  2     4   GREEN DAY BOULEVARD OF BROKEN 
            DREAMS                                            REPRISE 
 
  2    13   SCISSOR SISTERS FILTHY/GORGEOUS                   POLYDOR 
 
  5     2   DESTINY'S CHILD LOSE MY BREATH                   COLUMBIA 
 
  5   (N)   SOUL CENTRAL STRINGS OF LIFE                     ...