Chart Watch: "We Are The World" the 21st Century's Highest Charting All-Star Charity Single

    The top selling download last week was "We Are The World 25".  The updated version (which sounds worse on every listen) sold 260,000 copies in the two days Billboard counted towards the week of February 27.  Those sales, along with very minimal airplay, were good enough to debut at No. 2 on the Hot 100 behind "Tik Tok".

    The No. 2 placing makes "We Are The World 25" the highest charting all-star charity single of the 21st century and the fourth highest charting in the history of the Hot 100.  Check out the other songs after the jump.

No. 1 (four weeks), "We Are the World," USA for Africa, 1985
No. 1 (four weeks), "That's What Friends Are For," Dionne & Friends (Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder), 1985
No. 1 (one week), "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me," George Michael/Elton John, 1991
No. 2 (to date), "We Are the World 25: For Haiti," Artists for Haiti, 2010
No. 4, "God Bless the U.S.A.," American Idol Finalists, 2003
No. 11, "Voices That Care," Voices That Care, 1991
No. 11, "Just Stand Up!," Stand Up to Cancer, 2008
No. 13, "Do They Know It's Christmas?," Band-Aid, 1985
No. 20, "Send It On," Disney's Friends for Change, 2009
No. 27, "What's Going On," Artists Against Aids, 2001
No. 35, "We're All in the Same Gang," the West Coast Rap All-Stars, 1990

    "We Are The World 25" is also the third song that is a remake of a 1985 No. 1 to make the chart in the past year.  Wham! feat. George Michael's "Careless Whisper" was covered by Seether who took the song to No. 63  last May and was followed by Mariah Carey's cover of Foreigner's "I Want To Know What Love Is" which peaked at No. 60 last October.

1. "Tik Tok" - Ke$ha (9th week at No. 1)
2. "We Are The World 25" - Artists for Haiti (debut)
3. "Imma Be" - Black Eyed Peas
4. "BedRock" - Young Money feat. Lloyd
5. "Bad Romance" - Lady Gaga
6. "Need You Now" - Lady Antebellum
7. "Hey, Soul Sister" - Train
8. "How Low" - Ludacris
9. "In My Head" - Jason DeRulo
10. "Sexy Chick" 0 David Guetta feat. Akon