Hello fam! I’ve had a long week and I’m about worn out. But hey, at least I got this post out. Well, this was definitely an interesting week. There was plenty of movement on the countdown, which means I have quite a bit to talk about. Before we get to this week’s fresh 45, here are the songs leaving us this week:
- Taylor Swift – Lover (#41)
- The Chainsmokers featuring 5 Seconds Of Summer – Who Do You Love (#42) [Spent 2 Weeks At #1]
- Rex Orange County – 10/10 (#43)
- Shawn Mendes featuring Camila Cabello – Señorita (#45)
The Countdown:
Last Week’s #1 Song: Harry Styles – Adore You
45. Sam Smith – How Do You Sleep? (#44) [–1]
44. OneRepublic – Wanted (#37) [–7]
43. Selena Gomez – Lose You To Love Me (#31) [–12]
42. PUBLIC – Make You Mine (#39) [–3]
41. Conan Gray – Maniac (DEBUT)
40. Lizzo – Good As Hell (#23) [–17]
39. Dan + Shay featuring Justin Bieber – 10,000 Hours (#35) [–4]
38. Trevor Daniel – Falling (#40) [+2]
37. Demi Lovato – I Love Me (DEBUT)
36. Ed Sheeran featuring Khalid – Beautiful People (#26) [–10] [Spent 1 Week At #1]
35. Justin Bieber featuring Quavo – Intentions (DEBUT)
34. Lizzo – Cuz I Love You (#33) [–1]
33. Lauv – Modern Loneliness (#32) [–1]
32. Maroon 5 – Memories (#28) [–4]
31. Selena Gomez – Rare (#21) [–10]
30. Niall Horan – No Judgement (DEBUT)
29. Post Malone featuring Travis Scott and Ozzy Osbourne – Take What You Want (#34) [+5]
28. Lewis Capaldi – Someone You Loved (#17) [–11] [Spent 3 Weeks At #1]
27. Halsey – Graveyard (#14) [–13]
26. 5 Seconds Of Summer – Easier (#20) [–6] [Spent 3 Weeks At #1]
25. The Weeknd – Heartless (#36) [+11]
24. Jonas Brothers – Only Human (#13) [–11] [Spent 1 Week At #1]
23. Tones And I – Dance Monkey (#29) [+6]
22. All Time Low – Some Kind Of Disaster (#15) [–7]
21. Blackbear – Me And Ur Ghost (#38) [+17]
20. Lady Gaga – Stupid Love (#25) [+5]
19. JP Saxe featuring Julia Michaels – If The World Was Ending (#19) [=]
18. Ed Sheeran featuring Camila Cabello featuring Cardi B – South Of The Border (#7) [–11]
17. Taylor Swift – The Man (#18) [+1]
16. The Weeknd – Blinding Lights (#27) [+11]
15. Alec Benjamin – Demons (#24) [+9]
14. Doja Cat – Say So (#16) [+2]
13. Fall Out Boy – Bob Dylan (#30) [+17]
12. Camila Cabello featuring DaBaby – My Oh My (#12) [=]
11. Halsey – You Should Be Sad (#22) [+11]
10. Arizona Zervas – Roxanne (#10) [=]
9. Billie Eilish – Everything I Wanted (#11) [+2]
8. Blackbear – Hot Girl Bummer (#8) [=]
7. Lewis Capaldi – Before You Go (#9) [+2]
6. Post Malone – Circles (#6) [=] [Spent 2 Weeks At #1]
5. Niall Horan – Nice To Meet Ya (#2) [–3] [Spent 8 Weeks At #1]
4. 5 Seconds Of Summer – Teeth (#4) [=] [Spent 2 Weeks At #1]
3. Jonas Brothers – What A Man Gotta Do (#3) [=]
2. Dua Lipa – Don’t Start Now (#5) [+3]
1. Harry Styles – Adore You (#1) [=] [5th Week At #1]
#1 Song This Week One Year Ago: Panic! At The Disco – Hey Look Ma, I Made It (2nd of 3 Weeks At #1)
Biggest DRRRRRRROP!!! Of The Week: Lizzo – Good As Hell (–17)
Biggest Jump Of The Week: Tie between Blackbear – Me And Ur Ghost and Fall Out Boy – Bob Dylan (+17)
New Entrants:
– We’ll start things off with newcomer Conan Gray, who makes his very first appearance on the countdown. He brings us his single titled Maniac. I wasn’t expecting much coming into the song. But after the first listen, I was quite impressed with how it turned out. Though he sounds similar to Alec Benjamin, I think he has a better voice. I do think he is a talented singer and he shows it in the chorus. But where the song really catches my attention is the production. I adore the beat and the groove is nice. Overall, he made a good first impression here. We’ll see if it ends up sticking around.
– Up next is the long-awaited return of a certain act that I’ve been anticipating for quite some time. Demi Lovato has her comeback single debuting straight to the countdown in the form of I Love Me. I’ve been a fan of Demi and her music for much of the past decade, what with songs such as Heart Attack, Give Your Heart A Break, and Cool For The Summer being one of my favorites. So naturally, I have high expectations for how her future music would turn out. I Love Me doesn’t live up to those songs, much to my disappointment. She has a good voice and in the majority of her songs, she uses it well. But here, she doesn’t really shine. Her vocals are fine, but the chorus leaves a lot to be desired. I’m not fond of the weird production and there isn’t much to the beat. I do question some of the lyrics here. I know Demi is a good songwriter because her older singles were a work of art. But she doesn’t show too much effort as the lyrics are somewhat lacking in depth. Yeah, I find this only to be okay. My opinion may change. But it’s not what I was hoping for in comeback single.
– Oh boy…next we have more of Justin Bieber with a song that’s even worse than Yummy. He gives us his collaboration with Quavo in Intentions. Justin Bieber has not impressed me with any of his music he has released so far this year. I’ve already talked about Yummy and how terrible it was. Honestly, I was thinking he couldn’t get any worse. But holy shit, I was so wrong. Yeah, this song is fucking garbage. We have a trap production that is shit and the beat is even worse. Looking at the lyrics, he basically tries to impress a girl with compliments. But honestly, he really should’ve taken a different approach because the lines are cringe-worthy as fuck. And don’t even get me started on Bieber himself. Why in the hell would he do a Chris Brown impersonation with no personality to speak of? It just doesn’t work. And Quavo doesn’t help the song in any way at all. Honestly, this is just a fucking mess all around. And I’m really hoping it does not become a hit, because if it does my reaction will NOT be pretty.
– And finally, we have more of Niall Horan with No Judgement. Unlike Justin Bieber, Niall has impressed me with his latest music. Nice To Meet Ya is a great song and while No Judgement doesn’t top that, it’s still pretty good for what it is. Sure, the production isn’t quite as divine as its predecessor. But it’s got good instrumentation and the beat is nice. The lyrical content is solid and it shows how good Niall is as a songwriter. He just recently released Heartbreak Weather, and I’ll be listening to that new album of his. It’s a nice song and I’m glad Niall made something worthwhile.
Best Debut Of The Week: Conan Gray – Maniac
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– As always, we’ll begin with our exits. To start, 10/10 was straight up underwhelming. It had no business being here in the first place (and by the way, this song is still a 3/10 if you ask me). Also, we must celebrate as we bid adieu to Who Do You Love! It’s about time! That one was long overdue. I’m glad that’s over with! As for the other two exits, both Lover and Señorita were two of my favorite songs of last year (#3 and #2, respectively) and I enjoyed them both. They each had a good run on the countdown. Farewell to Lover and Señorita. They will both be missed by me very much.
– Lose You To Love Me and Wanted both dropped down to the Bottom 5 this week. The former I enjoyed a lot and it saddens me that it’s time is coming to an end. As for the latter, it was not very interesting to begin with and it continues to fade on me. OneRepublic has had much better in the past. Wanted doesn’t top their previous singles unfortunately.
– Speaking of drops that I’m also saddened about, we have Good As Hell taking the Biggest DRRRRRRROP!!! Of The Week. I’m thankful this did well on the countdown and it was another massive hit for Lizzo. Heck, it even made the Hits 1 Year-End list for 2019 despite this being more of a 2020 hit. So that’s quite impressive.
– Speaking of Selena Gomez, Rare took quite a big drop this week. A bit surprising, but I don’t have any complaints since it’s not that good of a song. We’ll see if it ends up rebounding.
– It’s about damn time Someone You Loved FINALLY dropped out of the Top 20 altogether! I’ve been waiting for that drop and I’m glad it finally happened. We’ll see the end of this song soon enough.
– Graveyard dropping big isn’t much of a surprise since the song virtually died out elsewhere. It’s one of Halsey’s best solo songs since Bad At Love and I do wish it deserved better elsewhere. But I’m glad it did quite well on Hits 1 because they stan Halsey. Meanwhile, You Should Be Sad takes its place as it jumps into the Top 20. It’s a fine listen, but it’s not exactly memorable. Still, her attempt at going country is a lot better than her attempt at rock (Nightmare).
– Me And Ur Ghost and Bob Dylan both had the Biggest Jump Of The Week. I’m happy about one and the other is straight up bad. You can tell which one I’m referring to.
– Looks like Billie Eilish hasn’t lost her momentum as Everything I Wanted arrives in the Top 10. I’m pretty pleased with how it’s doing so far on the charts. I’m glad Billie is still getting recognition at this moment in time.
– It’s really nice to see Don’t Start Now hitting a new peak at #2! This is her highest-peaking single on Hits 1. I’m hoping this will get a #1 spot at some point in time. But I don’t mind Adore You getting another week at #1.
Hit-Bound:
- The Black Eyed Peas featuring J Balvin – RITMO (Bad Boys For Life)
- 5 Seconds Of Summer – Old Me
- Pink Sweat$ – 17 (DEBUT)
- Khalid featuring Disclosure – Know Your Worth
- Ashe – Moral Of The Story (DEBUT)
- Harry Styles – Watermelon Sugar
- Sam Smith – To Die For
- Louis Tomlinson – Don’t Let It Break Your Heart
- Powfu featuring Beabadoobee – Death Bed (Coffee For Your Head) (DEBUT)
- Surfaces – Sunday Best
- Monsta X – You Can’t Hold My Heart (DEBUT)
- Meghan Trainor featuring Nicki Minaj – Nice To Meet Ya
- The Chainsmokers featuring Blink-182 – P.S. I Hope You’re Happy (DEBUT)
- SZA featuring Justin Timberlake – The Other Side
- BROCKHAMPTON – Sugar
Entrant Reviews:
– Up first we have newcomer Pink Sweat$ with the single 17. Here’s a fun fact: he was born just 10 days after my birthday! That’s some cool stuff! Anyway, as far as the song goes, I think it’s okay. I quite like what the song is going for. But I’m not wild on how it was executed. Sure, his vocals are decent. But there’s not much in terms of the production. Yeah, this isn’t quite my cup of tea.
– Next, we have another newcomer. Her name is Ashe and she brings us Moral Of The Story. I don’t have too much to say about this one. I think it’s a pretty interesting song. I quite like the girl’s voice and the lyrical content is nice. I won’t call it great, but I like it enough to put it in green.
– We have collaboration between Powfu and Beabadoobee with Coffee For Your Head. To put it simply, this song straight up sucks. I’m not sure what these guys are going for. The production is terrible and I don’t like Powfu’s rapping. And my goodness, I cannot stand the backing vocals. Yeah, this blows. NEXT!
– We have more of K-Pop band Monsta X with their latest single You Can’t Hold My Heart. I think this is one of their weaker songs. Their vocals are fine. But the rest of the song isn’t exactly memorable. It’s a decent song, though and I’ll give them that.
– Finally, The Chainsmokers make their return once more, and they give us an interesting collaboration between them and the band Blink-182 in P.S. I Hope You’re Happy. I quite like this for the most part. It’s better than Push Your Luck for the most part. Their vocals are pretty good and I like the production here. We’ll see if it debuts soon.
Best Hit-Bound Entrant Of The Week: The Chainsmokers featuring Blink-182 – P.S. I Hope You’re Happy
Hit-Bound Breakdown:
0 – Putrid:
15. Surfaces – Sunday Best
14. Powfu featuring Beabadoobee – Coffee For Your Head
13. Meghan Trainor featuring Nicki Minaj – Nice To Meet Ya
12. The Black Eyed Peas featuring J Balvin – RITMO (Bad Boys For Life)
1 – Bad:
None!
2 – Mediocre:
None!
3 – Decent:
11. Monsta X – You Can’t Hold My Heart
10. Pink Sweat$ – 17
9. 5 Seconds Of Summer – Old Me
4 – Good:
8. Ashe – Moral Of The Story
5 – Great:
7. Harry Styles – Watermelon Sugar
6. Khalid featuring Disclosure – Know Your Worth
5. The Chainsmokers featuring Blink-182 – P.S. I Hope You’re Happy
4. Louis Tomlinson – Don’t Let It Break Your Heart
3. Sam Smith – To Die For
2. BROCKHAMPTON – Sugar
BONUS: 6 – Best Song On Hit-Bound:
1. SZA featuring Justin Timberlake – The Other Side
Overall Grade: 49/75 = 65% (C)
Most Missed Hit-Bound Dropout: Shawn Hook featuring Vanessa Hudgens – Reminding Me
My Top 5 Hit-Bound Picks
1. SZA featuring Justin Timberlake – The Other Side
2. BROCKHAMPTON – Sugar
3. Sam Smith – To Die For
4. Louis Tomlinson – Don’t Let It Break Your Heart
5. The Chainsmokers featuring Blink-182 – P.S. I Hope You’re Happy
Hits 1 Weekend Countdown Top 20 Breakdown:
0 – Putrid:
20. Blackbear – Hot Girl Bummer
19. Lewis Capaldi – Someone You Loved
18. Arizona Zervas – Roxanne
1 – Bad:
17. Camila Cabello featuring DaBaby – My Oh My
16. Doja Cat – Say So
2 – Mediocre:
None!
3 – Decent:
15. JP Saxe featuring Julia Michaels – If The World Was Ending
14. Halsey – You Should Be Sad
13. Alec Benjamin – Demons
4 – Good:
12. Post Malone – Circles
5 – Great:
11. Ed Sheeran featuring Camila Cabello and Cardi B – South Of The Border
10. Jonas Brothers – What A Man Gotta Do
9. 5 Seconds Of Summer – Teeth
8. Fall Out Boy – Bob Dylan
7. Taylor Swift – The Man
6. Billie Eilish – Everything I Wanted
5. Niall Horan – Nice To Meet Ya
4. Harry Styles – Adore You
3. The Weeknd – Blinding Lights
2. Lady Gaga – Stupid Love
BONUS: 6 – Best Song On The Countdown:
1. Dua Lipa – Don’t Start Now
Overall Grade: 71/100 = 71% (B)
Throwback Pick Of The Week: Kelly Clarkson – Behind These Hazel Eyes (2005)
Most Missed Countdown Song: Silk City featuring Dua Lipa – Electricity
#1 Recommendation For Hits 1: Dua Lipa – Future Nostalgia
Favorite Countdown Song This Week One Year Ago: Lauren Daigle – You Say (#35)
My Top 5 Picks
1. Dua Lipa – Don’t Start Now
2. Lady Gaga – Stupid Love
3. Lizzo – Good As Hell
4. Selena Gomez – Lose You To Love Me
5. The Weeknd – Blinding Lights
My Bottom 5 Picks
1. Blackbear – Hot Girl Bummer
2. Justin Bieber featuring Quavo – Intentions
3. Arizona Zervas – Roxanne
4. Lewis Capaldi – Someone You Loved
5. Blackbear – Me And Ur Ghost
Songs That Debuted This Week One Year Ago:
Jonas Brothers – Sucker: Ah yes, the boy band’s big return. It made history by breaking the record for highest debut ever (at #7) and would eventually spent 13 record-breaking weeks at #1. It’s a cute bop, and I’m kinda glad that it became their biggest hit.
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