Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Gym Class Heroes -- Week of October 22, 2011

I fought myself very hard to make the title above "Adam Levine", who is having some kind of a success run between Maroon 5's rise to the top and his various successful "featuring" roles.  Before we get on to this week's Fresh 45, here's a list of all the songs we're saying good-bye to this week.
  • Matt Nathanson - Faster
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie
The countdown: (Source: Wikipedia)
Biggest DDRRRRRROOOOOPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!...........of the week: LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem
Biggest Jump of the week: Tie between Lady Gaga - You and I and OneRepublic - Good Life


It was a VERY exciting weekend on the countdown. The suspense was incredible. With only the top 2 songs left to be played, last week's top 10 had already been accounted for. So we knew that there was going to be a couple of big jumps into the top two spots. One of them was fairly predictable, Adele - Someone Like You. I felt like this was overdue because of it's prominence on the iTunes Most Downloaded rankings, and certainly NOT because it is a good song of any kind. Unfortunately, it will probably hit #1 on this countdown in the near future. Gym Class Heroes Ft. Adam Levine - Stereo Hearts feels a little bit like a long shot to hold on to the top spot for a 2nd week in a row. I was pretty shocked that it topped the list, but unlike Someone Like You, it is a pretty solid song, and at least deserved to crack the top 5 at some point.

Lots of purging of former top-10 mainstays this week. In addition to Party Rock Anthem dropping, we also saw Pitbull Ft. Ne-Yo - Give Me Everything take a big dive, and Hot Chelle Rae - Tonight Tonight continue to fade. Welcome was the ascension of The Script - Nothing into the Top 5. I don't think that song has a great chance at #1, but it's the best song on the countdown right now that hasn't already been #1 seven times.

The new entrants this week came in at #43 (Britney Spears - Criminal) and #42 Nickelback - When We Stand Together. Criminal seems average-ish, but in any case, Britney Spears's newest album has been a pretty big disappointment, churning out this as well as two mediocrities (Hold it Against Me, Till The World Ends) and the sub-par I Wanna Go. When We Stand Together is another solid tune from Nickelback, whose talents are neither representative of the millions of fans they have, nor the billions of people who think it's a huge hilarious joke to hate on them. Particularly in the past 3 years, they have churned out a few pretty solid tunes. I feel like the Black Eyed Peas should probably be absorbing a lot of that hatred instead, as they've become entrenched in the recent spotlight and are unquestionably far less talented than Nickelback.


Next week we'll see if One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful and Sean Kingston - Party All Night can make the leap from Hit-Bound to the countdown, as they're the two best songs looking to graduate.

Editor's picks -- Top 5
Katy Perry - Last Friday Night
The Script - Nothing
Jessie J - Domino
Nickelback - When We Stand Together
T-Pain Ft. Wiz Khalifa - 5 O'Clock
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4 comments:

  1. ATRJuly 13, 2018 at 12:31 PM

    You forgot to put what number they are last week with 9 songs.

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    1. ZestpondJune 23, 2022 at 8:05 PM

      I'm assuming that it's because the songs didn't change rank from last week.

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  2. Random BlogJune 5, 2021 at 6:24 PM

    Oh my gosh! This is the very first Hits 1 Weekend Countdown ever posted onto someone's blog. I honestly can't believe this post is going to be 10 years old in just 4 more months! I was 12 years old back then and now I'm 22 years old. And exactly a decade ago, I wasn't even a teenager nor have I even reached adulthood either around that time so it's very amazing to see how old all these songs are now as well the blogging community is still going strong to this day with the exception of you leaving including Adrian who joined 2 years later in August 2013 as he was the most active blogger until November 2019. And because of all that, I began listening to SiriusXM Hits 1 the same year this post was published well in December of 2011, I mean it's very close as my dad's new car was bought exactly 10 years ago and started to realize this satellite radio station as well as some others to this very day. I still kind of wish I knew all this information a lot more sooner than I recognized until now a few years later when my brain was much more active as of today that it was before and I do want to go back in time a decade ago a have the opportunity I completely missed out on until doing it a couple years later.

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  3. ZestpondMay 13, 2022 at 6:01 PM

    If anyone wants to know the countdowns before Oct 22, 2011, check out my blog. I went through the Hits 1 Wikipedia article archives and found the countdowns starting Dec 25, 2010.

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