The countdown quite literally just DTHNOBBed the summer of 2011. 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.
- Katy Perry - Last Friday Night
- LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem (DTHNOBx2)
1. Selena Gomez & the Scene- Love You Like a Love Song (#4) [New #1]
2. David Guetta feat. Usher- Without You (#1)
3. Hot Chelle Rae feat. New Boyz- I Like It Like That (#12)
4. Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris- We Found Love (#3)
5. Adele- Someone Like You (#8)
6. Bruno Mars- It Will Rain (#9)
7. The Cab- Bad (#42)
8. Flo Rida- Good Feeling (#7)
9. Jessie J- Domino (#6)
10. Gym Class Heroes feat. Adam Levine- Stereo Hearts (#5)
11. Breathe Carolina- Blackout (#10)
12. One Direction- What Makes You Beautiful (#19)
13. Sean Kingston- Party All Day (Sleep All Night) (#13)
14. The Downtown Fiction- Thanks for Nothing (#8)
15. Katy Perry- The One That Got Away (#2)
16. Gavin DeGraw- Not Over You (#21)
17. Outasight- Tonight Is the Night (#13)
18. David Guetta feat. Nicki Minaj- Turn Me On (#34)
19. Nicole Scherzinger- Don't Hold Your Breath (#14)
20. LMFAO- Sorry for Party Rocking (#15)
21. Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera- Moves Like Jagger (#17)
22. Cobra Starship feat. Plastiscines- Fool Like Me (#29)
23. Coldplay & Rihanna- Princess of China (#32)
24. Matt & Kim feat. Soulja Boy & Andrew W.K.- I'm a Goner (#35)
25. Chiddy Bang- Ray Charles (#24)
26. The Fray- Heartbeat (#25)
27. Childish Gambino- Heartbeat (#36)
28. Young the Giant- Cough Syrup (#33)
29. Nicki Minaj- Super Bass (#20)
30. Foster the People- Don't Stop (Color on the Walls) (#16)
31. Lady Gaga- Marry the Night (#22)
32. Kelly Clarkson- Mr. Know It All (#38)
33. LMFAO- Sexy and I Know It (#30)
34. Lenny Kravitz- Stand (#23)
35. Patrick Stump feat. Lupe Fiasco- This City (#37)
36. Adele- Set Fire to the Rain (#27)
37. Cobra Starship feat. Sabi- You Make Me Feel... (#43)
38. Bush- The Sound of Winter (#31)
39. The Wanted- Glad You Came (#39)
40. Toby Keith- Red Solo Cup (#18)
41. Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa feat. Bruno Mars- Young, Wild & Free (#26)
42. Train- Drive By (DEBUT)
43. Nicki Minaj feat. Rihanna- Fly (#45)
44. The Script- Nothing (#44)
45. Lady Gaga- You and I
Biggest DDDDDDRRRROOOOOPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!.....of the week: Toby Keith - Red Solo Cup (-22)
Biggest Jump of the week: The Cab - Bad (+35)
This week saw the resurrection of Lady Gaga - You and I, perhaps to compensate for the recent decline of Marry the Night. Going straight from high school to the NBA this week was Train - Drive By. I hadn't actually heard it before thinking about composing this, so I YouTubed it. It's now on its fourth repeat, so I guess that's a pretty good sign. Pretty much all of Train's countdown songs I've had a pretty favorable reaction to, at least initially. Eventually over the course of several months they tend to wind up in the good-not-great category (Hey, Soul Sister, If It's Love, Marry Me).
Make that 5 repeats…..
Just a week after David Guetta surprisingly taking the #1 spot, Selena Gomez follows it up with an equally surprising coup. Pretty interested by this, seeing as how both of these songs have been floating around the top 10 for awhile, not really threatening to top the countdown, and then all of a sudden everyone's looking up at them. Both songs I'd describe as good-not-great, and both are better than the six songs immediately beneath them, so I think I'll be comfortable with the current ranking until some better alternatives come along. Dominooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!
Speaking of that….there's seriously a lot of crap/mediocrities clotting up the #3 - #8 spots. Someone should fix that. Perhaps none more irritating than The Cab - Bad. No, it's not the worst of the bunch, that title belonging to We Found Love, but that's a song that really looked like it was on its way out before scoring the biggest jump of the week, quite randomly. As Spyder Harrison himself might say, perhaps this song is becoming "schizophrenic".
The song to watch right now is David Guetta Ft. Nicki Minaj - Turn Me On. I'm calling it right here, this one has a very good shot at a #1 bid on the countdown down the road…..probably in a month or so. And yes, I will remind you all obnoxiously that "I called it" when it happens.
Editor's Picks: Top 5 Songs
Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa Ft. Bruno Mars - Young, Wild & Free
One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful
Jessie J - Domino
Gavin DeGraw - Not Over You
Coldplay Ft. Rihanna - Princess of China
Fun fact: This would be the final week on the countdown where the #1 song would be by a "tween princess" (Demi, Selena, Ariana, etc) until late 2017.
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