In
which our voters don’t fail us……………… 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.
- Taylor Swift – Eyes Open
- Flo Rida – Good Feeling
- Jennifer Lopez Ft. Pitbull – Dance Again
- Adele – Rumour Has It (DTHNOBx2)
The Countdown:
1. One Direction- What Makes You Beautiful (#2) [Fifth Week at #1]
2. Flo Rida feat. Sia- Wild Ones (#4)
3. Carly Rae Jepsen- Call Me Maybe (#7)
4. fun. feat. Janelle Monáe- We Are Young (#1)
5. Maroon 5- Payphone (#8)
6. Nicki Minaj- Starships (#6)
7. Gotye feat. Kimbra- Somebody That I Used to Know (#3)
8. Usher- Scream (#9)
9. Train- Drive By (#5)
10. Karmin- Brokenhearted (#12)
11. Neon Trees- Everybody Talks (#10)
12. Gym Class Heroes feat. Ryan Tedder- The Fighter (#17)
13. Gavin DeGraw- Sweeter (#14)
14. David Guetta feat. Sia- Titanium (#27)
15. Andy Grammer- Fine By Me (#16)
16. Havana Brown feat. Pitbull- We Run the Night (#13)
17. The Cab- La La (#18)
18. Cher Lloyd- Want U Back (#15)
19. Alex Clare- Too Close (#22)
20. Sammy Adams- Only One (#29)
21. The All-American Rejects- Walk Over Me (#20)
22. Demi Lovato- Give Your Heart a Break (#27)
23. Grouplove- Tongue Tied (#28)
24. Katy Perry- Wide Awake (DEBUT)
25. Imagine Dragons- It's Time (#25)
26. Mark Foster, A-Trak & Kimbra- Warrior (#34)
27. Hot Chelle Rae- Honestly (#35)
28. Pitbull- Back in Time (DEBUT)
29. Rita Ora- How We Do (Party) (DEBUT)
30. B.o.B feat. Taylor Swift- Both of Us (#43)
31. Kelly Clarkson- Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) (#23)
32. Calvin Harris- Feel So Close (#11)
33. One Direction- One Thing (DEBUT)
34. Lucas Prata feat. Lenny B- First Night of My Life (#24)
35. Katy Perry- Part of Me (#36)
36. Gym Class Heroes feat. Neon Hitch- Ass Back Home (#31)
37. The Wanted- Glad You Came (#33)
38. Chris Rene- Young Homie (#21)
39. Adele- Set Fire to the Rain (#32)
40. David Guetta feat. Nicki Minaj- Turn Me On (#39)
41. Gavin DeGraw- Not Over You (#44)
42. B.o.B- So Good (#26)
43. The Black Keys- Lonely Boy (#40)
44. September- Party in My Head (#45)
45. M83- Midnight City (#38)
Biggest
DDDDRRRROOOOPPP!!!!!.......of the week: Calvin
Harris – Feel So Close (-21)
Biggest
Jump of the Week: B.O.B. Ft. Taylor
Swift – Both of Us (+13)
It’s
been two weeks since I first started panicking about the future of the
countdown, but here we are two weeks later, after two straight weeks of the new
entrants out-producing the exits.
Granted, this is in large part due to the voters DTHNOBbing the proper
songs more so than the spectacular-ness of the new entrants (I certainly won’t
miss Good Feeling, Dance Again, or
especially, Rumour Has It). But the other part is that despite the
absolute glut of crap on Hit-Bound, the voters have managed to cherry-pick the
cream of the crop. There were 3 winners
and 1 decent song (Train – 50 Ways to
Say Goodbye) on Hit-Bound as of last week (out of 14-ish) and the voters
graduated 2 of those winners this week.
Now only Goldhouse – The Moment remains
on Hit-Bound as a song to get excited over.
Anyway,
here’s what we wound up with, when all is said and done. Feeling that Katy Perry was done cranking off songs of the album she seems to
keep appending things to, I was very surprised to see another song from her, Wide Awake, go straight from high school
to the NBA this week. My first instinct
was that it’s not the best, but better than Part of Me, The One That Got
Away, and E.T. However, I think that this might just be
“shiny new toy” syndrome talking….I feel like this one’s easy to get sick of.
Men
in Black 3 debuted in theatres last weekend, so appropriately, the theme song
for the movie, Pitbull – Back in Time debuted
on the countdown this week. It’s not a
complete and total failure, though my wife did accuse it of murdering the movie
Dirty Dancing. It would not have been my first choice to
graduate from Hit-Bound, but I promise you, we could be way worse off.
Now
for the winners. One Thing is no What Makes
You Beautiful, but it’s a pretty good tune from One Direction that is certainly better than most 2nd
singles that I see hit the countdown from new artists. Nice to see they won’t be a one-hit
wonder. My favorite new entrant,
however, is probably Rita Ora – How We
Do (Party). That one kind of snuck
up on me, because I don’t remember liking it this much when it was on
Hit-Bound.
It
was only a matter of time, but the powerhouse new entrants that debuted on the
week of April 21 both ascended to the Top 5 for the first time this week, and
that’s a very, very good thing. Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe and Maroon 5 – Payphone are both knocking
at the door of the #1 spot, and neither one is bluffing (I’m looking at YOU, Train – Drive By).
The
countdown continues to be in good shape, but we’re in even more danger than we
were a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully
there’s low turnover until Hit-Bound funnels out some of the garbage that
threatens to invade our Top-45.
Editor's Picks: Top 5 Songs
1) Maroon 5 - Payphone
2) Karmin - Brokenhearted
3) Rita Ora - How We Do (Party)
4) Imagine Dragons - It's Time
5) Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know
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