Carly Rae Jepsen (4) - Week of June 23, 2012

In which we see harbingers of an impending shake-up at the top.  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.

• Adele - Set Fire to the Rain

The Countdown:

1. Carly Rae Jepsen- Call Me Maybe (#1) [Fourth Week at #1]

2. fun. feat. Janelle Monáe- We Are Young (#4)

3. Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa- Payphone (#9)

4. Gotye feat. Kimbra- Somebody That I Used to Know (#2)

5. One Direction- What Makes You Beautiful (#3)

6. Nicki Minaj- Starships (#14)

7. Katy Perry- Wide Awake (#11)

8. Neon Trees- Everybody Talks (#12)

9. Karmin- Brokenhearted (#7)

10. Pitbull- Back in Time (#18)

11. Alex Clare- Too Close (#21)

12. David Guetta feat. Sia- Titanium (#16)

13. Cher Lloyd- Want U Back (#13)

14. Linkin Park- Burn It Down (#31)

15. Gym Class Heroes feat. Ryan Tedder- The Fighter (#8)

16. The Cab- La La (#15)

17. Usher- Scream (#25)

18. Andy Grammer- Fine By Me (#17)

19. Demi Lovato- Give Your Heart a Break (#22)

20. Grouplove- Tongue Tied (#10)

21. The Wanted- Chasing the Sun (#34)

22. Gavin DeGraw- Sweeter (#19)

23. Flo Rida feat. Sia- Wild Ones (#5)

24. Train- Drive By (#6)

25. Rita Ora- How We Do (Party) (#26)

26. Sammy Adams- Only One (#32)

27. One Direction- One Thing (#29)

28. Kimbra feat. Mark Foster & A-Trak- Warrior (#20)

29. Imagine Dragons- It's Time (#25)

30. Havana Brown feat. Pitbull- We Run the Night (#28)

31. Breathe Carolina- Hit and Run (#37)

32. B.o.B feat. Taylor Swift- Both of Us (#30)

33. Kelly Clarkson- Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) (#33)

34. Chiddy Bang feat. Icona Pop- Mind Your Manners (DEBUT)

35. Katy Perry- Part of Me (#35)

36. Gym Class Heroes feat. Neon Hitch- Ass Back Home (#36)

37. The Wanted- Glad You Came (#45)

38. The All-American Rejects- Walk Over Me (#40)

39. Calvin Harris- Feel So Close (#23)

40. Hot Chelle Rae- Honestly (#27)

41. Lucas Prata feat. Lenny B- First Night of My Life (#41)

42. M83- Midnight City (#42)

43. B.o.B- So Good (#43)

44. The Black Keys- Lonely Boy (#44)

45. David Guetta feat. Nicki Minaj- Turn Me On (#39)

Biggest DDDDRRROOOPPP!!!!!!....of the week: Train – Drive By (-18)

Biggest Jump of the Week: Linkin Park – Burn It Down (+17)

New entrant this week is Chiddy Bang – Mind Your Manners.  Considering the alternatives clogging up Hit-Bound over the past month, I’ll live with it.  I’m actually pretty fond of the chorus, which is sung by a bunch of kids.  My mind hasn’t really changed on Chiddy Bang.  I don’t care much for their rap, but they put interesting other elements into their songs, such as the kids singing in this song, the opening of Ray Charles, and the underlying melody of Opposite of Adults.  Mind Your Manners should be a mediocre countdown mainstay for weeks to come.  As if we had a dearth of those lately or something.

I’m actually pretty impressed with the relative lack of new entrants over the past month.  Over the last 4 weeks, we’ve only had 4 new songs, so kudos to the voters for realizing that there hasn’t really been much on Hit-Bound worthy of promotion.  Particularly, we dodged a bullet on Nelly Furtado – Big Hoops, which was removed from Hit-Bound this past week.  My goodness, one spin of that song could make you beg to listen to Rihanna Ft. Calvin Harris – We Found Love on repeat for hours on end instead.

In other news, Maroon 5 – Payphone ascended to its highest-ever rank this week at #3.  I think it has a fair amount of #1 pull, and it could turn out to be the eventual successor to Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe.  Also significant was the Top-10 debut of Katy Perry – Wide Awake.  No, that song isn’t that great, but that never stopped Katy Perry from hitting #1 before.  The other possible successor I see is perhaps Gotye – Somebody That I Used to Know.  There’s a chance that it randomly jumps a few slots to the top before its impending fall from grace.  The thing with not having too many debuts lately is that we also don’t see a lot of future #1s jump on either.  Unless Payphone or Wide Awake puts the clamps down on that slot, it’s easy to see how we could have a rotating cast of randoms hit #1 for a little while, similar to early this year.

Something tells me that Carly Rae Jepsen has a 5^th week in her, however.

Editor’s Picks – Top 5 Songs

1) Maroon 5 – Payphone

2) Rita Ora – How We Do (Party)

3) M83 – Midnight City

4) Karmin – Brokenhearted

5) Imagine Dragons – It’s Time