We’re
starting to see some signs of an imminent shake-up at the top. Flo
Rida guest hosted this week’s countdown, so guess what happened to his
song’s ranking???? As is always the case when Spyder Harrison takes the
weekend off, the show is far less enjoyable to listen to. 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.
- Kelly Clarkson - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)
- Katy Perry - Part of Me
The Countdown:
1. Carly
Rae Jepsen- Call Me Maybe (#1) [Seventh Week at #1]
2. Maroon
5 feat. Wiz Khalifa- Payphone (#2)
3. Katy
Perry- Wide Awake (#7)
4. Gotye feat. Kimbra- Somebody
That I Used to Know (#6)
5. Karmin- Brokenhearted (#3)
6. fun. feat. Janelle
Monáe- We Are Young (#4)
7. Flo
Rida- Whistle (#18)
8. Ellie
Goulding- Lights (#21)
9. David
Guetta feat. Sia- Titanium (#10)
10. Neon
Trees- Everybody Talks (#9)
11. Usher- Scream (#14)
12. Linkin
Park- Burn It Down (#15)
13. Gym
Class Heroes feat. Ryan Tedder- The Fighter (#12)
14. Alex
Clare- Too Close (#17)
15. Demi
Lovato- Give Your Heart a Break (#13)
16. Grouplove-
Tongue Tied (#11)
17. Calvin
Harris feat. Ne-Yo- Let's Go (#24)
18. We
Are the In Crowd feat. Alex Gaskarth- Kiss Me Again (#25)
19. Chiddy
Bang feat. Icona Pop- Mind Your Manners (#22)
20. One
Direction- One Thing (#19)
21.
Rihanna - Where Have You Been (DEBUT)
22. Imagine
Dragons- It's Time (#27)
23. Havana
Brown feat. Pitbull- We Run the Night (#16)
24.
Pink - Blow Me (One Last Kiss) (#39)
25. Sammy
Adams- Only One (#20)
26. Rita
Ora- How We Do (Party) (#27)
27. The
Wanted- Chasing the Sun (#26)
28. Breathe
Carolina- Hit and Run (#29)
29. B.o.B feat. Taylor
Swift- Both of Us (#30)
30. Train- Drive
By (#31)
31. Cher
Lloyd- Want U Back (#23)
32. Andy
Grammer- Fine By Me (#37)
33. Kimbra feat. Mark
Foster & A-Trak- Warrior (#32)
34. One
Direction- What Makes You Beautiful (#5)
35. Nicki
Minaj- Starships (#8)
36. The
All-American Rejects- Walk Over Me (#41)
37. Gym
Class Heroes feat. Neon Hitch- Ass Back Home (#36)
38. The
Cab- La La (#45)
39. Flo
Rida feat. Sia- Wild Ones (#38)
40. The
Wanted- Glad You Came (#40)
41. B.o.B- So
Good (#44)
42. Hot
Chelle Rae- Honestly (#43)
43. Pitbull- Back
in Time (#34)
44. Gavin
DeGraw- Sweeter (RE-ENTRY)
45. Calvin
Harris- Feel So Close (#42)
Biggest
DDDDRRRRROOOOPPPP!!!!....of the week: One Direction – What Makes You
Beautiful (-29)
Biggest
Jump of the Week: Pink – Blow Me (One Last Kiss)
The
completely unnecessary resurrection of the mediocre Gavin DeGraw – Sweeter means
that we’re left with just one new entrant this week. Unfortunately, they
don’t come much worse than Rihanna – Where Have You Been. The song
starts off decently enough….honestly, the first minute pretty good. Then
things get weird and terrible. Rihanna follows up that minute with
strange techno sounds that don’t really fit all that well. The rest of
the song is mostly just a few repeats of the lyrics of the first minute,
accompanied by techno beats that get stranger and less pleasant as it goes
along. But you don’t need me to tell you any of this. You’re
probably going to get exposed to this song so much over the next few months
(evidenced in part by its debut all the way up at #21) that you can form your
own opinion of whether the song is just plain regular awful, or superlatively
so. I’m in the latter camp. And here we thought We Found Love was
repetitive. Yeesh.
Predictably,
Flo Rida – Whistle is a new entrant to the Top 10, but less predictable
was the rise of Ellie Goulding – Lights. That one’s growing on me
a bit, and it’s doing significantly better than I thought it would. Katy
Perry – Wide Awake is the next song to have a go at the Top 5, and this one
I really don’t get. It’s almost like she can put out whatever music she
wants and it’ll do well on the countdown. Wide Awake is
decent-ish, but definitely not Top 5 material.
I
am still looking for a week here where we’re going to have 4+ new songs, as one
gets the impression we aren’t far away from that. There’s plenty of music
on this list that’s super tenured. And super
not-played-that-often-anymore.
Editor’s
Picks – Top 5 Songs
1)
Pink – Blow Me (One Last Kiss)
2)
Maroon 5 – Payphone
3)
Usher – Scream
4)
Karmin – Brokenhearted
5)
Ellie Goulding – Lights
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