- Rihanna - Where Have You Been
- Chiddy Bang - Mind Your Manners
- Andy Grammer - Fine By Me
- Breathe Carolina - Hit and Run
- Pitbull - Back in Time
- Hot Chelle Rae - Honestly
- Gym Class Heroes Ft. Neon Hitch - Ass Back Home
The Countdown:
1. Katy Perry- Wide Awake (#3) [First Week at #1]
2. Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa- Payphone (#2)
3. Carly Rae Jepsen- Call Me Maybe (#1)
4. fun. feat. Janelle Monáe- We Are Young (#6)
5. Karmin- Brokenhearted (#13)
6. Gotye feat. Kimbra- Somebody That I Used to Know (#4)
7. Demi Lovato- Give Your Heart a Break (#5)
8. Flo Rida- Whistle (#7)
9. Ellie Goulding- Lights (#8)
10. Usher- Scream (#11)
11. Linkin Park- Burn It Down (#12)
12. David Guetta feat. Sia- Titanium (#9)
13. We Are the In Crowd feat. Alex Gaskarth- Kiss Me Again (#19)
14. Pink - Blow Me (One Last Kiss) (#15)
15. Train - 50 Ways to Say Goodbye (#29)
16. Cher Lloyd- Want U Back (#27)
17. Alex Clare- Too Close (#14)
18. Owl City Ft. Carly Rae Jepsen - Good Time (#25)
19. Neon Trees- Everybody Talks (#10)
20. One Direction- One Thing (#21)
21. Imagine Dragons- It's Time (#23)
22. The Wanted- Chasing the Sun (#18)
23. Kelly Clarkson - Dark Side (#23)
24. Calvin Harris feat. Ne-Yo- Let's Go (#16)
25. fun. - Some Nights (#31)
26. Olly Murs Ft. Chiddy Bang - Heart Skips a Beat (DEBUT)
27. Grouplove- Tongue Tied (#17)
28. Gym Class Heroes feat. Ryan Tedder- The Fighter (#32)
29. Stefano - I'm on a Roll (#37)
30. Kimbra feat. Mark Foster & A-Trak- Warrior (#24)
31. Matchbox Twenty - She's So Mean (DEBUT)
32. K'Naan - Hurt Me Tomorrow (DEBUT)
33. Katy Perry - Part of Me (RE-ENTRY)
34. Conor Maynard - Vegas Girl (DEBUT)
35. Havana Brown feat. Pitbull- We Run the Night (#28)
36. Rita Ora- How We Do (Party) (#40)
37. Sammy Adams- Only One (#22)
38. Train- Drive By (#39)
39. Nicki Minaj- Starships (#34)
40. One Direction- What Makes You Beautiful (#35)
41. Ed Sheeran - The A Team (DEBUT)
42. Marina & the Diamonds - Primadonna (DEBUT)
43. Flo Rida feat. Sia- Wild Ones (#38)
44. The All-American Rejects- Walk Over Me (#45)
45. B.o.B feat. Taylor Swift- Both of Us (#30)
Biggest
DDDDDRRRROOOPPPP!!!!!.....of the week: Tie between Sammy Adams – Only One and
B.O.B. Ft. Taylor Swift – Both Of Us (-15)
Biggest
Jump of the Week: Train – 50 Ways to Say Goodbye (+14)
To
be honest, no sleep is being lost over that class of DTHNOBs. All of
those songs are either bad or played out (or both) besides Mind Your Manners,
which didn’t really get much of a tenure, debuting on June 23. Pleasantly
shocking is the loss of Rihanna – Where Have You Been, kicked off from
its perch all the way up at #20 last week.
No,
it’s the new entrants that really failed us this week. With 7 songs
leaving the countdown, you’d like to see at least one real standout jump
on. But we didn’t get one, and the average quality of the 6 debuts leaves
me unsatisfied. That’s right. 6. Not 7. As if it wasn’t
enough for Katy Perry’s mediocre song, Wide Awake, to hit #1,
another one of her mediocre songs, Part of Me, was resurrected this
week.
Yikes….how
to go through these….I guess I’ll go in countdown order. In terms of
countdown rank, we’ll start with #26. Olly Murs is back. You
may remember him from earlier this year when his 50’s-esque song Dance With
Me Tonight debuted on the countdown, only to tie Kid Cudi – Erase Me for
most hysterically short countdown tenure ever. I was bummed. That
song was good. This time he’s back with Chiddy Bang with his new
song, Heart Skips a Beat. I have mixed feelings on this one.
It’s interesting and catchy enough, but I wasn’t blown away. Time will
tell whether this one catches on or gets put into the “forgettable” pile.
Jump
into your time machines, folks, it’s 2000 again. Matchbox Twenty –
She’s So Mean debuts as the best of this week’s blech class of new
entrants. I was tipped off to this next song months ago.
This continues the trend of Hits-1 being either far behind or far ahead of the
times. I really like the chorus of K’Naan – Hurt Me Tomorrow, but
am not as big a fan of the rest of the song. Songs like this don’t tend
to be on my list of things-I-want-to-hear for all that long. I’m torn on Conor
Maynard – Vegas Girl. On the one hand, there are parts of it that are
pretty catchy. On the other hand, it’s a pretty terrible song.
Despite recognizing how bad it is, I’m not at the point yet where I want to
turn it off. That’ll come soon.
Ed
Sheeran – The A Team
is the countdown’s new resident slow(er) song. I think this one is good,
but I’m never going to like it more than I do right now. Pretty low
growth potential. ANNDDDDDD finally, the extreme Michael-Phelps-level
frontrunner for Worst Song of 2012 debuted this week in the form of long-time
Hit-Bound veteran Marina & the Diamonds – Primadonna. Give it
a listen. There are zero redeeming qualities in this song. It’s
pure crap. The only worse song I’ve heard played on Hits-1 this year is Nelly
Furtado – Big Hoops, and luckily that one was stranded on HitBound.
As
if the new entrants weren’t frustrating enough, in the first week since May 26th
(yeah….) that Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe wasn’t #1, Katy Perry –
Wide Awake lamentably leapfrogged Maroon 5 – Payphone to take the #1
spot. It’s official. She can officially put whatever song she wants
out there (except, I guess, Part of Me?) and it’ll hit #1. She has
released 8 songs off of this never-ending “album” of hers, and 7 of them have
been #1 on this countdown. This song is technically off the same album as
California Girls. Remember summer of 2010? Neither does
anyone else.
Aside
from all that, there were no real major developments. Owl City Ft.
Carly Rae Jepsen – Good Time continued its steady ascent up the countdown,
while the thoroughly terrible B.O.B. Ft. Taylor Swift – Both of Us assumed
the cliff spot at #45. Let’s hope it falls over.
Editor’s
Picks – Top 5 Songs
1)
Owl City Ft. Carly Rae Jepsen – Good Time
2)
Pink – Blow Me (One Last Kiss)
3)
fun. – Some Nights
4)
Maroon 5 – Payphone
5)
Matchbox Twenty – She’s So Mean
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