Maroon 5 - Week of September 1, 2012

Heh.  Um…so….maybe that window wasn’t slammed shut after all.  Some sort of shenanigans must have happened, since I’m never wrong.  But in any case, congratulations to Maroon 5 – Payphone for finally attaining that #1 bid that it’s deserved for months.  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.

• Calvin Harris Ft. Ne-Yo - Let's Go
• Havana Brown Ft. Pitbull - We Run the Night
• Imagine Dragons - It's Time

The Countdown:

1. Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa- Payphone (#6) [First Week at #1]

2. Pink - Blow Me (One Last Kiss) (#8)

3. Owl City Ft. Carly Rae Jepsen - Good Time (#2)

4. Ellie Goulding- Lights (#3)

5. Karmin- Brokenhearted (#4)

6. Linkin Park- Burn It Down (#7)

7. Katy Perry- Wide Awake (#1)

8. fun. - Some Nights (#14)

9. Cher Lloyd- Want U Back (#10)

10. David Guetta feat. Sia- Titanium (#9)

11. Demi Lovato- Give Your Heart a Break (#18)

12. Flo Rida- Whistle (#5)

13. Kelly Clarkson - Dark Side (#22)

14. Olly Murs Ft. Chiddy Bang - Heart Skips a Beat (#17)

15. Matchbox Twenty - She's So Mean (#20)

16. Cobra Starship - #1Nite (#11)

17. Train - 50 Ways to Say Goodbye (#12)

18. Nicki Minaj - Pound the Alarm (#15)

19. Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (#34)

20. K'Naan - Hurt Me Tomorrow (#21)

21. Carly Rae Jepsen- Call Me Maybe (#13)

22. Maroon 5 - One More Night (#16)

23. Rudimental Ft. John Newman - Feel the Love (#35)

24. We Are the In Crowd feat. Alex Gaskarth- Kiss Me Again (#24)

25. Marina & the Diamonds - Primadonna (#30)

26. Ed Sheeran - The A Team (#26)

27. Stefano - I'm on a Roll (#25)

28. Gym Class Heroes feat. Ryan Tedder- The Fighter (#33)

29. Conor Maynard - Vegas Girl (#32)

30. Neon Trees- Everybody Talks (#31)

31. Martin Solveig - The Night Out (#39)

32. One Direction- What Makes You Beautiful (#40)

33. Timomatic - Set It Off (DEBUT)

34. Gotye feat. Kimbra- Somebody That I Used to Know (#38)

35. Ne-Yo - Let Me Love You (DEBUT)

36. fun. feat. Janelle Monáe- We Are Young (#29)

37. The Wanted- Chasing the Sun (#21)

38. Katy Perry - Part of Me (#36)

39. Nicki Minaj- Starships (#42)

40. Grouplove- Tongue Tied (#41)

41. Flo Rida feat. Sia- Wild Ones (#37)

42. Alex Clare- Too Close (#43)

43. will.i.am - This Is Love (DEBUT)

44. One Direction- One Thing (#28)

45. Usher- Scream (#27)

Biggest DDDDRROOOPPPP!!!!!!....of the week: Usher – Scream (-18)

Biggest Jump of the Week: Taylor Swift – We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (+15)

Let’s Go got DTHNOBbed from the #23 slot.  A reminder that few songs are ever really safe from getting banished.

Three new entrants to speak about this week, though I sadly don’t have anything terribly interesting to contribute on this subject, in no small part because the songs didn’t exactly meet me halfway.  It should shock no one that will.i.am – This Is Love is pretty much on par with a Black Eyed Peas song in every respect.  There’s some decent (synthesized) instrumentals in a couple parts of the song, but other than that, it’s pretty worthless.  At first I hated Ne-Yo – Let Me Love You, but it grew on me a little bit.  However, it’s still not all that interesting.  Girl’s never been loved before, so please let this guy love you, save you from not loving yourself, etc etc etc.  Average singing, average melody.  That someone whose name is Tim would make his stage name “Timomatic” raises red flags about said artist’s creativity.  Unfortunately, Set It Off lends credence to those red flags.  It’s not that there’s anything particularly wrong with it….it’s a perfectly okay dance song.  The problem is that songs like Set It Off are a dime a dozen in pop music, and there’s nothing that really separates it from the pack.  Maybe I need to give it more time, but this isn’t the type of song that takes more than 2 listens to fully appreciate.

Despite the continuing disappointment from the new entrants week-in and week-out, this is one hell of a Top 5.  In addition to Payphone re-joining, Pink – Blow Me (One Last Kiss) jumped in as well to contest Owl City Ft. Carly Rae Jepsen – Good Time for a future #1 bid.  No matter who wins, we all win.

There’s a couple good tunes on Hit-Bound right now, so maybe the blahhhhh new music will take a turn for the better one of these weeks.

Editor’s Picks – Top 5 Songs

1) Owl City Ft. Carly Rae Jepsen – Good Time

2) Ed Sheeran – The A Team

3) Pink – Blow Me (One Last Kiss)

4) Maroon 5 – One More Night

5) Kelly Clarkson – Dark Side (the winner of this week’s random decent song contest)