Maroon 5 (2) - Week of October 27, 2012

Today we send a fond farewell to a song that lasted on the countdown for almost exactly 11 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.

• One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful
• Nicki Minaj - Pound the Alarm

The Countdown:

1. Maroon 5 - One More Night (#2) [Second Week at #1]

2. Owl City Ft. Carly Rae Jepsen - Good Time (#1)

3. fun. - Some Nights (#4)

4. Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (#3)

5. Ellie Goulding- Lights (#8)

6. PSY - Gangnam Style (#7)

7. Neon Trees- Everybody Talks (#13)

8. Flo Rida - I Cry (#43)

9. Pink - Blow Me (One Last Kiss) (#15)

10. Enrique Iglesias Ft. Sammy Adams - Finally Found You (#9)

11. Imagine Dragons - It's Time (#10)

12. Usher - Numb (#14)

13. One Direction - Live While We're Young (#11)

14. Rihanna - Diamonds (#34)

15. Ke$ha - Die Young (#19)

16. Bruno Mars - Locked Out of Heaven (#18)

17. Bridgit Mendler - Ready or Not (#32)

18. Taio Cruz - Fast Car (#22)

19. Train - 50 Ways to Say Goodbye (#6)

20. Ne-Yo - Let Me Love You (#16)

21. OneRepublic - Feel Again (#23)

22. Rudimental Ft. John Newman - Feel the Love (#12)

23. The Cab - Intoxicated (#31)

24. Karmin- Brokenhearted (#26)

25. BoysLikeGirls - Be Your Everything (#42)

26. Timomatic - Set It Off (#20)

27. Adele - Skyfall (#28)

28. Cher Lloyd Ft. Becky G - Oath (#37)

29. Linkin Park- Burn It Down (#17)

30. Martin Solveig - The Night Out (#27)

31. Lumineers - Ho Hey (#36)

32. Carly Rae Jepsen- Call Me Maybe (#35)

33. Alex Clare - Too Close (RE-ENTRY)

34. Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa- Payphone (#39)

35. Allstar Weekend - Life As We Know It (#44)

36. Kelly Clarkson - Dark Side (#21)

37. Sam and the Womp - Bom Bom (#38)

38. Emeli Sande - Next to Me (#40)

39. Katy Perry- Wide Awake (#45)

40. fun. feat. Janelle Monáe- We Are Young (#33)

41. Cher Lloyd - Want U Back (#5)

42. Matchbox Twenty - She's So Mean (#25)

43. Flo Rida - Let It Roll (#30)

44. Ed Sheeran - The A Team (RE-ENTRY)

45. Karmin - Hello (#41)

Biggest DDDDRRRRROOOOPPPPP!!!!....of the week: Cher Lloyd – Want U Back (-36)

Biggest Jump of the Week: Flo Rida – I Cry (+35)

What Makes You Beautiful debuted on the countdown last year in the last week of November.  It was a song I liked very much, and it spent 5 weeks in the top spot.  I can’t say for sure whether it’s the longest tenured song in the history of the countdown (Ke$ha – Tik Tok was pretty close to this duration a couple years back…but I didn’t keep track of such things back then), but one would think it’s damn close.  Kudos to Hits-1 for playing this song before it totally blew up in the U.S….I think it’s safe to say they were this continent’s One Direction pioneers.

No new music this week.  Rather, the voters resurrected Alex Clare – Too Close for some reason.  I can’t be the only person that sees zero appeal in that song, can I?  Also back on the countdown, in a much more welcome fashion, is Ed Sheeran – The A Team.  I can’t imagine this one’s back for long, sadly.

Blurbs & Ends

- I Cry pulled off the Biggest Jump for a countdown song since February.

- Similarly, Want U Back experienced the Biggest DDDDRRRRROOOOPPPPP!!!!....for a countdown song since February.

- In Spyder Harrison’s blurb leading into the song Intoxicated, he said that the lead singer of The Cab, Alexander DeLeon, said that he looks up to and respects Bruno Mars……BECAUSE OF HOW HUMBLE HE IS.  I damn near crashed my car upon hearing that.

- Had I made that post on the Hits-1 Facebook page last week, I would have donated $13 to charity

- Maroon 5 – One More Night has hung around the top of the countdown long enough for me to be irritated by it.  In a way, I’m glad these things happen….it helps me to prevent serious mistakes in my year-end rankings.  However, it’s getting to be about time for this one to go away.  Lesson already learned.

- The two DTHNOBs came from unusually high prior-week-spots on the countdown….#24 and #29.

Editor’s Picks – Top 5 Songs

1. Cher Lloyd Ft. Becky G – Oath

2. Ke$ha – Die Young

3. Adele – Skyfall

4. Imagine Dragons – It’s Time

5. Ed Sheeran – The A Team