fun. (3) - Week of November 24th, 2012

I hope that everyone had a happy holiday!  Spyder Harrison had the weekend off, and it was none other than Ke$ha herself hosting the Thanksgiving weekend countdown.  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.

• Taio Cruz - Fast Car
• BoysLikeGirls - Be Your Everything
• Karmin - Hello

The Countdown:

1. fun. - Some Nights (#4) [Third Week at #1]

2. Ke$ha - Die Young (#3)

3. Maroon 5 - One More Night (#2)

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

5. Imagine Dragons - It's Time (#6)

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

7. PSY - Gangnam Style (#34)

8. Ellie Goulding- Lights (#10)

9. Flo Rida - I Cry (#7)

10. Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (#5)

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

12. Bridgit Mendler - Ready or Not (#24)

13. Bruno Mars - Locked Out of Heaven (#11)

14. OneRepublic - Feel Again (#15)

15. Pitbull - Don't Stop The Party (#31)

16. One Direction - Kiss You (#40)

17. Nicki Minaj - Va Va Voom (#18)

18. JTX - Seven Day Weekend (#35)

19. Timomatic - Set It Off (#23)

20. Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa- Payphone (#19)

21. Sam and the Womp - Bom Bom (#16)

22. Lumineers - Ho Hey (#21)

23. Ne-Yo - Let Me Love You (#13)

24. Cher Lloyd Ft. Becky G - Oath (#22)

25. Alex Clare - Too Close (#12)

26. Rihanna - Diamonds (#20)

27. Karmin- Brokenhearted (#28)

28. Rudimental Ft. John Newman - Feel the Love (#27)

29. fun. feat. Janelle Monáe- We Are Young (#26)

30. Megan & Liz - Bad for Me (#32)

31. Emeli Sande - Next to Me (#39)

32. Carly Rae Jepsen- Call Me Maybe (#30)

33. Neon Trees- Everybody Talks (#17)

34. Rita Ora - R.I.P. (#25)

35. Maroon 5 - Daylight (#33)

36. Cher Lloyd - Want U Back (#36)

37. Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks (DEBUT)

38. Josh Baze - She's Gold (DEBUT)

39. Rolling Stones - Doom and Gloom (DEBUT)

40. One Direction - Live While We're Young (#14)

41. Ellie Goulding - Anything Could Happen (#41)

42. Usher - Numb (#38)

43. Ed Sheeran - The A Team (#45)

44. Martin Solveig - The Night Out (#44)

45. Adele - Skyfall (#37)

Biggest DDDDDDRRRROOOOPPP!!!!!!....of the week: One Direction – Live While We’re Young (-26)

Biggest Jump of the Week: PSY – Gangnam Style (+27)

Our new music this week kicks off with the Rolling Stones.  No joke.  The Rolling freakin’ Stones.  Far be it from me to bad mouth the Rolling Stones, but your daddy’s Rolling Stones, these are not.  Their song, Doom and Gloom, is just so out of place on a Top 45 countdown in the year 2012 that I don’t even know what to make of it.  I like it OK, but let’s be honest…..it has to be one of the best songs ever put out there with a 69-year-old vocalist.  The very fact that Doom and Gloom is something a large amount of people want to hear is impressive.  Rock on, Mick Jagger.  Rock on.

The countdown debut of Of Monsters and Men – Little Talks was long overdue.  Little Talks is a fantastic song that blends a catchy melody with a story of a widow’s struggles after the death of her husband.  It’s the rare countdown song in which there’s much more to it than meets the eye (ear?).  Josh Baze doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page (what a loser!!!).  The lyrics to his song, She’s Gold, can’t even be found easily online (I’ve been trying to find them most of this week, so if anyone has them, step right up).  I heard of him for the first time this past weekend, and I have to say that I’m impressed thus far.  Usually I am not a fan of relative unknown hip hop artists that burst onto the countdown out of nowhere, but this one is doing it for me.  From reading I’ve been doing, MTV seems to think Josh Baze is due for some sort of huge breakout, so maybe this isn’t the last we’ll hear of him either.

Blurbnostics

- The countdown voters echoed my disappointment in Taio Cruz – Fast Car.  It didn’t have the longest of tenures and never really made any waves above the high teens / low twenties.  The next time we hear from Taio Cruz, I hope he has better for us.

- PSY – Gangnam Style has gone schizophrenic on us, being the Biggest Jump of the Week following last week’s titleholder of the Biggest DDDDDRRRROOOPPP!!!!!.....of the week.

- Signs point to Ke$ha – Die Young at #1 at some point in the near future, since everything else in the Top 8 is either stale by now or doesn’t really have that mass appeal “it” factor.

- Hey!  A new high watermark for Imagine Dragons – It’s Time!  The countdown’s “#6 Glass Ceiling” is soooooooo 2010, anyway.

- Three of last week’s four new entrants jumped into the teens this week.  Shockingly, Maroon 5 – Daylight was the straggler.  My money would have been on JTX – Seven Day Weekend.

- Seriously, is Ellie Goulding – Anything Could Happen planning on breaking out of the bottom 10 slots of the countdown anytime?  I’m growing fearful of this one’s underratedness.  It’s a good thing that Hits-1 gave me sole control of the REAL “Top 45 of the Year” rankings*, else songs like this would never get the recognition they deserve.

- No sleep lost over the DTHNOBbing of Karmin – Hello.  That one turned out to be pretty awful.  I was far too lenient on it when it first debuted.

Editor’s Picks – Top 5 Songs

1) Ke$ha – Die Young

2) Of Monsters and Men – Little Talks

3) Cher Lloyd Ft. Becky G. – Oath

4) Ellie Goulding – Anything Could Happen

5) Josh Baze – She’s Gold

*This is pretty much mostly fake