Not
a ton of moving and shaking going on within the countdown this week, but at
least we’ve got a crop of new stuff to attend 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.
- Katy Perry - Wide Awake
- The Cab - Intoxicated
- Linkin Park - Burn It Down
- Train - 50 Ways to Say Goodbye
The Countdown:
1.
Owl City Ft. Carly Rae Jepsen - Good Time (#1) [Fifth Week at #1]
2.
Maroon 5 - One More Night (#2)
3.
Ke$ha - Die Young (#3)
4.
fun. - Some Nights (#4)
5.
Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (#7)
6.
Imagine Dragons - It's Time (#13)
7.
Flo Rida - I Cry (#6)
8.
Pink - Blow Me (One Last Kiss) (#5)
9.
Enrique Iglesias Ft. Sammy Adams - Finally Found You (#8)
10. Ellie
Goulding- Lights (#9)
11.
Bruno Mars - Locked Out of Heaven (#20)
12.
Alex Clare - Too Close (#15)
13.
Ne-Yo - Let Me Love You (#22)
14.
One Direction - Live While We're Young (#12)
15.
OneRepublic - Feel Again (#17)
16.
Sam and the Womp - Bom Bom (#27)
17. Neon
Trees- Everybody Talks (#11)
18.
Nicki Minaj - Va Va Voom (#29)
19. Maroon
5 feat. Wiz Khalifa- Payphone (#26)
20.
Rihanna - Diamonds (#10)
21.
Lumineers - Ho Hey (#23)
22.
Cher Lloyd Ft. Becky G - Oath (#19)
23.
Timomatic - Set It Off (#18)
24.
Bridgit Mendler - Ready or Not (#21)
25.
Rita Ora - R.I.P. (#32)
26. fun. feat. Janelle
Monáe- We Are Young (#37)
27.
Rudimental Ft. John Newman - Feel the Love (#25)
28. Karmin- Brokenhearted (#24)
29.
Taio Cruz - Fast Car (#16)
30. Carly
Rae Jepsen- Call Me Maybe (#36)
31.
Pitbull - Don't Stop The Party (DEBUT)
32.
Megan & Liz - Bad for Me (#40)
33.
Maroon 5 - Daylight (DEBUT)
34.
PSY - Gangnam Style (#14)
35.
JTX - Seven Day Weekend (DEBUT)
36.
Cher Lloyd - Want U Back (#38)
37.
Adele - Skyfall (#28)
38.
Usher - Numb (#34)
39.
Emeli Sande - Next to Me (#35)
40.
One Direction - Kiss You (DEBUT)
41.
Ellie Goulding - Anything Could Happen (#39)
42.
Karmin - Hello (#42)
43.
BoysLikeGirls - Be Your Everything (#30)
44.
Martin Solveig - The Night Out (#44)
45.
Ed Sheeran - The A Team (#45)
Biggest
DDDDDDRRRROOOPPPP!!!!...of the week: PSY – Gangnam Style (-20)
Biggest
Jump of the Week: Yikes….tie between Sam and the Womp – Bom Bom, Nicki
Minaj – Va Va Voom, and fun. feat Janelle Monae – We Are Young (+11)
We’ll
kick off the new entrants with Pitbull – Don’t Stop the Party.
This song made waves for its music video that has been deemed too risqué for
the U.K., and has been banned in said nation. The only redeeming quality
of this song is that it’s reasonably catchy the first couple of times you hear
it. Aside from that, it’s unmitigated crap that doesn’t deserve to be
mentioned in the same breath as the other new entrants. Long-time HitBound
veteran JTX – Seven Day Weekend hopped onto the countdown this
week. Fans expecting another Love in America are going to be
disappointed, but Seven Day Weekend is generally of the same energetic
and fun vein. I expect it’ll be widely liked, provided you can tolerate
lyrics like “Life’s a radio, turn it up to ten”. That said, I’m nowhere
near as much of a fan of it now as when I first heard it on HitBound.
If
there’s one thing I’ve learned in my history with Maroon 5, it’s that
most of their songs don’t withstand the test of a large number of repeated
listens. There are, of course, exceptions, but generally Maroon 5’s
inner mediocrity will generally shine through after one of their songs has been
given airtime for a couple months. It makes their music particularly
difficult to review at the start, because admittedly, I can’t remember reacting
too negatively initially to most of their music. It’s gotten even more
complex as they’ve ostensibly changed their style a bit over the past year (Moves
Like Jagger and Payphone come to mind…with One More Night being
more of a lookback to the “old” Maroon 5 sound). Their new
entrant, Daylight, muddles the picture even further. Like Moves
Like Jagger and Payphone, it represents a significant (and positive)
divergence from the “hits” that they put out there back in the early-mid
aughties. Recently, Adam Levine’s voice has been used
significantly more effectively, and Daylight is no exception. I’m
cautiously stating that I’m a fan of this one for now, with caution stemming from
the all-too-possible scenario in which I look back on these words two months
from now and say “what the hell was I thinking?”
And
finally, we come to One Direction’s fourth countdown song, Kiss You.
After three follow-ups to What Makes You Beautiful, I’m not sure
that they’ll ever achieve that height again. That doesn’t mean that Kiss
You isn’t good…in fact my first instinct is that it’s right around the same
quality as Live While We’re Young. It’s likely (but not certain)
to get shut out of this year’s Top 45, but fortunately, unlike 2011, we are in
the midst of a year where a song on this station can still have its merits
while not making that list.
Blurbet
Points
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Check out the list of countdown songs. Anything missing? You
sure? There’s a certain artist missing whom we haven’t had a countdown
without for a long time. This marks the first week since early May of
2010 that we haven’t had a song by Katy Perry on the countdown.
What a run.
-
Imagine Dragons – It’s Time has a new high water mark at #6. I
don’t think we’ll see it ascend any higher, but considering it was off the
countdown completely, this is a pleasant development.
-
The top 4 songs all stayed the same for the first time in who-knows-how-long.
-
A month ago, Train – 50 Ways to Say Goodbye was ranked #6, and I let out
a plea for that song to get the hell out of here, fast. 4 weeks later,
it’s gone completely as its stock fell faster than Facebook’s after its IPO
(topical!).
-
I don’t think Adele – Skyfall will be on the countdown very much
longer. I saw the movie last night and was, as expected, perfectly happy
with the opening credits video.
Editor’s
Picks – Top 5 Songs
1)
Ke$ha – Die Young
2)
Cher Lloyd Ft. Becky G – Oath
3)
Ellie Goulding – Anything Could Happen
4)
Maroon 5 – Daylight
5)
Imagine Dragons – It’s Time
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