- Paper Route - You and I
- Neon Trees Ft. Kaskade - Lessons in Love
- One Direction - Live While We're Young (DTHNOBx2)
- Pitbull - Don't Stop the Party
- The Ready Set - Give Me Your Hand
- JTX - Seven Day Weekend
The Countdown:
1.
Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble (#1) [Fourth Week at #1]
2.
Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks (#15)
3.
Macklemore Ft. Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop (#2)
4.
Kelly Clarkson - Catch My Breath (#11)
5.
Swedish House Mafia - Don't You Worry Child (#4)
6.
Maroon 5 - Daylight (#29)
7.
Pink - Try (#13)
8.
The Script Ft. will.i.am - Hall of Fame (#22)
9.
Bruno Mars - Locked Out of Heaven (#6)
10.
Imagine Dragons - It's Time (#9)
11.
One Direction - Kiss You (#16)
12.
Lumineers - Ho Hey (#3)
13.
Nelly - Hey Porsche (#14)
14.
Olly Murs - Troublemaker (#12)
15.
Ke$ha - C'mon (#19)
16.
fun. - Carry On (#26)
17.
Calvin Harris Ft. Florence Welch - Sweet Nothing (#23)
18.
Maroon 5 - One More Night (#5)
19.
will.i.am Ft Britney Spears - Scream and Shout (#10)
20.
Hot Chelle Rae - Hung Up (#20)
21.
Skylar Grey Ft. Eminem - C'mon Let Me Ride (#21)
22.
Fall Out Boy - My Songs Know What You Did In the Dark (Light 'em Up) (#17)
23.
Justin Timberlake Ft. Jay-Z - Suit and Tie (#18)
24.
Cher Lloyd - With Ur Love (#25)
25.
Pitbull Ft. Christina Aguilera - Feel This Moment (DEBUT)
26.
Britt Nicole - Gold (#28)
27.
Passion Pit - Take a Walk (#24)
28.
Little Mix - Wings (#30)
29.
Phil Phillips - Home (#7)
30.
Cee Lo Green - Only You (DEBUT)
31. Carly
Rae Jepsen- Call Me Maybe (#45)
32.
Redfoo - Bring Out the Bottles (#27)
33.
Mumford & Sons - I Will Wait (DEBUT)
34.
Chiddy Bang - Happening (DEBUT)
35.
Emeli Sande - Next to Me (#36)
36.
Justin Bieber Ft. Nicki Minaj - Beauty and a Beat (#37)
37. Maroon
5 feat. Wiz Khalifa- Payphone (#40)
38.
September - Heads Up (DEBUT)
39.
Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man (#34)
40.
Milan & Phoenix - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (DEBUT)
41.
fun. - Some Nights (#38)
42.
Alicia Keys - Girl on Fire (#39)
43.
Ke$ha - Die Young (#8)
44.
Sam and the Womp - Bom Bom (#43)
45.
Owl City Ft. Carly Rae Jepsen - Good Time (#32)
Biggest
DDDDDDRRRROOOOOPPPPP!!!!....of the week: Ke$ha – Die Young (-35)
Biggest
Jump of the Week: Maroon 5 – Daylight (+23)
Pitbull
and Christina
Aguilera teamed up for a new debut called Feel This Moment. By
now, I shouldn’t even have to explain to you how that turned out. There
is absolutely no excuse that Hits-1 can give for allowing Mumford & Sons
– I Will Wait to debut on the countdown on February 23, 2013. The
song came out in September, was all over the place in October and November,
jumped onto HitBound sometime in December I want to say, and then after sitting
on HitBound for 2+ months (I think), it finally jumped onto the countdown long
after it’s gone stale. I don’t care if the song is good (it is), there’s
no reason to introduce an old song that’s been played like crazy on other
Sirius stations for many months as “ear poppin’ new music”.
“Hey,
what the world really needs is a remake of Istanbul (Not Constantinople) by
They Might Be Giants” ~ Nobody. Milan & Phoenix did it
anyway. They Might Be Giants, whatever your feelings on the band,
is a super-unique group and it’s insane for anyone to think that they could
remake one of their weird songs and do it well, let alone better than they
did. Cee Lo Green is back with Only You, and it’s
surprisingly not offensive in any way from an auditory perspective. If
the countdown were in better shape right now, I’d be plenty satisfied with this
debut, but Only You is just going to be kind of there, more standard
filler until something better comes along.
The
top new entrant is September – Heads Up, which gives the countdown a
much-needed breath of energy. Long-term it’s going to be stuck in the
good-not-great category, but for the time being, I’m happy it’s around.
I’ve mentioned before that I’m not a huge fan of Chiddy Bang, but I
thing Happening is a workable countdown song. I enjoy the upbeat
tempo and that they employ the services of someone else’s voice to sing a
high-pitched chorus, similar to Mind Your Manners (which I was also OK
with).
Best
Blurbs in a Supporting Role
-
Hits-1 must have gotten the wake-up call that no one knows what the hell Paper
Route – You and I is. That wasn’t a very long tenure. Decent
song, though.
-
The biggest news this week is probably that Of Monsters and Men – Little
Talks came from kind of out of nowhere to be the latest participant in the
“#2 spot carousel”. This is sort of a silver lining for this week’s
countdown, as Little Talks has been one of the best songs around for the
past several months.
-
Though I am very disappointed by the new entrants, at least I won’t be losing
sleep over anything that was kicked off this week.
-
Actually, now that I really look at it, the Top 10 is pretty solid in aggregate
for a week that I’m deeming a disappointment. I obviously have harped on
my problems with #1 and #9 quite a bit, but other than those two, I’m a fan of
all the other songs in the Top 10. This doesn’t happen too often.
-
Pretty concerned that Passion Pit – Take a Walk is going to stagnate and
just disappear one of these weeks. It deserves better than that,
especially in this era of not-great music.
Editor’s
Picks – Top 5 Songs
1)
Ke$ha – C’mon
2)
Passion Pit – Take a Walk
3)
Macklemore Ft. Ryan Lewis – Thrift Shop
4)
Kelly Clarkson – Catch My Breath
5)
Of Monsters and Men – Little Talks
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