Thought
I forgot about you, huh? The Weekend Countdown Review never drops the
ball! More on the disappointing result above in the Blurbs. 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.
- Karmin - Brokenhearted
- Bridgit Mendler - Ready or Not
- Ed Sheeran - The A Team (DTHNOBx2)
- Nicki Minaj - Va Va Voom
- Ne-Yo - Let Me Love You
The Countdown:
1.
Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble (#3) [New #1]
2.
Swedish House Mafia - Don't You Worry Child (#7)
3.
Pink - Try (#6)
4.
Lumineers - Ho Hey (#2)
5.
Ke$ha - Die Young (#1)
6.
fun. - Some Nights (#4)
7.
Pitbull - Don't Stop The Party (#11)
8.
The Script Ft. will.i.am - Hall of Fame (#12)
9.
Justin Timberlake Ft. Jay-Z - Suit and Tie (#14)
10.
Maroon 5 - Daylight (#10)
11.
Olly Murs - Troublemaker (#13)
12.
Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks (#17)
13.
Kelly Clarkson - Catch My Breath (#9)
14.
Justin Bieber Ft. Nicki Minaj - Beauty and a Beat (#27)
15.
Imagine Dragons - It's Time (#8)
16.
Bruno Mars - Locked Out of Heaven (#5)
17.
Ke$ha - C'mon (#28)
18.
Macklemore Ft. Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop (#20)
19.
Passion Pit - Take a Walk (#24)
20.
will.i.am Ft Britney Spears - Scream and Shout (#18)
21.
One Direction - Kiss You (RE-ENTRY)
22.
Neon Trees Ft. Kaskade - Lessons In Love (#26)
23.
Owl City Ft. Carly Rae Jepsen - Good Time (#21)
24.
Redfoo - Bring Out the Bottles (#16)
25.
Emeli Sande - Next to Me (#36)
26.
Calvin Harris Ft. Florence Welch - Sweet Nothing (#22)
27.
The Ready Set - Give Me Your Hand (#34)
28.
Alicia Keys - Girl on Fire (#29)
29.
Maroon 5 - One More Night (#30)
30.
Sam and the Womp - Bom Bom (#25)
31.
Phil Phillips - Home (#19)
32. Carly
Rae Jepsen- Call Me Maybe (#32)
33.
JTX - Seven Day Weekend (#15)
34.
One Direction - Little Things (#23)
35.
Nelly - Hey Porsche (DEBUT)
36.
Paper Route - You and I (DEBUT)
37.
Flo Rida - I Cry (#33)
38.
OneRepublic - Feel Again (#38)
39.
Britt Nicole - Gold (DEBUT)
40.
Conor Maynard Ft. Ne-Yo - Turn Around (#31)
41. Maroon
5 feat. Wiz Khalifa- Payphone (#43)
42.
Skylar Grey Ft. Eminem - C'mon Let Me Ride (DEBUT)
43.
Carly Rae Jepsen - This Kiss (#44)
44.
Josh Baze - She's Gold (#35)
45.
One Direction - Live While We're Young (#44)
Biggest
DDDDRRRROOOPPPPP!!!!...of the week: JTX – Seven Day Weekend (-18)
Biggest
Jump of the Week: Justin Bieber Ft. Nicki Minaj – Beauty and a Beat (+13)
The
Hits-1 Facebook page has somewhat been clamoring for a resurrection of One
Direction – Kiss You, so there it is, all the way up at #21. I guess
when you’re ranked #9 and get kicked off the countdown the following week, you
can fight back a little bit. It’s just interesting that it happened a
month and a half later. Nelly is back on the countdown with Hey
Porsche, which is about as average-y as they come. The luster isn’t
quite gone yet, but I’d expect something a little better out of Nelly,
who delivered the fantastic Just a Dream in 2010.
Paper
Route – You and I spent
quite a great deal of time on Hit-Bound and it’s finally arrived on the
countdown despite infrequent otherwise airplay. I have to say I’m pleasantly
surprised it made it here. The vocals on the verses are sub-par, but the
chorus makes up for it. Despite allegedly being a part of a countdown of
“the 45 most wutchuwanted songs in North America”, I get the feeling that this
song isn’t too famous….the music video has fewer than 70k hits on
YouTube. Sometimes I wonder where Hits-1 gets its pool of songs to rotate
through Hit-Bound.
Long-time
Hit-Bound veteran Britt Nicole – Gold jumped onto the countdown this
past weekend, and it’s reasonably decent. The combination of the pacing
and Britt Nicole’s singing voice work pretty well together. I
found it pretty humorous when a clip of a Hits-1 interview with her was played
on last weekend’s countdown when this song was introduced….she explained that the
song was about telling people how much they’re worth. Really. I
never could have gathered that from a song that repeats “you’re worth more than
gold”. Who asked that interview question?
Finally,
kind of a weird debut from Skylar Grey Ft. Eminem – C’mon Let Me Ride, a
bizarre song that ruins Bicycle Race by Queen. I swear,
some of these artists must feel like they’re in a contest to see who can cram
the most innuendo into a song. Far be it from me to badmouth the great Eminem,
but his small part in this song just doesn’t fit, and I actually think I’d
enjoy the song more if he wasn’t a part of it.
Blurbs
of a Feather
-
Can someone please explain the allure of this week’s new #1 song? I want
to know what the rest of the world sees in it that I don’t. It’s not a
great vocal performance from Taylor Swift, it gets pretty repetitive,
and the synthed repeat of the word “Trouble” during/after the chorus just kills
it for me.
-
Paper Route – You and I pulled off a rare feat this week. It was
removed from the Hit-Bound lineup a couple weeks ago after being on there for a
couple months, then subsequently made it to the countdown. Typically,
being pulled off Hit-Bound for reasons other than getting promoted to the
countdown is the say-all, end-all for a song.
-
For the second consecutive week, we’ve got a song in the #2 slot that I don’t
really think has much of a shot to be #1. This time around, it’s Swedish
House Mafia – Don’t You Worry Child
-
There was pretty much no way that Justin Timberlake Ft. Jay-Z – Suit and Tie
wasn’t making the Top 10 this week.
-
Emeli Sande – Next to Me debuted on October 20th, and this is
the first time it’s risen above #30.
-
I’m hoping this week marks the first week of a long series of weeks in which Bruno
Mars is not in the Top 10. But I have a feeling whoever actually sets
the countdown rankings just takes whatever I hope/predict and does the
opposite.
-
Kind of lost in all of this is Josh Baze slipping through the cracks on
the way to a countdown exit. Farewell in advance, Josh Baze,
whoever you are. For what it’s worth, I liked your song.
Editor’s
Picks – Top 5 Songs
1)
Ke$ha – C’mon
2)
Macklemore Ft. Ryan Lewis – Thrift Shop
3)
Passion Pit – Take a Walk
4)
Kelly Clarkson – Catch My Breath
5)
Paper Route – You and I
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