Fall Out Boy (5) - Week of June 1, 2013

I made an error.  Next week is when this will be delayed.  This week, we’re right on time!  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.

• Ke$ha - C'mon
• fun. - Carry On
• Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man
• Pitbull Ft. Christina Aguilera - Feel This Moment

The Countdown:

1. Fall Out Boy - My Songs Know What You Did In the Dark (Light 'em Up) (#3) [Fifth Week at #1]

2. Macklemore Ft. Ryan Lewis - Can't Hold Us (#2)

3. Pink Ft. Nate Reuss - Just Give Me a Reason (#1)

4. Icona Pop - I Love It (#5)

5. Olly Murs - Troublemaker (#4)

6. Florida Georgia Line - Cruise (#7)

7. Demi Lovato - Heart Attack (#6)

8. Robin Thicke ft. Pharrell and T.I. - Blurred Lines (#20)

9. Selena Gomez - Come & Get It (#16)

10. Hot Chelle Rae - Hung Up (#9)

11. Macklemore Ft. Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop (#14)

12. Taylor Swift - 22 (#10)

13. fun. - Some Nights (#15)

14. Bruno Mars - Treasure (#11)

15. Anna Kendrick - Cups (#13)

16. Zedd Ft. Foxes - Clarity (#18)

17. Maroon 5 - Love Somebody (#23)

18. Avril Lavigne - Here's to Never Growing Up (#21)

19. Capital Cities - Safe and Sound (#17)

20. will.i.am Ft. Justin Bieber - #thatPOWER - (#26)

21. Imagine Dragons - Radioactive (#19)

22. Daft Punk - Get Lucky (#32)

23. The 1975 - Chocolate (#25)

24. Classified Ft. David Myles - Inner Ninja (#22)

25. Kelsi Luck - That's What I Like (#27)

26. Drop City Yacht Club - Crickets (#39)

27. Awolnation - Sail (#30)

28. Jay Sean - Where You Are (#24)

29. Ke$ha - Die Young (#31)

30. Bruno Mars - Locked Out of Heaven (#29)

31. Jennifer Lopez Ft. Pitbull - Live It Up (#35)

32. Maroon 5 - Daylight (#34)

33. Little Mix - Wings (#8)

34. Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks (#33)

35. Jason Derulo - The Other Side (#28)

36. Imagine Dragons - It's Time (#36)

37. Swedish House Mafia - Don't You Worry Child (#37)

38. Michael Buble - It's a Beautiful Day (#42)

39. Calvin Harris Ft. Ellie Goulding - I Need Your Love (DEBUT)

40. Emeli Sande - Next to Me (#44)

41. Ke$ha Ft. will.i.am - Crazy Kids (DEBUT)

42. MKTO - Thank You (#43)

43. Krewella - Alive (#45)

44. Muse - Madness (RE-ENTRY)

45. Jake Miller - A Million Lives (RE-ENTRY)

Biggest DDDDRRROOOOPPPPP!!!!!....of the week: Little Mix – Wings (-25)

Biggest Jump of the Week: Drop City Yacht Club – Crickets (+13)

Muse – Madness and Jake Miller – A Million Lives came back, so we’re down to two debuts.  Calvin Harris Ft. Ellie Goulding – I Need Your Love is reasonably similar in quality to Calvin Harris’s previous countdown entry, Sweet Nothing.  I think I like the underlying sound effects significantly more in this song, but like pretty much any other Calvin Harris song, I’m thinking it won’t take too long to develop into a station-changer.  Ke$ha (!!!) is back with will.i.am (…oh) with the song Crazy Kids.  This one’s got a pretty addicting chorus, and I generally enjoy when Ke$ha is singing, but I dislike the pseudo-rap/talk (you know, Ke$ha style) that she does during parts of the verses.  Oh, yeah, and everything will.i.am “contributes” to the song absolutely murders it. 

Ermahgerd, Blurbs!!!

- Spyder Harrison mentioned that Lumineers – Ho Hey was one of the songs we’re saying good-bye to during his weekly rundown, but that song wasn’t present on the countdown last week.

- You remember Tegan and Sara – Closer, right?  That song that got kicked off the countdown on May 11^th?  Well guess where it is now?  Hit-Bound.  It was a countdown song for about a coupla months, and now it’s “bound” to be a “hit”.  I was fairly bothered by how little sense this makes.  Why is Hits-1 trying to pass this off as new music?

- Spyder Harrison also took note of the plight of Macklemore Ft. Ryan Lewis – Can’t Hold Us, being stranded at #2 while Pink and Fall Out Boy oscillate between the #3 and #1 spots each week (seriously, they’ve switched off for 6 weeks now, though Can’t Hold Us has only been the meat of the sandwich for three).

- So Robin Thicke Ft. Pharrell and T.I. is going to be a thing, huh.  Juuuuuust wonderful.

- As mentioned above, next week’s update is gonna be a little late and will be mostly the quick hits. 

Editor’s Picks – Top 5 Songs

1) Zedd Ft. Foxes – Clarity

2) The 1975 – Chocolate

3) Daft Punk – Get Lucky

4) Krewella – Alive

5) Capital Cities – Safe and Sound