Imagine Dragons (6) - Week of August 10, 2013

"If by some modern miracle of science you missed any part of the countdown” this past weekend, you didn’t miss much.  No songs leavin’ the countdown this week.

The Countdown:

1. Imagine Dragons - Radioactive (#1) [Sixth Week at #1]

2. Maroon 5 - Love Somebody (#3)

3. Robin Thicke ft. Pharrell and T.I. - Blurred Lines (#2)

4. Pink Ft. Nate Reuss - Just Give Me a Reason (#7)

5. Zedd Ft. Foxes - Clarity (#6)

6. Fall Out Boy - My Songs Know What You Did In the Dark (Light 'em Up) (#5)

7. Macklemore Ft. Ryan Lewis - Can't Hold Us (#4)

8. Avril Lavigne - Here's to Never Growing Up (#12)

9. Calvin Harris Ft. Ellie Goulding - I Need Your Love (#8)

10. Florida Georgia Line - Cruise (#9)

11. Ke$ha Ft. will.i.am - Crazy Kids (#10)

12. Jason Derulo - The Other Side (#11)

13. Paramore - Still Into You (#15)

14. Bruno Mars - Treasure (#14)

15. Emblem 3 - Chloe (#16)

16. JTX - Summer Lover (#17)

17. Mika Ft. Ariana Grande - Popular Song (#20)

18. Capital Cities - Safe and Sound (#13)

19. Karmin - Acapella (#18)

20. Pink - True Love (#22)

21. Daft Punk - Get Lucky (#21)

22. Train Ft. Ashley Monroe - Bruises (#19)

23. Nikki Williams - Glowing (#23)

24. MKTO - Classic (#26)

25. Twenty One Pilots - Holding On To You (#27)

26. One Direction - Best Song Ever (#24)

27. Tegan & Sara - Closer (#29)

28. Cody Simpson - Pretty Brown Eyes (#28)

29. Sammy Adams Ft. Mike Posner - LA Story (#25)

30. Olly Murs - Troublemaker (#30)

31. Rihanna Ft. David Guetta - Right Now (#42)

32. Hot Chelle Rae - Hung Up (#32)

33. The 1975 - Chocolate (#37)

34. Selena Gomez - Come & Get It (#34)

35. Labrinth Ft. Emeli Sande - Beneath Your Beautiful (#33)

36. Demi Lovato - Heart Attack (#38)

37. Swedish House Mafia - Don't You Worry Child (#31)

38. Bruno Mars - Locked Out of Heaven (#40)

39. fun. - Some Nights (#35)

40. Icona Pop - I Love It (#36)

41. Anna Kendrick - Cups (#45)

42. Macklemore Ft. Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop (#39)

43. The Summer Set - Boomerang (#41)

44. Classified Ft. David Myles - Inner Ninja (#44)

45. Awolnation - Sail (#43)

Biggest DDDDDDRRRRRROOOOOPPPPP!!!!....of the week: Swedish House Mafia – Don’t You Worry Child (-6)

Biggest Jump of the Week: Rihanna Ft. David Guetta – Right Now (+11)

That’s Show Blurbness

- I suppose it goes without saying that this is the smallest Biggest DDDDDDRRRRRROOOOOPPPPP!!!!....of the week that we’ve seen on this countdown.  So there’s that.

- In the absence of quite literally anything interesting happening on the countdown, I suppose we can talk about HitBound for a bit.  It appears that Rudimental Ft. John Newman – Feel the Love has disappeared from Hit-Bound, no doubt due to my scathing criticism from last week.

- Youngblood Hawke – We Come Running has also disappeared from the HitBound rotation.  I was starting to like this one a good amount a month ago but then it sort of just vanished from airplay.  Unfortunate.

- There is a song by Cher on Hit-Bound.  That is a current thing that is happening.

- Miley Cyrus – We Can’t Stop: still considered a “future” hit by Hits-1.

- Macklemore is hosting this upcoming weekend’s countdown.  I would like a written explanation from Hits-1 of what benefit there is to getting celebrities to do this countdown.  Maybe other people are much more interested in this sort of thing than I am.  Whatever.

- Apologies for the lack of substance.  Slow news week.

Editor’s Picks – Top 5 Songs

1) Train – Bruises

2) Karmin – Acapella

3) MKTO – Classic

4) Twenty One Pilots – Holding On to You

5) JTX – Summer Lover