Katy Perry (5) - Week of October 5, 2013

Bit of a blahhh week, I’m afraid.  But good times are on the horizon.  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:

• Icona Pop - I Love It
• Karmin - Acapella
• Selena Gomez - Come and Get It
• Enrique Iglesias - Turn the Night Up (DTHx2)

The Countdown:

1. Katy Perry - Roar (#1) [Fifth Week at #1]

2. Avicii Ft. Aloe Blacc - Wake Me Up (#8)

3. Imagine Dragons - Radioactive (#2)

4. Macklemore Ft. Ryan Lewis - Same Love (#3)

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

6. Lady Gaga - Applause (#10)

7. Paramore - Still Into You (#4)

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

9. MKTO - Classic (#7)

10. The 1975 - Chocolate (#9)

11. Mika Ft. Ariana Grande - Popular Song (#11)

12. Train Ft. Ashley Monroe - Bruises (#36)

13. Lana Del Ray Ft. Cedric Gervais - Summertime Sadness (#31)

14. Pink - True Love (#16)

15. Fall Out Boy - Alone Together (#17)

16. Taylor Swift Ft. Ed Sheeran - Everything Has Changed (#14)

17. Eminem - Berzerk (#13)

18. Lorde - Royals (#21)

19. Demi Lovato - Made in the USA (#18)

20. Neighborhood - Sweater Weather (#38)

21. Jesse McCartney - Back Together (#22)

22. Travie McCoy Ft. Jason Mraz - Tough Water (#41)

23. Olly Murs - Dance With Me Tonight (#34)

24. Britney Spears - Work B**ch (#27)

25. Phillip Phillips - Gone Gone Gone (#19)

26. Icona Pop - All Night (#25)

27. Bruno Mars - Gorilla (#26)

28. Robin Thicke ft. Pharrell and T.I. - Blurred Lines (#29)

29. Capital Cities - Safe and Sound (#12)

30. Krewella - Live for the Night (#20)

31. Florida Georgia Line - Cruise (#40)

32. John Newman - Love Me Again (#23)

33. Bonnie McKee - American Girl (#24)

34. Labrinth Ft. Emeli Sande - Beneath Your Beautiful (#28)

35. Selena Gomez - Slow Down (DEBUT)

36. Macklemore Ft. Ryan Lewis - Can't Hold Us (#35)

37. The Mowgli's - Say It, Just Say It (DEBUT)

38. Calvin Harris Ft. Ellie Goulding - I Need Your Love (#15)

39. Linkin Park Ft. Steve Aoki - A Light That Never Comes (DEBUT)

40. Daft Punk - Get Lucky (RE-ENTRY)

41. Maroon 5 - Love Somebody (#30)

42. Tegan & Sara - Closer (#43)

43. Cody Simpson - Pretty Brown Eyes (#32)

44. Bruno Mars - Treasure (#37)

45. Awolnation - Sail (#42)

Biggest DDDDRRRROOOPPP!!!!....of the week: Calvin Harris Ft. Ellie Goulding – I Need Your Love (-23)

Biggest Jump of the Week: Train Ft. Ashley Monroe – Bruises (+24)

We got a resurrection from Daft Punk – Get Lucky, so just 3 true newbies.  Selena Gomez Inc. is currently the world’s largest mediocrity manufacturing plant (and BOY does that make Andy Grammer ever so jealous).  Slow Down is the latest drone off of the assembly line.  It’s called an R&D department, Selena.  It’s OK to have one.  The Mowgli’s is one of the better names you could come up with for a band if you were restricted to Disney characters…it’s a close 3^rd behind The Mufasa’s or The Rafiki’s.  The Lion King was a very good movie.  Their debut Say It, Just Say It is no overwhelmingly great song, but it’s plenty upbeat and delightful.  We’re better off having it around.  Linkin Park ain’t Linkin Park no more.  They debuted Ft. Steve Aoki this week with A Light That Never Comes, a song that is much stranger than it is good.

Blurbabaloo

- Out of nowhere, Avicii Ft. Aloe Blacc – Wake Me Up has risen to #2 and has emerged as a possible successor to Katy Perry’s throne.

- I’m doing something of an about-face on Fall Out Boy – Alone Together.  I may have allowed my tiredness of My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light ‘em Up) to negatively influence the prospect of a new Fall Out Boy song on the countdown.

- Hooray!  Olly Murs – Dance With Me Tonight survived!

- It’d be totally OK if Hits-1 never played Imagine Dragons – Radioactive again.  Or at least not for 4 months.

- I wholeheartedly approve of both this week’s Biggest DDDDRRRROOOOPPPPP!!!!! and Biggest Jump.

- The best part of Enrique Iglesias – Turn The Night Up coming back was that we wound up kicking it out of here twice even though it only was on the countdown for 3 total weeks.  It’s fun to watch awful music go away!  Even a second time!

Editor’s Picks – Top 5 Songs

1) Train Ft. Ashley Monroe – Bruises

2) MKTO – Classic

3) Bonnie McKee – American Girl

4) Olly Murs – Dance With Me Tonight

5) Jesse McCartney – Back Together