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Friday, November 11, 2011

Adele - Week of November 5, 2011

I had to struggle to write this due to the extreme depression I am feeling from the most collectively disappointing #1 and #2 songs in history. 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:
  • Beyonce - Countdown
The Countdown: (Source: Wikipedia)
Biggest DDDDRRRROOPPPPP!!!!!!!!!............of the week: Kelly Clarkson - Mr. Know It All (-13)
Biggest jump of the week: Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks (+30)

The only new entrant is Coldplay - Paradise. I'm not going to review it because you've likely been under a rock for awhile if you haven't heard it. Yes, even those seeking refuge in something as un-Coldplay as Monday Night Football were treated to 5-second clips of this song.

Big, random, and welcome jump back into the top 5 for Foster the People. Is there still hope for a #1 bid? It seems like we've gone a bit back in time with Good Life and Moves Like Jagger jumping back into the top 10, while Stereo Hearts gets the Moves Like Jagger treatment and falls out of the top 10 just 2 weeks removed from a #1 bid.

Honestly, I typically like to write more, but this list just makes me sad. There hasn't been an outstanding new countdown entrant in quite some time. I'm hoping One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful makes the jump from Hit-Bound soon, but that song has been hanging around on Hit-Bound for long enough that it seems like it's destined to not make it. There really hasn't been a week with huge turnover in awhile, and I can see plenty of songs on the countdown that need to go. Here's hoping for some new blood, and soon.

Editor's Picks - Top 5
Demi Lovato - Skyscraper
Katy Perry - Last Friday Night
The Script - Nothing
Jessie J - Domino
Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Gym Class Heroes -- Week of October 22, 2011

I fought myself very hard to make the title above "Adam Levine", who is having some kind of a success run between Maroon 5's rise to the top and his various successful "featuring" roles.  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.
  • Matt Nathanson - Faster
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie
The countdown: (Source: Wikipedia)
Biggest DDRRRRRROOOOOPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!...........of the week: LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem
Biggest Jump of the week: Tie between Lady Gaga - You and I and OneRepublic - Good Life


It was a VERY exciting weekend on the countdown. The suspense was incredible. With only the top 2 songs left to be played, last week's top 10 had already been accounted for. So we knew that there was going to be a couple of big jumps into the top two spots. One of them was fairly predictable, Adele - Someone Like You. I felt like this was overdue because of it's prominence on the iTunes Most Downloaded rankings, and certainly NOT because it is a good song of any kind. Unfortunately, it will probably hit #1 on this countdown in the near future. Gym Class Heroes Ft. Adam Levine - Stereo Hearts feels a little bit like a long shot to hold on to the top spot for a 2nd week in a row. I was pretty shocked that it topped the list, but unlike Someone Like You, it is a pretty solid song, and at least deserved to crack the top 5 at some point.

Lots of purging of former top-10 mainstays this week. In addition to Party Rock Anthem dropping, we also saw Pitbull Ft. Ne-Yo - Give Me Everything take a big dive, and Hot Chelle Rae - Tonight Tonight continue to fade. Welcome was the ascension of The Script - Nothing into the Top 5. I don't think that song has a great chance at #1, but it's the best song on the countdown right now that hasn't already been #1 seven times.

The new entrants this week came in at #43 (Britney Spears - Criminal) and #42 Nickelback - When We Stand Together. Criminal seems average-ish, but in any case, Britney Spears's newest album has been a pretty big disappointment, churning out this as well as two mediocrities (Hold it Against Me, Till The World Ends) and the sub-par I Wanna Go. When We Stand Together is another solid tune from Nickelback, whose talents are neither representative of the millions of fans they have, nor the billions of people who think it's a huge hilarious joke to hate on them. Particularly in the past 3 years, they have churned out a few pretty solid tunes. I feel like the Black Eyed Peas should probably be absorbing a lot of that hatred instead, as they've become entrenched in the recent spotlight and are unquestionably far less talented than Nickelback.


Next week we'll see if One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful and Sean Kingston - Party All Night can make the leap from Hit-Bound to the countdown, as they're the two best songs looking to graduate.

Editor's picks -- Top 5
Katy Perry - Last Friday Night
The Script - Nothing
Jessie J - Domino
Nickelback - When We Stand Together
T-Pain Ft. Wiz Khalifa - 5 O'Clock
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