I mean, we could have had a worse #1, right? (Week of 10/1/2022)

 

Hello everyone, welcome back to another countdown post, and I'm actually getting this out before the UC/ Tulsa football game this evening. This week was decent, we had some good jumps and somewhat unnecessary drops. However, only one song left this week:

Kane Brown- Grand (#19 last week)

Countdown:

30. Rema/ Selena Gomez- Calm Down (-1)

29. Jvke- Golden Hour (+1)

28. Blackpink- Pink Vomit (-3)

27. Lil Nas X- Star Walkin (Debut)

26. Zedd/ Maren Morris/ Beauz- Make You Say (-6)

25. Nicki Minaj- Super Freaky Girl (-7)

24. Joji- Glimpse Of Us (=)

23. David Guetta/ Bebe Rexha- I'm Good (+4)

22. Steve Lacy- Bad Habit (=)

21. Lizzo- About Damn Time (=)

20. Stephen Sanchez- Until I Found You (-3)

19. Ava Max- Maybe You're The Problem (-3)

18. Lewis Capaldi- Forget Me (+10)

17. Yung Gravy- Betty (-3)

16. AJR- World's Smallest Violin (+10)

15. Elton John/ Britney Spears- Hold Me Closer (-3)

14. Harry Styles- Late Night Toppling (+1)

13. Doja Cat- Vegas (-3)

12. Panic At The Disco- Don't Let The Light Go Out (+1)

11. Ava Max- Million Dollar Baby (+12)

10. Imagine Dragons- Bones (+1) (Seriously?)

9. Halsey- So Boring (-2)

8. Nicky Youre/ Dazy- Sunroof (=)

7. Jax- Victoria's Secret (+2)

6. Marshmello/ Khalid- Numb (=)

5. Harry Styles- Music For A Sushi Restaurant (-2)

4. Post Malone/ Doja Cat- I Like You (=)

3. OneRepublic- I Ain't Worried (+2)

2. Lizzo- 2 Be Annoyed (=)

1. Charlie Puth/ Jungkook- Left And Right (=)

Countdown Extra: 5 Seconds Of Summer- Best Friends

Last Year's #1: The Kid Laroi/ Justin Bieber- Stay

#1 Two Years Ago: Juice Wrld/ Marshmello- Come And Go

My Favorite Song Last Year: Drake/ Future/ Young Thug- Way 2 Sexy

My Favorite Song Two Years Ago: All Time Low/ Blackbear- Monsters

List of Recommendations for Hits 1: 

Yung Gravy/ Bbno$/ Rich Brian- Cest La Vie

Alan Walker/ Trevor Daniel- Extremes

YG/ Roddy Ricch/ Post Malone- Sober

BoyWithUke/ Oliver Tree- Sick Of U

So we had one debut this week, but it's Lil Nas X's latest, Star Walkin. This is pretty good. He sounds amazing here throughout and the production is extremely cool, although I'm questioning if that's actually him singing the second verse, but it's fine. I hope this becomes huge here.

Hitbound

Omar Apollo- Evergreen

Shawn Mendes- Heartbeat (Debut)

Tai Verdes- Two Sugars

Tate Mcrae- Uh Oh (Debut)

24kgoldn- Mistakes (Debut)

Havanna Winter- Heaven To Me

Ed Sheeran- Celestial (Debut)

Leah Kate- Monster (Debut)

Quinn XCII/ Big Sean- Common

5 Seconds Of Summer- Best Friends

Aidan Bissett- Tripping Over Air

Kelsea Ballerini- Heartfirst

Mike Posner- I'm Not Dead Yet

Cheat Codes/ Russell Dickerson- I Remember

DJ Khaled/ Drake/ Lil Baby- Staying Alive

Beach Weather- Sex, Drugs, Etc

We have a new Shawn Mendes song on here this week called Heartbeat, which is from the movie Lyle Lyle Crocodile. I generally have a great track record when it comes to soundtrack songs, like We Don't Talk About Bruno and I Ain't Worried. This new Shawn Mendes song is pretty good. He sounds pretty good here and it has interesting production. That's all I remember about that song though. I need to listen to it more.

Yesterday, Tate Mcrae put out a new song called Uh Oh. I don't know why, but I feel as though this has some reggaeton type production. Well, it goes really well with Tate Mcrae's voice, and all of these are compliments. This might be the best thing I've heard from her since You with Regard from last year. I still want her to do something with J Balvin, Bad Bunny, or Zion & Lennox though.

Up next is 24kgoldn's latest single Mistakes. This is good. It reminds me of Fine Appe by Nic D from last year. He sounds fine here. This is also forgettable. All I have to say.

Ok this one is going to be interesting to talk about. We have Ed Sheeran's latest single Celestial, and it's from an upcoming Pokemon film, and this Hitbound episode might be the first time I knew he was a Pokemon fan. Anyways, this is pretty good. He sounds great and the production... is dance pop here and is super catchy. I actually looked up who produced this after I first heard it, and it was Steve Mac, who has produced bangers in the past. I want this to do well.

Saving the best for last, we have yet another Leah Kate song, this is called Monster. This is an amazing song, though not as good as Twinkle Twinkle Little Bitch from earlier this year, but better than Shawn Mendes and Justin Bieber's song of the same name from two years ago. Honestly, Leah Kate sounds better here than other songs, and the writing is somewhat creative. I'll say it again, I knew she was capable of better songs than 10 Things I Hate About You. 

We lost 29, Unholy, Wrapped Around Your Finger, and Billie Eilish. 29 was never that great, so I'm fine with that going, and the last three are in the abyss (although I'm not sure if Unholy is or not). I hope Billie Eilish debuts next week, and while Wrapped Around Your Finger is slightly growing on me, I'm still not sure why Hits 1 wants to be a thing. 

Blurbs

Our only exit was Grand. It was good, but it was apparently lacking in airplay its entire run, so I'm not surprised.

Why are Calm Down and Pink Vomit flopping with extremely similar runs?

NOOOO!!! Why did Make You Say and Super Freaky Girl drop? These should still be climbing!

Glimpse Of Us needs to leave ASAP

Nice. I'm Good actually jumped four spots off its debut. I really want this to crack the top 20 next week.

Hey Jackie Reed, I'd like to drop by your office sometime this coming week so I can teach you how to remove About Damn Time, Maybe You're The Problem, and Bones from the countdown.

Forget me jumped huge off its debut last week. Expected, since it is a Lewis Capaldi song after all.

World's Smallest Violin also got a huge boost to just outside the top 15

Seriously? Late Night Toppling back up 1 to #14? Come on, this should continue to fall or even be gone.

Million Dollar Baby got a huge boost up to #11. Sweet.

Thank God, we don't need So Boring almost in the top 5.

Unfortunately, it traded places with Victoria's Secret. This seriously cannot make the top 5 next week.

Music For A Sushi Restaurant actually fell two spots instead of rising two spots. Continue falling please.

I Ain't Worried is now at #3. I'd love to see this dethrone Left And Right instead of MFASR or 2 Be Loved (or as I saw someone in the discord calling it and what I will be calling it from now on, 2 Be Annoyed).

I guess that does it for me this week, see you guys next week.