Oh god no... in different ways (Week of 2/25/2023)

 

Hello everyone, welcome back to another countdown post.... for one that I have two questions about. A couple announcements first, I've been doing reveals for the rankdown all week, so if you haven't checked those out, please do so, and I also reviewed Don Toliver's new album Love Sick yesterday, so please check that out as well. Let's just get into it, here are the songs that left:

Avril Lavigne/ Yungblud- I'm A Mess (#18 last week)

Nicky Youre- Eyes On You (#5 last week) (..................................................)

Beach Weather- Sex Drugs Etc (#16 last week)

Countdown

30. Pink Pantheress/ Ice Spice- Boy's A Liar Part 2 (=)

29. Renee Rapp- Too Well (=)

28. Bebe Rexha- Heart Wants What It Wants (Debut)

27. Gracie Abrams- Where Do We Go Now (=)

26. Tyla- Been Thinking (+2)

25. Stephen Sanchez- Evangeline (-3)

24. Latto/ Lu Kala- Lottery (Debut)

23. Niall Horan- Heaven (Debut)

22. Coi Leray- Players (+2)

21. Kane Brown/ his wife Katelyn- Thank God (+4)

20. Mimi Webb- Red Flags (+2)

19. The Kid Laroi- Love Again (+2)

18. Raye/ 070 Shake- Escapism (+2)

17. Fall Out Boy- Love From The Other Side (-3)

16. Sam Smith/ Calvin Harris/ Jessie Reyez- I'm Not Here To Make Friends (+1)

15. The 1975- I'm In Love With You (+4)

14. Lizzo/ Sza- Special (+12)

13. Meghan Trainor- Made You Puke (-1)

12. Jvke- Golden Hour (-2)

11. Tate Mcrae- Uh Oh (-7)

10. Sza- Kill Bill (-4)

9. Ava Max- Weapons (-2)

8. Metro Boomin/ The Weeknd/ 21 Savage- Creepin (-1)

7. Lady Gaga- Bloody Mary (+2)

6. Charlie On A Friday- Enough (-3)

5. Sabrina Carpenter- Nonsense (+10)

4. Sza- Nobody Gets Me (+9)

3. Tiesto/ Tate Mcrae- 10:35 (+8)

2. Taylor Swift- Lavender Haze (=)

1. Miley Cyrus- Flowers (=)

Countdown Extra: Patrick Martin- Dandelion Eyes

Last Year's #1: Ed Sheeran- Overpass Graffiti

#1 Two Years Ago: Olivia Rodrigo- Drivers License

My Favorite Song Last Year: Alesso/ Katy Perry- When I'm Gone

My Favorite Song Two Years Ago: Conan Gray- Overdrive

#1 Recommendation For Hits 1 off Love Sick: Don Toliver/ Future/ Justin Bieber- Private Landing

#1 Recommendation For Hits 1 elsewhere: Loud Luxury/ Dvbbs/ Kane Brown- Next To You

Up first, Bebe Rexha is back on the countdown since the much needed success of I'm Good, this song is called Heart Wants What It Wants. This is pretty good. I think she sounds really good here and it has cool production. I'm glad this is here.

Next up, Latto is back on the countdown with her song Lottery with Lu Kala. This is really cool. It gives off the vibe of Kiss Me More by Doja Cat and Sza or Closer by Saweetie and H.e.r., and that is a good thing. Latto does a great job on her verses and I like Lu Kala's hook. I hope this is a hit.

And lastly, Niall Horan is back on the countdown with Heaven. I'm still not ready for Hits 1 to overrate the hell out of this, but I do think I'm going to move this up to green in the coming weeks. It sounds a good bit like Voices by Ksi and Oliver Tree, which is really good, and he sounds pretty good here. Fine new song from him.

Hitbound

Patrick Martin- Dandelion Eyes

Big Boss Vette- Pretty Girls Walk

Role Model- A Little More Time

Mae Stephens- If We Ever Broke Up

24kgoldn- Bite (Debut)

Nessa Barrett- Bang Bang

Nicky Youre- Shut Me Up (Debut)

Halsey- Die 4 Me (Debut)

Linkin Park- Lost

Jonas Brothers- Wings (Debut)

Morgan Wallen- Last Night

Jordi- Hate You

Charlie On A Friday- That's What I Get

Beabadoobee- Glue Song (Debut)

Jvke- This Is What Heartbreak Feels Like

Zara Larsson- Can't Tame Her

Gracie Abrams- I Know It Won't Work (Debut)

First up, we have a new song from 24kgoldn called Bite. I usually like 24kgoldn's music and this is no exception. He sounds really great here and the production is on point. I also really like the key it's in. He has done it again.

Next up, we have another new Nicky Youre song after both Sunroof and Eyes On You became hits called Shut Me Up. Well, he knows how to make great songs. This one is fun. It's in the same key as Sunroof and Eyes On You, but a somewhat different tempo than those two, and that goes well with this song. I hope this can also be huge.

Back in 2019, Post Malone released his 3rd album Hollywood's Bleeding, and one of my favorite tracks from that album was Die For Me with Future and Halsey. Recently, Halsey took her verse on that song and made it into a full song using the hook from the Post Malone song and a new original song. And I gotta say, it worked really well. She sounds really great here and I like the production, and the key she did this in. I know this will be huge.

The Jonas Brothers will be releasing a new album in a few months, and we get a new song off it called Wings. This is something I honestly did not notice when I first heard the song, but everyone on the discord said it's under two minutes long. But despite that, this is still pretty good. They do a great job on this and I like the production. If only it was longer...

Next up is Glue Song by Beabadoobee, back for the first time in three years. I liked Coffee For Your Head from 2020, even though I was like "What the hell is this" when I first heard it. This is not as good as Coffee for your head, however. It's a lot slower, even though her accent makes slightly more sense on here. Whatever, I might forget about this until next week.

Lastly, Gracie Abrams, who put out a new album recently, has a new song called I Know It Won't Work. I'm not really feeling this much as Where Do We Go Now. She sounds fine, I'm just not as wowed by anything going on in this. Plus I have a feeling it will drop out sometime and I will forget about this.

We lost We Go Down Together and Best Friend Breakup. I wasn't sold on either of these, so it's fine.

Blurbs

Our exits were I'm A Mess, Sex Drugs Etc, and... Eyes On You? Ok. That last one shouldn't even be on the list. It had entered the top 5 for the first time a few weeks ago, and I thought for sure it would rebound and hit #1 this week. But nope. And if you clowns at Shits 1 were ready to let this off, you definitely could have let it fall to the bottom of the countdown before removing it instead of having it pull a Kiss Me More and leave from the #5 spot. I'm A Mess also should have done better, but at least they had it drop some before removing it. Then there is Sex Drugs Etc, which is finally gone. So we had at least one song leaving that I'm cool with leaving.

Monitoring Evangeline's countdown run... dropping three spots after jumping big is normal.

Thank God the Brown family's song jumped off its debut, pun intended.

Why did Escapism hit another new peak?

Seriously. Love From The Other Side should still be jumping.

All right. Special is already getting success. 

Guess Uh Oh is on its way out. This is starting to fade on me, so I'm fine with it.

Nonsense, Nobody Gets Me, and 10:35 all jumped huge into the top 5. Aside from Nobody Gets Me, I'm happy for these.

So Flowers is still #1. I'm just hoping this doesn't hold on for too long and let 10:35 or Nonsense get #1. But since Miley Cyrus has never hit #1 on here before this, I don't think this will break Shivers's record.

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