Memorial Day Weekend Edition (Week of 5/27/2023)

 

Hello everyone, welcome back to another countdown post. I have one announcement, it's that I recreated the countdown for May 18th, 2019 earlier this week, and I have many more countdown re-creations planned for over the summer. Let's begin this week's countdown, here are the songs that left:

Pink Pantheress/ Ice Spice- Boy's A Liar Part 2 (#22 last week)

Lizzy McAlpine- Ceilings (#20 last week)

Countdown:

30. Conan Gray- Never Ending Song (Debut)

29. Miguel- Sure Thing (-5)

28. Post Malone- Mourning (Debut)

27. David Kushner- Daylight (+3)

26. Sza- Snooze (+2)

25. Illenium/ Avril Lavigne/ Travis Barker- Eyes Wide Shut (+2)

24. Toosii- Favorite Song (+2)

23. Harry Styles- Satellite (+2)

22. Fifty Fifty- Cupid (-3)

21. Morgan Wallen- Last Night (-3)

20. The Weeknd/ Future- Double Fantasy (-8)

19. Niall Horan- Meltdown (+2)

18. Kim Petras/ Nicki Minaj- Alone (+11)

17. Luke Combs- Fast Car (+6)

16. Tiesto/ Tate Mcrae- 10:35 (-1)

15. Lewis Capaldi- Wish You The Best (-4)

14. Miley Cyrus- Jaded (-1)

13. Crash Adams- Give Me A Kiss (+1)

12. David Guetta/ Anne Marie/ Coi Leray- Baby Don't Hurt Me (-2)

11. Jax- Cinderella Snapped (+6)

10. Kane Brown/ Katelyn Brown- Thank God (-1)

9. The 1975- I'm In Love With You (+7)

8. Charlie Puth/ Dan + Shay- That's Not How This Works (-1)

7. Post Malone- Chemical (+1)

6. Niall Horan- Heaven (-1)

5. Latto/ Lu Kala- Lottery (-1)

4. Ed Sheeran- Eyes Closed (-1)

3. Taylor Swift- Karma (+3)

2. Jonas Brothers- Waffle House (=)

1. Fall Out Boy- Love From The Other Side (=)

Countdown Extra: Jimin/ Jvke/ Muni Long/ Kodak Black/ Nle Choppa- Angel Part 1

Last Year's #1: Harry Styles- Ass It Was

#1 Two Years Ago: Olivia Rodrigo- Deja Vu

My Favorite Song Last Year: Jack Harlow- First Class

My Favorite Song Two Years Ago: Regard/ Troye Sivan/ Tate Mcrae- You

#1 Recommendation For Hits 1: Felix Jaehn/ Sandro Cavazza- All For Love

I feel like this first debut could have been better. It Conan Gray's newest song, Never Ending Song. This honestly might be the most retro song on the countdown. The production feels very 50s/ 60s, and the down pitched vocals from Conan Gray make him sound like Elvis on here. This is not bad, though. It just could have been better.

Our other debut is a lot better. It's the second single off Post Malone's upcoming album Austin, called Mourning. This is a lot better than Chemical. The production on this gives off the vibes of the songs from his 2017 album Beerbongs & Bentleys, and I mean that as a compliment, as those songs were really good. Post Malone also sounds really good on this. I hope this is a hit.

Hitbound

Kali- Area Codes

Dua Lipa- Dance The Night (Debut)

Coco Jones- ICU (Owen Cutts Remix)

OneRepublic- Runaway (Debut)

Jonas Brothers- Summer Baby

Pitbull/ Lil Jon- Jumpin

Maroon 5- Middle Ground

Ed Sheeran/ Luke Combs- Life Goes On

Icandy- Keep Dat

Lauren Spencer-Smith- That Part (Debut)

Ice Spice/ Nicki Minaj- Princess Diana

Presley Regier- Nevermind

Lu Kala- Pretty Girl Era

Jimin/ Jvke/ Muni Long/ Kodak Black/ Nle Choppa- Angel Part 1

Lewis Capaldi- Haven't You Ever Been In Love Before

Bakar- Hell N Back

Only three debuts this week. A fresh rarity these days. Anyways, first up, Dua Lipa wrote a song for the upcoming Barbie movie called Dance The Night. I'm not 100% feeling this yet, but it's pretty good. I like the production on here and she sounds good, it could have been a different key with that type of production. I'd like to hear this more to form a more solid opinion.

We have a new song from OneRepublic up next, this is called Runaway. I like this, but not as much as I do Ye and Pusha T's song of the same title from 2010. I think Ryan Tedder sounds pretty great here, and this was well produced. Good song.

Lastly, we have a new Lauren Spencer-Smith song. This is called That Part, and it is lyrically different from all her other songs, as it's a love song. It's about her boyfriend and wanting to skip to the part in her life where they get married, and as of last night, this is kind of relatable. Musically, the song sounds somewhat like Fingers Crossed, but somewhat more upbeat. So overall, good song.

We only lost Only Love Can Save Us Now. I don't exactly remember how this goes, so it's fine.

Blurbs:

Our exits were Boy's A Liar Part 2 and Ceilings. I liked Boy's A Liar Part 2 and I think it had a good run, and I was never sold on Ceilings at all, so I'm fine with that going.

Sure Thing fell five spots. I hope that this proves that old songs belong nowhere near the radio.

As predicted, Daylight grew on me this past week. Expect it to move up to blue next week.

Can Eyes Wide Shut jump more?

At this point, Satellite is just replicating Ass It Was's run so far. I would rather this leave next week instead of jumping 20+ spots.

Nooo why did Last Night drop again? This should be in the top 15 now

Oof. Double Fantasy took a huge hit after its jump last week. Hopefully, it rebounds next week.

Wow, Alone made a huge jump. Expect this to move up to green next week.

I did not think Fast Car would make two huge jumps in a row, but I'm not complaining.

Cinderella Snapped is finally outside the top 10, can it make it there next week?

After 13 weeks and two runs, I'm In Love With You is in the top 10. Took kind of long if you ask me.

Karma is now at #3... this really didn't need to happen. I hope this doesn't hit #1 next week, or if it does hit #1 eventually, that Waffle House gets there first.

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