One Year Anniversary post (Week of 5/13/2023)

 

Hello everyone, and wow, it's hard to believe I have been doing this for a whole year now, time goes by really quickly. To commemorate, I have recreated four different countdowns from over the years, these being from September 3rd, 2011, November 11th, 2017, the week the countdown got shortened but if it had 45 songs, and December 29th, 2012, as well as reviewing Illenium's self titled album. If you haven't checked any of these out, I highly encourage you to do so. Now on to this week's countdown, I've already covered the songs from when I was off earlier this week. Let's get into it, here are our exits:

NF- Happy (#19 last week)

Melanie Martinez- Void (#30 last week)

Countdown:

30. Luke Combs- Fast Car (Debut)

29. Toosii- Favorite Song (-5)

28. Illenium/ Avril Lavigne/ Travis Barker- Eyes Wide Shut (=)

27. Sza- Snooze (=)

26. Lizzy McAlpine- Ceilings (-6)

25. Miguel- Sure Thing (-4)

24. Niall Horan- Meltdown (+1)

23. Fifty Fifty- Cupid (+3)

22. Harry Styles- Satellite (Debut)

21. The Weeknd/ Future- Double Fantasy (-4)

20. Morgan Wallen- Last Night (+2)

19. Pink Pantheress/ Ice Spice- Boy's A Liar Part 2 (-6)

18. Jax- Cinderella Snapped (+5)

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

16. Crash Adams- Give Me A Kiss (=)

15. Miley Cyrus- Jaded (=)

14. Lewis Capaldi- Wish You The Best (+4)

13. Taylor Swift- Lavender Haze (-2)

12. Kane Brown/ Katelyn Brown- Thank God (+2)

11. Sza- Kill Bill (-2)

10. Post Malone- Chemical (=)

9. Charlie Puth/ Dan + Shay- That's Not How This Works (+3)

8. Taylor Swift- Karma (-1)

7. Ed Sheeran- Eyes Closed (+1)

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

5. Jonas Brothers- Waffle House (+1)

4. Sabrina Carpenter- Nonsense (-1)

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

2. Niall Horan- Heaven (-1)

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

Countdown Extra: Lu Kala- Pretty Girl Era

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

#1 Two Years Ago: Taylor Swift- Mr. Perfectly Fine

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: Chase B/ Travis Scott/ Don Toliver/ Quavo/ Ty Dolla Sign- Ring Ring

Up first, Luke Combs literally covered Fast Car by Tracy Chapman, a song that has actually previously been covered by Jonas Blue and Dakota in 2015. That cover was better, but this one is pretty good. Luke Combs's country accent makes the song work really well and makes it feel like a country song rather than an R&B song. And it works. Good cover.

Just what the fuck we needed. We have yet another song off Harry Styles's album Harry's House one year after the album was released. This is called Satellite, and, of course, I would have preferred Bebe Rexha and Snoop Dogg's song of the same title from two months ago on here instead. Just like the other songs off Harry's House, it is quite bad. Surprised? So It is pretty slow here and is nothing I have any interest in listening to. I really hope this has very little success here, but since Music For A Sushi Restaurant got blocked, I like my chances.

Hitbound

Pitbull/ Lil Jon- Jumpin (Debut)

Ed Sheeran/ Luke Combs- Life Goes On

Dominic Fike- Dancing In The Courthouse

Icandy- Keep Dat

Jack Harlow- They Don't Love It

Jason Derulo- Glad U Came

Jonas Brothers- Summer Baby (Debut)

Ice Spice/ Nicki Minaj- Princess Diana

Presley- Regier- Nevermind

Lauren Spencer-Smith/ Gayle/ Em Beihold- Fantasy

Gayle- Don't Call Me Pretty (Debut)

Bakar- Hell N Back (Debut)

Lu Kala- Pretty Girl Era

Coco Jones/ Owen Cutts- ICU (Debut)

David Kushner- Daylight

Drake- Search & Rescue

Our first debut comes from Pitbull and Lil Jon, this is called Jumpin. This is really good. I always like when Lil Jon screams random things in his songs, or when rappers scream in general, and this is no exception. Pitbull's flow on here is amazing as always, and I like the production here. I hope this is a hit.

The Jonas Brothers put out The Album yesterday, and from it, we have Summer Baby. This is pretty good, better than Wings but not as good as Waffle House. I like the production on this quite a bit, and both Nick Jonas and Joe Jones sound pretty good here. I have no doubts this will be huge.

Next up, we have a new song from Gayle called Don't Call Me Pretty. I usually like Gayle's music and this is no exception. She does a good job vocally here and I like the production on this, pop punk usually goes well with her voice. Good song.

So now we have Bakar making his first appearence on Hits 1, this is Hell N Back. This is kind of interesting, but I'm not totally sold on it yet. I like his flow and it has cool production, but it is in a key that probably won't go well with this production. This could definitely grow on me, who knows?

Lastly, we have two random newcomers named Coco Jones and Owen Cutts with their song ICU. I'm not sure how to feel about this. It's pretty slow for me but they both sound pretty good. I am also not sure where they even found this. Whatever.

We lost Bops and Left Right. I don't exactly remember how either of these go, so it's fine.

Blurbs:

Our exits were Happy and Void, neither of which were on here when I left for Europe, so they probably should have lasted a bit longer.

Favorite song grew on me this past week. That said, why did it fall back to #29?

At least Ceilings also dropped. We really don't need this on here.

Sure Thing also dropped, hopefully proving once and for all that old music getting popular belongs nowhere near the radio.

Why is Double Fantasy dropping this week?

Last Night got a slight rebound after dropping off its debut last week.

The best thing to happen this week is Baby Don't Hurt Me jumping huge into the top 20. I hope this is top 15 next week.

I really hope Lavender Haze is straight up gone next week.

That's Not How This Works is back in the top 10. That's great to see. 

So we're still less than a year from when About Damn Time historically hit #1 (as a reminder, it was the first song by a black woman to hit #1 in 10 years and the first to do it solo in 14 years). And this week, Lottery by Latto and Lu Kala hit #1 for the first time, this being the first #1 for either artist. So we have gone from no black women hitting #1 in 10 years to three doing it in the past year. This is progress if you ask me. As for the song itself, it's not as good as it was when it first came out, and I also see this getting dethroned by either Love From The Other Side or Waffle House next week, both of which are better.

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