Cincinnati Pride edition (Week of 6/24/2023)

 

Hello everyone, welcome back to another countdown post. Sorry this is late, I was marching with the UC band in the Cincinnati Pride Parade yesterday, then I went back down later to meet up with a cousin of mine for a few hours, so I listened to the countdown pretty late, about 7pm. This week was fine. There were a few major jumps, but Karma is still #1. Here are the songs that left:

Pink- Trustfall (#13 last week)

Niall Horan- Meltdown (#14 last week)

Countdown:

30. Doja Cat- Attention (Debut)

29. Fall Out Boy- Hold Me Like A Grudge (Debut)

28. Melanie Martinez- Void (=)

27. Lil Durk/ J Cole- All My Life (+3)

26. David Kushner- Daylight (+3)

25. The Weeknd/ Madonna/ Playboi Carti- Popular (-4)

24. Niall Horan- Heaven (-2)

23. Toosii- Favorite Song (+4)

22. Jonas Brothers- Summer Baby (+4)

21. Post Malone- Mourning (-2)

20. The 1975- I'm In Love With You (=)

19. NF- Happy (+6)

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

17. Sza- Snooze (-1)

16. Lauren Spencer-Smith- That Part (+2)

15. OneRepublic- Runaway (+9)

14. Icandy- Keep Dat (+9)

13. Luke Combs- Fast Car (+2)

12. Fall Out Boy- Love From The Other Side (-2)

11. Fifty Fifty- Cupid (-5)

10. Lewis Capaldi- Wish You The Best (+2)

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

8. Harry Styles- Satellite (-1)

7. Miley Cyrus- Jaded (+4)

6. Crash Adams- Give Me A Kiss (+2)

5. Dua Lipa- Dance The Night (-1)

4. Ed Sheeran- Eyes Closed (+1)

3. Post Malone- Chemical (=)

2. Jonas Brothers- Waffle House (=)

3. Taylor Swift/ Ice Spice- Karma (=)

Countdown Extra: Dominic Fike- Mona Lisa

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

#1 Two Years Ago: Olivia Rodrigo- Good 4 U

My Favorite Song Last Year: Duke & Jones/ Louis Theroux- Jiggle Jiggle

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

Recommendations For Hits 1: The Chainsmokers/ Illenium/ Carlie Hanson- See You Again and Dream- Until I End Up Dead

So first up, we have a new single from Doja Cat called Attention. This is pretty good, better than Charlie Puth's song of the same title but not as good as Omah Lay and Justin Bieber's song of the same title. It's kind of interesting and she sounds pretty good, I just need to listen to it some more.

Our other debut is the latest single off Fall Out Boy's album So Much For Stardust, this is called Hold Me Like A Grudge. This is your typical Fall Out Boy banger, and I mean that as a compliment. I like the production on this and Patrick Stump sounds good as always. Great song.

Hitbound

Jessie Murph/ Maren Morris- Dumb Ol Stupid Texas

Nicki Minaj/ Ice Spice/ Aqua- Barbie World (Debut)

Benson Boone- In The Stars

Tai Verdes- Sandman (Debut)

Niall Horan- Science (Debut)

Doechii- What It Is

Jelly Roll- Need A Favor (Debut)

Crash Adams- Lucky

Kali- Area Codes

D4vd- Here With Me (Debut)

Kim Petras- Revelations (Debut)

Devon Cole- 1800 Got Stress

Dominic Fike- Mona Lisa

Jimin/ Jvke/ Muni Long/ Charlie Puth- Angel Part 2

Nicky Youre- Good Times Go

Havanna Winter- Tornado

Our first debut is yet another song off the Barbie soundtrack, it's from Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice and it's called Barbie World, and samples Barbie Girl by Aqua, hence why they are credited. I wanted to like this more, but it essentially has the same production style as Princess Diana rather than that of Barbie Girl, and it has the Barbie Girl melody over top of it, which does not exactly go well with this type of production. Both Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice do a good job here, so the song isn't exactly bad, I just don't fully enjoy it.

More Tai Verdes. Except more than 50% of the time, I like his music, such as AOK, Sheesh, Let's Go To Hell, She Luv Me, and this new song from him called Sandman. Yeah, I like this a decent bit. It has pretty cool melodies and I like the production. I wonder if this samples the same song that Mother by Meghan Trainor sampled, which is called Mr Sandman. It would be interesting to know.

So a couple weeks after Niall Horan dropped The Show, we get another song off it called Science. Do you guys remember his song Put A Little Love On Me from late 2019/ early 2020? I ask because this new song is essentially Put A Little Love On Me part 2 as it has the exact same key and the exact same tempo as that song. But I liked that song, and I like this too. Although it is a bit slow, Niall Horan sounds good and the I like the key it is in. So better choice than If You Leave Me.

So next up, we have Jelly Roll making his first appearance on Hits 1 with his song Need A Favor. I've heard the name pop up a few times on the Discord but was never exactly sure who he was. And this new song is really cool. He has a really good voice, sounding a lot like a cross between Morgan Wallen and Chris Stapleton here, and the production is super cool. I guess I have a better first impression of him than everyone else on here.

Back to back artists whose names have been trending for a while but have not appeared on Hits 1. Interesting. Anyways, D4vd makes his Hits 1 debut with Here With Me, which apparently came out in November 2022 and was somewhat of a thing earlier this year, but Hits 1 is just now picking it up. Anyways, on to the song itself, it's fine, but definitely nowhere near as good as Marshmello and Chvrches' song of the same title from four years ago. It's moderately slow, but D4vd sounds pretty good. I'd say overall, I'll take this.

Lastly, Kim Petras put out a new album a couple days ago, and from it, we have revelations. This is interesting but pretty forgettable. In fact, the only thing I remember about it was that the production was EDM type. I think she also sounded pretty good, I'll need to listen to it more. I'm probably not going to listen to it, as I have to listen to Young Thug's new album from last week, which a review of will be out sometime this week.

We lost If You Leave Me, Jumpin, Iykyk, Home To Another One and Pink Pantheress's Angel. If You Leave Me was replaced by Science, and I'd call that a W for the most part. I wish Jumpin and Iykyk had a shot at the countdown, so I'm sad that those are gone. And Home To Another One and Angel were just good, so I'm fine with those leaving.

Blurbs:

Our exits were Trustfall and Meltdown. Guys. Those don't make any sense leaving this week. Trustfall debuted at #13 last week, and I assure you that if it were Cruel Summer in the #13 position last week, they wouldn't have dropped it this week, in fact they would have had it jump a few spots, so why not treat a significantly less overrated song the same? And while Meltdown jumped five spots last week and was on for seven weeks, it is gone this week instead of Heaven, which dropped 11 spots last week and debuted 10 weeks before Meltdown did. Please don't make next week's exits as confusing, Hits 1.

Shockingly, Popular dropped four spots off its jump last week. This has grown on me the past week, so hopefully it rebounds.

Looks like Happy is actually doing something, so third time's the charm there.

Both Runaway and Keep Dat got big jumps into the top 15. Great for both songs.

Cupid fell out of the top 10. Couldn't care less about how this does.

I feel like Jaded is starting to fade on me, so maybe it shouldn't be at #7. Just a thought.

Hopefully, Give Me A Kiss enters the top 5 next week.

Ugh. Karma is continuing to block Waffle House for the #1 spot. But two weeks from now marks one year since Sunroof miraculously dethroned Ass It Was, and if Waffle House actually hit #1 one week after Sunroof first did, that would be something. 

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