Well, it only approved somewhat (Week of 10/7/2023)

 

Hello everyone, welcome back to another countdown post. I'd normally be happy about a new #1 dethroning Cruel Summer, but not the one we now have. Let's get into it, here are the songs that left:

Jonas Brothers- Summer Baby (#5 last week)

Luke Combs- Fast Car (#19 last week)

Crash Adams- Give Me A Kiss (#21 last week)

Timbaland/ Nelly Furtado/ Justin Timberlake- Keep Going Up (#26 last week)

Countdown:

30. Zara Larsson/ David Guetta- On My Love (=)

29. Usher/ Summer Walker/ 21 Savage- Good Good (Debut)

28. Diplo/ Jessie Murph/ Polo G- Heartbroken (Debut)

27. Jungkook/ Jack Harlow- 3D (Debut)

26. Nicki Minaj- Last Time I Saw You (-13)

25. Nsync- Better Place (Debut)

24. Paul Russell- Lil Boo Thang (+3)

23. Blink 182- One Last Time (+6)

22. Tate Mcrae- Greedy (+6)

21. Noah Kahan/ Post Malone- Dial Drunk (-5)

20. Nicki Minaj/ Ice Spice/ Aqua- Barbie World (=)

19. Teddy Swims- Lose Control (+6)

18. Charli Xcx- Speed Drive (=)

17. Jungkook/ Latto- Seven (-8)

16. Doja Cat- Paint The Town Red (+6)

15. Crash Adams- Sugar Mommy (-1)

14. Kylie Minogue- Padam Padam (+10)

13. Fall Out Boy- Hold Me Like A Grudge (+4)

12. Sza- Snooze (+3)

11. Dua Lipa- Dance The Night (-3)

10. Olivia Rodrigo- Vampire (+2)

9. Billie Eilish- What Was I Made For (+14)

8. Post Malone- Enough Is Enough (-1)

7. Fall Out Boy- We Didn't Start The Fire (+3)

6. Selena Gomez- Single Soon (+5)

5. The Weeknd/ Madonna/ Playboi Carti- Popular (-1)

4. Olivia Rodrigo- Bad Idea Right (+2)

3. Doechii- What It Is (-1)

2. Taylor Swift- Cruel Summer (-1)

1. Miley Cyrus- Used To Be Young (+2)

Countdown Extra: The Rose- Back To Me

Last Year's #1: Charlie Puth/ Jungkook- Left And Right

#1 Two Years Ago: The Kid Laroi/ Justin Bieber- Stay

My Favorite Song Last Year: David Guetta/ Bebe Rexha- I'm Good

My Favorite Song Two Years Ago: Drake/ Future/ Young Thug- Way 2 Sexy

Recommendations for Hits 1 off For All The Dogs: I will update this after reviewing that album

Recommendations For Hits 1 elsewhere:

J Balvin/ Usher/ DJ Khaled- Dientes

Talk- Wasteland

Alan Walker/ Dash Berlin/ Vikkstar- Better Off (Alone Part 3)

First up, Good Good by Usher, Summer Walker, and 21 Savage debuted. This is quite good. All of them do a great job here, but I especially like 21 Savage's verse. The lyrics are amazing, too. They're about if a breakup happens but you still remain friends with that person you broke up with. So yeah, I want this to do well.

Welp, after four unnecessary HB dropouts, Jessie Murph has made the countdown in the form of Heartbroken with Diplo and Polo G. The songs off Diplo's second country project started off great and then got not so great. And we arrive here at Heartbroken. And this is an extreme disappointment. Usually, when Diplo produces, it is upbeat, but not here. The production is extremely slow that you almost question that it was done by him. Jessie Murph and Polo G sound fine but this is just painfully mediocre. I hope this doesn't last very long.

I talked about these last two debuts last week. First up is 3D by Jungkook and Jack Harlow. I think it's pretty good, but I don't like it as much as I do Seven yet. Jungkook is still one of the better sounding BTS members and he sounds pretty good here too, and Jack Harlow's verse fits the song perfectly, as does his outro. So it works.

And lastly, we have the big return of Nsync, who have their first song in 22 years, this is for the upcoming third Trolls film and is called Better Place. In my opinion, this is a pretty good return for them too. Justin Timberlake and everyone else sound pretty good here and I like the production here. Good to see them back after two decades.

Hitbound

Pink Pantheress- Mosquito

Ed Sheeran- American Town

Loud Luxury/ Two Friends/ Bebe Rexha- If Only I

Jxdn- Chrome Hearted (Debut)

Hayes Warner- Breadcrumbs

Presley Regier- Have Your Way

Knox- Not The 1975

Henry Moodie- Pick Up The Phone

The Rose- Back To Me

Lu Kala- Hotter Now

AJR- Yes I'm A Mess

Jordi- Just A Friend

Kenya Grace- Strangers (Debut)

Zach Bryan/ Kacey Musgraves- I Remember Everything (Re-entry)

Travis Scott- I Know

Maneskin- Honey

First up, we have new music from Jxdn (apparently, he released this under his real name, Jaden Hossler), this is called Chrome Hearted. I really like this. He's going for a completely different style here than other songs of his, such as Angels & Demons from three years ago or Wanna Be with MGK from two years ago, but I'm fine with this, because I still like the production here and he still sounds really good like he always does. I hope this is on the countdown.

Our other debut is something they could have picked up on a while ago, this is Strangers by Kenya Grace. This is pretty good. It reminds me a lot of something Pink Pantheress would put out, specifically her song that is on here currently and her song Way Back with Skrillex and Trippie Redd from earlier this year. This still needs to grow on me, I'm not entirely sold on it yet, but it's fine.

Lastly, I Remember Everything by Zach Bryan and Kacey Musgraves re-entered. Ok then.

We only lost Fake As Hell. This one really deserved better imo.

Blurbs

Our exits were Summer Baby, Fast Car, Give Me A Kiss, and Keep Going Up. I don't know what the fuck happened with that first one, it hit the peak of #5 last week, now it's just gone. I'm so confused. Fast Car wasn't doing great in airplay, so I'm surprised it even re-entered in the first place, and Give Me A Kiss had a great run for what it was. I really hope Keep Going Up re-enters, it should still be here. But you do you, Shits 1.

I can confirm Daniel and others did not troll the countdown. Last Time I Saw You actually dropped all the way down to #26. This needs to rebound next week.

One Last Time and Greedy both jumped six spots off their debuts from last week. Great for both.

Great to see Lose Control in the top 20.

Looks like Seven is on its way out, as it dropped 8 spots and 3D is now here.

I can confirm Daniel and others did not troll the countdown. Padam Padam actually rebounded to #14. I hope it continues the upward momentum.

Why the hell is Snooze still here?

I can confirm Daniel and others did not troll the countdown. What Was I Made For actually jumped all the way up to #9. What the actual fucking fuck? Unfortunately, this makes sense as it is in the top 10 in airplay. This seriously needs to go the fuck away soon, it is not good at all.

I'd normally be super happy about Cruel Summer not being #1 anymore, but Used To Be Young is only barely better. Why the fuck are we overrating Miley Cyrus in 2023, first with Flowers and now this? Yeah, these are literally her only two #1s, so mediab-ass and Shits 1 definitely has something in favor of her this year more than any other year. Hell, remember when Mikey Piff literally added a demo ballad of Flowers to Hitbound earlier this year? I swear to god, if Mikey Piff adds a demo ballad of Used To Be Young, which is already a fucking ballad in the first fucking place, to Hitbound in a few weeks, there will be a massive rant and I'm immediately downgrading the original to red, like I did to Flowers when its demo ballad was added to Hitbound instead of real songs like Feels This Good by Sigala, Mae Muller, Caity Baser, and Stefflon Don (which I'm still enjoying, btw). So anyways, Used To Be Young needs to leave the #1 spot Asap, before she even considers dropping a demo ballad for it.

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