Christmas 2023 edition (Week of 12/23/2023)

 

Hello everyone, and merry Christmas! I hope your holidays are going well so far. Mine are, but we have a completely average countdown for this time of year, with one debut that isn't exactly a whole lot better than the song it replaced. Let's just get into it, only one song left:

Selena Gomez- Single Soon (#29 last week)

Countdown:

30. Jessie Murph/ Jelly Roll- Wild Ones (-2)

29. Doechii- What It Is (-2)

28. Thirty Seconds To Mars- Seasons (+2)

27.  Doja Cat- Agora Hills (-9)

26. Noah Kahan- Stick Season (=)

25. Tyla- Water (-2)

24. Willow Avalon- Stranger (=)

23. Nicki Minaj/ Lil Uzi Vert- Everybody (Debut)

22. Diplo/ Jessie Murph/ Polo G- Heartbroken (=)

21. Ed Sheeran- American Town (=)

20. The Kid Laroi/ Jungkook/ Central Cee- Too Much (+5)

19. Olivia Rodrigo- Can't Catch Me Now (+1)

18. Noah Kahan/ Post Malone- Dial Drunk (-3)

17. Tate Mcrae- Exes (-3)

16. Miley Cyrus- Used To Be Young (-11)

15. Jelly Roll- Need A Favor (+4)

14. Jack Harlow- Lovin On Me (-2)

13. AJR- Yes I'm A Mess (-4)

12. Sabrina Carpenter- Feather (-2)

11. Knox- Not The 1975 (+2)

10. Jungkook/ Jack Harlow- 3D (+7)

9. Teddy Swims- Lose Control (+2)

8. Kenya Grace- Strangers (=)

7. Paul Russell- Lil Boo Thang (+9)

6. Jonas Brothers/ Bailey Zimmerman- Strong Enough (=)

5. Post Malone- Enough Is Enough (+2)

4. Tate Mcrae- Greedy (-2)

3. Taylor Swift- Is It Over Now (=)

2. Dua Lipa- Houdini (+2)

1. Olivia Rodrigo- Get Him Back (=)

Countdown Extra: Alec Benjamin- I Sent My Therapist To Therapy

Last Year's #1: Taylor Swift- Anti Hero

#1 Two Years Ago: Ed Sheeran- Shivers

My Favorite Song Last Year: Metro Boomin/ The Weeknd/ 21 Savage- Creepin

My Favorite Song Two Years Ago: Pitbull/ Anthony Watts/ DJWS- I Feel Good

#1 Recommendation For Hits 1: Juice Wrld/ Eminem/ Benny Blanco- Lace It

We have one debut this week, and I talked about it last week. This is Everybody by Nicki Minaj and Lil Uzi Vert... whatever the hell this is supposed to be. My opinion still stands from last week, This samples the song Move Your Feet by Junior Senior in an extremely distracting way over the same beat she used for Barbie World and Pink Friday Girls, and this has honestly become cliche at this point. Yes, Lil Uzi Vert delivers a great verse, but it doesn't save the song a shit ton at all. I hope the rest of Pink Friday 2 is a lot better than what I've heard off it since its release.

Hitbound

Boys Like Girls- Miracle

Jungkook- Standing Next To You

The Kid Laroi- Bleed

People R Ugly- Brain Dead

Knox- Girl On The Internet

Dominic Fike- Mama's Boy

Mitski- My Love Mine All Mine

AJR- Inertia

Victoria Monet- On My Mama (Debut)

Tate Mcrae- Run For The Hills

Central Cee- Entrapeneur (Debut)

Patrick Martin- Dandelion Eyes

Renee Rapp/ Megan Thee Stallion- Not My Fault

Alec Benjamin- I Sent My Therapist To Therapy

Dove Cameron- White Glove

Lany- XXL

Only two debuts, pretty common for this time of year. First up is On My mama by Victoria Monet. This is fairly interesting. I'm not too sold on it yet, but it has interesting elements and Victoria Monet sounds pretty good. So I'm overall alright with this being here.

Central Cee previously featured on Too Much by The Kid Laroi and Nice To Meet You by Pink Pantheress, and now he has his oun solo song on here, Entrapeneur. Interesting title. This is quite good. Central Cee's flow is always spot on, and is made better with his British accent, and the beat being in Bb major makes this work. I hope this is huge.

We only lost Nice To Meet You, which makes sense leaving since he has a new song on here that is better.

Blurbs

Our lone exit was Single Soon. It got annoying rather quickly, but what replaced it isn't that much of an improvement either.

Ugh, why is Wild Ones back at #30? I'd rather this just go the fuck away.

Oof. Agora Hills also took a huge tumble. Hopefully, this rebounds.

It looks like Too Much is starting to rebound a little bit.

Used To Be Young finally took a huge tumble out of the top 10. I hope this leaves next week (or in three weeks, since next week is the last countdown of 2023).

I would really love it if Not The 1975 made the top 10 next week.

3D and Lil Boo Thang both rebounded into the top 10. Good to see.

Houdini has risen up to #2. I hope this hits #1 next week and ends up blocking Is It Over Now.

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