On time for once (Week of 6/21/2025)

 

Hello everyone, welcome to another post, and it seems like I'm sort of on time for once. Let's just get into it, here are our exits:

Tate McRae- Sports Car (#12 last week)
Shaboozey- Good News (#13 last week)

Countdown:
30. Drake- Nokia (-1)

29. Tate McRae- Just Keep Watching (Debut)

28. Jessie Murph- Blue Strips (=)

27. Ed Sheeran/ Arijit Singh- Sapphire (Debut)

26. Miley Cyrus- Easy Lover (+4)

25. Sza/ Kendrick Lamar- 30 For 30 (+1)

24. MGK- Cliche (+3)

23. Lorde- What Was That (-3)

22. Morgan Wallen/ Tate McRae- What I Want (+1)

21. D4vd- Feel It (+4)

20. Maroon 5/ Lisa- Priceless (+1)

19. Alessi Rose- Same Mouth (+5)

18. Dasha- Not At This Party (=)

17. Charli XCX- Party 4 U (+5)

16. Ravyn Lenae- Love Me Not (+3)

15. Sabrina Carpenter- Manchild (+1)

14. Sombr- Undressed (+3)

13. Rosé- Messy (+1)

12. Myles Smith- Nice To Meet You (+3)

11. Ariana Grande- Twilight Zone (-3)

10. Benson Boone- Mystical Magical (+1)

9. Doechii- Anxiety (+1)

8. Jonas Brothers- Love Me To Heaven (+1)

7. Miley Cyrus- End Of The World (-1)

6. Alex Warren- Ordinary (+1)

5. Ed Sheeran- Azizam (=)

4. Benson Boone- Sorry I'm Here For Someone Else (-2)

3. Lady Gaga- Abracadabra (=)

2. Role Model- Sally When The Wine Runs Out (+2)

1. Sabrina Carpenter- Busy Woman (=)

Countdown Extra: Twenty One Pilots- The Contract

Last Year's #1: Sabrina Carpenter- Espresso

#1 Two Years Ago: Taylor Swift/ Ice Spice- Karma

My Favorite Song Last Year: Eminem- Houdini

My Favorite Song Two Years Ago: Dua Lipa- Dance The Night

Recommendations For Hits 1: Central Cee/ Sexyy Red- Guilt Trippin and Alvaro Soler- Regalo

Both of our debuts make their way out of the abyss this week, just as I predicted. First up is Just Keep Watching by Tate McRae. This is just good, nowhere near as good as the last song I heard from her, which was the Morgan Wallen collab. She sounds fine and it has a good beat, again, this is a bit forgettable. Needs more listens from me.

Our other debut is thankfully a lot better, it's Sapphire by Ed Sheeran and Arijit Singh. Ok, this is quite catchy. Ed Sheeran also sounds quite good as does Arijit Singh, even though he isn't on here for too long and I can't understand what the fuck he is saying, but it's cool. I'm honestly looking forward to this new Ed Sheeran album.

Hitbound:

All Time Low- Suckerpunch

Alessi Rose- That Could Be Me (Debut)

Mariah The Scientist- Burning Blue

Ed Sheeran- Drive (Debut)

Addison Rae- Fame Is A Gun

Haven Madison- Castle

Benson Boone- Mr Electric Blue (Debut)

Alex Warren/ Jelly Roll- Bloodline 

Super Hi/ Neeka- Following The Sun

Twenty One Pilots- The Contract

Jonas Brothers- No Time To Talk (Debut)
Alexander Stewart- Here Again

Audrey Hobert- Sue Me

Jessie Murph- Touch Me Like A Gangster

Tyla- Bliss

Jon Bellion/ Luke Combs- Why

Oh goodie. Seems as though Hits 1 has already forgotten how to not pick up on Alessi Rose songs, as she now has her third song on here called That Could Be Me. Although... this might be my favorite song from her thus far. The beat here is solid and Alessi Rose delivers her best vocal performance thus far, and the lyrics are somewhat relatable. I'll definitely take this one.

This next one is fun to talk about. Ed Sheeran put out a new song from the new F1 movie called Drive. According to Mikey Piff, John Mayer did guitar and Dave Grohl did drums, so with this lineup, I was expecting this to be good, and I can safely confirm it is. Ed Sheeran sounds great here over the instrumentation from John Mayer and Dave Grohl, and both of them do an amazing job on their respective instruments too. Yeah, definitely my favorite F1 song thus far.

Benson Boone put out a new album recently, and from it, we have Mr Electric Blue. This is apparently about his dad, and let's be real, this is better than what he put out about his mom last month. The beat here is solid and Benson Boone sounds good per usual, though I'm not entirely feeling this yet. I don't know, maybe this will be a grower.

Our last debut comes from the Jonas Brothers, this is called No Time To Talk, and it samples Staying Alive by the Bee Gees. I quite like this one, especially more than when DJ Khaled, Drake, and Lil Baby sampled that same song a few years ago. The beat is nice and chill, and both Joe Jonas and Nick Jonas sound good per usual. I hope this is a hit.

We lost Get The Message, New Heart, Folded, and Dream Police. The first two deserved to debut and the last two were just there.

Blurbs:
Our exits were Sports Car and Good News. Sports Car had a solid run and will be missed, and I'm not sure what the point of bringing Good News back was if it was just going to last a few weeks and was already one of the oldest songs on the countdown.

Nokia should just go if it will just rot in the bottom spot for many weeks.

Feel It is finally starting to do something.

Yeah, they're definitely in their Alessi Rose stanning phase now with Same Mouth in the top 20.

Can't Party 4 U just be done already?

I did not think Nice To Meet You would jump off the re-entry.

Sally When The Wine Runs Out has hit #2. I never saw Role Model being someone who could make it to the top 5, now I want this to hit #1. Unfortunately, we have Busy Woman in its way, so I'm praying that SWTWRO can somehow pull through and make #1 in the coming weeks.

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