OneRepublic (7) – Week Of April 12, 2014

Hey guys! So those weeks where we have strange #1 songs continue. And we're trading out three okay songs for three great songs. Before we get to this week’s Fresh 45, here are the songs we’re saying goodbye to this week.

• Fall Out Boy – Alone Together (#30)
• Hunter Hayes – I Want Crazy (#40) [DTHNOBx2]
• NONONO – Pumpin’ Blood (#42)

Last Week’s #1 Song: Bastille – Pompeii

The Countdown

45. John Newman – Love Me Again (#45)

44. Bruno Mars – Young Girls (#38)

43. Shakira/Rihanna – Can’t Remember To Forget You (#41)

42. Fall Out Boy – My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up) (#44)

41. Avicii/Aloe Blacc – Wake Me Up (#43)

40. Ed Sheeran – Sing (DEBUT)

39. Zedd/Hayley Williams – Stay The Night (#39)

38. Neon Trees – Sleeping With A Friend (DEBUT)

37. Cash Cash/Bebe Rexha – Take Me Home (#33)

36. One Direction – Story Of My Life (#32)
35. Ellie Goulding – Burn (#35)
34. Imagine Dragons – Radioactive (#34)
33. Travie McCoy/Brendon Urie – Keep On Keeping On (DEBUT)
32. Olly Murs – Dance With Me Tonight (#36)
31. Eminem/Rihanna – The Monster (#37)
30. Oh Honey – Be Okay (#26)
29. Martin Garrix – Animals (#31)
28. Cher Lloyd – Sirens (#24)
27. Zedd/Matthew Koma/Miriam Bryant – Find You (#27)
26. AJR – I’m Ready (#20)
25. Naughty Boy/Sam Smith – La La La (#25)
24. Karmin – I Want It All (#22)
23. Phantogram – Fall In Love (#21)
22. Justin Timberlake – Not A Bad Thing (#28)
21. Lady Gaga – G.U.Y. (#29)
20. Lorde – Team (#5)
19. Eminem/Nate Ruess – Headlights (#16)
18. Haim – The Wire (#15)
17. Glenn Morrison/Islove – Goodbye (#23)
16. Imagine Dragons – Demons (#7)
15. Aloe Blacc – The Man (#19)
14. Passenger – Let Her Go (#11)
13. Midnight Red – Hell Yeah (#17)
12. Paramore – Ain’t It Fun (#13)
11. Avicii/Dan Tyminski – Hey Brother (#12)
10. Demi Lovato – Neon Lights (#10)
  9. American Authors – Best Day Of My Life (#9)
  8. Pharrell Williams – Happy (#8)
  7. MKTO – Classic (#14)
  6. Pitbull/Ke$ha – Timber (#4)
  5. Imagine Dragons – On Top Of The World (#18)
  4. Jason Derulo – Talk Dirty (#6)
  3. Bastille – Pompeii (#1)
  2. Katy Perry – Dark Horse (#2)
  1. OneRepublic – Counting Stars (#3) [7th Week At #1]

Biggest DROP!!!... Of The Week: Lorde – Team (–15)

Biggest Jump Of The Week: Imagine Dragons – On Top Of The World (+13)

New Entrants
~ BREAKING NEWS: Tyler Glenn from Neon Trees is gay. This concludes today's edition of breaking news. Sleeping With A Friend is probably Neon Trees' best song. It finally made the jump from Hit-Bound into the countdown. I'm happy about that.

~ Travie McCoy and Brendon Urie are back! Miss Jackson and Rough Water were some pretty decent hits. But I absolutely LOVE their new song, Keep On Keeping On. I hate how Hits 1 cuts out the epic guitar solo. That's one of the best parts in the song. Oh well. At least it's here.

~ Ed Sheeran is back after a 3-week-tenure with Old School Love. He's trying to redeem himself with Sing. And he did it. Well done. Ed Sheeran is just an excellent vocalist. I don't know a single person who doesn't like Ed Sheeran.

Keep On Blurbin' On
~ Lorde – Team got the drop it deserved right out of the Top 10.

~ Imagine Dragons – On Top Of The World has the chance of hitting #1 on it's 5th week. This, of course, won't break the record. But it's best for alternative music to hit #1 before it gets old.

~ MKTO – Classic is back in the Top 10. Yay!

~ Glenn Morrison – Goodbye took a nice jump into the teens, something that AJR – I'm Ready was never capable of.

~ Two weeks ago, Eminem/Nate Ruess – Headlights was in the Top 10. Now it's suddenly trying to leave the Top 20.

~ Sadly, Fall Out Boy – Alone Together left before My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark.

~ Midnight Red – Hell Yeah is higher than its ever been on the countdown jumping to #13. Pretty good for a song that was released in 2012.

~ I'm tired of turning on the radio to hear Pharrell – Happy or Jason Derulo – Talk Dirty.

~ Today, I had two songs stuck in my head, Justin Timberlake – Not A Bad Thing and Aloe Blacc – The Man. The result of that was two completely new opinions on the songs.

~ Imagine Dragons – Demons finally exited the Top 10.

~ Bleachers – I Wanna Get Better is one of those songs that only plays on Hit-Bound. Don't expect to hear it during the week.

~ Speaking of Hit-Bound, a song that will make your ears angry debuted by the name of Fall Out Boy – Young Volcanoes. I'd rather hear My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark 1,000 more times than have Young Volcanoes become a hit.

~ I thought the guest DJ who introduced Eminem/Rihanna – The Monster was funny because she had no one to say hi to and Spyder Harrison just assumed she had no friends, so he was like, "That is so sad..." And the guest DJ was like, "No. I have friends." Then, Spyder asked her who were some of the friends she didn't want to say hi to. It was funny.

~ Once I heard Bastille – Pompeii at #3, I knew Counting Stars was #1. Katy Perry – Dark Horse will never reach #1.

~ Don't stop voting for John Newman – Love Me Again!

~ 4 out of 5 of last week's Top 5 Picks have been replaced with the debuts from the past two weeks.

My Top 5 Picks
1. John Newman – Love Me Again
2. Travie McCoy/Brendon Urie – Keep On Keeping On
3. Justin Timberlake – Not A Bad Thing
4. Neon Trees – Sleeping With A Friend
5. Ed Sheeran – Sing