Taylor Swift (2) – Week Of October 11, 2014

Happy National Coming Out Day! This week was a hell of a week. So let's get started. Before we get to this week’s Fresh 45, here are the songs we’re saying goodbye to this week.

• Heymous Molly – Life’s A Beach (#23)
• Betty Who – Somebody Loves You (#24)
• Sia – Chandelier (#30)
• G.R.L. – Ugly Heart (#33)
• Ingrid Michaelson – Girls Chase Boys (#43)
• Bleachers – I Wanna Get Better (#45)

Last Week’s #1 Song: Meghan Trainor – All About That Bass 
The Countdown
45. Katy Perry – This Is How We Do (#21) [#Expected]
44. Disclosure/Sam Smith – Latch (#44)
43. Fall Out Boy – Young Volcanoes (#35)
42. Magic! – Rude (#40)
41. R5 – Heart Made Up On You (DEBUT)
40. Mary Lambert – Secrets (#32) [Wrong Way!]
39. Dirty Heads – My Sweet Summer (DEBUT)
38. The 1975 – Girls (#26)
37. Ariana Grande – Problem (#38)
36. Sheppard – Geronimo (DEBUT)
35. 5 Seconds Of Summer – She Looks So Perfect (#42)
34. OneRepublic – Counting Stars (#37) [LEAVE!!!]
33. Nico and Vinz – In Your Arms (DEBUT)
32. Sam Smith – I’m Not The Only One (DEBUT)
31. Jesse McCartney – Superbad (#15)
30. Maroon 5 – Animals (DEBUT)
29. Demi Lovato/Cher Lloyd – Really Don’t Care (#31)
28. Ed Sheeran – Don’t (#13)
27. Nicki Minaj – Anaconda (#28)
26. Nick Jonas – Jealous (#16)
25. Kongos – Come With Me Now (#41)
24. Kim Cesarion – Undressed (#27)
23. The Vamps/Demi Lovato – Somebody To You (#19)
22. Iggy Azalea/Rita Ora – Black Widow (#22)
21. Sam Smith – Stay With Me (#29)
20. Jason Derulo – Trumpets (#22)
19. Rixton – Wait On Me (#24)
18. Charli XCX – Boom Clap (#14)
17. Cobra Starship – Never Been In Love (#39)
16. Pitbull/JohnRyan – Fireball (#34)
15. Tove Lo – Habits (Stay High) (#9)
14. One Direction – Steal My Girl (#36)
13. Coldplay – A Sky Full Of Stars (#11)
12. Jessie J/Ariana Grande/Nicki Minaj – Bang Bang (#12)
11. Fall Out Boy – Centuries (#17)
10. MKTO – American Dream (#10)
  9. Iggy Azalea/Charli XCX – Fancy (#7)
  8. Maroon 5 – Maps (#3)
  7. Clean Bandit/Jess Glynne – Rather Be (#18)
  6. 5 Seconds Of Summer – Amnesia (#8)
  5. Echosmith – Cool Kids (#6)
  4. Meghan Trainor – All About That Bass (#1)
  3. OneRepublic – Love Runs Out (#4)
  2. Ariana Grande/Zedd – Break Free (#5)
  1. Taylor Swift – Shake It Off (#2) [2nd Week At #1]

Biggest DROP!!!… Of The Week: Katy Perry – This Is How We Do (–24)

Biggest Jump Of The Week: Tie Between Cobra Starship – Never Been In Love and One Direction – Steal My Girl (+22)

New Entrants
~ Kicking off the new entrants with Dirty Heads – My Sweet Summer. I think this is the perfect song for this time of the year since the main line is "My sweet summer is gone." (And it's the beginning of fall). Even though they may not be talking about the season summer. I really don't know. Overall, it's a catchy song.

~ Nico and Vinz are back with In Your Arms. Though it's not as good as Am I Wrong, it's still a really good song. For Nico and Vinz's second song, it graduated from Hit-Bound much quicker than Am I Wrong. I hope it stays a while.

~ I always wondered how R5 got their name. Then it hit me. There's 5 people and all their names start with R. Obviously, the best one in the band is Ross Lynch. But that's not the point. The point is that Heart Made Up On You is a really good song that needs to stay for a while.

~ Sheppard – Geronimo is really good for an alternative tune. I really like it. Once again, I hope it stays a while.

~ Sam Smith has entered with his third song currently on the countdown. I'm Not The Only One is good. Not as good as Stay With Me. But his vocals in the chorus are really good. So I'll give him that.

~ Save the best for last. Maroon 5 debuted with Animals. I love Maroon 5. They've never really disappointed me. Animals is really catchy and Adam has superior vocals in the chorus. The first time I heard the song was in a commercial that included hamsters driving cars. It was interesting.

Blurbs Made Up On You
~ Somehow, Disclosure/Sam Smith – Latch managed to survive a 6-DTHNOB week with extremely little to no airplay this past week.

~ As said in the hastag, Katy Perry – This Is How We Do dropping was expected because it had very little airplay this past week. Instead we heard Dark Horse a few times.

~ Both of last week's entrants had the biggest jump of the week.

~ Ariana Grande/Zedd – Break Free is suddenly #2. I HIGHLY doubt it'll get any higher than that. 

~ I never thought Echosmith – Cool Kids would a Top 5 song. Not even a Top 10 song.

~ Pitbull/John Ryan – Fireball is jumping all over the countdown.

~ Clean Bandit – Rather Be needs to leave. It should've jumped into the Top 10 a long time ago. Now it needs to leave.

~ Betty Who – Somebody Loves You and G.R.L. – Ugly Heart left after 3-week tenures. Somebody Loves You was the one great song that left. This doesn't make up for its Hit-Bound tenure.

~ Rixton – Wait On Me nicely jumped into the teens.

~ That #34 spot should be occupied by a song that deserves to be here.

~ Kongos – Come With Me Now is old and needs to leave. Jumping over #30 is not okay. Especially from #41.

~ Calvin Harris/John Newman – Blame debuted on the American Top 40 last week. It needs to debut here soon!

~ Phillip Phillips – Unpack Your Heart and Matt Nathanson/Lolo – Headphones should debut the countdown.

~ Best song on Jenna Marbles' #YouTube15: The Vamps/Shawn Mendes – Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart) [Yes. Again.]

~ Hit 45 Chart is out! Click here to find out if Calvin Harris/John Newman – Blame will hold #1 for a third week in a row.

~ This week's new entrants completely took over My Top 5 Picks.

My Top 5 Picks
1. Maroon 5 – Animals
2. Nico and Vinz – In Your Arms
3. R5 – Heart Made Up On You
4. Dirty Heads – My Sweet Summer
5. Sheppard – Geronimo