Taylor Swift (4) – Week Of October 25, 2014

Interesting. Another 6-DTHNOB week. Let's see how this goes. The best song in general finally debuted on the countdown. Before we get to this week’s Fresh 45, here are the songs we’re saying goodbye to this week.

• R5 – Heart Made Up On You (#23)
• Coldplay – A Sky Full Of Stars (#31)
• Nicki Minaj – Anaconda (#32)
• Rixton – Wait On Me (#33) 
• Disclosure/Sam Smith – Latch (#34)
• Taylor Swift – Out Of The Woods (#39)

Last Week’s #1 Song: Taylor Swift – Shake It Off
The Countdown
45. Jesse McCartney – Superbad (#42)
44. Nico and Vinz – Am I Wrong (RE-ENTRY)
43. OneRepublic – Love Runs Out (#13)
42. Iggy Azalea/Charli XCX – Fancy (#38)
41. Fall Out Boy – Young Volcanoes (#37)
40. Katy Perry – This Is How We Do (#44)
39. Big Data/Joywave – Dangerous (DEBUT)
38. Magic! – Rude (#36)
37. Mary Lambert – Secrets (#41)
36. Ariana Grande – Problem (#40)
35. Vance Joy – Riptide (DEBUT)
34. Taylor Swift – Welcome To New York (DEBUT)
33. OneRepublic – Counting Stars (#43)
32. 5 Seconds Of Summer – She Looks So Perfect (#26)
31. Fergie – L.A. Love (La La) (DEBUT)
30. Sam Smith – Stay With Me (#45)
29. Calvin Harris/John Newman – Blame (DEBUT) [THANK YOU HITS 1!]
28. Ella Henderson – Ghost (#35)
27. Jason Derulo – Trumpets (#28)
26. The Vamps/Demi Lovato – Somebody To You (#19)
25. Pitbull/John Ryan – Fireball (#22)
24. Sheppard – Geronimo (#21)
23. Nick Jonas – Jealous (#28)
22. Kongos – Come With Me Now (#8)
21. Kim Cesarion – Undressed (#30)
20. One Direction – Steal My Girl (#17)
19. Dirty Heads – My Sweet Summer (#25)
18. Sam Smith – I’m Not The Only One (#24)
17. Nico and Vinz – In Your Arms (#20)
16. Cobra Starship – Never Been In Love (#14)
15. Ariana Grande/Zedd – Break Free (#15)
14. MKTO – American Dream (#11)
13. Maroon 5 – Maps (#6)
12. Clean Bandit/Jess Glynne – Rather Be (#7)
11. Echosmith – Cool Kids (#10)
10. Iggy Azalea/Rita Ora – Black Widow (#3)
  9. Tove Lo – Habits (Stay High) (#18)
  8. 5 Seconds Of Summer – Amnesia (#9)
  7. Fall Out Boy – Centuries (#2)
  6. Charli XCX – Boom Clap (#12)
  5. Ed Sheeran – Don’t (#29)
  4. Jessie J/Ariana Grande/Nicki Minaj – Bang Bang (#5)
  3. Maroon 5 – Animals (#16)
  2. Meghan Trainor – All About That Bass (#4)
  1. Taylor Swift – Shake It Off (#1) [4th Week At #1]

Biggest DROP!!!... Of The Week: OneRepublic – Love Runs Out (–30)

Biggest Jump Of The Week: Ed Sheeran – Don’t (+24)

New Entrants
~ Nico and Vinz – Am I Wrong is the first re-entry we've had in a while. It was expected and is accepted. Stay as long as you like old pal.

~ Kicking off the new entrants with Fergie – L.A. Love (La La). Overall, it's a really good and catchy song that deserves to spend quite a while on this countdown.

~ Vance Joy – Riptide is interesting and I like it for now. I don't think it'll be long before I get sick of it though.

~ Big Data – Dangerous is also an interesting alternative song. My opinion is the same as Riptide. But Riptide is just a little better.

~ Taylor Swift – Welcome To New York is good. But not as good as what Out Of The Woods was. But I can tolerate it (for now anyways).

~ In case anyone doesn't know, I'm a huge fan of John Newman. His voice is phenomenal! I ranked his last hit Love Me Again #3 on My Top 45 Of 2013. I also ranked the 2012 hit Rudimental/John Newman – Feel The Love #5 of 2012. And then there's Calvin Harris. Phenomenal Calvin Harris. His music never disappoints me. Put these two artists together and you have this phenomenal song. It does sound a lot like one of Calvin's previous hits, Sweet Nothing. But Blame is hands-down Calvin's best. I applaud him for picking John Newman to do the vocals. This song better stay for a long while.

Hit-Bound
~ Here is the Hit-Bound list. I haven't done one in a while.

• New Politics – Everywhere I Go (Kings and Queens)
• Bea Miller – Young Blood
• David Guetta/Sam Martin – Dangerous
• Bebe Rexha – I Can’t Stop Drinking About You
• MisterWives – Reflections
• Eden XO – (Not) Too Cool To Dance
• Charli XCX – Break The Rules
• Magic! – Let Your Hair Down
• Hozier – Take Me To Church
• Gwen Stefani – Baby Don't Lie
• OneRepublic – I Lived
• Meghan Trainor – Lips Are Movin’
• Tiffany Houghton – Love Like That
• Mr. Probz/Robin Schulz – Waves
• Florida Georgia Line – Dirt

Top 5 Hit-Bound

1. David Guetta/Sam Martin – Dangerous

2. Mr. Probz/Robin Schulz – Waves

3. Eden XO – (Not) Too Cool To Dance

4. OneRepublic – I Lived

5. Magic! – Let Your Hair Down

Blame It On The Blurbs, Don't Blame It On Me

~ Taylor Swift – Out Of The Woods ties with DJ Snake/Lil Jon – Turn Down For What for the Most Hysterically Short Tenure of 2014 spending only one week on the countdown.

~ R5 – Heart Made Up On You lasted only two weeks with us unfortunately.

~ Did anyone else notice Spyder Harrison forgot to announce Rixton – Wait On Me being one of the songs that left? I was confused once the sixth entrant aired.

~ Maroon 5 – Animals is already in the Top 3! And it's only it's third week.

~ Rixton – Wait On Me leaves after an annoyingly short tenure. >:(

~ What the hell is OneRepublic – Counting Stars still doing here??? This is beyond ridiculous. If Love Runs Out leaves before Counting Stars, I will be pissed.

~ Magic! – Rude needs to leave. Who still listens to this large piece of crap???

~ Pitbull/John Ryan – Fireball is getting old. Please start to be on your way out soon.

~ Jesse McCartney – Superbad is staying strong on the countdown. Keep it up pal!

~ I can finally download The Vamps/Shawn Mendes – Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart). I've been waiting since I first heard it on the #YouTube15 with Jenna Marbles.

~ Ed Sheeran – Don't at #5 is exactly what I was worried about this week. Please fix this.

~ Congrats Disclosure/Sam Smith – Latch on staying (much) longer than I thought you would.

~ Best song on Jenna Marbles' #YouTube15: Dillon Francis/Brendon Urie – Love In The Middle Of A Firefight

My Top 5 Picks

1. Calvin Harris/John Newman – Blame

2. Fergie – L.A. Love (La La)

3. Ella Henderson – Ghost

4. Cobra Starship – Never Been In Love

5. Nico and Vinz – Am I Wrong