Taylor Swift (3) – Week Of January 10, 2015

This week was definitely more interesting than last week in a way. Obviously, we still have the same #1 song. Two really good songs left. But we had mostly good debuts. Notice how I said "mostly". We'll get more into that when we reach the new entrants review. Before we get to this week’s Fresh 45, here are the songs we’re saying goodbye to this week.

• Nico and Vinz – In Your Arms (#18)
• Mary J. Blige – Therapy (#22)
• Olivia Somerlyn – Parachute (#36) 
• Calvin Harris/John Newman – Blame (#38)
• Bea Miller – Young Blood (#42)

Last Week’s #1 Song: Taylor Swift – Blank Space
The Countdown
45. 5 Seconds Of Summer – She Looks So Perfect (#45)
44. MisterWives – Reflections (#43)
43. Meghan Trainor – All About That Bass (#40)
42. Mr. Probz/Robin Schulz – Waves (#44)
41. Eden XO – (Not) Too Cool To Dance (#32)
40. AronChupa – I’m An Albatraoz (DEBUT)
39. OneRepublic – Love Runs Out (#39)
38. Megan Nicole – Fun (DEBUT)
37. Ed Sheeran – Don’t (#41)
36. David Guetta/Sam Martin – Dangerous (DEBUT)
35. 5 Seconds Of Summer – Amnesia (#35)
34. Imagine Dragons – I Bet My Life (DEBUT)
33. Charli XCX – Boom Clap (#30)
32. The Vamps/Shawn Mendes – Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart) (DEBUT)
31. Tove Lo – Habits (Stay High) (#37)
30. Fifth Harmony – Sledgehammer (#28)
29. Echosmith – Cool Kids (#29)
28. Ariana Grande/Zedd – Break Free (#34)
27. Lorde – Yellow Flicker Beat (#33)
26. One Direction – Night Changes (#23)
25. Maroon 5 – Maps (#21)
24. Iggy Azalea/MØ – Beg For It (#15)
23. James Newton Howard/Jennifer Lawrence – The Hanging Tree (#27)
22. Selena Gomez – The Heart Wants What It Wants (#25)
21. Vance Joy – Riptide (#19)
20. Andy Grammer – Honey I’m Good (#26)
19. Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud (#31)
18. Charli XCX – Break The Rules (#20)
17. OneRepublic – I Lived (#24)
16. One Direction – Steal My Girl (#13)
15. Maroon 5 – Animals (#10)
14. Ariana Grande/The Weeknd – Love Me Harder (#16)
13. Meghan Trainor – Lips Are Movin’ (#8)
12. Hozier – Take Me To Church (#17)
11. Nick Jonas – Jealous (#6)
10. Sheppard – Geronimo (#14)
  9. MKTO – American Dream (#11)
  8. Alesso/Tove Lo – Heroes (We Could Be) (#12)
  7. The Vamps/Demi Lovato – Somebody To You (#9)
  6. Ella Henderson – Ghost (#7)
  5. Taylor Swift – Shake It Off (#4)
  4. Sam Smith – I’m Not The Only One (#5)
  3. Fall Out Boy – Centuries (#3)
  2. Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk (#2)
  1. Taylor Swift – Blank Space (#1) [3rd Week At #1]

Biggest DROP!!!... Of The Week: Tie Between Eden XO – Too Cool To Dance and Iggy Azalea/MØ – Beg For It (–9)

Biggest Jump Of The Week: Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud (+12)

New Entrants
~ Kicking off our first entrants of the year with long-time Hit-Bound veteran, David Guetta/Sam Martin – Dangerous. The last time we heard from David Guetta was in mid-2012 with his hit, Titanium featuring Sia. Dangerous isn't his best song. But it is really, really good. Let's just hope it stays with us for a while.

~ AronChupa debuted with I'm An Albatraoz. I don't think it'll be very long until I get sick of that extremely repetitive beat. But for now, I like it. About two months from now, however, I'll probably be looking back at this review and say, "What the hell was I thinking?" But the song is good.....for now.

~ Megan Nicole – Fun is actually a really fun song. I really like it. It was kinda a competition for the best entrant between this song and Dangerous. I'm just gonna hope it stays for a while because this song seems like it'll have an Olivia Somerlyn – Parachute kind of countdown tenure. And I don't want that.

~ The Vamps are back with 16-year-old Shawn Mendes! Their song, Oh Cecilia is really good. It was good when I first heard it on the YouTube15 with Jenna Marbles. It is still good now. And I love Shawn Mendes! He has the kind of voice that instantly tell apart from others.

~ What you see is not a lie. Imagine Dragons – I Bet My Life is indeed in pink. When you have a mother that falls in love with a song and is constantly singing it and playing it everyday, it can get pretty old really fast. We'll see how long it takes until this song enters the yellow/turquoise stage. Nothing else to say about it.

Hit-Bound
~ Pitbull/Ne-Yo – Time Of Our Lives left Hit-Bound???

~ Walk The Moon – Shut Up and Dance is on Hit-Bound! How exciting!

~ Maroon 5 – Sugar is on Hit-Bound. Adam Levine is pretty well-known for his high falsetto tone (that and being 2013's Sexiest Man Alive). But in this song, he takes the falsetto tone a bit too far in the chorus as in the chorus, he goes extremely high. This is most definitely not Maroon 5's best song. Maybe it'll grow on me. Maybe not. We'll see.

~ I have not heard Fall Out Boy – Uma Thurman. So I have no review on it.

~ Looking at Ryan Cabrera's music, I can see he's made music in the early 2000's. His comeback single, House On Fire is currently on Hit-Bound. It's pretty good.

~ R5 – Smile is now one of my new favorite songs on Hits 1. It's incredibly fantastic! :)

~ Here's the entire Hit-Bound list (Ugly Greenish Color = No Opinion).

• The Script – Superheroes
• R5 – Smile
• Hoodie Allen/Ed Sheeran – All About It
• Maroon 5 – Sugar
• AJR – Infinity
• Fall Out Boy – Uma Thurman
• Tove Lo – Talking Body
• Ne-Yo – She Knows
• Priory – Weekend
• Ryan Cabrera – House On Fire
• Walk The Moon – Shut Up and Dance
• Shawn Mendes – Life Of The Party
• Becky G – Can't Stop Dancin'
• Kat Dahlia – Crazy

Top 5 Songs On Hit-Bound

1. R5 – Smile

2. Becky G – Can't Stop Dancin'

3. Shawn Mendes – Life Of The Party

4. The Script – Superheroes

5. Walk The Moon – Shut Up and Dance

Oh Blurbilia

~ I'm surprised Pitbull/Ne-Yo – Time Of Our Lives didn't debut this week. It had a decent amount of airplay. And now, it's not on Hit-Bound either. I'm fine if it leaves Hits 1 forever. I also thought The Script – Superheroes could've made it into the countdown. If this next week, it can play as much as it did this past week, it could possibly make it countdown. As the new oldest song on Hit-Bound, it's a lot of pressure. At this point for this song, it's do or die.

~ I've officially heard Sheppard – Geronimo WAY too many times. And that's shocking for a song that I really only hear on Hits 1. But if it can please start moving down, that would be appreciated.

~ Somehow MisterWives – Reflections and Mr. Probz/Robin Schulz – Waves are still here after airing somewhere between 1 and 0 times this past week.

~ I noticed that Nico and Vinz – In Your Arms and Mary J. Blige – Therapy both just stopped airing at some point during the week. But I didn't realize they would leave already. I expected them to drop.

~ Speaking of drops, our Biggest DROPS!!! just keep on getting smaller. And this week, it's the very unlucky Eden XO – Too Cool To Dance falling right back down to #41 and the shocking Iggy Azalea – Beg For It falling to #24.

~ The bottom third of the countdown needs a clean-out of all the songs besides the new entrants, Sledgehammer, and Too Cool To Dance.

~ If Hits 1 could do me a favor and get rid of Taylor Swift from the #1 spot, that would be appreciated. Get Mark Ronson at the top.

~ Calvin Harris/John Newman – Blame is still in the Top 3 on the American Top 40. It left on this countdown. For those who are new to this blog, you'll see that I will be constantly ranting about how different the SiriusXM Hits 1 Weekend Countdown and the American Top 40 are from each other.

~ Speaking of AT40, I was listening to the countdown and I accidently heard I Love Makonnen/Drake – Tuesday when it came on as an AT40 On The Verge track, but I didn't know it was this because I stopped listening to the countdown for a few minutes and when I came back, the song had just started. But I didn't hear Ryan Seacrest announce it. The song is absolutely horrible! But knowing Hits 1, I know they won't put this song on their countdown.

~ Sam Smith – I'm Not The Only One needs to be banished from the Top 5 forever.

~ R.I.P. – Calvin Harris/John Newman – Blame and Olivia Somerlyn – Parachute. You will both be missed and you will never be forgotten.

YouTube15

~ I haven't done this before. But here is the entire list for the YouTube15 w/ Jenna Marbles. I tell you this: There are no bad songs right now. Also, the "no opinion" ugly greenish color does apply.

• Olly Murs/Demi Lovato – Up
• Yellow Claw/Ayden – Till It Hurts
• Twenty One Pilots – Ode To Sleep
• Robin Schulz/Jasmine Thompson – Sun Goes Down
• Louisa Wendorff/Devin Dawson – Blank Space + Style Mashup
• INNA/Marian Hill – Diggy Down
• Kodaline – Honest
• Leo/Pandan/Will Solar Solar – My Wife Had An Affair
• At Sunset – Us Against The World
• Axwell/\Ingrosso – Something New
• Ben Haenow – Something I Need
• Daniel Kim – Pop Danthology 2014
• AOA – Like A Cat
• Rawn Erickson II/Emmi Butler/ShayTar – This Is My Year
• DJ Snake/AlunaGeorge – You Know You Like It

Top 5 Songs On YouTube15

1. TIE: Olly Murs/Demi Lovato – Up

1. TIE: Daniel Kim – Pop Danthology 2014

3. INNA/Marian Hill – Diggy Down

4. Ben Haenow – Something I Need

5. Robin Schulz/Jasmine Thompson – Sun Goes Down

~ If you haven't seen it already, the Hit 45 Chart end of the year Top 45 was posted in the form of a YouTube video. Click here to check that out. Also, click here to find out if Taylor Swift – Blank Space will hold #1 for a second week in a row on the Hit 45 Chart if you haven't already checked.

My Top 5 Countdown Picks

1. David Guetta/Sam Martin – Dangerous

2. Megan Nicole – Fun

3. Lorde – Yellow Flicker Beat

4. The Vamps/Shawn Mendes – Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart)

5. Hozier – Take Me To Church