Mark Ronson (3) – Week Of February 21, 2015

This week was definitely a good week. We have a few songs debuting directly into the countdown and a couple of Hit-Bound graduates. Also, two records were formed this week. Find out what they are in the blurbs. Also, earlier this week, I had a massive cold and I just felt miserable. I felt horrible on Thursday, and luckily they cancelled school that day because of extremely cold temperatures and windchills. I'm feeling better now though, thankfully. Before we get to this week's Fresh 45, here are the songs we're saying goodbye to this week.

• Hoodie Allen/Ed Sheeran – All About It (#29)
• The Vamps/Shawn Mendes – Oh Cecilia (#30)
• Meghan Trainor – All About That Bass (#39)
• MisterWives – Reflections (#40)
• Ariana Grande/The Weeknd – Love Me Harder (#42)
• One Direction – Steal My Girl (#45) [x2]

Last Week's #1 Song: Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk
The Countdown
45. Ed Sheeran – Don't (#44)
44. Fifth Harmony – Sledgehammer (#36)
43. Taylor Swift – Shake It Off (#43)
42. AronChupa – I'm An Albatraoz (#27)
41. Priory – Weekend (DEBUT)
40. 5 Seconds Of Summer – She Looks So Perfect (#41)
39. Nova Rockafeller – Made In Gold (DEBUT)
38. MKTO – American Dream (#34)
37. Maroon 5 – Animals (#38)
36. Tori Kelly – Nobody Love (DEBUT)
35. OneRepublic – Love Runs Out (#35)
34. R5 – Let's Not Be Alone Tonight (DEBUT)
33. Rihanna/Kanye West/Paul McCartney – FourFiveSeconds (DEBUT)
32. Megan Nicole – Fun (#28)
31. LunchMoney Lewis – Bills (DEBUT)
30. Nick Jonas – Jealous (#32)
29. Charli XCX – Boom Clap (#33)
28. Kelly Clarkson – Heartbeat Song (#18)
27. Alesso/Tove Lo – Heroes (We Could Be) (#15)
26. 5 Seconds Of Summer – What I Like About You (#23)
25. Ne-Yo – She Knows (#31)
24. Sam Smith – I'm Not The Only One (#16)
23. Lilly Wood & The Prick/Robin Schulz – Prayer In C (#25)
22. Vance Joy – Riptide (#14)
21. Pitbull/Ne-Yo – Time Of Our Lives (#13)
20. Ella Henderson – Ghost (#12)
19. Life Of Dillon – Overload (#37)
18. Olly Murs/Travie McCoy – Wrapped Up (#26)
17. Sheppard – Geronimo (#21)
16. Taylor Swift – Style (#20)
15. Imagine Dragons – I Bet My Life (#4)
14. Usher – I Don't Mind (#17)
13. Fall Out Boy – Uma Thurman (#10)
12. Andy Grammer – Honey I'm Good (#11)
11. Ellie Goulding – Love Me Like You Do (#22)
10. Maroon 5 – Sugar (#24)
  9. Meghan Trainor – Lips Are Movin' (#5)
  8. OneRepublic – I Lived (#8)
  7. The Vamps/Demi Lovato – Somebody To You (#7)
  6. Fall Out Boy – Centuries (#19)
  5. One Direction – Night Changes (#9)
  4. Hozier – Take Me To Church (#6)
  3. Taylor Swift – Blank Space (#3)
  2. Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud (#2)
  1. Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk (#1) [3rd Week At #1]

Biggest DROP!!!... Of The Week: AronChupa – I'm An Albatraoz (–15)

Biggest Jump Of The Week: Life Of Dillon – Overload (+18)

New Entrants
~ We'll go from worst to best entrant. First we have LunchMoney Lewis – Bills. Is this some kind of joke? Some kind of sick joke? Because it's not funny. The song sounds incredibly stupid. It sounds like something Weird Al Yankovic would produce. Except Weird Al Yankovic is better. This song could possibly be orange at some point in its countdown tenure. But it's really annoying that this is the highest debut of the week.

~ Next we have Priory – Weekend. I have hated this song since I first heard it, which was last year. After an obnoxiously long Hit-Bound tenure, it managed to graduated to the countdown. This song is incredibly dull, bland, generic, and just plain out boring! Like Bills, I would like this to not stay here long.

~ Tori Kelly debuted this week with Nobody Love, a song I had to listen to like, five times before I could settle on what I thought about it. The verses are a little annoying, but she makes up for that in the somewhat catchy chorus. I really don't know. For now, the song is okay.

~ R5 – Let's Not Be Alone Tonight debuted this week. The song is really interesting and catchy. Energertic is the first word that pops into my head when I hear the song. Whether or not it's better than Smile, I don't really know. I would have to listen to this song I few more times. Please stay longer than how long Heart Made Up On You was here for.

~ The second best entrant this week is the super catchy Nova Rockafeller – Made In Gold. It's kinda like a combination of The Chainsmoker – #SELFIE and AronChupa – I'm An Albatraoz. It's really fun to jam out to. I can understand if people would find this song annoying. But to me, it's one of my new jams.

~ Our best entrant comes from the one and only Rihanna with her comeback single, FourFiveSeconds. It's a very interesting title. Kanye West and Paul McCartney are featured in it. It's one of those times Kanye West actually sounds good in a song. I have mixed feelings about him as a person after telling Beck he should've gave his Album Of The Year award to Beyoncé. But whatever. I hope this song can have a good countdown tenure, unlike Right Now and What Now from 2013-2014.

Hit-Bound
~ Here is the Hit-Bound list (I only saw 13 songs, so I might be missing 1):

• Rixton – Hotel Ceiling
• Shawn Mendes – Life Of The Party
• Tove Lo – Talking Body
• Calvin Harris/Ellie Goulding – Outside
• Ariana Grande – One Last Time
• Echosmith – Bright
• Natalie La Rose/Jeremih – Somebody
• Walk The Moon – Shut Up and Dance
• AJR – Infinity
• Betty Who – All Of You
• Ryan Cabrera – House On Fire
• Sam Smith – Lay Me Down
• Flo Rida/Sage The Gemini/Lookas – GDFR
• Nick Jonas – Chains
• Cash Cash/Julia Michaels – Surrender

Top 5 Songs Of Hit-Bound

1. Calvin Harris/Ellie Goulding – Outside

2. Nick Jonas – Chains

3. Walk The Moon – Shut Up and Dance

4. Rixton – Hotel Ceiling

5. Natalie La Rose/Jeremih – Somebody

Nah, Nah Blurbey I'm Good

~ Charli XCX – Boom Clap is the very first song to have been in both purple and orange for at least one week in its countdown tenure. Very interesting.

~ Meghan Trainor – All About That Bass is the very first song to have been in orange every single week it was on the countdown. Also very interesting.

~ Fall Out Boy – Centuries was obviously going to jump back into the Top 10 at some point. So I was expecting this annoying jump.

~ Talk about short tenures for All About It and Oh Cecilia.

~ I thought Reflections would never leave at this point. Thank god it did.

~ I did not think Life Of Dillon – Overload would be one of the 20 (claimed to be) biggest songs in North America.

~ AronChupa – I'm An Albatraoz and Megan Nicole – Fun are beginning to fade away. No surprise there.

~ I'll give you one last warning Love Runs Out and She Looks So Perfect. You need to exit this countdown immediately! No one likes you anymore! I'm not trying to be mean, but it gets tiring listening to same songs over and over and over again for a whole year. I know these songs are shooting for year-long tenures. But let's try to make sure that doesn't happen.

~ Talk about a quick drop for Kelly Clarkson – Heartbeat Song. That song isn't bad. It's just not good either.

~ I honestly forgot half of these songs were on the countdown.

~ America! We must rejoice! The huge piece of crap known as Meghan Trainor – All About That Bass has finally left us! Hopefully it left us for good!

~ Interesting Fact: Fall Out Boy has been on the countdown for two years now. I know. It's hard to believe. But it's true.

~ Throwback Song I've Been Enjoying This Week: Flo Rida/Ke$ha – Right Round (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcCw1ggftuQ)

My Top 5 Picks

1. Andy Grammer – Honey I'm Good

2. Hozier – Take Me To Church

3. Rihanna/Kanye West/Paul McCartney – FourFiveSeconds

4. Life Of Dillon – Overload

5. Nova Rockafeller – Made In Gold