Twenty One Pilots (1) – Week Of February 20, 2016

It's nice to have a new #1 song after one song spending an obnoxiously long period of time at #1. It's very refreshing. I'm sure we all saw this #1 coming with the huge amount of popularity it has around the world. Before we get to this week's Fresh 45, here are the songs we're saying goodbye to this week.

• Rudimental/Ed Sheeran – Lay It All On Me (#44)

Last Week's #1 Song: Adele – Hello
The Countdown
45. Meghan Trainor/John Legend – Like I'm Gonna Lose You (#45)
44. Halsey – New Americana (#43)
43. Andy Grammer – Good To Be Alive (Hallelujah) (#42)
42. Alessia Cara – Here (#41)
41. X Ambassadors – Renegades (#35)
40. Troye Sivan – Youth (DEBUT)
39. Tove Lo – Moments (#31)
38. The Weeknd – Can't Feel My Face (#36) [1 Week At #1]
37. Taylor Swift – Wildest Dreams (#34) [1 Week At #1]
36. Ed Sheeran – Photograph (#33) [1 Week At #1]
35. Demi Lovato – Confident (#30) [1 Week At #1]
34. Walk The Moon – Shut Up and Dance (#29) [12 Weeks At #1]
33. Ellie Goulding – On My Mind (#38)
32. Elle King – Ex's and Oh's (#40)
31. Selena Gomez – Same Old Love (#32)
30. Shawn Mendes – Stitches (#20) [3 Weeks At #1]
29. MØ – Kamikaze (#28)
28. The Vamps – Wake Up (#26)
27. Jason Derulo – Get Ugly (#25)
26. Tori Kelly – Hollow (#37)
25. The Chainsmokers/Rozes – Roses (#19)
24. 5 Seconds Of Summer – Jet Black Heart (#24)
23. Disclosure/Lorde – Magnets (#23)
22. Justin Bieber – Love Yourself (#39)
21. Dawin – Dessert (#21)
20. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – S.O.B. (#27)
19. Zayn Malik – Pillowtalk (#22)
18. Daya – Hide Away (#17)
17. Charlie Puth – One Call Away (#14)
16. Ellie Goulding – Something In The Way You Move (#13)
15. Adele – When We Were Young (#18)
14. One Direction – Drag Me Down (#10) [1 Week At #1]
13. Coldplay – Adventure Of A Lifetime (#16)
12. Selena Gomez – Hands To Myself (#11)
11. Rachel Platten – Stand By You (#12)
10. Shawn Mendes/Camila Cabello – I Know What You Did Last Summer (#15)
  9. Fall Out Boy/Demi Lovato – Irresistible (#8)
  8. Taylor Swift – Out Of The Woods (#7)
  7. Flo Rida – My House (#6)
  6. One Direction – Perfect (#5) [1 Week At #1]
  5. The Weeknd – In The Night (#9)
  4. Justin Bieber – Sorry (#4)
  3. Adele – Hello (#1) [12 Weeks At #1]
  2. DNCE – Cake By The Ocean (#2)
  1. Twenty One Pilots – Stressed Out (#3) [1st Week At #1]

#1 Song This Week One Year Ago: Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk

Biggest DROP!!!... Of The Week: Shawn Mendes – Stitches (–10)

Biggest Jump Of The Week: Justin Bieber – Love Yourself (+17)

New Entrants
~ Our lone new entrant this week comes from YouTube star Troye Sivan. He has released quite a bit of music in the past couple of years, but Youth is his first song on this countdown. I think it's really catchy. It's not as good as songs like Wild, but it's still pretty good. It's a keeper.

Blurb Yourself
~ I am so sick of songs like Wildest Dreams. Talk about overplayed like crazy.

~ It's really nice to see Coldplay – Adventure Of A Lifetime continuing to jump. I still really like this song. Let's keep this song moving up!

~ I'm not necessarily okay with I Know What You Did Last Summer in the Top 10. Still a pretty mediocre song. But not necessarily bad.

~ I'm definitely not okay with The Weeknd – In The Night in the Top 5. I had already almost entirely grown out of the song as is. But that awful performance of this song at the Grammys made it even worse.

~ I feel like Disclosure/Lorde – Magnets could leave any week now.

~ I'm perfectly fine with songs like Renegades and New Americana staying. But songs like Here, Good To Be Alive, and Like I'm Gonna Lose You need to leave as soon as possible.

~ Kamikaze is still pure trash that needs to not peak any higher and must leave.

~ Tove Lo – Moments is really taking up space on this countdown that could be used for a song that'll actually do something on the countdown.

~ One Direction – Drag Me Down is now out of the Top 10. How about we have it drop a little? That seems like a good idea to me.

~ Goodbye, Lay It All On Me. I don't think you'll be missed that much. You'll be remembered as a song that was pretty catchy for a little while.

~ I didn't like how Hits 1 starting crediting Ed Sheeran on Justin Bieber – Love Yourself since I thought he only co-wrote the song. But one of the twenty times I listened to it this week, I noticed something. In specific places in the song such as the chorus, if you listen really closely, you can kind of hear Ed Sheeran's voice behind Justin's. Both of their voices together sound really good. Now I understand why Hits 1 would credit him.

~ The Hit 45 Chart for this week is out! Find out if Justin Bieber can hold at #1 for a fourth week in a row and ninth time overall with Sorry!
Link: http://hit45chart.blogspot.com/2016/02/hit-45-chart-week-of-february-20-2016.html

~ Yes, you saw it correctly. Ellie Goulding's newest single has impressed me to the point where it is the new best song on the countdown. Congrats on pleasing my ears yet again, Ellie Goulding.

~ Throwback Pick Of The Week: Finger Eleven – Paralyzer

~ Most Missed Countdown Song: Alesso/Tove Lo – Heroes (We Could Be)

~ Most Missed Song In General: Jay-Z/Justin Timberlake – Holy Grail

~ #1 Recommendation For Hits 1: Pitbull/Robin Thicke – Bad Man

My Top 5 Picks
1. Ellie Goulding – Something In The Way You Move
2. Justin Bieber – Love Yourself
3. Justin Bieber – Sorry
4. Coldplay – Adventure Of A Lifetime
5. Twenty One Pilots – Stressed Out


To conclude this post, I'd like to discuss a couple of issues that have been occurring lately in the comment section. I want to start off by saying that this comment section and website in general must and will be a safe environment. That is my #1 rule. As a music critique, I'm always voicing my opinion on the music out there. This review site is pretty much entirely opinionated. So it would only be fair if I let you voice your own opinions in the comment section. I always like seeing everyone's opinion on certain things and songs. It becomes an issue when people are bashing on others and being rude because of their opinion. That is not okay. Being rude in general is even worse. I have absolutely no tolerance for people being rude to others. It's okay if you simply say, "I disagree with that," or something along those lines when you're replying to someone who has an opinion you don't agree with. But saying that someone's opinion is wrong is not okay, especially when either you're reasoning is not good enough or you don't have any at all. This is meant to be a safe environment for people to say what they want and not have to worry about others attacking them because of their opinion. I also do not want to see any arguments in the comments. Starting now, if I see any rude comments, they will be deleted. I want this blog to be a place that people enjoy coming to without worrying that someone will tell them their opinion is wrong.

Also, I'd like to go over some other commenting rules that are all pretty much common sense. If you're replying to a comment, please make your comment at least somewhat relevant to the original comment. Everyone should know this. Also, if you have several things to say, please say them all in the same comment. No one really wants to see five different comments in a row from the same person all posted two minutes apart from each other. The more it continues, the more comments there will be and the more aggravating it will be having to scroll to the bottom. I'm not saying that you can't comment. I love seeing comments. I just want you guys to be a little considerate of how many comments you post in a row. I also want to make sure that you comment truthful information. Do not say certain songs have debuted Hit-Bound or the Hits 1 playlist unless you're sure they did. And finally, you should not have to delete your own comments. I get that it happens every now and then where you may have to delete your comment for whatever reason. That's fine. But if you have to do it more than five times on one post, there's a problem. Deleted comments take up an unnecessary large amount of space. If you're following all these other simple rules, there is absolutely no reason as to why you should delete your own comments. Please keep in mind that I'm not trying to be mean and I'm not setting any strict rules or anything. I'm trying to handle this very nicely. The main thing I want you all to take out of this is to be considerate of everyone else in the comment section.

That's all I have for you today. Those of you who actually stuck around to read these long, but important paragraphs, thank you. I hope you all have a great week.