Twenty One Pilots (2) – Week Of February 27, 2016

Fun fact: It was exactly one year ago when the internet began the whole debate as to whether this certain dress was blue and black or white and gold. Here's the picture again to give you a refresher as to what it looks like.

It still looks blue and black to me. But now I definitely see why some people would say white and gold. But let's leave that whole mess in 2015, shall we? Before we get to this week's Fresh 45, here are the songs we're saying goodbye to this week.

• X Ambassadors – Renegades (#41)

Last Week's #1 Song: Twenty One Pilots – Stressed Out

The Countdown

45. Meghan Trainor/John Legend – Like I'm Gonna Lose You (#45)

44. Andy Grammer – Good To Be Alive (Hallelujah) (#43)

43. Tove Lo – Moments (#39)

42. Alessia Cara – Here (#42)

41. Halsey – New Americana (#44)

40. The Weeknd – Can't Feel My Face (#38) [1 Week At #1]

39. Tori Kelly – Hollow (#26)

38. Walk The Moon – Shut Up and Dance (#34) [12 Weeks At #1]

37. Troye Sivan – Youth (#40)

36. Ellie Goulding – On My Mind (#33)

35. The Vamps – Wake Up (#28)

34. Elle King – Ex's and Oh's (#32)

33. Demi Lovato – Confident (#35) [1 Week At #1]

32. Shawn Mendes – Stitches (#30) [3 Weeks At #1]

31. Selena Gomez – Same Old Love (#31)

30. Panic! At The Disco – Victorious (RE-ENTRY)

29. Taylor Swift – Wildest Dreams (#37) [1 Week At #1]

28. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – S.O.B. (#20)

27. Jason Derulo – Get Ugly (#27)

26. Ed Sheeran – Photograph (#36) [1 Week At #1]

25. MØ – Kamikaze (#29)

24. Coldplay – Adventure Of A Lifetime (#13)

23. Dawin – Dessert (#21)

22. Zayn Malik – Pillowtalk (#19)

21. Disclosure/Lorde – Magnets (#23)

20. 5 Seconds Of Summer – Jet Black Heart (#24)

19. Daya – Hide Away (#18)

18. Charlie Puth – One Call Away (#17)

17. The Chainsmokers/Rozes – Roses (#25)

16. Justin Bieber – Love Yourself (#22)

15. Ellie Goulding – Something In The Way You Move (#16)

14. Rachel Platten – Stand By You (#11)

13. Selena Gomez – Hands To Myself (#12)

12. Taylor Swift – Out Of The Woods (#8)

11. Adele – When We Were Young (#15)

10. Shawn Mendes/Camila Cabello – I Know What You Did Last Summer (#10)

  9. Flo Rida – My House (#7)

  8. Fall Out Boy/Demi Lovato – Irresistible (#9)

  7. The Weeknd – In The Night (#5)

  6. DNCE – Cake By The Ocean (#2)

  5. Justin Bieber – Sorry (#4)

  4. Adele – Hello (#3) [12 Weeks At #1]

  3. One Direction – Perfect (#6) [1 Week At #1]

  2. One Direction – Drag Me Down (#14) [1 Week At #1]

  1. Twenty One Pilots – Stressed Out (#1) [2^nd Week At #1]

#1 Song This Week One Year Ago: Taylor Swift – Blank Space

Biggest DROP!!!... Of The Week: Tori Kelly – Hollow (–13)

Biggest Jump Of The Week: One Direction – Drag Me Down (+12)

New Entrants
~ Our lone entrant this week is a re-entry from Panic! At The Disco – Victorious, which managed to complete an average Hit-Bound tenure after exiting the countdown the first time around.

Blurbtorious
~ *looks at #2* Why?!?! Why would you boost Drag Me Down back up to #2 like that??? I may not have cared much before, but now it's infuriating. I really did not want to hate this song, but now it's pretty much impossible not to hate it.

~ *looks at #3* I'm not necessarily happy about this either. This song is no longer Top 10 material, let alone Top 3 material. But thanks to Hits 1's obsession for One Direction, it probably won't be moving anytime soon. If you couldn't tell that Hits 1 has an obsession for One Direction, they have made it extremely obvious this week.

~ Adele – When We Were Young needs to get away from the Top 10. Let's please not add anymore trash to it. We already have Drag Me Down, Hello, and In The Night.

~ Taylor Swift – Wildest Dreams and Ed Sheeran – Photograph need to go back to where they belong: below #30.

~ Troye Sivan – Youth just made a Tori Kelly – Hollow floppy second week jump up only three spots. I don't want to see this song flop. It deserves some chart success.

~ Speaking of Hollow, it clearly did not take long for this song to fall back to #39. It appears that Tori Kelly's music is gradually getting weaker in chart performance as each single goes by, with the inferior Nobody Love having the best countdown performance of her three singles managing to peak somewhere in the Top 20.

~ Songs like Dawin – Dessert, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – S.O.B., and Jason Derulo – Get Ugly are some serious countdown fillers right now. They are easily forgotten and probably won't last that much longer, hopefully.

~ I am starting to grow out of Zayn Malik – Pillowtalk. It's slowly becoming less interesting after each listen.

~ Kicking Renegades out of the countdown makes absolutely no progress in removing all the bad songs.

~ Last week was indeed the 52-week mark for Walk The Moon – Shut Up and Dance. One year ago this week was when the song debuted the countdown. I still don't see this song leaving for another couple months or so.

~ Earlier this week on the Hit 45 Chart, I posted the Top Songs of 2015 based off of Hit 45 Chart performance! You should definitely check it out if you haven't already!
Link: http://hit45chart.blogspot.com/2016/02/hit-45-chart-top-songs-of-2015.html

~ The Hit 45 Chart for this week is out! Find out if Coldplay can hold at #1 for a second week in a row with Hymn For The Weekend!
Link: http://hit45chart.blogspot.com/2016/02/hit-45-chart-week-of-february-27-2016.html

~ Most Missed Countdown Song: David Guetta/Usher – Without You

~ #1 Recommendation For Hits 1: Mike Posner/SeeB – I Took A Pill In Ibiza

My Top 5 Picks
1. Ellie Goulding – Something In The Way You Move
2. Twenty One Pilots – Stressed Out
3. Justin Bieber – Love Yourself
4. 5 Seconds Of Summer – Jet Black Heart
5. Justin Bieber – Sorry