The Chainsmokers (1) – Week Of May 27, 2017

Due to Spyder Harrison being out on vacation in Italy, Kid Kelly hosted the countdown yet again. Hopefully everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend! I spent the entire weekend out and about. If it weren't for that, I would've actually gotten this post out sooner. Anyway, some interesting things happened this week. We have a fantastic new #1 song, which I'm thrilled about! Before we get to this week's Fresh 45, here are the songs we're saying goodbye to this week.

• G-Eazy/Kehlani – Good Life (#36)
• Katy Perry/Skip Marley – Chained To The Rhythm (#43)

Last Week's #1 Song: Ed Sheeran – Castle On The Hill

The Countdown

45. Machine Gun Kelly/Camila Cabello – Bad Things (#42)
44. Maroon 5 – Don't Wanna Know (#37) [3 Weeks At #1]
43. The Weeknd/Daft Punk – I Feel It Coming (#45)
42. Hailee Steinfeld & Grey/Zedd – Starving (#41) [4 Weeks At #1]
41. Zayn/PartyNextDoor – Still Got Time (#38)
40. Niall Horan – This Town (#44)
39. Aaron Carter – Sooner Or Later (#40)
38. One Ok Rock – American Girls (#39)
37. The Vamps/Matoma – All Night (#22)
36. DNCE – Kissing Strangers (#33)
35. Liam Payne/Quavo – Strip That Down (DEBUT)
34. Twenty One Pilots – Heavydirtysoul (#35)
33. Machine Gun Kelly/Hailee Steinfeld – At My Best (#31)
32. Steve Aoki/Louis Tomlinson – Just Hold On (#32)
31. The Chainsmokers/Halsey – Closer (#29) [8 Weeks At #1]
30. Miley Cyrus – Malibu (DEBUT)
29. Zayn/Taylor Swift – I Don't Wanna Live Forever (#30)
28. Clean Bandit/Sean Paul/Anne-Marie – Rockabye (#25)
27. MAX/Gnash – Lights Down Low (#28)
26. DJ Khaled/Justin Bieber/Chance The Rapper – I'm The One (#23)
25. Train – Play That Song (#19)
24. AJR – Weak (#18)
23. Fitz & The Tantrums – HandClap (#21)
22. Jason Derulo/Nicki Minaj/Ty Dolla $ign – Swalla (#34)
21. Niall Horan – Slow Hands (#16)
20. Maroon 5 – Cold (#27)
19. The Chainsmokers – Paris (#9) [1 Week At #1]
18. Panic! At The Disco – L.A. Devotee (#12)
17. Shawn Mendes – Mercy (#26)
16. Halsey – Now Or Never (#14)
15. Calvin Harris/Frank Ocean/Migos – Slide (#15)
14. Harry Styles – Sign Of The Times (#24)
13. Lady Gaga – The Cure (#13)
12. James Arthur – Say You Won't Let Go (#10)
11. Bruno Mars – That's What I Like (#17) [1 Week At #1]
10. Charlie Puth – Attention (#20)
  9. Linkin Park/Kiiara – Heavy (#7)
  8. Julia Michaels – Issues (#8)
  7. Ed Sheeran – Shape Of You (#3) [9 Weeks At #1]
  6. Kygo/Selena Gomez – It Ain't Me (#6)
  5. Imagine Dragons – Believer (#5)
  4. Shawn Mendes – There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back (#11)
  3. Zedd/Alessia Cara – Stay (#2) [2 Weeks At #1]
  2. Ed Sheeran – Castle On The Hill (#1) [2 Weeks At #1]
  1. The Chainsmokers/Coldplay – Something Just Like This (#4) [1^st Week At #1]

#1 Song This Week One Year Ago: Taylor Swift – New Romantics

Biggest DROP!!!... Of The Week: The Vamps/Matoma – All Night (–15)

Biggest Jump Of The Week: Jason Derulo/Nicki Minaj/Ty Dolla $ign – Swalla (+12)

New Entrants
~ First up, we have our final member of One Direction branching out with his debut single. It's Liam Payne with Strip That Down. Now that he's on the countdown, each member of One Direction is currently on the countdown. If I'm being honest here, out of all the debut singles from our One Direction members, Liam's debut is the weakest. There's really nothing interesting to it. It's just slightly more interesting than your typical rap song. Here's how I view the One Direction members and their solo singles. Harry and Niall are really the two talented members with fantastic vocal performances, well-produced tracks, and great acoustics. They seem to care more about their music. Liam and Zayn seem to be under the impression that because they're from One Direction and because they're hot, they can just produce anything and it'll get popular. They don't seem to care as much about their music as they do about their image. I can't really say anything about Louis until we get more music from him. I'd like to think he'll be more like Harry and Niall. But that's how I view them. Strip That Down and other songs like Sign Of The Times, This Town, and Still Got Time are clear evidence currently on the countdown. While Strip That Down may be blue right now, it is very close to red.

~ Next we have the return of Miley Cyrus with Malibu. Her career has pretty much been all over the place these past several years. Starting off as Hannah Montana with some pretty good songs such as The Climb, she was doing pretty good. Then she fell apart when we got Bangerz with songs like We Can't Stop and she continued to fall to an all time low with Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz. Now she seems to be rebuilding herself with the release of Malibu. I can't see her ever performing this song half-naked, so that's an improvement. And she really showcases her voice in this one as opposed to her other songs where her voice was lost in the production. There's great improvement as far as lyrical and musical content go. At first, I thought the song was simply a good song. But it's good to think about where Miley Cyrus came from with her past music. After thinking about that and giving the song more listens, I've come to realize that it is her best song in the long time. I hope this does well because she deserves to be recognized for how much she has improved with her music.


Hit-Bound
~ Here is the Hit-Bound list:

• Sam Hunt – Body Like A Back Road
• Hailee Steinfeld – Most Girls
• Jon Bellion – Overwhelming
• Camila Cabello – Crying In The Club
• Hey Violet – Break My Heart
• Katy Perry/Nicki Minaj – Swish Swish
• Ocean Park Standoff – Good News
• Selena Gomez – Bad Liar
• Erin Bowman – Good Time Good Life
• Fall Out Boy – Young & Menace
• Noah Cyrus – Stay Together
• Mansionz/G-Eazy – Wicked
• Bruno Mars – Versace On The Floor (RE-ENTRY)

~ If I'm being honest, Versace On The Floor is a song that I could probably manage to come around to. I'm sure it would be appreciated by the die-hard Bruno Mars fans that cringe every time I rant about him. But I can't make any promises.

~ Remember what I said last week about Katy Perry's music starting to become questionable? Yeah scratch that. Swish Swish is a really fun song and with only a couple more listens, it quickly became one of my favorites right now.

Maliblurb

~ Our new #1 song this week is greatly appreciated by me. It's been a while since the best song on the countdown achieved the #1 spot and I'm glad Something Just Like This managed to do it. Hopefully this song is there to stay for a few weeks longer at the very least. Congrats The Chainsmokers and Coldplay!

~ It was only a matter of time until Shawn Mendes would jump into the Top 10 with There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back. I do really like this song so I am happy about this jump. However, I would appreciate it if it doesn't stay ridiculously long.

~ Charlie Puth – Attention is also now in the Top 10. For now, I'm okay with this. It is a good song, so I don't really mind. As long as it doesn't get too overrated, I don't care how long this song stays.

~ Of course Harry Styles was destined to jump into the Top 20 with Sign Of The Times. I can guarantee this song will be in the Top 10 sometime within the next few weeks.

~ Almost all of last week's debuts are not having a very good week this week. The only song that actually jumped was Jason Derulo/Nicki Minaj/Ty Dolla $ign – Swalla, jumping up to #22. I am pleased with this. But I'm still questioning whether or not this song will actually do well. For some reason, I feel like it's not going to last very long. That's just how I feel. Hopefully I'm wrong.

~ I just heard DJ Khaled/Justin Bieber/Chance The Rapper – I'm The One on Hits 1 for the first time this week. I didn't realize how short this song is with two of our rappers being cut out. The song literally only has one verse. It's actually quite funny. But it's not like those other two verses really did anything for the song.

~ DNCE – Kissing Strangers and Zayn/PartyNextDoor – Still Got Time both seem to have second-week drops. Neither of these are really that popular right now, so I don't think they'll last very long. It'd be nice if we got Still Got Time out as soon as possible. Meanwhile, Kissing Strangers will likely become the next Body Moves. DNCE just can't seem to have another hit after Cake By The Ocean.

~ Of course we had two good songs depart this week. G-Eazy/Kehlani – Good Life currently holds the award for Most Hysterically Short Tenure of the year lasting only one week. Very unfortunate because it was a really good song. Hopefully it'll be able to make it on to my Top 45 Songs of 2017, but I can't be sure about it as we still have another half of the year to go. Chained To The Rhythm never ended up being the massive hit I wanted it to be. I was hoping it would be the real big Katy Perry comeback. Guess not. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted. But by this point, I've already listened to it more times than I should.

~ I'm still trying to catch up on my Hit 45 Chart posts. So hopefully I'll start to get those out soon, hopefully this week. Also, expect a post sometime this week regarding America's Got Talent and how I will go about reviewing the show as the season progresses. It should flow very similarly to how I did it last year. So that should be coming this week.

Top 20 Review

0 – Crap:

20. Julia Michaels – Issues

19. Bruno Mars – That's What I Like

1 – Bad:

18. Imagine Dragons – Believer

17. Halsey – Now Or Never

2 – Mediocre:

NONE

3 – Decent:

NONE

4 – Good:

NONE

5 – Great:

16. Ed Sheeran – Shape Of You

15. Shawn Mendes – Mercy

14. Maroon 5 – Cold

13. James Arthur – Say You Won't Let Go

12. Linkin Park/Kiiara – Heavy

11. Zedd/Alessia Cara – Stay

10. Panic! At The Disco – L.A. Devotee

9. Ed Sheeran – Castle On The Hill

8. Harry Styles – Sign Of The Times

7. Charlie Puth – Attention

6. Kygo/Selena Gomez – It Ain't Me

5. The Chainsmokers – Paris

4. Calvin Harris/Frank Ocean/Migos – Slide

3. Shawn Mendes – There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back

2. Lady Gaga – The Cure

BONUS: 6 – Best Song On The Countdown:

1. The Chainsmokers/Coldplay – Something Just Like This (+2 extra points for being #1)

Total Score: 85/100 = 85% (B)

Throwback Pick Of The Week: Ricky Martin – Livin' La Vida Loca

Most Missed Countdown Song: Havana Brown/Pitbull – We Run The Night

#1 Recommendation For Hits 1: Carly Rae Jepsen – Cut To The Feeling (this song is fantastic)

Favorite Countdown Song This Week One Year Ago: P!nk – Just Like Fire

My Top 5 Picks

1. The Chainsmokers/Coldplay – Something Just Like This

2. Lady Gaga – The Cure

3. The Weeknd/Daft Punk – I Feel It Coming

4. Aaron Carter – Sooner Or Later

5. Miley Cyrus – Malibu