Panic! At The Disco (3) – Week Of June 23, 2018

This countdown is certainly looking a little bit better than the American Top 40 (there are no good songs in the Top 5 over there at all). But things aren't really looking too good over here either, up at least in the upper half of the countdown. More on that stuff in the blurbs. No songs leaving the countdown this week. So let's get right into it!



Last Week's #1 Song: Panic! At The Disco – Say Amen (Saturday Night)
The Countdown
45. Charlie Puth – How Long (#44) [2 Weeks At #1]
44. Camila Cabello – Havana (#45) [1 Week At #1]
43. Zayn – Let Me (#39)
42. Hailee Steinfeld & Alesso/Florida Georgia Line/watt – Let Me Go (#40) [1 Week At #1]
41. G-Eazy/Halsey – Him & I (#43)
40. Hundred Handed – Too Good (#42)
39. Rudimental/Jess Glynne/Macklemore/Dan Caplen – These Days (#23)
38. Ed Sheeran – Perfect (#41) [2 Weeks At #1]
37. Dua Lipa – New Rules (#36)
36. Imagine Dragons – Thunder (#33) [5 Weeks At #1]
35. U2/Cheat Codes – Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way (#38)
34. Sam Smith/Logic – Pray (#35)
33. Camila Cabello – Never Be The Same (#34) [1 Week At #1]
32. Echosmith – Over My Head (#16)
31. Liam Payne/J Balvin – Familiar (#32)
30. AJR/Rivers Cuomo – Sober Up (#31)
29. Dustin Atlas/Erin Bowman – Fake Ass Friends (#19)
28. 5 Seconds of Summer – Want You Back (#20) [1 Week At #1]
27. The Weeknd/Kendrick Lamar – Pray For Me (#17)
26. Bad Wolves – Zombie (#28)
25. Demi Lovato – Tell Me You Love Me (#21)
24. Walk The Moon – One Foot (#26)
23. Calvin Harris/Dua Lipa – One Kiss (#27)
22. Maren Morris – Rich (#24)
21. Bazzi – Mine (#25)
20. 5 Seconds of Summer – Youngblood (#35)
19. Selena Gomez – Back To You (#11)
18. Bebe Rexha/Florida Georgia Line – Meant To Be (#18) [1 Week At #1]
17. Lauv – I Like Me Better (#29)
16. Maroon 5/Cardi B – Girls Like You (#22)
15. Dua Lipa – IDGAF (#9)
14. Niall Horan – On The Loose (#3)
13. Halsey – Alone (#13)
12. Charlie Puth/Kehlani – Done For Me (#8)
11. Ariana Grande – No Tears Left To Cry (#4)
10. Maroon 5 – Wait (#10)
  9. NOTD/Bea Miller – I Wanna Know (#15)
  8. Shawn Mendes – In My Blood (#12)
  7. Post Malone/Ty Dolla $ign – Psycho (#30)
  6. Foster The People – Sit Next To Me (#14)
  5. Marshmello/Anne-Marie – Friends (#6)
  4. Taylor Swift – Delicate (#7)
  3. Imagine Dragons – Whatever It Takes (#5) [1 Week At #1]
  2. Zedd/Maren Morris/Grey – The Middle (#2) [9 Weeks At #1]
  1. Panic! At The Disco – Say Amen (Saturday Night) (#1) [3^rd Week At #1]

#1 Song This Week One Year Ago: The Chainsmokers/Coldplay – Something Just Like This (3)

Biggest DROP!!!... Of The Week: Tie Between Rudimental/Jess Glynne/Macklemore/Dan Caplen – These Days and Echosmith – Over My Head (–16)

Biggest Jump Of The Week: Post Malone/Ty Dolla $ign – Psycho (+23)

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

• Cardi B – I Like It
• MNEK/Hailee Steinfeld – Colour
• Fall Out Boy – The Last Of The Real Ones
• Sugarland/Taylor Swift – Babe
• Backstreet Boys – Don't Go Breaking My Heart
• lovelytheband – Broken
• Panic! At The Disco – High Hopes
• Dennis Lloyd – Nevermind
• Julia Michaels/Trippie Redd – Jump (DEBUT)
• Meghan Trainor – Let You Be Right
• In Real Life – Tattoo (How 'Bout You)
• The Wrecks – James Dean
• HRVY – Personal
• Big Boi – All Night
• Cole Redding – Father Father

~ Julia Michaels released two unspeakably bad singles last year, both of which made it onto my Bottom 10 songs of 2017. She makes her return this week with Jump, which is undeniably a significant improvement and arguably her best single to date. The song is very chill and laid back. I like the production and the song has a nice vibe to it. Her vocals are pretty good for the most part. There are no weird voice cracks or anything, which is good. I like Trippie Redd's contribution. Overall, I think this is a good song and I wouldn't mind seeing it get big.

~ So we lost Fake Love from BTS. Not very heartbroken about that at all. Like I keep saying, soon enough we will forgot about these guys completely.

Top 5 Hit-Bound Picks

1. Panic! At The Disco – High Hopes

2. Backstreet Boys – Don't Go Breaking My Heart

3. Fall Out Boy – The Last Of The Real Ones

4. Julia Michaels/Trippie Redd – Jump

5. Sugarland/Taylor Swift – Babe

Youngblurb

~ Can we please get The Middle out of the #2 spot??? This song shouldn't even be in the Top 5 anymore. It's a shame that this song is representing EDM at the moment.

~ New to the Top 5 much to my distaste as well as Montavis, Miles, Scott R., and possibly a few more people, we have Marshmello/Anne-Marie – Friends. I don't really need to talk about why this song shouldn't be here. It seems obvious if you listen to the song. It's a shame that this is representing EDM as well.

~ Onto more crap in the Top 10, we have Post Malone/Ty Dolla $ign – Psycho making a psycho jump up from #30. I don't understand why people like this song. It's a good example of why rap music has gotten so bad over the past couple years. This song is just lazy in every possible way. This should not be one of the Top 10 songs in North America (Top 5 according to Billboard). America needs new ears.

~ Bringing a little bit of light to the darkness, we have Foster The People – Sit Next To Me rising to #6. Now this makes me very happy. People can still recognize a good underrated alternative song like this one. It's nice to see this guys finally have another big hit and I'm glad it happened to be Sit Next To Me. It's unfortunate that it's being sandwiched in between two beyond mediocre songs. Hopefully it can pull through and possibly make it into the Top 5.

~ NOTD/Bea Miller – I Wanna Know randomly jumped into the Top 10. This is most certainly not one of the Top 10 songs in the country and it's not exactly worthy of it either. Songs like Say Amen are underrated, but great. But songs like I Wanna Know are just not that amazing. The production is actually kind of annoying here. So this is not Top 10-worthy.

~ And of course, Lauv – I Like Me Better is back up in the Top 20. Who is voting for this??? Who actually likes this song? The song is just terrible in every way. The lyrics are awful and the production is so annoying. I just don't know what people like about this song and why it has been here for so long. This is insane.

~ Four of our debuts from last week made rather small jumps. The only that made decent jumps were Girls Like You and Youngblood. The latter makes me very happy because it was my favorite debut from last week and it's still a really great song. The former is okay, I guess. But I'm all for it jumping if it means we can get rid of Wait.

~ Bazzi – Mine and Maren Morris – Rich are slowly making small, yet rather annoying jumps. The former is just an annoying song all together. I find this song to have a lot in common with I Like Me Better, and my opinion is virtually the same for both songs. The latter is just disappointing for an artist who I know is talented having enjoyed My Church and 80s Mercedes long before The Middle came around. And this album of hers is from 2016. Why are we still pulling singles from it??? Can't we wait until she puts out something new?

~ The jumps last week from Echosmith – Over My Head and Dustin Atlas/Erin Bowman – Fake Friends clearly did not last long. Frankly, I'm not surprised about either.

~ The big drop from These Days was rather saddening. It's unfortunate that this couldn't be a big hit everywhere else. But at least it did decent here. Rudimental have scored themselves another hit here on Hits 1 despite it not actually being that big in the US. I can imagine this song being bigger in the UK, but it's nice to have crossovers every now and then.

~ Outside of the countdown, there are two new albums that came out yesterday that are worth checking out. Panic! At The Disco (or really just Brendon Urie) released Pray For The Wicked and Bebe Rexha released Expectations. I listened to both of them all the way through and I thought they were both pretty solid albums. So do check them out if you have the chance.

Top 20 Review

0 – Crap:

20. Lauv – I Like Me Better

19. Post Malone/Ty Dolla $ign – Psycho

1 – Bad:

18. Zedd/Maren Morris/Grey – The Middle

17. Marshmello/Anne-Marie – Friends

2 – Mediocre:

16. Maroon 5 – Wait

3 – Decent:

15. NOTD/Bea Miller – I Wanna Know

14. Dua Lipa – IDGAF

13. Maroon 5/Cardi B – Girls Like You

4 – Good:

NONE

5 – Great:

12. Shawn Mendes – In My Blood

11. Halsey – Alone

10. Niall Horan – On The Loose

9. Bebe Rexha/Florida Georgia Line – Meant To Be

8. Imagine Dragons – Whatever It Takes

7. Taylor Swift – Delicate

6. Charlie Puth/Kehlani – Done For Me

5. Selena Gomez – Back To You

4. Ariana Grande – No Tears Left To Cry

3. 5 Seconds Of Summer – Youngblood

BONUS: 6 – Best Song On The Countdown:

1. TIE: Panic! At The Disco – Say Amen (+2 extra points for being #1)

1. TIE: Foster The People – Sit Next To Me

Overall Score: 77/100 = 77% (B)

Throwback Pick Of The Week: Panic! At The Disco – I Write Sins Not Tragedies

Most Missed Countdown Song: Bebe Rexha – I Got You

#1 Recommendation For Hits 1: Kygo/Imagine Dragons – Born To Be Yours

Favorite Countdown Song This Week One Year Ago: The Chainsmokers/Coldplay – Something Just Like This (#1)

My Top 5 Picks

1. TIE: Foster The People – Sit Next To Me

1. TIE: Panic! At The Disco – Say Amen

3. Bad Wolves – Zombie

4. 5 Seconds Of Summer – Youngblood

5. Walk The Moon – One Foot

Also, one last thing. One of our fellow bloggers who goes by the name "." is doing another little rankdown game and this time, it's with songs that Hits 1 picked up that weren't actually big. I'm participating and I encourage to participate as well if you're interested. You have to submit a list by tomorrow at 6 PM eastern time. The link to the instructions and song list is below. Any questions can be asked over there or in the comments below on here. But go there first and read through all the instructions before asking any questions.

Link: http://countdownguyblog.blogspot.com/p/hits-1s-unknown-songs-rankdown.html