Panic! At The Disco (1) – Week Of March 9, 2019

Hey guys! So I keep forgetting to mention this, but I am on Crownnote, which is where I make my personal charts. So after a long hiatus of my personal chart on Blogger, I've brought it to Crownnote as of early January. I'm currently putting in all my old charts, but that's the site where all my new charts will be. So you should check that out. Before we get to this week's Fresh 45, here are the songs we're saying goodbye to this week.

• David Guetta/Anne-Marie – Don't Leave Me Alone (#27)
• Mark Ronson/Miley Cyrus – Nothing Breaks Like A Heart (#36)
• Fall Out Boy – The Last Of The Real Ones (#42) [2 Weeks At #1]

Last Week's #1 Song: The Chainsmokers/Kelsea Ballerini – This Feeling

The Countdown

45. lovelytheband – Broken (#44)

44. Bebe Rexha – I'm a Mess (#45)

43. Charlie Puth – The Way I Am (#43)

42. George Ezra – Shotgun (#40)

41. Jennifer Lopez – Limitless (#41)

40. Backstreet Boys – Don't Go Breaking My Heart (#38)

39. Travis Scott/Drake – Sicko Mode (#39)

38. Imagine Dragons – Natural (#37) [1 Week At #1]

37. Lauv/Troye Sivan – I'm So Tired (DEBUT)

36. Maroon 5/Cardi B – Girls Like You (#35)

35. Post Malone – Wow (DEBUT)

34. Stephen Puth – Sexual Vibe (#32)

33. Grandson – Apologize (DEBUT)

32. Jake Miller – Wait For You (#34)

31. Sabrina Carpenter – Sue Me (#25)

30. Khalid/Normani – Love Lies (#29)

29. 5 Seconds of Summer – Youngblood (#28) [5 Weeks At #1]

28. Zedd/Katy Perry – 365 (#30)

27. Lil Peep/iLoveMakonnen/Fall Out Boy – I've Been Waiting (#31)

26. Lauren Daigle – You Say (#33)

25. Ariana Grande – Thank U, Next (#17)

24. Seeb/Bastille – Grip (#24)

23. Khalid – Better (#21)

22. Kelsea Ballerini – Miss Me More (#22)

21. Anne-Marie – 2002 (#15)

20. Imagine Dragons – Bad Liar (#26)

19. Avril Lavigne – Tell Me It's Over (#12)

18. Post Malone/Swae Lee – Sunflower (#19)

17. Dan + Shay – Speechless (#18)

16. Cardi B/Bruno Mars – Please Me (#23)

15. The Chainsmokers/5 Seconds Of Summer – Who Do You Love (#20)

14. Benny Blanco/Halsey/Khalid – Eastside (#13)

13. Dean Lewis – Be Alright (#16)

12. Sam Smith/Normani – Dancing With A Stranger (#11)

11. Twenty One Pilots – Chlorine (#14)

10. Ellie Goulding/Diplo – Close To Me (#7)

  9. Panic! At The Disco – High Hopes (#8) [8 Weeks At #1]

  8. Ariana Grande – 7 Rings (#9)

  7. Dan + Shay – Tequila (#10)

  6. Ava Max – Sweet But Psycho (#3)

  5. Alec Benjamin – Let Me Down Slowly (#4)

  4. Halsey – Without Me (#5) [5 Weeks At #1]

  3. Marshmello/Bastille – Happier (#6) [2 Weeks At #1]

  2. The Chainsmokers/Kelsea Ballerini – This Feeling (#1) [7 Weeks At #1]

  1. Panic! At The Disco – Hey Look Ma, I Made It (#2) [1^st Week At #1]

#1 Song This Week One Year Ago: Zedd/Maren Morris/Grey – The Middle (2)

Biggest DROP!!!... Of The Week: Ariana Grande – Thank U, Next (–8)

Biggest Jump Of The Week: Tie Between Lauren Daigle – You Say and Cardi B/Bruno Mars – Please Me (+7)

New Entrants

~ First up this week, we have more Lauv because that's exactly what America asked for. I'm So Tired is definitely not as bad as I Like Me Better, but it is worse than There's No Way. I just don't understand to this or to him. His auto tuned vocals are very hard to listen to. He sounds so bad in this song that it just makes me cringe every time I'm forced to listen to this. The production is also very generic and not interesting. Troye Sivan is easily the best thing about the song and he kind of helps it. But everything else about this song is bad and I don't know why these two would collaborate because Troye is too good for Lauv. I don't know why anyone would want to work with him. Hopefully this flops because it's pretty bad.

~ Next is Post Malone with Wow. I used to really dislike this song, but it has gotten better over time. I think the beat is generic and the song is pretty forgettable. But I actually think Post Malone sounds pretty good here and I think he actually shows a good amount of talent here as a singer and a rapper. It's not his best obviously. But this was a grower and I definitely think it's better than snooze fests like Psycho because he actually sounds somewhat energetic on Wow as opposed to sounding bored as hell on Psycho. So this song is okay. I doubt this will ever be a good song, but the man has done worse as I've mentioned. And I'd be down for this making Sunflower move down.

~ Finally we have Grandson with Apologize. This is not the kind of song I would ever expect to hear on Hits 1. I think overall, the song is okay. I really like the instrumentation on here and I think the song is very energetic unlike our other two debuts. I don't like Grandson's voice though, but that's really the only thing bringing this song down. Aside from that, it's pretty enjoyable. But all in all, it's not something I can see myself going out of my way to listen to. But if it were to come on the radio, I wouldn't change it. It could grow on me, but I don't really think it will.


Best Debut of the Week: Grandson – Apologize


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

• LSD/Lil Wayne – Genius
• P!nk – Walk Me Home
• Austin Brown – In Betweenin'
• Kelsy Karter – Harry
• Ally Brooke/Tyga – Low Key
• Panic! At The Disco – Dancing's Not A Crime
• Maren Morris – GIRL
• Kygo/Valerie Broussard – Think About You
• Avril Lavigne/Nicki Minaj – Dumb Blonde (DEBUT)
• Bebe Rexha – Last Hurrah (DEBUT)
• Yungblud/Halsey/Travis Barker – 11 Minutes
• Meghan Trainor – All The Ways
• Billie Eilish – Bury A Friend (DEBUT)
• Madison Beer/Offset – Hurts Like Hell
• lovelytheband – Maybe, I'm Afraid
• Louis Tomlinson – Two Of Us (DEBUT)

~ The best debut of the week comes from Avril Lavigne with Dumb Blonde featuring Nicki Minaj. It's obviously not the best song from Head Above Water as I prefer the title track and Birdie. But this song is a jam that reminds of me old-school Avril and I just find it so catchy and fun to listen to. It's a great female empowerment anthem. I can understand if people find this song annoying, but I think it's great. After all, the song did get a lot of positive reviews from critics for a reason.

~ It has not been a full year since Expectations was released, but Bebe Rexha still released a new single recently titled Last Hurrah. I consider myself a Bebe Rexha fan and I've liked her since her collab with Cash Cash on Take Me Home. I thought Expectations was a pretty good album and this new song is really good too. To me, it sounds kind of similar to I'm A Mess, but I think her vocals here are better, especially in the chorus. I'd like to see this become a hit because I really like this song.

~ Next we have an artist who I do not like and I don't get her appeal. It's Billie Eilish with Bury A Friend. I'm just gonna say it plain and simple. This girl has virtually no talent. She cannot sing for her life and I'm not gonna praise this like her fans because there's no talent here. I don't want to hear her whispering and mumbling over a lifeless "beat". The song is weird as hell and I can tell she's trying to be unique and interesting, but I'm not buying it. I think she is overrated. I will say that Bury A Friend is better than When The Party's Over, which is one of the most boring things I have ever heard, but that's not really saying much because this new song is still really bad and I hope it does not debut because the last thing we need is a recreation of 2016 when a whisperer was taking over the countdown.

~ Lastly, we have the long-awaited return of Louis Tomlinson. I would've loved if I didn't have to wait so long for new music from him, but I know he was a judge on The X Factor and all that. I think Two Of Us is a really nice song and I'm really happy to see Louis still releasing good songs. It's not as great as Back To You and Miss You, but I think it's better than Just Hold On and it's definitely better than Just Like You. What I want though is for this song to actually do well on Hits 1 because Just Hold On has been Louis' only hit and I think it's time that that changed. Overall, this song is great and I look forward to the album whenever that comes out.

Top 5 Hit-Bound Picks

1. Kygo/Valerie Broussard – Think About You

2. Avril Lavigne/Nicki Minaj – Dumb Blonde

3. Louis Tomlinson – Two Of Us

4. Bebe Rexha – Last Hurrah

5. Panic! At The Disco – Dancing's Not A Crime

YouTube15

~ I do not have the YouTube15 list on me, but I do know some of the songs that are in the list and I figured I'd just talk about a few of them. First is Mama by Clean Bandit and Ellie Goulding. I like this song mostly for Ellie Goulding's vocals. But I feel like Clean Bandit can do much better. The majority of the singles and Out At Night are better than this.

~ Also trending is Nunya by Kehlani. This song is okay because I like Kehlani's voice, but the beat is not very good and I know she's much more talented than this having heard the many guest features she's done within the past few years.

~ We also have I Can't Get Enough by Benny Blanco, Tainy, Selena Gomez, and J Balvin. I talked about this on one of the recent Wake The Pop Up episodes. I think Benny Blanco has been progressively getting worse over time. I do not like this new song because I think it's annoying and underwhelming. Selena Gomez is capable of better and J Balvin does not sound that great. I think Benny Blanco got really lazy here.

~ Stephen Puth brings another song, this one titled Half Gone. I do like the song because I think his voice sounds really good here. But the production is not as good as it is in Sexual Vibe. So I think the two songs are at about the same level of good.

~ For some reason, one of the songs trending is Be Like Me by Lil Pump featuring Lil Wayne. I do not know why we gave Lil Pump a career because doing so encourages dropping out of college, which is never a good idea. The man is talentless and why people actually listen to his music is beyond me. Be Like Me is a very cringy song because no one wants to be like Lil Pump because he is the laughing stock of rap music. Lil Wayne does nothing to help the song. It's straight up trash.

~ The last one I'll talk about is Flux by Ellie Goulding. I really like her and her music even though Close To Me is definitely the weakest lead single she has ever put out. Flux is definitely a lot better. I love that it's a piano ballad and I think her voice sounds beautiful. The lyrics are really good and I can feel the emotion. It's just a really nice song and what I was hoping for from Ellie Goulding. I kind of hope this becomes a hit, but I don't really think it will unfortunately. But who knows?

I'm So Tired of Blurbs

~ We have a new #1 this week in the form of Hey Look Ma, I Made It from Panic! At The Disco. This was kind of destined to go to #1 with how much Hits 1 loves Brendon. At least it hit #1 after its official single release. It's still a great song, so I'll take it.

~ There's not much that happened this week that's worth commenting on aside from the drops from 2002, Thank U, Next, and Sue Me. All of them are bad and deserved to fall. So this is definitely a good thing.

~ I'm pretty impressed that Backstreet Boys – Don't Go Breaking My Heart is still here. I don't love the song now as much as I used to. But I still jam to it every now and then and it is still a great song. I'm happy that it's still here and has done so well because it was underrated everywhere else.

~ And Jennifer Lopez – Limitless is somehow still here. I'll say it once again, but I don't know who is voting for this because I doubt people even know what this is with how irrelevant it is.

~ The Way I Am should also not still be here. This song was never meant to be a hit and it is taking a spot that could be occupied by a much better song that will actually be successful. It's seriously time for this one to go.

~ As far as the exits go, we lost songs that should not have left before The Way I Am. Don't Leave Me Alone was very meh overall. I kind of liked the production and the drop, but I did not like Anne-Marie on the song. The Last Of The Real Ones had a great run and I'm glad because it is easily the best song from MANIA and it was deserving of its success. However, Nothing Breaks Like A Heart was very underrated and deserved so much more. Everything about that song is just great and it left too early.

Top 20 Review

0 – Crap:

20. TIE: Ariana Grande – 7 Rings

20. TIE: Halsey – Without Me

1 – Bad:

18. Cardi B/Bruno Mars – Please Me

17. Alec Benjamin – Let Me Down Slowly

16. Twenty One Pilots – Chlorine

2 – Mediocre:

NONE

3 – Decent:

15. Ellie Goulding/Diplo – Close To Me

14. Post Malone/Swae Lee – Sunflower

4 – Good:

13. Ava Max – Sweet But Psycho

5 – Great:

12. Benny Blanco/Halsey/Khalid – Eastside

11. Dan + Shay – Speechless

10. The Chainsmokers/Kelsea Ballerini – This Feeling

9. The Chainsmokers/5 Seconds Of Summer – Who Do You Love

8. Panic! At The Disco – Hey Look Ma, I Made It

7. Panic! At The Disco – High Hopes

6. Marshmello/Bastille – Happier

5. Dan + Shay – Tequila

4. Imagine Dragons – Bad Liar

3. Sam Smith/Normani – Dancing With A Stranger

2. Avril Lavigne – Tell Me It's Over

1. Dean Lewis – Be Alright

Overall Score: 73/100 = 73% (B)

Throwback Pick Of The Week: Beyoncé/Jay Z – Crazy In Love

Most Missed Countdown Song: Lady Gaga/Bradley Cooper – Shallow

#1 Recommendation For Hits 1: Marshmello/CHVRCHES – Here With Me

Favorite Countdown Song This Week One Year Ago: Tie between Macklemore/Kesha – Good Old Days (#3), Walk The Moon – One Foot (#6), and Keala Settle – This Is Me (#26) (I know, unnecessary that it's three songs)

My Top 5 Picks

1. Kelsea Ballerini – Miss Me More

2. Dean Lewis – Be Alright

3. Avril Lavigne – Tell Me It's Over

4. Sam Smith/Normani – Dancing With A Stranger

5. Zedd/Katy Perry – 365