Well, I can't exactly say that this week was a good week, despite the
greatest gainer and the hot shot debut. We did get rid of a one-week
wonder this week, and our #1 song makes no sense whatsoever. But I
obviously want to get this done, so here are our exits this week:
- Shawn Mendes - Mercy (#15)
- Stargate/P!nk/Sia - Waterfall (#36)
- Chance the Rapper/Knox Fortune - All Night (#40)
Last Week's #1 Song: Ed Sheeran - Shape of You
The Chart
40. Cheat Codes/Demi Lovato - No Promises (debut)
39. Lady Gaga - The Cure (debut)
38. Rag'n'BoneMan - Human (#39)
37. Lorde - Green Light (#28)
36. DNCE/Nicki Minaj - Kissing Strangers (debut)
35. G-Eazy/Kehlani - Good Life (#37)
34. Lady Gaga - Million Reasons (#25)
33. Imagine Dragons - Believer (#38)
32. AJR - Weak (#35)
31. Axwell/Ingrosso/Kid Ink - I Love You (#34)
30. Train - Play That Song (#33)
29. Big Sean - Bounce Back (#19)
28. Jason Derulo/Nicki Minaj/Ty Dolla $ign - Swalla (#30)
27. Martin Garrix/Dua Lipa - Scared to be Lonely (#31)
26. Marian Hill - Down (#20)
25. Flo Rida/99 Percent - Cake (#27)
24. Drake - Passonfruit (#29)
23. Zayn/PARTYNEXTDOOR - Still Got Time (#24)
22. Machine Gun Kelly/Hailee Steinfeld - At My Best (#23)
21. Ed Sheeran - Castle on the Hill (#32)
20. Starley - Call On Me (#21)
19. Kyle/Lil Yatchy - iSpy (#22)
18. Halsey - Now or Never (#26)
17. Linkin Park/Kiiara - Heavy (#16)
16. Harry Styles - Sign of the Times (#18)
15. Calvin Harris/Frank Ocean/Migos - Slide (#17)
14. Katy Perry/Skip Marley - Chained to the Rhythm (#10)
13. Rihanna - Love on the Brain (#12)
12. James Arthur - Say You Won't Let Go (#14)
11. Julia Michaels - Issues (#13)
10. Zayn/Taylor Swift - I Don't Wanna Live Forever (#7)
9. The Weeknd/Daft Punk - I Feel It Coming (#5)
8. Maroon 5/Future - Cold (#11)
7. Zedd/Alessia Cara - Stay (#9)
6. The Chainsmokers/Coldplay - Something Just Like This (#8)
5. Kygo/Selena Gomez - It Ain't Me (#6)
4. Clean Bandit/Sean Paul/Anne Marie - Rockabye (#4)
3. The Chainsmokers - Paris (#3)
2. Ed Sheeran - Shape of You (#2) (nine weeks at #1)
1. Bruno Mars - That's What I Like (#1) (first week at #1)
Biggest Drop of the Week: Big Sean - Bounce Back (-10)
Biggest Jump of the Week: Ed Sheeran - Castle on the Hill (+11)
Hot Shot Debut: DNCE/Nicki Minaj - Kissing Strangers (#36)
Greatest Gainer: The Chainsmokers/Coldplay - Something Just Like This (#6)
#1 Song This Week One Year Ago: Zayn - Pillowtalk (first of two weeks at #1)
New Entrants
-At #40 we have
Cheat Codes
and
Demi Lovato with
No Problems. The song can get really annoying at
times, and I can't stand the vocals. The lyrics are horrible, and the
verses (way they sing them, at least) pretty much makes the song even
worse. Especially the pre-chorus, and the chorus; I hate it when they
repeatedly say "na na," and that gets really annoying. The worst verse
in the entire song is "love ain't easy" and that pretty much is the
reason why I despise this song so much. Personally, I think
Demi Lovato
has done much better in the past with songs such as
Give Your Heart A
Break and
Confident. The solo versions, to be honest, are really good.
But collaborations with other people pretty much makes the song "bad."
The point is, this song will hopefully be a one-week wonder like
Shining
and
All Night, because I don't want to discuss this atrocious song in
any more detail.
-Next up we have
Lady Gaga with
The
Cure. Personally, I was never a big fan of
Lady Gaga to begin with.
Perfect Illusion was way beyond atrocious because "what happened to her
voice?"
Million Reasons was never good to begin with, the lyrics,
vocals, and music. I think that this song is pretty much the same thing.
The lyrics are so repetitive, and the pre-chorus doesn't make any sense
whatsoever. Sadly guys, I don't think that I will ever grow into this
song.
Lady Gaga really needs to leave the music industry as soon as
possible, because her new singles are just atrocious vocal messes.
-Our
last and "thankfully" hot shot debut is
DNCE and
Nicki Minaj with
Kissing Strangers. Personally, I don't know if a song with that type of
title will get some recognition here, but it's definitely recognized by
me. But I'm still kind of juggling between yellow and green still,
because the song can somehow get annoying with the choice of music. But
the vocals and lyrics are great, especially the pre-chorus. I enjoyed
DNCE solo, and collaborations with other people. This song will
definitely stick with me even if America doesn't recognize this song.
You can see this being true with a bunch of songs, such as *cough*
Green
Light *cough*.
Kissing Blurbs
-OK,
America, you had to get rid of
All Night as a one-week wonder?
Hopefully that song will re-enter, but something tells me it wouldn't if
Shining didn't. Especially since I barely hear
All Night on my local
radio station. The other two exits were definitely needed, though.
-Well, it looks like
Human won't jump
over one spot at this point. Then again, jumping one spot is better than
holding, by judging where that song is right now.
-
Green
Light flopping is actually really surprising since I just grew into
this song and similar. So unless it can gain some airplay, it will be
gone next week.
-This is it for
Million Reasons. This
is its 20th week being here. Apparently this chart has a rule in which
if a song spends over 20 weeks on this chart and is supposed to rank
below #15 on any week, it automatically leaves. Which means that unless
this song can make a 19+ jump next week, it's going to automatically be
gone regardless.
-I'm not even going to talk about the
jump from
I Love You. This song is pretty much just a space filler in my
opinion just like
Way Down We Go was. Hopefully this song will be gone
soon, or not peak any higher than where it is right now.
-Looks
as if
Swalla,
Play That Song, and
Scared to be Lonely isn't done that.
That's actually good. Hopefully those three songs can stay around for a
while longer, but I don't see any of them becoming really big hits here.
-So
it looks like
Marian Hill - Down is going to truly "flop." But it's
ranked at #13 on my year-end predictions right now, so it looks like it
could barely make it.
-
Passonfruit hopefully will be an even bigger hit than
Fake Love. I'm enjoying the new tune, so that's pretty much why.
-Hooray for the biggest jump of the week! Hopefully that that song can replace our #2 song in the future.
-I
always wanted
iSpy and
Call On Me to enter the top 20. The last thing
that I truly need is a bunch of horrible songs invading the charts and
being space fillers.
-Hooray for
Now or Never! I can definitely see this song becoming a big hit here.
-Oh
great, we have our #16 song.
Sign of the Times is way beyond atrocious
at this point. Especially when this is a song which copied a title from
like five other songs, some of which were big hits, and some of which
weren't. I was actually thinking about this song being the greatest
gainer for the third week in a row, which thankfully didn't happen, but I
pretty much have to put it in pink.
-I didn't expect
Issues to make it to #11. Guess we'll just have to see how much longer this song will stay with us here.
-
I
Feel It Coming dropping out of the top 5 is actually a really good
thing this week. Even though I don't hate it, this song can get
repetitive and old really quickly. Hopefully it won't be long until this
song leaves the charts.
-Looks like we have another
Maroon 5 song in the top 10. The last thing I need is for this song to
become the next
Don't Wanna Know. This time the repeated word is "cold."
-Well,
Stay could become a really big hit here. I can even see this song
challenging
Shape of You and
That's What I Like from the top spot. The
lyrics are really catchy, and the music is really good.
-Another
song that could challenge
That's What I Like and
Shape of You from the
top is
Something Just Like This. Having the greatest gainer for the
third time is amazing.
Something Just Like This will still be claimed
the best song of the first third of this year, and it will always be for
good reasons.
-I always wanted
It Ain't Me in the top
5. What's even good about this song to begin with? I can criticize this
song in every possible way, with the lyrics, music, pre-chorus, and
especially the very end.
-Can
Rockabye just drop
already? I'm so sick of having to hear
Sean Paul's verses, the music is
way beyond annoying, and
Anne Marie singing in the chorus is pretty much
giving me a headache.
-It looks like this could be the
end of
Paris. Thank you for your two weeks at #1. You will claimed the
second best song of the first third of the year only to your new single
Something Just Like This.
Paris, by the way, is starting to lose
airplay, which is really bad for this song's performance on this chart.
-
Shape
of You losing the #1 spot was kind of unexpected. But I kind of guess
that that would happen sometime, especially when it lost its #1 streak
to
That's What I Like.
-But I would have preferred
Shape of You over
That's What I Like at #1. But even then,
That's What I
Like is not the worst song here. But let's hope that better singles
will hit #1, such as *cough*
Stay *cough* and *cough*
Something Just
Like This *cough*.
Top 20 Review
-1 - Worst Song
20. Harry Styles - Sign of the Times
0 - Garbage
19. Bruno Mars - That's What I Like
18. Rihanna - Love on the Brain
17. Julia Michaels - Issues
16. Kyle/Lil Yatchy - iSpy
15. Zayn Malik/Taylor Swift - I Don't Wanna Live Forever
14. Starley - Call One Me
13. Maroon 5/Future - Cold
12. Ed Sheeran - Shape of You
11. Kygo/Selena Gomez - It Ain't Me
10. Clean Bandit/Sean Paul/Anne Marie - Rockabye
9. Calvin Harris/Frank Ocean/Migos - Slide
1 - Bad
None!
2 - Mediocre
8. Linkin Park/Kiiara - Heavy
7. Katy Perry/Skip Marley - Chained to the Rhythm
6. The Weeknd/Daft Punk - I Feel It Coming
3 - Decent
None!
4 - Good
None!
5 - Great
5. Zedd/Alessia Cara - Stay
4. James Arthur - Say You Won't Let Go
3. Halsey - Now or Never
2. The Chainsmokers - Paris
6 - Best Song
1. The Chainsmokers/Coldplay - Something Just Like This
Total Score: 31/100 (Insanely Awful)
#1 Recommendation for This Chart: Ed Sheeran - Galway Girl
My Top 5 Picks
1. The Chainsmokers/Coldplay - Something Just Like This
2. Martin Garrix/Dua Lipa - Scared to be Lonely
3. The Chainsmokers - Paris
4. Ed Sheeran - Castle on the Hill
5. Train - Play That Song
My Bottom 5 Picks
1. Harry Styles - Sign of the Times
2. Bruno Mars - That's What I Like
3. Zayn/PARTYNEXTDOOR - Still Got Time
4. Rihanna - Love on the Brain
5. Julia Michaels - Issues
Question of the Week (QOTW):
Do you think that All Night by Chance the Rapper featuring Knox Fortune
will re-enter this chart? For me, I personally don't know. I mean, it
would be nice to have this song back on this chart, but based on airplay
right now, I don't think so. At least not anytime soon.
Songs That Debuted This Week One Year Ago + Review On Greatest Gainer
-Just
a side note here, there was only one debut last week and the greatest
gainer is different though, which makes two songs to review. So my
reviews will hopefully be longer.
Greatest Gainer: Drake/WizKid/Kyla - One Dance
Okay,
just because of Drake, this song is really bad. I hate the rapping in
this song, and the fact that every single video posted on YouTube does
not contain the full song is really driving me nuts. First off, the
lyrics don't make any sense whatsoever, and the "I need a one dance" is
really bad. The pre-chorus is annoying. And don't even get me started
into the parts of WizKid and Kyla. Basically, the song is trash. (1/10)
Hot Shot Debut: Twenty One Pilots - Ride
I
like most collaborations with Twenty One Pilots. I like this song. The
pre-chorus is really amazing. The verses and really good. And this song
is one of the songs these days that actually has meaning to it. I will
definitely take this song and Stressed Out over Heathens. The vocals and
lyrics are really good as well. This song is definitely enjoyable, and I
can see why many people like this song. I'm glad that this song got a
chance to hit #1 just like Stressed Out, and I'm also glad that Heathens
failed to hit #1 on this chart. (9.5/10)
-Thanks for reading, everybody, and enjoy your week!