Countdowns Blog: March 2017

Tuesday, March 28

Ed Sheeran (7) - Week #12

Sorry I am late. I have seasonal allergies so I got really sick. And I had a piano recital and math competition, therefore very little time on my hands! This week was definitely better than last week. But some horrible things did happen...

And this is the new colour for Song was good but is now bad.

Exits:
John Legend - Love Me Now (#45)

45. Daya - Words (#44)
44. X Ambassadors - Unsteady (#43)[Stay!]
43. Bebe Rexha - I Got You (#42)
42. Coldplay/Beyonce'/SeeB - Hymn For The Weekend (#41)
41. DJ Snake/Justin Bieber - Let Me Love You (#26)
40. Noah Cyrus/Labrinth - Make Me (Cry) (#31)
39. James Hersey - Miss You (#24)
38. Maroon5 - Don't Wanna Know (#39)
37. Ariana Grande/Nicki Minaj - Side To Side (#37)
36. Niall Horan - This Town (#38)
35. Bruno Mars - 24K Magic (#40)
34. Panic! At The Disco - L.A. Devotee (#36)
33. The Weeknd/Daft Punk - Starboy (#33)
32. Alessia Cara - Scars To Your Beautiful (#25)
31. Clean Bandit/Sean Paul/Anne-Marie - Rockabye (DEBUT)
30. Twenty One Pilots - Heavydirtysoul (#32)
29. Shawn Mendes - Treat You Better (#29)
28. Rihanna - Love On The Brain (#35)
27. Imagine Dragons - Believer (#30)
26. AJR - Weak (#22)
25. Panic! At The Disco - Death Of A Bachelor (#23)
24. The Weeknd/Daft Punk - I Feel It Coming (#20)
23. James Arthur - Say You Won't Let Go (#11)
22. Jon Bellion - All Time Low (#27)
21. Julia Michaels - Issues (#19)
20. Twenty One Pilots - Heathens (#20)
19. Steve Aoki/Louis Tomlinson - Just Hold On (#18)
18. Adele - Water Under The Bridge (#9)
17. Selena Gomez/xP - It Ain't Me (#14)
16. Lady Gaga - Million Reasons (#8)
15. Katy Perry/Skip Marley - Chained To The Rhythm (#10)
14. Train - Play That Song (#13)
13. Zedd/Alessia Cara - Stay (#16)
12. Maroon5 - Cold (#3)
11. The Chainsmokers - Paris (#11)
10. Linkin Park/Kiiara - Heavy (#34)[YES!!!]
9. Bruno Mars - That's What I Like (#5)
8. Fitz & The Tantrums - HandClap (#17)
7. Zayn/Taylor Swift - I Don't Wanna Live Forever (#4)[One step at a time...]
6. Ed Sheeran - Castle On The Hill (#15)[YES!!!]
5. Haliee Steinfield & Grey/Zedd - Starving (#27)[wow...]
4. The Chainsmokers/Halsey - Closer (#2)
3. Shawn Mendes - Mercy (#6)
2. Machine Gun Kelly/Camila Cabello - Bad Things (#7)
1. Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You (#1)[7th week at #1]

Biggest jump of the week: Linkin Park/Kiiara - Heavy (+24)[YES!!!]
Biggest drop of the week: DJ Snake/Justin Bieber - Let Me Love You; James Hersey - Miss You (-15)

Comments on debut:
Rockabye is just a catchy song with a good meaning. And this song introduced me to Anne-Marie. Otherwise, not much else to say.

Hit-Bound:
Ariana Grande/Future - Everyday
One Ok Rock - American Girls
The Vamps/Matoma - All Night
Jason Derulo/Nicki Minaj/Ty Dolla $ign - Swalla
The Chainsmokers/Coldplay - Something Just Like This
Coin - Talk Too Much
Little Mix - Touch
Calvin Harris/Frank Ocean/Migos - Slide
Snakehips/MO - Don't Leave
Erin Bowman - Good Time Good Life (DEBUT)
Lorde - Green Light
MAX/Gnash - Lights Down Low
Ocean Park Standoff - Good News
Flo Rida/99 Percent - Cake

Good Time Good Life is just trash. Erin Bowman has a horrible voice and the song is horrid.

Top 5:
1. Lights Down Low
2. Good News
3. Something Just Like This
4. Don't Leave
5. American Girls

Bottom 3:
1. Green Light
2. Slide
3. Good Time Good Life

Good Blurbs Good Life
Sorry... I had no time... They will be back next week!

Top 3 srecommendation for Hits 1: Machine Gun Kelly/Hailee Steinfield - At My Best; All Time Low - Dirty Laundry; Lindsey Stirling/ZZ Ward - Hold My Heart

Most Missed Countdown Song: The Chainsmokers/Daya - Don't Let Me Down

Throwback pick of the week: Lorde - Royals

Top 5:
1. Stay
2. Heavy
3. Castle On The Hill
4. It Ain't Me
5. Heavydirtysoul

Bottom 5:
1. I Don't Wanna Live Forever
2. Starving
3. Love On The Brain
4. 24K Magic
5. Issues

Saturday, March 18

Ed Sheeran (6) - Week #11

Hello and welcome to my second post on this blog! If you haven't already please check out my other blog My Weekly Preferences where I post my favourite weekly songs. As for this blog, this week was horrible. Amazing songs dropped and horrible songs jumped. One debut is just strange, and our Top 8 is looking worse than ever. Three songs are in purple for encouragement :)

Special thanks to . for his work on his blog.

Exits:

Sia/Kendrick Lamar - The Greatest (#29)

Charli XCX - After The Afterparty (#44)

#1 song this week one year ago: Charlie Puth - One Call Away

The countdown!!!

Comments on debuts:

So L.A. Devotee debuts. Please. I will laugh if this song ever lasts more than a few weeks because it is so freaking old and boring. I hope this song can take the momentum of Death Of A Bachelor, then die down itself. Panic! At The Disco's songs, by the way, are only aired on Hits1. I did not hear them anywhere else and my radio stations have no idea who they are. Their only good song will forever be Victorious.

And Believer is exceptional. The amazing rock feel, the beat the vocals, the world class drumming, everything is put together perfectly. Imagine Dragons never cease to amaze me.

Hit-Bound:

Snakehips/MØ - Don't Leave
MAX/Gnash - Lights Down Low
Calvin Harris/Frank Ocean/Migos - Slide
Lorde - Green Light (DEBUT)
The Chainsmokers/Coldplay - Something Just Like This
Ocean Park Standoff - Good News (DEBUT)
Little Mix - Touch
Flo Rida/99 Percent - Cake
Clean Bandit/Sean Paul/Anne-Marie - Rockabye
The Vamps/Matoma - All Night
Ariana Grande/Future - Everyday
Coin - Talk Too Much
One Ok Rock - American Girls
Jason Derulo/Nicki Minaj/Ty Dolla $ign - Swalla

I was hoping that Green Light would pull a Make Me... and be a comeback song from a loved artist but somehow not make it on here. But I was wrong. Well, if only I weren't. Lorde has had amazing music in the past. She probably had a few of my favourite songs of the year a while ago. Royals was one of the best songs ever created. Team was better. Magnets is probably in my top 20 songs of all time. This because she used her falsetto voice. Her regular voice is horrible. Although when she uses her falsetto voice here it is find. The chorus is horrific. She destroyed her reputation with me with this song. But of course it will become popular.

Good News is a great song. The lyrics are amazing. The beat is super catchy like in their other song Photos and Liquor. I hope this song can become big because it really deserves it more than I Don't Wanna Live Forever.

Lights Down Low will never debut sadly. Except if it pulls a Once In A While (please do). It is too good for Hits 1.

I grew into American Girls and out of Swalla. I remember once when for about two months Hit-Bound had 100% great songs. Now only six songs are great.

What happened to Thumbs? Did I dream hearing it last week?

Clean Bandit released a song yesterday called Symphony with Zara Larsson. I really hope that song can debut next week because it is amazing. It is about gay blacks, which I love. Finally a song with a meaning that is actually happy, great, and not stupid. And if someone says that they don't like the song, you could just say that they are racist and homophobic. Zara Larsson deserves to come back here with Symphony. Her voice is amazing. The falsetto is mastered. The regular voice is amazing. And also, the song is super catchy. Clean Bandit does amazing, even better than in Rockabye. Please check it out, it will be worth it.

Top 5:

TIE 1. All Night

TIE 1. Lights Down Low

3. Good News

4. Something Just Like This

5. Don't Leave

Blurb Devotee

Shape of You is halfway to twelve weeks at #1. It is the only good song in the top 8, so I will not complain if it gets there.

What happened with #2 and #3? Closer should be long gone, and Cold... well... my sister loves it, but I don't. So please leave us soon with I Don't Wanna Live Forever.

Say You Won't Let Go is pulling an Unsteady. Jumping enormously up and down and up. Plus they sound alike.

Speaking of Unsteady, HOLD ON FOR JUST THREE MORE WEEKS!!!

Yay for the jump from Castle On The Hill. It deserved it. I hope this can become a hit.

The drops from #4 and #5 from last week were necessary, but I grew back into them.

Miss You should really not jump this high or I will get sick of it faster...

What's with the jump from Scars To Your Beautiful? I found this one week after it was released on youtube. Hits 1 picks it up four months later as always, but now jumping up twelve spots? Seriously?

I am surprised that Love On The Brain is not higher. This whole week I heard it five times per hour. It really is overrated and overplayed.

Goodbye Side To Side.

Worst for last because. We have SO many drops from great songs. Heavy, Heavydirtysoul, and I Got You really should be up there in the Top 8 instead of what we have now. These are high-quality songs that should all jump back up thirty spots next week.

Top 5:

TIE 1. Heavy

TIE 1. Heavydirtysoul

TIE 1. Castle On The Hill

4. Stay

5. It Ain't Me

Top 3 recommendations for Hits 1

1. Clean Bandit/Zara Larsson - Symphony

2. James Blunt - Bartender

3. Sofia Carson/Alan Walker - Back To Beautiful

Throwback pick of the week: Imagine Dragons - Demons

Most Missed Countdown Song - Panic! At The Disco - Victorious

Thanks for reading! Have a nice day.

Tuesday, March 14

Ed Sheeran (5) - Week #10 + Introduction

Hello! I am Sasha. This will be my new countdown blog, where I will post every week the Sirius XM Hits 1 Weekend Countdown and some other charts alternatively. I will have to use other people's charts for the information because of technological problems...

Anyway the blog with follow out to be like the others:

Introduction.

Countdown.

Comments on debuts.

Hit-Bound.

"Blurbs".

Top 20 review.

#1 recommendation + throwback pick.

Only with my opinion.

I will use a colour-code slightly different than normal to have fun:

Best song on the countdown

Song is great

Song is good

Song is okay

Song is bad

Song is horrible

Worst song on the countdown

Song is old

Song was good but now bad

So let's try our first post, shall we?

It will be the Sirius XM Hits 1 Weekend countdown

Exits:

Hey Violet - Guys My Age (#39)

The countdown!

09. Bruno Mars - That's What I Like
Last Week: #10 | Peak: #9 | Weeks on Chart: 5

08. Lady Gaga - Million Reasons
Last Week: #11 | Peak: #8 | Weeks on Chart: 14

07. The Chainsmokers/Halsey - Closer
Last Week: #3 | Peak: #1 | Weeks on Chart: 30

06. Katy Perry/Skip Marley - Chained To The Rhythm
Last Week: #9 | Peak: #6 | Weeks on Chart: 4

05. Steve Aoki/Louis Tomlinson - Just Hold On
Last Week: #25 | Peak: #5 | Weeks on Chart: 13

04. Fitz & The Tantrums - HandClap
Last Week: #7 | Peak: #2 | Weeks on Chart: 10

03. Zayn/Taylor Swift - I Don't Wanna Live Forever[get out...]
Last Week: #6 | Peak: #3 | Weeks on Chart: 13

02. Shawn Mendes - Mercy
Last Week: #2 | Peak: #2 | Weeks on Chart: 10

01. Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You
Last Week: #1 | Peak: #1 | Weeks on Chart: 9

Biggest Drop of the week: Rihanna - Love On The Brain (-19)
Biggest Jump of the week: Steve Aoki/Louis Tomlinson - Just Hold On (+20)[???]

Comments on debuts:

James Hersey - Miss You

This is a strange song for Hits 1 to pick up seeing as I have never heard it on any other radio. It is very nice and sweet at the beginning but gets very repetitive and boring towards the end. The lyrics and the music go well together. Overall, this song is one that I will probably forget in a few years because there is nothing really that stands out from it.

Hit-Bound:
Jason Derulo/Nicki Minaj/Ty Dolla $ign - Swalla (DEBUT)
The Vamps/Matoma - All Night
Imagine Dragons - Believer
The Chainsmokers/Coldplay - Something Just Like This

Ariana Grande/Future - Everyday
Coin - Talk Too Much
MAX/Gnash - Lights Down Low
Snakehips/MO - Don't Leave
Clean Bandit/Sean Paul/Anne-Marie - Rockabye

One Ok Rock - American Girls
Calvin Harris/Frank Ocean/Migos - Slide
Panic! At The Disco - L.A. Devotee
Little Mix - Touch
Flo Rida/99 Percent - Cake

Slide is horrible. How did this even make it on Hits 1? They rarely accept rapping. And that annoying electronic voice? Please! Let's pray that this doesn't make it to the countdown.

And Lights Down Low is the opposite. A great pop voice, with no strange electronic oddities added whenever, just the guitar and his voice. Although Gnash raps a bit, he actually does it well.

Swalla is catchy. The tune is great although the verses could use work. Ty Dolla $ign does well while Nicki Minaj does not.

Something Just Like This is amazing. Spectacular. Coldplay sings beautifully. The words said are amazing! Then... The Chainsmokers, taking knowledge that the Closer beat was a hit like none of their other songs, they take... the exact same instrumentals as Closer. The ones that annoyed my head off after I grew out of it. And so the song is not my favourite song on Hit-Bound, although it well could be without The Chainsmokers. They have fallen.

To resume up the rest of Hit-Bound in a bit: All Night has a great beat, Believer has an amazing rock feel to it, Everyday is disappointingly repetitive and annoying compared to Touch It which she should have released instead, Talk Too Much was good but is just plain old being from Alt-Nation from a long time ago, Don't Leave is easily hatable because of MO but easily liked because of the beat, Rockabye featured the great voice of Anne-Marie and the great backs of Clean Bandit plus some great songwriting, American Girls is a good rock song but I don't really enjoy rock, L.A. Devotee showcases Urie's awful voice, Touch is noisy, and Cake is dumb but fun, to resume up Hit-Bound for my first week.

And I did hear Sabrina Carpenter - Thumbs once on the preview channel. I though it would make Hit-Bound.

Top 5:

1. Lights Down Low

2. Believer

3. All Might

4. Don't Leave

5. Something Just Like This

I'm Gonna Miss Blurbs

I am not surprised about our top 2. Shape Of You will most likely stay at the top for another few months and Mercy might intervene with a few weeks at #1 itself.

Although the #3 song is unacceptable. What is so good about this song? Is everybody voting for this song because it is part of Fifty Shades Darker? That would be the only reason. The falsetto is terrible. The lyrics make no sense. Taylor Swift has crashed from New Romantics, and Zayn should have stayed with OneDirection. Their voices hurt my ears so much even when they are not singing high.

The drop was from a song that is way overdue here anyway. The jump is... well... surprising. I am not annoyed, although I would be if this song hit #1. I would have loved this earlier on instead of having Just Hold On roaming around the twenties.

How are Closer and Starving still this high?

I don't see anything that special from Chained To The Rhythm or That's What I Like. They are mediocre songs, but they are so high, where It Ain't Me or Heavy should be.

Yay for Heathens. Keep it up! You will always be awesome.

I don't understand the jump from Weak. Stay I understand, Alessia Cara and Zedd, well... but Weak? Seriously? I only listened to this song two times and there is no beat, the lyrics make no sense, and it has never played on any of my radio stations. I would not have guessed in a million years that Weak would be a hit so fast.

Why isn't Heavydirtysoul making an impact? At all?

Although Unsteady is the worst song on the countdown for some, I still find it a great song. X Ambassadors have always wowed me and they continue to jump, in the bottom five,.. which is quite strange. But I am definitely hoping that this song can last a year unlike Stressed Out (sadly). One month to go!

Top 5:

1. Heavy

2. It Ain't Me

3. Castle On The Hill

4. Heavydirtysoul

5. Make Me (Cry)

Throwback pick of the week: OneRepublic - Secrets

#1 recommendation for Hits 1: Anne-Marie - Ciao Adios (Or LP - Lost On You but it will never make it here)

Special: The 4 o'clock 4Play (Wednesday - a daily countdown from my local radio station)

Shape Of You:

A catchy song on the verge of overplay... And expectedly here. This has been on here do

Slide:

HOW?!?!?!?!?! WHO LIKE THIS SONG?!?!?! (read the first Hit-Bound comment for details)

Down:

Thank you. The bass and the "piano" do well in this song and her voice is good, but this song could put you to sleep during the day. But a GREAT night song. I hope this song debuts soon on Hit-Bound soon.

Paris:

... really... I am so surprised... oh right you guys don't like with me. This song has been at #1 for nine times out of ten this past week. I loved this song. But now I realize how annoying The Chainsmokers are with their beats. They are all the same except Don't Let Me Down. The only reason I still might listen to this song is because It reminds me of my trip to Paris last summer :) :P

Thanks for reading!

Feel free to ask me to add something in the comments.

Special thanks to . for his work on his blog.