Liam Payne (1) - Week #39

I really don't know what to say except that Pulse is taking quite a while to approve my account...

#1 song last year: Closer (1)
#1 song last week: Slow Hands (3)

Exits:
Linkin Park/Kiiara - Heavy (#41)
The Chainsmokers - Honest (#44)
Fall Out Boy - Champion (#45)

45. Hailee Steinfield - Most Girls (#42)
44. Bruno Mars - That's What I Like (#40)
43. Hey Violet - Hoodie (#35)
42. All Time Low - Good Times (#43)
41. Lady Gaga - The Cure (#39)
40. Kygo/Selena Gomez - It Ain't Me (#37)
39. MAX/Gnash - Lights Down Low (#33)
38. Sabrina Carpenter - Why (DEBUT)
37. Andy Grammer - Give Love (#21)[-16]
36. Justin Bieber/Bloodpop - Friends (#31)
35. Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You (#36)
34. Zedd/Liam Payne - Get Low (#29)
33. Linkin Park - One More Light (#24)
32. Bruno Mars vs. David Guetta - Versace On The Floor (#27)
31. Harry Styles - Two Ghosts (#38)
30. Selena Gomez - Fetish (DEBUT)
29. Louis Tomlinson/Bebe Rexha/DFA - Back To You (#26)
28. Sam Hunt - Body Like A Back Road (#19)
27. Cheat Codes/Demi Lovato - No Promises (#16)
26. Panic! At The Disco - L.A. Devotee (#30)
25. Logic/Alessia Cara/Khalid - Suicide Hotline Number (DEBUT)[...]
24. Ed Sheeran - Castle On The Hill (#25)
23. Charlie Puth - Attention (#18)
22. Maroon 5/SZA - What Lovers Do (#13)
21. Zedd/Alessia Cara - Stay (#10)
20. The Revivalists - Wish I Knew You (#28)
19. Luis Fonsi/Daddy Yankee/Justin Bieber - Despacito (#20)
18. Kelly Clarkson - Love So Soft (#32)[....................................]
17. All-American Rejects - Sweat (#34)[+17]
16. Sam Smith - Too Good At Goodbyes (#23)
15. Halsey - Bad At Love (#22)
14. Imagine Dragons - Believer (#6)
13. Taylor Swift - Look What You Made Me Do (#9)[YES!!!]
12. Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still (#17)
11. Macklemore/Skylar Grey - Glorious (#14)
10. Ke$ha - Praying (#5)
9. The Chainsmokers/Coldplay - Something Just Like This (#8)
8. P!nk - What About Us (#11)
7. Mono Mind/Bridge & Mountain - Save Me A Place (#12)
6. Imagine Dragons - Thunder (#15)
5. Shawn Mendes - TNHMB (#2)[It's a start!]
4. Demi Lovato - Sorry Not Sorry (#3)
3. Niall Horan - Slow Hands (#1)
2. Ed Sheeran - Galway Girl (#4)[....................................]
1. Liam Payne - Strip That Down (#7)[............................................................... ............................................................................................................]

Biggest jump: Sweat (+17)
Biggest drop: Give Love (-16)

Comments on debuts:
Why sounds a lot like Gold in the chorus, and I have no problem with that. I love Sabrina Carpenter's voice and the song production is really catchy. Thumbs was great for a while before I grew out of it. For now, I hope that Why does well since it is her best single so far.

Fetish is easily Selena Gomez's best song to date. She has released real trash throughout her whole career, and thankfully she finally created a fantastic song on her own. The song i really interesting and has a new sort of sounds I never heard before and I like it! Her voice is used really well and this song is much, much better than Bad Liar.

This week, Hits 1 picked up two rap songs in the form of Rockstar, which is fantastic, and 1-800-something-or-other which is the Suicide Hotline Number. Why take this, instead of Unforgettable, or HUMBLE., Black Beatles or Congratulations earlier in the year? But this, I understand how people can love this song because of the lyrics which are fantastic. However, the whole feel of the song is awful. Logic and Khalid sound awful. Where was the Logic from Sucker For Pain? Definitely not here, where he sounds just like any other rapper. Khalid whining does not help anything. However, Alessia Cara saves the song from complete disaster.

Hit-Bound
For some extremely strange reason we lost Let Me Go
1. Zayn/Sia - Dusk Till Dawn
2. Post Malone/21 Savage - Rockstar (DEBUT)
3. Lauv - I Like Me Better
4. Dua Lipa - New Rules
5. Taylor Swift - ...Ready For It?
6. Ed Sheeran - Perfect
7. The Script - Rain
8. Why Don't We - Something Different
9. Bebe Rexha/FGL - Meant To Be (DEBUT)
10. Niall Horan - Too Much To Ask
11. Evaride - Heartless
12. Camila Cabello - Havana (DEBUT)
13. PrettyMuch - Would You Mind
14. Fergie/Nicki Minaj - You Already Know

I've been on a low I've been taking my blurbs
More trash in at the top. Wonderful! I will not be wasting any more time on you.

However, entering the top 10 we have Thunder and Save Me A Place which I will gladly have over any other song in the top 10. Praying and SJLT at #1 would be fantastic also.

At #8, though, we have P!nk - What About Us. I can say that I officially cannot stand this song. It took quite a few weeks of hearing it on and on and on on the radio that the song has become increasingly and increasingly annoying to listen to. Please, stay out of the top 5.

Stay and Believer out of the top 10 is not surprising, but Taylor Swift returning to her debut spot made my week! This song is awful and is only liked since it is Taylor Swift.

Thankfully, Sweat managed to crack the top 20 pretty quickly, a feat too hard for some other fantastic songs earlier this year.

How on earth did Love So Soft jump so quickly? How on earth is this getting any recognition at all? How is Kelly Clarkson popular at all? Honestly, this continent has issues.

What Lovers Do will probably recover next week anyway.

Wow! Give Love really was a flop!

This seems like the end of the road for Lights Down Low and Hoodie. Hoodie will make my year-end list 100%, maybe even on my personal chart. Lights Down Low is a really good contender for my favourite song of 2017.

If we have a look at the exits, Honest had to go. Champion leaving was sad, since it was a fantastic alt-rock song that deserved much better since it is Fall Out Boy. Finally, Heavy, from Linkin Park and Kiiara, leaves. This was a fantastic song and is the most beautiful suicide note I have ever heard. RIP Chester and you will be remembered!

Top 5:
1. Feel It Still
2. LIghts Down Low
3. Save Me A Place
4. Why
5. Fetish

Bottom 5:
1. Love So Soft
2. The Cure
3. TNHMB
4. Strip That Down
5. Galway Girl

#1 recommendation for Hits 1: Karl Wolf - Secret
Throwback of the week: Collective Soul - The World I Know
Most missed countdown song: OneRepublic - I Lived