Week of February 13, 2021 - Dua Lipa/DaBaby (3)

Dua Lipa/DaBaby (3)

Hey guys! So I’m just going to remind you guys quickly that you only have two days left to submit for my rankdown! If you think you need a small extension of time, just let me know right now. Also, Keaton, if you’re reading this, you need to add Bitter, or else I can’t accept your submission. Sorry. As for this week’s countdown, it was… fine. There were definitely some bad jumps and drops, but the best part is easily our exits. Here’s our list.

Songs We’re Saying Goodbye To

Deep End - Fousheé (#25) [#25] {1 week}

Overwhelmed - Royal & the Serpent (#21) [#21] {6 weeks} [x2]

Last Week’s #1: Levitating - Dua Lipa/DaBaby (2)

#30: Lifestyle - Jason Derulo/Adam Levine (-1) [#29] {3 weeks}

#29: Fly Away - Tones And I (+1) [#29] {2 weeks} *new peak*

#28: Fix It to Break It - Clinton Kane (-) [#28] {2 weeks}

#27: I’m not Pretty - JESSIA (DEBUT) [1 week in Hit-Bound] {1 week}

#26: Heat Waves - Glass Animals (-) [#26] {3 weeks}

#25: Go Crazy - Chris Brown/Young Thug (-5) [#20] {8 weeks}

#24: WITHOUT YOU - The Kid LAROI (-) [#24] {2 weeks}

#23: What You Know Bout Love - Pop Smoke (-6) [#17] {17 weeks}

#22: forget me too - Machine Gun Kelly/Halsey (DEBUT) [2 weeks in Hit-Bound] {1 week}

#21: My Head & My Heart - Ava Max (+6) [#21] {3 weeks} *new peak*

#20: Anyone - Justin Bieber (+2) [#20] {5 weeks} *new peak*

#19: Diamonds - Sam Smith (-4) [#6] {21 weeks}

#18: Lie Lie Lie - Joshua Bassett (+1) [#18] {3 weeks} *new peak*

#17: Put Your Records On - Ritt Momney (+1) [#15] {14 weeks}

#16: Afterglow - Ed Sheeran (-5) [#11] {7 weeks}

#15: positions - Ariana Grande (-1) [#2] {16 weeks}

#14: Lasting Lover - Sigala/James Arthur (+9) [#14] {7 weeks} *new peak*

#13: Lonely - Justin Bieber/benny blanco (+3) [#13] {13 weeks} *new peak*

#12: Prisoner - Miley Cyrus/Dua Lipa (-2) [#10] {12 weeks}

#11: Save Your Tears - The Weeknd (+1) [#11] {13 weeks} *new peak*

#10: you broke me first - Tate McRae (-1) [#7] {20 weeks}

#9: Treat People With Kindness - Harry Styles (+4) [#9] {5 weeks} *new peak*

#8: 34+35 - Ariana Grande (-) [#8] {5 weeks}

#7: willow - Taylor Swift (-) [#7] {8 weeks}

#6: Monsters - All Time Low/Demi Lovato/blackbear (-2) [4 weeks at #1] {22 weeks}

#5: Therefore I Am - Billie Eilish (-) [#3] {13 weeks}

#4: my ex’s best friend - Machine Gun Kelly/blackbear (-2) [#2] {20 weeks}

#3: drivers license - Olivia Rodrigo (-) [#3] {5 weeks}

#2: Golden - Harry Styles (+4) [3 weeks at #1] {16 weeks}

#1: Levitating - Dua Lipa/DaBaby (-) [3rd week at #1] {18 weeks}

Last Year’s #1: Adore You - Harry Styles [1/10 weeks at #1]

Countdown Extra: Goosebumps (Remix) - Travis Scott/HVME

So JESSIA’s now our newest One to Watch, after iann dior, which feels like a while ago. Anyways, she debuts this week with her new song, I’m not Pretty. This song’s pretty good. It’s very catchy and the production’s pretty cool. She also sounds good here too. The only issue that I have with this song is that the lyrics are a little weird, but not too much and overall, this song is still really good. Yeah, I hope this song does well and doesn’t leave the second it stops being the One to Watch.

So Machine Gun Kelly brings his second song from his album Tickets To My Downfall onto the Countdown this week. It’s called forget me too and it features Halsey. This song’s pretty great. It’s honestly just a whole lot of fun. Personally, I think that my ex’s best friend is better, but that could definitely change. Both Machine Gun Kelly and Halsey sound pretty great here and they sound surprisingly good together. The instrumentation here is also really good and the heavy electric guitar actually fits well in my opinion. Great song; I hope this does well here.

Best Debut: forget me too - Machine Gun Kelly/Halsey

Biggest DROP!!!: What You Know Bout Love - Pop Smoke (-6): Oh, come on. Did it really need to drop from its biggest jump last week? This deserves to be a hit.

Biggest Jump: Lasting Lover - Sigala/James Arthur (+9): Wooh! Top 15 for this song, awesome! I honestly didn’t think that this would be a hit here.

Countdown Ranking

0 - Crap:

NONE!

1 - Bad:

#30: Golden - Harry Styles

#29: Therefore I Am - Billie Eilish

2 - Mediocre:

#28: Fly Away - Tones And I

#27: Put Your Records On - Ritt Momney

#26: Lonely - Justin Bieber/benny blanco

3 - Decent:

#25: 34+35 - Ariana Grande

#24: Heat Waves - Glass Animals

4 - Good:

#23: Diamonds - Sam Smith

#22: Prisoner - Miley Cyrus/Dua Lipa

#21: you broke me first - Tate McRae

#20: Lifestyle - Jason Derulo/Adam Levine

#19: willow - Taylor Swift

#18: Treat People With Kindness - Harry Styles

#17: I’m not Pretty - JESSIA

#16: Afterglow - Ed Sheeran

#15: What You Know Bout Love - Pop Smoke

5 - Great:

#14: Fix It to Break It - Clinton Kane

#13: Go Crazy - Chris Brown/Young Thug

#12: Anyone - Justin Bieber

#11: Lie Lie Lie - Joshua Bassett

#10: forget me too - Machine Gun Kelly/Halsey

#9: positions - Ariana Grande

#8: my ex’s best friend - Machine Gun Kelly/blackbear

#7: drivers license - Olivia Rodrigo

#6: Monsters - All Time Low/Demi Lovato/blackbear

#5: Levitating - Dua Lipa/DaBaby

#4: Save Your Tears - The Weeknd

#3: Lasting Lover - Sigala/James Arthur

#2: My Head & My Heart - Ava Max

#1: WITHOUT YOU - The Kid LAROI

Overall Score: 120/150 = 80%

5 Oldest Songs

#5: What You Know Bout Love - Pop Smoke {17 weeks}

#4: Levitating - Dua Lipa/DaBaby {18 weeks}

#3: you broke me first - Tate McRae & my ex’s best friend - Machine Gun Kelly/blackbear {20 weeks}

#2: Diamonds - Sam Smith {21 weeks}

#1: Monsters - All Time Low/Demi Lovato/blackbear {22 weeks}

#1 Recommendation for Hits 1: If You Love Her - Forest Blakk

My Favourite Song Last Year: Some Kind of Disaster - All Time Low

My Least Favourite Song Last Year: Say So - Doja Cat

Most Missed Countdown Song: Heavy - Linkin Park/Kiiara

Hit-Bound

Goosebumps (Remix) - Travis Scott/HVME [1]

Cry Over Boys - Alexander 23 [1]

SO DONE - The Kid LAROI [10]

Remember That Night? - Sara Kays [1]

Stay Next To Me - Quinn XCII/Chelsea Cutler [9]

cheers - blackbear/Wiz Khalifa [2]

Body - Megan Thee Stallion [9]

Girls Like Us - Zoe Wees [4]

Skin - Sabrina Carpenter [2; 2nd time*]

Good Days - SZA [3]

Momma Always Told Me - Mike Posner/Stanaj/Yung Bae [2]

Love Story (Taylor’s Version) - Taylor Swift [1]

Talk About Love - Zara Larsson/Young Thug [3]

rubberband - Tate McRae [2]

Best Friend - Saweetie/Doja Cat [2]

*Skipped Hit-Bound, so this is technically its first time around

Yeah, so there was this Travis Scott song from way back in 2016 called goosebumps that was a pretty big hit. Then, DJ HVME (pronounced Hume) made a remix of that song. Then, Travis Scott decided to make a remix of that remix and that’s what this song is. Goosebumps by Travis Scott and HVME. I’m still not entirely sure what the difference between this song and the version with just HVME is, but whatever. This song is mediocre. Travis’ voice is pitched down weirdly, so that it’s very reminiscent of Ride It by Regard from last year and I really don’t like it. The production’s fine, but it’s nothing too interesting. This doesn’t really need to be a hit.

So there’s this new artist called Alexander 23 and he brings his new song, Cry Over Boys to Hit-Bound this week. This song’s decent. Alexander 23 sounds pretty good here, but the song overall is a little uninteresting. It doesn’t really build at all and the verses don’t have much substance to them. I still wouldn’t mind if this debuted though.

So there’s this song that I’ve known about for a bit now, because it was played on The Pulse for a bit on Pat Monahan of Train’s show. Anyways, it’s called Remember That Night? and it’s by Sara Kays. This song’s only slightly more interesting than Cry Over Boys because the chorus has a little more substance to it and it’s written pretty well. But this song can get kind of boring too.

So this is a bit of a weird situation. So we’ve known for a while that Taylor Swift was going to start re-recording all of her old albums due to ownership issues, but now she’s released the first song from her re-recorded version of Fearless, which is going to come out on April 9th. But what I didn’t realize is that she’s actually gonna be sending some of the re-recorded songs to radio. So now we have a new version of Love Story on Hit-Bound and it sounds pretty much exactly like the original. Which was totally the point and I’m quite surprised that she could get it to sound so similar, but it makes for a weird radio situation. It’s over whether this would be classified as a debut or a re-entry. I’m classifying it as a debut, because even if I classified it as a re-entry, I wouldn’t have the data to know how many weeks it’s spent on the Countdown or its peak. So I’m just classifying it as a debut. Anyways, onto the actual song. This is easily one of the best Taylor Swift songs. It’s got a cool storyline, she sounds great here (even better on the new version, because her voice has matured) and it’s quite catchy. The best part is the key change though. I’m really happy that this is here and I hope that it debuts the Countdown soon.

Best Debut: Love Story (Taylor’s Version) - Taylor Swift

Hit-Bound Ranking

0 - Crap:

#15: Body - Megan Thee Stallion

1 - Bad:

#14: Best Friend - Saweetie/Doja Cat

2 - Mediocre:

#13: Goosebumps (Remix) - Travis Scott/HVME

#12: Good Days - SZA

3 - Decent:

#11: rubberband - Tate McRae

#10: Girls Like Us - Zoe Wees

#9: Cry Over Boys - Alexander 23

4 - Good:

#8: Skin - Sabrina Carpenter

#7: Remember That Night? - Sara Kays

#6: Talk About Love - Zara Larsson/Young Thug

#5: Momma Always Told Me - Mike Posner/Stanaj/Yung Bae

#4: cheers - blackbear/Wiz Khalifa

5 - Great:

#3: Stay Next To Me - Quinn XCII/Chelsea Cutler

#2: Love Story (Taylor’s Version) - Taylor Swift

#1: SO DONE - The Kid LAROI

Overall Score: 49/75 = 65%

So You Want Me to Forget Blurbs? Okay, Forget Blurbs Too

We lost two songs off of the Countdown this week, Deep End and Overwhelmed. I’m super glad that Deep End only spent a week on the Countdown. It was terrible and didn’t deserve to debut. As for Overwhelmed, it wasn’t that great and I don’t care that it’s gone.

Our Hit-Bound exits were Lotus Inn and Goodbye. I really don’t care that much that Lotus Inn is gone and did Goodbye really only spend one week on the Countdown? Seriously? We’ve already had two one-weekers and we're literally only on the second week of February.

Go Crazy dropped from its jump last week. Does this seriously have to flop? I mean, come on.

Ayyyy My Head & My Heart making huge gains, we love to see it.

Diamonds can leave aaaany time now.

Yeah, so for some reason, Afterglow decided to drop. I really hope it doesn’t keep dropping.

So yeah, The Weeknd did his Super Bowl performance last week and it was really good. He really used the entire stadium, which was awesome and a lot of the visuals were honestly really cool. Especially when he had all of those dancers out on the field when he was doing Blinding Lights. He did pretty much all of his big hits and he sounded great in all of them. Overall, it was just a really fantastic performance. Definitely better than last year’s (J-Lo and Shakira).

Yeah, so Treat People With Kindness is in the top 10 now. I guess it’s only a matter of time before this hits #1… that’s fine, just as long as it doesn’t stick around for too long.

Speaking of Harry Styles, Golden is back up to #2 this week. I really hope that this doesn’t hit #1 again.

How Hits 1 Songs Are Doing on the Hot 100

#1: drivers license - Olivia Rodrigo

#2: Mood - 24kGoldn/iann dior

#3: Blinding Lights - The Weeknd

#4: 34+35 - Ariana Grande

#5: Levitating - Dua Lipa/DaBaby

#6: Go Crazy - Chris Brown/Young Thug

#7: positions - Ariana Grande

#8: Save Your Tears - The Weeknd

#9: Holy - Justin Bieber/Chance the Rapper

#11: Good Days - SZA

#12: Lonely - Justin Bieber/benny blanco

#13: What You Know Bout Love - Pop Smoke

#14: Therefore I Am - Billie Eilish

#16: Bang! - AJR

#19: I Hope - Gabby Barrett/Charlie Puth

#20: Body - Megan Thee Stallion

#22: Lemonade - Internet Money/Gunna/Don Toliver/NAV

#23: you broke me first - Tate McRae

#24: Laugh Now Cry Later - Drake/Lil Durk

#25: my ex’s best friend - Machine Gun Kelly/blackbear

#28: Anyone - Justin Bieber

#29: willow - Taylor Swift

#34: Before You Go - Lewis Capaldi

#35: 7 Summers - Morgan Wallen

#41: Kings & Queens - Ava Max

#42: Best Friend - Saweetie/Doja Cat

#44: ROCKSTAR - DaBaby/Roddy Ricch

#45: Afterglow - Ed Sheeran

#46: Dynamite - BTS

#49: Whats Poppin (Remix) - Jack Harlow/Tory Lanez/DaBaby/Lil Wayne

#50: Put Your Records On - Ritt Momney

#52: WITHOUT YOU - The Kid LAROI

#59: Diamonds - Sam Smith

#61: Golden - Harry Styles

#63: Goosebumps (Remix) - Travis Scott/HVME

#64: Monsters - All Time Low/Demi Lovato/blackbear

#78: SO DONE - The Kid LAROI

#80: HOLIDAY - Lil Nas X

#85: Monster - Shawn Mendes/Justin Bieber

#86: Heat Waves - Glass Animals

#89: Skin - Sabrina Carpenter

#97: Prisoner - Miley Cyrus/Dua Lipa

Top 10 on the Hunger Games Countdown

#10: Hate The Way - G-Eazy/blackbear

#9: Fly Away - Tones And I

#8: drivers license - Olivia Rodrigo

#7: Golden - Harry Styles

#6: Haunt You - X Lovers/chloe moriondo

#5: Prisoner - Miley Cyrus/Dua Lipa

#4: Goodbye - Shaylen

#3: Blueberry Eyes - MAX/SUGA

#2: 34+35 - Ariana Grande

#1: going out - ROLE MODEL

Top 10 If the Countdown Made Sense

#10: Go Crazy - Chris Brown/Young Thug

#9: my ex’s best friend - Machine Gun Kelly/blackbear

#8: Put Your Records On - Ritt Momney

#7: you broke me first - Tate McRae

#6: drivers license - Olivia Rodrigo

#5: Therefore I Am - Billie Eilish

#4: Levitating - Dua Lipa/DaBaby

#3: positions - Ariana Grande

#2: Lonely - Justin Bieber/benny blanco

#1: 34+35 - Ariana Grande

Kwaheri, everybody! See you in the next one.