Hello, friends! It's always nice to be back. Anyways, my final Year-End post will be coming out this week (or at least, I sure hope so, because I'm gone all July), so look for that in the coming few days. But before we get ahead of ourselves, let's take a look at Hits 1 from the past month! Remember that I've been constantly updating the Weekend Countdown on the tab above, so if you ever want to know early what some of my opinions are, go check that out (but not for next month, because I'm gone). I've also been including a blurb of the week, as well as an interesting title for each week, just in case you've been missing some of my charm. Anyways, let's get into it!
Debuts
Devil Doesn't Bargain - Alec Benjamin
Get Into It (Yuh) - Doja Cat
i feel everything - Amelia Moore
I Like You (A Happier Song) - Post Malone/Doja Cat
I Love U - The Chainsmokers
Jiggle Jiggle - Duke & Jones/Louis Theroux
Late Night Talking - Harry Styles
Numb - Marshmello/Khalid
Potion - Calvin Harris/Dua Lipa/Young Thug
SKIN OF MY TEETH - Demi Lovato
So Good - Halsey
Until I Found You - Stephen Sanchez
Viva Las Vengeance - Panic! At The Disco
Wrapped Around Your Finger - Post Malone
- Devil Doesn't Bargain is easily the best Alec Benjamin song I've ever heard. Sure, he still sounds like he's 13, but those melodies are incredible and the production is nothing short of fantastic. I'd love to see this do well here.
- After spending three weeks in Hit-Bound last year, then way too long in the Abyss this year, Get Into It (Yuh) finally debuted... and spent one week on the Countdown before leaving. Seriously? Anyways, this song is fun, but it's gotten kind of old, because I've known about it for a while.
- Amelia Moore is our newest One to Watch, and she brings us i feel everything, which is... not great. Her voice is a little grating in the chorus, and the rest isn't that interesting.
- Post Malone and Doja Cat teamed up on I Like You, which is a great song that's much more upbeat than the rest of the Twelve Carat Toothache singles. Super fun, both artists do great here, +10 bonus points for that awesome outro. Just a great song overall.
- After spending a while in the Abyss, The Chainsmokers' I Love U debuted last week. Not too interesting, but a really enjoyable song.
- Possibly the stupidest song ever, Jiggle Jiggle by Duke & Jones and british journalist Louis Theroux debuted. Not sure why this song was made, as it's ridiculously stupid, but it's just so much fun, I love it. The production is also kinda great? Yeah, I shouldn't love this, but I do (also it CRUSHED the record for the shortest song to reach the Countdown, at 1:37).
- The second single from Harry's House, Late Night Talking also debuted. While I personally think Music For a Sushi Restaurant is better, and would've made for a better single, this song is still a bop, and I'd love to see it do well here... and I mean, it's Harry Styles, so is that even in question?
- Marshmello and Khalid's new song Numb is SO GOOD! It's so catchy, I can't.
- Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa and Young Thug's Potion debuted, left and re-entered this month, and seems to be holding steady now. I like it, but it feels like it has potential to be much better. It's just not all that memorable.
- Demi Lovato returned with SKIN OF MY TEETH, which is just a full-on pop-punk song. This is fine. The chorus is pretty catchy, and I like the production, but it's not all that memorable. Probably why it only spent a week here.
- Halsey's new song So Good already feels nostalgic for whatever reason, and I love it. I also like how it kinda tells a story, which is something that I wish more songs would do. I'd love to see this do super well.
- Until I Found You is really really bad and I hope it doesn't re-enter.
- In the past few months, I've gotten really into Panic! At The Disco's stuff, and I've heard all of their songs now, so I was pretty excited to see that Viva Las Vengeance was coming out. It's definitely not their best, but it's fun and catchy, and it's always nice to see Brendon return.
- Apparently Hits 1 got confused and thought that Wrapped Around Your Finger was the big Post Malone single, and well... it wasn't, but it's still a solid song.
Best Debut of the Month: So Good - Halsey
Exits
COMPLETE MESS - 5 Seconds of Summer [#5] {12 weeks}
Cooped Up - Post Malone/Roddy Ricch [#25] {3 weeks}
Enemy - Imagine Dragons/JID [6 weeks at #1] {20 weeks}
Flowers - Lauren Spencer-Smith [#19] {4 weeks}
Freaky Deaky - Tyga/Doja Cat [#15] {10 weeks}
Get Into It (Yuh) - Doja Cat [#28] {1 week}
Honest - Justin Bieber/Don Toliver [#27] {5 weeks}
Love It When You Hate Me - Avril Lavigne/blackbear [#3] {17 weeks}
Move - DNCE [#20] {3 weeks}
she's all i wanna be - Tate McRae [#5] {18 weeks}
SKIN OF MY TEETH - Demi Lovato [#29] {1 week}
Skyline - Khalid [#17] {7 weeks}
TO THE MOON - Jnr Choi/Sam Tompkins [#21] {10 weeks}
Until I Found You - Stephen Sanchez [#21] {2 weeks}
Wrapped Around Your Finger - Post Malone [#25] {1 week}
- COMPLETE MESS faded on me pretty quickly, so I'm not sad at all that it's gone.
- Cooped Up was great, but kinda forgettable, so I'm not surprised that it wasn't a hit, although I really want Roddy to get another pop hit. He's so good, you guys.
- I'm really satisfied with how well Enemy did here. It had a great run, and I hope that Bones can match it.
- Honestly, Flowers should still be here, and there's no reason Hits 1 should've dropped it, especially because of how good it is.
- Freaky Deaky should've done much better here.
- Okay, seriously, though, one week for Get Into It (Yuh)? The song is top 10 on the pop charts, yet it was only good enough for one week on Hits 1? Come on.
- Glad to see the world figured out that Honest is bad (although, I do hope that Justin Bieber gets better. That's really unfortunate, and I wish him and his family the best).
- Wait... Love It When You Hate Me left this month? Ok then.
- Oh yeah, haha, Move was a song.
- I'm happy that she's all i wanna be ended up peaking in the top five, but it shouldn't have left so quickly.
- Yeah, SKIN OF MY TEETH wasn't all that memorable, so I don't care that it's gone for good.
- Skyline deserved better, it was really fun. It fell everywhere really quickly because of Numb, and while I agree that that's a better song, Skyline is still really good.
- Oh, yeah, also, TO THE MOON should still be here. It deserved better.
- I'm beyond happy that Until I Found You only spent two weeks on the Countdown, because it is not a radio song.
- Hits 1 figured themselves out with Wrapped Around Your Finger, don't worry.
Best Exit: Enemy - Imagine Dragons/JID (yeah, I got tired of it too, but it's still my favourite of the bunch)
Top 10 Hits 1 Songs from June 2022
#10: Bam Bam - Camila Cabello/Ed Sheeran (-) [#9]
#9: Numb Little Bug - Em Beihold (-5) [#3]
#8: Sweetest Pie - Megan Thee Stallion/Dua Lipa (-6) [#6]
#7: Bones - Imagine Dragons (new) [#7]
#6: When You're Gone - Shawn Mendes (+2) [#5]
#5: Boyfriend - Dove Cameron (-2) [#5]
#4: Sunroof - Nicky Youre/dazy (new) [#2]
#3: 2step - Ed Sheeran/Lil Baby (+4) [#3]
#2: About Damn Time - Lizzo (new) [#2]
#1: As It Was - Harry Styles (-) [4 weeks at #1]
- Lmao, Bam Bam has been #10 for both May and June. It's really hovering in the low top 10, isn't it? Which is fitting, that's about where I'd place it.
- I'm glad Numb Little Bug ended up coming back to the top five, but it's plummeting way too fast for my comfort right now. This song is really good, and it doesn't deserve this.
- Sweetest Pie is still annoying, but #8 of the month is more tolerable than #2 of the month.
- Ayy, nice to see Bones getting some success here. I'd love to see it do even better here (yes, I know I'm a basic Nathan for liking Imagine Dragons but whatever).
- When You're Gone has reached the top five, which is awesome. It's so much fun, I've been listening to it so much this past month.
- I'm still fading on Boyfriend, but I haven't gotten outright sick of it yet, so this is fine.
- Ope. I guess Sunroof is a thing now. I'm definitely not complaining, because it's a great song, but this was definitely unexpected to say the least.
- I can't explain how much I want 2step to be a huge hit. It deserves to be bigger than Shivers (HITS 1: I AM NOT ASKING FOR 15 WEEKS AT #1. THAT IS EXCESSIVE. NO SONG DESERVES THAT).
- About Damn Time is so much fun and I'm glad it didn't end up flopping. I really want this to hit #1 on the Countdown, but I don't see that happening, because Hits 1 is Hits 1.
- And of course, As It Was dominated the #1 spot for the entire month. The song's starting to fade on me, but it's still solid, so I'm not complaining that much. Just as long as we can switch it up soon.
Hit-Bound Debuts
a letter to me - Dixie
Angry Woman - Ashe
Baby Boo - Muni Long/Saweetie
Booty - Saucy Santana/Latto
Breakfast - Dove Cameron
Carolina - Taylor Swift
die first - Nessa Barrett
Disaster - Conan Gray
DON'T YOU WORRY - Black Eyed Peas/Shakira/David Guetta
Dress - Charlotte Sands
Falling Back - Drake
Glimpse of Us - Joji
Goodbye - Mimi Webb
Grrrls - Lizzo
Left and Right - Charlie Puth/Jung Kook
Life's Too Short (English Version) - aespa
Only You - Eddie Benjamin/Alessia Cara
sheluvme - Tai Verdes
Something to Someone - Dermot Kennedy
Twinkle Twinkle Little Bitch - Leah Kate
Want Want - Maggie Rogers
- a letter to me is really boring and uninteresting. This shouldn't have replaced Wild.
- Yeah, I'm not a huge Ashe fan. The lyrics and message in Angry Woman are great, but I'm just not a huge fan of Ashe.
- Baby Boo is a bop, and this song should be actually doing something on radio.
- Booty is also a bop, and I love the Crazy In Love sample (which is probably a sample of something else, but I'm too lazy to look it up).
- Is Dove Cameron's whole vibe just "spy"? Ok then.
- Carolina is good, but I'm still waiting for a 1989 vault track to be a bop and a half and blow everyone away.
- die first is typical Nessa Barrett, except, contrary to what the title would have you think, it's actually a love song. Cool.
- Disaster is SO GOOD, and if Hits 1 lets this flop, I will have some WORDS to say.
- DON'T YOU WORRY sounds like it came right out of 2006, and I don't mean that as a compliment. At least it's better than GIRL LIKE ME.
- After Hits 1 ignoring it for way too long, Dress by Charlotte Sands is finally here! This is a good song, and I'd love to see it do well here.
- Drake released a surprise album, Honestly, Nevermind, a couple weeks ago. I've never listened to a Drake album in full, but I did for this one, and it was actually really good. Every song was pretty dance-y, and I loved it. I don't think any song would work very well as a single, but they're all good. Falling Back falls back in that category.
- I have no clue why Glimpse of Us blew up like it did, because... uh... (guys, it's bad. I'm not sure if you've been told that, but it's a bad song).
- Goodbye is a great Mimi Webb ballad, and I wish it was a hit.
- Apparently Lizzo's newest, Grrrls, had some controversy around it that's mostly cleared up now, but it probably tanked its chances of becoming a hit, which sucks, because it's a bop.
- A Charlie Puth / Jung Kook collaboration is something I never knew I needed, but it's really catchy and great.
- Life's Too Short is good, even if not all that memorable.
- Only You is definitely better than Weatherman, but Eddie Benjamin is still annoying.
- I respect Tai Verdes for not staying a TikTok artist, even if his style right now isn't really my thing.
- Something to Someone was good and should've been here for more than a week.
- Even if the "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" melody takes me out of the new Leah Kate song a bit, the rest of it is SO GOOD,
- Want Want is just a solid, if forgettable, song.
Best Hit-Bound Debut: Disaster - Conan Gray
Hit-Bound Exits
100sadsongs - Tai Verdes
Best Lover - BIBI
don't come back - Tate McRae
Don't Lose Sight - Lawrence
Falling Back - Drake
gfy - blackbear/Machine Gun Kelly
Goodbye - Mimi Webb
Grrrls - Lizzo
MEAN! - Madeline The Person
No One Dies From Love - Tove Lo
Only You - Eddie Benjamin/Alessia Cara
Overthinking - Mabel/24kGoldn
P.G.N.L. - Conor Maynard
Something to Someone - Dermot Kennedy
Too Precious - Em Beihold
Want Want - Maggie Rogers
Wild - Dixie
Will It Ever Feel The Same? - Bazzi
- I literally can't remember what 100sadsongs sounds like.
- Yeah, Best Lover wasn't all that memorable, but I think it still deserved better than this.
- don't come back shouldn't have replaced what would you do?, and that should've been a hit.
- Don't Lose Sight was here for a ridiculously long time, so while it never ended up debuting, I'm fine with it being gone.
- Massive is actually getting played on the station now instead of Falling Back, so Hits 1 might've changed their minds.
- gfy was so good, it deserved better.
- Goodbye was also really good, so I'm sad I didn't get to hear much of it.
- I get why Grrrls didn't end up doing too well, but I'm disappointed nonetheless.
- MEAN! was really forgettable, so I'm not disappointed in the slightest.
- I've never been a huge Tove Lo fan, and No One Dies From Love did not change my mind.
- I can't remember what Only You sounds like, plus it was an Eddie Benjamin song, so I'm fine with it being gone.
- Overthinking probably deserved better than what it got.
- P.G.N.L. definitely deserved to debut, and I'm sad it was only in the Abyss for a week or two after it left.
- Not sure why Something to Someone only lasted a week, but it's okay. Outnumbered was better anyways.
- I never expected Too Precious to do well, so I'm not sad it's gone.
- Want Want seems to be in the Abyss, so I don't think it's fully gone quite yet. Will it debut? Probably not, but we'll see.
- Wild definitely shouldn't have been replaced by a letter to me.
- Will It Ever Feel The Same? was never that good, so I don't care that it's gone.
Best Hit-Bound Exit: Don't Lose Sight - Lawrence
So next up is a list of the songs that charted on Billboard's Pop Songs chart this month, but haven't reached the Countdown at all yet.
Songs That Hits 1 is Missing Out On
Don't Forget My Love - Diplo/Miguel
Don't Lose Sight - Lawrence
DON'T YOU WORRY - Black Eyed Peas/Shakira/David Guetta
Dress - Charlotte Sands
MAMIII - Becky G/KAROL G
Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) - Kate Bush
this is what falling in love feels like - JVKE
Wonderland - AleXa
- Yeah, I think Hits 1 has missed out on adding Don't Forget My Love to the Countdown, which is a shame, because it was a great song.
- Same with Don't Lose Sight.
- Yeah, that's okay, we don't need DON'T YOU WORRY on the Countdown.
- As I mentioned earlier, they finally picked up on Dress, so fingers crossed.
- MAMIII had some really great production, so I kinda wish it made its way to Hits 1, but it didn't, and that's ok.
- Um... so yeah, a song from 1985 is charting on pop radio. Why, you may ask? Actually, it's not TikTok this time. Well, ok, it's partially TikTok. But it's mostly because the song was featured in the fourth season of Stranger Things. And I never would've heard Running Up That Hill if it didn't become viral, so I'm glad it did, because it's a great song.
- Yeah, we don't need this is what falling in love feels like on the Countdown either. It's been in the Abyss for a long time, and I'd be ok if it stayed that way.
- Wonderland was fun, but not all too memorable.
Song Hits 1 Should Add to the Countdown: Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) - Kate Bush
Yeah, so that's it! As I did last month, I'll open up Q&A if there's anything you guys feel like asking me. But for now, kwaheri, everybody! See you all in the next one (hopefully this week!).