Big Gigantic (1) - Week #30

 

And so we have reached the 30th week of 2016. Truthfully, I don't know what that means. But I would like to say that next week on Friday, I will be leaving for Florida for eight days. I will probably do this blog on Thursday, or early on Friday. Or else I will do two blogs when I come back, which will be really unrealistic, since my opinion will not change within an hour. We'll see. But for now, we have quite a bit of debuts because of our ten-song Hit-Bound week in week #29. This is the 11th song to reach #1. As for our exits, I change the channel each time I hear them, if that tells you something.

Exits: 

Kent Jones - Don't Mind (#20)

Charlie Puth/Selena Gomez - We Don't Talk Anymore (#21)

DNCE - Toothbrush (#32)

Iggy Azalea - Team (#38)

Pitbull/Enrique Iglesias - Messin' Around (#41)

MAGIC!/Sean Paul - Lay You Down Easy (#44)

Elle King - America's Sweetheart (#45)

Meghan Trainor - Me Too (#47)

#1 song last week: Twenty One Pilots - Heathens [2nd week @ #1]

50. Troye Sivan - Youth (RE-ENTRY)[x3]

49. Justin Timberlake - Can<t Stop The Feeling (#49)

48. Mike Posner/SeeB - I Took A Pill In Ibiza (#50)

47. G-Eazy/Bebe Rexha - Me, Myself, And I (#42)

46. The Strumbellas - Spirits (#46)

45. Troye Sivan/Alessia Cara - Wild (DEBUT)

44. X Ambassadors - Unsteady (#42)

43. Alesso/Nico & Vinz - I Wanna Know (DEBUT)

42. Grace/G-Eazy - You Don't Own Me (#36)

41. Flo Rida/Jason Derulo - Hello Friday (#37)

40. P!nk - Just Like Fire (#40)

39. Nick Jonas/Tove Lo - Close (#34)

38. The Summer Set - Figure Me Out (#29)

37. Twenty One Pilots - Stressed Out (#49)[8 weeks]

36. Adele - I Miss You (#30)

35. Halsey - Colours (#31)

34. Lukas Graham - Mama Said (DEBUT)

33. Twenty One Pilots - Ride (#28)

32. The Lumineers - Ophelia (#33)

31. All Time Low - Missing You (#11)

30. Timeflies - Once In A While (#27)

29. Twenty One Pilots - Doubt (#25) [3 weeks]

28. Ben Rector - Brand New (#22)

27. Jordan Fisher - All About Us (#39)

26. The Lonely Island/Adam Levine - I'm So Humble (#19)

25. OneRepublic - Wherever I Go (#24)

24. Bebe Rexha/Nicki Minaj - No Broken Hearts (#14)

23. The Chainsmokers/Daya - Don't Let Me Down (#35)[x2][2 weeks]

22. Shawn Mendes - Treat You Better (#26)

21. Adele - Send My Love (To Your New Lover)(#23)

20. MAGIC! - Red Dress (#18)

19. Demi Lovato - Body Say (DEBUT)

18. Hedley - Lose Control (#12)

17. Alan Walker - Faded (#13)

16. Sia/Sean Paul - Cheap Thrills (#16)

15. AJR - I'm Not Famous (#8)

14. Ariana Grande - Touch It (DEBUT)

13. Sia - Unstoppable (#9)

12. Simple Plan - Singing In The Rain (#2)

11. Jacob Whitesides - Lovesick (#7)

10. Alessia Cara - Scars To Your Beautiful (DEBUT)

9. Coldplay/Beyoncé - Hymn For The Weekend (DEBUT)

8. Disturbed - The Sound Of Silence (#6)

7. Ariana Grande - Into You (#4)

6. Sonreal - Can I Get A Witness (#3)[1 week]

5. Goo Goo Dolls - So Alive (#17)

4. Flume/Kai - Never Be Like You (#5)

3. Glenn Morrison/Evalyn - I'm The King (#15)

2. Twenty One Pilots - Heathens (#1)[2 weeks]

1. Big Gigantic/Angela McCluskey - The Little Things (#10)[1st week @ #1]

Biggest jump of the week: Tie between: Glenn Morrison/Evalyn - I'm The King; Goo Goo Dolls - So Alive; The Chainsmokers/Daya - Don't Let Me Down; Jordan Fisher - All About Us; Twenty One Pilots - Stressed Out (+12)

Biggest drop of the week: All Time Low - Missing You (-20)

Comment on debuts (7) and re-entry:

I had to find some re-entry to replace all the garbage that was exiting the countdown this week and that song turned out to be Youth.

Let's start with an artist who has two songs debuting on the countdown, Alessia Cara. To start off, Wild is a great song with a cool beat, and her and Troye Sivan work as well together as if they were a duo and not solo artists. This song is so low because simply I didn't listen to it a lot yet. He second song, however, is spectacular. I didn't even know that she had a voice like that. In songs like Here and Wild Things, her voice is somewhat annoying, unlike in Scars To Your Beautiful. I never really was a fan of Alessia Cara's, but I think that now I am.

What's next? I Wanna Know? Ok, I guess this song is cool, except I only listened to it through once. All the other times I cought it at mid-way on the radio. So this song has two options: either it leaves us next week, or jumps up like mad.

Mama Said is so much better than 7 Years! I was one of the few who didn't like 7 Years from the get-go, and now Lukas Graham has stepped up to produce this awesome song! I actually like the children's voices in this song. The only disastrous part of this song is the final chorus, where he raises his voice horribly. If I were the lead singer of this band, I would forget raising his voice for all this band's future songs because so far n h=their two singles, raising his voice hasn't worked.

Body Say's lyrics shows that Demi Lovato has changed and has become like all the female artists nowadays. Pity. I actually liked her as a Disney star. But we'll forget it. I guess Body Say is her best song post-Disney, because all her other music post-Disney is complete garbage. This song has a catchy beat and I guess that's all I can say.

Ariana Grande has gone from one of my least favourite artists to one of my favourite. Her album Dangerous Woman is one of the best female artist albums now. I was scanning her album this week to see if any new good songs came up, and I was just passing I Don't Care, a horrible song, by the way, and then a song later I heard Touch It. I was shocked that she could come up with a song this great. This song is easily her best ever and if she continues this way it will be only upwards from here.

Last and definitely not in the least least, we have Coldplay, one of my okay bands, coming back with Hymn For The Weekend. This is a song similar to Victorious, not in the actual song, but in how I came about listening to it. I recognized both these songs five months before I actually listened to them. Then, I loved them so much and they debuted in the top 10. Victorious flopped, staying 6 weeks on the countdown, but I assure all of you that Hymn For The Weekend won't. I have a higher opinion of this song than I did of Figure Me Out, or Stressed Out, even, when I first listened to these songs. This is an amazing song.
 
Hit-Bound:

Katy Perry - Rise

John Newman - Olé

Olly Murs - You Don't Know Love 
Fifth Harmony - All In My Head (Flex) (DEBUT)
Major Lazer/Justin Bieber/MO - Cold Water (DEBUT) 
Britney Spears/G-Eazy - Make Me...(DEBUT)
Lil' Wayne/Wiz Khalifa/Imagine Dragons - Sucker For Pain (DEBUT)