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!!!

45. John Legend - Love Me Now
Last Week: #45 | Peak: #09 | Weeks on Chart: 15

44. Daya - Words
Last Week: #42 | Peak: #21 | Weeks on Chart: 07

43. X Ambassadors - Unsteady
Last Week: #43 | Peak: #06 | Weeks on Chart: 49

42. Bebe Rexha - I Got You
Last Week: #13 | Peak: #13 | Weeks on Chart: 06

41. Coldplay/SeeB - Hymn For the Weekend
Last Week: #41 | Peak: #04 | Weeks on Chart: 31
40. Bruno Mars - 24K Magic
Last Week: #39 | Peak: #06 | Weeks on Chart: 23

39. Maroon 5 - Don't Wanna Know
Last Week: #30 | Peak: #01 | Weeks on Chart: 22

38. Niall Horan - This Town
Last Week: #34 | Peak: #02 | Weeks on Chart: 24

37. Ariana Grande/Nicki Minaj - Side to Side
Last Week: #24 | Peak: #10 | Weeks on Chart: 21

36. Panic! at the Disco - L.A. Devotee (DEBUT)
Last Week: #__ | Peak: #36 | Weeks on Chart: 01

35. Rihanna - Love on the Brain
Last Week: #40 | Peak: #21 | Weeks on Chart: 07

34. Linkin Park/Kiiara - Heavy (????????????)
Last Week: #19 | Peak: #18 | Weeks on Chart: 04

33. The Weeknd/Daft Punk - Starboy
Last Week: #31 | Peak: #05 | Weeks on Chart: 24

32. Twenty One Pilots - Heavydirtysoul (???????????????)
Last Week: #23 | Peak: #21 | Weeks on Chart: 07

31. Noah Cyrus/Labrinth - Make Me (Cry)
Last Week: #32 | Peak: #26 | Weeks on Chart: 04

30. Imagine Dragons - Believer (DEBUT)
Last Week: #__ | Peak: #30 | Weeks on Chart: 01

29. Shawn Mendes - Treat You Better
Last Week: #28 | Peak: #01 | Weeks on Chart: 39

28. Jon Bellion - All Time Low
Last Week: #27 | Peak: #05 | Weeks on Chart: 20

27. Hailee Steinfeld/Grey/Zedd - Starving
Last Week: #18 | Peak: #01 | Weeks on Chart: 27

26. DJ Snake/Justin Bieber - Let Me Love You
Last Week: #35 | Peak: #03 | Weeks on Chart: 26

25. Alessia Cara - Scars to Your Beautiful (???????????)
Last Week: #37 | Peak: #04 | Weeks on Chart: 22

24. James Hersey - Miss You
Last Week: #38 | Peak: #24 | Weeks on Chart: 02

23. Panic! at the Disco - Death of a Bachelor
Last Week: #25 | Peak: #07 | Weeks on Chart: 26

22. AJR - Weak
Last Week: #21 | Peak: #21 | Weeks on Chart: 03

21. Twenty One Pilots - Heathens
Last Week: #14 | Peak: #01 | Weeks on Chart: 32

20. The Weeknd/Daft Punk - I Feel it Coming
Last Week: #17 | Peak: #12 | Weeks on Chart: 09

19. Julia Michaels - Issues
Last Week: #26 | Peak: #17 | Weeks on Chart: 07

18. Steve Aoki/Louis Tomlinson - Just Hold On
Last Week: #05 | Peak: #05 | Weeks on Chart: 14

17. Fitz and the Tantrums - HandClap
Last Week: #04 | Peak: #02 | Weeks on Chart: 11

16. Zedd/Alessia Cara - Stay
Last Week: #22 | Peak: #16 | Weeks on Chart: 03

15. Ed Sheeran - Castle on the Hill (YES!!!!!)
Last Week: #33 | Peak: #15 | Weeks on Chart: 05

14. Kygo/Selena Gomez - It Ain't Me
Last Week: #15 | Peak: #14 | Weeks on Chart: 04

13. Train - Play That Song
Last Week: #12 | Peak: #10 | Weeks on Chart: 17

12. The Chainsmokers - Paris
Last Week: #20 | Peak: #12 | Weeks on Chart: 07

11. James Arthur - Say You Won't Let Go (?)
Last Week: #36 | Peak: #11 | Weeks on Chart: 15

10. Katy Perry/Skip Marley - Chained to the Rhythm
Last Week: #06 | Peak: #06 | Weeks on Chart: 05

09. Adele - Water Under the Bridge
Last Week: #10 | Peak: #05 | Weeks on Chart: 16

08. Lady Gaga - Million Reasons
Last Week: #08 | Peak: #08 | Weeks on Chart: 15

07. Machine Gun Kelly/Camila Cabello - Bad Things
Last Week: #11 | Peak: #05 | Weeks on Chart: 10

06. Shawn Mendes - Mercy
Last Week: #02 | Peak: #02 | Weeks on Chart: 11

05. Bruno Mars - That's What I Like
Last Week: #09 | Peak: #05 | Weeks on Chart: 06

04. Zayn/Taylor Swift - I Don't Wanna Live Forever (leave us!!!)
Last Week: #03 | Peak: #03 | Weeks on Chart: 14

03. Maroon 5 - Cold (wow)
Last Week: #16 | Peak: #03 | Weeks on Chart: 05

02. The Chainsmokers/Halsey - Closer (?)
Last Week: #07 | Peak: #01 | Weeks on Chart: 31

01. Ed Sheeran - Shape of You
Last Week: #01 | Peak: #01 | Weeks on Chart: 10

Biggest Drop: Bebe Rexha - I Got You (-29)
Biggest Jump: James Arthur - Say You Won't Let Go (+25)

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.