Jonas Brothers (1) - March 30, 2019

Sorry for skipping a week but welcome back. I had a lot going on for me last week so hopefully you guys understand. Nevertheless, we have quite a bit of activity on the countdown this week along with an undeserving exit and a long-anticipated one. Let's start with our exits.

• Sabrina Carpenter - Sue Me (#34)
• Backstreet Boys - Don't Go Breaking My Heart (#43)

Last Week's #1 Song: Panic! At The Disco - Hey Look Ma, I Made It
The Countdown
45. Charlie Puth - The Way I Am (#45)
44. Bebe Rexha - I'm A Mess (#44)
43. Maroon 5/Cardi B - Girls Like You (#41)
42. Khalid/Normani - Love Lies (#42)
41. Imagine Dragons - Natural (#33) [1 Week At #1]
40. Austin Brown - In Betweenin' (DEBUT)
39. Kelsy Karter - Harry (#39)
38. LSD/Lil Wayne - Genius (#35)
37. Madison Beer - Hurts Like Hell (#36)
36. Post Malone - Wow. (#40)
35. Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next (#28)
34. P!nk - Walk Me Home (DEBUT)
33. Jake Miller - Wait For You (#27)
32. Cardi B & Bruno Mars - Please Me (#31)
31. Zedd/Katy Perry - 365 (#38)
30. Grandson - Apologize (#26)
29. Anne-Marie - 2002 (#20)
28. 5 Seconds Of Summer - Youngblood (#25) [5 Weeks At #1]
27. Maren Morris - GIRL (#32)
26. Khalid - Better (#24)
25. Yungblud/Halsey/Travis Barker - 11 Minutes (#23)
24. Dan + Shay - Speechless (#21)
23. Meghan Trainor - All The Ways (#30)
22. Lil Peep/iLoveMakonnen/Fall Out Boy - I've Been Waiting (#29)
21. Lauv/Troye Sivan - I'm So Tired... (#18)
20. Kelsea Ballerini - Miss Me More (#17)
19. Post Malone/Swae Lee - Sunflower (#22)
18. Twenty One Pilots - Chlorine (#16)
17. Benny Blanco/Halsey/Khalid - Eastside (#13)
16. Lady Gaga/Bradley Cooper - Shallow (#37)
15. Sam Smith/Normani - Dancing With A Stranger (#15)
14. Dan + Shay - Tequila (#12)
13. The Chainsmokers/Kelsea Ballerini - This Feeling (#7) [7 Weeks At #1]
12. Alec Benjamin - Let Me Down Slowly (#4) (Oompf.)
11. Marshmello/Bastille - Happier (#6) [2 Weeks At #1]
10. Ellie Goulding x Diplo - Close To Me (#9)
9. Imagine Dragons - Bad Liar (#19)
8. Ariana Grande - 7 Rings (#11)
7. Dean Lewis - Be Alright (#8)
6. Halsey - Without Me (#5) [5 Weeks At #1]
5. The Chainsmokers/5 Seconds Of Summer - Who Do You Love (#14)
4. Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes (#10) [8 Weeks At #1]
3. Ava Max - Sweet But Psycho (#3)
2. Panic! At The Disco - Hey Look Ma, I Made It (#1) (I didn't click the wrong color.) [3 Weeks At #1]
1. Jonas Brothers - Sucker (#2) [1st Week At #1]

#1 Song on the Weekend Countdown 1 Year Ago: Zedd & Maren Morris/Grey - The Middle

Biggest DROP!!!... Of The Week: Anne-Marie - 2002 (-9)

Biggest Jump Of The Week: Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - Shallow (+21)

New Entrants

• Kicking off our entrants with newcomer Austin Brown and his single called In Betweenin'. To be honest, I don't know what to think about this. It's pretty good in some factors but horrible in others. It's obviously better than Mean but just isn't very good but not bad either. Overall, this is decent but this can change anytime soon.
• We have the return of P!nk with her song, Walk Me Home. This song has great vocals and content like P!nk's other music. I love the production behind this as it is something we haven't seen much from P!nk. This obviously isn't her best work like So What, Just Like Fire, and What About Us but this is something that I hope becomes a hit.

Best Debut of the Week: P!nk - Walk Me Home

HitBound
This is the HitBound list for this week.

• Bebe Rexha - Last Hurrah
• Marshmello/CHVRCHES - Here With Me
• Louis Tomlinson - Two of Us
• Billie Eilish - Bury a Friend
• NOTD/Felix Jaehn/Georgia Ku/Captain Cuts - So Close
• Panic! At The Disco - Dancing's Not A Crime
• Ciara - Thinking Bout You (DEBUT)
• lovelytheband - Maybe, I'm Afraid
• Ally Brooke - Low Key
• Ava Max - So Am I
• Lizzo - Juice (DEBUT)
• Fletcher - Undrunk
• Ariana Grande - Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored
• Avril Lavrigne/Nicki Minaj - Dumb Blonde
• Kygo/Valerie Broussard - Think About You

Top 5 HitBound Picks

1. Marshmello/CHVRCHES - Here With Me

2. Panic! At The Disco - Dancing's Not A Crime

3. NOTD/Felix Jaehn/Georgia Ku/Captain Cuts - So Close

4. Fletcher - Undrunk

5. Kygo/Valerie Broussard - Think About You

Walk Blurbs Home

• We have a new #1 in the form of Sucker, reaching the top in just three weeks. It's obvious becuase it debuted at #7 and I did expect it to get it so quick. I'm anticipating Sweet But Psycho and Who Do You Love may reach the top spot quickly given Hits 1's frequent AirPlay of the former and the latter, well let's just say that they're major stans of both acts.
• Who Do You Love leaped straight into the Top 5. Of course I'm pretty sure 95% of us are happy about this. It was expected because Hits 1 stans The Chainsmokers and 5 Seconds of Summer so I'm sure it will reach #1 in the next month or two even though it's hovering around the bottom half of Billboard Hot 100.
• It's good to have Happier finally going on a decline. We don't need this filler in our Top 10 so hopefully we can keep it out. There's much better music we are able to have there like This Feeling, Dancing With A Stranger, and Shallow. Plus, with Marshmello's new and much better track Here With Me starting to gain steam and Halsey - Without Me out of the Top 5, we might start seeing a new era within our top half of the countdown.
• Let Me Down Slowly oompfed down eight spots to #12. I'm not feeling the best about this though if it starts falling even more, I know it had an amazing run. Alec Benjamin needs to be pumping out more music so he can actually gain recognition on this radio as he is underrated and needs more steam on the radio. I don't think Let Me Down Slowly even made it onto Billboard Hot 100. Oh well, it did great.
• Shallow took a massive leap straight into the Top 20. I want to review this song as it is a very good song. The production is beautifully done and Bradley Cooper had very good vocals. Lady Gaga did good as always and the duo between the two was probably the most notable part of the song. Their voices combine together so well and the production in the back makes it clash even more. Overall, Shallow is such a good song and I think Hits 1 is making up for the horrible run it had in December.
• 2002 is finally losing steam which is good for our radio. We don't need any more of Anne-Marie's crap especially after that disaster called Don't Leave Me Alone. The only truly good thing she was part of was Rockabye and she didn't really even contribute to that. She's one of the worst pop artists I've seen from last year and we don't need our countdown crowded of easily disposable garbage, just let this one fall. (inb4 it justs hangs around in the Bottom 10 for what feels like an eternity)
• Womp. Natural just fell into the Bottom 5. Well that was going to happen, hopefully this holds out for a while longer. I mean it needs that AirPlay, it's been around for several months. Make it longer as we haven't seen a one-year achievement in quite a while. Our last one was MAX/Gnash - Lights Down Low unexpectedly, if this could pull off that camp-in-the-Bottom-15-for-6-months strategy, that would be great for us. Or maybe Bad Liar can do something great. But something for Imagine Dragons.
• Reviewing our exits, good riddance to Sue Me. Sabrina Carpenter certainly hit a wall with that song as Why and On My Way are much better songs that could've been here. Don't Go Breaking My Heart was such a good song and a great comeback for the Backstreet Boys. Hopefully the rest of DNA can make an accomplishment onto here though it's very unlikely as it was literally a 2018 album, nothing will make it on, right? (insert Shallow re-entry here)

Top 20 Review

A new Weeks in Top detail will be added showing how much time a song has been present in the Top 3.

0 - Crap (Total: 0)

20. Marshmello/Bastille - Happier

19. Halsey - Without Me

18. Ariana Grande - 7 Rings

1 - Bad (Total: 0)

NONE

2 - Mediocre (Total: 0)

NONE

3 - Decent (Total: 0)

NONE

4 - Good (Total: 24)

17. Ellie Goulding x Diplo - Close to Me

16. Twenty One Pilots - Chlorine

15. Imagine Dragons - Bad Liar

14. Post Malone/Swae Lee - Sunflower

13. Jonas Brothers - Sucker

12. Sam Smith/Normani - Dancing With A Stranger

5 - Great (Total: 40)

11. Benny Blanco/Halsey/Khalid - Eastside

10. Kelsea Ballerini - Miss Me More

9. Dan + Shay - Tequila

8. The Chainsmokers/Kelsea Ballerini - This Feeling

7. Dean Lewis - Be Alright

6. Lady Gaga/Bradley Cooper - Shallow

5. Alec Benjamin - Let Me Down Slowly

4. Ava Max - Sweet But Psycho (1 Week in Top)

3. Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes (2 Weeks in Top)

BONUS: 6 - Best Song on the Countdown: (Total: 12)

TIE: 1. The Chainsmokers/5 Seconds of Summer - Who Do You Love (2 Weeks in Top)

TIE: 1. Panic! At The Disco - Hey Look Ma, I Made It (1 Week in Top)

Total: 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 24 + 40 + 12 = 76 (B+)

Comment: Good week but this can be better. A lot of songs at 4+ though so I have to mention that.

Most Missed Countdown Song: Hozier - Take Me To Church (Very good song, wish Hozier can release more these days.)

#1 Recommendation for Hits 1: Clean Bandit/Ellie Goulding - Mama

Top 5 This Week

TIE: 1. The Chainsmokers/5 Seconds of Summer - Who Do You Love

TIE: 1. Panic! At The Disco - Hey Look Ma, I Made It

3. Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes

4. Ava Max - Sweet But Psycho

5. Alec Benjamin - Let Me Down Slowly

Yeah, the Top 5 Picks are all in the Top 10 because there's barely much dark green music outside of the 20 and there's like 12 dark green tracks in it.