AT40 - 5 Seconds of Summer (1) - October 20 , 2018

what's up everyone?.... This countdown has quite a bit surprises and not much movement as well... the exits this week is indeed surprising...here there are:

This Week's Exits:
X Ella Mai - Boo'd Up [#30]
X The Chainsmokers f/ Emily Warren - Side Effects [#24]
X Kygo featuring Miguel - Remind Me To Forget [#18]

This Week's Countdown:
Last Week's #1: Khalid & Normani - Love Lies
40 Silk City & Dua Lipa - Electricity Debut
39 Imagine Dragons - Whatever It Takes [#39] ↔
38 Logic f/ Ryan Tedder - One Day [#40] ↑2
37 Camila Cabello - Never Be The Same [#37] ↔ [5 weeks at #1]
36 LSD - Thunderclouds Debut
35 Lauv - I Like Me Better [#33] ↓2
34 Anne-Marie - 2002 [#35] ↑1
33 Marshmello & Anne-Marie - Friends [#31] ↓2
32 Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes [#38] ↑6
31 Zedd f/ Maren Morris & Grey - The Middle [#29] ↓2 [4 weeks at #1]
30 Weezer - Africa [#32] ↑2
29 Taylor Swift - Delicate [#26] ↓3 [1 week at #1]
28 Jason Derulo/David Guetta/ Nicki Minaj/ Willi William - Goodbye [#34] ↑6
27 Tyga f/Offset - Taste [#36] ↑9
26 Bazzi - Mine [#21] ↓5 [1 week at #1]
25 Calvin Harris & Sam Smith - Promises [#28] ↑3
24 Post Malone f/ Ty Dolla $ign - Psycho [#23] ↓1 [4 weeks at #1]
23 Sabrina Carpenter - Almost Love [#27] ↑4
22 Ariana Grande - Breathin' Debut
21 lovelytheband - Broken [#25] ↑4
20 Bazzi f/ Camila Cabello - Beautiful [#22] ↑2
19 Bryce Vine - Drew Barrymore [#19] ↔
18 Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry [#14] ↓4 [1 week at #1]
17 Charlie Puth - The Way I Am [#20] ↑3
16 Tiesto & Dzeko f/ Preme & Post Malone - Jackie Chan [#17] ↑1
15 Benny Blanco f/Halsey & Khalid - Eastside [#16] ↑1
14 Drake - In My Feelings [#8] ↓6
13 NF - Lie [#13] ↔
12 Marshmello /Bastille - Happier [#15] ↑2
11 Bebe Rexha - I'm A Mess [#11] ↔
10 Imagine Dragons - Natural [#12] ↑2
09 Cardi B f/ Bad Bunny & J. Balvin - I Like It [#9] ↔
08 Juice WRLD - Lucid Dreams [#10] ↑2
07 DJ Khaled / Justin Bieber/Quavo/Chance The Rapper - No Brainer [#7] ↔
06 Ariana Grande - God Is A Woman [#6] ↔
05 Selena Gomez - Back To You [#5] ↔
04 Maroon 5 f/ Cardi B - Girls Like You [#4] ↔ [4 weeks at #1]
03 Post Malone - Better Now [#3] ↔ [2 weeks at #1]
02 Khalid & Normani - Love Lies [#1] ↓1 [3 weeks at #1]
01 5 Seconds Of Summer - Youngblood [#2] ↑1 [1 week at #1]

This Week's #1 One Year Ago:
Strip That Down - Liam Payne f/ Quavo [only week at #1]

Biggest Jumper for the week:
• Tyga featuring Offset - Taste [#36-#27] ↑9

Biggest Drop for the week:
• Drake - In My Feelings [#8-#14] ↓6

New Entrys:
• Silk City & Dua Lipa - Electricity Diplo debuts with two tunes..the first as part of Silk City (with Marc Ronson of "Uptown Funk" fame) is a collaboration with Dua Lipa is a wonderful and catchy tune. The production and the melody both works...another bonifide hit here.

• LSD - Thunderclouds The other debut with Diplo is a collective teams up with Labrinth and Sia ..I got mixed feelings with this song. The lyrics has a story on it on bad relationships. The vocals was ok..except for Sia's wailing in it. Overall i don't think it should  go far here even thought its doing ok in other charts

• Ariana Grande - Breathin' The lastest from Ariana's album "Sweetner" is I believe is easily the favorite of the three singles we've gotten so far from it. Everything from her vocals to the production work very well here. 

Best Debut of the Week: Ariana Grande - Breathin'

Break Outs:
• Travis Scott f/ Drake - Sicko Mode
• Shawn Mendes f/ Zedd - Lost In Japan
• Mike Posner - Song About You

Extras/Optional Extras:
• The Chainsmokers featuring Emily Warren - Side Effects
• MAX f/ gnash - Lights Down Low
• Kygo & Selena Gomez - It Ain't Me
• Zedd & Elley Duhe - Happy Now
• Bruno Mars & CARDI B - Finesse
• Ella Mai - Boo'd Up
• Kygo f/ Miguel - Remind Me To Forget
• Pharrell Williams - Happy
• G-Eazy & Bebe Rexha - Me, Myself & I


Thunderblurbs:
• Ella Mae's second effort on Boo'd Up , which did rank in the 30, and Chainsmokers' Side Effects started to lose momentum due to their newest singles (Ella's Trip and Chainsmokers' This Feeling) getting more airplay than their predecessors, thus dropping out this week ... Also
Remind Me To Forget eventually drop from the top 20 to all the way out of the countdown. 

• In the Good News/Bad News department, Good News: In My Feelings is this weeks biggest dropper ..Bad News: Taste is the biggest jumper. Nuff Said

• Whatever It Takes, Never Be The Same, I Like Me Better, Friends and The Middle staying in the chart for another week... Hopefully any of these can drop out next week 

• Youngblood manages to hit #1 inspite of God Is A Woman putting pressure to hit #1... I believe it will stay on top for two weeks more 

• Marshmello's next potential collaboration could be with Post Malone  - prolly in the same vane why Tiesto picked him for Jackie Chan... Cause he don't try so hard for perfection in his work... Post meanwhile has two collabs with Swae Lee just came out (Sunflower and Spoil My Night).... Both are totally likeable.

My 20 Reviews:
0-TRASH
20 Bebe Rexha - I'm A Mess
19 Juice WRLD - Lucid Dreams
18 Drake - In My Feelings

1-Bad
17 Bryce Vine - Drew Barrymore
16 Dj Khaled w/Bieber/Chance/Quavo - No Brainer

2-Mediocre/so-so
NONE

3-Decent
15 Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin - I Like It
14 Maroon 5 & Cardi B - Girls Like You

4-Good
13 Bazzi f/ Camila Cabello - Beautiful

5-Great
12 Charlie Puth - The Way I Am
11 NF - Lie
10 Tiesto & Dzeko  f/Preme/PostMalone - Jackie Chan
 9 Post Malone - Better Now
 8 5 Seconds Of Summer - Youngblood 
 7 Selena Gomez - Back To You
 6 Benny Blanco, Halsey & Khalid - Eastside 
 5 Imagine Dragons - Natural
 4 Khalid & Normani -  Love Lies
 3 Ariana Grande -  No Tears Left To Cry
 2 Marshmello /Bastille - Happier

BONUS 6- Best Song of the Countdown
 1 Ariana Grande - God Is A Woman

TOTAL SCORE:  72/100 (72%- B) Good

My Top 5 Recommendations  for AT40:
The Chainsmokers f/ Kelsea Ballerini - This Feeling
Gryffin f/Elley Duhé - Tie Me Down
Alan Walker f/ AuRa and Tomine Harkett - Darkside
Jonas Blue F/ Liam Payne and Lennon Stella – Polaroid
Charli XCX f/Troye Sivan – 1999

Throwback Pick Of The Week:
Jessie's Girl- Rick Springfield [1981] 

Most Missed Song:
Hello - Adele [2016]

Favorite Countdown Song This Week One Year Ago:
Kesha - Praying (#12)


My Top 5 Picks
1 Ariana Grande - Breathin
2 Ariana Grande - God Is A Woman
3 Marshmello/Bastille - Happier
3 Silk City/Dua Lipa - Electricity
4 Khalid & Normani -  Love Lies

My Bottom 5 Picks
1 (TIE) Tyga F/ Offset -  Taste
1 (TIE) Bebe Rexha - I'm A Mess
3 Lauv - I Like Me Better
4 Marshmello & Anne-Marie - Friends
5 Juice WRLD - Lucid Dreams

This Week's Debuts One Year Ago
39. Sabrina Carpenter - Why
37. Cardi B. - Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)
30. Ed Sheeran - Perfect