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Hey to you all! I'm really sorry that I couldn't get so many WC posts out. But you should all know why. I am lazy very busy with school right now, but I'm trying to push it to the side and try to at least work on posts a bit. My Top 30 Songs of 2017 should be out by early February. And I am not reviewing the BH100 Year-End Chart. I don't wanna bore you so here are the songs leaving the countdown:

• Macklemore ft. Skylar Grey - Glorious (#40) (oh crap)
• Cheat Codes ft. Demi Lovato - No Promises (#38)
• Ed Sheeran - Castle on the Hill (#27) [3 Weeks at #1] (FINALLY!!!!!!!)

Weekend Countdown

45. Harry Styles - Kiwi (#41)

44. Taylor Swift - Look What You Made Me Do (#42)
43. MAX ft. Gnash - Lights Down Low (#45) (Haven't I told you to go the heck away?)

42. Zedd ft. Alessia Cara - Stay (#36) [4 Weeks at #1] (Same with you.)

41. The Shadowboxers - Hot D*** (#30) (Hot d*** that was bad! LoL puns)

40. Charlie Puth - Attention (#43) [1 Week at #1] (You go away too)

39. Ed Sheeran - Shape of You (#44) [9 Weeks at #1] (LEAVE = Lost Ethnically And Very Easily, what this song should be by now)

38. Niall Horan - Slow Hands (#35) [3 Weeks at #1] (THIS should have Shape of You's success because this is amazing)

37. P!nk - What About Us (#31) [1 Week at #1]

36. Liam Payne - Strip that Down (#32) [2 Weeks at #1] (You should be LEAVE the Acronym too)

35. Taylor Swift - ...Ready for It? (#22) (Down 28 spots in the time of 2 weeks, this song is gone, and that's final)

34. Louis Tomlinson - Miss You (#36)

33. Kesha - Praying (#26) (goodbye to you too)

32. Zayn ft. Sia - Dusk till Dawn (#21)
31. Ed Sheeran - Galway Girl (#11) [4 Weeks at #1]

30. Bruno Mars ft. Cardi B. - Finesse (Remix) (DEBUT) (Yay!!!)

29. Shawn Mendes - There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back (#29) [5 Weeks at #1]

28. Demi Lovato - Sorry Not Sorry (#28) [1 Week at #1]

27. Symon - Lonely Girl (#39)

26. Liam Payne - Bedroom Floor (#24)

25. Walk the Moon - One Foot (#18) (Very disrespectful, Hits 1!)

24. Justin Timberlake - Filthy (DEBUT)

23. Portugal. The Man - Feel it Still (#24)

22. Taylor Swift ft. Ed Sheeran & Future - End Game (#34)

21. X Ambassadors - Ahead of Myself (#20)

20. G-Eazy ft. Halsey - Him & I (DEBUT) (Whoa!)

19. Fall Out Boy - Hold Me Tight Or Don't (#33)
18. Lauv - I Like Me Better (#23)
17. Imagine Dragons - Believer (#16) [3 Weeks at #1] (Not a color-coding error :P)

16. Post Malone ft. 21 Savage - Rockstar (#8)

15. Maroon 5 ft. SZA - What Lovers Do (#6)

14. Eminem ft. Ed Sheeran - River (#18)

13. Sam Smith - Too Good at Goodbyes (#13)

12. Dua Lipa - New Rules (#12)

11. Niall Horan - Too Much to Ask (#15)

10. Macklemore ft. Kesha - Good Old Days (#14)

9. Charlie Puth - How Long (#7)

8. Selena Gomez ft. Marshmello - Wolves (#10)

7. Kelly Clarkson - Love So Soft (#9) (*barf*)

6. Bebe Rexha ft. Florida Georgia Line - Meant to Be (#17)

5. Camila Cabello - Havana (#4) [1 Week at #1]

4. Hailee Steinfeld & Alesso ft. Florida Georgia Line and watt - Let Me Go (#5)
3. Imagine Dragons - Thunder (#1) [3 Weeks at #1]

2. Halsey - Bad at Love (#2) [2 Weeks at #1]

1. Ed Sheeran - Perfect (#3) [2nd Week at #1]

#1 Song This Week One Year Ago: Adam Levine Maroon 5 - Don't Wanna Know (2nd of 3 Weeks at #1

Biggest Jump of the Week: Fall Out Boy - Hold Me Tight Or Don't (+14)

Biggest DROOPPP!!! of the Week: Ed Sheeran - Galway Girl (-20)

New Entrants

• I will review the other songs that I missed in another post, but for now, I'll review 1/6/18 and 1/13/18.
• First up, we have what looks like the next single off of reputation, titled End Game. This features Ed Sheeran, whose verse is pretty good, and Future, who doesn't actually suck. He doesn't do very good either though. However, I think Taylor Swift really handles the final verse and the chorus. I think this is really good for the countdown, and I'm happy that Taylor chose this as the next single off reputation. Here's to hopin' this does well.
• For the other debut last week, we have a new song off of M A N I A by Fall Out Boy. Enter Hold Me Tight Or Don't. I find the instrumentals to be pretty interesting and the vocals are great. This is WAY BETTER than that s****y title called Young & Menace. Not quite as good as Champion though. I am liking this right now and I'm happy this is charting now.
• Starting for this week's entrants, we have more Bruno Mars and he has Finesse. But guess what? He decided to bring Cardi B. along for the fun! Now, Cardi doesn't do as good as I think she would *cough* G-Eazy ft. A$AP Rocky & Cardi B. - No Limit *cough* but Bruno Mars does great when he does his segment. Really good and hoping this succeeds. Also, I am adding a new rule: nobody can recommend the Finesse original.
• Here comes the big debut. If you have been grounded for weeks or disconnected from your life, you would've known that Justin Timberlake made his return two Fridays ago. Enter Filthy. Now, this isn't as good as Can't Stop the Feeling!, Suit & Tie, etc., but I actually still really like the song, hence why it's in dark blue. This is the lead single off of Justin's return album, Man of the Woods. I don't like the wobbly production that much, but the vocals are good, especially in the chorus. I started liking the production which is why I put it in dark blue. I had a tough time choosing through green or dark blue, though. I just chose the latter. So great song and I'd like this to have some success.
• Finally, we have G-Eazy making a return with his new song off of The Beautiful & Damned titled Him & I. This is one of my favorite songs off of it besides for No Limit. Halsey, G-Eazy's girlfriend, was featured in this song, and she handles the chorus nicely. G-Eazy does good in the verses, too. So great song and this should have success.

I Don't Wanna Be Your End Blurb

• Starting with the exits, Glorious and No Promises were expected to leave soon. But they both were awesome songs at first and I'm glad they had their long tenures. But Castle on the Hill is the one I really want to talk about. It had a long tenure, three weeks at #1, and all but it lasted ridiculously great tenure and even though I still hate this, I applaud this for it. This was Ded Ed Sheeran's year and he got a lot of success, so I applaud him for that. Also, Dylan, Castle on the Hill did not last a year. It left the countdown I think a week after it actually debuted then it re-entered a few weeks later so it would still have a few more weeks to go.
• Stay should be gone by now. This is getting freakin' ridiculous. And why did it have to be #2 on the Year-End chart? Because it spent all those weeks in the Top 10 to the point where it was in the Top 3.
• What did the Hits 1 voters have in themselves to make Shape of You last a god freakin' year? Some DNA (no BTS or Kendrick Lamar references there) that makes them be crazy enough to the fact where they need to give Ded Sheeran another song that lasts a year. I do kind of congratulate him though because I don't think there was another artist with two songs that lasted a year; are there? Tell me in the comments and I'll edit the post if so.
• Little surprised that after my long hiatus, Slow Hands is still on this countdown. I know it won't be on for too much longer though. I still love this song so hopefully, it can hold out a little longer.
• Something that should leave is Strip that Down though. This is getting so ridiculous now. The Hits 1 voters obviously have something in them that makes them WANT Strip that Down to debut Hit-Bound, graduate onto the Countdown, hit #1 for two weeks, and still have it on the countdown. It's got four more months to go and if it actually lasts that (probably won't though), I'll be very disappointed in Hits 1 and I'll have Alt Nation on for a week or two (yes I listen to that now but I do still listen to Hits 1).
• With ...Ready for It?, Praying, Dusk till Dawn, and Galway Girl taking huge drops, it looks like they're on their final legs. They all got what they deserved though and I applaud all of the songs' artists for making these songs that got their success.
• On the other side though, Lonely Girl finally made a reasonable jump into the Top 30. I never actually talked about this song but like I said, I'll review the songs I missed in another post. I'll just say that it's a pretty good song. You'll read more in that post.
• Feel it Still is actually on the countdown still? Am I dreaming? I think I am.
• Ahead of Myself had to get knocked out of the Top 20. I partially blame Him & I for doing so even though I like the song. I mostly blame Hold Me Tight Or Don't though. And congrats on getting Biggest Jump of the Week, Hold Me Tight Or Don't! You can also blame I Like Me Better so yeah.
• Not too happy about What Lovers Do and Rockstar getting nudged out of the Top 10. At least their replacement songs are good too though.
• Wow, New Rules actually got this high? I wasn't even paying attention to this!
• We have Good Old Days entering the Top 10. This is great and I want this to get even higher, possibly even #1 although it probably won't happen.
• Really, does Love So Soft HAVE to be in the Top 10? At least Wolves is in there.
• We have Meant to Be entering the Top 10 this week too. Pretty happy about this. I haven't seen a Florida Georgia Line get this high. But one song from them that got higher was...
• ...Let Me Go! Really proud of Hailee Steinfeld and Alesso making themselves another hit and I'll guarantee that this will make the Year-End list this year if it didn't last year.
• I'm not really sure if I think Perfect at #1 is a fine way to come back from my hiatus. I think Thunder at #1 again would've been better. It's okay for now though. And FOR NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hit-Bound

Here is the Hit-Bound list for this week:

• Sofi Tukker ft. NERVO, The Knocks, and Alisa Ueno - Best Friend
• P!nk - Beautiful Trauma
• Alan Walker ft. Noah Cyrus & Digital Farm Animals - All Falls Down
• Clean Bandit ft. Julia Michaels - I Miss You
• AJR ft. Rivers Cuomo - Sober Up (sorry to the AJR haters)
• Maroon 5 - Wait
• Kesha ft. The Dap-King Horns - Woman (DEBUT)
• Spencer - Whatever
• All Time Low - Last Young Renegade
• Imagine Dragons - Whatever it Takes
• NF - Let You Down
• Troye Sivan - My My My! (DEBUT)
• Camila Cabello - Never Be the Same
• WØLVES - Animal

•  I haven't heard any of the debuts plus Last Young Renegade. I'll try to get chances to listen to them. I do remember hearing Woman, however, but I just forgot how it was.

Top 5 Hit-Bound

1. TIE: Alan Walker ft. Noah Cyrus & Digital Farm Animals - All Falls Down

1. TIE: Clean Bandit ft. Julia Michaels - I Miss You

3. WØLVES - Animal

4. Imagine Dragons - Whatever it Takes

5. NF - Let You Down

Top 20 Review

0 - Crap

20. Kelly Clarkson - Love So Soft

1 - Bad

19. Lauv - I Like Me Better

2 - Mediocre

18. Ed Sheeran - Perfect

17. Halsey - Bad At Love

3 - Decent

16. Maroon 5 ft. SZA - What Lovers Do

4 - Good

15. Dua Lipa - New Rules

14. Imagine Dragons - Believer

13. Imagine Dragons - Thunder

12. Niall Horan - Too Much to Ask

11. Charlie Puth - How Long

10. Fall Out Boy - Hold Me Tight Or Don't

5 - Great

9. G-Eazy ft. Halsey - Him & I

8. Post Malone ft. 21 Savage - Rockstar

7. Sam Smith - Too Good At Goodbyes

6. Eminem ft. Ed Sheeran - River

5. Bebe Rexha ft. Florida Georgia Line - Meant to Be

4. Camila Cabello - Havana

3. Hailee Steinfeld & Alesso ft. Florida Georgia Line & watt - Let Me Go

2. Selena Gomez ft. Marshmello - Wolves

1. Macklemore ft. Kesha - Good Old Days

Total Score: 77/100 or 77% (B-)

#1 Recommendation for Hits 1: Liam Payne ft. Rita Ora - For You

#1 Recommendation for You: Mono Mind ft. Sofa Tunes - I Found My Soul at Marvingate (Remix)

Throwback Pick of the Week: Jay-Z ft. Justin Timberlake - Suit & Tie (because of Filthy)

Most Missed Song: Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk (because of Finesse)

Favorite Song This Week One Year Ago: Jon Bellion - All Time Low

Top 5 Picks

1. TIE: Walk the Moon - One Foot

1. TIE: Louis Tomlinson - Miss You

1. TIE: Taylor Swift ft. Ed Sheeran & Future - End Game

4. Macklemore ft. Kesha - Good Old Days

5. Bruno Mars ft. Cardi B. - Finesse (Remix)