US TOP 100 SUMMARY & REVIEW 12.11.24 #7
THE TOP 10:
At 10, 'Sticky' becomes the third top 10 hit from Tyler's new album (up 4). At 9, 'Love somebody' by Morgan Wallen continues its drop (down 1), and 'Beautiful Things' bounces up 3 spots to 8, returning to the top 10. 'Taste' sees Sabrina Carpenter rise two spots, and 'I had some help' by Post Malone is down a spot to 6. Returning to the top 5 is 'Lose Control' by Teddy Swims, spending its 65th week in the chart. 'Espresso' sticks at 4, and 'Birds of a Feather' stabilises at 3. 'Die With A Smile' spends another week at 2 for Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, but just beating them and spending his 17th week at No. 1 and 30th in the chart is 'A Bar Song (tipsy)' by Shaboozey, which becomes the second song in Billboard Hot 100 history to have that many weeks at poll position!
RE ENTRYS:
97: Lonely Road, Mgk/Jelly Roll
[Jelly Roll ruined this song]
89: Liar-Jelly Roll
[It's ok]
NEW ENTRYS:
100: Brokey - Latto (3/10)
Classic Latto putting down hard-working individuals who are having to struggle affording rent and giving men high expectations in a relationship; Latto responded to the backlash about calling individuals who are trying super hard to provide "Brokeys" by bringing up a challenge; the best work-related video to her song gets $10,000, and I'm sure thanks to that contreversy and her having to put out that challenge is the only reason this song charted, because it was released over one month ago from her flop album 'Sugar Honey Iced Tea.' Latto shows off a confident, bouncy style that fails to be infectious; the rhythm doesn't work with Latto and sounds stylish but needs a kick, which she doesn't provide; she sounds flat out boring with any impact in her voice completely equalling meaningless. This may not be your average US rap song, but the behind-the-scenes crew did more than latto on this; the cadence could be better, and for the most part, this is TikTok music.
82 - We Good - Lil Uzi Vert (3/10)
This is sounding like the rest of the poorly tuned rubbish on 'Eternal Atake 2', where Uzi talks about taking d**** and spreading the same demonic messages throughout his music. He claims one thing that makes people like his music is hyponizing when the whole album got slammed online by critics: 'We Good' is weak and nothing more than a cash grab. I like real music, not kick drum rap with an autotune that makes you sound like you don't have any skills.
77: Sao Paulo - The Weeknd/Anitta (3/10)
Previous first listen:
First of all, I have a strong dislike for whoever made this music video. It started with a woman (Anitta, I presume) walking down the street with a mask on her, which had a connected curly tube to it (I'm describing music, ok?). Not props) and then she pukes up on the street (I have a fear of puke and even seeing it, so no trigger jumpscared me) then a baby bump appeared on the woman and she fell/went into a fountain where she showcased the baby bump, then the baby bump grew a mouth and the weeknd started speaking out of it. In the next scene, the woman was then licking a car while tw*rking, and the camera zoomed into the mouth multiple times (for some reason it had crust all around it's mouth), and then the video ended with the most horrible transition into a baby bump and the mouth. This song was supposed to be scary for Halloween and even teased as a horror music video multiple times, but it was scary as a Tesco manager. The sad thing is The Weeknd sounds like he actually tried to make this scary. This marks the first collaboration between the two artists on a Brazilian funk song, which hopefully doesn't make the album cut as it doesn't fit the first two singles style; in fact, nothing is slotting here, and the lyrics are all about "doing it" rather than giving a spooky mood.
Previous second listen:
I'll add a point because it does actually have a bit of a groove, but the song is still unorganised rubbish.
Third listen:
I had nothing else to add; apart from that, I had to endure the music video for a THIRD time.
54 - Light Year (practice) - Lil Uzi Vert (4/10)
I liked this a bit more due to the more hardcore and faster sound of the rap, but again, it's still not good, and I'm disappointed it charted so high, or even charted. The production doesn't work on this and feels it's badly overproduced; it just feels scrambled through and very weak choices for the instrumental that don't do much for the song.
48 - Chill Bae - Lil Uzi Vert (4.5/10)
Previous first listen:
Lil Uzi always has this one thing to him: when you look at some of his art covers, the closer you look, the creepier it gets. You see dolls, which I believe are from horror movies, a woman with her head tilted back, a red-eyed woman among the purple-eyed women. (If you see the cover, you know what I mean.) He claims the key to his music and hooking you in is Hypnosis. Chill Bae is the twelfth song on his 2024 album 'Eternal Etake 2'. This had a nice bounce on it and connected well with the trap and hip-hop parts of the song. For me, this didn't hook me into it as much for a second play, but Uzi still really made this into the right hands of the mixing engineers.
Second listen:
I'll give it 0.5 extra, but I still stand by what I say, and it should be better for the huge music video.
NOTEABLE CHANGES:
Songs that went up 10 spots or more:
Close To You - Gracie Abrams (up 18)
El Lokeron-Tito Double P (up 12)
I'm going to love you—Cody Johnson/Carrie Underwood (up 10)
Beautiful as you—Thomas Rhett (up 18)
Help Me - Real Boston Richey (up 11)
Dancing in the Flames - The Weeknd (up 13)
Dos Dias - Tito Double P/Peso Pluma (up 20) [HIGHEST CLIMBER]
Pour me a drink - Post Malone/Luke Combs (up 12)
Wind up missin you - Tucker Wetmore (up 12).
Pink Pony Club - Chappell Roan (up 12)
High Road - Koe Wetzel/Jessie Murph (up 15)
Who - Jimin (up 11)
I can do it with a broken heart—Taylor Swift (up 11)
You look like you love me—Ella Langley/Riley Green (up 12)
Pink Skies - Zach Bryan (up 10)
The Door - Teddy Swims (up 16)
Wildflower - Billie Eilish (up 12)
Like Him - Tyler, The Creator/Lola Young (up 16)
Stargazing - Myles Smith (up 12)
That's So True—Gracie Abrams (up 12)
Songs that went down 10 spots or more [Excluding Tyler, The Creator's album bomb last week]
Hollon - Glorilla (Down 13)
Mamushi - Megan Thee Stallion/Yuki Chiba (Down 11)
Heart of a Woman - Summer Walker (Down 11)
NEXT WEEKS PREDICTIONS:
There's nothing that I think will break new records next week, and it looks like Shaboozey will be going in for an 18th week at the top!
Lots of love!! Peace out ❤️
THE TOP 10:
At 10, 'Sticky' becomes the third top 10 hit from Tyler's new album (up 4). At 9, 'Love somebody' by Morgan Wallen continues its drop (down 1), and 'Beautiful Things' bounces up 3 spots to 8, returning to the top 10. 'Taste' sees Sabrina Carpenter rise two spots, and 'I had some help' by Post Malone is down a spot to 6. Returning to the top 5 is 'Lose Control' by Teddy Swims, spending its 65th week in the chart. 'Espresso' sticks at 4, and 'Birds of a Feather' stabilises at 3. 'Die With A Smile' spends another week at 2 for Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, but just beating them and spending his 17th week at No. 1 and 30th in the chart is 'A Bar Song (tipsy)' by Shaboozey, which becomes the second song in Billboard Hot 100 history to have that many weeks at poll position!
RE ENTRYS:
97: Lonely Road, Mgk/Jelly Roll
[Jelly Roll ruined this song]
89: Liar-Jelly Roll
[It's ok]
NEW ENTRYS:
100: Brokey - Latto (3/10)
Classic Latto putting down hard-working individuals who are having to struggle affording rent and giving men high expectations in a relationship; Latto responded to the backlash about calling individuals who are trying super hard to provide "Brokeys" by bringing up a challenge; the best work-related video to her song gets $10,000, and I'm sure thanks to that contreversy and her having to put out that challenge is the only reason this song charted, because it was released over one month ago from her flop album 'Sugar Honey Iced Tea.' Latto shows off a confident, bouncy style that fails to be infectious; the rhythm doesn't work with Latto and sounds stylish but needs a kick, which she doesn't provide; she sounds flat out boring with any impact in her voice completely equalling meaningless. This may not be your average US rap song, but the behind-the-scenes crew did more than latto on this; the cadence could be better, and for the most part, this is TikTok music.
82 - We Good - Lil Uzi Vert (3/10)
This is sounding like the rest of the poorly tuned rubbish on 'Eternal Atake 2', where Uzi talks about taking d**** and spreading the same demonic messages throughout his music. He claims one thing that makes people like his music is hyponizing when the whole album got slammed online by critics: 'We Good' is weak and nothing more than a cash grab. I like real music, not kick drum rap with an autotune that makes you sound like you don't have any skills.
77: Sao Paulo - The Weeknd/Anitta (3/10)
Previous first listen:
First of all, I have a strong dislike for whoever made this music video. It started with a woman (Anitta, I presume) walking down the street with a mask on her, which had a connected curly tube to it (I'm describing music, ok?). Not props) and then she pukes up on the street (I have a fear of puke and even seeing it, so no trigger jumpscared me) then a baby bump appeared on the woman and she fell/went into a fountain where she showcased the baby bump, then the baby bump grew a mouth and the weeknd started speaking out of it. In the next scene, the woman was then licking a car while tw*rking, and the camera zoomed into the mouth multiple times (for some reason it had crust all around it's mouth), and then the video ended with the most horrible transition into a baby bump and the mouth. This song was supposed to be scary for Halloween and even teased as a horror music video multiple times, but it was scary as a Tesco manager. The sad thing is The Weeknd sounds like he actually tried to make this scary. This marks the first collaboration between the two artists on a Brazilian funk song, which hopefully doesn't make the album cut as it doesn't fit the first two singles style; in fact, nothing is slotting here, and the lyrics are all about "doing it" rather than giving a spooky mood.
Previous second listen:
I'll add a point because it does actually have a bit of a groove, but the song is still unorganised rubbish.
Third listen:
I had nothing else to add; apart from that, I had to endure the music video for a THIRD time.
54 - Light Year (practice) - Lil Uzi Vert (4/10)
I liked this a bit more due to the more hardcore and faster sound of the rap, but again, it's still not good, and I'm disappointed it charted so high, or even charted. The production doesn't work on this and feels it's badly overproduced; it just feels scrambled through and very weak choices for the instrumental that don't do much for the song.
48 - Chill Bae - Lil Uzi Vert (4.5/10)
Previous first listen:
Lil Uzi always has this one thing to him: when you look at some of his art covers, the closer you look, the creepier it gets. You see dolls, which I believe are from horror movies, a woman with her head tilted back, a red-eyed woman among the purple-eyed women. (If you see the cover, you know what I mean.) He claims the key to his music and hooking you in is Hypnosis. Chill Bae is the twelfth song on his 2024 album 'Eternal Etake 2'. This had a nice bounce on it and connected well with the trap and hip-hop parts of the song. For me, this didn't hook me into it as much for a second play, but Uzi still really made this into the right hands of the mixing engineers.
Second listen:
I'll give it 0.5 extra, but I still stand by what I say, and it should be better for the huge music video.
NOTEABLE CHANGES:
Songs that went up 10 spots or more:
Close To You - Gracie Abrams (up 18)
El Lokeron-Tito Double P (up 12)
I'm going to love you—Cody Johnson/Carrie Underwood (up 10)
Beautiful as you—Thomas Rhett (up 18)
Help Me - Real Boston Richey (up 11)
Dancing in the Flames - The Weeknd (up 13)
Dos Dias - Tito Double P/Peso Pluma (up 20) [HIGHEST CLIMBER]
Pour me a drink - Post Malone/Luke Combs (up 12)
Wind up missin you - Tucker Wetmore (up 12).
Pink Pony Club - Chappell Roan (up 12)
High Road - Koe Wetzel/Jessie Murph (up 15)
Who - Jimin (up 11)
I can do it with a broken heart—Taylor Swift (up 11)
You look like you love me—Ella Langley/Riley Green (up 12)
Pink Skies - Zach Bryan (up 10)
The Door - Teddy Swims (up 16)
Wildflower - Billie Eilish (up 12)
Like Him - Tyler, The Creator/Lola Young (up 16)
Stargazing - Myles Smith (up 12)
That's So True—Gracie Abrams (up 12)
Songs that went down 10 spots or more [Excluding Tyler, The Creator's album bomb last week]
Hollon - Glorilla (Down 13)
Mamushi - Megan Thee Stallion/Yuki Chiba (Down 11)
Heart of a Woman - Summer Walker (Down 11)
NEXT WEEKS PREDICTIONS:
There's nothing that I think will break new records next week, and it looks like Shaboozey will be going in for an 18th week at the top!
Lots of love!! Peace out ❤️
