Sirius XM Hits 1 Weekend Countdown: A Year-End Special: 2017

Well, it's been another whole year already guys. I am fully ready to take on what next year has to bring. This year has taught me so much and given me plenty of interesting experiences. Although 2017 has been one hell of a year, I cant wait to experience another year in my life. I am going to be sixteen this coming year, so I can't wait to see what will come of that. This year has been collectively another quite successful year for this blog, as we have gathered about 85,000 views here this past year, which is the MOST views I have ever received in a year on this blog, so I thank you all tremendously for that. As for the year in music, we did not lose as many of the greats as we did last year, the biggest death this year was Chester Bennington from Linkin Park. That was very saddening and may he rest in peace. As for the music that was released this year, it was very much similar to the load of music we got last year. Again, it was not the best year we have ever had. By far, my favorite year in this decade so far was 2014. I just feel that there was such a variety that year, and that variety of hit music has been going downhill ever since.

So, getting started I will be counting down my bottom 10 songs of the year. There was a very large number of songs that I had no interest in this year. However, thankfully a good amount of them did not debut on Hits 1. The amount of rap music that has been being released nowadays and actually being successful is overwhelming, and almost one hundred percent of the time it is utter trash. Without further adieu, here are the worst songs this year that thankfully did not make it on the Weekend Countdown.

21 Savage - Bank Account
Amy Shark - Adore
Ayo & Teo - Rolex
Bazzi - Mine
Cardi B - Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)
Future - Mask Off
Iggy Azalea - Mo Bounce
Jason Derulo/French Montana - Tip Toe
Kendrick Lamar/Rihanna - Loyalty
Lil Pump - Gucci Gang
Lil Uzi Vert - XO TOUR Llife
Migos/Lil Uzi Vert - Bad & Boujee
Migos/Nicki Minaj/Cardi B - MotorSport
PRETTYMUCH/French Montana - No More
Yo Gotti/Nicki Minaj - Rake It Up

These are just a few of the songs that I actually listened to and did not find the slightest bit appealing at all. There were definitely more tracks that could have been up here I'm sure, but I didn't take a listen. So, now we will move into my bottom 10 songs of the year based on the music that debuted on the Hits 1 Weekend Countdown. Before we get to this list, here's the dishonorable mentions that were quite close to being on my list.

All Time Low - Good Times
Bruno Mars - That's What I Like
Ed Sheeran - Castle On The Hill
Fall Out Boy - Champion
Liam Payne - Strip That Down
Lukas Graham - You're Not There
Noah Cyrus/Labrinth - Make Me (Cry)
Panic! At The Disco - L.A. Devotee
Post Malone/21 Savage - Rockstar
Zedd & Liam Payne - Get Low

My Bottom 10 Songs Of 2017

10. Childish Gambino - Redbone

So, this wasn't the most awful song I have ever heard. I can definitely see why people found it catchy though. Although the radio version of this song is strange, if you listen to the original version of this track, you will get easily scared. It's just a weird piece of music. Not to mention, the album cover is also creepy too. Childish Gambino just created this in a very awkward way, which is why it is on this list, but the beat is kind of catchy, so I can see why the general public enjoyed it. It was just a bit too strange for me. To add, I was quite surprised that this even was played on Hits 1 to begin with.

9. Bruno Mars - Versace On The Floor (David Guetta Remix)

So, this song is mainly on the list because the remix that this station played was just not to my liking. The original version that was just Bruno Mars was again, not my favorite, but it was an okay song. The drop in this version is just really annoying to me and I also just feel like this one had lazy production. Other than that, it was just mediocre. I'm glad it didn't go too far on the countdown.

8. Maroon 5 - Cold

So, at first I was all excited for Maroon 5 to come back with all of their new music and all. Then they dropped their first single after a while, Don't Wanna Know, and I liked it to begin with and quickly found that it was mediocre. Then they released Cold not long after and it was just okay to me and I never really got into it. The more I heard it, I just grew more annoyed with it. Hits 1 played this song WAY too much, so naturally I just grew annoyed with it. Adam Levine's vocals were also just very mediocre in comparison to this band's previous music and it just really didn't live up to its title. As for their new album, I'm not the biggest fan of it either. I do like the music that has been released thus far from it, though. So yeah, this song was just poorly written and the vocals weren't all that great.

7. Steve Aoki & Louis Tomlinson - Just Hold On

This song was just another one of those songs I thought was okay and never really ended up getting into, which left me to dislike it. Again, Hits 1 played this an unreasonable amount of times, considering that it wasn't even that big of a hit. Now, anything Louis Tomlinson has released after this song has been very good in my opinion. I just really thought this song had too much going on. Artists like Steve Aoki, in my opinion do not go well with a singer like this, based on what I saw from this song. The drop wasn't even that cool in this one. Although this one was a Hits 1 favorite, because One Direction, even though they don't seem to like playing Harry's music that much (because it's too good for them to handle), this just was a mess. I'm glad it wasn't too successful anywhere else, because I definitely would have died of overplay disease hearing this everywhere.

6. Imagine Dragons - Believer

I very much enjoyed this song, as I do most of Imagine Dragons's music, but this one was heavily overplayed (and it still is). I grew out of this one very quickly, and just as I was, it hit #1 three times on the countdown here. How convenient. Anyways, I don't have much to say about this one except that I could see myself getting back into it a little after radio stations finally start to give it up, but that doesn't look like it will be soon. Even though, I don't think I will grow to love this song again. I could see myself placing it in the "meh" category, as something that would probably still be a station changer, but I don't think I would flat out just hate it like I do right now.

5. Jason Derulo/Ty Dolla $ign/Nicki Minaj - Swalla

Oh this song was just a lyrical catastrophe and the vocal content was shitty, because it's Jason Derulo, and what's better than throwing Ty Dolla $ign and Nicki Minaj in for the party? Anything. Anything is better than that. Jason Derulo's music has been utter dumpster trash these past few years, with the exception of one or two songs. It just absolutely sucks, and this song absolutely showcases it. I am glad though that this one really didn't go too far, it was pretty bad.

4. Flo Rida/99 Percent - Cake

This song was absolute garbage. For the most part, Flo Rida is an artist in which I don't like. His music has just been terrible for a large portion of his career. This song, which is about how someone has "cake", we don't need to explain that. That already is a terrible premise for a song. The production sucks and the vocals are some of the worst I've heard in a while. Don't even get me started on the chorus either, it sounded like one of the worst things I've ever heard. Overall, this was just a meaningless, pointless, sorry excuse of an addition to the world of music. We did not need this.

3. Sam Hunt - Body Like A Back Road

Here's another song in which I have not been fond of for almost the entire time it's been released. For a good time now, it has been the worst song on the countdown. I don't understand why this was the most popular country song this year. This track is easily Sam Hunt's worst performance ever. The lyrical content on this song is terrible and the vocals aren't much to save it.

2. Andy Grammer - Give Love

This is another example of why I don't like Andy Grammer's music. This song sounds like it was written by a four year old. "Let's give love." I know it's a good message, but seriously this sounds like something I'd write in kindergarten, and I don't know why a grown man would sing something like this. It feels like something that a younger singer would possibly sing. Also, it doesn't help that his voice never ceases to annoy me any time I listen to a song of his. All in all, this was just another mess brought to us by none other than Andy Grammer.

1. Train - Play That Song

This is it everyone, the worst song that ever payed its dues on Hits 1 this year in my opinion. Train holds the title this year with Play That Song. I had hated this song from first listen and frankly I believe that it was in orange for about 90% of its countdown career. Single after single with this band, they get progressively worse. I hope that we don't hear from them soon, and I'm very thankful that this song did not blow up. The vocals just made my ear bleed, because I have always found myself prone to really enjoying the vocals that this band has to offer. I just really have never thought that they were actually all that special with their music. I have found it very mediocre, and in this case terrible. The album in which this song was released was terrible in entirety. Their music has just become more and more terrible as its gone, so yeah. The beat in this one is nothing special either and the production is pretty bad too. All in all, it is another example of a sorry excuse for a song, which I always found myself dreading to listen to on Hits 1, which is the only place it really was successful, thankfully.

Okay, with that out of the way, let us move on to this year's pack of #1 songs on Hits 1. This year, there was really only one song that had an outstanding amount of weeks at the top. We found ourselves with a larger sum of one week number ones this year. So, here's all of the number ones this year on the Weekend Countdown.

Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You (9)
Shawn Mendes - There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back (5)
Ed Sheeran - Galway Girl (4)
Zedd & Alessia Cara - Stay (4)
Ed Sheeran - Castle On The Hill (3)
Imagine Dragons - Believer (3)
Maroon 5 - Don't Wanna Know (3)
Niall Horan - Slow Hands (3)
The Chainsmokers & Coldplay - Something Just Like This (3)
Hailee Steinfeld & Grey/Zedd - Starving (2) [4 total]
Halsey - Bad At Love (2)
Imagine Dragons - Thunder (2)
Liam Payne - Strip That Down (2)
Bruno Mars - That's What I Like (1)
Camila Cabello - Havana (1)
Charlie Puth - Attention (1)
Demi Lovato - Sorry Not Sorry (1)
Ed Sheeran - Perfect (1)
P!nk - What About Us (1)
The Chainsmokers - Paris (1)
Twenty One Pilots - Heathens (1) [2 total]

Now, on to Hit-Bound. We again, as we do every year, found ourselves with a great load of music that never got the privilege to be announced by Spyder Harrison on the Weekend Countdown. Here are those songs.

Bebe Rexha - The Way I Are (Dance With Somebody)
Calum Scott - Dancing On My Own
Captain Cuts/Nateur - Love Like We Used To
Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut To The Feeling
Coin - Talk Too Much
Dua Lipa - Blow Your Mind (Mwah)
Fall Out Boy - Young & Menace
Gavin DeGraw - She Sets The City On Fire
Katy Perry - Bon Appétit
Katy Perry/Nicki Minaj - Swish Swish
Kungs/Ephemerals - I Feel So Bad
Little Mix - Shout Out To My Ex
Little Mix - Touch
Lorde - Green Light
Mansionz/G-Eazy - Wicked
Maty Noyes - In My Mind
P!nk/Eminem - Revenge
Paramore - Hard Times
PRETTYMUCH - Would You Mind
Rita Ora - Your Song
Shawn Hook/Vanessa Hudgens - Reminding Me
Taylor Swift - Gorgeous
Why Don't We - Something Different

From the list of songs that never made it onto the countdown, I will give to you the winner of the 2017 Lights Over Paris Hit-Bound Hero Award. Every year, I give this award to the best song to make it onto Hit-Bound, but one that also failed to make it onto the Weekend Countdown.

2017 Lights Over Paris Hit-Bound Hero Award Recipient: Maty Noyes - In My Mind

Now, I'm sure most of you already forgot about this one, but I loved this song ever since it was first released. I found it very saddening that Maty Noyes never took off. I considered this a very good pop song that was released this past year. Oh well, at least it made it on Hit-Bound.

Runner-Ups:

Lorde - Green Light
Taylor Swift - Gorgeous
Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut To The Feeling
Kungs/Ephemerals - I Feel So Bad

Now, this station normally finds a very good portion of the most popular music that it can find. Usually, though, it excludes a good portion of rap music, as it is more of a goodhearted station. However, they do completely miss some pop songs here and there. Here is one of the biggest songs that Hits 1 failed to pick up on this year.

Biggest Whiff Award: J Balvin & Willy William/Beyoncé - Mi Gente

Tenure Trophies

Shortest Tenured Song Of 2017: G-Eazy & Khelani - Good Life (one week, entered 5/20/17, exited 5/27/17)

Longest Tenured Song Of 2017: Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You (fifty weeks, debuted 1/14/17, exited *not yet exited*)

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