A 2018 Year-End Special - A Year In Review (Part 2)

Hello again, everyone! Welcome to part two of this year in review. Before we get started, I would like to take a moment to discuss this year in music. Ultimately, I believe that this year was really nothing special. This year may have been one of the worst, in fact, that we have had in quite a few years. I was even finding it kind of difficult to put together my Top 45 Songs of 2018. I have never had that problem in years past. 

The quality of music in 2018 has not been the best. For the most part, it has been pretty mediocre. We had a lot of terrible rap music, which is derivative of what we have heard in previous years. However, with that poor quality of music--we still had a few gems, and we will discuss some of them in this post, and in my Top 45 Songs of 2018--of course.

Now, with that off of my chest, let's get onto this year in the world of Hits 1. We will start by reviewing all of the #1 songs this year on Hits 1. We did have quite a few good songs hit #1 this year, but we did have one of the worst songs of the year spend nine weeks atop the countdown--which was not good. Regardless, let's review these songs right now.

• Zedd, Maren Morris, & Grey - The Middle (9)
• Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes (8)
• 5 Seconds Of Summer - Youngblood (5)
• Panic! At The Disco - Say Amen (Saturday Night) (4)
• Imagine Dragons - Thunder (3) [5 total]
• Taylor Swift - Delicate (3)
• The Chainsmokers/Kelsea Ballerini - This Feeling (3)
• Charlie Puth - How Long (2)
• Fall Out Boy - The Last Of The Real Ones (2)
• Marshmello/Bastille - Happier (2)
• Shawn Mendes - In My Blood (2)
• Bebe Rexha/Florida Georgia Line - Meant To Be (1)
• Camila Cabello - Never Be The Same (1)
• Ed Sheeran - Perfect (1) [2 total]
• Hailee Steinfeld & Alesso/Florida Georgia Line/watt - Let Me Go (1)
• Imagine Dragons - Natural (1)
• Imagine Dragons - Whatever It Takes (1)
• Macklemore/Kesha - Good Old Days (1)
• Taylor Swift/Ed Sheeran/Future - End Game (1)
• 5 Seconds Of Summer - Want You Back (1)

Alright, onto Hit-Bound. This year--like past years, we had quite a few songs that missed the mark and never had the privilege to be announched by Spyder Harrison on the Hits 1 Weekend Countdown. 

• Big Boi - All Night
• BTS - Fake Love
• Cole Redding - Father Father
• Clean Bandit/Julia Michaels - I Miss You
• HRVY - Personal
• In Real Life - Tattoo (How 'Bout You)
• Jason Derulo & David Guetta/Nicki Minaj/Willy William - Goodbye
• Julia Michaels/Trippie Redd - Jump
• Justin Timberlake - SoulMate
• Noah Cyrus & MAX - Team
• Post Malone - I Fall Apart
• Sofi Tukker/NERVO/The Knocks/Alisa Ueno - Best Friend
• Spencer - Whatever
• The Chainsmokers - Everybody Hates Me
• The Chainsmokers & Drew Love - Somebody
• Thirty Seconds To Mars - Walk On Water
• Twenty One Pilots - Legend
• Welshly Arms - Legendary
• Why Don't We - Trust Fund Baby
• Wild Things - Don't Wanna Feel It
• Years & Years - If You're Over Me

There were a lot more bad songs that got stranded on Hit-Bound this year than there were good. That is good--because it made it much easier to hand out this year's Lights Over Paris Hit-Bound Hero Award. Every year, this award is given to the best song that got stranded on Hit-Bound and never was able to make it onto the Weekend Countdown.

2018 Lights Over Paris Hit-Bound Hero Award Recipient: Julia Michaels/Trippie Redd - Jump

Runner-Ups:

• Clean Bandit/Julia Michaels - I Miss You
• Thirty Seconds To Mars - Walk On Water
• Years & Years - If You're Over Me

With that done, we will now discuss the biggest song that Hits 1 failed to pick up on this year. This station picks up a lot of hit music throughout each year's course, but this year they did miss a few. Here is one of the biggest songs that Hits 1 failed to pick up on this year.

Biggest Whiff Award: Drake - Nice For What


Tenure Trophies & Other Statistics

Shortest Tenured Song of 2018: Lady Gaga - I'll Never Love Again (one week; entered 10/27/18, exited 11/3/18)

Longest Tenured Song of 2018: Zedd, Maren Morris, & Grey - The Middle (still charting; entered 2/3/18)

Smallest "Biggest DROP!!!...": (-5)

• Tie Between:

1. Camila Cabello - Never Be The Same
2. Eminem/Ed Sheeran - River
3. Lauv - I Like Me Better 

Largest "Biggest Jump": (+23)

1. Post Malone/Ty Dolla $ign - Psycho

Lowest Debut: #42

1. Hundred Handed - Too Good

Highest Debut: #20

• Tie Between:

1. G-Eazy & Halsey - Him & I
2. Meghan Trainor - No Excuses

We have reached the end of this year's review! Thank you all for reading. More year-end posts are on the way! Keep a look out!

~ Jack :)