DrogeMiester's Billboard Analysis - October 12, 2019

The new Billboard charts have arrived and so it's time again for me to give you my thoughts! This is a weekly post where I cover three main sections of the charts: the Billboard Hot 100 top 10, the songs rising on the Hot 100, and the new arrivals. As pertaining to the rising songs, in order to be included, a song has to rise at least two spots between Nos. 11 and 20, five spots spots between Nos. 21 and 50, or 10 spots between Nos. 51 and 100. As pertaining to new arrivals, I used to dedicate myself to covering every single song that debuted, but that started to burn me out, especially with the high number of album bombs, so I've been a lot more selective recently and so far I've received no complaints. However, if I skip a song that you want to hear my thoughts on, feel free to let me know. I'll occasionally mix things up depending on the week, like throwing in a notable re-entry into the rising songs section, but generally this is what I go with. Most of the data I give you comes from Billboard.com, usually Gary Trust's weekly article. If I pull from elsewhere, I'll generally let you know. With all of that out of the way, let's dive in and see what this week has to offer!

Billboard Hot 100 Top 10:

1- "Truth Hurts" - Lizzo (=) -- It's a sixth week at No. 1 for "Truth Hurts." In previous weeks I've said this song is vulnerable. And I still think it is. But this week it actually rose in all three categories, with the biggest gain coming in sales as it increased 19 percent. I'm not quite sure what sparked this boost, but there must've been something that happened recently with it. We'll see what happens in the upcoming weeks. If you're on the train of thinking this is a rap song, then "Truth Hurts" is one week away from tying Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" for longest run at No. 1 for a female rapper. I actually don't think this is a rap song, so I don't put much weight on that record. I think this song is a hybrid of a few different genres, which is why I think it's here. If you're able to appeal to multiple different musical fan bases, then that's obviously going to help you out.

2- "Señorita" - Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello (=) -- Billboard seems to have given up on reporting what the margins are between the top two songs. Then they decided to make people pay to see some of the charts. So I have nothing to report on here. When Billboard decides to tell me something, I'll relay the message.

3- "Someone You Loved" - Lewis Capaldi (=) -- Same story here. Billboard didn't even report what the numbers are here. I would assume this is in good position to sneak ahead of the two songs in front of it, but I have no idea if its even rising or falling in the individual categories. If I learn something, I'll let you know.

4- "Ran$om" - Lil Tecca (=) -- People are still streaming this song like crazy. And I have no idea why.

5- "No Guidance" - Chris Brown featuring Drake (=) -- Surprise! The whole top five is the same as it was last week. And I'm fine with the top three. But I'd really like it if Nos. 4 and 5 got knocked out.

6- "bad guy" - Billie Eilish (+1) -- Oh my goodness! A song moved on the charts compared to last week! And it's Billie Eilish rising a spot due to "Panini" collapsing a bit this week. And I'm glad Billie stabilized after last week's fall.

7- "Circles" - Post Malone (+1) -- Post Malone also rising a spot thanks to "Panini" falling.

8- "Panini" - Lil Nas X (-2) -- Last week's fall was expected after it hit top five following the music video and the new remix. If there's anything I'll give Lil Nas X credit for, it's knowing how to take advantage of the system to boost his songs. But Lil Nas X can only do so much if he doesn't have a song that's really catching on. So it fell a spot last week. And now it fell two spots this week. To me that seems to say that this song is on its way out, but I'm going to go find some wood to knock on so me saying that doesn't cause it to reverse course and start rising again.

9- "Goodbyes" - Post Malone featuring Young Thug (=) -- This song is still here because there's NOTHING below the top 10 that seems to want to enter the region.

10- "Old Town Road" - Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus (=) -- Same thing here. The charts are stuck this week, meaning this song is only still here because nothing is rising fast enough. Let's hope that changes because I'm ready for some movement here.

Rising on the Hot 100:

13- "INTRO" - DaBaby (+4) -- I learned after my post last week that this song is actually a real song and not just some weird intro thing that somehow chart. DaBaby just decided to name it "INTRO," which is weird to me. But whatever. It only rose this week because of DaBaby's album bomb that I'll be ignoring. Next week will be the real test.

18- "Trampoline" - SHAED (+14) -- Oh, here's a better idea! Let's get "Trampoline" into the top 10 instead! I love that idea! I actually never believed that it would get there because this has been one of those really slow rising songs. And I'm not yet convinced that it'll get over the hump. There's a lot of songs that slowly rise, then camp out in the teens before hitting the top 10. I'm not sure what route this one is going to take. And if it does hit the top 10, I don't know if it will be there for just a few weeks like "Sweet but Psycho" or if it will randomly shoot up to No. 3 like "Someone You Loved." I obviously hope it's the latter, but at this point I'm just happy that its a top 20 hit because that means more and more people are realizing this song exists.

22- "Only Human" - Jonas Brothers (+6) -- Can Jonas Brothers get another top 10 hit? I'd be fine with that. Although top 20 is the more immediate goal, which I assume it'll hit next week. Then it has to work its way through the teens, which is often the toughest part of actually cracking the top 10.

23- "On Chill" - Wale featuring Jeremih (+6) -- I'm in a really dumb mood right now. I saw Jonas Brothers, then I saw Wale and suddenly I think it should be the Jonas Brothers collaborating with Wale instead of Jeremih? Why? Well, because Jonas is like Jonah and Wale is like whale. The whale didn't swallow Jeremiah. It swallowed Jonah. So it only makes sense, right? OK, I'll see myself out.

30- "Good as Hell" - Lizzo (+13) -- In addition to "Truth Hurts" rising in overall chart points this week, "Good as Hell" shoots up to No. 30. That makes me happy because "Good as Hell" is my favorite of the two songs. It also adds to my theory that Lizzo must've performed the two songs somewhere recently in order to cause both of them to get a boost. I do hope that leads this song to continue to rise.

38- "One Thing Right" - Marshmello & Kane Brown (+9) -- Meh.

46- "Prayed for You" - Matt Stell (+8) -- Thanks for praying for me, Matt.

New Arrivals:

19- "BOP" - DaBaby -- I'm not covering DaBaby's album bomb.

21- "VIBES" - DaBaby -- I'm not covering DaBaby's album bomb.

28- "TOES" - DaBaby featuring Lil Baby & Moneybagg Yo -- I'm not covering DaBaby's album bomb. Also, Moneybagg Yo? What the heck? Let's never make this guy a thing because that almost takes the cake for dumbest rap name I've seen.

43- "iPHONE" - DaBaby & Nicki Minaj -- I'm not covering DaBaby's album bomb.

47- "OFF THE RIP" - DaBaby -- I'm not covering DaBaby's album bomb.

49- "POP STAR" - DaBaby featuring Kevin Gates -- I'm not covering DaBaby's album bomb.

51- "RAW S---" - DaBaby featuring Migos -- I'm not covering DaBaby's album bomb.

55- "GOSPEL" - DaBaby featuring Chance the Rapper, Gucci Mane & YK Osiris -- I'm not covering DaBaby's album bomb.

56- "Writing on the Wall" - French Montana featuring Post Malone, Cardi B & Rvssian -- This is weird combination of human beings. And I'm not interested in hearing how it turned out.

63- "REALLY" - DaBaby featuring Stunna 4 Vegas -- I'm not covering DaBaby's album bomb.

69- "XXL" - DaBaby -- I'm not covering DaBaby's album bomb.

73- "PROLLY HEARD" - DaBaby -- I'm not covering DaBaby's album bomb.

81- "Chicken Noodle Soup" - j-hope featuring Becky G -- Well this is awkward. Given that I'm not covering DaBaby's album bomb, that almost gives me nothing to talk about. But there are two songs I will cover. The first of which is Becky G with... j-hope? I first thought that j-hope was some sort of Latino dude that I've never heard of. But turns out he's one of the 10,000 members of BTS. So we have an odd combination of Spanish and Korean, with both of them singing English every once in a while. And I know I skipped DaBaby's album, but I'm sure that there was probably some better songs from that album than this song because this is annoying. I don't care to translate any of the non-English lyrics, but I'd be willing to guess that they're as meaningless as the English, which doesn't even equate to anything. Then we get the chorus that repeats "Chicken noodle soup. Chicken noodle soup. Chicken noodle soup with a soda on the side." What? This better disappear ASAP because this is more of an annoying earworm than "Old Town Road" and "Baby Shark. And that's saying something.

84- "Heartache Medication" - Jon Pardi -- And we end the week with a country song. And Jon Pardi is singing about drinking at a bar while trying to get over his broken heart. In other words, you've heard this song a thousand times and it's as boring and generic as it comes. But do you know what? I just barely listened to "Chicken Noodle Soup," so this was a breath of fresh air simply because it's actually a real song that can be listened to. More than likely I'll forget this song exists when it leaves the charts. And if it becomes a huge hit, I might get annoyed. But this week I'm fine with it as it puts something else in my head. And it has enough of a folky touch to it to make it a decent song to dance to. So don't get too excited country friends, but this week I'm giving this song a pass.

86- "By My Lonely" - Kevin Gates -- I don't care about Kevin Gates.

89- "THERE HE GO" - DaBaby -- I'm not covering DaBaby's album bomb.

DrogeMiester's Billboard Analysis - October 5, 2019

The new Billboard charts have arrived and so it's time again for me to give you my thoughts! This is a weekly post where I cover three main sections of the charts: the Billboard Hot 100 top 10, the songs rising on the Hot 100, and the new arrivals. As pertaining to the rising songs, in order to be included, a song has to rise at least two spots between Nos. 11 and 20, five spots spots between Nos. 21 and 50, or 10 spots between Nos. 51 and 100. As pertaining to new arrivals, I used to dedicate myself to covering every single song that debuted, but that started to burn me out, especially with the high number of album bombs, so I've been a lot more selective recently and so far I've received no complaints. However, if I skip a song that you want to hear my thoughts on, feel free to let me know. I'll occasionally mix things up depending on the week, like throwing in a notable re-entry into the rising songs section, but generally this is what I go with. Most of the data I give you comes from Billboard.com, usually Gary Trust's weekly article. If I pull from elsewhere, I'll generally let you know. With all of that out of the way, let's dive in and see what this week has to offer!

Billboard Hot 100 Top 10:

1- "Truth Hurts" - Lizzo (=) -- "Truth Hurts" holds at No. 1 for a fifth week thanks to its increased lead on radio, up 3 percent to 119.4 million audience impressions, as well as good enough numbers on sales and streaming, down 5 percent in sales to 26,000 downloads sold and down 6 percent in streaming to 27.5 million U.S. streams. Again, I don't think this is that strong of a No. 1 hit right now. Despite leading on the radio, it fell to No. 2 on sales and is at No. 7 on streaming. It's just holding the fort until something stronger comes around. And I'm not upset at that.

2- "Señorita" - Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello (=) -- Shawn and Camila hang out at No. 2 again this week. Although Billboard gave up several weeks ago on reporting what the song's numbers are, so your guess is as good as mine as to how for behind "Truth Hurts" it is. At this point, I'm guessing it's not doing well enough to overtake it.

3- "Someone You Loved" - Lewis Capaldi (+1) -- Honestly the song that seems to be in strong position to take over for "Truth Hurts" at No. 1 is this song right here, judging solely on the fact that it's only been around for a few weeks in the top 10 while the other two songs ahead of it have been around significantly longer. But again, Billboard didn't report what the numbers on this one were, so we'll have to wait and see. The song did take forever to hit the top 10, so if it's hit its peak, I wouldn't be too surprised.

4- "Ran$om" - Lil Tecca (+2) -- We really need to stop streaming this song. I don't get the appeal. But that's what it's back at No. 4. That and some of the songs ahead of it fell.

5- "No Guidance" - Chris Brown featuring Drake (+2) -- Chris Brown gets his first top five hit since 2008 while Drake collects his 15th career top five. And I couldn't care less about either artist and their achievements this week. I'm just happy the song hasn't blown up too much, but I'm equally as annoyed that it hasn't started losing traction.

6- "Panini" - Lil Nas X (-1) -- We'll have to wait and see what this song ends up doing. At this point, I currently have no idea. It shot up to No. 5 last week due to the arrival of the music video. Now it's fallen one spot. It would be nice if it continued to fall.

7- "bad guy" - Billie Eilish (-4) -- Ouch. That's quite the tumble for Billie this week. But the song did spend 19 weeks in the top five and is at week No. 25 in the top 10, so I guess it was inevitable that it would fall at some point. It's currently the No. 3 song of the year according to my personal tracking and it's sneaking up behind "Sunflower" for that No. 2 spot. Whether or not it catches it will depend on how long it manages to stay in the top 10. If it has anymore tumbles like this week, that might not be very long.

8- "Circles" - Post Malone (+1) -- Post Malone remains stagnant with his two remaining top 10 hits. They just switched spots, which infers that "Circle" may be gaining traction? We'll have to see it if can get any stronger momentum and actually climb higher.

9- "Goodbyes" - Post Malone featuring Young Thug (-1) -- After a surprisingly disappointing run compared to previous Post Malone singles, "Goodbyes" might be finally on the way out since it has nothing else to prop it back up and "Circles" seems to be the new single that's being pushed.

10- "Old Town Road" - Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus (=) -- One more week for "Old Town Road." Mainly because there's nothing too strong below the top 10.

Rising on the Hot 100:

16- "Money in the Grave" - Drake featuring Rick Ross (+2) -- This isn't going anywhere. It's just kinda coasting here in the teens, rising up and down based on what the songs around it are doing.

18- "Suge" - DaBaby (+2) -- DaBaby has an album set to impact the charts next week. So unfortunately we might see this get a huge boost next week.

20- "Hot Girl Summer" - Megan Thee Stallion, Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign (+2) -- I'm a bit surprised that this song hasn't gained enough traction to make much of an impact, but it snuck back into the top 20 this week.

21- "Baby" - Lil Baby & DaBaby (+6) -- DaBaby's presence here might help this surge next week thanks to his album. And that's unfortunate.

28- "Only Human" - Jonas Brothers (+10) -- Jonas Brothers are getting a second big hit following "Sucker." Good for them, I suppose.

38- "223's" - YNW Melly & 9lokknine (+21) -- Make this go away.

39- "I Don't Know About You" - Chris Lane (+8) -- Eh.

43- "Good as Hell" - Lizzo (+7) -- I'm a bit surprised this is still around given how old it is. But I'm not complaining. Out of the two Lizzo songs charting right now, this is certainly the better of the two. So if it can continue to gain traction, I'll be happy.

44- "Lover" - Taylor Swift (+5) -- Taylor really needs a win with this song. She had an excellent week when her album debuted, but it was rough before that and it's continued to be rough after that. If "Lover" doesn't gain traction, she's going to be in danger of falling into obscurity.

47- "One More Night" - Marshmello & Kane Brown (+5) -- This one refuses to go away.

71- "Baby Sitter" - DaBaby featuring Offset (+10) -- Again, thanks to DaBaby's album, this will probably do quite well next week. And that's upsetting.

74- "Playing Games" - Summer Walker (+20) -- I skipped this song when it debuted because it was Taylor Swift week that week and I decided I'd spent too much time on that charts with covering all of Taylor's songs. But I promised I'd get back to it if it started rising and I'm keeping to my word. And, well, turns out I wasn't missing anything. Granted, I've never been much of an R&B person. I don't hate the genre, I just find it mostly boring. That's the most accurate word to describe this song. Boring. It's too chopped up and really slow. There's not much in terms of content and it barely lasts more than two minutes. So if you're an R&B person and you love this, then I'm happy for you. It's just not my thing. It's not horrible or offensive, just dull and forgettable.

76- "Tip of My Tongue" - Kenny Chesney (+12) -- I can't even remember this song.

79- "Hot Girl Bummer" - blackbear (+12) -- Gross. Why are we making this a thing?

85- "Remember You Young" - Thomas Rhett (+15) -- Yes. I might've been a bit nitpicky here when I covered this song last week since it could've been a lot better. But as is, I'm still happy it's around and I'm more than happy if it becomes a pop country hit.

New Arrivals:

17- "INTRO" - DaBaby -- As I've said a few times now, I'm bracing for a DaBaby album bomb next week. I'm not going to cover any of the songs, but I'm expecting it to happen due to the strong presence the songs have on the Apple Music charts at the moment. Yet I'm really confused as to why this song showed up this week and why it's even here in the first place. Intro songs shouldn't exist on the charts. But whatever. If you're into nonsense like this, enjoy yourself, I guess.

22- "Memories" - Maroon 5 -- It's funny, yesterday Gwen Stefani did one of those Wired autocomplete interviews. She talked about "The Voice" for a second and it made me reflect on how refreshing it is to not have any Maroon 5 songs on the charts (although I would LOVE for more Gwen Stefani). I guess I forgot to knock on wood because then today I see this. Although I got 15 seconds in before I had to pause it and figure out what the heck the name of that classical song is that they interpolate here. Yes, I love classical music, but I'm not enough of a classic music nerd to always remember the names of the songs. And Googling doesn't ever help because they don't have lyrics. Luckily Genius helped me out and told me that "Memories" interpolates "Canon in D" by Pachelbel. So before returning to "Memories," I enjoyed myself some "Canon in D" on YouTube. I think the best version is when it's piano and cello combined. Brooklyn Duo has a beautiful version of that if you want to go treat yourself.

Back to the song "Memories," though, I suppose if you want me to not hate your music, interpolating "Canon in D" is a good way to do that. It makes for a soothing, reflective Maroon 5 song, which fits quite well into the themes of the song, with Adam singing about all the memories from the past and how said memories consequentially bring back this girl that he'd previously forgotten about. The song certainly doesn't break any ground for this group that for some reason still call themselves a band, but I'm personally a bit shocked that I'm not upset at this song's existence. Usually I'm upset at Maroon 5 because they put out nothing but boring, generic pop music with zero personality that the pop radio stations across the country completely salivate over. And that's disappointing because Adam has a unique voice and they were once a really cool rock band. So I'm still trying to digest this current song. I don't know if I'm happy because the song is actually good or if it's simply tolerable in contrast to all of their other boring nonsense from the past decade. I guess I'll update you on that as the weeks go by because I'm assuming this will be around on the charts for the majority of the next year due to how much the radio loves Maroon 5. 

86- "Adicto" - Tainy, Anuel AA & Ozuna -- I was going to just skip this song, but since there's only five new arrivals, I humored these three and gave it a shot. And it was about as boring as I expected. Tainy and Ozuna are tolerable enough, but they don't sound too interested in the song and Anuel AA just gets on my nerves, as always. I used my strong deductive skills to determine that "Adicto" translates to "Addicted." That's apparently 100 percent correct. So I translated the chorus and apparently this girl wants nothing to do with him, but he refuses to give up because he is addicted to her... skin? I mean, if you speak Spanish, please inform me if "piel" means something different. If not, then this is an extremely shallow song. He doesn't want her back because he still loves her or wants to be with her. She's just too attractive to let go.

93- "Stuck in a Dream" - Lil Mosey & Gunna -- Nope.

96- "Loco Contigo" - DJ Snake, J Balvin & Tyga -- There was once a point in time where I liked DJ Snake. But it's been a while since he's done anything worthwhile. Instead he's settled with collaborating with people like this that will help him become popular rather than trying to make good music. In fairness to this song, it's slightly more upbeat than "Adicto" as it at least has a background rhythm from DJ Snake this is kinda catchy, but no, this is another useless reggaeton song that has J Balvin sounding quite bored despite singing about how crazy he is for this girl. Tyga comes in and does something, although he seems more confused and out of place than anything. There's no reason for him to be here and it feels like he knows that, but gives them some sort of semblance of a useless verse anyways. And I'm sorry I translated the lyrics because then I found the line, "You beat it like grandma's oatmeal." What?

DrogeMiester's Billboard Analysis - September 28, 2019

The new Billboard charts have arrived and so it's time again for me to give you my thoughts! This is a weekly post where I cover three main sections of the charts: the Billboard Hot 100 top 10, the songs rising on the Hot 100, and the new arrivals. As pertaining to the rising songs, in order to be included, a song has to rise at least two spots between Nos. 11 and 20, five spots spots between Nos. 21 and 50, or 10 spots between Nos. 51 and 100. As pertaining to new arrivals, I used to dedicate myself to covering every single song that debuted, but that started to burn me out, especially with the high number of album bombs, so I've been a lot more selective recently and so far I've received no complaints. However, if I skip a song that you want to hear my thoughts on, feel free to let me know. I'll occasionally mix things up depending on the week, like throwing in a notable re-entry into the rising songs section, but generally this is what I go with. Most of the data I give you comes from Billboard.com, usually Gary Trust's weekly article. If I pull from elsewhere, I'll generally let you know. With all of that out of the way, let's dive in and see what this week has to offer!

Billboard Hot 100 Top 10:

1- "Truth Hurts" - Lizzo (=) -- With its fourth week at No. 1, "Truth Hurts" is now the longest running No. 1 hit by a female rapper without another artist attached to the song. And with so many qualifiers in that sentence, that stat probably means close to nothing. Especially since I don't even consider "Truth Hurts" a rap song. But it is what it is. If that record impresses you, then by all means. I think the bigger issue here is the lack of success that female rappers have on the charts making it so that wasn't a hard bar to jump over since the previous record was held by Cardi B's "Bodak Yellow" with just three weeks at No. 1. Lizzo reigns this week with help from radio, where "Truth Hurts" takes over as the No. 1 song, jumping "Señorita." However, "Truth Hurts" crashes down 12 percent in sales to 27,000 downloads sold, while only increasing 1 percent in streaming to 29.4 million U.S. streams. So outside the radio, it's not super strong. I don't know when the song is going to give up the throne given the competition right now isn't super strong right now, but I don't imagine the reign will last too much longer.

2- "Señorita" - Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello (=) -- I would still say that "Señorita" has at least an outside chance of going back to No. 1, but Gary Trust, who writes Billboard's weekly article that I read for my information, must've got bored of reporting those margins because there were no reports of what the numbers are, so my saying "Señorita" has a chance is just a random stab in the dark with no current evidence to back it up. Perhaps it's also falling at a similar rate.

3- "bad guy" - Billie Eilish (+2) -- Billie got bullied down by Post Malone last week, but she's now back up where she belongs, right there in the top three. Give this song a couple of weeks and it'll officially be the No. 2 most popular song of the year based on my personal tracking, passing "Sunflower" and only being behind "Old Town Road." That's extremely impressive and makes me very happy for Billie!

4- "Someone You Loved" - Lewis Capaldi (+5) -- Oh hey there! This is a huge surprise. It took this song forever to finally hit the top 10, which made me think that it'll probably be the type of song that hangs out in the bottom half of the top 10 for a few weeks without getting much higher. That's what happened with "Sweet but Psycho" this year. Turns out the timing here was fantastic. I had a feeling it would jump up to No. 6 or No. 7 with all the Post Malone songs set to fall, but I had no idea that it would actually leapfrog both "Ran$om" and "No Guidance. I'm certainly happy about this. It makes for quite the excellent top four. This song has been a worldwide hit for quite some time, going top five and top 10 in many countries, as well as being No. 1 in Czech Republic, Ireland, Scotland, and The U.K. It's about time that we jump on board here. Now with "Truth Hurts," "Señorita," and "bad guy" not being super strong at the moment, could this actually contend for No. 1? I didn't think that was going to happen.

5- "Panini" - Lil Nas X (+9) -- Last week I talked about how "Old Town Road" is going to make Lil Nas X a one-hit wonder. By technical definitions, that is now an incorrect statement as "Panini" now vaults into the top five thanks to the remix with DaBaby. Last week's jump up to No. 14 was due to the official music video release. If I mixed those things up in my post last week, I'm now correct. Now I do think Lil Nas X still could end up being considered a one-hit wonder if you have a more loose definition of the term. Most artists that we put into that category did have a second or third song perform decently on the charts due to a sort of holdover effect, but history only remembers them for the one song. I mean, do you remember what the other hits for PSY and WALK THE MOON were outside "Gangnum Style" and "Shut Up and Dance"? In that light, I predict Lil Nas X will only ever be remembered for "Old Town Road," not "Panini." For better or for worst, "Panini" is not an earworm of a song like "Old Town Road." In fact, it's pretty boring and forgettable, with some awfully cheesy rhymes. If Lil Nas X had led with this song instead of "Old Town Road," no way this comes close to the top five. But it's only here now because it's the next single by Lil Nas X after "Old Town Road." Sure, maybe we need to come up with a better term than one-hit wonder, but I think you understand my point good enough. Lil Nas X is just a momentary flare.

6- "Ran$om" - Lil Tecca (=) -- I was bracing for this to return to the top five, but was pleasantly surprised to see it stay put. The two Post Malone songs expectedly dropped out of the top five, but they were replaced by "Someone You Loved" and "Panini" instead. Now if we could get this song to start dropping, that would be nice.

7- "No Guidance" - Chris Brown featuring Drake (=) -- I'm also ready for this song to fade away and be forgotten about. It's being too stubborn, though. But at least it's not getting any higher, though. I can tolerate it hanging around No. 7.

8- "Goodbyes" - Post Malone featuring Young Thug (-5) -- This song was nearly dead in terms of its top 10 life before Post Malone's album dropped. Now I'm wondering how much longer it will stick around. It's a good contender to drop, but we don't have a lot of strong contenders to replace it.

9- "Circles" - Post Malone (-5) -- There's rumblings of a radio push here that could give this song some actual traction following the debut and the album bomb. Like "Goodbyes," I wouldn't mind if this song stuck around, even though I won't miss it when its gone. But it's been a bit surprising with these two songs that they haven't been as huge as some of Post's other songs. Could it simply be the fact that these two songs are more pop-leaning than usual have caused Post fans to not be quite as enthusiastic over these two songs as they were towards his more hip-hop heavy songs?

10- "Old Town Road" - Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus (+1) -- I may or may not have mentioned last week that I wasn't quite ready to celebrate "Old Town Road" falling out of the top 10 because I knew that it was headed back with Post Malone falling out. But it only managed to jump one spot to No. 10, meaning it actually might be gone for good within a week or two. And as a fun fact, due to it's plunge in recent weeks following its 19-week run at No. 1, it's going to fall well short of the No. 1 spot on the 2010s decades list according to my personal tracking as I only track the top 10. I have no idea what Billboard's official list will look like, but right now "Old Town Road" is only at No. 4 and is way short of of the top three, which is "Uptown Funk," "Closer" and "Shape of You."

Rising on the Hot 100:

11- "I Don't Care" - Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber (+2) -- The rising songs section is huge this week due to the fallout of Post Malone's album bomb last week. So let's go through these quickly. "I Don't Care" almost rises back to the top 10, but just misses out. That means it's probably gone for good. Although I wouldn't be sad if it swapped places with "Old Town Road" next week for the sake of getting "Old Town Road" out.

15- "Sucker" - Jonas Brothers (+4) -- "Sucker" holding well on the charts. It ain't coming back into the top 10, but it's hanging around in the teens. Not bad.

16- "Beautiful People" - Ed Sheeran featuring Khalid (+7) -- Our first real song on the rising songs section. I could see this hitting top 10, especially since Ed Sheeran and Khalid are both officially out of the top 10 with their two recent hit singles.

18- "Money in the Grave" - Drake featuring Rick Ross (+3) -- I'm glad this is done with the top 10.

19- "Boyfriend" - Ariana Grande & Social House (+6) -- I think I forgot this song exists.

20- "Suge" - DaBaby (+6) -- I honestly did forget this songs existed. And so should everyone else.

22- "Hot Girl Summer" - Megan Thee Stallion, Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign (+6) -- I'm a bit surprised that this never cracked top 10, but I'm certainly not complaining. It still has a chance to do so since it hasn't been around too long.

25- "The Git Up" - Blanco Brown (+6) -- I'm really surprised that this never hit top 10. It was soaring up the charts and all signs pointed towards it being the next big dance craze in 2019, but then it hit a brick wall and never recovered.

27- "Baby" - Lil Baby & DaBaby (+5) -- This is only here because the two thugs who put the word "baby" in their rapper names wrote a song called "Baby." I didn't think it was funny. And I certainly didn't think it was clever. Just really stupid. So can the novelty if this stupidity wear off, please?

29- "How Do You Sleep" - Sam Smith (+10) -- I'm always fan with Sam Smith being around.

30- "Dancing with a Stranger" - Sam Smith & Normani (+5) -- Speaking of Sam Smith, this is probably the last time I'll be including this song in this post. It was a good song.

32- "Without Me" - Halsey (+8) -- "Without Me" has impressively made it to 50 weeks on the charts. Due to Billboard's rules, that means it has two weeks left before it disappears and becomes a part of chart history rather than chart present.

34- "Trampoline" - SHAED (+8) -- YES!!! This needs to rise even higher!

35- "On Chill" - Wale featuring Jeremih (+13) -- Still don't care about this, but I'm getting nervous. Also, how do you pronounce Wale? Should it be a French pronunciation with an accent, ala "Walé"? Or is it whale, as in the animal. I choose to believe the animal.

38- "Only Human" - Jonas Brothers (+9) -- Jonas Brothers' next hit slowly rising. I wish I cared more about it.

47- "I Don't Know About You" - Chris Lane (+7) -- The country riser of the week.

53- "Time" - NF (+11) -- Snooze.

55- "Ballin'" - Mustard featuring Roddy Ricch (+14) -- Barf.

57- "Prayed for You" - Matt Stell (+14) -- Thanks for praying for me, Matt.

59- "223s" - YNW Melly & 9lokknine (+28) -- Gross. Also, I think I learned that 9lokknine is pronounced like "glokknine," not "blokknine." Of all these dumb things of replacing letters with numbers, turning a "g" into a "9" one of the worst I've seen yet.

62- "Even Though I'm Leaving" - Luke Combs (+30) -- Did I like this one? I can't remember. And there's too much songs this week for me to really care.

74- "Good Vibes" - Chris Janson (+11) -- I probably didn't like this one.

82- "Right Back" - Khalid featuring A Boogie wit da Hoodie (+11) -- Boogie needs to go away. But if I'm remembering right, he's barely on this remix of the song. So Khalid is hoping his name alone will help sell the song as he didn't give him much of anything to do in this song that was already forgettable in the first place.

New Arrivals:

13- "Don't Call Me Angel" - Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus & Lana Del Rey -- From the upcoming movie "Charlie's Angels," hitting theaters in November. Honestly I think the movie has potential, even though no one on Earth asked for a new "Charlie's Angels" remake and excitement level seems to be in the cellar. But that's a conversation to be expanded on at a different time. Honestly I think some people were more excited for this song than the movie itself. And this trio might be more exciting than the movie's trio of angels. Although if you diss on my girl Kristen Stewart, I slap you. And Naomi Scott? I mean, come on. Again, conversation for another day. The song, though? Yeah, no, I'm gonna pass on this one. It might be a bit of a clever juxtaposition with a song called "Don't Call Me Angel" being the theme song for "Charlie's Angels." But Ariana is trying too hard, Miley isn't trying hard enough, and Lana is in a completely different song. With Ariana's side, she's trying so hard to sound super sexy. A lot of sighs and cooing, with a very airy delivery, yet she's there for most of the song. It should be Ariana featuring Miley and Lana because the latter two show up for a quick verse and are gone while Ariana takes a verse and all the choruses. With Miley, I didn't feel any energy or passion from her. By the time the song ended, I had forgotten she was in it. Then for the whole song, I was almost nervously anticipating Lana's entrance. And if you wonder how she mixes with these two... she doesn't. The song completely shifts gears in an awkward way. Granted, I might be fine with a full length version of Lana's section that cuts out Ariana and Miley, but as is this was a weird section of song that felt out of place. And yeah, it's a soundtrack song, meaning it has no depth.

40- "Camelot" - NLE Choppa -- Nope.

45- "Graveyard" - Halsey -- I saw the music video for this a few days ago and was blown away. But not because of the song. The music video is a time-lapse of Halsey painting a huge self portrait and it's excellent. If there comes a point where this music thing isn't working out for Halsey, she could try her hand as artist because this girl can paint. I watched the music video again for this post and was again distracted by the painting job. I totally forgot there was a song I was supposed to be listening to, so I had to go back to my normal Apple Music to listen to this song so I didn't get distracted. And it's not the most mindblowingly amazing song. She says the word graveyard in a funny way and sometimes the song gets stuck on the same note for a bit too long, but it's peaceful and relaxing. It's actually a perfect song for that time-lapse video because it enhances the mood of what's happening. So if you need a nice song playing in the background for whatever it is you're doing, I think "Graveyard" is perfect for that. And sometimes you need a song that's simple and relaxing. I don't know if this is going to be Halsey's next huge hit. If it quickly fades away, it's one of those songs that I might forget exists, but if it sticks around and does, I'll certainly be accepting.

75- "Behind Barz" - Drake -- If this becomes huge, then sure, I'll give it a shot. But for now I don't feel like dealing with a Drake song that debuts at No. 75.

76- "Mood Swings" - A Boogie wit da Hoodie -- Boogie needs to leave me alone.

91- "Hot Girl Bummer" - blackbear -- I facepalmed so hard when I saw this. Obviously this is a play on "Hot Girl Summer," but... why?

97- "1, 2 Many" - Luke Combs & Brooks & Dunn -- This is a confusing artist listing. For the record, there are two acts here. The first is Luke Combs and the second act is the duo Brooks & Dunn. And this is the most twangy, southern, generically country song there is. I'm not even comment any more. Hardcore country fans are going to have fun with this, but this song exemplifies everything wrong about country for me.

100- "Remember You Young" - Thomas Rhett -- After listening to whatever the heck that last thing was, this latest song from Thomas Rhett was quite the breath of fresh air. Now Thomas Rhett is always a confusing artist to me. I never have any idea if a new song of his is going to be awful or if it's going to be really good. So I guess inconsistent in terms of quality is the best way to describe him. But this song is really nice. It has a smooth, gentle touch to it, and outside a few references to drinking tequila, there's no signs of country here. It's a pop song from Mr. Rhett that's very pleasant to listen to. I do get a bit conflicted in regards to the lyrics, though. If the song was a bit more focused with one subject that he's referring to, this could've been great. If it was a father wondering how his little daughter became all grown up or a story about a man falling in love with his childhood friend. Instead, each verse has a different subject that Thomas Rhett is saying he's always going to remember young. And thus when a song is about too much, it ends up being about nothing. Thus I can find songs that do this very thing a lot better. But still, musically speaking this is a nice tune to listen. And if country radio wants to jump on board this non country song that can also cross over to pop radio and make this a big hit, I'll be totally fine with that.

DrogeMiester's Billboard Analysis - September 21, 2019

The new Billboard charts have arrived and so it's time again for me to give you my thoughts! This is a weekly post where I cover three main sections of the charts: the Billboard Hot 100 top 10, the songs rising on the Hot 100, and the new arrivals. As pertaining to the rising songs, in order to be included, a song has to rise at least two spots between Nos. 11 and 20, five spots spots between Nos. 21 and 50, or 10 spots between Nos. 51 and 100. As pertaining to new arrivals, I used to dedicate myself to covering every single song that debuted, but that started to burn me out, especially with the high number of album bombs, so I've been a lot more selective recently and so far I've received no complaints. However, if I skip a song that you want to hear my thoughts on, feel free to let me know. I'll occasionally mix things up depending on the week, like throwing in a notable re-entry into the rising songs section, but generally this is what I go with. Most of the data I give you comes from Billboard.com, usually Gary Trust's weekly article. If I pull from elsewhere, I'll generally let you know. With all of that out of the way, let's dive in and see what this week has to offer!

Billboard Hot 100 Top 10:

1- "Truth Hurts" - Lizzo (=) -- Fending off a surge of Post Malone this week, thanks to Post's new album impacting the charts, is Lizzo with "Truth Hurts" as the song gets its third week at No. 1. After "Old Town Road" broke the record with 19 weeks at No. 1, we had a bit of instability at the top, which I personally prefer. But now it appears that "Truth Hurts" has helped the charts gain a little more stability. Although honestly I don't know how strong of a No. 1 this is. While it continues to slowly climb on the radio, rising 6 percent to 110.8 million audience impressions, narrowly behind "Señorita" on that level, which rose 2 percent to 111.9 million audience impressions, "Truth Hurts" plummeted on both sales and streaming, falling 19 percent and 16 percent respectively. Again, I think part of this is due to it gaining a huge boost last two weeks ago thanks to the VMAs, and thus it continues to float back down to Earth to where it was before that. Now I think it's steady enough across the board to stay in the top five somewhere for a good portion of the fall season, but if something comes around with a lot more momentum, I think "Truth Hurts" in primed to stumble. But the thing is, what is that song? Post Malone wasn't quite strong enough this week to pull off the feat with either of his songs, so we'll have to see what the charts look like in a week or two once the dust settles from the album to see what is actually gaining.

2- "Señorita" - Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello (=) -- I'd say that "Señorita" is still a contender to go back to No. 1, but although it's ahead in radio for the time being, I don't know what its sales and streaming numbers are to compare them to "Truth Hurts" and what the percent change is. I rely on Billboard's weekly article for that and they didn't report that. I could look at the individual sales and streaming charts on Billboard, but when I opened them this week, I got a message saying, "Sorry, only for Billboard Pros!" I don't know what that's all about. But apparently Billboard's site is blocking some of their individual charts in order to get more people to sign up for their $12 a month subscription. Sorry, I'm not signing up for that. I guess that means we get to find out together what happens with "Truth Hurts" vs. "Señorita" instead of me pulling out my crystal ball out and examining the numbers and chart positioning.

3- "Goodbyes" - Post Malone featuring Young Thug (+7) -- With the boost of the album, "Goodbyes" launches up to No. 3 on the Hot 100. Before the album dropped, this song was in danger of falling out of the top 10, so I have no idea what the future holds for this song. I wouldn't be surprised to see it drop out of the top 10 next week once the album bomb wears off. But it does appear that the streaming numbers for the album continue to do well in the coming weeks. And I'm basing that off the fact that most of the songs are still towards the top of the Apple Music charts, a subscription I am signed up for. So it's possible that the album holds well enough to give this song a bit of a second wind instead of pulling a vanishing act like all of Taylor Swift's songs.

4- "Circles" - Post Malone (+3) -- Like with "Goodbyes," I have no idea what this song is going to do. It only debuted at No. 7, which was lower than I thought, and now it rises just three spots with the album bomb, with "Goodbyes" getting the bigger boost. I wouldn't be complaining if it stuck around. It's fine. And if it satisfies the hip-hop audience, I'd rather have a song like this in the top 10 than something else, even though this specific song isn't hip-hop at all.

5- "bad guy" - Billie Eilish (-2) -- While "Truth Hurts" and "Señorita" survived the Post Malone invasion, "bad guy" wasn't so lucky as it gets pushed down to No. 5. And although I don't know what Post Malone's songs are going to do next week, I can see "bad guy" at least jumping ahead of them and back to its No. 3 spot.

6- "Ran$om" - Lil Tecca (-2) -- What I find impressive this week is that, even though Post Malone has a huge list of new songs that are all getting excellent streaming numbers thanks to the album, it's "Ran$om" that remains No. 1 on streaming this week. So for some reason a lot of people are still streaming this song. Either that or a lot of streaming services are forcing it on everyone who listens to hip-hop, which happens on services like Pandora or Spotify where people choose to listen to playlists of songs that are similar to what they like. On Apple Music, though, "Ran$om" is No. 17 right now. Post Malone's "Enemies" is currently No. 1. So it's not Apple Music's fault that "Ran$om" is getting a whole ton of streaming. Even though I say it's impressive that "Ran$om" kept at No. 1 on streaming, it's certainly not something I'm happy about. So whichever services are at fault here, I would love for them to stop.

7- "No Guidance" - Chris Brown featuring Drake (-1) -- I suppose it's a good week for "No Guidance." Two Post Malone songs jump ahead of it and yet it only falls one spot. While I'm still not happy that this song is around, at least it's not getting enough positive momentum to get much higher than what it currently is at.

8- "Take What You Want" - Post Malone featuring Ozzy Osbourne & Travis Scott (new) -- Full disclosure. I'm not covering the Post Malone album bomb. I'll remind you of that again and get into more detail as to why in my rising songs section, but I will cover this one simply out of curiosity as to what the heck a Post Malone and Ozzy Osbourne collaboration sounds like. That opinion will be below. And I guess enough people had that same thought to make this song debut in the top 10 as the highest charting new Post Malone song this week. Luckily my Facebook friends are all smart enough to know that Post Malone didn't make Ozzy Osbourne famous, so I haven't had to deal with any of that. But I have had people on the opposite side pushing back against that silly notion, which has spawned fun memes that have amused me. Because, yeah, Ozzy Osbourne has been active in the music industry since 1967. The first Black Sabbath album was released in 1970 and Ozzy has been going strong ever since. His last solo album was in 2010, while Black Sabbath then released another album in 2013. Although Ozzy has never really been a mainstream artist for obvious reasons if you're familiar with him, not on his own or with Black Sabbath. So he's only ever had one top 10 entry and that was a collaboration with Lita Ford in the late 80's called "Close My Eyes Forever," which peaked at No. 8. Because of that, what Post has done for Ozzy is help him break the record for the longest time in between top 10 entries at 30 years and three months, narrowly beating Dobie Gray, who had a break of 30 years and two months. Dobie Gray hit the top 10 with "Drift Away" in 1973 and then again with Uncle Cracker's version of the song in 2003 that listed him as a featured credit.

9- "Someone You Loved" - Lewis Capaldi (+2) -- I've been waiting for this song to hit the top 10, but I thought I would have to wait another week with the huge influx of Post Malone songs. But impressively the song managed to get here despite Post Malone. Instead of Lewis getting blocked, "Old Town Road," "Talk" and "I Don't Care" were all momentarily kicked out of the top 10. So even though it's only a two spot jump, Lewis jumped ahead of all three of them with "Someone You Loved," which puts the song in prime position depending on what happens to Post Malone next week. It could jump all the way up to No. 6 if all the Post Malone songs dropped out and no new songs debuted ahead of it. "Don't Call My Angel" by Ariana, Miley and Lana, from the upcoming "Charlie's Angel's" movie, and "Graveyard" by Halsey seem to be the only candidates for a big debut next week. We'll see how big those end up being.

10- "Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)" - Post Malone & Swae Lee (+4) -- Did you think that we would be getting one more week from "Sunflower"? Well, I did after seeing it at No. 14 last week while also noticing it was part of the album. But prior to noticing that I wouldn't have guessed it. Considering the song is in its 47th week on the Hot 100 and it's still here in the top section of the charts, it's been quite the remarkable run for this song, which is why it's at least going to be in the top three in any year-end list of most popular Billboard Hot 100 songs. In fact, the album boosting the song into the top 10 for one more week gives it week No. 33 in the top 10, which puts it in a three-way tie with "Shape of You" and "Girls Like You" for the longest run ever in the top 10. If it somehow can miraculously get one more week, it will have the record all to itself. But I think this is the song's final week for good now.

Rising on the Hot 100:

14- "Panini" - Lil Nas X (+15) -- I'm pretty sure this song got a huge boost this week because Lil Nas X released a remix with DaBaby. Because, you know, that's what Lil Nas X does. He releases remixes of his songs in order to boost their sales and streaming. Well, that and the music video above got released. He's trying desperately to get this song to be his second big hit, but "Panini" just doesn't have the same viral energy as "Old Town Road." So even if he gets the song into the top 10, I don't think "Panini" is ever going to be the viral earworm that "Old Town Road" was. Lil Nas X is the very definition of a one-hit wonder because it's not him that became hugely popular. It's his song that did. And even though this follow-up single has benefited a little bit from "Old Town Road," just like PSY had a bit of success with "Gentleman" after "Gangnum Style," Lil Nas X is going to disappear into irrelevancy before too long and we'll all look back at this time in history with embarrassment that we ever let him get center stage.

17- "Wow." - Post Malone (+10) -- The only other song that qualified for the rising songs section this week is "Wow." by Post Malone, which got a 10-spot boost due to the album. And this means that next week is again going to see a large percentage of the Hot 100 show up here. Then we might be able to get back to normal.

New Arrivals:

8- "Take What You Want" - Post Malone featuring Ozzy Osbourne & Travis Scott -- As I mentioned above, the only reason I'm covering this song is because I'm deathly curious as to what an Ozzy Osbourne and Post Malone collaboration sounds like. I'm not covering the rest of the album and I'll get to that in a second. But when I first saw this, I did a huge double take. Ozzy Osbourne? It's strange seeing him on the charts today, especially with Post Malone. Now apparently this happened because Ozzy wanted it to happen, which makes this an even stranger story. Now Post sometimes pretends he's a rock star. He even wrote a song about it, which I still think is stupid. But he's not. And none of his songs I've covered have come even close to being rock. But this is now his first actual time, as far as I know, to actually make a rock song. Because when Ozzy comes calling, wanting to collaborate, you do your best to make it work. And when compared to Post's normal style, this is quite unique and he does an alright job trying to be a rock star. There's some decent guitar and drum moments in this song, with a pretty sweet guitar solo from Andrew Watt, a frequent collaborator with Post who made this song happen. But I don't know, this song just doesn't have the energy and power it needs to make it work. It's good when you compare it to other Post songs, but when you compare it to other rock songs, especially if you go back and listen to some metal or heavy metal, this song feels more like a fake replica of a genre that can be pretty epic. And when you go listen to music from Black Sabbath or Ozzy's solo career, there's no way this even shines a candle to that. And I'm not even a Ozzy aficionado. But it doesn't take much to discern the difference in quality between the two parties. Thus having Ozzy on this song, even if it was his idea, feels more like a gimmick than anything. And lyrically, as I said last week when talking about "Circles," Post writes two types of songs. Flexing and sad break-up songs. This is the latter. So even though it's disguised as a rock song, it's almost the same exact song as "Circles" and "Goodbyes."

15- "Hollywood's Bleeding" - Post Malone -- As for the rest of this album, I'm not going to touch it. Now I fully realize that there could be good songs here. Or at least songs that are tolerable when compared to Post's past songs, especially considering the fact that I think "Goodbyes," "Circles" and "Take What You Want" are fine songs. But last year broke me when it came to these frequent album bombs. They take so much time and effort to do, yet I don't feel like anyone even cares. So I stopped covering album bombs. And that led me to be even more selective with songs I cover in general since there's such a huge flood of awful rap music that constantly drowns the Hot 100. So far I've received no complaints. Now occasionally an album bomb will come along that I am interested in, like Taylor Swift two weeks ago. But my desire to cover Post Malone is just not there. However, I'll make you a deal. If you do love Post Malone and there's a song or two that you think I'll like or you want my opinion on, let me know and I'll oblige. Experience tells me that won't happen, but I'm to there being a first for everything. Also, if there's future singles that come from this crop of new songs, I'll cover them when they get here. But for now, I'm taking it easy this week.

16- "Enemies" - Post Malone featuring DaBaby -- I'm not covering Post Malone's album bomb. See comment above as to why.

18- "Saint-Tropez" - Post Malone -- I'm not covering Post Malone's album bomb. See comment above as to why.

20- "Die for Me" - Post Malone featuring Future & Halsey -- I'm not covering Post Malone's album bomb. See comment above as to why.

22- "On the Road" - Post Malone featuring Meek Mill & Lil Baby -- I'm not covering Post Malone's album bomb. See comment above as to why.

29- "A Thousand Bad Times" - Post Malone -- I'm not covering Post Malone's album bomb. See comment above as to why.

33- "I'm Gonna Be" - Post Malone -- I'm not covering Post Malone's album bomb. See comment above as to why.

34- "Staring at the Sun" - Post Malone featuring SZA -- I'm not covering Post Malone's album bomb. See comment above as to why.

37- "Allergic" - Post Malone -- I'm not covering Post Malone's album bomb. See comment above as to why.

52- "Myself" - Post Malone -- I'm not covering Post Malone's album bomb. See comment above as to why.

53- "I Know" - Post Malone -- I'm not covering Post Malone's album bomb. See comment above as to why.

56- "Liar" - Camila Cabello -- There's a lot of Post Malone I'm skipping. But I will cover the pair of new Camila Cabello songs. Granted, when it comes to Camila, there's not a whole lot of variety that she brings to the table. She has a very specific style of sultry pop. She's always taking advantage of her good looks with her lyrics and her music videos, and she has a good enough voice to pull it off. Her songs might be empty and mostly fluff, but I don't know. I'm a lot more forgiving of pop music. This song isn't special by any means, but it's Camila doing what she does best and I she delivers. It's a fun, upbeat pop song that dips its toes a bit into the Latino vibe, making it fun enough to dance to. Even though I never liked Fifth Harmony, I've always seemed to enjoy Camila ever since she went solo. She's able to be herself. The song is supposed to be a bit sensual as she says she's tried to stay away from this guy, but the way he moves and talks keeps her coming back for me. The song treads the line of what's appropriate, but she doesn't sprint across it like Fifth Harmony always did. Thus there's a lot of teasing, but no dirty lyrics and the balance she finds there is fine with him. Long story short, this is essentially "Señorita" 2.0. And I'm fine with that.

58- "Internet" - Post Malone -- I'm not covering Post Malone's album bomb. See comment above as to why.

60- "Shameless" - Camila Cabello -- Given that we have two Camila songs this week, I was ready to say let's cut and paste from the last song and not spend as much time. Because most Camila songs are the same, right? Well, she has me eating my words here a bit because, while this still is very much in Camila's lane, there is a significant difference between this song and the last. While "Liar" has her trying to get away from this guy and failing to do so, "Shameless" has her desperately wanting this guy, but being unable to get him. While "Liar" is upbeat and playful, "Shameless" has a feeling of dramatic desperation. It almost feels like a Sia song. Or Camila trying to be Sia, anyways. Sia has a much more powerful voice, allowing her to beautifully pull off an emotional song like this. When Camila goes for that in this song, she sounds a lot more strained, like she doesn't have the vocal prowess to knock it out of the park. But it's a solid double hit. And even though I can feel the emotion in her voice, the lyrics are about her shamelessly wanting this guy she can't have and that sentiment doesn't quite cut as deep. She sounds like she's in pain, but it feels a bit hollow. And the music the music isn't a dance number like most of her music. But when it comes to an emotional tune, it feels like it has a bit more static than it should. But all this is me being a bit nit-picky. I have "Chandelier" in my head as I listen to this, and thus I'm coming to terms with myself as to why this doesn't come near that, but for Camila standards this is pretty solid. Kudos to her for getting two songs out there that are different enough from each other to make it seem like I didn't cover the same song twice. 

68- "Self Control" - YoungBoy Never Broke Again -- This is not part of Post Malone's album, YoungBoy is one of those annoying rappers with an annoying name. I've never cared for him. All his songs are the same, anyways.  

82- "homecoming queen?" - Kelsea Ballerini -- We finish the week off with some Kelsea Ballerini. Because I'm certainly not covering the next song. Unlike Kelsea's last song that charted and performed decently, that being "Miss Me More," this is a new song. "Miss Me More" was from her 2017 album "Unapologetically," which I enjoyed. But if "homecoming queen?" is a sign that a new Kelsea album is come, I'm on board with that. And if this song is a taste of what we're getting, I'm excited because this song is excellent. This is the style of country, or country pop, that I enjoy immensely. This is a very stripped back, slow song where Kelsea dives into the emotions behind a homecoming queen who, despite looking perfect on the surface, is a lot more broken and damaged inside. Now the voice in the song has Kelsea talking to a second person. Like Kelsea is the bystander who is talking to the homecoming queen, asking her to show more emotion and let people in how she's really doing. She doesn't always have to put on the act, in fact it can be healthy to show how she's really feeling. I feel there's a lot of power in the lyrics, "What if I told you the world wouldn't end? If you started showing what's under your skin. What if I you let 'em all in on the lie? Even the homecoming queen cries." I also like how the song ends with a question. "Hey, homecoming queen, why do you lie? When somebody's mean, where do you hide?" Letting the song hang like that allows the emotion to sink in. The only slightly negative thing that crossed my mind is that I think the second half could've expounded a bit more as Kelsea essentially just repeats the first half of the song again, but overall I still really enjoyed this song. And even though Kelsea is talking to another person, I think it fits quite well if that second person was herself. But either way, I think this song successfully portrays the emotion that, even though people look perfect on the outside, doesn't mean they are perfect on the inside. You never know who is secretly struggling with life. And I even think that sentiment is expressed well in the title, as it's in lowercase with a question mark at the end. That's some subtle brilliance there.

87- "223's" - YNW Melly & 9lokknine -- YNW Melly released the song "Mixed Personality" with Kanye West earlier this year. That collaboration also caused a previous song of his, "Murder on My Mind," to chart as well. I wasn't impressed. Seeing him return with another new guy whose name I don't even know how to pronounce (is the 9 supposed to be a B?), makes me have zero interest in this. Especially since I'm pretty sure 223 is referring to a type of gun. I don't do songs about shooting people.

DrogeMiester's Billboard Analysis - September 14, 2019

The new Billboard charts have arrived and so it's time again for me to give you my thoughts! This is a weekly post where I cover three main sections of the charts: the Billboard Hot 100 top 10, the songs rising on the Hot 100, and the new arrivals. As pertaining to the rising songs, in order to be included, a song has to rise at least two spots between Nos. 11 and 20, five spots spots between Nos. 21 and 50, or 10 spots between Nos. 51 and 100. As pertaining to new arrivals, I used to dedicate myself to covering every single song that debuted, but that started to burn me out, especially with the high number of album bombs, so I've been a lot more selective recently and so far I've received no complaints. However, if I skip a song that you want to hear my thoughts on, feel free to let me know. I'll occasionally mix things up depending on the week, like throwing in a notable re-entry into the rising songs section, but generally this is what I go with. Most of the data I give you comes from Billboard.com, usually Gary Trust's weekly article. If I pull from elsewhere, I'll generally let you know. With all of that out of the way, let's dive in and see what this week has to offer!

Billboard Hot 100 Top 10:

1- "Truth Hurts" - Lizzo (=) -- After three weeks and three new No. 1 songs, we finally have a repeat at the top as "Truth Hurts" by Lizzo gets its second week at No. 1. While the carousel of new No. 1s was a fun thing, I'm actually glad we didn't have a fourth new No. 1 since said song would've been "Ran$om" by Lil Tecca. That song is already way too high as is. It would've be a travesty for it to go No. 1. So I'm content with "Truth Hurts" at the top. Last week it soared to the top for various reasons, the biggest being Lizzo's performance of the song at the VMAs. She also performed it as a part of a four set song on NBC's "Today" and there were two new remixes released. So that's why it doubled in sales. Naturally after a week like that, the song plummeted in sales, down 28 percent to 38,000 downloads sold. Yet despite that, it still managed to stay ahead of the rest of the pack as the second song on sales was Post Malone's new song "Circles" with 29,000 downloads sold. "Señorita" was somewhere behind that at No. 3. As far as the other categories, "Truth Hurts" and "Señorita" are about neck and neck on streaming, with "Truth Hurts" having a slight edge, but only gaining 1 percent to 34.7 million U.S. streams. "Señorita" leads on radio with 109.5 million in audience compared to "Truth Hurts" having 103.9 million. So yeah, the margins are pretty close here and "Truth Hurts" isn't exactly experiencing a lot of forward momentum. But rather, consistency across the board is what's helping the song. If the sales numbers stay high enough, this might have a solid run at No. 1 since "Señorita" isn't gaining much, either. Although next week it's not "Señorita" that "Truth Hurts" will have to worry about. Post Malone's album dropped recently and will be impacting next week's charts. So it's "Circles" or "Goodbyes" that have the best chance of skyrocketing to the top next week.

2- "Señorita" - Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello (=) -- Even though "Señorita" remains camped out at No. 2 this week after only getting one week at No. 1, there is some positive news for Shawn and Camila. "Señorita" is now the No. 1 song on the radio. "Talk" by Khalid had that title for a while, then last week "I Don't Care" took it for a week. "Señorita" finally leapfrogged both of them, even though the song was up just 2 percent compared to last week. So really the title is because of "Talk" and "I Don't Care" finally starting their downward spiral on the radio, which is the only reason why both songs are still in the top 10 right now. Lizzo actually gained 6 percent in radio with "Truth Hurts" and the margins aren't super big, as previously mentioned, so that'll also be a story worth following. Can "Señorita" keep its radio lead?

3- "bad guy" - Billie Eilish (=) -- At this point, "bad guy" is solidly behind both "Truth Hurts" and "Señorita" with no chance of that changing. But it's also been around for a lot longer, so that makes sense. But still, the song has consistent enough numbers for it still to hang out for longer in the top five. In fact, even though it only celebrated one week at No. 1, its consistency in the top five has resulted it being one of the top songs of 2019. In my personal tracking, it's currently at No. 3, behind only "Old Town Road" and "Sunflower." As long as it stays here in the top five, it should end up passing "Sunflower" before too long to be the No. 2 song of the year. It's also way ahead of "Truth Hurts" and "Señorita" on the list, so as long as it remains in close proximity to those two songs, it'll be hard for those two songs to catch up to it, especially since we're quickly running out of months in the year. 

4- "Ran$om" - Lil Tecca (+2) -- I was a bit nervous at what this song would do this week. I knew it would jump ahead of Taylor Swift and "Old Town Road" to get to No. 4. But would it break up our top three? The song is barely on the radar for the radio charts, debuting at No. 50 this week and is only No. 37 on sales. The thing that had me worried, though, is that Lil Tecca had an album dropped that impacted the charts this week. And with the song already having super high streaming numbers, around 50 million U.S. streams last week, would an album release boost it even higher, causing it to break top three? As you can see, the answer was no. But what kinda surprised me is the song didn't actually increase at all in streaming. It fell 1 percent to 49.4 million U.S. streams, which means it probably would've fallen a bit further if not for the album. So I'm breathing a sigh of relief that it appears the streaming for the song has finally peaked, which will hopefully get the song to start dropping on the charts.

5- "Old Town Road" - Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus (=) -- This needs to fall faster.

6- "No Guidance" - Chris Brown featuring Drake (+1) -- Again, we're saved from this song not getting into the top five. But actually, if it means pushing Lil Nas X and/or "Ran$om" out of the top five, maybe I'd be fine with that? Although it's not going to happen next week as I'm certain that Post Malone's new album will cause "Circles" and "Goodbyes" to get a huge boost next week.

7- "Circles" - Post Malone (new) -- I'll get to my opinion of this song down below, but I'm a bit surprised that it only debuted at No. 7. I wasn't expecting a top three debut, but given that the song was released just a week ahead of the new album, I thought that would give it enough streaming power to debut ahead of "Ran$om," "Old Town Road" and "No Guidance." But nope. However, as I've said a few times now, it's going to get a solid boost next week. How high can it go? I have no idea. My plan is just to wait and see. But I'm thinking it should at least get somewhere in the top five, right?

8- "I Don't Care" - Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber (+1) -- After celebrating one week on top of the radio charts, "I Don't Care" quickly gets its crown taken away by "Señorita." It also swaps spots with "Talk" in the top 10, but I don't think either song is going to last.

9- "Talk" - Khalid (-1) -- This song's weeks in the top 10 are numbers. I wouldn't be surprised if this week is its last week. But it still has a good radio presence, even if that is falling, so if it sticks around for a few more weeks, that'll be why.

10- "Goodbyes" - Post Malone featuring Young Thug (+2) -- Again, I'm surprised that this song hasn't been able to get enough momentum to get bigger than it has, given how popular Post Malone is right now. It only gets back into the top 10 this week because all of Taylor's songs came crashing back down to Earth following her album bomb week. And it should get a good boost with Post Malone's album impacting the charts next week. But after that? Yeah, I'm not sure how much longer this is going to last in the top 10. If it weren't for the album release, I'd say the song right behind it at No. 11 is in a good position to jump over it on the charts.

Rising on the Hot 100:

11- "Someone You Loved" - Lewis Capaldi (+2) -- It's been a while since we've had an album bomb as big as Taylor Swift's last week. Thus, naturally, the week following an album bomb is where we deal with all the fallout, which results in a good portion of the charts ending up in the rising songs section. So let's go through this quickly. We start with Lewis Capaldi going back up to his No. 11 spot. I'd say this song is in a good position to finally break the top 10, but it might have to wait an additional week with Post Malone's album impacting the charts next week.

13- "Sucker" - Jonas Brothers (+2) -- This song had a good run. It only jumped up this week because Taylor fell.

14- "Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" - Post Malone & Swae Lee (+3) -- Same story here as the previous comment. Momentary rise this week. It'll probably continue to hang out in the teens and slowly slide down until it hits its year mark, which is in six weeks from now. As a reminder, Billboard's current rules are that after a song hits 52 weeks, it gets booted from the charts, unless it's still rising in the top 25 or something like that. Billboard created those rules shortly after "Radioactive" and "Sail" both spent somewhere around 80 weeks on the charts. I think that's fair. Make room for more songs to be on the charts. But still, it's impressive that "Sunflower" is still at No. 14 after 46 weeks on the charts. Given how Billboard tracks things, I wouldn't be too surprised if this is their top song of 2019 on their year end list. It'll at least be No. 2 if "Old Town Road" takes that title. It might end up being No. 3 on my list since I only keep track of the top 10. Keeping points for the entire Hot 100 each week is just too much.

17- "Beautiful People" - Ed Sheeran featuring Khalid (+3) -- Slowly rising up in the top 20 is Ed Sheeran and Khalid. Given that both of them are about to fall out of the top 10 with their current individual songs, this song is timing itself quite well.

19- "Boyfriend" - Ariana Grande & Social House (+3) -- I would like to forget this song ever existed. I was a bit surprised to see it show up this week, but I guess Ariana still has enough momentum from her early year dominance to keep this around?

21- "Hot Girl Summer" - Megan Thee Stallion, Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign (+10) -- I was pleasantly surprised when this song failed to hit top 10. But I guess I'm not out of the woods quite yet. Given the names here, I can understand the appeal. These three are just not my cup of tea and I don't think that will be a surprise to anyone.

27- "Wow." - Post Malone (+8) -- Only gaining because of Taylor's drop. Although this could get a boost next week with Post Malone's album?

29- "Panini" - Lil Nas X (+11) -- Lil Nas X trying to maintain relevance. But let's admit it. "Old Town Road" was a fluke success for him that he's never going to repeat. The fact that "Panini" has been around for a while, yet still can't even hit the top 10, is proof of that. Lil Nas X will end up being the definition of a one-hit wonder.

35- "Only Human" - Jonas Brothers (+9) -- Jonas Brothers, meanwhile, do appear to be maintaining relevance. After the huge success of "Sucker," I was wondering if they were going to get a second song to stick around. I guess this is it.

36- "Cash S---" - Megan Thee Stallion featuring DaBaby (+6) -- Please go away.

41- "Good as Hell" - Lizzo (+11) -- I skipped this song last week because I decided to listen to all of Taylor Swift's album, which turned out to be a surprisingly enjoyable experience. But that took so much time that I just ignored everything else. So here we go playing catch up. This is not a song from Lizzo's album this year, but was released back on her debut EP "Coconut Oil" back in March 2016. I also learned that it was initially recorded for the movie "Barbershop: The Next Cut," which was released in April 2016. It's here three and a half years after its release because of Lizzo's performance at the VMAs, which I finally went back and watched and... yeah, she owned it. While I'm not the biggest fan of "Truth Hurts," it's totally fine, but not something that jumps out to me, this song is pretty fantastic, especially with her VMAs performance as context. Not only did she completely own the stage, but her empowerment speech during the performance was electric. It's hard to watch that and not be inspired to feel good about yourself. Maybe the song on its own is a bit simplistic, but it still works. Lizzo reminds me a bit of Megan Trainor in that Megan is always singing empowerment anthems, but Megan falls flat on her face every time as she's lyrically careless and quite hollow in her delivery. Lizzo does a similar thing, but she lands it, especially in this song. The "Coconut Oil" EP describes Lizzo's style as a combination of hip-hop, gospel-soul and club music. I think that's a better description than I've been trying to come up with in previous weeks. That combination of genres is why she's able to have a broader reach. "Good as Hell" certainly leans even more towards the gospel-soul element than than "Truth Hurts" as neither song really strike me as hip-hop, but "Good as Hell" certainly isn't. But if the hip-hop community wants to embrace this, then I'm cool with that.

42- "One Right Thing" - Marshmello & Kane Brown (+17) -- I'm not happy about this.

45- "On Chill" - Wale featuring Jeremih (+10) -- I still haven't listened to this one. Maybe I will one of these weeks. I just don't care enough about these two. 

48- "The Ones That Didn't Make It Back Home" - Justin Moore (+5) -- Not surprised to see this in the top 50. It'll probably continue to climb higher.

49- "China" - Anuel AA, Daddy Yankee, Karol G, Ozuna & J Balvin (+9) -- Gross.

50- "I Don't Know About You" - Chris Lane (+18) -- Boring country doing well. Yawn.

51- "Motivation" - Normani (+15) -- I'm fine with Normani sticking around and doing well. I like her. I just wish this song had more to it. It feels like a Fifth Harmony song to me and expect better from Normani, given her other solo outings.

55- "Lalala" - Y2K & bbno$ (+16) -- Get this out of here.

57- "Living" - Dierks Bentley (+16) -- I guess I'm fine with this?

60- "Time" - NF (+12) -- Nope. Not interested.

64- "Did It Again" - Lil Tecca (+35) -- Don't care. It only got this big of a boost thanks to Lil Tecca's album. He only had three new arrivals from said album that barely debuted this week. I praise the music gods for that lack of success.

66- "Southbound" - Carrie Underwood (+10) -- I like me some Carrie on the charts. Let's get this higher.

70- "Ballin'" - Mustard featuring Roddy Ricch (+13) -- Nope.

73- "Right Back" - Khalid featuring A Boogie wit da Hoodie (+20) -- This one confused me. I don't remember covering it all. I certainly don't remember a Khalid and Boogie collaboration. At first I thought I completely missed it. As it turns out, "Right Back" was a part of Khalid's mini album bomb back in April that I ignored. He released a remix of the song in August with Boogie added to it that re-entered recently and is just now gaining traction as a new Khalid single. And that's unfortunate. Khalid is one of those artists who I like as long as he's working with the right people. The problem is that he'll work with everyone who asks him to jump on a song with him. Boogie is certainly not the artist that will help his music be interesting. So I went and listened to the original. It's boring. I didn't miss anything by skipping it in April. The Boogie remix transforms it from boring to boring with a touch of annoyance since Boogie is a rapper we all should've rejected a long time ago, but somehow our deaf kids these days keep giving him a career by continuing to listen to his music. Although the weird thing is that Boogie is barely on the song. And he only gets a quick part at the very beginning instead of getting the typical third verse rap feature.

81- "Baguettes in the Face" - Mustard featuring NAV, Playboi Carti & A Boogie wit da Hoodie (+14) -- I still think this is one of the dumbest names I've seen for a rap song.

88- "Baby Sitter" - DaBaby featuring Offset (+10) -- Excuse me while I throw up.

New Arrivals:

7- "Circles" - Post Malone -- Full disclosure. If Post Malone has an album bomb as big as Taylor's was last week, I'm not covering it. If any additional songs show up in the top 10, I'll cover them. If future songs stick around, I'll cover them at that point. But there's 17 songs on that album. That includes "Goodbyes," "Circles," "Wow." and "Sunflower." Still, that means a potential for 13 new Post Malone songs and that's too much Post Malone for me. But with "Circles," this is another song from Post that's not bad. With both this and "Goodbyes," Post is leaning heavily into the pop side of his act. And I know people have claimed that he's always been pop and has never been hip-hop, but I've always disagreed with that, especially with all the empty flexing he's done on songs like "rockstar" and "Psycho." Or anything from his "beerbongs & bentleys" album. I got quickly annoyed with Post mumbling through all his empty flexing and turning into a superstar because of it. But even though I've mostly called him hip-hop, there's no hip-hop in "Circles" and there's no flexing. In fact, he just continues to be depressed about a breakup with his girl. That's the other thing Post does. If he's not flexing, he's singing breakup songs. And they're not that interesting. But they're a lot more interesting than his flexing, so I accept them. Although I think the problem with "Circles" is that it's almost the exact same song as "Goodbyes," so he's still lacking the lyrical creativity when he's pretending to be a pop star. And in terms of breakup songs, there's no personal responsibility on "Circles." He's acting like the victim here and waiting for the girl to do something as he then moans about their love going in circles instead of getting better. Again, this is fine. If we have to have a Post Malone song in the top 10 at all times, I'll take a song like this or "Goodbyes" over a lot of his other stuff, but I'm not going to remember this song too much after it goes away. "Sunflower" is still his best song and he still has Swae Lee to thank for that one.

59- "Doin' Time" - Lana Del Rey -- An album I am curious to check out is Lana's new album, although I am kind of annoying with the cursing in the title, even though it is censored as "Norman F*****g Rockwell." I'll just go with the other abbreviation on the cover art of "NFR!" Oddly enough, the title track doesn't even use that phrase in the song. But anyways, we're not talking about that title track, nor the album. Just the lead-off single "Doin' Time." Now I was a bit confused at this. First off, Lana was singing about a relationship with her girlfriend not working out, despite Lana having several boyfriends in the past. If she was bisexual, that's totally fine. It just surprised me. But the other thing is that the song's tone and lyrics don't exactly match. Lana uses her typical somber, depressed tone, but the lyrics appear like they should be more upbeat as they talk about partying and having fun, despite the fact that this relationship just isn't working out. Distracting yourself from the real life sorrow by partying. So using a sad, depressed tone for the whole time didn't seem to fine. And suddenly everything made a whole lot more sense when I learned that this song is a cover of the 1996 song of the same name by the band Sublime. I listen to that one and it's a guy singing about a girl and the song is upbeat. It has a fun, 90's groove to it while having a hint of sorrow. So when Lana covered it, it's not necessarily her revealing that she's bisexual. She just didn't switch the lyrics. What she did do is switch the tone of the song, which I don't think worked. I imagine that there are songs on the album that are good and I want to go check them out. But this song just doesn't do it for me.

69- "Babushka Boi" - A$AP Rocky -- Babushka? I was curious enough to look up what that word meant. According to the dictionary, it's either a triangularly folded kerchief for the head, typically worn by people from Russia or Poland. Or it's an elderly Russian woman. So points for being slightly unique there. I haven't seen many rap songs talking about a babushka. But I'm immediately taking those points away for purposely misspelling boy. I'm also not listening to the song since I've never cared about A$AP Rocky. I usually avoid people with dollar signs in their names, anyways.

77- "Heat" - Chris Brown featuring Gunna -- I'm certainly not giving Chris Brown and Gunna the pleasure of one additional stream counted towards their numbers.

80- "Out of Luck" - Lil Tecca -- Don't care about Lil Tecca's new album.

84- "Shots" - Lil Tecca -- Don't care about Lil Tecca's new album.

89- "Bezerk" - Big Sean featuring A$AP Ferg & Hit-Boy -- Big Sean with another dollar sign person in A$AP Ferg and... Hit-Boy? Don't care about the first two. And the new rapper with a dumb name doesn't help. Also the title. Too close to Eminem's "Berzerk." I re-listened to that instead, just for the heck of it. It's not even one of the better Eminem songs, but I'm sure it's better than this.

90- "Good Vibes" - Chris Janson -- This song had one job. If you're going to call yourself "Good Vibes," then you better have... good vibes. And I suppose it's upbeat enough to qualify for that. You can jam to this song as you're driving down the road listening to your country music. But it also probably requires a passion for the genre to enjoy this, which I do not have. For me, this song has no depth or soul to it. And it belongs with all the other fake country. Heavy drums and guitars that counts as country because Chris Janson sings with a twang. And he's singing about ignoring reality and just enjoying life instead of, you know, doing something to make the world a better place. But whatever. Country radio will probably overplay this and the audience will enjoy it. It's fairly inoffensive and will be easy for me to ignore.

94- "God Only Knows" - for KING & COUNTRY -- I was curious about this one since I've never heard of for KING & COUNTRY. My initial guess is that it was a country song from a new country group I've never heard of, but I wasn't 100 percent sure. Turns out that's a wrong guess. The correct answer is that for KING & COUNTRY is a Christian alternative rock duo composed of brothers Joel and Luke Smallbone from Australia. They initially called themselves Austoville, then Joel & Luke, before deciding on for KING & COUNTRY in 2009. "God Only Knows" comes from their third album "Burn the Ships," released in October 2018. Apparently these guys have done very well on the Christian charts, which I admittedly don't follow, but this is their first crossover to the Hot 100. How did this hit the mainstream nearly a year after its release? Well, back in June there was a Timbaland remix that adds Echosmith to the song. And while I'm sure that version helped, the best answer is that there was a second remix released August 29 that adds Dolly Parton. But on the charts on the moment, neither Dolly nor Echosmith get a credit here, so I think I technically have to talk about the original song.

In terms of said original song, it's a simple song that has a lot of heart to it. With Christian music, it's honestly pretty easily to get generic. You can be singing Christian words without meaning them or realizing what you're saying. But with this song the two brothers do great at bringing a sincerity to the song and the mellow, alternative rock really helps. It's more than just your traditional Christian piano ballad thing, but the rock elements aren't overdone. In terms of the remixes, I'm not sure I'm a huge fan of what I guessing Timbaland did with the music. There's a bit of extraneous things going on in that one and I prefer the more stripped back, acoustic. However, I think the girl from Echosmith really brings a lot. Her combined with the two brothers is the perfect mix that keeps the song interesting as the original does drag on a bit. Now take away Timbaland's remix and throw in an old fashioned, yet subtle country groove to the song and Dolly's version is also very well done. I don't think Dolly mixes quite as well with the brothers as the Echosmith girl does, but for crying out loud, it's Dolly. She's a legend. So all three versions have their positives and negatives, but overall I think all are solid. Whichever version it is that gets chart credit, I hope the song does well. If Lauren Daigle's "You Say" can stick around for forever, this can, too, right? 

96- "The Bones" - Maren Morris -- Only two new country songs this week. Even though Chris Janson is not my lane, I usually like my country girls. Maren, specifically, seems to ride the country pop line pretty well and thus I'm curious to check out her album "GIRL" from earlier this year as I enjoy the title track "GIRL" that charted earlier this year and has done decently. But this follow-up single feels a bit empty to me and I can't quite put my finger on it, but there just doesn't seem to be much passion and energy here. And there are a lot of moments in the song where things are stretched out a bit too much and a bit too choppy. The message of the song is fine. She's comparing a relationship to a house. Even if the paint peels or the glass shatters, as long as the bones are strong, the house can survive. Although if I'm being picky, a house doesn't have bones. I think a strong foundation is what would've made the house metaphor better, but I understand what she was going for. Maybe that's the problem here. If I'm using her metaphor, the foundation of her song is not very strong. If that was in place, maybe the rest of the song would come together better. 

97- "Love Me" - Lil Tecca -- Don't care about Lil Tecca's new album.

98- "La Cancion" - J Balvin & Bad Bunny -- I've heard too much from these two. Where there's J Balvin in 2019, there's also Bad Bunny. In fact, Bad Bunny is attached to most Latin songs that chart these days and I'm getting sick of it. He's the Drake of this Raggaeton genre because he's everywhere and he manages to suck the life out of everything he's on, so I don't know why he's so popular. Knowing these two, I had a feeling I knew exactly what this song was, so I almost skipped it. But I listened to it anyways. And yeah, it is what I thought it was. With a little extra boring adding in. There's no flow and no groove to this song, so I don't understand this.