Wherever I Go was released very unexpectedly and from the first listen, I knew this would be a keeper. We haven't heard from OneRepublic ever since singles from Native were being overplayed on the radio.
The reason I do this is to prevent prematurely ranking songs that could very well be much bigger in 2017. The cutoff date for eligible songs was the week of December 10, 2016, making Lady Gaga – Million Reasons, John Legend – Love Me Now, James Arthur – Say You Won't Let Go, and Charli XCX – After The Afterparty the final songs eligible for 2016. I think those two were the only big ones.ģ) Songs that debuted in late December are not eligible. Unfortunately because of that, it's not eligible for this year's rankings.
Also, I did place Taylor Swift – Out Of The Woods in the year-end list for 2014, which was when it spent that one week on the countdown. I probably could've ranked it a little higher this year. I'll admit that I did kind of prematurely rank Justin Bieber – Sorry last year. That way it'll be 45 new songs and there will be no repeats from last year or any year before. Songs that were on Hit-Bound w/ Mikey Piff, Hits & Misses w/ Pete Wentz, or the YouTube15 w/ Jenna Marbles, but not the countdown, are not eligible for this list.Ģ) No songs from previous year-end rankings are eligible from this year's rankings. If it spent at least one week on the countdown within 2016, it is eligible. So let's start by going over the rules and requirements for eligibility for this lists.ġ) Only songs from the Hits 1 Weekend Countdown are eligible for this list. But before we get into the list, I do have some things I want to cover first. These songs are the ones that stood out the most to me while being surrounded by a sea of not-so-good music. So at this time, I will be counting my Top 45 songs of this past year. But while we did get a lot of shitty music this year, we also got a load of good songs. I'm sure many would consider our music at this time to be at an all time low (not a Jon Bellion reference). As I did explain in my Year In Review post, the music selection this year wasn't exactly as good as we had hoped.