2021: A Year In Review, Pt. 2

For this post, I'll be taking about all the songs that hit #1 on the Hits 1 Weekend Countdown and the American Top 40, all of the Hit Bound dropouts, the shortest and longest tenured songs of the year, and the biggest whiff of the year. I really hope you enjoy this post.

First off, let's talk about every song that hit #1 on both countdowns. As far as this goes this year, some of them are pretty amazing songs, and some of them are decent songs. Though every song that hit #1 on the Hits 1 Weekend Countdown were great songs. So, here are all the songs that hit #1 on the Hits 1 Weekend Countdown and the American Top 40 throughout the year.

Hits 1 Weekend Countdown:

All Time Low/Demi Lovato/Blackbear - Monsters (3 Weeks/1 Week In 2020) (4 Total)

Harry Styles - Golden (2 Weeks/2 Weeks In 2020) (4 Total)

Dua Lipa/DaBaby - Levitating (3 Weeks)

Olivia Rodrigo - Driver's License (4 Weeks)

Taylor Swift - Willow (4 Weeks)

Conan Gray - Overdrive (1 Week)

Dua Lipa - We're Good (2 Weeks)

Taylor Swift - Mr. Perfectly Fine (2 Weeks)

Olivia Rodrigo - Deja Vu (1 Week)

Olivia Rodrigo - Good 4 U (9 Weeks)

Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits (5 Weeks)

The Kid Laroi/Justin Bieber - Stay (6 Weeks)

Ed Sheeran - Shivers (10 Weeks)

American Top 40:

24kgoldn/Iann Dior - Mood (3 Weeks/7 Weeks In 2020) (10 Total)

Ariana Grande - Positions (4 Weeks)

Justin Bieber/Benny Blanco - Lonely (1 Week)

Ariana Grande - 34 + 35 (3 Weeks)

Olivia Rodrigo - Driver's License (5 Weeks)

Billie Eilish - Therefore I Am (2 Weeks)

Tate McRae - You Broke Me First (1 Week)

The Weeknd - Save Your Tears (2 Weeks)

Justin Bieber/Daniel Caesar/Giveon - Peaches (5 Weeks)

Dua Lipa/DaBaby - Levitating (2 Weeks)

Lil Nas X - Montero (Call Me By Your Name) (1 Week)

Doja Cat/SZA - Kiss Me More (1 Week)

Olivia Rodrigo - Good 4 U (7 Weeks)

The Kid Laroi/Justin Bieber - Stay (11 Weeks)

Lil Nas X/Jack Harlow - Industry Baby (1 Week)

Adele - Easy On Me (3 Weeks)

Next, let's talk about the Hit Bound dropouts. As far as Hit Bound goes this year, we do have a lot of great songs that never graduated on the weekend countdown this year. So, in alphabetical order (by artist), here are all the songs that made it on Hit Bound but never graduated on the weekend countdown this year.

5 Seconds Of Summer - 2011

Addison Rae - Obsessed

Against The Current - Jump

AJ Mitchell - Stop

Alec Benjamin - The Way You Felt

Alessia Cara - Sweet Dream

Alesso/Marshmello/James Bay - Chasing Stars

Alexander 23 - Cry Over Boys

All Time Low/Pale Waves - P.M.A.

Almost Monday - Til The End Of Time

Anne-Marie/Little Mix - Kiss My (Uh Oh)

Annika Wells - Fuck Being Sober

Aurora - Giving In To The Love

Bazzi - I Like That

Bebe Rexha - Sacrifice

Billie Eilish - Lost Cause

Blackbear/Tate McRae - U Love U

Blackbear/Wiz Khalifa - Cheers

Black Eyed Peas/Saweetie/Lele Pons - Hit It

Boy With Uke - Toxic

BTS - Permission To Dance

CAL/Quinn XCII - In The Water

Cardi B. - Up

Cheat Codes/Tinashe - Lean On Me

Claire Rosinkranz - Frankenstein

Clinton Kane - Chicken Tendies

Coi Leray - Twinnem

Conan Gray - Telepath

Dan + Shay - Steal My Love

Daya - Bad Girl

Demi Lovato - Dancing With The Devil

Demi Lovato/Ariana Grande - Met Him Last Night

Dixie D'Amelio - Fuckboy

Dixie D'Amelio - The Real Thing

Dixie D'Amelio/Rubi Rose - Psycho

Dixie D'Amelio/Wiz Khalifa - One Whole Day

DJ Khaled/Post Malone/Megan Thee Stallion/Lil Baby/DaBaby - I Did It

Drake/Lil Baby - Girls Want Girls

Dream/Alec Benjamin - Change My Clothes

Ed Sheeran - Visiting Hours

Fletcher/Kito - Bitter

Frances Forever - Space Girl

G-Eazy/Chris Brown - Provide

Girl In Red - Serotonin

Giveon - Heartbreak Anniversary

Halsey - Darling

Halsey - Lilith

Iann Dior - Let You

Jackson Wang/Internet Money - Drive You Home

Jennifer Lopez - In The Morning

Jesy Nelson/Nicki Minaj - Boyz

JP Saxe - Soft Landing

Justin Bieber - Hold On

Justus Bennetts - Bad Day

Jxdn - Think About Me

Khalid - Present

Leah Nobel - Beginning Middle End

Lil Nas X - Sun Goes Down

Lil Nas X/Elton John - One Of Me

Lisa - Money

Lorde - Solar Power

Madison Beer - Reckless

Malia Civetz - Broke Boy

Maluma/The Weeknd - Hawai

Maneskin - Mammamia

Maroon 5 - Lost

Masked Wolf/Bebe Rexha - It's You, Not Me (Sabotage)

MAX/Suga - Blueberry Eyes

Megan Thee Stallion - Body

Megan Thee Stallion - Thot Shit

Mike Posner/Stanaj/Yung Bae - Momma Always Told Me

Mimi Webb - 24 / 5

Mimi Webb - Good Without

Mooski/Chris Brown - Track Star

Nessa Barrett - I Hope Ur Miserable Until Ur Dead

NF - Just Like You

Nick Jonas - 2 Drunk

Quinn XCII/Chelsea Cutler - Stay Next To Me

Regard/Kwabs - Signals

Riton & Nightcrawlers/Mufasa/Hypeman - Friday

Roddy Ricch - Late At Night

Rose - On The Ground

Rosie - Never The 1

Ruel - Too Many Feelings

Sean Paul/Sia - Dynamite

Seb - Seaside Demo

Skrillex/Justin Bieber/Don Toliver - Don't Go

Skylar Grey/Polo G/Mozzy/Eminem - Last One Standing

Tate McRae - Rubberband

Tate McRae - Slower

Taylor Swift/Maren Morris - You All Over Me

Tequila Mockingbird/Bohnes/Hudson Thames - Another Song About Tequila

The Kid Laroi - So Done

Tiesto - The Business

Tiesto/Ava Max - The Motto

Tiesto/Karol G - Don't Be Shy

Tom Grennan - Little Bit Of Love

Travis Scott/HVME - Goosebumps (Remix)

Trevor Daniel - Alone

Trinidad Cardona - Dinero

Weezer/AJR - All My Favorite Songs

Why Don't We - Lotus Inn

Why Don't We - Love Back

Willow/Travis Barker - Transparent Soul

YUNGBLUD/Machine Gun Kelly - Acting Like That

Zara Larsson/Young Thug - Talk About Love

Zoe Wees - Girls Like Us

So now, I'm going to tell you my Lights Over Paris award for this year. So, I decided to give this award to:

2021 Lights Over Paris Hit Bound Hero Award: Weezer/AJR - All My Favorite Songs

Now, let's talk about the shortest and longest tenured songs on the countdown, because I can't remember what the shortest and longest tenured songs were on the American Top 40 this year. As far as it goes, we do have a lot of songs that were on the countdown for a short time and then they came on Hit Bound. Though some of them lasted a long time on there. So, here are the songs that have their shortest and longest tenured countdown run on the Hits 1 Weekend Countdown.

Shortest Tenured Songs:

Shaylen - Goodbye (1 Week) (Debuted On January 23, 2021; Exited On January 30, 2021)

Foushee - Deep End (1 Week) (Debuted On February 6, 2021; Exited On February 13, 2021)

Coldplay - Higher Power (1 Week) (Debuted On May 15, 2021; Exited On May 22, 2021)

Polo G - Rapstar (1 Week) (Debuted On June 26, 2021; Exited On July 3, 2021)

Annita/Saweetie - Faking Love (1 Week) (Debuted On November 6, 2021; Exited On November 13, 2021)

Taylor Swift/Ed Sheeran - Run (1 Week) (Debuted On November 20, 2021; Exited On November 27, 2021)

Longest Tenured Song:

Glass Animals - Heat Waves (25 Weeks) (Debuted On January 30, 2021; Exited On July 24, 2021)

We also have a song that debuted in 2020 and lasted far into 2021 and had a longer countdown tenured than Heat Waves, and that song is:

Tate McRae - You Broke Me First (30 Weeks) (Debuted On October 3, 2020; Exited On May 1, 2021)

And the last thing I want to mention is the Biggest Whiff Of The Year. That means it's the biggest song on Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 that failed to be on Hits 1. So here's the biggest song of the year on Billboard that failed to be on Hits 1.

2021 Biggest Whiff Of The Year Award Winner: Luke Combs - Forever After All

And there you have it. I hope you enjoy reading this post. Also, the Top 10 Songs Of 2021 post will be out soon. We also have Hits 1's Top 30 Songs of 2021 coming soon. So please stay tuned for those posts. Hit me with your thoughts and any interesting facts that you have about everything I said on this post.