2018: A Year In Review, Pt. 2

Hey my fellow bloggers! For this post, I'll be talking about all the songs that hit #1 on the Hits 1 Weekend Countdown and the American Top 40, all the Hit Bound songs that never graduated on the weekend countdown, the shortest and longest tenured song of the year, and the biggest whiff of the year. I hope you enjoy this post.

First off, let's talk about every song that hit #1 on the Hits 1 Weekend Countdown and the American Top 40. As far as this goes this year, a lot of them are pretty good songs, but some of them are bad songs. But some of them are in my Top 10 songs of the year, which you will see in my Top 10 Songs Of 2018 post coming soon. So, here are all the songs that hit #1 on the Hits 1 Weekend Countdown and the American Top 40.

Hits 1 Weekend Countdown:

Imagine Dragons - Thunder (3 Weeks/2 Weeks In 2017) (5 Total)
Ed Sheeran - Perfect (1 Week/1 Week In 2017) (2 Total)
Taylor Swift/Ed Sheeran/Future - End Game (1 Week)
Charlie Puth - How Long (2 Weeks)
Macklemore/Kesha - Good Old Days (1 Week)
Zedd/Maren Morris/Grey- The Middle (9 Weeks)
Hailee Steinfeld/Alesso/Florida Georgia Line/Watt - Let Me Go (1 Week)
Bebe Rexha/Florida Georgia Line - Meant To Be (1 Week)
Camila Cabello - Never Be The Same (1 Week)
5 Seconds Of Summer - Want You Back (1 Week)
Imagine Dragons - Whatever It Takes (1 Week)
Panic! At The Disco - Say Amen (Saturday Night) (4 Weeks)
Taylor Swift - Delicate (3 Weeks)
Shawn Mendes - In My Blood (2 Weeks)
Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes (8 Weeks)
Fall Out Boy - The Last Of The Real Ones (2 Weeks)
5 Seconds Of Summer - Youngblood (5 Weeks)
Marshmello/Bastille - Happier (2 Weeks)

American Top 40:

Camila Cabello/Young Thug - Havana (4 Weeks/3 Weeks In 2017) (7 Total)

Ed Sheeran/Beyoncé - Perfect (2 Weeks)
Dua Lipa - New Rules (4 Weeks)NF - Let You Down (2 Weeks)
G-Eazy/Halsey - Him & I (1 Week)
Bruno Mars/Cardi B. - Finesse (Remix) (2 Weeks)
Zedd/Maren Morris/Grey - The Middle (4 Weeks)
Camila Cabello - Never Be The Same (5 Weeks)
Post Malone/Ty Dolla $ign - Psycho (4 Weeks)
Bazzi - Mine (1 Week)
Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry (1 Week)
Taylor Swift - Delicate (1 Week)
Maroon 5/Cardi B. - Girls Like You (5 Weeks)
Post Malone - Better Now (2 Weeks)
Khalid/Normani- Love Lies (3 Weeks)
5 Seconds Of Summer - Youngblood (3 Weeks)
Ariana Grande - God Is A Woman (3 Weeks)
Marshmello/Bastille - Happier (3 Weeks)

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

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

*Denotes that the song charted on the American Top 40

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

2018 Lights Over Paris Hit Bound Hero Award: Sofi Tukker/NERVO/The Knocks/Alisa Ueno - Best Friend

Now, let's talk about the shortest and longest tenured song of the year. As far as both countdowns go, we have some songs that didn't last long, and some of them that lasted a long time. So, here are the songs that have their shortest and longest tenured countdown run on the Hits 1 Weekend Countdown and the American Top 40.

Shortest Tenured Songs on Either Countdown:

Hits 1 Weekend Countdown:

Lady Gaga - I'll Never Love Again (1 Week) (Debuted on October 27, 2018; Exited on November 3, 2018)

American Top 40:

Daya - New (1 Week) (Debuted on January 27, 2018; Exited on February 3, 2018)

G-Eazy/Charlie Puth - Sober (1 Week) (Debuted on June 16, 2018; Exited on June 23, 2018)

Ella Mai - Boo'd Up (1 Week) (Debuted on September 15, 2018; Exited on September 22, 2018)

Longest Tenured Songs on Either Countdown:

Hits 1 Weekend Countdown:

MAX/Gnash - Lights Down Low (61 Weeks) (Debuted on April 8, 2017; Exited on June 16, 2018)

American Top 40:

Dua Lipa - New Rules (52 Weeks) (Debuted on October 7, 2017; Exited on October 13, 2018)

And the last thing I want to mention is the Biggest Whiff Of The Year Award. That means it's the biggest song on Billboard's Hot 100 Songs 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.

2018 Biggest Whiff Of The Year Award Winner: Drake - Nice For What

And there you have it. I hope you enjoy this post. Don't forget, the Top 10 Songs Of 2018 post will be out soon. Also, we have Hits 1's Top 45 of the Year on Saturday. So please stay tuned for those two posts. Hit me with your thoughts and any interesting facts that you have about everything I said on this post.