2022: A Year In Review, Pt. 2

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 this year, 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. 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:

Ed Sheeran - Shivers (4 Weeks/10 Weeks In 2021) (14 Total)

Lil Nas X - That's What I Want (3 Weeks)

Ed Sheeran - Overpass Graffiti (5 Weeks)

Imagine Dragons/J.I.D. - Enemy (6 Weeks)

Charlie Puth - Light Switch (1 Week)

Harry Styles - As It Was (8 Weeks)

Nicky Youre/Dazy - Sunroof (5 Weeks)

Lizzo - About Damn Time (1 Week)

Harry Styles - Late Night Talking (5 Weeks)

Charlie Puth/Jung Kook - Left And Right (4 Weeks)

Lizzo - 2 Be Loved (Am I Ready) (3 Weeks)

Sam Smith/Kim Petras - Unholy (1 Week)

Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero (5 Weeks)

American Top 40:

Adele - Easy On Me (5 Weeks/3 Weeks In 2021) (8 Total)

Glass Animals - Heat Waves (2 Weeks)

Doja Cat - Need To Know (1 Week)

Lil Nas X - That's What I Want (3 Weeks)

Justin Bieber - Ghost (2 Weeks)

Gayle - ABCDEFU (2 Weeks)

Doja Cat - Woman (2 Weeks)

Latto - Big Energy (2 Weeks)

Imagine Dragons - Enemy (2 Weeks)

Harry Styles - As It Was (6 Weeks)

Jack Harlow - First Class (1 Week)

Lizzo - About Damn Time (6 Weeks)

Nicky Youre/Dazy - Sunroof (3 Weeks)

Harry Styles - Late Night Talking (3 Weeks)

Post Malone/Doja Cat - I Like You (A Happier Song) (4 Weeks)

Doja Cat - Vegas (3 Weeks)

Steve Lacy - Bad Habit (1 Week)

Sam Smith/Kim Petras - Unholy (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.

24kgoldn - Mistakes

24kgoldn - More Than Friends

24kgoldn/Travis Barker - In My Head

5 Seconds Of Summer - Best Friends

5 Seconds Of Summer - Blender

88Rising/Bibi - Best Lover

88Rising/Bibi - The Weekend

Aidan Bissett - Tripping Over Air

AJR - The DJ Is Crying For Help

Alec Benjamin - Speakers

Alesso/Zara Larsson - Words

Almost Monday - Sunburn

Amelia Moore - Love Me Or Leave Me Alone

Anees - Sun And Moon

Annita - Boys Don't Cry

AnnenMayKantereit/Giant Rooks - Tom's Diner

Ashe - Angry Woman

Ashe - Another Man's Jeans

Ashe - Emotional

Ashe - Hope You're Not Happy

Ashe - OMW

Austin George - Hands On You

Avery Anna - Narcissist

Avril Lavigne/Machine Gun Kelly - Bois Lie

Bailey Bryan/24kgoldn - MF

Bailey Zimmerman - Rock And A Hard Place

Bazzi - Heaven

Bazzi - Will It Ever Feel The Same

Becky Hill/David Guetta - Remember

Benny Blanco/BTS/Snoop Dogg - Bad Decisions

Benson Boone - Before You

Benson Boone - Room For 2

Beyonce - Summer Renaissance

Big Time Rush - Paralyzed

Billie Eilish - Billie Bossa Nova

Billie Eilish - The 30th

Billie Eilish - TV

Blackbear - Dead Inside

Blackbear - The Idea

Blackbear/Machine Gun Kelly - GFY

Blackbear/The Used - Toxic Energy

Black Eyed Peas/Annita/El Alfa - Simply The Best

Blink-182 - Edging

Blu DeTiger - Hot Crush Lover

Burna Boy - Last Last

Calvin Harris/Charlie Puth/Shenseea - Obsessed

Calvin Harris/Justin Timberlake/Halsey/Pharrell - Stay With Me

Camila Cabello/Willow - Psychofreak

Caroline Polachek - So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings

Charli D'Amelio - If You Ask Me To

Charli XCX/Rina Sawayama - Beg For You

Charlie Puth - Charlie Be Quiet

Charlie Puth - Smells Like Me

Charlie Puth - That's Hilarious

Charlotte Sands - Dress

Cheat Codes/Russell Dickerson - I Remember

Claire Rosinkranz - Don't Miss Me

Claire Rosinkranz - I H8 That I Still Feel Bad For You

Conan Gray - Disaster

Conan Gray - Jigsaw

Conor Maynard - P.G.N.L.

Daisy The Great/AJR - Record Player

David Morris - Dutton Ranch Freestyle

Demi Lovato - 29

Demi Lovato - Substance

Dermot Kennedy - Something To Someone

Devon Cole - W.I.T.C.H.

Diplo/Miguel - Don't Forget My Love

Dixie D'Amelio - A Letter To Me

Dixie D'Amelio - Someone To Blame

Dixie D'Amelio - Wild

DJ Khaled/Drake/Lil Baby - Staying Alive

DNCE - Got Me Good

Doja Cat - Celebrity Skin

Dove Cameron - Bad Idea

Dove Cameron - Breakfast

Drake - Falling Back

Drake/21 Savage - Jimmy Cooks

Ed Sheeran - Celestial

Eddie Benjamin/Alessia Cara - Only You

Em Beihold - Too Precious

Fletcher - Sting

Future/Drake/Tems - Wait For U

Gayle - Luv Started

Gayle - Ur Just Horny

Gryffin/Jason Ross/Calle Lehmann - After You

Gunna/Future/Young Thug - Pushin P

Havanna Winter - Heaven To Me

Havanna Winter - Hollywood Forever

Havanna Winter - Rain Rain Go Away

Hot Chelle Rae - Stupid Song

Huddy - All The Things I Hate About You

Isabel LaRosa - I'm Yours

Jack Harlow - Dua Lipa

James Hype/Miggy Dela Rosa - Ferrari

Jax - To All The Boys I've Loved Before

Jaymes Young - Infinity

Jena Rose - Checkmate

John Legend/J.I.D. - Dope

John Legend/Saweetie - All She Wanna Do

Joshua Bassett - Crisis

Jung Kook - Dreamers

Jvke - This Is What Falling In Love Feels Like

Jxdn - Sober

Kelsea Ballerini - Heartfirst

Kenzie - 100 Degrees

Kim Petras - If Jesus Was A Rockstar

Latto/Lil Wayne/Childish Gambino - Sunshine

Lawrence - Don't Lose Sight

Leah Kate - F U Anthem

Leah Kate - Hot All The Time

Leah Kate - Life Sux

Leah Kate - Monster

Leah Kate - Twinkle Twinkle Little Bitch

Lizzo - Grrrls

Louis Tomlinson - Silver Tongues

Mabel/24kgoldn - Overthinking

Machine Gun Kelly/Blackbear - Make Up Sex

Macklemore/Windser - Maniac

Madeline The Person - Mean

Maggie Rogers - Want Want

Maren Morris - Circles Around This Town

Marshmello/Mae Muller/Trippie Redd - American Psycho

Mazie - Dumb Dumb

Megan Thee Stallion - Her

Mergui - Sucks To Know You (FU)

Mike Posner - I'm Not Dead Yet

Mimi Webb - Goodbye

Monsta X - You Problem

Morgan Wallen - Wasted On You

Muni Long/Saweetie - Baby Boo

Nessa Barrett - Dying On The Inside

Nessa Barrett - Die First

New Rules - Go The Distance

Niki - Every Summertime

Normani Kordei - Fair

OHNO - Drowsy

PinkPantheress/Willow - Where You Are

Quinn XCII/Big Sean - Common

Rihanna - Born Again

Role Model - Cross Your Mind

Rosa Linn/Duncan Laurence - WDIA (Would Do It Again)

Russ/Ktlyn - Handsomer

Sabrina Carpenter - Fast Times

Salem Ilese/Tomorrow X Togetler/Alan Walker - PS5

Saucy Santana/Latto - Booty

Shawn Mendes - Heartbeat

Sofia Carson - Come Back Home

Stacey Ryan/Zai1k - Don't Text Me When You're Drunk

Surfaces - I Can't Help But Feel

SZA - Shirt

Tai Verdes - 100sadsongs

Tai Verdes - Last Day On Earth

Tai Verdes - Two Sugars

Talk - Run Away To Mars

Tate McRae - Don't Come Back

Tate McRae - What Would You Do

Taylor Swift - Carolina

Taylor Swift - This Love (Taylor's Version)

The Chainsmokers - Riptide

Tom Grennan - Remind Me

Tomorrow X Together/Iann Dior - Valley Of Lies

Tove Lo - How Long

Tove Lo - No One Dies From Love

Walker Hayes - Delorean

Waterparks/Blackbear - Fuck About It

Willow - Curious / Furious

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

2022 Lights Over Paris Hit Bound Hero Award: Blink-182 - Edging

Now, let's talk about the shortest and longest tenured songs on the countdown. As far as that goes, we do have a lot of songs that were on the countdown for a short time. 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 this year.

Shortest Tenured Songs:

Omah Lay/Justin Bieber - Attention (1 Week) (Debuted On March 12, 2022; Exited On March 19, 2022)

Encanto Cast - We Don't Talk About Bruno (1 Week) (Debuted On March 19, 2022; Exited On March 26, 2022)

The Chainsmokers - iPad (1 Week) (Debuted On March 26, 2022; Exited On April 2, 2022)

Blxst/Tyga/Ty Dolla $ign - Chosen (1 Week) (Debuted On April 16, 2022; Exited On April 23, 2022)

Doja Cat - Get Into It (Yuh) (1 Week) (Debuted On June 4, 2022; Exited On June 11, 2022)

Demi Lovato - Skin Of My Teeth (1 Week) (Debuted On June 18, 2022; Exited On June 25, 2022)

The Chainsmokers - I Love U (1 Week) (Debuted On June 25, 2022; Exited On July 2, 2022)

Longest Tenured Song:

Post Malone/Doja Cat - I Like You (A Happier Song) (28 Weeks) (Debuted On June 11, 2022; still on the countdown)

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 chart 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.

2022 Biggest Whiff Of The Year Award Winner: Kodak Black - Super Gremlin

And there you have it. I hope you enjoy reading this post. Also, the Top 10 Songs Of 2022 post will be out soon. We also have Hits 1's Top 30 Songs of 2022 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.