Top Ten Tuesday: Kygo x Selena Gomez "It Ain't Me"

This is a very good song with a very compelling video. It's videos like this that I think of when people talk about the music video being a dead art.

New Countdown: Trivia

Cold War Kids

This episode came together very quickly and it has some excellent bits of trivia. So I think you'll definitely enjoy it. I hope I'm right :)



Countdown #332

***Featuring***
Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch (and Emmylou Harris)
Bastille
Cage the Elephant
Cold War Kids
Dreamers
Imagine Dragons
Lorde
Missio
Portugal. The Man
Rag'n'Bone Man
The Revivalists

New Countdown: Artists. Plural!

Portugal. The Man

Hey everyone! I just realized that summer is fast approaching and I'm pretty stoked about that. The weather in Northern Virginia has suddenly been amazing so everything's really coming together, including the Alternative Songs Top Ten!!

Enjoy!


Countdown #331

***Featuring***
Bastille
The Beatles
Cage the Elephant
Cold War Kids
Conor Oberst and Gillian Welch
Dreamers
Imagine Dragons
Lorde
Portugal. The Man
Rag'n'Bone Man
The Revivalists
twenty one pilots

Top Ten Tuesday: Miley Cyrus "Malibu"

This song rockets from 64->10 this week. It's an ok song, I suppose. It's certainly interesting to see where she is taking her sound. And image. The video feels like it was made in the 90's.

Enjoy!

New Countdown: This Podcast Does Not Exist

Busta Rhymes and Lin-Manuel Miranda

We wrap up the last week of April this week with a doozie of an episode! Tune in and hang out!


Countdown #330

***Featuring***
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
Bastille
Busta Rhymes, Joell Ortiz, and Nate Ruess
Cage the Elephant
Cold War Kids
DREAMERS
Imagine Dragons
Kendrick Lamar
Lorde
Rag'n'Bone Man
The Revivalists
twenty one pilots

Top Ten Tuesday: Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber "Despacito"

So a Justin Bieber feature takes a collaboration to #1 again this week (he's the first artist to ever have two new #1 songs in two consecutive weeks), but the really cool thing about this song being at #1 is that it's the first mostly Spanish language song to go to #1 since "Macarena" in 1996! That is insane.

The remix that features Bieber doesn't have a video (yet) but the non-remix with just Fonsi and Yankee does, so I'll post them both

Remix

Non-Remix

New Countdown: Wistful Music for Children

Lorde

I was really pleased with how quickly this one came together! I hope you will enjoy it!



Countdown #329

***Featuring***
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
Bastille
Busta Rhymes featuring Q-Tip and Chauncey Black
Cage the Elephant
Cold War Kids
Imagine Dragons
Lorde
Missio
Rag'n'Bone Man
The Revivalists
Rockapella featuring The Persuasions
twenty one pilots

Top Ten Tuesday: DJ Khaled featuring Justin Biever, Quavo, Chance the Rapper, and Lil Wayne

This very catchy song joins 27 previous songs that have debuted at #1 on the Hot 100. I'll put in the complete list below the video. I don't think it's any surprise that this collaboration was super popular. Bieber and Lil Wayne alone would have done wonders but you also have Quavo from the super popular Migos and also the amazing Chance the Rapper. So this is no surprise to me. The song probably wouldn't even have to be as good as it is to debut at the top, if I'm being honest.

And here's that full list!

• Michael Jackson – "You Are Not Alone" (September 2, 1995)
• Mariah Carey – "Fantasy" (September 30, 1995)
• Whitney Houston – "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" (November 25, 1995)
• Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men – "One Sweet Day" (December 2, 1995)
• Puff Daddy and Faith Evans featuring 112 – "I'll Be Missing You" (June 14, 1997)
• Mariah Carey – "Honey" (September 13, 1997)
• Elton John – "Candle in the Wind 1997" / "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" (October 11, 1997)
• Celine Dion – "My Heart Will Go On" (February 28, 1998)
• Aerosmith – "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" (September 5, 1998)
• Lauryn Hill – "Doo Wop (That Thing)" (November 14, 1998)
• Clay Aiken – "This Is the Night" (June 28, 2003)
• Fantasia Barrino – "I Believe" (July 10, 2004)
• Carrie Underwood – "Inside Your Heaven" (July 2, 2005)
• Taylor Hicks – "Do I Make You Proud" (July 1, 2006)
• Britney Spears – "3" (October 24, 2009)
• Eminem – "Not Afraid" (May 22, 2010)
• Kesha – "We R Who We R" (November 13, 2010)
• Britney Spears – "Hold It Against Me" (January 29, 2011)
• Lady Gaga – "Born This Way" (February 26, 2011)
• Katy Perry – "Part of Me" (March 3, 2012)
• Baauer – "Harlem Shake" (March 2, 2013)^[12]
• Taylor Swift – "Shake It Off" (September 6, 2014)^[13]
• Justin Bieber – "What Do You Mean?" (September 19, 2015)^[14]
• Adele – "Hello" (November 14, 2015)^[15]
• Zayn Malik – "Pillowtalk" (February 20, 2016)^[16]
• Justin Timberlake – "Can't Stop the Feeling!" (May 28, 2016)^[17]
• Ed Sheeran – "Shape of You" (January 28, 2017)^[18]
• DJ Khaled featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper and Lil Wayne – "I'm the One" (May 20, 2017)^[19]

New Countdown: Diaphaneity

Busta Rhymes

Hello! Want some alternative music? Some bonus songs? Some delightful commentary? Well, step right up and enjoy!



Countdown #328

***Featuring***
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
Bastille
blink 182
Busta Rhymes
Cage the Elephant
Cold War Kids
Green Day
Imagine Dragons
Lorde
Rag'n'Bone Man
The Revivalists
twenty one pilots