At the ninth spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 is Justin Timberlake’s love song ‘Not a Bad Thing.’
I tend to think of Timberlake as an actor more than a musician. I’ve enjoyed his work in Saturday Night Live and Inside Llewyn Davis more than anything I’ve heard from his albums.
Still, there’s no doubt he’s a multi-talented performer.
In the sixth and seventh spots of the Billboard Hot 100 are two more songs that appeared in the chart two months ago — Katy Perry’s ‘Dark Horse’ and Jason Derulo’s ‘Talk Dirty.’
Coming in at #8 is ‘Am I wrong?,’ a mid-tempo self-help anthem by Norwegian duo Nico & Vinz. It’s funny how a mindless party song like ‘Turn Down For What’ shares chart space with sappy fare like this.
As I suspected, Ariana Grande’s ‘Problem’ is sitting high on the charts, at #2. In the third and fourth spots are two other songs I’ve already featured on the blog, John Legend’s ‘All Of Me’ and Pharell’s juggernaut ‘Happy.’
The next new entry is an oddity by DJ Snake & Lil Jon called ‘Turn Down For What.’ The track contains twelve words repeated ad nauseum over an assaulting EDM beat — just like the songs my parents grew up with.
The time has come, once again, to scan the Billboard charts and post the songs currently sitting on top.
It’s been two months since I last mined the charts for Song of the Day fodder, so I figured I’d have a whole new batch of hits to hear.
Not the case. Four of the current top ten hits were in the top ten the last time I did this. Popular songs tend to stay popular.
I hate when instrumentals turn up on Random iTunes Weekends because I rarely have anything interesting to say about them. (That’s assuming I have interesting things to say about songs with lyrics, I realize, which probably isn’t always the case).
So I won’t attempt to analyze today’s SOTD, a bonus track from the re-release of The Zombies’ Odessey and Oracle. I’ll just present it without comment for your enjoyment.
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