When Mike Solo announced that Ex’s And Oh’s by Elle King was the Number 1 track on the Weekly Top 20 last week, it was no bombshell to see her detonate and hit the ceiling! A song that’s a combination of alternative rock, blues rock and Southern rock, this winner can grow into you.
I wasn’t quite sure if I liked this frontrunner when I first heard it, or better said when I took notice of it – to me, it sounded like a fleecy pop song trying hard to sound (should I say) rockish. It has weird lyrics that make her sound like a cougar and the beat’s not quite there, nevertheless its catchy aura finally won me over and I would say I don’t dislike the song at all. It’s different alright!
Released as far back as September 23, 2014 as the lead single of King’s 2015 album Love Stuff, it wasn’t until just recently that it received acclaim. It won multiple awards and peaked at Number 1 in the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart, but amazingly it took over a year to get its motor running. I guess the daughter of Rob Schneider couldn’t let daddy down – or is it his influence in Hollywood that’s impelling?
A couple of days ago, Solo and I were having a chinwag forecasting how the charts were going to move this week. After seeing One Direction’s Infinity leap 5 slots up to Number 3, we chewed over whether this could be the trump card to undermine King and become the next champ. The boy band released this song as a promotional single on iTunes and Apple last September 22 when they announced the title of its album Made In The A.M. and has only soared since!
Up 2 spots at Number 4 we have The Weekend with his track The Hills which is catching on to the Cebu market thanks to the Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 chart, where he’s been placing at Number 2 for the past four weeks! The Canadian’s sleeper hit replaced his own Number 1 track Can’t Feel My Face in the Billboard Hot 100 and even if it hasn’t reached Dees’ Number 1, my personal opinion is that it will get there sooner or later.
At Number 5 we have the talented duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with Downtown which debuted the WT20 chart at Number 15 and hurdled 10 slots this week. An amazing start at the race with boundless chances to win it, this hip hop, funk pop hit looks quite promising.
The biggest drop in the chart this week plummeting down 9 spots was OMI’s Hula Hoop, presently on its way out of the countdown at Number 20 – thank goodness! That’s definitively a dive! Disclosure Featuring Sam Smith’s Omen which I quite liked also plunged downhill to Number 9 from Number 4.
A very exiting countdown as we see those tracks turn radically north or south bound on the WT20 chart produced by Mike O hosted by Mike Solo. Keep it cuffed to the hottest countdown in the islands right here at Y101 Always First on Saturdays from 10 AM – 12 noon!
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