Goo Goo Dolls (1) - The Pulse Top 15 - 4th October, 2025

And so we meet again. Hello everyone, How are y'all doing? We have an active countdown to get to so let's start!

But before we officially start, let's see what our one exit is:

Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild [#3] {14w} Peak: 3 ; Year End: 18

Top 15

15. sombr - back to friends [Debut] (after 2 weeks Now Playing)
14. Justin Bieber - Daisies [-7] {9w} Peak: 4
13. Max McNown - Better Me For You (Brown Eyes) [+1] {3w} Peak: 13* 
12. John K. - Never Been In Love [+1] {3w} Peak: 12*
11. Billie Eilish - Wildflower [+1] {9w} Peak: 6 
10. Russell Dickerson - Happen To Me [+1] {5w} Peak: 10*
09. Lady Gaga - The Dead Dance [+6] {2w} Peak: 9*
08. Lewis Capaldi - Survive [-7] {10w} 2w @ #1 
07. OneRepublic - Beautiful Colors [+2] {7w} Peak: 7*
06. Alex Warren - Eternity [==] {4w} Peak: 3
05. The Head & The Heart - Arrow [+5] {12w} Peak: 5*
04. Rob Thomas - Hard To Be Happy [+4] {9w} Peak: 4*
03. Benson Boone - Mystical Magical [-1] {12w} 2w @ #1
02. Marshmello feat. Jelly Roll - Holy Water [+3] {6w} 2w @ #1 
01. Goo Goo Dolls - Not Goodbye (Close My Eyes) [+3] {3w} 1w @ #1

Biggest five songs on Mediabase CHR/Pop that The Pulse haven't played yet:

KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Golden [#4]
Tate McRae - revolving door [#8]
Leon Thomas - Mutt [#10]
Doja Cat - Jealous Type [#13]
Katseye - Gabriela [#16]

Biggest five songs on Mediabase Hot AC that The Pulse haven't played yet:

KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Golden [#7]
Sarah Reeves - Cloud Nine [#21]
Melanie Phirrman - Take Me Back [#23]
Harper Grace feat. Kelsey Hart - Freedom [#25]
Doja Cat - Jealous Type [#27]

We have one debut this week. Let's get through it:

sombr - back to friends debuts on the The Pulse Top 15 after 2 weeks Now Playing. It just cracked the top 20 on Hot AC so it's about time this debuted. This is good, but it faded on me a little bit and isn't nearly as good as his other song Undressed. but Sombr still sounds good here.

Now Playing

Bad Suns - Communicating (4)

Bon Jovi - Red, White, and Jersey (3)

Renee Rapp - I Think I Like You Better When You're Gone (4)

Ed Sheeran - Camera (3)

Olivia Dean - Man I Need (Debut)

Myles Smith - Stay (If You Wanna Dance) (Debut)

Sabrina Carpenter - Tears (Debut)

Taylor Swift - TBA from The Life Of A Showgirl {The Pulse played a bunch of songs from TLOAS; Single TBD} (Debut)

No Longer Playing

Chappell Roan - The Subway (after 5 weeks)

Olivia Dean gets her first song on The Pulse with the viral hit Man I Need. Olivia sounds good and this song is a bop, hope this can chart.

Myles Smith isn't even on the top 50 radio Hot AC but that won't stop The Pulse from playing another song from him. But that's fine because Stay (If You Wanna Dance) is an absolute banger and deserves better already.

Sabrina Carpenter finally gets her song Tears to now play on The Pulse. This song just cracked top 20 on Hot AC and is steadily rising so this will likely debut the countdown. This is good, but not great.

and if I close my blurbs...

We lost Manchild. With them picking up Tears, it seemed like this song would be done.

Unlike last week, only one song held it's position this week, meaning lots of movement!

Lady Gaga gets a huge jump into the top 10 with The Dead Dance, although not as huge as previous jumps we've seen.

Lewis Capaldi made a big rebound to #1 for no reason last week as this week he falls 7 again to #8. 

The Head & The Heart finally enter the Top 10 along with Rob Thomas.

The Goo Goo Dolls get our new #1 with Not Goodbye. Yay! We'll see if this will spend 2 weeks here like everything else or if it can have more time. Hope it's not less though...

That's all for now, Time to take Moxie to New Mexico with me on a grand road trip. We are going to hike to Wheeler Peak. Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Poll Of The Week Results:

No, Golden won't ever play (2 votes)
Yes, Golden will play (1 vote)

Josie Edwards (2) - Daniel's Weekly 20 - 1st October, 2025

This week, we see big jumps into the top 3 from Belle Tatum and Damiano David. The Midnight and Laufey both enter the top 10 for the very first time. and we have 4 debuts! Speaking of debuts, Josie Edwards is back to all of her discography charting on the Daniel Weekly. and Life Or Death being older than the throwback is something...

Exits:

Josie Edwards - Kitchen Light [#13] {3w} Peak: 13 ; Year End: miss (will likely return though)

JADE - FUFN (Fuck You For Now) [#17] {5w} Peak: 11 ; Year End: miss

Olivia Rodrigo - logical [#19] {2w} Peak: 19 ; Year End: miss

3Quency - Top Down [#20] {2w} Peak: 19 ; Year End: miss (could return)

01 01 Josie Edwards - New House [==] {4w} 2w @ #1

Daniel’s Pick Of The Week: 5 Seconds Of Summer - Not OK

04 02 Belle Tatum - Sort Of Seventeen [+2] {3w} Peak: 2*

07 03 Damiano David - The First Time [+4] {5w} Peak: 3*

05 04 Josie Edwards - The Great Escape [+1] {16w} Peak: 4*

02 05 Josie Edwards - Good Girls [-3] {19w} 11w @ #1

08 06 Belle Tatum - Boyfriend [+2] {8w} Peak: 6*

03 07 Avery Cochrane - Shapeshifting On A Saturday Night [-4] {8w} 2w @ #1

06 08 Josie Edwards - High Hope [-2] {12w} 2w @ #1

15 09 The Midnight feat. Bonnie McKee - Runaways [+6] {2w} Peak: 9*

12 10 Laufey - Tough Luck [+2] {3w} Peak: 10*

Throwback Of The Week: Madison Beer - Make You Mine (2024)

14 11 sombr - 12 to 12 [+3] {6w} Peak: 11*

09 12 Alex Warren feat. Jelly Roll - Bloodline [-3] {19w} Peak: 2

16 13 Marcus Ferrell - Miss Me Vendetta [+3] {2w} Peak: 13*

11 14 Debbii Dawson - You Killed The Music [-3] {33w} Peak: 2

10 15 Tate McRae - Signs [-5] {13w} Peak: 3

18 16 Erin LeCount - 808 HYMN [+2] {3w} Peak: 16*

DE 17 Magnus Ferrell - Life Or Death [Debut]

DE 18 Tate McRae - Tit For Tat [Debut]

DE 19 JID feat. Ciara & Earthgang - Sk8 [Debut]

DE 20 Josie Edwards - Kerosene [Debut]

This week, the following songs clinched to new highs on the year end standings: Belle Tatum - Boyfriend clinched Top 40

Lewis Capaldi (2) - The Pulse Top 15 - 27th September, 2025

   

And so we meet again. Hello everyone, How are y'all doing? I don't have much to say this week so let's start!

But before we officially start, let's see what our one exit is:

Morgan Wallen feat. Tate McRae - What I Want [==] {14w} Peak: 7 ; Year End: 23

Top 15

15. Lady Gaga - The Dead Dance [Debut] (after 2 weeks Now Playing)
14. Max McNown - Better Me For You (Brown Eyes) [+1] {2w} Peak: 14*
13. John K. - Never Been In Love [==] {2w} Peak: 13
12. Billie Eilish - Wildflower [==] {8w} Peak: 6 
11. Russell Dickerson - Happen To Me [==] {4w} Peak: 11
10. The Head & The Heart - Arrow [==] {11w} Peak: 7
09. OneRepublic - Beautiful Colors [==] {6w} Peak: 9
08. Rob Thomas - Hard To Be Happy [==] {8w} Peak: 8
07. Justin Bieber - Daisies [-3] {8w} Peak: 4
06. Alex Warren - Eternity [-3] {3w} Peak: 3
05. Marshmello feat. Jelly Roll - Holy Water [-4] {5w} 2w @ #1
04. Goo Goo Dolls - Not Goodbye (Close My Eyes) [+10] {2w} Peak: 4*
03. Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild [+2] {14w} Peak: 3*
02. Benson Boone - Mystical Magical [==] {11w} 2w @ #1 
01. Lewis Capaldi - Survive [+5] {8w} 1w @ #1 

Biggest five songs on Mediabase CHR/Pop that The Pulse haven't played yet:

KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Golden [#6]
Tate McRae - revolving door [#9]
Leon Thomas - Mutt [#10]
Sabrina Carpenter - Tears [#11]
Doja Cat - Jealous Type [#13]

Biggest five songs on Mediabase Hot AC that The Pulse haven't played yet:

KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Golden [#8]
Sarah Reeves - Cloud Nine [#17]
Harper Grace feat. Kelsey Hart - Freedom [#19]
Sabrina Carpenter - Tears [#21]
Melanie Phirrman - Take Me Back [#25]

We have one debut this week. Let's get through it:

Lady Gaga gets her second song of 2025 (no, Die With A Smile wasn't on the top 15 in 2025) with The Dead Dance. I'm not really feeling this. Lady Gaga sounds great here, but the melodies aren't sticking and the production feels generic.

Now Playing

Renee Rapp - I Think I Like You Better When You're Gone (3)

Bon Jovi - Red, White, and Jersey (2)

sombr - back to friends (2)

Ed Sheeran - Camera (2)

Bad Suns - Communicating (3)

Chappell Roan - The Subway (5)

Nothing is new this week...

and it blurbs like an eternity...

We lost What I Want. I do love that song (I'm sorry) but it had been stalling at #7 for so long so it's about time it lets somebody else stall there.

Speaking of songs stalling, #13 through #8 all held their spots this week.

Daisies and Eternity both jumped huge last week, but this week they each fell 3 spots. Make it make sense.

The Goo Goo Dolls get the obligatory big jump into the top 5, as they jump ten spots to #4. Let's get this to #1 soon!

Manchild by Sabrina Carpenter is done with its run everywhere but here. I expect this to be a song that leaves from #2.

with Holy Water falling to #5 after its two weeks at #1, we have a returning #1 from Lewis Capaldi and his song Survive. This is now the 4th song in a row to spend 2 total weeks at #1, unless Mystical Magical or something gets a third week.

That's all for now, Time to take Moxie scuba diving. Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Poll Of The Week Results:

Benson Boone - Mystical Magical (2 votes)
Marshmello feat. Jelly Roll - Holy Water (1 vote)
Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild (1 vote)

Josie Edwards (1) - Daniel's Weekly 20 - 24th September, 2025

 # Daniel's Weekly 20 - September 24th

About last week when I said “The Great Escape” is the first song title to appear twice. That is false. “Bloodline” was the title of 2 songs in the Daniel Weekly at the same time also. And Josie Edwards passes 300k points as an artist this week! Belle Tatum also gets the new biggest jump record with her +11 to #4 with “Sort Of Seventeen”. Finally, Josie Edwards achieves her THIRD #1 and 14th week at #1 total.

Exits:

Benjamin Steer - No One Wants To Die Alone [#10] {10w} Peak: 9 ; Year End: 37

Sigrid - Fort Knox [#12] {5w} Peak: 7 ; Year End: miss

02 01 Josie Edwards - New House [+1] {3w} 1w @ #1*

Daniel’s Pick Of The Week: Goo Goo Dolls - Not Goodbye (Close My Eyes)

01 02 Josie Edwards - Good Girls [-1] {18w} 11w @ #1

04 03 Avery Cochrane - Shapeshifting On A Saturday Night [+1] {7w} 2w @ #1

15 04 Belle Tatum - Sort Of Seventeen [+11] {2w} Peak: 4*

06 05 Josie Edwards - The Great Escape [+1] {15w} Peak: 5*

03 06 Josie Edwards - High Hope [-3] {11w} 2w @ #1

14 07 Damiano David - The First Time [+7] {2w} Peak: 7*

09 08 Belle Tatum - Boyfriend [+1] {7w} Peak: 8*

07 09 Alex Warren feat. Jelly Roll - Bloodline [-2] {18w} Peak: 2

05 10 Tate McRae - Signs [-5] {12w} Peak: 3

Throwback Of The Week: Finger Eleven - Paralyser (2001)

08 11 Debbii Dawson - You Killed The Music [-3] {32w} Peak: 2

17 12 Laufey - Tough Luck [+5] {2w} Peak: 12*

13 13 Josie Edwards - Kitchen Light [==] {3w} Peak: 13

16 14 sombr - 12 to 12 [+2] {4w} Peak: 14

DE 15 The Midnight feat. Bonnie McKee - Runaways

DE 16 Marcus Ferrell - Miss Me Vendetta

11 17 JADE - FUFN (Fuck You For Now) [-6] {5w} Peak: 11

18 18 Erin LeCount - 808 HYMN [==] {2w} Peak: 18

20 19 Olivia Rodrigo - logical [+1] {2w} Peak: 19*

19 20 3Quency - Top Down [-1] {2w} Peak: 19

The following songs achieved to various spots on the year end list:

Josie Edwards - Good Girls clinched the top spot…

Josie Edwards - The Great Escape clinched Top 20

Josie Edwards - New House clinched Top 40

Ethan's Ten Most Unpopular Music Opinions

 

For those of you that have followed Ethan's blog for the past three year, you would know he has some very unpopular opinions. Today, I'm counting ten of the most unpopular music opinions. These could be artists that he doesn't like that other people do, songs he loves that nobody else does, and anything in between. Let's get started!

#10 - "Billie Eilish - What Was I Bored For?"

#10 kicks us off with what will be a re-occuring theme - Ethan's inability to enjoy beautiful music. This one is only #10 as more people than Ethan hate this, but most people still love it, including myself, so I might be a bit biased here. It did take me some time to like it, because it is very slow, but Billie Eilish is an amazing singer and this song is one of the best examples of her great singing voice. Again, There's a few that also dislike this, but the supermajority love it. Let's go to #9!

#9 - "Party Rock Anthem is the 6th best song of all time"

I didn't always love Party Rock Anthem. I do enjoy it now, probably more than most, but I definitely wouldn't say it's the 6th best song of all time. I get it, you love Party loops. but there's nothing meaningful about this song. It's fun and that's about it, and that's what many people think.

#8 - "Knox Amazingness"

I hate to break it to you, but there's nothing amazing about this stupid wannabe Blink-182 redhead dude. He isn't The 1975, that's for sure, because even Ratty Healy has more talent than him. He's so bad, Mikey Piff loves him. That's how you know you f*cked up. 

To: Mikey Piff

SiriusXM Studios

Broadway, New York City

I am writing to you today to express my dismay for this artist, Knox. He is not a good musician, all he sings about is nothing. Yup, he can't even sing about anything relevant? So why are you playing him? How much did he pay you? Please let me know, we all need to know this answer.

From:

Daniel

#7 - "Tate MidRae"

This is likely Ethan's most confusing take, as he had 5 Tate McRae songs be his best song of the week, for a total of over 2 months. But I still don't understand how Tate McGreat can possibly be bad. Her vocals, her production, her tour, it's all top notch. There's a reason I'm seeing her for the third time next month. I know, I'm not biased at all.

#6 - "AJR Amazingness"

Ass Jaundice Rabies definitely deserve to be here. There's nothing appealing about "I'm Ready" where the little toddler yelling in my ear is the only noise i listen to for 3 minutes. They also blessed us with "World's Smallest Violin" which is one of about 3 recent songs my dad can't stand. That tells you how bad these people are. Not to mention they just run their songs on, with no apparent need for grammar. Their lyrics don't make any sense either.

#5 - "Anxiety is Doechii Amazingness"

I disagree. Anxiety, the most hated song of 2025, is most certainly NOT Doechii amazingness. The worst part about this song is that it stopped one of the best songs of 2025 from being an actual hit. It seems this has faded on Ethan's taste buds, but he still loved it by the end of it's run, so it gets a spot here.

P.S. I talked to Brady from SiriusXM for an hour and 20 minutes, and even he couldn't stand this song.

#4 - "Woman's World is Katy Perry Amazingness"

Well, Ethan, I guess the 5 other people that attended the Katy Perry Lifetimes tour agree with you, so you're not alone. That's a plus, right? It's most definitely NOT a woman's world, and the Billboard Hot 100 chart run the song had showed us exactly that. 

In all seriousness, and this is a genuine question: Do you still think it's amazing even after she went to space and all the controversy from that?

Alright, back to the...

#3 - "Eminem is the greatest rapper ever"

NOPE! Emidnem has made too much garbage in his life to even be considered one of the greatest rappers ever, let alone the greatest. He keeps recycling the same lines over and over again. Name another rapper who does that? Oh right, nobody, cuz nobody else does that! I've talked to well over 100 people by now about this, and they all say the same thing: You can't call someone great who makes as much garbage as he makes great songs. Sure, Lose yourself exists. Wanna know what else exists?

Oh my god, don’t even get me started on Houdini. That song is proof that just because Eminem can still rhyme fast doesn’t mean he should. It’s like he pulled out the same tired, early-2000s Slim Shady gag reel, dusted it off, and thought, “Yeah, this’ll kill in 2025.” Spoiler: it doesn’t.

The beat? Corny. It sounds like a rejected ringtone from a 2008 flip phone. The hook? Annoying. It’s him clowning around with a “look at me, I’m wacky!” vibe that feels so forced it’s painful. And the bars—don’t even get me started—half of them are cheap shock humor, the other half are him reminding you he used to be controversial. Bro, you’re not pushing the culture anymore, you’re recycling the same middle-school locker room jokes we’ve already heard for 20 years.

What’s worse is he tries to pass it off like a clever comeback to critics, like he’s Houdini escaping the haters. But honestly? It sounds like he’s locked himself inside his own outdated style, begging people to still think it’s edgy. Newsflash: it’s not 2002 anymore. Slim Shady antics don’t hit the same when you’re in your 50s. At this point, it’s dad rap cosplay.

And here’s the kicker: people defend this track by saying, “But look how technical he is!” WHO CARES if you can rhyme “balloon” with “cartoon” at hyperspeed if the song itself is unlistenable trash? Technical skill without good taste is just noise. Houdini is Eminem proving he can still juggle words—great, congrats—but also proving he has no idea what actually sounds good in 2025.

#2 - "Godbull"

A god has one name, not a gazillion. Shitbull doesn't even know what to call himself and what he wants others to call him. That's not god behavior. Maybe he has a few good, not great, songs, but he's not a god. In fact, Gods are supposed to help people, not sing about how much money you have in your song "I Feel Good" Pitbull, there's literally starving children in Africa, go help them with your millions of dollars instead of bragging about eventually going bankrupt which is what you'll do when you follow through with all your stupid promises you've made from all your songs. Again, he's not a god, god is Godson Boone and the Goddess is, well let's see.

#1 - "David Midner" - Daylight

Oh, you're telling me i'm the only one who likes Daylight? Okay, fine.

#1 - "Olivia Midrigo"

Ethan really showed how flop his opinions are when he said "GUTS was more Olivia Rodrigo midness". In fact, that comment was so bad, it got Ethan muted for 6 hours on the Hits 1 Discord server. the server typically put up with Ethan's shenanigans but saying GUTS was more Olivia Rodrigo midness was not just a step too far, it was 5,847,129 steps too far. Olivia's best album does NOT deserve those comments, and he's the only one who says that. Vampire is Olivia Godrigo amazingness. bad idea, right is Olivia Godrigo amazingness. get him back! is Olivia Godrigo amazingness. drivers license is Olivia Godrigo amazingness. traitor is Olivia Godrigo amazingness. obsessed is Olivia Godrigo amazingness. so american is Olivia Godrigo amazingness. good 4 u is Olivia Godrigo amazingness. deja vu is Olivia Godrigo amazingness. happier is Olivia Godrigo amazingness. And her new song "Ethan Sucks For Hating Me" will be Olivia Godrigo amazingness.

Well, that was all the terrible takes for now. If someone wants to make a list of MY terrible music opinions, go ahead, I want to read it.