FALL 2021: Billboard Top 20 Hit Songs- Ranked WORST to BEST

## ***TERRIBLE TIER***

20.) **"Fancy Like" - Walker Hayes** [#5]

## ***BAD TIER***

19.) **"If I Didn't Love You" - Jason Aldean & Carrie Underwood** [#24]

18.) **"Girls Want Girls" - Drake ft. Lil Baby** [#10]

17.) **"Way 2 Sexy" - Drake ft. Future & Young Thug** [#2]

## ***MEH TIER***

16.) **"Essence" - Wizkid ft. Tems & Justin Bieber** [#17]

15.) **"Knife Talk" - Drake ft. 21 Savage & Project Pat** [#4]

## ***DECENT TIER***

14.) **"Butter" by BTS** [#14]

13.) **"Shivers" - Ed Sheeran** [#16]

12.) **"Need to Know" - Doja Cat** [#21]

11.) **"Stay" - The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber** [#1]

## ***GOOD TIER***

10.) **"Good 4 U" - Olivia Rodrigo** [#7]

9.) **"Take My Breath" - The Weeknd** [#23]

8.) **"Bad Habits" - Ed Sheeran** [#3]

7.) **"You Right" - Doja Cat ft. The Weeknd** [#18]

6.) **"Hurricane" - Kanye West ft. Lil Baby & The Weeknd** [#26]

## ***EXCELLENT TIER***

5.) **"Deja Vu" - Olivia Rodrigo** [#20]

4.) **"MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)" - Lil Nas X** [#13]

3.) **"Kiss Me More" - Doja Cat ft. SZA** [#8]

2.) **"Family Ties" - Baby Keem ft. Kendrick Lamar** [#25]

1.) **"INDUSTRY BABY" - Lil Nas X ft. Jack Harlow** [#6]

## **Patreon's Recommended Songs**

* ***"HÅRD"- Fuel*** (U.S. Mainstream Rock Songs Chart)
* ***"Off The Grid"- Kanye West ft. Playboi Carti & Fivio Foreign*** (U.S. Billboard Hot 100)
* ***"AM I DREAMING?"- Lil Nas X ft. Miley Cyrus*** (Rolling Stone Top 100)
* ***"SMILE"- Wolf Alice*** (U.S. Alternative Airplay Songs Chart)
* ***"Run It"- DJ Snake ft. Rick Ross & Rich Brian*** (U.S. Dance/Electronic Songs Chart)
* ***"edemane"- bbno$ & Rich Brian*** (Canadian Hot 100)
* ***"Enter Sandman"- Ghost*** (U.S. Hard Rock Songs Chart)
* ***"MONSTER (怪物)"- YOASOBI*** (Japan Hot 100)
* ***"The Good Ones"- Charli XCX*** (U.K. Official Singles Chart)
* ***"Memory"- Kane Brown & Blackbear*** (U.S. Billboard Hot 100)

## **Synopsis**

* Sean mentioned before the ranking that he would skip the songs he has reviewed twice or more: "Levitating", "Heat Waves" & "Save Your Tears (Remix)", and a few album bomb songs off *Certified Lover Boy*, such as, "Fair Trade", "Champagne Poetry" & "No Friends In The Industry".
* **#20:** Sean calls this song a commercial jingle due to the amount of product placement it has, and points out that the biggest country songs (e.g. "Meant to Be", "Body Like A Back Road", this song) were all bad. He remarks that this song got big organically, and while trying to "understand the deeper appeal behind" the song, he goes to an Applebee's and orders a "Bourbon Street steak with the Oreo shake", promptly getting kicked out.
* **#19:** To start the segment off, Sean accidentally plays "If I Didn't Have You" from *Monsters, Inc*. As for the song, while he doesn't have an issue with the sound, he criticizes the lyrics as being very generic and uninteresting.
* **#18 & #17:** Sean reviews #18 & #17 concurrently, and comments on how all the songs on Certified Lover Boy are empty noise that Drake didn't seem to put much effort into (compared to Scorpion, where there were a few interesting songs such as "Nice for What" and "In My Feelings") and the features are bad. He then mentions that on Girls Want Girls Drake says, "Say that you a lesbian, girl, me too", and compares it to Justin Bieber's "Yummy", which got ridiculed.
* **#16:** Sean talks about Wizkid and how it took him this long to get it (since he gets talked about a lot). He then calls the song too rhythmic to be low key but too quiet to be fun. He also mentions the remix with Justin Bieber, and makes fun of him saying "Only you fi hold my body".
	+ *"Hearing Justin Bieber pruning out Nigerian slang in his ghost white corporate approved Canadian voice... It just makes my skin crawl"*
* **#15:** Sean says this song is determined and ambient, but everyone's delivery is very dull, especially Drake's.
* **#14:** Sean re-iterates that Butter is a "5 out of 10 dance pop song", and instead talks about the controversy surrounding the stans manipulating the charts so it would stay at the #1 spot.
* **#13:** Sean uses fellow YouTuber TheDoubleAgent's words from a comment he left: *"The melody constantly sounds like it wants to be catchier but it can't because it's too worried about accidentally sounding like another song and getting sued."*
* **#12:** Sean says this is the worst song off of *Planet Her* that the label decided to push, and he says that his main issue with the song is that it drifts around, and says that the only memorable moment of this song is when Doja Cat says: *"Pussy like an Alakazam"*
* **#11:** Sean says he likes the production and The Kid LAROI's performance, but Bieber blocks this song from the Good Tier. He also defends the lyrics of the song even though they might seem clingy.