Still clowning about TS12...

Hi! (Wow, two posts in one day. I just started this a few minutes ago though since this is so huge.) So after our last post was a bit... less pleasant, I have huge surprise news for all the Swifties reading my blog: TS12 seems to be on the horizon. I know this is super clownish, and Taylor Nation has done some suspicious things that turned out to be complete tricks, but this time I had to say something before it's too late since I truly believe something huge will happen tomorrow.

Earlier today at 9:12, Taylor Nation made a post on Instagram captioned 'Thinking about when she said “See you next era…” ❤️‍🔥' accompanied with 12 images of Taylor Swift wearing orange outfits on the Eras Tour, which led to spiraling theories that TS12 is coming soon, and reinforcing the common theory that TS12 will be the one major remaining color Taylor hasn't themed a whole era around yet.

Then, on taylorswift.com - Taylor Swift's official website and the birthplace of many well-known Easter eggs, a countdown began that will end at 12:12 AM on August 12th, with a sparkling orange backdrop.

(Yes, I intentionally screenshotted it at 58 minutes since 5+8=13.)

Now, I don't think this will be an album release since it would be way too soon, and it's more likely that Taylor would release an album on a Friday. I do think this will be an announcement of TS12 however. As for the release, it's possible that it will be exactly one month from then. The fact that the Taylor Nation post was specifically at 9:12 instead of their usual midnight or noon has led to a theory that September 12th will be the TS12 release date.

Well, we can never know for sure. I was certain about the countdown theory last month to the point where I made another one of these hurried posts as part of my summer special to replace an older Taylor Swift-themed post I had planned, and that turned out to be a trick. However, I don't know what else "see you next era" with 12 orange outfits on the same day as a big sparkling orange countdown to 12:12 on the 12th taking up Taylor's ENTIRE official website could mean. I don't think this is clownery. I think this has so obviously got to mean something. Taylor knows that if signs this extreme lead to nothing, it will disappoint many of the Swifties. But of course, I am not placing any pressure on her to release new music, as excited as I am for TS12 during this insane time for Taylor. Ultimately, anything can happen, but... one thing, above anything else, seems to be on the horizon.

That's all for now! Byeeeeeeeeee!

No easy way to do this but... I think this is for the best.

I'm turning off comments on my blog. Cue the jeers, but luckily I won't be able to see your complaints because... well, you can't post them.

This honestly won't even change much. I rarely got comments in the first place, and the few I got were about 90% just me making extra announcements which I can make in posts, and 10% occasional song suggestions or inoffensive remarks from other bloggers which we can live without. Most of the general questions or announcements for the whole community, and most of the spam, has always just been under Ethan's blog.

I will also not comment on other blogs anymore, unless I ever have an announcement that involves the community as a whole that I couldn't just post about on my own blog. Really the only situation I think that would truly be the case is if I decided to change my blog URL again, which is unlikely. Yeah, I may be overreacting since I've already been such a "distant" blogger, but I just want to make this final.

Well, why am I doing this now?

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We've had a sort of rapid "rise and fall" of the Hits 1 blogging community in just a couple weeks. I know these were just basic anonymous comments, but I've actually been thinking really hard about how last week's countdown post on Ethan's SiriusXM Hits 1 & Music Blog had a comment that said "love how active this blogging community is recently", and then this week's post on the same blog said "this community is in shambles and needs to be fixed". I would say it's currently in a state of being both of those things at the same time.

The comments section of Ethan's music blog is very telling of the current state of the infamously chaotic Hits 1 blogging community. Of course, a majority of it is still the relatively harmless trolling, like people spamming comments claiming to be "Sabrina Carpenter" and whatnot.  That's been going on for a long time and I don't really mind that, as long as it doesn't go out of hand. But there's also a bit of drama going on between bloggers, who as far as I'm aware don't even know each other in real life. I won't say any names here, but if you're reading this as a H1BC member, you probably know what I'm talking about. And I know I'm probably slightly misinterpreting what's going on since I'm very much on the outside of it all, but I want to stay out of drama as well as I can. I felt as if turning off comments would be best considering the current state of the community.

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...so here's the thing I'm trying to get across. To be quite honest, I kinda want to be my own separate thing from the "Hits 1 blogging community". I'd be fine with having my blog linked on Hits 1 blog sidebars just to help with pageviews, and I might still submit to... whatever events or games are held by H1BC members, which are few and far between now that it's become increasingly common for bloggers such as myself to opt out of using Discord. I just don't want to be associated with something that's "in shambles" or seem like I'm somehow a part of a feud.

I know that this is somewhat of a risky move, but don't take it the wrong way please. I'm not saying the H1BC is an inherently negative or hateful community or that I am personally on bad terms with anyone within it, and I really don't want this to be my downfall as a blogger. The whole point is I really want to stay neutral. If this ever escalates to a point where it's affecting my mental health and I feel like I need to go on indefinite hiatus, so be it. For now, I'll blog for fun, comment-free, under an anonymous title, pleasantly sharing my favorite music, but I won't consider myself within the H1BC. I mean, I've literally only made one Hits 1 post in the past half-year so I was already not really a Hits 1 blogger. I'm an AllTheHits blogger and that feels better to me.

Oh yeah, also for that very reason, I'm discontinuing the Blogger Top Ten. Literally after one installment. Yes, I know you're all getting deja vu to the 2024 days when I couldn't hold up a regular series for the life of me, but now you can't come at me for it. I was actually already considering that since I'll soon have even less time for posting. But I really liked the concept so I'll gladly support if anyone in the H1BC wants to pick up the series where I left off.

Again, don't take this the wrong way. That's all for now.

AllTheHits 8/10/25 + announcements

Hi! So, I have a lot of things to get out of the way. 

• First of all, there's the obvious - my new blog URL. I would love for this to replace the old one on whichever blog sidebars have mine listed. 
• Secondly, I made some new additions to AllTheHits. One is the Nebula. Essentially, it's the same thing as the light pink songs in the abyss (songs that would be in high rotation on AllTheHits but are ineligible for the charts that are being specifically highlighted for other reasons), but I made them into their own entirely separate thing. I debated having it replace the abyss, but the abyss will still exist, mostly for when an album comes out and I can't fit all the songs in AT & HFE30. 
• You also may notice that some of the HFE30 songs are colored gold now? Well, these are songs that have been charting for at least 13 weeks and have peaked within the top 3. These will be considered gold songs, so whenever they leave the chart, even if it's before the one-year cutoff, they'll immediately enter the AllTheHits recurrents page (unless they significantly fade on me within that time, which for the most part is unlikely). By the way, I don't think anyone has noticed the new recurrents page I added! It's linked under the "AllTheHits: My Own 'Radio Station'" tab.
• I am, at least temporarily, discontinuing the Starlight Seven. It was easily the most tedious segment to make and was generally not very interesting to keep track of. 
• And finally... I will have a "surprise post" coming tomorrow that... may not be the most fun. You'll see.

Anyway, AllTheHits was pretty inactive this week aside from a few big things. Laufey is now pulling a Billboard Swift in which the entire top 5 on my chart is Laufey's 5 eligible songs, including this week's new release amazingly debuting at #3. This week also saw new debuts from Haim and Audrey Hobert, and after his live performance on Austin City Limits in support of public television, Finneas makes a grand return to the top 10. There were not many debuts in Almost There this week, but one of them will come as a surprise to some people - it's a random six-month-old "where-did-they-find-this" Hits 1 song that I just recently listened to again and is just now clicking with me.

Well, here is this week's AllTheHits!

HitsForEvermore 30

Exits:

Rumi & Jinu - Free (4 wk: Peak #21)

Sombr - We Never Dated (4 wk: Peak #10)

Benson Boone - Reminds Me Of You (5 wk: Peak #10)

Benson Boone - Momma Song (9 wk: Peak #12)

#30: Haim - All Over Me (Debut) (1 wk: Peak #30)

#29: Evanescence - Afterlife (+1) (13 wk: Peak #28)

#28: Huntr/X - Golden (=) (6 wk: Peak #21)

#27: Audrey Hobert - Bowling Alley (Debut) (1 wk: Peak #27)

#26: Mikayla Geier - Piano In The Sky (+1) (3 wk: Peak #26)

Golden Extra: Finneas - The Kids Are All Dying

#25: Caroline Polachek - On The Beach (=) (6 wk: Peak #22)

#24: Teen Jesus & The Jean Teasers - Balcony (-1) (13 wk: Peak #7)

#23: Doechii - Anxiety (-3) (5 wk: Peak #16)

#22: Pinkpantheress - Illegal (+7) (3 wk: Peak #22)

#21: Lady Gaga - How Bad Do U Want Me (+1) (2 wk: Peak #21)

Underground Extra: Madds Buckley - Overboard

#20: Benson Boone - Take Me Home (-1) (6 wk: Peak #9)

#19: Alex Warren & Rose - On My Mind (-1) (6 wk: Peak #11)

#18: Benson Boone - Mystical Magical (-1) (9 wk: Peak #11)

#17: Alessi Rose - Same Mouth (-1) (2 wk: Peak #16)

#16: Lyn Lapid - Fix (-4) (14 wk: Peak #9)

Rising Extra: Katseye - Gabriela

#15: Debbii Dawson - You Killed The Music (=) (17 wk: Peak #2)

#14: Favors - The Hudson (-1) (4 wk: Peak #12)

#13: Faouzia - Porcelain (-2) (13 wk: Peak #2)

#12: Rose - Messy (-5) (5 wk: Peak #7)

#11: Lyn Lapid - Buttons (-3) (13 wk: Peak #7)

Almost There Extra: Faouzia - Unethical

#10: Chappell Roan - The Subway (=) (2 wk: Peak #10)

#9: Finneas - Little Window (Re-entry) (3 wk: Peak #6)

#8: Lyn Lapid - Floater Friend (-4) (16 wk: Peak #2)

#7: Finneas - Same Old Story (+2) (24 wk: Peak #2)

#6: Favors - The Little Mess You Made (-1) (7 wk: Peak #2)

In memoriam: Connie Francis - Pretty Little Baby

#5: Role Model & Laufey - The Longest Goodbye (+1) (5 wk: Peak #4)

#4: Laufey - Silver Lining (-1) (18 wk: Peak #1 for 4 wk)

#3: Laufey - Snow White (Debut) (1 wk: Peak #3)

#2: Laufey - Lover Girl (=) (7 wk: Peak #1 for 1 wk)

#1: Laufey - Tough Luck (=) (13 wk: Peak #1 for 12 wk)

Biggest jump: Pinkpantheress - Illegal (+7)

Biggest drop: Rose - Messy (-5)

Almost There

Audrey Hobert - Wet Hair (Debut)

Taylor Bickett - Drunk On The Steps (2)

Lorde - Man Of The Year (3)

Katseye - Gabriela (Debut)

Miley Cyrus - More To Lose (2)

Mgk - Miss Sunshine (3)

Madds Buckley - Overboard (Debut)

Sienna Spiro - You Stole The Show (3)

Rachel Chinouriri & Sombr - All I Ever Asked (3)

Maeve - (We're Not) Together!!!! (Debut)

Ridgely - Hot Cakes (4)

Lyn Lapid - Where Is My Mind (4)

Faouzia - Unethical (Debut)

Hayley Williams - Glum (2)

Renee Rapp - You'd Like That Wouldn't You (2)

Avery Anna - Mr. Predictable (Debut)

Audrey Hobert - Sue Me (3)

Dropouts:

A7S - Eyes On Me (1)

Maroon 5 & Lisa - Priceless (1)

Josie Edwards - High Hope (2)

Em Beihold - Brutus (3)

Huntr/X - How It's Done (4)

Abyss

Benson Boone - Sorry I'm Here For Someone Else

Finneas - For Crying Out Loud (Re-entry)

Finneas - What's It Gonna Take To Break Your Heart? (Re-entry)

Sombr - Undressed

NEBULA (new this week)

Connie Francis - Pretty Little Baby

Ozzy Osbourne, Post Malone & Travis Scott - Take What You Want

Taylor Swift - August

Taylor Swift - How Did It End? (newly added!) (I'm so confused about what Hits 1 is doing with this song but according to them it counts)

Taylor Swift - ...Ready For It?

Weezer & Olivia Rodrigo - Buddy Holly (Live From Lollapalooza) (newly added!)

Weezer & Olivia Rodrigo - Say It Ain't So (Live From Lollapalooza) (newly added!)

That's all for now! Byeeeeeeeeee!

Blogger Top Ten Intro

Hi! Welcome to my brand new series that will occur every other Wednesday! Wait... am I reading this right? I posted AllTheHits and the summer special announcement at the end of June, I did posts every day in July for the summer special, and then I had my name change announcement, monthly outline, AllTheHits, about my blog, recurrents page, and now this post. This means I've had a 39-day streak of consecutive posts. Considering I only had 41 total posts in the entire year of 2024, that's insane.

Anyway, this is a series that will hopefully last a while, and should develop a bit better in the future. This is the Blogger Top Ten! Basically, it's a collection of ten songs approximately compiled by how much the Hits 1/pop music blogging community collectively seems to enjoy them. I tried not to let my personal preference influence this, but... right now it's very much estimated. If I have the time and motivation, I might find a way to make this more "objective" or data-based and less biased, but for now... enjoy the first installment in the Blogger Top Ten!

Oh, and one final thing. In case you couldn't tell, I used the standard color code based on my personal opinions on the songs. Anyway, here it is!

#10: Jessie Murph - 1965

#9: Ravyn Lenae - Love Me Not

#8: AJR - Betty

#7: Role Model - Sally, When The Wine Runs Out

#6: Chappell Roan - The Subway

#5: Laufey - Tough Luck

#4: Sombr - Back To Friends

#3: Sombr - We Never Dated

#2: Blackpink - Jump

#1: Laufey - Lover Girl

Well, let me know how accurate you think this is, and any improvements I can make. That's all for now! Byeeeeeeeeee!

AllTheHits 8/3/25

Hi everyone, this is HFE94 officially! Welcome to the first AllTheHits of August and first post with its official new name! Throughout August I will be making these small changes throughout the blog. Anyway, this week was pretty uneventful. This week's HitsForEvermore 30 gave us a Lady Gaga song I was a bit late to pick up on, a rising hit from one of my strongest predictions of artists who will blow up in the next few years, and one song skipping Almost There and debuting in the top 10. Almost There however was pretty dry this week with just five debuts and one re-entry. Anyway, let's get into it!

HitsForEvermore 30

Exits:

Mariah The Scientist - Burning Blue (1 wk: Peak #29)

Moliy, Silent Addy, Skillibeng & Shenseea - Shake It To The Max (4 wk: Peak #25)

Hayes Warner - Threw Me Away (14 wk: Peak #15)

#30: Evanescence - Afterlife (=) (12 wk: Peak #28)

#29: Pinkpantheress - Illegal (-4) (2 wk: Peak #25)

#28: Huntr/X - Golden (-2) (5 wk: Peak #21)

#27: Mikayla Geier - Piano In The Sky (+1) (2 wk: Peak #27)

#26: Rumi & Jinu - Free (-2) (4 wk: Peak #21)

Golden Extra: Camila Cabello - Something's Gotta Give

#25: Caroline Polachek - On The Beach (-3) (5 wk: Peak #22)

#24: Benson Boone - Reminds Me Of You (-8) (5 wk: Peak #10)

#23: Teen Jesus & The Jean Teasers - Balcony (-6) (12 wk: Peak #7)

#22: Lady Gaga - How Bad Do U Want Me (Debut) (1 wk: Peak #22)

#21: Benson Boone - Momma Song (=) (9 wk: Peak #12)

Underground Extra: Taylor Bickett - Drunk On The Steps

#20: Doechii - Anxiety (-2) (4 wk: Peak #16)

#19: Benson Boone - Take Me Home (-4) (5 wk: Peak #9)

#18: Alex Warren & Rose - On My Mind (-4) (5 wk: Peak #11)

#17: Benson Boone - Mystical Magical (+6) (8 wk: Peak #11)

#16: Alessi Rose - Same Mouth (Debut) (1 wk: Peak #16)

Rising Extra: Audrey Hobert - Sue Me

#15: Debbii Dawson - You Killed The Music (+4) (16 wk: Peak #2)

#14: Sombr - We Never Dated (-4) (4 wk: Peak #10)

#13: Favors - The Hudson (-1) (3 wk: Peak #12)

#12: Lyn Lapid - Fix (-1) (13 wk: Peak #9)

#11: Faouzia - Porcelain (-3) (12 wk: Peak #2)

Almost There Extra: Renee Rapp - You'd Like That Wouldn't You

#10: Chappell Roan - The Subway (Debut) (1 wk: Peak #10)

#9: Finneas - Same Old Story (+4) (23 wk: Peak #2)

#8: Lyn Lapid - Buttons (-1) (12 wk: Peak #7)

#7: Rose - Messy (+2) (4 wk: Peak #7)

#6: Role Model & Laufey - The Longest Goodbye (=) (4 wk: Peak #4)

Ozzy Osbourne in memoriam: Ozzy Osbourne, Post Malone & Travis Scott - Take What You Want

#5: Favors - The Little Mess You Made (-1) (6 wk: Peak #2)

#4: Lyn Lapid - Floater Friend (-2) (15 wk: Peak #2)

#3: Laufey - Silver Lining (+2) (17 wk: Peak #1 for 4 wk)

#2: Laufey - Lover Girl (+1) (6 wk: Peak #1 for 1 wk)

#1: Laufey - Tough Luck (=) (12 wk: Peak #1 for 11 wk)

(Wow, what a week for Benson Boone...)

Biggest jump: Benson Boone - Mystical Magical (+6)

Biggest drop: Benson Boone - Reminds Me Of You (-8)

Starlight Seven

Removed: Rose - Messy

#7: Huntr/X - Golden (-1)

#6: Alex Warren & Rose - On My Mind (-1)

#5: Maroon 5 & Lisa - Priceless (Debut)

#4: Sombr - Undressed (-1)

#3: Doechii - Anxiety (-1)

#2: Benson Boone - Mystical Magical (+2)

#1: Benson Boone - Sorry I'm Here For Someone Else (=)

Almost There

Audrey Hobert - Sue Me (2) (re-entry)

Taylor Bickett - Drunk On The Steps (Debut)

Maroon 5 & Lisa - Priceless (Debut)

Lorde - Man Of The Year (2)

Miley Cyrus - More To Lose (2)

Mgk - Miss Sunshine (2)

Josie Edwards - High Hope (2)

Sienna Spiro - You Stole The Show (2)

Rachel Chinouriri & Sombr - All I Ever Asked (2)

Ridgely - Hot Cakes (3)

Em Beihold - Brutus (3)

Huntr/X - How It's Done (4)

Haim - All Over Me (7)

Lyn Lapid - Where Is My Mind (3)

A7S - Eyes On Me (Debut)

Hayley Williams - Glum (Debut)

Renee Rapp - You'd Like That Wouldn't You (Debut)

Dropouts:

Audrey Hobert - Bowling Alley (2)

Jade - Plastic Box (1)

Lola Young - One Thing (1)

Matthew Ifield - Start From Scratch (1)

Olivia Dean - Nice To Each Other (1)

Abyss

Benson Boone - Sorry I'm Here For Someone Else

Connie Francis - Pretty Little Baby

Ozzy Osbourne, Post Malone & Travis Scott - Take What You Want

Sombr - Undressed

Taylor Swift - August (newly added)

Taylor Swift - ...Ready For It?

New addition! Light pink signifies songs that are ineligible for HFE30 or AT due to time cutoff (unless they get further chart resurgence) that are being highlighted in the abyss for other reasons.

Also, I really want to come up with a better name for the abyss. I've always hated that it's called that because it's so misleading. Any suggestions?

That's all for now! Byeeeeeeeeee!

HitsForEvermore August Blog Outline

Hi! Welcome to the first month of my blog with its new name! Here's what to expect from the month of August - I might update this page later on:

8/3: AllTheHits

8/4: About My Blog page

8/5: AllTheHits recurrents page

8/6: Blogger Top Ten

8/10: AllTheHits

8/11: ...potentially controversial announcement that I think will be for the best

8/17: AllTheHits

8/24: AllTheHits

8/25-30 (TBD): Laufey - A Matter Of Time album review

8/25-30 (TBD) (after the album review): My dream A Matter Of Time tour setlist (HFE94's Version)

8/31: AllTheHits

8/31: all pages should be updated

[Summer Special Bonus] The new era begins now.

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...soooooooo I have a lot of announcements to get out of the way.

• First and foremost, there was a big and obvious change. I've changed my blog name yet again. It is now called HitsForEvermore: My Music Blog, and I will be using the name HFE94 on the site from now on. To be quite honest, I want everyone to refer to me as HFE94 from now forward (it's way easier to spell anyway lol). And yes I know that HFE also means hybrid forward emitter, so I hope everyone is okay with amplification of currents or whatever, I don't know how that stuff works. I'm probably not changing my blog URL though since that would mean everyone else would have to change the link on their sidebars and it would become more complicated.
• My personal chart/bloggio station will now be called AllTheHits. (Wow, what a riveting name.) Blogging-wise I will be spending most of the month of August making small changes to reflect these large shifts.
• I will be working on my ATH stats pages all throughout August and will ideally have those up-to-date before September and start updating them much more regularly.
• Next Wednesday, I will be introducing a new biweekly series to accompany ATH that will occur every other Wednesday, at least for now. You'll see what it is when I start. It might not last long but hopefully it can.

That's all for now! Byeeeeeeeeee!