December 22, 20186 yr So they're just combining all the versions together?? The OCC don't do that I'm sure, though the other versions have negligible sales here anyway.Yeah, they must be. Don't know if they've done it in past years though, as I don't think it had re-charted before apart from 2014. It was probably arbitrarily excluded last year as it didn't chart despite doing well on Spotify.
December 22, 20186 yr See Dirca's posts above ;) It's not that the Band Aid 30 version is popular, but that ARIA have a habit of mis-labeling versions. At the moment, the original is #28 on Spotify (no other versions are top 200), and on iTunes:Â 39. Original 198. Band Aid 30 321. Original 339. Original 429. Original 934. Band Aid 20Â So probably at least 90% of its units are coming from the original. Ah, that makes much more sense. Still seems odd to put them all together when each one has different line ups, even if they all use the Band Aid name (with slight variations per release).
December 26, 20186 yr Author 24/12/2018 Singles 01 01 07 01 THANK U, NEXT Ariana Grande 02 06 09 02 SUNFLOWER Post Malone & Swae Lee 03 05 09 03 SWEET BUT PSYCHO Ava Max 04 02 11 02 WITHOUT ME Halsey 05 03 23 01 SHOTGUN George Ezra 06 08 03 06 NOTHING BREAKS LIKE A HEART Mark Ronson Feat. Miley Cyrus 07 04 11 01 SHALLOW Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper 08 09 20 07 SICKO MODE Travis Scott & Drake 09 07 18 03 HAPPIER Marshmello & Bastille 10 15 36 02 ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey 11 10 23 02 EASTSIDE Benny Blanco Feat. Halsey & Khalid 12 11 23 07 BODY Loud Luxury 13 13 25 01 BE ALRIGHT Dean Lewis 14 14 14 06 BETTER Khalid 15 NE 01 15 IMAGINE Ariana Grande 16 12 13 08 LET YOU LOVE ME Rita Ora 17 16 36 01 YOUNGBLOOD 5 Seconds Of Summer 18 34 32 03 LAST CHRISTMAS Wham 19 19 09 10 WHEN THE PARTY'S OVER Billie Eilish 20 18 16 07 IN MY MIND Dynoro 21 17 18 04 PROMISES Calvin Harris & Sam Smith 22 20 13 20 LOVE SOMEONE Lukas Graham 23 24 27 07 HIGH HOPES Panic! At The Disco 24 21 29 02 GIRLS LIKE YOU Maroon 5 Feat. Cardi B 25 30 18 24 WAITING Kian 26 26 04 26 LEAVE ME LONELY Hilltop Hoods 27 23 11 23 1999 Charli XCX & Troye Sivan 28 22 10 14 ZEZE Kodak Black Feat. Travis Scott & Offset 29 31 28 07 RISE Jonas Blue 30 28 34 02 BETTER NOW Post Malone 31 29 06 27 BAD LIAR Imagine Dragons 32 33 03 32 GOING BAD Meek Mill Feat. Drake 33 25 08 14 ARMS AROUND YOU XXXTentacion x Lil Pump Feat. Swae Lee & Maluma 34 27 53 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Queen 35 32 16 32 DAY DRUNK Morgan Evans 36 40 94 01 PERFECT Ed Sheeran 37 59 09 03 DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? Band Aid 30 38 41 09 36 RUIN MY LIFE Zara Larsson 39 39 10 29 MO BAMBA Sheck Wes 40 74 04 40 SANTA TELL ME Ariana Grande 41 54 04 41 SATURDAY NIGHTS Khalid 42 38 18 27 LOST IN JAPAN Shawn Mendes 43 42 15 04 I LOVE IT Lil Pump & Kanye West 44 37 13 17 THIS FEELING The Chainsmokers Feat. Kelsea Ballerini 45 46 30 08 LUCID DREAMS Juice WRLD 46 43 35 05 LOVELY Billie Eilish Feat. Khalid 47 48 08 26 A MILLION DREAMS P!nk 48 36 17 20 LEAVE A LIGHT ON Tom Walker 49 57 06 49 CLOSE TO ME Ellie Goulding, Diplo & Swae Lee 50 56 36 06 I SAID HI Amy Shark 56 (100) John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) 57 (64) Guy Sebastian - Before I Go 63 (71) NOTD, Felix Jaehn & Captain Cuts Feat. Georgia Ku - So Close 67 (84) James Arthur & Anne-Marie - Rewrite The Stars 76 (RE) Rudimental Feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplan - These Days 78 (RE) Justin Bieber - Mistletoe 82 (RE) Conrad Sewell - Healing Hands 96 (NE) Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree Albums 01 01 11 01 A STAR IS BORN Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper 02 02 09 02 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Queen 03 03 74 01 CHRISTMAS Michael Buble 04 04 317 02 GREATEST HITS Queen 05 06 54 01 THE GREATEST SHOWMAN Soundtrack 06 NE 01 06 SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY Bruce Springsteen 07 05 05 02 LOVE Michael Buble 08 09 05 04 THE GREATEST SHOWMAN: REIMAGINED Soundtrack 09 07 88 05 THE PLATINUM COLLECTION Queen 10 10 21 01 FRIENDS FOR CHRISTMAS John Farnham & Olivia Newton-John 11 11 08 07 SI Andrea Bocelli 12 12 08 12 BABY IT'S CHRISTMAS David Campbell 13 15 94 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 14 13 40 04 THE CHRISTMAS ALBUM Human Nature 15 14 49 02 MERRY CHRISTMAS Mariah Carey 16 17 23 01 LOVE MONSTER Amy Shark 17 16 08 16 THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR Mark Vincent 18 19 32 07 STAYING AT TAMARA'S George Ezra 19 20 16 01 KAMIKAZE Eminem 20 26 04 20 THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS Samantha Jade 21 33 10 01 NATURE Paul Kelly 22 21 34 01 BEERBONGS & BENTLEYS Post Malone 23 35 15 07 CHRISTMAS WITH ELVIS AND THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Elvis Presley 24 27 46 04 GREATEST HITS II Queen 25 22 18 01 SWEETENER Ariana Grande 26 24 05 05 DELTA Mumford & Sons 27 NE 01 27 SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Soundtrack 28 40 09 06 TRIPLE J'S LIKE A VERSION 14 Various 29 25 06 04 ORIGINS Imagine Dragons 30 34 05 27 ROMANTIC MOMENTS II Andre Rieu 31 39 11 01 TRENCH Twenty One Pilots 32 23 25 01 SCORPION Drake 33 31 58 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 34 30 23 01 MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN Soundtrack 35 18 02 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay 36 28 04 07 THE SPECIAL ONES Missy Higgins 37 42 303 02 THE BEST OF COLD CHISEL: ALL FOR YOU Cold Chisel 38 32 30 01 SHAWN MENDES Shawn Mendes 39 45 31 02 GRAFFITI U Keith Urban 40 08 02 08 SKINS XXXTentacion 41 44 152 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 42 51 235 01 X Ed Sheeran 43 67 09 02 SOLACE Rufus Du Sol 44 43 43 01 NATION OF TWO Vance Joy 45 55 198 02 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: AWESOME MIX VOL. 1 Soundtrack 46 86 160 01 25 Adele 47 53 330 01 THE VERY BEST INXS 48 41 20 01 ASTROWORLD Travis Scott 49 37 40 02 ? XXXTentacion 50 36 14 18 DONT SMILE AT ME Billie Eilish  With 6 straight weeks at #1, "thank u, next" is now locked in as the 3rd longest running #1 of the year, which is as high as it'll go because there's one week left and "Youngblood" has a 2 week lead on it. The other reason is that it probably won't be #1 next week. Sales and streams are still respectable but she's been overtaken on both counts by Post Malone, who looks to score his 3rd #1 hit with "Sunflower", which just climbed to #2, meaning at present he has had 3 #2 peaking hits in 2018. Mariah Carey broke Australia's daily streaming record on Christmas Eve (not Christmas Day, because I suspect Spotify doesn't partition Australia's daily data off at a logical point; most Christmas songs lost streams today). Nonetheless she'll put in a good effort and looks to get her highest position since 1994. This week she reaches #10 which is only the 2nd week this decade she's spent in the top 10. What you wouldn't realise through all this is that this week "Shotgun" returned to #1 on sales, boosted in no small part by iTunes' then promotion of its top selling songs of the year, placed in order of their current position on the chart so it looked like "Shotgun" was #1 when really there's no way it would have accumulated sales fast enough. Nonetheless it's still #1 now so it's not going away in a hurry. There's not much else to note as much of the country seems pretty settled on not listening to much music that isn't already 5 months old, however Ariana Grande does score two top 50 entries this week, firstly new single "imagine", and secondly "Santa Tell Me" which reaches the top 50 for the first time ever this year. Khalid also adds to his immense tally of the top 50 hits with "Saturday Nights", because it promptly replaced "Suncity" on Hot Hits Australia. This week's winners of Christmas entry bingo are Justin Bieber & Brenda Lee, the latter is charting for the first time since 1960 where she reached the top 60, so perhaps she'll reach an all time new peak next week, much depends on how many Christmas songs ARIA let on the chart next week and how much space they take up. "A Star Is Born"'s soundtrack notches up a 9th week at #1 securing the status of longest running #1 of the year. Or perhaps not necessarily as "The Greatest Showman" is #1 on iTunes right now so maybe it has the power to get its own 9th week at the top. If you were perhaps livid, that there weren't enough soundtracks in the top 10, Bruce Springsteen's Netflix special has the answer and debuts at #6. Given that there's only one studio album in the top 10 and it's from Michael Buble, one could anticipate a massive changing of the guard in the coming weeks. In the meantime, take a glance at what people found under their Christmas trees yesterday. The only debut I can foresee next week is 21 Savage's new album and that's only if ARIA counts its streams correctly, which I will forever be skeptical of. Edited December 26, 20186 yr by Dircadirca
January 1, 20196 yr Author 31/12/2018 Singles 01 10 37 01 ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey 02 02 10 02 SUNFLOWER Post Malone & Swae Lee 03 03 10 03 SWEET BUT PSYCHO Ava Max 04 01 08 01 THANK U, NEXT Ariana Grande 05 18 33 03 LAST CHRISTMAS Wham 06 05 24 01 SHOTGUN George Ezra 07 04 12 02 WITHOUT ME Halsey 08 37 10 03 DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? Band Aid 30 09 07 12 01 SHALLOW Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper 10 09 19 03 HAPPIER Marshmello & Bastille 11 06 4 06 NOTHING BREAKS LIKE A HEART Mark Ronson Feat. Miley Cyrus 12 08 21 07 SICKO MODE Travis Scott & Drake 13 11 24 02 EASTSIDE Benny Blanco Feat. Halsey & Khalid 14 56 10 14 HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER) John Lennon 15 12 24 07 BODY Loud Luxury 16 13 26 01 BE ALRIGHT Dean Lewis 17 17 37 01 YOUNGBLOOD 5 Seconds Of Summer 18 40 05 18 SANTA TELL ME Ariana Grande 19 14 15 06 BETTER Khalid 20 16 14 08 LET YOU LOVE ME Rita Ora 21 26 05 21 LEAVE ME LONELY Hilltop Hoods 22 15 02 15 IMAGINE Ariana Grande 23 20 17 07 IN MY MIND Dynoro 24 25 19 24 WAITING Kian 25 78 13 20 MISTLETOE Justin Bieber 26 22 14 20 LOVE SOMEONE Lukas Graham 27 21 19 04 PROMISES Calvin Harris & Sam Smith 28 27 12 23 1999 Charli XCX & Troye Sivan 29 19 10 10 WHEN THE PARTY'S OVER Billie Eilish 30 NE 01 30 SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN The Jackson 5 31 23 28 07 HIGH HOPES Panic! At The Disco 32 24 30 02 GIRLS LIKE YOU Maroon 5 Feat. Cardi B 33 30 35 02 BETTER NOW Post Malone 34 31 07 27 BAD LIAR Imagine Dragons 35 96 02 35 ROCKIN' AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE Brenda Lee 36 35 17 32 DAY DRUNK Morgan Evans 37 RE 02 37 HOW TO MAKE GRAVY Paul Kelly 38 34 54 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Queen 39 29 29 07 RISE Jonas Blue 40 NE 01 40 WINTER WONDERLAND Tony Bennett 41 28 11 14 ZEZE Kodak Black Feat. Travis Scott & Offset 42 NE 01 42 A HOLLY JOLLY CHRISTMAS Burl Ives 43 36 95 01 PERFECT Ed Sheeran 44 NE 01 44 STEP INTO CHRISTMAS Elton John 45 NE 01 45 WHAT CHRISTMAS MEANS TO ME Stevie Wonder 46 33 09 14 ARMS AROUND YOU XXXTentacion x Lil Pump Feat. Swae Lee & Maluma 47 RE 02 47 HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS Sam Smith 48 32 04 32 GOING BAD Meek Mill Feat. Drake 49 NE 01 49 RUN RUDOLPH RUN Chuck Berry 50 38 10 36 RUIN MY LIFE Zara Larsson 57 (RE) Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock 48 (NE) Ella Fitzgerald - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 77 (NE) Ariana Grande Feat. Liz Gillies - Santa Baby 80 (NE) Queen - Thank God It's Christmas 83 (RE) Cardi B - Money 92 (NE) 21 Savage - a lot 94 (RE) Eagles - Please Come Home For Christmas 97 (RE) Toto - Africa 99 (RE) Camila Cabello Feat. Young Thug - Havana Albums 01 01 12 01 A STAR IS BORN Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper 02 02 10 02 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Queen 03 03 75 01 CHRISTMAS Michael Buble 04 05 55 01 THE GREATEST SHOWMAN Soundtrack 05 04 318 02 GREATEST HITS Queen 06 08 06 04 THE GREATEST SHOWMAN: REIMAGINED Soundtrack 07 09 89 05 THE PLATINUM COLLECTION Queen 08 07 06 02 LOVE Michael Buble 09 15 50 02 MERRY CHRISTMAS Mariah Carey 10 13 95 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 11 06 02 06 SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY Bruce Springsteen 12 19 17 01 KAMIKAZE Eminem 13 11 09 07 SI Andrea Bocelli 14 16 24 01 LOVE MONSTER Amy Shark 15 18 33 07 STAYING AT TAMARA'S George Ezra 16 12 09 12 BABY IT'S CHRISTMAS David Campbell 17 10 22 01 FRIENDS FOR CHRISTMAS John Farnham & Olivia Newton-John 18 14 41 04 THE CHRISTMAS ALBUM Human Nature 19 22 35 01 BEERBONGS & BENTLEYS Post Malone 20 17 09 16 THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR Mark Vincent 21 25 19 01 SWEETENER Ariana Grande 22 23 16 07 CHRISTMAS WITH ELVIS AND THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Elvis Presley 23 27 02 23 SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Soundtrack 24 21 11 01 NATURE Paul Kelly 25 29 07 04 ORIGINS Imagine Dragons 26 34 24 01 MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN Soundtrack 27 37 304 02 THE BEST OF COLD CHISEL: ALL FOR YOU Cold Chisel 28 26 06 05 DELTA Mumford & Sons 29 38 31 01 SHAWN MENDES Shawn Mendes 30 24 47 04 GREATEST HITS II Queen 31 32 26 01 SCORPION Drake 32 28 10 06 TRIPLE J'S LIKE A VERSION 14 Various 33 41 153 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 34 NE 01 34 I AM > I WAS 21 Savage 35 20 05 20 THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS Samantha Jade 36 31 12 01 TRENCH Twenty One Pilots 37 33 59 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 38 39 32 02 GRAFFITI U Keith Urban 39 94 04 39 A LEGENDARY CHRISTMAS John Legend 40 47 331 01 THE VERY BEST INXS 41 44 44 01 NATION OF TWO Vance Joy 42 36 05 07 THE SPECIAL ONES Missy Higgins 43 48 21 01 ASTROWORLD Travis Scott 44 57 277 01 GREATEST HITS...SO FAR!!! P!nk 45 42 236 01 X Ed Sheeran 46 45 199 02 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: AWESOME MIX VOL. 1 Soundtrack 47 51 41 08 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 48 55 79 04 EVOLVE Imagine Dragons 49 77 99 22 SONGS FROM THE SOUTH VOLUME 1 & 2 Paul Kelly 50 53 06 08 LM5 Little Mix   I might have made an underestimation but it's also considerably easier to say that ARIA still don't collect streaming data correctly which is fantastic news for Mariah Carey whose seasonal classic "All I Want For Christmas Is You" was streamed relatively infrequently on Thursday. Whether or not that made the difference, I cannot say but I can say that we have a new #1...from 24 years ago. This is a relatively historic moment although it is neither the oldest song to reach #1 ("Unchained Melody" took a little longer) or the longest chart runner to reach #1 ("Perfect" took a little longer). What Mariah can lay claim to however is being the first and possibly only (there's not much time left) artist to score a #1 hit in the past 3 decades, she only has 3 #1 singles between "Fantasy", "We Belong Together" and now "All I Want For Christmas Is You", so she's efficient in that regard. Suffice to say, ARIA is surely dying of embarrassment that they didn't rig the chart and let this man take the #1 instead. If you are pining for "Sunflower" to reach the top, it is poised to do so next week despite very low Hot Hits AU placement which is hampering its streaming lead a little. Now I have to talk about the elephant in the room because every single song climbing in the top 50 is Christmas related. Even Hilltop Hoods' "Leave Me Lonely" (which is headed for the top 20 next week) name drops Santa Claus. Regular followers of this thread will know ARIA is very bad at including everything in the chart, and I can now confidently say that there are about 10 songs missing from the top 50 this week, but they have extended the olive branch further than ever because there are loads of festive entries this week. There's no real discernable logic to it because there's a mix of very old and very recent, but even Christmas songs that have charted on release this decade from Michael Buble & Coldplay have been left out. Tony Bennett has the least appropriate entry with "Winter Wonderland" as it is currently a summer hell hole in Australia, but I have the suspicion that Tony Bennett is now the oldest living artist to debut a new song on the chart, there are only a scarce handful of living former charting artists who are older than him after all, and I'm more than pretty sure Doris Day hasn't charted this decade. But to counter Tony we have a sole local entry from Paul Kelly, and his classic song about a prisoner writing back to his family for Christmas. For no reason whatsoever, Post Malone's "Wow." is missing from the chart but two time collaborator 21 Savage at least enters. Lastly we have another rare act of belated competence brought on by systemic sexism. A year ago, one of the biggest national festivals, Falls Festival copped a lot of flack when their opening lineup announcement housed a total of 12 women, not female acts, women altogether. Additionally, only Julia Stone could lay claim to being billed above boomer icon Daryl Braithwaite who was there because of the ironic meme song. 3 of those 12 women were Camp Cope who actually changed the lyrics to their song "The Opener" during their performance to lambaste the festival organisers for it. Do you think they learned from it at all? Haha, nope. True to the song's original lyrics, the line up is not at all short of female openers to fill the quota, meanwhile Lauren from CHVRCHES wins this year's lottery for the one woman who is seen as more noteworthy than a meme, because every other woman is billed below 2018's boomer meme, Toto. The one positive I can say about this is that with the festival running at the moment, someone at ARIA has seen fit to finally fix "Africa"'s Spotify streams, which I suspect would have seen it regularly popping up in the top 100 but they weren't being counted at all. It may well become a chart fixture in 2019 because it's not like ARIA would ever remove streams from something (unless it's "XO TOUR Llif3"). I really have no idea what the margins are like but "A Star Is Born" just keeps outpacing the competition. Amazingly this makes for the 2nd longest unbroken run at #1 in the entire decade, only being Adele's "21" which managed 11 consecutive weeks at the top at one stage (it would have been 20 in a row if not for Gotye). There's no reason it can't keep going though because it's not like there are any major new releases and if there were, people probably wouldn't buy them anyway. The most noteworthy thing this week is Mariah Carey's "Merry Christmas" returning to the top 10 which it has not reached since 1994 despite numerous returns to the chart. For the second year in a row, Michael Buble is unable to get higher than #3 with "Christmas" and this could very well be the first time he misses the End Of Year Albums top 10 list, which he has reached 7 years in a row. I expect these lists to come within a week and I'll post them in this thread when I get them. The only debut this week comes from 21 Savage's actually very good new album which I suspect will sadly get lost in the shuffle.
January 1, 20196 yr Yep. That happened. I can't wait to see how much more artificial this chart will get in the new year
January 1, 20196 yr Author At least next week's chart won't have any missing songs that aren't by Tyga or XXXTENTACION...maybe. Edited January 1, 20196 yr by Dircadirca
January 1, 20196 yr Well at least ARIA didn't fix the top end of the chart and Mariah got her deserved #1, but other than that yep they're still worse than the OCC.
January 9, 20196 yr Author Surprise (to me), the End Of Year charts are out. I have hastily typed them out as they appear so there may be typos but I've also left in ARIA's own typos so Bia Miller will be happy 1. 5 Seconds Of Summer - Youngblood 2. Drake - God's Plan 3. Ed Sheeran - Perfect 4. Dean Lewis - Be Alright 5. Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line - Meant To Be 6. Post Malone - I Fall Apart 7. Post Malone Feat. Ty Dolla $ign - Psycho 8. Maroon 5 Feat. Cardi B - Girls Like You 9. George Ezra - Shotgun 10. Benny Blanco Feat. Halsey & Khalid - Eastside 11. Post Malone - Better Now 12. Post Malone Feat. 21 Savage - Rockstar 13. Khalid & Normani - Love Lies 14. Rudimental Feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplan - These Days 15. Zedd & Grey Feat. Maren Morris 16. Drake - In My Feelings 17. Kendrick Lamar & SZA - All The Stars 18. Dua Lipa - IDGAF 19. Eminem Feat. Ed Sheeran - River 20. Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa - One Kiss 21. XXXTentacion - SAD! 22. Drake - Nice For What 23. Camilla Cabello Feat. Young Thug - Havana 24. Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble - This Is Me 25. Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You 26. Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry 27. Marshmello & Anne-Marie - FRIENDS 28. Anne-Marie - 2002 29. Jonas Blue - Rise 30. Marshmello x Khalid - Silence 31. Amy Shark - I Said Hi 32. Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes 33. Marshmello & Bastille - Happier 34. Camila Cabello - Never Be The Same 35. Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still 36. Cardi B Feat. J Balvin & Bad Bunny - I Like It 37. NF - Let You Down 38. Juice WRLD - Lucid Dreams 39. Bruno Mars Feat. Cardi B - Finesse 40. Loud Luxury - Body 41. Billie Eilish Feat. Khalid - Lovely 42. Noah Kahan & Julia Michaels - Hurt Somebody 43. Pnau - Go Bang 44. Dennis Lloyd - Nevermind 45. Post Malone - Candy Paint 46. Selena Gomez & Marshmello - Wolves 47. Bazzi - Mine 48. Travis Scott & Drake - SICKO MODE 49. Kendrick Lamar & Skrillex - HUMBLE. 50. Imagine Dragons - Thunder 51. Calvin Harris & Sam Smith - Promises 52. Peking Duk - Fire/Reprisal 53. Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - Shallow 54. Dua Lipa - New Rules 55. Khalid - Young Dumb & Broke 56. Conrad Sewell - Healing Hands 57. Lil Dicky Feat. Chris Brown - Freaky Friday 58. Selena Gomez - Back To You 59. Hailee Steinfeld & Alesso Feat. Florida Georgia Line & watt - Let Me Go 60. Ariana Grande - thank u, next 61. The Weeknd - Call Out My Name 62. Martin Garrix Feat. Khalid - Ocean 63. Clean Bandit Feat. Julia Michaels - I Miss You 64. Tiesto & Dzeko Feat. Preme & Post Malone - Jackie Chan 65. Shawn Mendes - In My Blood 66. Halsey - Without Me 67. Clean Bandit Feat. Demi Lovato - Solo 68. Justin Timberlake Feat. Chris Stapleton - Say Something 69. Kygo - Remind Me To Forget 70. G-Eazy Feat. Halsey - Him & I 71. The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar - Pray For Me 72. Jess Glynne - I'll Be There 73. Maroon 5 Feat. SZA - What Lovers Do 74. Lauv - I Like Me Better 75. Ed Sheeran - Happier 76. Angus & Julia Stone - Chateau 77. Khalid - Better 78. Kygo & Imagine Dragons - Born To Be Yours 79. BlocBoy JB Feat. Drake - Look Alive 80. Calum Scott - You Are The Reason 81. Sam Smith - Too Good At Goodbyes 82. Zac Efron & Zendaya - Rewrite The Stars 83. DJ Khaled, Justin Bieber & Quavo Feat. Chance The Rapper - No Brainer 84. Troye Sivan - My My My! 85. Post Malone & Swae Lee - Sunflower 86. Hayden James Feat. Boy Matthews - Just Friends 87. Liam Payne & Rita Ora - For You (Fifty Shades Freed) 88. Childish Gambino - This Is America 89. Lil Pump & Kanye West - I Love It 90. Ed Sheeran - Castle On The Hill 91. Ariana Grande - God Is A Woman 92. NOTD Feat. Bia Miller - I Wanna Know 93. Dynoro - In My Mind 94. Bazzi - Beautiful 95. Sheppard - Coming Home 96. Khalid x Ty Dolla $ign x 6lack - OTW 97. A$AP Rocky Feat. Skepta - Praise The Lord (Da Shine) 98. Vance Joy - We're Going Home 99. Imagine Dragons - Believer 100. Post Malone - Congratulations  1. Soundtrack - The Greatest Showman 2. Ed Sheeran - ÷ 3. Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born 4. Post Malone - Beerbongs & Bentleys 5. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (The Original Soundtrack) 6. Eminem - Kamikaze 7. Drake - Scorpion 8. Queen - Greatest Hits 9. P!nk - Beautiful Trauma 10. Ed Sheeran - X 11. Taylor Swift - Reputation 12. XXXTentacion - ? 13. Post Malone - Stoney 14. Amy Shark - Love Monster 15. Queen - The Platinum Collection 16. Ariana Grande - Sweetener 17. Shawn Mendes - Shawn Mendes 18. Vance Joy - Nation Of Two 19. Keith Urban - Graffiti U 20. Soundtrack - Black Panther: The Album 21. Imagine Dragons - Evolve 22. Soundtrack - Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again 23. Ed Sheeran - + 24. Soundtarck - Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 25. Eminem - Curtain Call: The Hits 26. P!nk - Greatest Hits...So Far!!! 27. Bruno Mars - 24K Magic 28. Soundtrack - Moana 29. Cold Chisel - The Best Of Cold Chisel: All For You 30. Michael Buble - Christmas 31. Eminem - Revival 32. Khalid - American Teen 33. Travis Scott - Astroworld 34. Cardi B - Invasion Of Privacy 35. INXS - The Very Best 36. Taylor Swift - 1989 37. Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. 38. Sam Smith - The Thrill Of It All 39. Gang Of Youths - Go Farther In Lightness 40. George Ezra - Staying At Tamara's 41. Soundtrack - Fifty Shades Freed 42. Luke Combs - This One's For You 43. Soundtrack - Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 44. Michael Buble - Love 45. 5 Seconds Of Summer - Youngblood 46. Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa 47. Adele - 25 48. Camila Cabello - Camila 49. Panic! At The Disco - Pray For The Wicked 50. Soundtrack - The Greatest Showman: Reimagined 51. AC/DC - Live 52. Calum Scott - Only Human 53. Guns N' Roses - Greatest Hits 54. The Wiggles - The Best Of 55. Foo Fighters - Greatest Hits 56. Vance Joy - Dream Your Life Away 57. Maroon 5 - Singles Collection 58. Kanye West - ye 59. The Weeknd - My Dear Melancholy, 60. ABBA - ABBA Gold 61. Shawn Mendes - Illuminate 62. Justin Bieber - Purpose 63. J. Cole - KOD 64. Migos - Culture II 65. Hillsong Worship - There Is More 66. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Greatest Hits 67. Lorde - Melodrama 68. Soundtrack - Suicide Squad: The Album 69. Nicki Minaj - Queen 70. Twenty One Pilots - Trench 71. Kylie Minogue - Golden 72. Parkway Drive - Reverence 73. Crowded House - The Very Very Best Of 74. Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction 75. Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac 76. ABBA - ABBA Gold & More (Anniversary Edition) 77. Soundtrack - Molly (Soundtrack From The TV Series) 78. Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu - Djarimirri (Child Of The Rainbow) 79. Florence + The Machine - High As Hope 80. The Killers - Direct Hits 81. Andrea Bocelli - Si 82. Chris Brown - Heartbreak On A Full Moon 83. Hilltop Hoods - Drinking From The Sun, Walking Under Stars Restrung 84. Elton John - Diamonds 85. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino 86. Celine Dion - The Best So Far...2018 Tour Edition 87. Adele - 21 88. Maroon 5 - Red Pill Blues 89. Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman 90. Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits 91. The Weeknd - Starboy 92. Green Day - Greatest Hits: God's Favorite Band 93. Shitty Fingers - Caress Your Soul 94. Billie Eilish - Don't Smile At Me 95. Carole King - Tapestry 96. Angus & Julia Stone - Snow 97. Troye Sivan - Bloom 98. Drake - More Life 99. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 100. Justin Timberlake - Man Of The Woods  It has been expected but it's pretty big news that we have an Australian #1! In the 30 years of ARIA, this has only ever happened 3 times, in the 3 consecutive years of Australian Idol hype from 2003 to 2005. Considering the nature of that, 5 Seconds Of Summer can be commended for capturing the nation in a wider sense than ever before. It's also an improvement on last year with 11 Australian entries compared to 9. I have often been critical of how poorly emerging Australian artists are supported on Spotify, and to put that into perspective, of those 11, only Hayden James can lay claim to having never made the End Of Year top 100 before. However his previous single "NUMB" still has more streams than "Just Friends" so that might just be a case of better timing. I am not sure what the record is, but Post Malone has managed 8 entries in this top 100, his 8th is helped by the curious lack of "Taste" by Tyga and "Jocelyn Flores" by XXXTENTACION, quite peculiar :unsure: Winning the lucrative honours of lowest peaking song in the list is A$AP Rocky & Imagine Dragons, though in the latter's case, "Believer" scored its #33 peak on debut, and that was its only ever week in the top 40. I think ARIA included the 01/01/2018 chart in the 2017 list so it actually spent the entire year outside of the top 50. Khalid's "OTW" makes the cut despite ARIA not counting its streams correctly for months, I don't know where it should actually be ranked at all. "Flames" by David Guetta does not have the same luck. For albums, it's The Greatest Showman at #1, also not a surprise as it has spent almost every week of the year just slightly outselling nearest competitor Ed Sheeran. If you are wondering what the last Soundtrack to top this list is, it is Moulin Rouge from 2001. Of particular note, this year ends Michael Buble's 7 year streak of reaching the top 10 with "Christmas", in fact he's all the way down at #30. Perhaps having a new album stocked at the front of JB HiFi instead of the old one prevented a lot of impulse buys. I can't imagine what's missing from this list aside from XXXTENTACION's "17". Sheppard, The Amity Affliction, John Butler Trio & Paul Kelly attain the not-so esteemed honour of having the only #1's not to make the cut, despite the latter still maintaining in the top 50 currently. Also as I like to say every year, thanks to all who tolerate and read my nonsense which I've somehow been doing now for 4 years. Unsurprisingly as I have already started the 2019 thread, I've no plans to stop at the moment!
January 9, 20196 yr Surprised Gotye never managed to be EOY #1 for the Aussies but it appears to be a case of bad timing as he was #2 in 2011 and #40 in 2012. The very small number of Australian artists in the EOY isn't surprising though, even before Spotify most of the EOY list was world hits.
January 9, 20196 yr what about Kylie? She didn't manage with Can't get you out of my head? or earlier with Locomotion/I Should be so lucky? Â
January 9, 20196 yr Author Surprised Gotye never managed to be EOY #1 for the Aussies but it appears to be a case of bad timing as he was #2 in 2011 and #40 in 2012. The very small number of Australian artists in the EOY isn't surprising though, even before Spotify most of the EOY list was world hits. Yeah it was timing in the broad sense for Gotye. Undoubtably he had the highest selling single of the second half of 2011, but LMFAO's 4 month headstart was impossible to assail, and even when all was said and done, "Party Rock Anthem" still was a slightly bigger hit (though Gotye is surely catching up now through better catalogue sales/streams. Neither has had their certification updated in years). The Australian thing is really just a lackluster effort on almost all the bigwigs involved. Setting aside streaming, the big commercial stations are so lethargic about it. Not that it was a surprise, but Rush recently found a metadata source of Nova's daily playlists, and we realised that every single day they cram heaps and heaps of Australian songs...at around 8-10pm when nobody is listening, just so they can meet the enforced 20% Australian music quota. During the day time they can sometimes go 3 hour stretches only playing 1 or 2 Australian songs all up. It's absolutely pathetic. triple j on the other hand play roughly 50% Australian music and when the Hottest 100 rolls around, it shows that the audience very much takes to it in proportion and then some. Australian music can't prosper if nobody is hearing it. what about Kylie? She didn't manage with Can't get you out of my head? or earlier with Locomotion/I Should be so lucky? "Locomotion" actually I think was the #1 single of 1987, that didn't come to mind when I posted it but the problem is that ARIA only has been operating the charts since 1988, so she missed the cut-off, so to speak :P Edited January 9, 20196 yr by Dircadirca
January 9, 20196 yr Triple J is like Radio 1 in that respect, supporting a lot of local acts and a fair few songs that have no hope of being chart hits. And they also have their Live Lounge equivalent. Of course though it's easier to meet quotas for British music here because there's a lot more of it that charts well. If only Radio 1 had a true Hottest 100 equivalent though, there is the Annie Mac hottest record EOY vote but that has barely any hype and airtime.
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