April 15, 20187 yr That's true, but then I see that as a valid reason to introduce airplay into the official chart ;) as radio plays are more alike to the sales chart than they are the streaming chart
April 15, 20187 yr Author Maybe I'm biased because the airplay chart frustrates me so much (What Lovers Do is still in the top 40 as well as a G-Eazy song that hasn't even hit the top 100, but not God's Plan, c'mon :P) but I feel like at some point we have to accept that radio just isn't quite a driving cultural force anymore, apart from triple j in its own niche but they never play a song more than 20 times in a week.
April 15, 20187 yr Author I think Bad Wolves will have the #1 downloaded track at about 3500-4000 sold. #50 on the actual chart is usually around 3500 chart sales I think.
April 18, 20187 yr Author 15/04/2018 Singles 01 01 12 01 GOD'S PLAN Drake 02 02 07 02 PSYCHO Post Malone Feat. Ty Dolla $ign 03 08 08 03 LOVE LIES Khalid & Normani 04 04 04 04 FREAKY FRIDAY Lil Dicky Feat. Chris Brown 05 05 09 04 FRIENDS Marshmello & Anne Marie 06 03 02 03 CALL OUT MY NAME The Weeknd 07 NE 01 07 NICE FOR WHAT Drake 08 06 13 03 IDGAF Dua Lipa 09 09 11 07 THE MIDDLE Zedd & Grey Feat. Maren Morris 10 07 12 02 THESE DAYS Rudimental Feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen 11 10 14 02 ALL THE STARS Kendrick Lamar & SZA 12 12 25 02 MEANT TO BE Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line 13 11 58 01 PERFECT Ed Sheeran 14 15 11 11 MINE Bazzi 15 14 03 09 IN MY BLOOD Shawn Mendes 16 13 06 09 SAD! XXXTentacion 17 NE 01 17 ONE KISS Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa 18 16 18 07 NEVER BE THE SAME Camila Cabello 19 68 08 19 THINK ABOUT YOU Delta Goodrem 20 17 28 02 I FALL APART Post Malone 21 19 11 19 SAY SOMETHING Justin Timberlake Feat. Chris Stapleton 22 38 08 22 HURT SOMEBODY Noah Kahan & Julia Michaels 23 18 17 02 RIVER Eminem Feat. Ed Sheeran 24 25 30 01 ROCKSTAR Post Malone Feat. 21 Savage 25 28 08 24 LOOK ALIVE BlocBoy JB Feat. Drake 26 21 10 09 PRAY FOR ME The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar 27 22 14 06 FINESSE Bruno Mars Feat. Cardi B 28 31 04 28 DELICATE Taylor Swift 29 26 66 01 SHAPE OF YOU Ed Sheeran 30 23 02 23 WASTED TIMES The Weeknd 31 48 05 31 NOTHING TO REGRET Robinson 32 27 34 01 HAVANA Camila Cabello Feat. Young Thug 33 36 35 05 FEEL IT STILL Portugal. The Man 34 32 24 09 GO BANG Pnau 35 20 16 10 THIS IS ME Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble 36 52 05 36 ZOMBIE Bad Wolves 37 29 13 16 WE'RE GOING HOME Vance Joy 38 42 24 20 I MISS YOU Clean Bandit Feat. Julia Michaels 39 35 26 07 LET YOU DOWN NF 40 33 39 02 NEW RULES Dua Lipa 41 43 24 05 WOLVES Selena Gomez & Marshmello 42 34 20 27 YOU ARE THE REASON Calum Scott 43 59 04 43 REMIND ME TO FORGET Kygo 44 54 03 44 1950 King Princess 45 39 08 32 CAPITAL LETTERS Hailee Steinfeld & BloodPop® 46 44 35 05 SILENCE Marshmello x Khalid 47 30 14 15 FOR YOU (FIFTY SHADES FREED) Liam Payne & Rita Ora 48 NE 01 48 PLUG WALK Rich The Kid 49 41 03 27 LOST IN JAPAN Shawn Mendes 50 46 19 19 CANDY PAINT Post Malone 54 (65) Alison Wonderland - Church 60 (NE) Cardi B Feat. Migos - Drip 65 (NE) Cardi B - Be Careful 67 (RE) Cardi B - Bodak Yellow 72 (NE) A$AP Rocky Feat. Moby - A$AP Forever 77 (NE) Cardi B Feat. 21 Savage - Bartier Cardi 79 (NE) Cardi B, J Balvin & Bad Bunny - I Like It 85 (NE) KYLE Feat. Kehlani - Playinwitme 93 (RE) Kylie Minogue - Dancing 96 (RE) David Guetta & Sia - Flames Albums 01 NE 01 01 GOLDEN Kylie Minogue 02 NE 01 02 THERE IS MORE Hillsong Worship 03 01 58 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 04 02 18 01 THE GREATEST SHOWMAN Soundtrack 05 NE 01 05 REVAMP: THE SONGS OF ELTON JOHN & BERNIE TAUPIN Various 06 NE 01 06 INVASION OF PRIVACY Cardi B 07 NE 01 07 AWAKE Alison Wonderland 08 03 02 03 MY DEAR MELANCHOLY, The Weeknd 09 04 199 01 X Ed Sheeran 10 NE 01 10 AMERICA 30 Seconds To Mars 11 07 306 01 + Ed Sheeran 12 05 72 03 24K MAGIC Bruno Mars 13 10 48 05 STONEY Post Malone 14 15 42 04 EVOLVE Imagine Dragons 15 06 04 03 ? XXXTentacion 16 09 09 02 BLACK PANTHER: THE ALBUM Soundtrack 17 22 162 02 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: AWESOME MIX VOL. 1 Soundtrack 18 08 39 08 DUA LIPA Dua Lipa 19 NE 01 19 JOHNNY CASH: FOREVER WORDS Various 20 NE 01 20 ECHOES IN BLUE City Calm Down 21 19 69 02 MOANA Soundtrack 22 13 22 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 23 14 181 01 1989 Taylor Swift 24 11 07 01 NATION OF TWO Vance Joy 25 28 51 02 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2: AWESOME MIX VOL. 2 Soundtrack 26 16 26 01 BEAUTIFUL TRAUMA P!nk 27 17 09 04 FIFTY SHADES FREED Soundtrack 28 24 294 01 THE VERY BEST INXS 29 30 116 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 30 NE 01 30 THE ALBUM Aunty Donna 31 27 49 13 AMERICAN TEEN Khalid 32 53 468 11 THE VERY BEST OF FLEETWOOD MAC Fleetwood Mac 33 18 03 07 STAYING AT TAMARA'S George Ezra 34 12 03 03 I HEAR A SONG Dami Im 35 21 05 05 ONLY HUMAN Calum Scott 36 77 43 01 MELODRAMA Lorde 37 NE 01 37 LOUDMOUTH SOUP Cosmic Psychos 38 31 52 02 DAMN. Kendrick Lamar 39 29 17 01 REVIVAL Eminem 40 32 34 01 GO FARTHER IN LIGHTNESS Gang Of Youths 41 45 412 05 GREATEST HITS Guns N' Roses 42 42 74 03 ILLUMINATE Shawn Mendes 43 34 199 02 DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS Bruno Mars 44 35 11 13 CULTURE II Migos 45 26 13 03 CAMILA Camila Cabello 46 40 72 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 47 57 225 05 THE VERY VERY BEST OF CROWDED HOUSE Crowded House 48 50 78 01 TAPESTRY Carole King 49 43 85 01 BEAUTY BEHIND THE MADNESS The Weeknd 50 36 125 01 PURPOSE Justin Bieber Drake notches up an 11th week at #1 which makes "God's Plan" the 4th longest running #1 hit of the 2010s behind "Happy", "Shape Of You" and "Despacito". This looks likely to be the song's last week at #1, as Drake faces strong competition from...Drake. "Nice For What" has now taken up the streaming helm, and has reasonable sales, effectively usurping the positions of the prior single, so it looks likely to hit #1 next week. Seemingly gaining favour with the numbers lining up, "Love Lies" reaches #3 this week which is the highest Khalid has ever charted, while for Normani, it ties the peak of Fifth Harmony's "Work From Home". The next debut comes from Calvin Harris who had a slow start with streaming (taking 4 days to reach the Spotify top 50), and it's still catching up, but should hit the top 10 next week. Delta Goodrem also has a big climb to a new peak for "Think About You" thanks to a physical single release. She might also be helped by the fact that Spotify hadn't gotten Thursday's data in on time. It is not quite clear what ARIA do about this, but my best guess is that they just ignore it, meaning there might only be 6 days of streams this week. That also helps Bad Wolves finally crack the top 50, and the top 40 with their cover of "Zombie". While we're checking in on ARIA accuracy, there's a very belated debut for Cardi B's "Bartier Cardi", which should have debuted on release but...didn't. Also for all the previous discussion about "Flames", it seems like (probably because of the way it's tagged) it is not getting its Spotify streams counted. The moment it does get counted, it should shoot up into the top 50 but that also might never happen. As expected, we have a new #1 album. Naturally it comes courtesy of Kylie Minogue, whose "Golden" becomes her 5th #1 album, all 5 of which occurred during the 2000s. It's been 8 minutes so there's a new Hillsong album, and it's the 3rd Hillsong Worship album to debut and peak at #2. "+" falls out of the top 10 this week, but we maintain the Sheeran quota because he features on the Elton John tribute album that debuts at #5. Alison Wonderland debuts 1 place lower than her previous album for a 2nd top 10, while Thirty Seconds To Mars get their 2nd top 10 album just narrowly. It's not quite clear at this point what next week's #1 album will be, but the top debut looks likely to be the first posthumously released album from Gurrumul.
April 18, 20187 yr "Love Lies" is doing really well in Oceania. I wonder if it picks up to that level over here. Also fairly low debuts for Drake and Calvin compared to the UK! Has George Ezra done anything in Australia - I see the album is down 18-33 - how did "Paradise" do? Were "Budapest" and "Blame It On Me" hits over there at least?
April 18, 20187 yr Paradise has only just gone Top 30 in iTunes in the past couple of weeks! Although as far as I’m aware he hasn’t had much/any sort of promo, not even radio plays I don’t think so it could still be a hit. Budapest was big but I can’t remember if Blame did much. It annoys me how Zombie and Hurt Somebody have been the Top 2 on iTunes for nearly the past 2 weeks yet neither are Top 20 officially yet
April 18, 20187 yr Author Yeah, Paradise is still climbing, hasn't quite cracked the top 100 yet but it's very close. He's only ever charted Budapest & Blame It On Me here but both were top 10 hits.
April 18, 20187 yr Author She had the unfortunate timing of releasing on the same week as John Farnham's follow up to the 2nd highest selling album of all time in Aus, so 3 weeks at #2. Edited April 18, 20187 yr by Dircadirca
April 18, 20187 yr Its such a shame that download sales have fell so hard recently. I still can't believe that Zombie #1 there. The overall chart is becoming very urban dominated thanks to streaming. I am loving Hurt Somebody and its picking up on streaming now so hopefully it can at least go top 10, I wonder if it can become a hit worldwide? Edited April 18, 20187 yr by simonf
April 25, 20187 yr Author 22/04/2018 Singles 01 07 02 01 NICE FOR WHAT Drake 02 02 08 02 PSYCHO Post Malone Feat. Ty Dolla $ign 03 01 13 01 GOD'S PLAN Drake 04 03 09 03 LOVE LIES Khalid & Normani 05 06 03 03 CALL OUT MY NAME The Weeknd 06 04 05 04 FREAKY FRIDAY Lil Dicky Feat. Chris Brown 07 05 10 04 FRIENDS Marshmello & Anne Marie 08 09 12 07 THE MIDDLE Zedd & Grey Feat. Maren Morris 09 17 02 09 ONE KISS Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa 10 10 13 02 THESE DAYS Rudimental Feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen 11 08 14 03 IDGAF Dua Lipa 12 11 15 02 ALL THE STARS Kendrick Lamar & SZA 13 12 26 02 MEANT TO BE Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line 14 13 59 01 PERFECT Ed Sheeran 15 15 04 09 IN MY BLOOD Shawn Mendes 16 22 09 16 HURT SOMEBODY Noah Kahan & Julia Michaels 17 14 12 11 MINE Bazzi 18 21 12 18 SAY SOMETHING Justin Timberlake Feat. Chris Stapleton 19 20 29 02 I FALL APART Post Malone 20 16 07 09 SAD! XXXTentacion 21 18 19 07 NEVER BE THE SAME Camila Cabello 22 23 18 02 RIVER Eminem Feat. Ed Sheeran 23 24 31 01 ROCKSTAR Post Malone Feat. 21 Savage 24 25 09 24 LOOK ALIVE BlocBoy JB Feat. Drake 25 79 02 25 I LIKE IT Cardi B Feat. J Balvin & Bad Bunny 26 36 06 26 ZOMBIE Bad Wolves 27 31 06 27 NOTHING TO REGRET Robinson 28 29 67 01 SHAPE OF YOU Ed Sheeran 29 NE 01 29 LET ME Zayn 30 28 05 28 DELICATE Taylor Swift 31 27 15 06 FINESSE Bruno Mars Feat. Cardi B 32 32 35 01 HAVANA Camila Cabello Feat. Young Thug 33 26 11 09 PRAY FOR ME The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar 34 33 36 05 FEEL IT STILL Portugal. The Man 35 34 25 09 GO BANG Pnau 36 35 17 10 THIS IS ME Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble 37 43 05 37 REMIND ME TO FORGET Kygo 38 NE 01 38 I SAID HI Amy Shark 39 41 25 05 WOLVES Selena Gomez & Marshmello 40 37 14 16 WE'RE GOING HOME Vance Joy 41 NE 01 41 BARBIE TINGZ Nicki Minaj 42 38 25 20 I MISS YOU Clean Bandit Feat. Julia Michaels 43 44 04 43 1950 King Princess 44 46 36 05 SILENCE Marshmello x Khalid 45 48 02 45 PLUG WALK Rich The Kid 46 NE 01 46 YOUNGBLOOD 5 Seconds Of Summer 47 39 27 07 LET YOU DOWN NF 48 40 40 02 NEW RULES Dua Lipa 49 30 03 23 WASTED TIMES The Weeknd 50 42 21 27 YOU ARE THE REASON Calum Scott 54 (NE) Nicki Minaj - Chun-Li 55 (64) Migos Feat. Drake - Walk It Talk It 59 (65) Cardi B - Be Careful 64 (85) KYLE Feat. Kehlani - Playinwitme 74 (96) David Guetta & Sia - Flames 87 (NE) Florence + The Machine - Sky Full Of Song 92 (RE) James Arthur - Say You Won't Let Me 93 (RE) Zayn Feat. Sia - Dusk Till Dawn 94 (RE) Sheppard - Coming Home 97 (RE) The Chainsmokers Feat. Halsey - Closer 98 (RE) Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud Albums 01 NE 01 01 DJARIMIRRI (CHILD OF THE RAINBOW) Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu 02 03 59 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 03 04 19 01 THE GREATEST SHOWMAN Soundtrack 04 01 02 01 GOLDEN Kylie Minogue 05 06 02 05 INVASION OF PRIVACY Cardi B 06 05 02 05 REVAMP: THE SONGS OF ELTON JOHN & BERNIE TAUPIN Various 07 08 03 03 MY DEAR MELANCHOLY, The Weeknd 08 09 200 01 X Ed Sheeran 09 NE 01 09 EMBER Breaking Benjamin 10 NE 01 10 REARVIEW TOWN Jason Aldean 11 02 02 02 THERE IS MORE Hillsong Worship 12 11 307 01 + Ed Sheeran 13 13 49 05 STONEY Post Malone 14 14 43 04 EVOLVE Imagine Dragons 15 17 163 02 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: AWESOME MIX VOL. 1 Soundtrack 16 12 73 03 24K MAGIC Bruno Mars 17 16 10 02 BLACK PANTHER: THE ALBUM Soundtrack 18 22 23 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 19 15 05 03 ? XXXTentacion 20 23 182 01 1989 Taylor Swift 21 21 70 02 MOANA Soundtrack 22 18 40 08 DUA LIPA Dua Lipa 23 24 08 01 NATION OF TWO Vance Joy 24 25 52 02 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2: AWESOME MIX VOL. 2 Soundtrack 25 38 53 02 DAMN. Kendrick Lamar 26 NE 01 26 PTX PRESENTS: TOP POP, VOL. I Pentatonix 27 26 27 01 BEAUTIFUL TRAUMA P!nk 28 19 02 19 JOHNNY CASH: FOREVER WORDS Various 29 28 295 01 THE VERY BEST INXS 30 NE 01 30 HOME Greta Bradman, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra 31 NE 01 31 CONfiDENT MUSIC FOR CONfiDENT PEOPLE Confidence Man 32 27 10 04 FIFTY SHADES FREED Soundtrack 33 29 117 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 34 31 50 13 AMERICAN TEEN Khalid 35 32 469 11 THE VERY BEST OF FLEETWOOD MAC Fleetwood Mac 36 NE 01 36 MESS The Hard Aches 37 92 23 13 DIAMONDS Elton John 38 39 18 01 REVIVAL Eminem 39 35 06 05 ONLY HUMAN Calum Scott 40 40 35 01 GO FARTHER IN LIGHTNESS Gang Of Youths 41 NE 01 41 COSMIC Bazzi 42 41 413 05 GREATEST HITS Guns N' Roses 43 33 04 07 STAYING AT TAMARA'S George Ezra 44 07 02 07 AWAKE Alison Wonderland 45 47 226 05 THE VERY VERY BEST OF CROWDED HOUSE Crowded House 46 51 24 02 THE THRILL OF IT ALL Sam Smith 47 50 126 01 PURPOSE Justin Bieber 48 48 79 01 TAPESTRY Carole King 49 49 86 01 BEAUTY BEHIND THE MADNESS The Weeknd 50 42 75 03 ILLUMINATE Shawn Mendes As expected, we have a new #1, and as expected, it's still Drake. "Nice For What" ends the 11 week run of "God's Plan" and becomes his 3rd #1 single. This is the 3rd time this decade that an artist has replaced themselves at #1, following Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, and Justin Bieber. Spotify playlists can be partly attributed to this as "God's Plan" was ousted from Hot Hits Australia pre-maturely, which allows Post Malone to maintain an 8th consecutive week at #2. He still has a chance to get to #1 with the release of his 2nd album, but it also depends on how Ariana Grande maintains her sales & streams, as it looks very likely that "No Tears Left To Cry" will debut at #1 and become her first ever #1 single, the same circumstances as the most recent #1 debut from Sam Smith. Surprisingly not really in the picture is "One Kiss" which hits the top 10 this week but is already slowing down fast. Concerningly the highest Australian entry this week is only #35 but this week Amy Shark finally gets her 2nd top 50 hit, helped by the fact that this new single actually got proper Spotify playlist support. 5 Seconds Of Summer also get their new single in, and are looking at a big boost as "Black Skinhead" "Youngblood" is surprisingly top 20 on Spotify. History is made this week on the album chart with Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu scoring a posthumous #1 debut, and his first ever #1. This is the first time that an indigenous language album has reached the top spot. Gurrumul was a blind indigenous singer who won over audiences with his beautiful singing voice, and his 2008 debut album achieved triple platinum sales. Sadly last year he passed away, and though it is an important tradition that the names and faces of deceased indigenous people are not to be printed or shown, his immediate family later decided that his impact on the music scene was too significant to be forgotten and have allowed his name to be printed again. Lower down, Cardi B is still without physical sales but impressively manages to climb up a spot into the top 5 on her 2nd week, while there are just two more debuts in the top 10, with Breaking Benjamin scoring their first ever top 10, and Jason Aldean his 2nd. On the note of posthumous chart entries, next week we'll have more as per Avicii's untimely passing. His sole #1 hit "Wake Me Up" will be the highest entry, but worth watching will be "Levels" which originally peaked at #24 and could possibly score a new peak. "Without You", "Hey Brother", "Lonely Together", "Waiting For Love" and "The Nights" will also be potential re-entries.
April 25, 20187 yr Well, it's certainly your best number 1 of the year so far :lol: "Shape Of You" still top 30, mental! It really is a top pop song though. The polar opposite of the dire "Perfect" :lol:
April 25, 20187 yr Author I'm thinking Shape might finally get hit hard this week. The influx of J. Cole & Avicii on the weekend bumped it out of the Spotify top 50 and it won't have an easy time returning with Post Malone around the corner. I worry about how slow Perfect is dropping out, seems like God's Plan is the only thing that can stop it from being the #1 seller of 2018, which is an immensely groanworthy thought :lol:
April 25, 20187 yr Author Indeed, every song is on an equal playing field (ignoring playlistola ~) at all times. The only minor exception is that songs need to be selected by the labels to be tracked, so when a big new album comes out, it's often a coin flip as to whether or not the tracks will chart, often it's really arbirary like Kendrick's DAMN. having 3 debuts, but they weren't exactly the 3 biggest that week. You also often have Spotify hits that just aren't being noticed for some reason, so even though "Nevermind" is on top of Hot Hits Australia, and should even be in the top 50 streaming singles chart this week, it's curiously absent, and I've no idea if or when it will suddenly start charting. ("Flames" also still isn't getting its Spotify streams counted oops).
April 27, 20187 yr That's lovely to see Gurrumul reaching #1, a nice first for indigenous Australian music.
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