August 2, 20186 yr Lovely's chart run is so weird "32-34-21-13-13-13-11-5-13-15-21-20". It's time at #5 wasn't even boosted with the 13RW season either Do you think George Ezra will be Top 50 next week?
August 2, 20186 yr Author I think Billie just got really lucky that week with the margins, similar to how Anne-Marie just climbed to #4 for seemingly no reason one week. Although in saying that she was unlucky not to hit the top 10 sooner. And yeah Shotgun should definitely make it this week.
August 2, 20186 yr What are the reasons for chart exclusion anything wrong in Australia? Probably just general incompetence honestly. But hey we sort-of banned plastic bags
August 8, 20186 yr Author 05/08/2018 Singles 01 01 05 01 IN MY FEELINGS Drake 02 03 05 02 BE ALRIGHT Dean Lewis 03 02 16 01 YOUNGBLOOD 5 Seconds Of Summer 04 04 09 02 GIRLS LIKE YOU Maroon 5 Feat. Cardi B 05 12 03 05 EASTSIDE Benny Blanco Feat. Halsey & Khalid 06 NE 01 06 NO BRAINER DJ Khaled, Justin Bieber & Quavo Feat. Chance the Rapper 07 05 03 05 GOD IS A WOMAN Ariana Grande 08 52 02 08 FEFE 6ix9ine Feat. Nicki Minaj & Murda Beatz 09 06 14 02 BETTER NOW Post Malone 10 07 08 07 HEALING HANDS Conrad Sewell 11 16 08 11 RISE Jonas Blue 12 09 10 08 LUCID DREAMS Juice WRLD 13 13 08 13 JACKIE CHAN Tiesto & Dzeko Feat. Preme & Post Malone 14 17 12 12 FIRE/REPRISAL Peking Duk 15 08 15 04 2002 Anne-Marie 16 11 11 07 SOLO Clean Bandit Feat. Demi Lovato 17 10 15 10 NEVERMIND Dennis Lloyd 18 14 07 12 OCEAN Martin Garrix Feat. Khalid 19 19 08 18 I WANNA KNOW NOTD Feat. Bea Miller 20 24 07 20 BORN TO BE YOURS Kygo & Imagine Dragons 21 20 15 05 LOVELY Billie Eilish Feat. Khalid 22 22 17 14 I LIKE IT Cardi B Feat. J Balvin & Bad Bunny 23 26 13 23 I'LL BE THERE Jess Glynne 24 30 07 24 HIGH HOPES Panic! At The Disco 25 15 16 06 I SAID HI Amy Shark 26 23 12 04 BACK TO YOU Selena Gomez 27 25 22 04 SAD! XXXTentacion 28 21 17 03 ONE KISS Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa 29 27 17 01 NICE FOR WHAT Drake 30 32 05 30 NEVER EVER The Rubens Feat. Sarah 31 64 02 31 HAPPY NOW Zedd & Elley Duhe 32 18 05 03 DON'T MATTER TO ME Drake Feat. Michael Jackson 33 28 15 01 NO TEARS LEFT TO CRY Ariana Grande 34 31 28 01 GOD'S PLAN Drake 35 38 10 33 PRAISE THE LORD (DA SHINE) A$AP Rocky Feat. Skepta 36 36 14 26 JUST FRIENDS Hayden James Feat. Boy Matthews 37 69 03 37 SHOTGUN George Ezra 38 33 05 05 NONSTOP Drake 39 35 07 17 BED Nicki Minaj Feat. Ariana Grande 40 41 24 14 HURT SOMEBODY Noah Kahan & Julia Michaels 41 37 74 01 PERFECT Ed Sheeran 42 39 23 01 PSYCHO Post Malone Feat. Ty Dolla $ign 43 29 15 27 OTW Khalid x Ty Dolla $ign x 6lack 44 40 24 03 LOVE LIES Khalid & Normani 45 48 06 45 I'M A MESS Bebe Rexha 46 42 06 08 JOCELYN FLORES XXXTentacion 47 45 20 14 REMIND ME TO FORGET Kygo 48 44 12 15 CHANGES XXXTentacion 49 34 03 31 SUMMERTIME MAGIC Childish Gambino 50 46 46 01 ROCKSTAR Post Malone Feat. 21 Savage 61 (NE) The Chainsmokers Feat. Emily Warren - Side Effects 63 (74) Loud Luxury - Body 75 (RE) Demi Lovato - Sober 79 (NE) David Guetta Feat. Anne-Marie - Don't Leave Me Alone 92 (RE) Ruel - Younger 93 (NE) Alec Benjamin - Let Me Down Slowly 01 01 03 01 MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN Soundtrack 02 03 05 01 SCORPION Drake 03 02 34 01 THE GREATEST SHOWMAN Soundtrack 04 11 04 04 THE BEST SO FAR...2018 TOUR EDITION Celine Dion 05 04 03 01 LOVE MONSTER Amy Shark 06 05 74 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 07 07 42 01 BEAUTIFUL TRAUMA P!nk 08 06 14 01 BEERBONGS & BENTLEYS Post Malone 09 NE 01 09 THE NASHVILLE TAPES Adam Harvey 10 08 10 01 SHAWN MENDES Shawn Mendes 11 NE 01 11 SECT Golden Features 12 09 20 02 ? XXXTentacion 13 10 256 01 GREATEST HITS...SO FAR!!! P!nk 14 41 14 02 GRAFFITI U Keith Urban 15 NE 01 15 ELECTRIFYING 80S: STOCK AITKEN WATERMAN Tim Campbell 16 NE 01 16 VICIOUS Halestorm 17 NE 01 17 GOTCHA COVERED The Screaming Jets 18 15 215 01 X Ed Sheeran 19 13 06 01 PRAY FOR THE WICKED Panic! At The Disco 20 17 07 01 YOUNGBLOOD 5 Seconds Of Summer 21 14 49 09 ABBA GOLD & MORE (ANNIVERSARY EDITION) ABBA 22 12 05 02 HIGH AS HOPE Florence + The Machine 23 24 20 08 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 24 21 178 02 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: AWESOME MIX VOL. 1 Soundtrack 25 22 64 05 STONEY Post Malone 26 20 173 07 APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION Guns N' Roses 27 NE 01 27 TA1300 Denzel Curry 28 16 09 01 YE Kanye West 29 NE 01 29 UNDER MY SKIN Kirsty Lee Akers 30 19 68 02 DAMN. Kendrick Lamar 31 23 38 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 32 27 65 13 AMERICAN TEEN Khalid 33 26 17 05 INVASION OF PRIVACY Cardi B 34 30 132 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 35 34 249 01 ABBA GOLD ABBA 36 28 297 02 GREATEST HITS Queen 37 31 85 02 MOANA Soundtrack 38 55 102 01 THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE P!nk 39 29 58 04 EVOLVE Imagine Dragons 40 NE 01 40 CAGE TO RATTLE Daughtry 41 25 50 01 GO FARTHER IN LIGHTNESS Gang Of Youths 42 NE 01 42 ONE VOICE: BELIEVE Aled Jones 43 59 197 01 1989 Taylor Swift 44 18 03 06 MILESTONES...20 YEARS Adam Brand 45 36 23 01 NATION OF TWO Vance Joy 46 33 25 02 BLACK PANTHER: THE ALBUM Soundtrack 47 RE 27 02 WITNESS Katy Perry 48 38 111 16 THE BEST OF The Wiggles 49 52 123 01 FUNHOUSE P!nk 50 NE 01 50 NOVA RL Grime "In My Feelings" makes for 3 weeks at #1 which is a longer reign than "Nice For What" achieved, though it's highly doubtful it will approach "God's Plan"'s 11 week tally. Indeed, margins are slipping rather rapidly but it'll be a question of who is there to take the fall. Dean Lewis is a possibility as he moves up to #2 but "eastside" is also making big moves on streaming and just needs sales to match it to become a serious threat. Elsewhere in the top 10, DJ Khaled scores his 3rd top 10 hit, Justin Bieber's 16th, Chance The Rapper's 3rd & Quavo's 3rd as "No Brainer" comes crashing in at #6. ARIA continue to cover their ears and eyes regarding Tyga but rest assured(?) we have still managed to find place for a different individual known for very disagreeable actions with minors as 6ix9ine's first ever charting entry becomes his first top 10 hit as well. It's also Nicki Minaj's 12th top 10 hit, and first since "Side To Side" about 2 years ago. Zedd gets another top 50 hit with "Happy Now" assumably thanks to a lot of good will from streaming services for "The Middle" because it is getting the majority of its action from playlist placements. George Ezra also maintains a perfect record of top 40 hits as he scores his third with "Shotgun" underneath the very cold winter that we're going through. Lower down we also have Demi Lovato's "Sober" re-entering due to unfortunate circumstances. Next week's focus will be on Travis Scott's "ASTROWORLD" and finding out exactly how many songs ARIA will let on the chart. Travis Scott is infamous (to me) because of the sheer volume of songs of his that have been left off the chart for no reason, including big hits like "goosebumps", "Love Galore" and "Sky Walker". My understanding is that "SICKO MODE", "STARGAZING" and "BUTTERFLY EFFECT" should chart but I wouldn't be surprised if that's it. There's not much happening on the album chart as the "Mamma Mia" soundtrack gets a 2nd week at the top. Celine Dion's compilation is doing quite well as it soars to #4, ahead of any of this week's new entries. The highest of which is yet another local country artist named Adam, this time Adam Harvey who scores this week's only top 10 debut, and his 5th overall. Following him is another local artist, the often quite good electronic artist Golden Features and his first album in at #11. Next week's top spot will be a battle of whether or not "Mamma Mia" can hold off a trepidatious treat of new tracks from two tremendously different troupes. Travis Scott will hope to have stroked enough cacti in the night time, but perhaps you can count on local rock act Trophy Eyes for the upset. Both artists have so far scored one top 10 album each.
August 15, 20186 yr Author 12/08/2018 Singles 01 01 06 01 IN MY FEELINGS Drake 02 02 06 02 BE ALRIGHT Dean Lewis 03 03 17 01 YOUNGBLOOD 5 Seconds Of Summer 04 04 10 02 GIRLS LIKE YOU Maroon 5 Feat. Cardi B 05 05 04 05 EASTSIDE Benny Blanco Feat. Halsey & Khalid 06 06 02 06 NO BRAINER DJ Khaled, Justin Bieber & Quavo Feat. Chance the Rapper 07 NE 01 07 SICKO MODE Travis Scott & Drake 08 10 09 07 HEALING HANDS Conrad Sewell 09 11 09 09 RISE Jonas Blue 10 NE 01 10 STARGAZING Travis Scott 11 08 03 08 FEFE 6ix9ine Feat. Nicki Minaj & Murda Beatz 12 07 04 05 GOD IS A WOMAN Ariana Grande 13 09 15 02 BETTER NOW Post Malone 14 24 08 14 HIGH HOPES Panic! At The Disco 15 12 11 08 LUCID DREAMS Juice WRLD 16 13 09 13 JACKIE CHAN Tiesto & Dzeko Feat. Preme & Post Malone 17 14 13 12 FIRE/REPRISAL Peking Duk 18 17 16 10 NEVERMIND Dennis Lloyd 19 16 12 07 SOLO Clean Bandit Feat. Demi Lovato 20 19 09 18 I WANNA KNOW NOTD Feat. Bia Miller 21 15 16 04 2002 Anne-Marie 22 20 08 20 BORN TO BE YOURS Kygo & Imagine Dragons 23 18 08 12 OCEAN Martin Garrix Feat. Khalid 24 23 14 23 I'LL BE THERE Jess Glynne 25 21 16 05 LOVELY Billie Eilish Feat. Khalid 26 22 18 14 I LIKE IT Cardi B Feat. J Balvin & Bad Bunny 27 37 04 27 SHOTGUN George Ezra 28 25 17 06 I SAID HI Amy Shark 29 27 23 04 SAD! XXXTentacion 30 26 13 04 BACK TO YOU Selena Gomez 31 28 18 03 ONE KISS Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa 32 30 06 30 NEVER EVER The Rubens Feat. Sarah 33 31 03 31 HAPPY NOW Zedd & Elley Duhe 34 29 18 01 NICE FOR WHAT Drake 35 36 15 26 JUST FRIENDS Hayden James Feat. Boy Matthews 36 34 29 01 GOD'S PLAN Drake 37 35 11 33 PRAISE THE LORD (DA SHINE) A$AP Rocky Feat. Skepta 38 40 25 14 HURT SOMEBODY Noah Kahan & Julia Michaels 39 41 75 01 PERFECT Ed Sheeran 40 33 16 01 NO TEARS LEFT TO CRY Ariana Grande 41 38 06 05 NONSTOP Drake 42 42 24 01 PSYCHO Post Malone Feat. Ty Dolla $ign 43 39 08 17 BED Nicki Minaj Feat. Ariana Grande 44 45 07 44 I'M A MESS Bebe Rexha 45 44 25 03 LOVE LIES Khalid & Normani 46 NE 01 46 BUTTERFLY EFFECT Travis Scott 47 32 06 03 DON'T MATTER TO ME Drake Feat. Michael Jackson 48 46 07 08 JOCELYN FLORES XXXTentacion 49 52 04 48 CLARK GRISWOLD Hilltop Hoods Feat. Adrian Eagle 50 43 16 27 OTW Khalid x Ty Dolla $ign x 6lack 52 (NE) Bazzi - Beautiful 55 (63) Loud Luxury - Body 63 (79) David Guetta Feat. Anne-Marie - Don't Leave Me Alone 75 (NE) Martin Garrix Feat. Young Thug - High On Life 79 (NE) G Flip - Killing My Time 80 (93) Alec Benjamin - Let Me Down Slowly 97 (RE) James Arthur - Say You Won't Let Go Albums 01 NE 01 01 ASTROWORLD Travis Scott 02 02 06 01 SCORPION Drake 03 01 04 01 MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN Soundtrack 04 03 35 01 THE GREATEST SHOWMAN Soundtrack 05 04 05 04 THE BEST SO FAR...2018 TOUR EDITION Celine Dion 06 08 15 01 BEERBONGS & BENTLEYS Post Malone 07 06 75 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 08 NE 01 08 THE AMERICAN DREAM Trophy Eyes 09 05 04 01 LOVE MONSTER Amy Shark 10 12 21 02 ? XXXTentacion 11 10 11 01 SHAWN MENDES Shawn Mendes 12 07 43 01 BEAUTIFUL TRAUMA P!nk 13 13 257 01 GREATEST HITS...SO FAR!!! P!nk 14 14 15 02 GRAFFITI U Keith Urban 15 NE 01 15 STAY DANGEROUS YG 16 NE 01 16 30: THE GREATEST HITS Diesel 17 18 216 01 X Ed Sheeran 18 20 08 01 YOUNGBLOOD 5 Seconds Of Summer 19 19 07 01 PRAY FOR THE WICKED Panic! At The Disco 20 25 65 05 STONEY Post Malone 21 NE 01 21 SWIMMING Mac Miller 22 34 133 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 23 24 179 02 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: AWESOME MIX VOL. 1 Soundtrack 24 33 18 05 INVASION OF PRIVACY Cardi B 25 32 66 13 AMERICAN TEEN Khalid 26 23 21 08 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 27 36 298 02 GREATEST HITS Queen 28 31 39 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 29 21 50 09 ABBA GOLD & MORE (ANNIVERSARY EDITION) ABBA 30 22 06 02 HIGH AS HOPE Florence + The Machine 31 NE 01 31 FROM THE BACKCOUNTRY Graeme Connors 32 59 69 21 THE PLATINUM COLLECTION Queen 33 28 10 01 YE Kanye West 34 35 250 01 ABBA GOLD ABBA 35 46 26 02 BLACK PANTHER: THE ALBUM Soundtrack 36 30 69 02 DAMN. Kendrick Lamar 37 42 02 37 ONE VOICE: BELIEVE Aled Jones 38 81 76 01 MOLLY (SOUNDTRACK FROM THE TV SERIES) Soundtrack 39 37 86 02 MOANA Soundtrack 40 45 24 01 NATION OF TWO Vance Joy 41 09 02 09 THE NASHVILLE TAPES Adam Harvey 42 65 64 19 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 43 58 122 01 LIVE AC/DC 44 39 59 04 EVOLVE Imagine Dragons 45 71 100 01 SUICIDE SQUAD: THE ALBUM Soundtrack 46 64 323 01 + Ed Sheeran 47 26 174 07 APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION Guns N' Roses 48 41 51 01 GO FARTHER IN LIGHTNESS Gang Of Youths 49 48 112 16 THE BEST OF The Wiggles 50 55 311 01 THE VERY BEST INXS It's 4 weeks at #1 for "In My Feelings", one week for everyone in the song Drake asks for love and/or riding from. It is looking like it will be the last week though, which is bad news for people who put extremely low effort in making subheadings for threads. Partially because people who still use iTunes are geniuses who are big fans of DJ Magik's oeuvre, but also because the playlists have done their usual job of sweeping Drake songs under the rug after about a month. "eastside" is actually #1 on Spotify now but that's largely due to a vertical video so it will be local bloke Dean Lewis 'mate'-ing himself to #1 after 2 weeks at #2. It's not all ominous news for Drake though, because he scores another top 10 hit this week on Travis Scott's "SICKO MODE", which is fortunate enough to land at #7 when it's #7 on streaming and nowhere in the top 40 digitally. Travis is also fortunate to score an additional top 10 hit with "STARGAZING" sneaking through at #10. "BUTTERFLY EFFECT" also debuts lower down as predicted, and has been certified platinum in the process. Everything else on the album except maybe "COFFEE BEAN" should have made the top 100, which would have rid us of Imagine Dragons, Lil Dicky, James Arthur & Calum Scott. Back on the topic of artists scoring their first top 10 hit, that may well happen next week for Panic! At The Disco, previously charting as high as #12 with "I Write Sins Not Tragedies", as "High Hopes" looks poised to do so. I would also like to note a new degree of iTunes irrelevance, as last week we had a new iTunes #1 which made top 10 in digital track sales, "We You Me" by local singer/songwriter Lee Coulter (no relation to Ricki-Lee Coulter). With no real streaming presence, the #10 digital hit fails to even reach the top 100. With monster streaming figures that have actually been included in the album chart, Travis Scott easily sails to #1 with his 3rd studio album "ASTROWORLD". He previously snuck into the top 10 2 years ago with "Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight". With Drake's former #1 album holding the #2 slot, it is very reminiscent of 9 weeks ago when we last had two hip hop albums in the top 2, with Kanye West's #1 debut and Post Malone's former #1 at #2 on its 6th week. Notably this week, Post Malone actually manages to overtake Ed Sheeran after falling behind him for a while, which pushes "Divide" to an all new low of #7, which will be a heavy blow to Ed's retirement fund projections I'm sure. Right behind him are Trophy Eyes, whose last album was released pretty late in 2016, so they nearly had the chance to debut twice behind the same Ed Sheeran album. They do however end up at #8 which is exactly the same peak they reached last time. Their bass player follows me on Twitter so I'm sure they're nice people. Next week's album is a bit of a crapshoot since there's no clear favourite. Nicki Minaj might be able to do it which will be a career first for her, but it may be difficult to overcome the usual top 5 stalwarts. Also vying for high debuts are Jason Mraz, and delightful singer/songwriter Gretta Ray.
August 16, 20186 yr “"BUTTERFLY EFFECT" also debuts lower down as predicted, and has been certified platinum in the process.“ :rofl: I wonder if Ariana could be coming for another #1 when her album is released, either way I hope she’ll have a few new entries as a result
August 16, 20186 yr 14 24 08 14 HIGH HOPES Panic! At The Disco Panic! to be TOP 10 this week please. :dance:
August 16, 20186 yr Author “"BUTTERFLY EFFECT" also debuts lower down as predicted, and has been certified platinum in the process.“ :rofl: I wonder if Ariana could be coming for another #1 when her album is released, either way I hope she’ll have a few new entries as a result I'm waiting until ARIA do their monthly certification update to find out if "goosebumps" is also double platinum, despite never reaching the top 100 :P Ariana should be a safe #1 as I don't think she has any competition. She might struggle to get additional entries unless there's an instant smash on there. iTunes tells me the album isn't out until Sunday, which will make it very difficult to accumulate streams in time. When her last album was released, Side To Side snuck in the top 100 for a week long before it was a single.
August 16, 20186 yr ^ I think that just means they'll be releasing it at midnight US time across the world on Friday, if they put Friday as the release date it would automatically become available at midnight local time and it'd leak! It's what I've seen when artists like The Weeknd have done it before.
August 16, 20186 yr Author Ah yeah that sounds about right. Can still be pretty costly. Australia always seems to be a bit slow on streaming new releases compared to similar markets (possibly due to timezones, possibly we're just lazy :P). No Tears Left To Cry could use the boost since it's #54 on Spotify right now. Edited August 16, 20186 yr by Dircadirca
August 20, 20186 yr Author 19/08/2018 Singles 01 02 07 01 BE ALRIGHT Dean Lewis 02 01 07 01 IN MY FEELINGS Drake 03 03 18 01 YOUNGBLOOD 5 Seconds Of Summer 04 05 05 04 EASTSIDE Benny Blanco Feat. Halsey & Khalid 05 04 11 02 GIRLS LIKE YOU Maroon 5 Feat. Cardi B 06 06 03 06 NO BRAINER DJ Khaled, Justin Bieber & Quavo Feat. Chance the Rapper 07 14 09 07 HIGH HOPES Panic! At The Disco 08 09 10 08 RISE Jonas Blue 09 08 10 07 HEALING HANDS Conrad Sewell 10 07 02 07 SICKO MODE Travis Scott & Drake 11 27 05 11 SHOTGUN George Ezra 12 13 16 02 BETTER NOW Post Malone 13 15 12 08 LUCID DREAMS Juice WRLD 14 16 10 13 JACKIE CHAN Tiesto & Dzeko Feat. Preme & Post Malone 15 11 04 08 FEFE 6ix9ine Feat. Nicki Minaj & Murda Beatz 16 18 17 10 NEVERMIND Dennis Lloyd 17 12 05 05 GOD IS A WOMAN Ariana Grande 18 22 09 18 BORN TO BE YOURS Kygo & Imagine Dragons 19 17 14 12 FIRE/REPRISAL Peking Duk 20 21 17 04 2002 Anne-Marie 21 23 09 12 OCEAN Martin Garrix Feat. Khalid 22 19 13 07 SOLO Clean Bandit Feat. Demi Lovato 23 20 10 18 I WANNA KNOW NOTD Feat. Bia Miller 24 24 15 23 I'LL BE THERE Jess Glynne 25 32 07 25 NEVER EVER The Rubens Feat. Sarah 26 26 19 14 I LIKE IT Cardi B Feat. J Balvin & Bad Bunny 27 29 24 04 SAD! XXXTentacion 28 31 19 03 ONE KISS Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa 29 25 17 05 LOVELY Billie Eilish Feat. Khalid 30 33 04 30 HAPPY NOW Zedd & Elley Duhe 31 28 18 06 I SAID HI Amy Shark 32 10 02 10 STARGAZING Travis Scott 33 30 14 04 BACK TO YOU Selena Gomez 34 52 02 34 BEAUTIFUL Bazzi 35 38 26 14 HURT SOMEBODY Noah Kahan & Julia Michaels 36 34 19 01 NICE FOR WHAT Drake 37 35 16 26 JUST FRIENDS Hayden James Feat. Boy Matthews 38 37 12 33 PRAISE THE LORD (DA SHINE) A$AP Rocky Feat. Skepta 39 36 30 01 GOD'S PLAN Drake 40 43 09 17 BED Nicki Minaj Feat. Ariana Grande 41 39 76 01 PERFECT Ed Sheeran 42 44 08 42 I'M A MESS Bebe Rexha 43 63 03 43 DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE David Guetta Feat. Anne-Marie 44 41 07 05 NONSTOP Drake 45 40 17 01 NO TEARS LEFT TO CRY Ariana Grande 46 42 25 01 PSYCHO Post Malone Feat. Ty Dolla $ign 47 67 04 47 YOU SHOULD SEE ME IN A CROWN Billie Eilish 48 55 05 48 BODY Loud Luxury 49 45 26 03 LOVE LIES Khalid & Normani 50 51 84 01 SHAPE OF YOU Ed Sheeran 57 (NE) Nicki Minaj - Barbie Dreams 59 (75) Martin Garrix Feat. Bonn - High On Life 60 (NE) Nicki Minaj Feat. Eminem & Labrinth - Majesty 67 (NE) Travis Scott Feat. The Weeknd - Wake Up 79 (NE) RUFUS DU SOL - Underwater 80 (NE) Amy Shark - All Loved Up 84 (RE) Nicki Minaj - Chun-Li 87 (NE) Travis Scott - Stop Trying To Be God 89 (NE) LSD Feat. Sia, Diplo & Labrinth - Thunderclouds 97 (NE) Travis Scott - Yosemite 99 (NE) Travis Scott - Carousel Albums 01 02 07 01 SCORPION Drake 02 01 02 01 ASTROWORLD Travis Scott 03 03 05 01 MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN Soundtrack 04 NE 01 04 QUEEN Nicki Minaj 05 04 36 01 THE GREATEST SHOWMAN Soundtrack 06 07 76 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 07 06 16 01 BEERBONGS & BENTLEYS Post Malone 08 05 06 04 THE BEST SO FAR...2018 TOUR EDITION Celine Dion 09 10 22 02 ? XXXTentacion 10 09 05 01 LOVE MONSTER Amy Shark 11 12 44 01 BEAUTIFUL TRAUMA P!nk 12 11 12 01 SHAWN MENDES Shawn Mendes 13 13 258 01 GREATEST HITS...SO FAR!!! P!nk 14 NE 01 14 LIFE'S A TRIP Trippie Redd 15 NE 01 15 WHERE NO ONE STANDS ALONE Elvis Presley 16 18 09 01 YOUNGBLOOD 5 Seconds Of Summer 17 14 16 02 GRAFFITI U Keith Urban 18 17 217 01 X Ed Sheeran 19 37 03 19 ONE VOICE: BELIEVE Aled Jones 20 20 66 05 STONEY Post Malone 21 19 08 01 PRAY FOR THE WICKED Panic! At The Disco 22 24 19 05 INVASION OF PRIVACY Cardi B 23 23 180 02 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: AWESOME MIX VOL. 1 Soundtrack 24 28 40 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 25 25 67 13 AMERICAN TEEN Khalid 26 48 52 01 GO FARTHER IN LIGHTNESS Gang Of Youths 27 26 22 08 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 28 22 134 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 29 15 02 15 STAY DANGEROUS YG 30 27 299 02 GREATEST HITS Queen 31 29 51 09 ABBA GOLD & MORE (ANNIVERSARY EDITION) ABBA 32 34 251 01 ABBA GOLD ABBA 33 33 11 01 YE Kanye West 34 35 27 02 BLACK PANTHER: THE ALBUM Soundtrack 35 39 87 02 MOANA Soundtrack 36 36 70 02 DAMN. Kendrick Lamar 37 32 70 21 THE PLATINUM COLLECTION Queen 38 40 25 01 NATION OF TWO Vance Joy 39 NE 01 39 KNOW. Jason Mraz 40 44 60 04 EVOLVE Imagine Dragons 41 43 123 01 LIVE AC/DC 42 46 324 01 + Ed Sheeran 43 42 65 19 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 44 50 312 01 THE VERY BEST INXS 45 64 14 07 STAYING AT TAMARA'S George Ezra 46 NE 01 46 HERE AND NOW Gretta Ray 47 38 77 01 MOLLY (SOUNDTRACK FROM THE TV SERIES) Soundtrack 48 30 07 02 HIGH AS HOPE Florence + The Machine 49 45 101 01 SUICIDE SQUAD: THE ALBUM Soundtrack 50 71 194 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac It didn't take long, but last week's #1 debut for The Shapeshifter's, "Lola's Theme" has been dethroned immediately by another newcomer. Following his first ever top 10 hit "Fit But You Know It", The Streets has wasted no time with a follow up two months later as "Dry Your Eyes" becomes his first ever...wait something's not right about this. Has it come to this you must wonder, who knows who could come up with a better way of masking my ambivalence & frustration with Mike Skinner references, even ones from when he wasn't famous. Unlike this commentary, a grand don't come for free, though you can acquire even more than that in weekly sales with nice playlist placement, which is part of what precipitated this change on the top. Well that and people's inability to deduce that Drake recorded "In My Feelings", DJ Magik's version of "Kiki, Do You Love Me" was the 36th highest selling download of the week. My personal favourite that pops up on iTunes is "In My Feelings" by Keke, an extraordinary leap in bad judgement. But of interest this week, we see one of those long standing barriers finally broken as Panic! At The Disco finally have a top 10 hit to their name with "High Hopes" moving up to #7. George Ezra will probably have to wait another week to get his 3rd because Travis Scott's "Sicko Mode" has held on at #10, which you can surely attribute to the fact that Drake shouts out famous Australian WNBA player Liz Cambage in his verse, though next week it will probably be out of the top 10 (like a light). However Travis Scott does become a talking point as we return to the perpetual saga of "ARIA Did Something Strange"! Travis only had 3 debuts last week because the rest of the album wasn't allowed on the chart. Now they are allowed on the chart and thus have meaningless artificial peaks that don't correspond to much of anything. This same week ARIA posted about 5 Seconds Of Summer's biggest hits and their peaks on social media, including "Amnesia"'s #7 peak which came about because of pre-order sales carried onto insta-grats. But if you love the rush of excitement that comes from ARIA arbitrarily leaving songs out of the chart, then don't worry, because not only is Tyga's "Taste" still missing, his next single "SWISH" which is also in the Spotify top 50 is missing now as well. Gotta make room for "Shape Of You" in the top 50 I suppose. Billie Eilish & Bazzi both score their 2nd top 50 hits this week (maybe "ocean eyes" could have made it too if it were let on sooner ~) and Labrinth is lucky to score two debuts in the same week. There is a little less to note on the album chart. Drake's inertia returns him to the top spot for a 3rd run with "Scorpion", and 9 of last week's top 10 are still in the top 10 this week (Trophy Eyes fall completely out of the top 100). Making that replacement in the top 10 is Nicki Minaj who has the #1 digital album this week and also her highest ever charting album at #4, previously reaching #5 with "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded". Whether or not the belatedly added "FEFE" is included (or rather excluded for being the highest) in the streaming point allocation is anyone's guess, I'm not sure ARIA even know. Though to highlight how little digital sales are contributing, the lovely Gretta Ray's debut EP comes in at #46 despite being #5 on digital albums. Next week should be a bit busier as we'll likely have Ariana Grande scoring her 3rd #1 album, while Aretha Franklin should score some re-entries, and Human Nature will keep covering oldies, including "I Say A Little Prayer" oddly enough. Edited August 20, 20186 yr by Dircadirca
August 20, 20186 yr wasn't expecting In my Feelings to be dethroned by Be Alright!! Shotgun doing good progress too
August 28, 20186 yr Author 27/08/2018 Singles 01 01 08 01 BE ALRIGHT Dean Lewis 02 04 06 02 EASTSIDE Benny Blanco Feat. Halsey & Khalid 03 02 08 01 IN MY FEELINGS Drake 04 03 19 01 YOUNGBLOOD 5 Seconds Of Summer 05 05 12 02 GIRLS LIKE YOU Maroon 5 Feat. Cardi B 06 06 04 06 NO BRAINER DJ Khaled, Justin Bieber & Quavo Feat. Chance the Rapper 07 17 06 05 GOD IS A WOMAN Ariana Grande 08 NE 01 08 BREATHIN Ariana Grande 09 11 06 09 SHOTGUN George Ezra 10 07 10 07 HIGH HOPES Panic! At The Disco 11 08 11 08 RISE Jonas Blue 12 09 11 07 HEALING HANDS Conrad Sewell 13 10 03 07 SICKO MODE Travis Scott & Drake 14 13 13 08 LUCID DREAMS Juice WRLD 15 16 18 10 NEVERMIND Dennis Lloyd 16 14 11 13 JACKIE CHAN Tiesto & Dzeko Feat. Preme & Post Malone 17 21 10 12 OCEAN Martin Garrix Feat. Khalid 18 12 17 02 BETTER NOW Post Malone 19 15 05 08 FEFE 6ix9ine Feat. Nicki Minaj & Murda Beatz 20 18 10 18 BORN TO BE YOURS Kygo & Imagine Dragons 21 45 18 01 NO TEARS LEFT TO CRY Ariana Grande 22 34 03 22 BEAUTIFUL Bazzi 23 19 15 12 FIRE/REPRISAL Peking Duk 24 25 08 24 NEVER EVER The Rubens Feat. Sarah 25 22 14 07 SOLO Clean Bandit Feat. Demi Lovato 26 24 16 23 I'LL BE THERE Jess Glynne 27 20 18 04 2002 Anne-Marie 28 23 11 18 I WANNA KNOW NOTD Feat. Bia Miller 29 26 20 14 I LIKE IT Cardi B Feat. J Balvin & Bad Bunny 30 NE 01 30 PROMISES Calvin Harris & Sam Smith 31 30 05 30 HAPPY NOW Zedd & Elley Duhe 32 27 25 04 SAD! XXXTentacion 33 28 20 03 ONE KISS Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa 34 29 18 05 LOVELY Billie Eilish Feat. Khalid 35 33 15 04 BACK TO YOU Selena Gomez 36 NE 01 36 EVERYTIME Ariana Grande 37 38 13 33 PRAISE THE LORD (DA SHINE) A$AP Rocky Feat. Skepta 38 35 27 14 HURT SOMEBODY Noah Kahan & Julia Michaels 39 31 19 06 I SAID HI Amy Shark 40 48 06 40 BODY Loud Luxury 41 42 09 41 I'M A MESS Bebe Rexha 42 37 17 26 JUST FRIENDS Hayden James Feat. Boy Matthews 43 NE 01 43 SWEETENER Ariana Grande 44 41 77 01 PERFECT Ed Sheeran 45 36 20 01 NICE FOR WHAT Drake 46 39 31 01 GOD'S PLAN Drake 47 44 08 05 NONSTOP Drake 48 NE 01 48 HAPPIER Marshmello & Bastille 49 32 03 10 STARGAZING Travis Scott 50 RE 22 15 RESPECT Aretha Franklin 52 (NE) Ariana Grande - R.E.M 57 (NE) Ariana Grande - goodnight n go 58 (NE) Ariana Grande - pete davidson 62 (RE) Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer 65 (NE) Ariana Grande - raindrops (an angel cried) 68 (NE) Ariana Grande - better off 69 (89) LSD Feat. Sia, Diplo & Labrinth - Thunderclouds 70 (RE) Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman 71 (NE) Ariana Grande - successful 74 (NE) Ariana Grande - blazed 77 (RE) Ariana Grande Feat. Nicki Minaj - the light is coming 78 (NE) Kian - Waiting 79 (NE) Ariana Grande - get well soon 83 (NE) Ariana Grande - borderline 88 (RE) Lauv - I Like Me Better 100 (NE) Aretha Franklin & The Blues Brothers - Think Albums 01 NE 01 01 SWEETENER Ariana Grande 02 NE 01 02 ROMANCE OF THE JUKEBOX Human Nature 03 NE 01 03 WORKING CLASS BOY - THE SOUNDTRACKS Jimmy Barnes 04 01 08 01 SCORPION Drake 05 03 06 01 MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN Soundtrack 06 02 03 01 ASTROWORLD Travis Scott 07 06 77 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 08 07 17 01 BEERBONGS & BENTLEYS Post Malone 09 05 37 01 THE GREATEST SHOWMAN Soundtrack 10 04 02 04 QUEEN Nicki Minaj 11 09 23 02 ? XXXTentacion 12 11 45 01 BEAUTIFUL TRAUMA P!nk 13 NE 01 13 THE VERY BEST OF ARETHA VOLUME 1 – THE '60S Aretha Franklin 14 10 06 01 LOVE MONSTER Amy Shark 15 NE 01 15 BRAVE AND THE BROKEN Travis Collins 16 NE 01 16 30 GREATEST HITS Aretha Franklin 17 NE 01 17 THE QUEEN OF SOUL: THE ATLANTIC RECORDINGS Aretha Franklin 18 12 13 01 SHAWN MENDES Shawn Mendes 19 NE 01 19 TOGETHER - THE VERY BEST OF ARETHA FRANKLIN & OTIS REDDING Aretha Franklin & Otis Redding 20 RE 14 20 RESPECT - THE VERY BEST OF Aretha Franklin 21 13 259 01 GREATEST HITS...SO FAR!!! P!nk 22 NE 01 22 ORIGINAL ALBUM SERIES Aretha Franklin 23 RE 02 23 A BRAND NEW ME: ARETHA FRANKLIN (WITH THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA) Aretha Franklin 24 08 07 04 THE BEST SO FAR...2018 TOUR EDITION Celine Dion 25 NE 01 25 BEST OF ARETHA FRANKLIN Aretha Franklin 26 19 04 19 ONE VOICE: BELIEVE Aled Jones 27 18 218 01 X Ed Sheeran 28 16 10 01 YOUNGBLOOD 5 Seconds Of Summer 29 23 181 02 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: AWESOME MIX VOL. 1 Soundtrack 30 20 67 05 STONEY Post Malone 31 22 20 05 INVASION OF PRIVACY Cardi B 32 17 17 02 GRAFFITI U Keith Urban 33 21 09 01 PRAY FOR THE WICKED Panic! At The Disco 34 15 02 15 WHERE NO ONE STANDS ALONE Elvis Presley 35 24 41 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 36 25 68 13 AMERICAN TEEN Khalid 37 27 23 08 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 38 28 135 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 39 26 53 01 GO FARTHER IN LIGHTNESS Gang Of Youths 40 30 300 02 GREATEST HITS Queen 41 35 88 02 MOANA Soundtrack 42 37 71 21 THE PLATINUM COLLECTION Queen 43 14 02 14 LIFE'S A TRIP Trippie Redd 44 45 15 07 STAYING AT TAMARA'S George Ezra 45 34 28 02 BLACK PANTHER: THE ALBUM Soundtrack 46 32 252 01 ABBA GOLD ABBA 47 38 26 01 NATION OF TWO Vance Joy 48 43 66 19 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 49 41 124 01 LIVE AC/DC 50 31 52 09 ABBA GOLD & MORE (ANNIVERSARY EDITION) ABBA Lewis Dean will be amazed to learn that this week, having held the top spot for 2 weeks in a row now, he has now overtaken his idol & muse Noel Gallagher (who notoriously inspired him to to become a musician after watching a live 2005 Oasis DVD), whose band only spent a single week at #1 on the singles chart with "Wonderwall". And so Sally may have to wait a fair bit longer because I see no challengers on the horizon. Benny Blanco finally climbs to #2 which gives Khalid his outright highest charting single to date. There's not much happening at the top end though I will note that "No Brainer" has been #6 for 4 weeks in a row, which is either more or less satanic than it was last week. On the topic of me being awful at predicting things, Ariana Grande! She released her newest album last week and it did very well. So much so that it is now the 4th album ever to have the entire tracklisting hit the ARIA Chart (after "Divide", "ye" & "KIDS SEE GHOSTS"). Yes, even the 38 second intro "raindrops (an angel cried)" has charted, making it the shortest song to ever grace the ARIA Chart, by a margin of roughly 20 seconds. The record was previously held by a club song for the Brisbane Broncos from a few years back. The biggest track for Ariana this week remains as "god is a woman" but fresh debut "breathin" makes quite an impact at #8. It's making good streaming progress so it might be able to maintain this ranking. George Ezra also makes for a 3rd top 10 hit with "Shotgun" now up to #9. The second highest debut is from Calvin Harris & Sam Smith which should continue to climb next week, as should the other top 50 debut from Marshmello & Bastille. Unless I'm forgetting something, I think this is actually the first time Bastille has charted a single since "Of The Night" back in 2013, and it's also good timing for Marshmello because "Silence" and "FRIENDS" both dropped out of the top 100 this week. The last thing to note in the top 50 is that Aretha Franklin passed away, with the news hitting Australian press right at the start of the new sales week, which helps "Respect" sneak back into the top 50 for the first time in roughly 50 years. She also charts "I Say A Little Prayer" (a former top 10 hit) and "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman". As a curiosity, the 'modern' version of "Think" for The Blues Brothers film makes a debut to the chart at #100. Evidently Aretha Franklin is fortunate that there aren't any Young Money associated rappers whose names sound like they belong to the panthera genus with popular singles right now. I also want to note the other debut this week from Kian, who recently won triple j's 11th annual Unearthed High competition, which looks for uncovering musicians still in high school. Though there have been many successes along the year, he's only the 3rd ever winner to reach the singles chart, following Asta's gold selling single "Dynamite" from a few years back, and also some Japanese Wallpaper tracks. Amusingly though, perhaps the biggest success from the competition has come from a finalist who didn't end up winning, one Jessica Cerro who is now better known as Montaigne. In addition to her own solo success, she also helped out on Hilltop Hoods' multi-platinum smash "1955". Album chart wise, there are no alarms and no surprises as Ariana Grande picks up her 3rd consecutive #1 album with "Sweetener". In doing so she overcomes the plague of re-packaged local boomer nostalgia, as the vocal group Human Nature return with yet another covers album and reach #2. They have previously had 3 #1 albums, one of which actually wasn't covers and was from back when they were marketed more as a boy band. Right behind them we've got more nostalgia courtesy of the artist who I believe has hit #1 on the album chart more than anyone else...the yelling cowboy from the Big Enough video himself, Jimmy Barnes. "Working Class Boy" is a biopic about his early life and assumably is giving everyone a chance to buy the same songs all over again. With the lack of an obvious pick, Aretha Franklin enters the chart with 8 different albums between #13 & #25, preventing Death Cab For Cutie from reaching the top 50, and also kicking Imagine Dragons' 3rd album out of the top 50 for the first time ever. Next week, as it is an even numbered year, we're due the 4th Amity Affliction #1 album. Edited August 28, 20186 yr by Dircadirca
August 28, 20186 yr Interesting that 'Raindrops' breaks that record, and at 38 seconds long I suppose it would break the record for any place it charts in, except for, of course, the UK, where we had a chart (in the top 40 too), but our chart rules meant 'Raindrops' didn't chart here anyway. I'm surprised Drake never did a 30 second intro/interlude just to forever claim that US chart record though (as anything less than 30 seconds long won't get counted for streaming). Also, Dean Lewis says that one of the most defining moments in her life was when she watched Oasis perform at Brixton Academy in London. She states: "It was the (What's the Story) Morning Glory record, so I was about 13 or 14. I had never heard, being in the room, someone sing like that live […] I remember sort of feeling like I was in a wind tunnel, her voice just hitting me. It was incredible."
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