Ariana takes a third week at top - one of the biggest songs of the year so far. Amara ctk100 climbs 6 places to #2. Kasia DVD and Margaret are new in my Top 10 making it three artists from Poland in my Top 10 together with Luna - seven in the whole Top 40. Poland the rising pop nation of the year for me.

Highest new entry is another dark banger from Nessa Barrett - so looking forward to her album. Second highest new entry is a pop BOP from Inna Truu. Third highest new entry is the @uhsting banger Gayush - great recommendation - I totally love it - this must be the first Armenian song in my charts, but unfortunately to late for the ART-Pop contest.

Overall, another great week with 15 new entries.

The Top 10

The Hot 75

1. Ariana Grande – Petal (1) 4w
2. AMARA ctk100 – Paradiso Nights (8) 2w
3. Nessa Barrett – Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die (2) 6w
4. Valencia Grace – Guillotine (6) 3w
5. Alice Pisano – Only Girl (7) 3w
6. Katseye – Animal (3) 5w
7. Kasia DVD ✧ – Syren (13) 2w
8. Luna – Away With The Fairies (4) 8w
9. Lily Meola – Sleeping With My Boots On (9) 6w
10. Margaret – Primabalerina (14) 5w
11. Nessa Barrett – Bad Girls Never Die (NEW)
12. Gabriella Ekaputri – Mockingbird (10) 4w
13. Ana Farelo; Mía Berlín – 21 De Enero (26) 5w
14. Adéla – Ain’t In LA (5) 5w
15. Sofia Monroy – No Era De Oro (22) 5w
16. Slayyyter – Brand New Chanel$ (21) 4w
17. Inna Truu – Test Drive (NEW)
18. Victor Leksell; Molly Sandén – Tänk Om (38) 3w
19. Shaboozey; Leon Bridges – Burn It Down (12) 5w
20. Kacey Musgraves – Mexico Honey (23) 3w
21. Overmono – After The Rain (24) 3w
22. Fida – Kafejka Na Ochocie (58) 2w
23. Shprot – Gayush (NEW)
24. тлен – Пътник (15) 3w
25. Martyna Baranowska – Tracimy Tylko Czas (34) 6w
26. Livka – Poza Tobą Nic (NEW)
27. Mollie Elizabeth – Puppet Show (20) 4w
28. A6el – Comme Des Rats (29) 2w
29. Jacqline – Forever June (53) 2w
30. Molly Mae – Pretty & Broken (NEW)
31. Alyssa Grace – Bloodstream (19) 4w
32. Ayra Starr; Theodora – Ms. Paper (27) 2w
33. Angelina Mango; Marco Mengoni – Canto D’Amore (16) 6w
34. Girlset – Chat (46) 3w
35. Klara Hammarström – Gravity (45) 3w
36. Hi Hania; Kizo; Clearmind – Aioli (69) 2w
37. Atmos Bloom – It’s Enough (11) 5w
38. Shye – Smoke (17) 3w
39. Chloe Qisha – Baby Girl (42) 5w
40. Elley Duhé – Salt And Lime (44) 3w
41. Olivia Rodrigo – My Way (32) 9w
42. KiiiKiii – Pop Off Pop Off (57) 2w
43. Judeline – Besito (18) 8w
44. FLO – Remedied (49) 5w
45. Tove Lo – DNH (52) 4w
46. Effe – Tears Always Burn (54) 3w
47. Jorja Smith – Dancing (NEW)
48. Le Sserafim; Illit; Katseye – Iconic By Mistake (41) 11w
49. Martyna Wrochna – Francuskie Pocałunki (71) 2w
50. Lia Lia – Adore You (74) 2w
51. Devon Cole – Serial Kisser (NEW)
52. Wasia Project – Whale Call (35) 6w
53. Hyolyn – Check (31) 5w
54. Charli XCX – Camera (28) 4w
55. Dasha – Memo (36) 4w
56. Lilja Lundén – Liian Nuorii Kuolinilmotuksiin (NEW)
57. Meg Stalter; Muna – Gay (43) 7w
58. Sarah Nimmo – Two Steps Away (NEW)
59. Aespa – Serenade (Karina & Winter) (55) 2w
60. ARTMS – Blue Blood (51) 3w
61. Varitda – Almost Said I Love You (60) 2w
62. Dandelion – Ononon (NEW)
63. Gracie Abrams – Good Reason (25) 6w
64. Marquise – Ironic (68) 3w
65. Bryska – Szklane Oczy (NEW)
66. Peach PRC – Distant Lands (NEW)
67. Florrie – Malibu (Falling Over The Edge) (39) 8w
68. Ana Mena; Lola Indigo – Pa Ti Toa <3 (56) 11w
69. Audrey Hobert – Sue Me (65) 3w
70. Zalia – Daj Mi Znak (NEW)
71. Ella Tiritiello – Vad Är Det Med Dig (NEW)
72. Wasia Project – Vogue (70) 2w
73. Pernilla Andersson – Rosor (50) 6w
74. Fontaines D.C. – Marianne (NEW)
75. Crawlers – All We Have Is Us (47) 2w

The Poster

Hi pal,

Glad to see Kacey Musgraves reaching Top 20 with Mexico Honey😊

Offrec. Are you OK that some of your chartrunners like Kasia DVD ✧ – Syren and Inna Truu – Test Drive, for example, are AI-created?

3 minutes ago, bgoood said:

Hi pal,

Glad to see Kacey Musgraves reaching Top 20 with Mexico Honey😊

Offrec. Are you OK that some of your chartrunners like Kasia DVD ✧ – Syren and Inna Truu – Test Drive, for example, are AI-created?

Not aware of it so far. For Inna Truu it seems to be true, but Kasia DVD seems to be a real person long time involved in bands and as DJ.

5 minutes ago, DaTilt said:

Not aware of it so far. For Inna Truu it seems to be true, but Kasia DVD seems to be a real person long time involved in bands and as DJ.

You're right, Kasia is real) but nevertheless, the question is more philosophic - whether we should welcome AI-generated music or treat it like something "artificial" or "unreal" to date? What do you think?🙂

Personally, I try to keep AI stuff off my chart out of respect for the real artists' work.😉

2 minutes ago, bgoood said:

You're right, Kasia is real) but nevertheless, the question is more philosophic - whether we should welcome AI-generated music or treat it like something "artificial" or "unreal" to date? What do you think?🙂

Personally, I try to keep AI stuff off my chart out of respect for the real artists' work.😉

I am with you, but sometimes a song slips through. It is not that obvious nowadays.

6 minutes ago, DaTilt said:

I am with you, but sometimes a song slips through. It is not that obvious nowadays.

You're not the one🤭had a few times the same stories🥶...oh, this tricky AI😅

I let chatgpt analyse both songs and this is the conclusion:

Audio assessment

Track	Audio-only AI suspicion	Verdict
Kasia DVD ✧ – Syren	Low: roughly 10–20%	Probably a conventional human recording
Inna Truu – Test Drive	High: roughly 70–85%	Likely AI-generated or substantially AI-assisted

These percentages are subjective forensic estimates, not detector scores.

Kasia DVD ✧ – “Syren”

I hear heavy vocal production, but not convincing signs of a generated singer.

Positive signs of a human performance:

• The Polish consonants and word endings remain clear and consistent.

• Her vocal identity stays stable between the quieter verses, stronger choruses and repeated final section.

• Breaths, attacks and phrase endings behave naturally.

• There are small timing and intensity variations that sound like deliberate performance rather than uncontrolled synthesis.

• The English refrain has the same accent and vocal character as the Polish sections.

• The doubles and harmonies sound like conventional layering and processing.

• The production develops coherently; synths, drums and vocal effects do not unpredictably mutate between sections.

The repeated passage near the end is highly processed and loop-like, but that is standard electronic-pop production. I did not hear obvious word deformation, sudden changes of singer identity, impossible breaths, garbled syllables or unstable vocal formants.

The file also contains the composer credit Katarzyna Gołomska, although embedded credits alone cannot prove human creation.

Verdict on “Syren”

No meaningful audio evidence that it is an AI-generated song. AI-assisted mixing or mastering remains possible, as with almost any modern recording, but the vocal sounds like a processed human performance.

Inna Truu – “Test Drive”

This one contains several features that make me considerably more suspicious.

1. Vocal identity is less stable

The voice changes subtly between the verse and chorus—not merely in intensity, but in its apparent throat shape, brightness and age. Some transitions sound like the model is reconstructing the singer rather than one vocalist moving naturally between registers.

The most suspicious areas are approximately:

• 0:15–0:45: opening verse

• 0:50–1:25: first hook and chorus

• 1:38–2:20: second verse

• 2:25 onward: final chorus sequence

2. Consonants are occasionally softened or reconstructed

Some words begin clearly but lose definition internally. Consonants occasionally dissolve into the surrounding reverb, while vowels remain unusually smooth. That “sharp beginning, smeared middle, polished vowel” pattern is common in generated vocals.

It is particularly noticeable in phrases involving words such as:

• “headlights”

• “window”

• “driving”

• “believe me tonight”

• some of the repeated “yeah” extensions

None is a catastrophic glitch, but there are multiple mild examples.

3. The sustained vowels sound unnaturally manufactured

The extended notes on “know,” “drive,” “tonight” and the repeated “yeah” phrases have:

• very even tone;

• unusually smooth pitch movement;

• little natural instability;

• occasional formant movement that does not fully match the pitch movement.

Strong Auto-Tune can create some of this, but taken together it resembles an AI-generated lead vocal more than ordinary correction.

4. Breathing and phrasing are inconsistent

There are audible breaths in places, but they do not always correspond naturally to the length or physical effort of the surrounding phrase. Elsewhere, long sequences occur with little audible respiratory preparation. Generated systems often insert plausible-sounding breaths without maintaining a consistent physical singer.

5. The lyrics and prosody strengthen the suspicion

The lyrics are grammatically acceptable but contain the characteristic combination of:

• cinematic imagery;

• repeated thematic keywords;

• vague relationship stakes;

• metaphor accumulation;

• awkward or weakly motivated lines.

Examples include the sequence involving hearts “doing donuts in the dark,” spinning wheels, future faces, roads, signs and traffic lights. It feels like variations generated from a night drive / uncertain relationship prompt.

Individual human songwriters can certainly write this way. The concern is the combination of generic imagery, structural repetition and artificial-sounding delivery.

6. The backing track also has generative characteristics

The arrangement is polished but comparatively anonymous. Some background textures seem to morph rather than behave like clearly programmed synth parts. Transitions introduce and remove detail without a strong production rationale. It resembles the kind of competent, genre-correct dark house/pop arrangement produced by current music-generation systems.

That said, the instrumental evidence is weaker than the vocal evidence.

Thus, Test Drive will be excluded from next week's chart. It was in NMF Suomi, where I did not expect AI music.

Hi there DaTilt!

Nice to see these songs on here, specifically from your debuts, returns and climbers:

1. Ariana Grande – Petal (1) 4w

16. Slayyyter – Brand New Chanel$ (21) 4w

20. Kacey Musgraves – Mexico Honey (23) 3w

44. FLO – Remedied (49) 5w

45. Tove Lo – DNH (52) 4w

47. Jorja Smith – Dancing (NEW)

74. Fontaines D.C. – Marianne (NEW)

Great chart!
Take care.

gayush

Hiya.

Brilliant to see petal maintain its #1 position. This one is great from Ariana, probably one of my favourites ever from her actually.

Brand new chanel$ continuing its upward trajectory is brilliant too. This one is a fantastic song. Brilliant stuff.

Dnh is continuing to do decently well.and hopefully this will continue. It's fun.

Marianne is great and I think the first Fontaines DC track I've ever enjoyed.

Fab chart 🎉

Amazing to see Sarah Nimmo 'Two Steps Away' debuting

I love plenty of other stuff as well...faboulous chart as usual <3

Thank you all for commenting!

On 26/08/2026 at 00:33, Sergej said:

Hi there DaTilt!

Nice to see these songs on here, specifically from your debuts, returns and climbers:

1. Ariana Grande – Petal (1) 4w

16. Slayyyter – Brand New Chanel$ (21) 4w

20. Kacey Musgraves – Mexico Honey (23) 3w

44. FLO – Remedied (49) 5w

45. Tove Lo – DNH (52) 4w

47. Jorja Smith – Dancing (NEW)

74. Fontaines D.C. – Marianne (NEW)

Great chart!
Take care.

Petal one of the BOP's of the year so far!

On 26/08/2026 at 05:03, uhsting said:

gayush

Meine Fee ist eine unvergängliche Blume des Paradieses,
auf ihren Lippen liegt der Nektar der Unsterblichkeit.

On 26/08/2026 at 12:20, JSG said:

Hiya.

Brilliant to see petal maintain its #1 position. This one is great from Ariana, probably one of my favourites ever from her actually.

Brand new chanel$ continuing its upward trajectory is brilliant too. This one is a fantastic song. Brilliant stuff.

Dnh is continuing to do decently well.and hopefully this will continue. It's fun.

Marianne is great and I think the first Fontaines DC track I've ever enjoyed.

Fab chart 🎉

I feel same for Ariana's song. She hardly had a #1 in my charts before. Brand new chanel$ is really a grower for me.

15 hours ago, Addy! said:

Amazing to see Sarah Nimmo 'Two Steps Away' debuting

I love plenty of other stuff as well...faboulous chart as usual <3

This was a nice recommendation from you.

Hey DaTilt!

Nice to see Petal holding at #1 and Animal sticking in the Top 10, both are really clicking for me at the moment!

Elsewhere, nice to see Remedied and Brand New Chanel$ climbing.

Haven't checked out anything by Nessa Barrett yet but her positions here seem promising. Will have to give her a listen!

Great chart!

Hey DaTilt! :)

Glad to see the gains for 'Brand New Chanel$' & 'Remedied', as well as 'Marianne' sneaking in.

Good chart!

Hey DaTilt,

Ariana Grande❣️ still at numero uno

Nessa Barrett and Slayyyter Top 20

Bubbling under Jorja Smith and D.C. Fontaines entering

Hi DaTilt

1. Ariana Grande – Petal (1) 4w Love this #1! Should be a contender for my next #1 but I'm not sure yet

6. Katseye – Animal (3) 5w
14. Adéla – Ain’t In LA (5) 5w
20. Kacey Musgraves – Mexico Honey (23) 3w
31. Alyssa Grace – Bloodstream (19) 4w Getting a lot of stick on this site but I'm rather liking it now
40. Elley Duhé – Salt And Lime (44) 3w I need to listen to this!!
54. Charli XCX – Camera (28) 4w
69. Audrey Hobert – Sue Me (65) 3w
74. Fontaines D.C. – Marianne (NEW) Never been much of a Fontaines fan but really liked this on my second listen

Great chart

Hi DaTilt! 🙂

Good chart, my faves this week,

1. Ariana Grande – Petal (1) 4w
6. Katseye – Animal (3) 5w just bought this one, very Toxic-ish
9. Lily Meola – Sleeping With My Boots On (9) 6w fab
14. Adéla – Ain’t In LA (5) 5w
20. Kacey Musgraves – Mexico Honey (23) 3w
33. Angelina Mango; Marco Mengoni – Canto D’Amore (16) 6w
69. Audrey Hobert – Sue Me (65) 3w

There's a lot I dont know this week, sadly!

cheers! 😎

Good seeing new debuts for Nessa Barrett, Molly Mae and Sarah Nimmo 😁

Hey Datilt,

Tove climbing!! ☺️

FLO climbing too!! Very good song 🤗

Slayyyter Top20!! Hope she gets to the Top10 at least!! 😍

Hi DaTilt. Hope all has been good with you.

Nice to see Ariana GRande still on top and Luna still in the Top 10.

Nice climbs for Slayyyter and Tove Lo plus Fontaines D.C entering.

Fantastic chart as always ❤️