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24/08/2026 Singles 01 13 04 01 ANIMAL Katseye 02 01 38 01 CHOOSIN' TEXAS Ella Langley 03 03 53 01 MAN I NEED Olivia Dean 04 02 48 01 REIN ME IN Sam Fender, Olivia Dean 05 04 80 01 ORDINARY Alex Warren 06 08 19 06 BOSTON Stella Lefty 07 11 03 07 LOSER Tame Impala 08 06 10 01 STUPID SONG Olivia Rodrigo 09 09 13 01 THE CURE Olivia Rodrigo 10 07 19 07 EARRINGS Malcolm Todd 11 05 12 02 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME Ariana Grande 12 12 17 12 SELF AWARE Temper City 13 25 02 13 OH YEAH? Steve Lacy 14 14 47 02 SO EASY (TO FALL IN LOVE) Olivia Dean 15 15 77 02 LOVE ME NOT Ravyn Lenae 16 16 27 03 ILOVEITILOVEITILOVEIT Bella Kay 17 18 47 04 DRACULA Tame Impala 18 19 28 06 HOMEWRECKER sombr 19 22 56 06 12 TO 12 sombr 20 17 11 17 BLOODSTREAM Alyssa Grace 21 20 46 01 THE FATE OF OPHELIA Taylor Swift 22 29 48 03 WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! Raye 23 21 62 03 NO BROKE BOYS Disco Lines, Tinashe 24 31 63 08 NICE TO EACH OTHER Olivia Dean 25 24 61 01 GOLDEN Rei Ami, KPop Demon Hunters Cast, Huntrx, Ejae, Audrey Nuna 26 26 11 16 CINDERELLA Mac Miller feat. Ty Dolla $ign 27 23 74 03 BACK TO FRIENDS Sombr 28 28 18 01 DROP DEAD Olivia Rodrigo 29 30 33 08 RAINDANCE Dave, Tems 30 34 07 30 GREAT EXPECTATION Sienna Spiro 31 33 14 05 JANICE STFU Drake 32 10 03 05 PETAL Ariana Grande 33 32 23 28 BE HER Ella Langley 34 27 58 01 DAISIES Justin Bieber 35 36 05 35 BROKEN WINDOW SERENADE Whiskey Myers 36 35 11 01 I KNEW IT, I KNEW YOU Taylor Swift 37 42 19 23 NOBLE F3miii 38 43 32 32 MIDNIGHT SUN Zara Larsson 39 38 10 10 DAI DAI Shakira, Burna Boy 40 39 22 32 WEREN'T FOR THE WIND Ella Langley 41 40 29 13 WHITE KEYS Dominic Fike 42 41 15 41 MATERIAL LOVER Sienna Spiro 43 45 15 35 ORBITER Noah Kahan 44 48 46 13 A COUPLE MINUTES Olivia Dean 45 44 32 03 STATESIDE PinkPantheress, Zara Larsson 46 55 03 46 AIN'T IN LA Adéla 47 47 04 33 BEEN BY NOW Morgan Wallen 48 55 08 27 MY BODY ISN'T READY Sombr 49 49 73 02 UNDRESSED sombr 50 66 88 05 THE DAYS - NOTION REMIX Chrystal Bubbling Under *16 (NE) PURE Sienna Spiro 17 (18) HONEYBEE Olivia Rodrigo 18 (RE) FREAKED OUT Fat Papi, prodshushy *19 (NE) ON 2NITE Silva Bumpa *20 (NE) WAY TOO SELF AWARE Ian Asher Albums 01 NE 01 01 LOST WEEKEND Phoebe Bridgers 02 01 10 01 YOU SEEM PRETTY SAD FOR A GIRL SO IN LOVE Olivia Rodrigo 03 03 02 03 THIS & THAT Stray Kids 04 05 47 01 THE ART OF LOVING Olivia Dean 05 02 03 01 PETAL Ariana Grande 06 NE 01 06 PARADISE Peking Duk 07 08 17 01 THE GREAT DIVIDE Noah Kahan 08 09 07 03 VISITOR Sienna Spiro 09 NE 01 09 SUNSHINE Jungle 10 10 88 02 YOU'LL BE ALRIGHT, KID Alex Warren 11 NE 01 11 THE KISS AND THE ABYSS Kate Miller-Heidke 12 13 19 03 DANDELION Ella Langley 13 NE 01 13 ONE ASSASSINATION UNDER GOD - CHAPTER 2 Marilyn Manson 14 14 78 01 SO CLOSE TO WHAT Tate McRae 15 15 14 01 ICEMAN Drake 16 12 05 01 DAUGHTER FROM HELL Gracie Abrams 17 16 61 01 KPOP DEMON HUNTERS (FROM THE NETFLIX FILM) Soundtrack 18 NE 01 18 10CHARLIE Phil Jamieson 19 19 66 01 I'M THE PROBLEM Morgan Wallen 20 18 104 01 SHORT N' SWEET Sabrina Carpenter 21 21 52 04 I BARELY KNOW HER sombr 22 20 51 01 MAN'S BEST FRIEND Sabrina Carpenter 23 NE 01 23 BLOODHORSE! Grace Cummings 24 04 02 04 CHUCK TIMELY & THE HOURGLASS Role Model 25 23 46 01 THE LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL Taylor Swift 26 NE 01 26 ALIEN METAL King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard 27 17 05 17 OH YEAH? Steve Lacy 28 22 22 01 ARIRANG BTS 29 24 14 21 IS THIS HEAVEN? Stella Lefty 30 25 24 01 KISS ALL THE TIME. DISCO, OCCASIONALLY. Harry Styles 31 27 58 02 SWAG Justin Bieber 32 30 29 04 OCTANE Don Toliver 33 28 30 13 REBEL EsDeeKid 34 29 47 29 THE HARD WAY Cameron Whitcomb 35 NE 01 35 HARD-ONS / JERRY A Hard-Ons, Jerry A 36 07 52 02 A MATTER OF TIME: THE FINAL HOUR Laufey 37 33 34 24 HUNGOVER Ella Langley 38 32 21 28 WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA Slayyyter 39 31 07 01 CONFESSIONS II Madonna 40 26 04 01 MUSIC, FASHION, FILM Charli XCX 41 36 31 27 SWEET BOY Malcolm Todd 42 NE 01 42 THE USER'S GUIDE TO BEING HUMAN The Script 43 NE 01 43 THE FOREST TO THE SEA Sunday Lemonade 44 35 25 02 THE ROMANTIC Bruno Mars 45 37 22 03 THE WAY I AM Luke Combs 46 RE 55 02 IF THAT MAKES SENSE Spacey Jane 47 39 60 04 DEBI TIRAR MAS FOTOS Bad Bunny 48 06 02 06 MADE FOR THIS Casey Barnes 49 11 02 11 TANZNEID Electric Callboy 50 NE 01 50 IN PURPLE Ocean Alley The ARIA Charts throw us a curveball this week, KATSEYE are #1 with "Animal". This probably warrants some asterisks or specifications. I don't believe "Animal" is actually the most popular song this past week. I believe the collective streams for the group's new "WILD" EP have been collated together under one total and "Animal" has taken the honours as either the previous or current highest standing (I wouldn't have been surprised if "Hootie Frutti" debuted ahead of it though). Though ARIA have on occasion renamed chart entries to the EPs to reflect this (Lorde's "The Love Club EP" being a noteworthy example), they have not so it's going to leave a confusing legacy. Personally I'm just disappointed we've missed out on a funny chart situation where we've had a "WILD" EP go to #1 on both charts, as Troye Sivan managed it with his also all-caps "WILD" EP about a decade ago. It's a strange outcome that probably doesn't affect anything unless Ella Langley starts accumulating some record breaking numbers and we have to look back on this novelty week affecting her legacy. "Man I Need" continues to shorten the gap very slowly, never count it out. Tame Impala also scores a second top 10 hit (although The Wiggles' cover of "Elephant" also hit the top 10) with "Loser". Fremantle also lost again on the weekend although they have the excuse for now that it was a dead rubber. They've got a week off so there's time for a more auspicious Tame Impala song to take over. Might I recommend "Desire Be Desire Go"? Adéla missed her opportunity to hit the ARIA top 50 when it was the ARIANA top 50 and then didn't get in the week after, but she gets her lucky break with "Ain't In LA" this week. Katy Perry got taken off the chart as is tradition and was replaced by one of the oldest possible songs in the process, which is also tradition. It is interesting to note that Mac Miller's "Cinderella" remains on the chart after 11 weeks, suggesting that ARIA have a contingency ruling for songs that never charted before and will possibly let them thrive for the full 105 weeks. Ravyn Lenae continues to flirt this rule every week with "Love Me Not", a song I was well aware of over 2 years ago at this point. Phoebe Bridgers scores her first ever #1 album this week. She previously got to #12 with her last album, and also got to #3 as part of boygenius. If you think you've been waiting a long time for a new Phoebe Bridgers album, then let me introduce you to Peking Duk who have been dropping singles of note since around 2013, some of which became very big chart hits. The idea of a Peking Duk album was an always distant myth, but sure enough it arrives and lands at #6, just shy of their highest ever ARIA Chart position. It's also a little bit lower than Keli Holiday's album earlier this year, and it certainly is very interesting that the thousands upon thousands of people who had thoughts and feelings about that one have been very silent about this one, almost as if they were slaves to the algorithm. Jungle just narrowly get a new high on the album chart having previously gotten to #10 with the album that has "Keep Moving" on it, what a banger. They're just ahead of long standing quirky singer Kate Miller-Heidke who charts an 8th album to date. Speaking of notable Aussies, we've got Phil Jamieson with a solo album in the top 20. His first solo album just narrowly missed the top 50 so this is a new height for him in this context. You might better know him as the always fascinating frontman of Grinspoon. Recently he's been in the news because he's had a serious back issue that's caused him to cancel shows. Charting for the first time is Grace Cummings, who's been around for several albums now, but this is the first one that's been on my radar, some good singles! There's a new King Gizzard album and you never know where they're gonna turn up until the chart comes out. Australian punk band The Hard-Ons have returned for the second time this year with a collaborative release, this time with punk legend Jerry A from Poison Idea. The Script are falling a tad short of past performances, while Ocean Alley sneak in with a belated entry for one of their earlier EPs, which got a physical release recently.

17/08/2026 Singles 01 01 37 01 CHOOSIN' TEXAS Ella Langley 02 04 47 01 REIN ME IN Sam Fender, Olivia Dean 03 03 52 01 MAN I NEED Olivia Dean 04 07 79 01 ORDINARY Alex Warren 05 02 11 02 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME Ariana Grande 06 06 09 01 STUPID SONG Olivia Rodrigo 07 09 18 07 EARRINGS Malcolm Todd 08 11 18 08 BOSTON Stella Lefty 09 10 12 01 THE CURE Olivia Rodrigo 10 05 02 05 PETAL Ariana Grande 11 RE 02 11 LOSER Tame Impala 12 15 16 12 SELF AWARE Temper City 13 08 03 08 ANIMAL Katseye 14 14 46 02 SO EASY (TO FALL IN LOVE) Olivia Dean 15 25 76 02 LOVE ME NOT Ravyn Lenae 16 17 26 03 ILOVEITILOVEITILOVEIT Bella Kay 17 18 10 17 BLOODSTREAM Alyssa Grace 18 16 46 04 DRACULA Tame Impala 19 24 27 06 HOMEWRECKER sombr 20 21 45 01 THE FATE OF OPHELIA Taylor Swift 21 30 61 03 NO BROKE BOYS Disco Lines, Tinashe 22 31 55 06 12 TO 12 sombr 23 28 73 03 BACK TO FRIENDS Sombr 24 27 60 01 GOLDEN Rei Ami, KPop Demon Hunters Cast, Huntrx, Ejae, Audrey Nuna 25 NE 01 25 OH YEAH? Steve Lacy 26 23 10 16 CINDERELLA Mac Miller feat. Ty Dolla $ign 27 26 57 01 DAISIES Justin Bieber 28 29 17 01 DROP DEAD Olivia Rodrigo 29 33 47 03 WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! Raye 30 32 32 08 RAINDANCE Dave, Tems 31 37 62 08 NICE TO EACH OTHER Olivia Dean 32 38 22 28 BE HER Ella Langley 33 34 13 05 JANICE STFU Drake 34 45 06 34 GREAT EXPECTATION Sienna Spiro 35 36 10 01 I KNEW IT, I KNEW YOU Taylor Swift 36 44 04 36 BROKEN WINDOW SERENADE Whiskey Myers 37 46 33 27 THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY Katy Perry 38 13 09 10 DAI DAI Shakira, Burna Boy 39 41 21 32 WEREN'T FOR THE WIND Ella Langley 40 42 28 13 WHITE KEYS Dominic Fike 41 49 14 41 MATERIAL LOVER Sienna Spiro 42 50 18 23 NOBLE F3miii 43 53 31 32 MIDNIGHT SUN Zara Larsson 44 54 31 03 STATESIDE PinkPantheress, Zara Larsson 45 52 14 35 ORBITER Noah Kahan 46 56 104 08 SAILOR SONG Gigi Perez 47 51 03 33 BEEN BY NOW Morgan Wallen 48 62 45 13 A COUPLE MINUTES Olivia Dean 49 57 72 02 UNDRESSED sombr 50 67 36 19 DIE ON THIS HILL Sienna Spiro Bubbling Under 15 (17) WILLING AND ABLE Noah Kahan 16 (19) MY BODY ISN'T READY Sombr 17 (16) AIN'T IN LA Adela 18 (NE) HONEYBEE Olivia Rodrigo *19 (NE) LOVE SENSATION (AFTERHOURS MIX) Madonna & Kylie Minogue 20 (NE) LIKE I DO Ariana Grande Albums 01 02 09 01 YOU SEEM PRETTY SAD FOR A GIRL SO IN LOVE Olivia Rodrigo 02 01 02 01 PETAL Ariana Grande 03 NE 01 03 THIS & THAT Stray Kids 04 NE 01 04 CHUCK TIMELY & THE HOURGLASS Role Model 05 03 46 01 THE ART OF LOVING Olivia Dean 06 NE 01 06 MADE FOR THIS Casey Barnes 07 04 51 02 A MATTER OF TIME: THE FINAL HOUR Laufey 08 05 16 01 THE GREAT DIVIDE Noah Kahan 09 07 06 03 VISITOR Sienna Spiro 10 08 87 02 YOU'LL BE ALRIGHT, KID Alex Warren 11 NE 01 11 TANZNEID Electric Callboy 12 06 04 01 DAUGHTER FROM HELL Gracie Abrams 13 09 18 03 DANDELION Ella Langley 14 11 77 01 SO CLOSE TO WHAT Tate McRae 15 10 13 01 ICEMAN Drake 16 14 60 01 KPOP DEMON HUNTERS (FROM THE NETFLIX FILM) Soundtrack 17 34 04 17 OH YEAH? Steve Lacy 18 16 103 01 SHORT N' SWEET Sabrina Carpenter 19 15 65 01 I'M THE PROBLEM Morgan Wallen 20 18 50 01 MAN'S BEST FRIEND Sabrina Carpenter 21 19 51 04 I BARELY KNOW HER sombr 22 17 21 01 ARIRANG BTS 23 20 45 01 THE LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL Taylor Swift 24 24 13 21 IS THIS HEAVEN? Stella Lefty 25 23 23 01 KISS ALL THE TIME. DISCO, OCCASIONALLY. Harry Styles 26 12 03 01 MUSIC, FASHION, FILM Charli XCX 27 22 57 02 SWAG Justin Bieber 28 26 29 13 REBEL EsDeeKid 29 41 46 29 THE HARD WAY Cameron Whitcomb 30 25 28 04 OCTANE Don Toliver 31 21 06 01 CONFESSIONS II Madonna 32 40 20 28 WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA Slayyyter 33 30 33 24 HUNGOVER Ella Langley 34 NE 01 34 WAITING FOR THE DAY (ARTIST SESSIONS) Bachelor Girl 35 36 24 02 THE ROMANTIC Bruno Mars 36 38 30 27 SWEET BOY Malcolm Todd 37 35 21 03 THE WAY I AM Luke Combs 38 39 105 30 96 MONTHS Calvin Harris 39 37 59 04 DEBI TIRAR MAS FOTOS Bad Bunny 40 NE 01 40 EVEN IN ARCADIA (INSTRUMENTAL) Sleep Token 41 NE 01 41 LOVE SONGS Don Walker 42 27 05 02 FOREIGN TONGUES The Rolling Stones 43 28 03 10 REALITY AWAITS The Strokes 44 NE 01 44 BAD THINGS FEEL GOOD* Rowena Wise 45 49 52 17 KANSAS ANYMORE Role Model 46 42 32 06 FANCY THAT PinkPantheress 47 NE 01 47 MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS Chris Cobb 48 54 66 01 EVEN IN ARCADIA Sleep Token 49 NE 01 49 THERAPY AT THE CLUB Flo 50 43 24 04 DON'T TAP THE GLASS Tyler, The Creator "Choosin' Texas" is #1 for a 10th week. It's pretty lazily doing what it needs to do at this point. "Rein Me In" has taken back the runner up spot so it's hard to say how close this is now. After weeks at #11, "Boston" finally cracks the top 10. We've also got an Australian hit song again, with Tame Impala's "Loser" entering at #11. This is potentially a cursed song, because it was released on the same weekend that Kevin Parker's beloved Fremantle Dockers got eliminated from finals last year, and they also logged only their 3rd ever loss of the year immediately after the song started climbing the charts again. They're very well positioned to get their first ever AFL premiership but if they lose it, I blame "Loser", which will probably climb into the top 10 next week. Steve Lacy is also benefitting from Spider-Man and gets his second ever top 50 hit. Olivia Rodrigo returns to #1 for a 5th week. As much as I'd like to dive into a peculiar set of debuts, I'm still going through it and don't have it in me. Rowena Wise is a good artist I've been listening to more lately that you've likely not heard of.

I'll be honest yeah, it's hard for me to really be certain what the data is like, just going off extrapolations of data & hunches myself! What we'd want to do with it probably is largely affected by what we want to see on the chart, which is admittedly why I'm always quick to discourage a lot of rash ideas because I feel like based on what's been suggested, the end result probably makes the chart worse for that person! A bit like when we all might just conveniently overlook favourable playlisting/algorithms boosting our favourites, the naked reality would expose that truth in a way that can't be ignored. Or otherwise my strong feeling is still that it doesn't really move the needle in many distinct ways. Life if the OCC put in a streaming cap vs. life if they didn't, and it's the same picture both times. In many senses this all comes down to a debate on whether or not we think new music deserves a leg up purely for the fact that it's new, and how willing we are to suspend disbelief for it on the chart. Like, I feel like Spotify's trending charts capture this kind of fast pace/no lingering nature, but do any of us want to treat it like the real thing? Probably not because it's just too confusing, hard to understand, and doesn't correlate with our realistic expectations of what should be charting where. It leaves the only paths as chaos for the sake of chaos, or objective blandness (which I'll admit is interesting in its own way but that's just me). A matter of whether there is merit to tinkering with the chart to replicate its form of the past, or to leave it to continue to climb to new extremes for better or worse.

I feel like that sort of thing would turn it more to farce, which prevents it from being particularly interesting. Like sure, it is interesting what got to #1 in Canada before Billboard took over the chart in 2007, but is a chart that's telling me "Blue Orchid" by The White Stripes was more popular than "We Belong Together" by Mariah Carey very useful?

I feel like the separation of 'active' and 'passive' streams as many people swing it is just one of those things that sounds great on the outside, but the more you think about it, the more it collapses in terms of the realistic benefits or outcomes. Same going for limiting people to 1 listen or anything like that. I don't think there's any tangible evidence that it'll actually resemble the working, exciting chart people expect, it'd just collapse the numbers unilaterally. If this does anything on the whole, it's that it makes it a lot easier to create unnatural chart runs, either via those first day curiosity streams being massively bolstered, or just anyone who wants to fudge the numbers via nefarious methods now having a lower bar for entry. Maybe I'm wrong but is this how some people use Spotify? They just look up every specific song they want to listen to one by one and add to queue? Of course they're gonna be massively outnumbered by the people who just set it and go. I don't even think that's necessarily a problem either. As I type this, I'm currently listening to a playlist I put together and just put on shuffle. By some definitions this is the valid path, but to others, it's a passive heresy and I couldn't possibly enjoy these songs as much as the steady right click/left clicker (I love these songs). I will note however just for a point of interest. A few weeks ago, lastfm had its connection with Spotify recalibrate. All you have to do is go to your account's connection page and put it back up, but the consequence of this is that every artist's daily scrobbles have plummeted to about 20-30% of what it was before (PSA if you haven't checked your account in a while, you probably stopped scrobbling!). I don't think any artist has escaped this, but K-Pop artists seem to have fared a little better than most, so make of that what you will. All those massive hit songs you've loved in the last decade that defined your moment were inevitably being powered by those supposedly passive listeners to a likely similar extent. I don't believe the OCC ever feels the need to comment on this because it's just one of those 'missing the big picture' ideas that aren't worth the bother refuting, because reaching out like that only makes more threads of bother come up, now that it's clear you can badger this out of them.

10/08/2026 Singles 01 01 36 01 CHOOSIN' TEXAS Ella Langley 02 06 10 02 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME Ariana Grande 03 02 51 01 MAN I NEED Olivia Dean 04 03 46 01 REIN ME IN Sam Fender, Olivia Dean 05 NE 01 05 PETAL Ariana Grande 06 05 08 01 STUPID SONG Olivia Rodrigo 07 04 78 01 ORDINARY Alex Warren 08 08 02 08 ANIMAL Katseye 09 07 17 07 EARRINGS Malcolm Todd 10 09 11 01 THE CURE Olivia Rodrigo 11 11 17 11 BOSTON Stella Lefty 12 NE 01 12 KISS ME Ariana Grande 13 10 08 10 DAI DAI Shakira, Burna Boy 14 13 45 02 SO EASY (TO FALL IN LOVE) Olivia Dean 15 15 15 15 SELF AWARE Temper City 16 12 45 04 DRACULA Tame Impala 17 14 25 03 ILOVEITILOVEITILOVEIT Bella Kay 18 29 09 18 BLOODSTREAM Alyssa Grace 19 NE 01 19 OH WELL Ariana Grande 20 NE 01 20 STAY Ariana Grande 21 18 44 01 THE FATE OF OPHELIA Taylor Swift 22 NE 01 22 LIKE I DO Ariana Grande 23 23 09 16 CINDERELLA Mac Miller feat. Ty Dolla $ign 24 17 26 06 HOMEWRECKER sombr 25 19 75 02 LOVE ME NOT Ravyn Lenae 26 24 56 01 DAISIES Justin Bieber 27 20 59 01 GOLDEN Rei Ami, KPop Demon Hunters Cast, Huntrx, Ejae, Audrey Nuna 28 26 72 03 BACK TO FRIENDS Sombr 29 16 16 01 DROP DEAD Olivia Rodrigo 30 31 60 03 NO BROKE BOYS Disco Lines, Tinashe 31 21 54 06 12 TO 12 sombr 32 25 31 08 RAINDANCE Dave, Tems 33 22 46 03 WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! Raye 34 27 12 05 JANICE STFU Drake 35 NE 01 35 BIG FEELINGS Ariana Grande 36 28 09 01 I KNEW IT, I KNEW YOU Taylor Swift 37 30 61 08 NICE TO EACH OTHER Olivia Dean 38 43 21 28 BE HER Ella Langley 39 NE 01 39 FREAK Ariana Grande 40 NE 01 40 NEVER GET OVER ME Ariana Grande 41 34 20 32 WEREN'T FOR THE WIND Ella Langley 42 32 27 13 WHITE KEYS Dominic Fike 43 NE 01 43 BAD THING (BUNNY HOP) Ariana Grande 44 44 03 44 BROKEN WINDOW SERENADE Whiskey Myers 45 39 05 39 GREAT EXPECTATION Sienna Spiro 46 36 32 27 THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY Katy Perry 47 NE 01 47 WARNING SIGNS (INTERLUDE) Ariana Grande 48 NE 01 48 NOWHERE, NOBODY Ariana Grande 49 41 13 41 MATERIAL LOVER Sienna Spiro 50 35 17 23 NOBLE F3miii Bubbling Under 14 (10) BEEN BY NOW Morgan Wallen 15 (11) ORBITER Noah Kahan 16 (NE) AIN'T IN LA Adela 17 (16) WILLING AND ABLE Noah Kahan 18 (14) FREAKED OUT Fat Papi, prodshushy 19 (RE) MY BODY ISN'T READY Sombr 20 (19) I CAN'T LOVE YOU ANYMORE Ella Langley & Morgan Wallen Albums 01 NE 01 01 PETAL Ariana Grande 02 03 08 01 YOU SEEM PRETTY SAD FOR A GIRL SO IN LOVE Olivia Rodrigo 03 05 45 01 THE ART OF LOVING Olivia Dean 04 06 50 02 A MATTER OF TIME: THE FINAL HOUR Laufey 05 07 15 01 THE GREAT DIVIDE Noah Kahan 06 04 03 01 DAUGHTER FROM HELL Gracie Abrams 07 08 05 03 VISITOR Sienna Spiro 08 09 86 02 YOU'LL BE ALRIGHT, KID Alex Warren 09 13 17 03 DANDELION Ella Langley 10 12 12 01 ICEMAN Drake 11 15 76 01 SO CLOSE TO WHAT Tate McRae 12 01 02 01 MUSIC, FASHION, FILM Charli XCX 13 NE 01 13 I THOUGHT THE ALTITUDE WOULD MAKE IT WORTH THE VIEW Dice 14 16 59 01 KPOP DEMON HUNTERS (FROM THE NETFLIX FILM) Soundtrack 15 17 64 01 I'M THE PROBLEM Morgan Wallen 16 19 102 01 SHORT N' SWEET Sabrina Carpenter 17 21 20 01 ARIRANG BTS 18 18 49 01 MAN'S BEST FRIEND Sabrina Carpenter 19 20 50 04 I BARELY KNOW HER sombr 20 23 44 01 THE LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL Taylor Swift 21 24 05 01 CONFESSIONS II Madonna 22 25 56 02 SWAG Justin Bieber 23 26 22 01 KISS ALL THE TIME. DISCO, OCCASIONALLY. Harry Styles 24 27 12 21 IS THIS HEAVEN? Stella Lefty 25 29 27 04 OCTANE Don Toliver 26 31 28 13 REBEL EsDeeKid 27 22 04 02 FOREIGN TONGUES The Rolling Stones 28 10 02 10 REALITY AWAITS The Strokes 29 NE 01 29 PAREIDOLIA Erin LeCount 30 32 32 24 HUNGOVER Ella Langley 31 NE 01 31 PICTURES OF YOU Buffalo Traffic Jam 32 02 02 02 SOFT POP Amy Shark 33 NE 01 33 AHHCADE PNAU 34 34 03 19 OH YEAH? Steve Lacy 35 35 20 03 THE WAY I AM Luke Combs 36 33 23 02 THE ROMANTIC Bruno Mars 37 44 58 04 DEBI TIRAR MAS FOTOS Bad Bunny 38 37 29 27 SWEET BOY Malcolm Todd 39 40 104 30 96 MONTHS Calvin Harris 40 69 19 28 WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA Slayyyter 41 41 45 37 THE HARD WAY Cameron Whitcomb 42 43 31 06 FANCY THAT PinkPantheress 43 11 23 04 DON'T TAP THE GLASS Tyler, The Creator 44 38 04 12 MY RECKLESS ABANDON Bella Kay 45 50 02 45 SPILLING MY GUTS Alyssa Grace 46 NE 01 46 LEGACY Five Finger Death Punch 47 49 09 03 DO THAT AGAIN Malcolm Todd 48 28 02 28 A*POP Tyla 49 46 51 17 KANSAS ANYMORE Role Model 50 36 03 05 DECADES Motionless In White "Choosin' Texas" is #1 is #1 for a 9th week. I don't really have much to add right now because I'm going through some irl grieving, but I'll note it's a good week for Ariana Grande who lands her entire album in the top 50, and I'm being forced to acknowledge we have a 15 15 15 15 this week. The all-time best of these still goes back to the first one I ever witnessed, "Little Lion Man" going 16 16 16 16. Ariana Grande scores her 6th #1 album this week. West Australian band DICE score a new high and have the highest Australian album this week.

03/08/2026 Singles 01 01 35 01 CHOOSIN' TEXAS Ella Langley 02 02 50 01 MAN I NEED Olivia Dean 03 03 45 01 REIN ME IN Sam Fender, Olivia Dean 04 04 77 01 ORDINARY Alex Warren 05 05 07 01 STUPID SONG Olivia Rodrigo 06 06 09 02 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME Ariana Grande 07 07 16 07 EARRINGS Malcolm Todd 08 NE 01 08 ANIMAL Katseye 09 08 10 01 THE CURE Olivia Rodrigo 10 12 07 10 DAI DAI Shakira, Burna Boy 11 11 16 11 BOSTON Stella Lefty 12 09 44 04 DRACULA Tame Impala 13 13 44 02 SO EASY (TO FALL IN LOVE) Olivia Dean 14 10 24 03 ILOVEITILOVEITILOVEIT Bella Kay 15 19 14 15 SELF AWARE Temper City 16 14 15 01 DROP DEAD Olivia Rodrigo 17 17 25 06 HOMEWRECKER sombr 18 15 43 01 THE FATE OF OPHELIA Taylor Swift 19 21 74 02 LOVE ME NOT Ravyn Lenae 20 16 58 01 GOLDEN Rei Ami, KPop Demon Hunters Cast, Huntrx, Ejae, Audrey Nuna 21 25 53 06 12 TO 12 sombr 22 26 45 03 WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! Raye 23 20 08 16 CINDERELLA Mac Miller feat. Ty Dolla $ign 24 18 55 01 DAISIES Justin Bieber 25 23 30 08 RAINDANCE Dave, Tems 26 27 71 03 BACK TO FRIENDS Sombr 27 24 11 05 JANICE STFU Drake 28 22 08 01 I KNEW IT, I KNEW YOU Taylor Swift 29 30 08 29 BLOODSTREAM Alyssa Grace 30 29 60 08 NICE TO EACH OTHER Olivia Dean 31 31 59 03 NO BROKE BOYS Disco Lines, Tinashe 32 33 26 13 WHITE KEYS Dominic Fike 33 NE 01 33 BEEN BY NOW Morgan Wallen 34 36 19 32 WEREN'T FOR THE WIND Ella Langley 35 38 16 23 NOBLE F3miii 36 39 31 27 THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY Katy Perry 37 35 12 35 ORBITER Noah Kahan 38 37 29 03 STATESIDE PinkPantheress, Zara Larsson 39 48 04 39 GREAT EXPECTATION Sienna Spiro 40 34 07 07 HONEYBEE Olivia Rodrigo 41 47 12 41 MATERIAL LOVER Sienna Spiro 42 45 29 32 MIDNIGHT SUN Zara Larsson 43 41 20 28 BE HER Ella Langley 44 50 02 44 BROKEN WINDOW SERENADE Whiskey Myers 45 55 29 08 I JUST MIGHT Bruno Mars 46 40 10 40 KINGDOM OF FEAR Cameron Whitcomb 47 54 70 02 UNDRESSED sombr 48 43 10 28 BED ON FIRE G Flip 49 42 02 42 FREAKED OUT Fat Papi, prodshushy 50 49 102 08 SAILOR SONG Gigi Perez Bubbling Under 15 (8) HIT THE WALL Gracie Abrams 16 (17) WILLING AND ABLE Noah Kahan *17 (NE) LESS THAN A LOVER Jennie *18 (NE) CAMERA Charli XCX 19 (19) I CAN'T LOVE YOU ANYMORE Ella Langley & Morgan Wallen 20 (18) ICONIC BY MISTAKE Le Sserafim, Katseye, Illit Albums 01 NE 01 01 MUSIC, FASHION, FILM Charli XCX 02 NE 01 02 SOFT POP Amy Shark 03 02 07 01 YOU SEEM PRETTY SAD FOR A GIRL SO IN LOVE Olivia Rodrigo 04 01 02 01 DAUGHTER FROM HELL Gracie Abrams 05 03 44 01 THE ART OF LOVING Olivia Dean 06 39 49 02 A MATTER OF TIME: THE FINAL HOUR Laufey 07 04 14 01 THE GREAT DIVIDE Noah Kahan 08 06 04 03 VISITOR Sienna Spiro 09 09 85 02 YOU'LL BE ALRIGHT, KID Alex Warren 10 NE 01 10 REALITY AWAITS The Strokes 11 RE 22 04 DON'T TAP THE GLASS Tyler, The Creator 12 08 11 01 ICEMAN Drake 13 11 16 03 DANDELION Ella Langley 14 NE 01 14 GENTLEMAN Budjerah 15 14 75 01 SO CLOSE TO WHAT Tate McRae 16 13 58 01 KPOP DEMON HUNTERS (FROM THE NETFLIX FILM) Soundtrack 17 15 63 01 I'M THE PROBLEM Morgan Wallen 18 17 48 01 MAN'S BEST FRIEND Sabrina Carpenter 19 16 101 01 SHORT N' SWEET Sabrina Carpenter 20 20 49 04 I BARELY KNOW HER sombr 21 18 19 01 ARIRANG BTS 22 07 03 02 FOREIGN TONGUES The Rolling Stones 23 21 43 01 THE LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL Taylor Swift 24 10 04 01 CONFESSIONS II Madonna 25 24 55 02 SWAG Justin Bieber 26 25 21 01 KISS ALL THE TIME. DISCO, OCCASIONALLY. Harry Styles 27 27 11 21 IS THIS HEAVEN? Stella Lefty 28 NE 01 28 A*POP Tyla 29 31 26 04 OCTANE Don Toliver 30 NE 01 30 LITTLE MISS TWAIN Shania Twain 31 30 27 13 REBEL EsDeeKid 32 32 31 24 HUNGOVER Ella Langley 33 34 22 02 THE ROMANTIC Bruno Mars 34 19 02 19 OH YEAH? Steve Lacy 35 33 19 03 THE WAY I AM Luke Combs 36 05 02 05 DECADES Motionless In White 37 36 28 27 SWEET BOY Malcolm Todd 38 12 03 12 MY RECKLESS ABANDON Bella Kay 39 NE 01 39 JINX Waterparks 40 40 103 30 96 MONTHS Calvin Harris 41 37 44 37 THE HARD WAY Cameron Whitcomb 42 NE 01 42 TALLY Body Type 43 42 30 06 FANCY THAT PinkPantheress 44 41 57 04 DEBI TIRAR MAS FOTOS Bad Bunny 45 35 04 02 03 HEATED RIVALRY Soundtrack 46 44 50 17 KANSAS ANYMORE Role Model 47 45 96 02 F-1 TRILLION Post Malone 48 46 05 02 THE WOW! SIGNAL Muse 49 43 08 03 DO THAT AGAIN Malcolm Todd 50 NE 01 50 SPILLING MY GUTS Alyssa Grace "Choosin' Texas" is #1 for an 8th week. We're in full chill mode at the moment as the top songs aren't really making big moves one way or the other. There should be an influx of activity thanks to Ariana Grande's new album, but I suspect she won't be challenging the top spot. Behind a top 7 that hasn't changed, KATSEYE have scored their first ever top 10 hit with "Animal". It's hard to say if it's sticking the landing yet but it hasn't had the typical second week collapse, so it might stick around in the top 10. What is making the top 10 this week is "Dai Dai" which with a Spotify peak of #26 (currently #45) is giving me major flashbacks to when "She Wolf" was always far higher on the chart than on iTunes. It's Burna Boy's first ever top 10 hit too. The only other new arrival this week is from Morgan Wallen, who manages to land right next to his recent collaborator Ella Langley, with his new single. This one isn't sticking the landing, it looks like. Charli XCX scores her 3rd #1 album this week. None of the singles have made any real chart impact over here though "Camera" does enter the Bubbling Under chart this week. She lands just ahead of Amy Shark who also has 3 #1 albums, and roughly that many houses. She's recently made her acting debut alongside Russell Crowe, as we all expected. Laufey is touring the country currently and vaults back into the top 10. She has an interesting itinerary where she's going Melbourne->Brisbane->Sydney despite Sydney being located geographically in the middle of those two (I should also note that she did play Perth & Adelaide too, not everyone does this). The Strokes previous album was the first one to ever miss the top 10 but they're back on the rebound with their latest. I read "Meet Me In The Bathroom" recently so now I know too much about the things that Julian & Albert do on tour (Fab seems cool though). Local singer Budjerah has his first ever chart appearance with his album this week. About 5 years ago he turned up on a remix of an Ed Sheeran song that allowed commercial radio to play it and count to their local quotas. Tyla has her second charting album (this year even) and a new high for her. For once I can't say it's because of the new rules. Shania Twain falls a fair bit short of her usual top 10 prospects, while Waterparks & Body Type chart for the first time. Body Type are a cool band from Sydney I think. Alyssa Grace also sneaks through with her first album chart appearance as her single continues to climb.

I worry Joe never answered 😭

Strongly agree of course and I think in this sense it's always worth analysing it from the opposite end of the equation. Like, sure, gone are those hallmarks of a hugely dominant #1 single that everyone knows (not necessarily the case in the first place, but hear, hear), but what were those hallmarks? Hearing the song in the shops? On the radio? Close associates talking about it? It poses the question of whether those signifiers really exist for any modern popular song nowadays and suggests that something must be most encapsulating that in the present day even if the degree is very small. Or alternatively, we have to consider that these factors correlate to a successful hit, but they're not actually the components that made the chart sales happen. Once upon a time it was people buying CD singles, now it's people listening to the song privately. Unless you stalk the CD section at the shops, both of these are largely invisible actions. Someone can very actively listen to the current #1 single in their own home without it making a ripple, and that doesn't make it any less valid. Like I just don't buy the 'this song has been #1 for months on end and no one's heard of it' angle. That just tells me those people have largely cut themselves out of the conversation, which is very easy to do. I'd spend long periods of time not listening to top 40 radio and being oblivious to these hit songs I had no reason to ever hear in my teens (and only hear them afterwards because I became a chart nerd). Not that I was ever buying singles around that time ever, but it just meant the conversation was happening without me, and that's fine. It'd be disingenuous to act like the charts have to go through one's own purview to be validated, only to make it very clear from the outset that it's not even something someone wants to go along with. Like skipping out on watching a sport for a decade and suddenly being confused at why the biggest names are ones you've never heard of. Being baffled that Sinner & Zverev are higher ranked than Djokovic when I don't even know what they look like. (Also the longer you spend outside the top 40 environment, the harder it's gonna be to get back into it. It's specifically pushed forward by the people whose very taste it has shaped).

27/07/2026 Singles 01 01 34 01 CHOOSIN' TEXAS Ella Langley 02 02 49 01 MAN I NEED Olivia Dean 03 03 44 01 REIN ME IN Sam Fender, Olivia Dean 04 06 76 01 ORDINARY Alex Warren 05 04 06 01 STUPID SONG Olivia Rodrigo 06 05 08 02 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME Ariana Grande 07 08 15 07 EARRINGS Malcolm Todd 08 07 09 01 THE CURE Olivia Rodrigo 09 09 43 04 DRACULA Tame Impala 10 12 23 03 ILOVEITILOVEITILOVEIT Bella Kay 11 11 15 11 BOSTON Stella Lefty 12 67 06 12 DAI DAI Shakira, Burna Boy 13 13 43 02 SO EASY (TO FALL IN LOVE) Olivia Dean 14 10 14 01 DROP DEAD Olivia Rodrigo 15 14 42 01 THE FATE OF OPHELIA Taylor Swift 16 16 57 01 GOLDEN Rei Ami, KPop Demon Hunters Cast, Huntrx, Ejae, Audrey Nuna 17 17 24 06 HOMEWRECKER sombr 18 23 54 01 DAISIES Justin Bieber 19 15 13 15 SELF AWARE Temper City 20 20 07 16 CINDERELLA Mac Miller feat. Ty Dolla $ign 21 24 73 02 LOVE ME NOT Ravyn Lenae 22 18 07 01 I KNEW IT, I KNEW YOU Taylor Swift 23 22 29 08 RAINDANCE Dave, Tems 24 21 10 05 JANICE STFU Drake 25 19 52 06 12 TO 12 sombr 26 25 44 03 WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! Raye 27 26 70 03 BACK TO FRIENDS Sombr 28 69 10 22 HIT THE WALL Gracie Abrams 29 28 59 08 NICE TO EACH OTHER Olivia Dean 30 36 07 30 BLOODSTREAM Alyssa Grace 31 29 58 03 NO BROKE BOYS Disco Lines, Tinashe 32 55 04 32 LOOK AT MY LIFE Gracie Abrams 33 30 25 13 WHITE KEYS Dominic Fike 34 27 06 07 HONEYBEE Olivia Rodrigo 35 35 11 35 ORBITER Noah Kahan 36 32 18 32 WEREN'T FOR THE WIND Ella Langley 37 34 28 03 STATESIDE PinkPantheress, Zara Larsson 38 33 15 23 NOBLE F3miii 39 39 30 27 THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY Katy Perry 40 47 09 40 KINGDOM OF FEAR Cameron Whitcomb 41 40 19 28 BE HER Ella Langley 42 NE 01 42 FREAKED OUT Fat Papi, prodshushy 43 37 09 28 BED ON FIRE G Flip 44 31 04 27 MY BODY ISN'T READY Sombr 45 38 28 32 MIDNIGHT SUN Zara Larsson 46 NE 01 46 GOOD REASON Gracie Abrams 47 42 11 42 MATERIAL LOVER Sienna Spiro 48 41 03 41 GREAT EXPECTATION Sienna Spiro 49 54 101 08 SAILOR SONG Gigi Perez 50 NE 01 50 BROKEN WINDOW SERENADE Whiskey Myers Bubbling Under 17 (17) WILLING AND ABLE Noah Kahan 18 (16) ICONIC BY MISTAKE Le Sserafim, Katseye, Illit 19 (RE) I CAN'T LOVE YOU ANYMORE Ella Langley & Morgan Wallen 20 (20) DOORS Noah Kahan Albums 01 NE 01 01 DAUGHTER FROM HELL Gracie Abrams 02 01 06 01 YOU SEEM PRETTY SAD FOR A GIRL SO IN LOVE Olivia Rodrigo 03 04 43 01 THE ART OF LOVING Olivia Dean 04 07 13 01 THE GREAT DIVIDE Noah Kahan 05 NE 01 05 DECADES Motionless In White 06 08 03 03 VISITOR Sienna Spiro 07 02 02 02 FOREIGN TONGUES The Rolling Stones 08 10 10 01 ICEMAN Drake 09 12 84 02 YOU'LL BE ALRIGHT, KID Alex Warren 10 06 03 01 CONFESSIONS II Madonna 11 14 15 03 DANDELION Ella Langley 12 38 02 12 MY RECKLESS ABANDON Bella Kay 13 13 57 01 KPOP DEMON HUNTERS (FROM THE NETFLIX FILM) Soundtrack 14 16 74 01 SO CLOSE TO WHAT Tate McRae 15 18 62 01 I'M THE PROBLEM Morgan Wallen 16 15 100 01 SHORT N' SWEET Sabrina Carpenter 17 19 47 01 MAN'S BEST FRIEND Sabrina Carpenter 18 22 18 01 ARIRANG BTS 19 NE 01 19 OH YEAH? Steve Lacy 20 21 48 04 I BARELY KNOW HER sombr 21 20 42 01 THE LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL Taylor Swift 22 11 15 10 DANGER DAYS: THE TRUE LIVES OF THE FABULOUS KILLJOYS My Chemical Romance 23 NE 01 23 MOOD RING Holly Hebe 24 25 54 02 SWAG Justin Bieber 25 24 20 01 KISS ALL THE TIME. DISCO, OCCASIONALLY. Harry Styles 26 NE 01 26 MOUNT ZERO Swapmeet 27 26 10 21 IS THIS HEAVEN? Stella Lefty 28 NE 01 28 A STRANGER TO YOU Loathe 29 32 37 12 I LOVE MY COMPUTER Ninajirachi 30 30 26 13 REBEL EsDeeKid 31 28 25 04 OCTANE Don Toliver 32 31 30 24 HUNGOVER Ella Langley 33 35 18 03 THE WAY I AM Luke Combs 34 34 21 02 THE ROMANTIC Bruno Mars 35 33 03 02 03 HEATED RIVALRY Soundtrack 36 37 27 27 SWEET BOY Malcolm Todd 37 46 43 38 THE HARD WAY Cameron Whitcomb 38 23 02 23 THE REAL ME Future 39 43 48 02 A MATTER OF TIME: THE FINAL HOUR Laufey 40 39 102 30 96 MONTHS Calvin Harris 41 44 56 04 DEBI TIRAR MAS FOTOS Bad Bunny 42 42 29 06 FANCY THAT PinkPantheress 43 40 07 03 DO THAT AGAIN Malcolm Todd 44 45 49 17 KANSAS ANYMORE Role Model 45 47 95 02 F-1 TRILLION Post Malone 46 41 04 02 THE WOW! SIGNAL Muse 47 53 63 01 EVEN IN ARCADIA Sleep Token 48 57 71 01 MAYHEM Lady Gaga 49 51 10 05 HABIBTI Drake 50 52 10 06 MAID OF HONOUR Drake "Choosin Texas" is #1 for a 7th week. I had a dream today that a new Taylor Swift album arrived and flooded the top 10 but still couldn't unseat Ella. This probably would not eventuate as I feel like we're reaching the tipping point when any new rising hit will quickly storm for lack of competition. Case in point, that new KATSEYE single is rapidly climbing the Spotify chart, now up to #6 without a potential Monday boost to account for. Maybe that's one to watch. Something looks like it'll be forced out of the top 10 though because Stella Lefty & Shakira are making serious pushes. "Dai Dai" is now Shakira's highest charting song since 2007's "Beautiful Liar". Previously, Gracie Abrams helped stop her own song from reaching the top 50 by blocking it with one of her own. Fret not as she's more than made the gap this time and has both "Look At My Life" and "Good Reason" reaching the top 50 for the first time. It what appears to be a good week for labels keeping up with what's going on, Fat Papi & Whiskey Myers score their first ever chart entries with songs that don't appear to have been on the survey before but certainly could have. I'll also note Whiskey Myers because that song is well over a decade old now, so it'll be interesting to see what happens with it in 10 weeks time if it's still charting then. Unlike "Earrings", it does appear on the On Replay chart, so it'll probably be business as usual. Gracie Abrams scores her second #1 album this week. Her last one managed 3 weeks at the top which will be a tall order to replicate. Metalcore band Motionless In White, who notably come from the same town that the US version of The Office is set in, score their first ever top 10 album this week, having made the top 50 with 4 of their albums previously. Bella Kay previously debuted seemingly just via streams last week, this week she has a considerable boost. Steve Lacy doesn't have a big hit single in tow this time around (I'm really enjoying "the feeling" though), but manages another top 20 album a little below his previous one. We've also got some Australian upstarts I've also only heard of for the first time this year and been enjoying. Holly Hebe for catchy indie pop vibes and Swapmeet for catchy indie rock vibes. The UK can have their own metal bands as well, and Loathe chart for the first time this week, much higher than their home country but that might just be chart rules in play. For the 9th time out of 10, I'm pleased to report that Drake's two albums are next to each other, going from both just barely being out of the top 50 to barely being in it.

I'll just put forward that the charts, the #1 single, whether it matters or not is entirely up to you. By all accounts it's just frivolous record keeping that can serve as a time capsule for future generations, though it's been clear for a long time that those future generations are more than happy to pick & choose both within and out those bounds. Some of the smartest people I know have no interest in music past the neoclassicism era, while another set of the smartest people I know get deeply invested in all the works of Olivia Rodrigo. If you have the time and desire to entertain yourself then it can be with whatever you want it to be, to whatever degree you want. Maybe you're interested in what year has the most #100 debuts, or which artist has the most songs that have spent at least 10 weeks on the chart, or even just the airplay chart, the world's your oyster. The only thing is that we tend to be very self-serving about this, which is where the conflict arrives. To say 'It doesn't matter anymore' is code for 'I've lost interest', and that means they've either found a new distraction, or the aspects they tended to enjoy no longer serve them. There isn't a single moment when the charts became obsolete, but if someone new you don't like stole your record away, you can bet you're gonna count backwards to find a viable moment to discredit them. I do the same thing too. Last year there was a footy stat that I was deeply invested in, purely because one of my favourite players was leading it by a country mile. This year they missed some games and aren't playing as well, so they're not leading the stat, and I've convinced myself it doesn't matter as much. Now my fixation is seeing if my team can get themselves off the bottom rung of the average tackles leaderboard of the season, because that's just the thing I find interesting right now. If someone tells me they're interested in the charts, more so than I am, I'm not going to get all uppity at them for finding something interesting just because 'It used to be better' or 'It used to matter'. Let them enjoy it. In the past week I've gotten up early to watch a women's football practice game that I've seen all of 3 people talk about, I broke one of my old uncontested world records in a niche category for a niche video game 3 times in the space of an hour, and I've continued to spend hours working on my music blog that only a handful of my friends actively read. I'm having a great time. Finding something to be invested in is a lot more fun than lamenting that no one cares.

This is a bit more than usual but it pretty much always does at least 70-80k a day during off season "Snowman" by Sia actually performs the best for Christmas songs on most days (including yesterday) (I did a bsky post about it last year)

Unpopular opinion but I think if ACR must be, then the current system is fine. Only thing I'd change is maybe bumping up the starting point to 15 or 20 weeks. 10 weeks just seems way too early now, though I suppose if we take it as a seemingly random force for when it strikes, then maybe that's fine too, just unlucky for those who go early. With regards to songs that keep 'dodging' it, I think that's mostly also doing what it's supposed to do anyway. It should be shunting off songs that have clearly done their dance, the idea that "Rein Me In" should go that way while it's still #1 (or thereabouts) doesn't seem right to me. In general though, I think it's something that looks worse than it actually is because we quickly forget the songs that do move on. The songs that stay on SCR stay in the forefront, the others disappear and are no longer a going concern. Just looked at the chart on the week "Rein Me In" first went to #1, and there are a bunch of fairly old songs on SCR there, but all of them, bar "Everywhere" have since gone to ACR. You can get mad at Fleetwood Mac for seemingly cheating the system, but I always say it's better to look at ACR as a vague extraction machine that gets most of what it aims for, and that's what pushes new songs up the chart. A small handful of songs out of dozens not going on ACR isn't really a problem unless you just really don't like those particular songs I feel. (I also find it generally unsatisfying as someone who wants to see the audience move on from songs, not to just be in a state of denial where I'm noting records of chart history they're not in, even though I know deep down, that's what's popular).

Are you talking about the frequency of older songs to get reset now? Because I don't really see that as an issue. They largely come and go. The main point I was making is that even if you were to take them all out of the chart, you'll likely just find the same slow crawl because there aren't enough also-ran hits to keep up with the super stars and fill in the gaps. Can't be fixed by just removing things.

If they must, I'd hope they strongly consider their approach, what they hope to achieve with it, and what's likely to happen. A short-sighted solution will likely muck things up and eventually find a new way to be unsatisfying. I strongly recommend keeping an eye on the ARIA Chart, not just because I write a short column about it every week, but because it shows you a world where old songs are largely gone and instead you just get molasses because what small few songs break through have nothing to keep them in check. Not that I think the success of "Rein Me In" warrants changing the rules. Ironically it's sewing the seeds of the OCC's tampering because ACR has actually allowed it to have a longer run at #1 than it would have otherwise (I think). To stamp it out is to not recognise its achievement, and feels like it's more in service of hanging onto old records that want the esteem of never being broken, but only do so because we create a system where they're not allowed to be broken. I think the beauty of the chart is that it always reflects the consumption habits of its time. To distort that is to misrepresent reality and paint a worse picture of what actually went down.