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08/04/2024 Singles 01 01 11 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 02 07 08 02 TEXAS HOLD 'EM Beyonce 03 03 07 03 END OF BEGINNING Djo 04 02 04 02 WE CAN'T BE FRIENDS (WAIT FOR YOUR LOVE) Ariana Grande 05 04 24 01 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 06 05 20 05 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 07 25 02 07 I LIKE THE WAY YOU KISS ME Artemas 08 10 02 10 TOO SWEET Hozier 09 06 54 01 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 10 08 02 08 LIKE THAT Future, Metro Boomin 11 09 29 02 GREEDY Tate McRae 12 11 21 01 LOVIN ON ME Jack Harlow 13 13 32 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan Feat. Kacey Musgraves 14 12 12 12 SCARED TO START Michael Marcagi 15 15 08 15 STUMBLIN' IN Cyril 16 NE 01 16 II MOST WANTED Beyonce, Miley Cyrus 17 14 08 05 CARNIVAL Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign 18 18 90 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 19 17 33 03 PRADA Casso x Raye x D-Block Europe 20 21 04 20 AUSTIN Dasha 21 23 61 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 22 22 17 13 LEAVEMEALONE Fred again.. & Baby Keem 23 19 06 08 SATURN SZA 24 NE 01 24 JOLENE Beyonce 25 24 09 21 HOME Good Neighbours 26 20 29 06 WATER Tyla 27 32 191 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 28 27 07 12 TRAINING SEASON Dua Lipa 29 16 02 16 OBSESSED Olivia Rodrigo 30 26 76 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 31 36 53 02 FAST CAR Luke Combs 32 31 05 31 WHATEVER SHE WANTS Bryson Tiller 33 28 15 10 SAVING UP Dom Dolla 34 30 35 01 PAINT THE TOWN RED Doja Cat 35 82 02 35 SLOW IT DOWN Benson Boone 36 34 24 15 UNWRITTEN Natasha Bedingfield 37 35 64 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 38 37 21 07 HOUDINI Dua Lipa 39 53 195 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 40 38 14 23 FEATHER Sabrina Carpenter 41 NE 01 41 MAGNETIC Illit 42 48 96 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 43 43 16 30 ONE OF THE GIRLS The Weeknd 44 42 12 16 REDRUM 21 Savage 45 50 47 45 THINKIN' BOUT ME Morgan Wallen 46 44 40 01 VAMPIRE Olivia Rodrigo 47 39 61 21 SNOOZE SZA 48 45 63 03 LOVER Taylor Swift 49 52 09 11 FE!N Travis Scott feat. Playboi Carti 50 59 197 19 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers Bubbling Under 18 (22) BELONG TOGETHER Mark Ambor 19 (18) THE BOY IS MINE Ariana Grande 20 (16) YES, AND? Ariana Grande Albums 01 NE 001 01 COWBOY CARTER Beyonce 02 01 004 01 ETERNAL SUNSHINE Ariana Grande 03 05 023 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 04 04 241 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 05 07 165 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 06 09 079 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 07 03 030 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 08 08 193 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 09 10 334 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 10 11 069 01 SOS SZA 11 13 057 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 12 02 002 02 WE DON'T TRUST YOU Future, Metro Boomin 13 12 050 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 14 NE 001 14 EVERYTHING IS BIGGER THAN ME Pierce Brothers 15 14 150 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 16 15 163 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 17 19 316 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 18 16 043 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 19 18 356 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 20 17 125 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 21 22 183 16 CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS Creedence Clearwater Revival 22 20 304 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 23 23 244 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 24 21 039 01 SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 25 24 036 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 26 29 473 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 27 25 073 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 28 30 075 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 29 26 428 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 30 27 032 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 31 28 411 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 32 36 230 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 33 34 296 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 34 37 169 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 35 32 114 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 36 43 285 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 37 42 301 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 38 33 070 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin 39 40 370 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 40 35 096 03 HOZIER Hozier 41 39 054 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 42 41 114 22 CTRL SZA 43 31 008 01 VULTURES 1 Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign 44 46 076 36 STUDIO ALBUMS ABBA 45 47 186 40 GREATEST HITS Pitbull 46 58 034 18 EGO: THE MICHAEL GUDINSKI STORY - MUSIC FROM THE FEATURE DOCUMENTARY Soundtrack 47 48 262 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 48 44 493 01 1989 Taylor Swift 49 49 095 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 50 45 098 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles "Beautiful Things" is #1 for a 5th week. It sure is a good thing that I didn't do this post yesterday otherwise I might have said something like 'well, there's no sign of that ending', but the Spotify shenanigans continue and now Hozier is #1 there. Probably not soon enough to make a change for next week, but that's one to keep an eye on unless it's involving similar chicanery. Beyonce has a couple of debuts this week in addition to "TEXAS HOLD 'EM" returning to its prior peak of #2, while K-Pop group ILLIT have their first ever entry too. There's some slight dubiousness to the top 50 as it's possible that Richy Mitch and Lord Huron might be on the cusp of the top 50 but are missing from the report. Since there aren't as many Beyonce songs as there were Ariana Grande songs falling out, we've got another one of those classic weeks where all the old songs mostly climb back up to the expense of newer hits. It's unclear to me which of those columns I should put Morgan Wallen's newly peaking "Thinkin' Bout Me" under. He sure is lucky there isn't a recurrency rule. Though Beyonce has been chronically unable to score a proper #1 single since "Irreplaceable", she's done just fine on the album chart of late. She's now got 4 #1s to her name starting with her self-titled album in 2013. The only other debut we've got this week is a return for Pierce Brothers. I say it's a return because their last album didn't actually chart for reasons I can't ascertain, so this is their first chart appearance since 2018. To prevent homesickness, the Australian public has made sure that 6 of the albums that were charting that week are still there this week.

Yeah, I was really interested to see how this would chart coming off of 2 years of fanbase growth but that's gonna stunt it big time. Apparently the album was still being mixed a couple of weeks ago so there just wasn't any time to press it.

Whole album's been out for a few days now and I'm pretty content. Just generally a very cozy listen with all the arrangements, but letting the songs float in your head as contemplative puzzle pieces. As I've gotten older I've gotten a little more sceptical of the cliche that is teens & young adults writing about a breakup as if it's this shock end-of-the-world it-would-never-happen-to-me kind of moment (I feel like literally everyone I know in my life who's ever had a partner has had more than one by now). I think here it maybe pays that a lot of it comes with years of reflection and self-awareness. The generally sombre tone of it gives off a vibe of 'well, that was a chapter in my life' sprinkled in with the occasional build-up of 'okay but I'm right to be annoyed by that'. Maybe that's wrong too but that's how I look back at a lot of things myself :lol: I love hearing her perspective though because she always comes across as very honest about these things, even in instances where it'll rub people the wrong way. I say this as someone who did initially latch onto the more pop-oriented moments on "five seconds flat" ("erase me", "reckless driving", "doomsday" and "ceilings" are all incredible still), but I do think she has a certain vision to stand out as a songwriter. Hope to see that she can find a space & level of fame to be comfortable in and continue to hone the craft from here. (Oh and just to highlight stuff beyond the singles, "Staying" and "Broken Glass" both find their way into brilliance that just hits the spot for me. My very Australian reference points here are much of Sarah Blasko's discography and also "Colour The Small One" by [redacted]).

+5 Future, Metro Boomin & Kendrick Lamar - Like That +4 Djo - End Of Beginning +3 Beyonce - TEXAS HOLD 'EM +2 Olivia Rodrigo - obsessed +1 Ariana Grande - we can't be friends (wait for your love) -1 Hozier - Too Sweet -2 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things -3 Teddy Swims - Lose Control -4 Michael Marcagi - Scared To Start -------- +5 Future, Metro Boomin & Kendrick Lamar - Like That +4 Djo - End Of Beginning +3 Beyonce - TEXAS HOLD 'EM +2 Ariana Grande - we can't be friends (wait for your love) +1 Beyonce & Miley Cyrus - II MOST WANTED -1 Hozier - Too Sweet -2 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things -3 Teddy Swims - Lose Control -4 Beyonce - JOLENE -5 Artemas - i like the way you kiss me (just get the worst vibes from this)

I'd refer to the shirt of the man on Fatboy Slim's second album cover. But in any case it just serves as a perpetual reminder that stuff that is beyond the charts in the age of streaming isn't unknown/unheard/uncared, and the hyper focus on day 1/week 1 figures frequently misses the point.

01/04/2024 Singles 01 01 10 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 02 02 03 02 WE CAN'T BE FRIENDS (WAIT FOR YOUR LOVE) Ariana Grande 03 03 06 03 END OF BEGINNING Djo 04 04 23 01 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 05 06 19 05 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 06 05 53 01 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 07 07 07 02 TEXAS HOLD 'EM Beyonce 08 NE 01 08 LIKE THAT Future, Metro Boomin 09 08 28 02 GREEDY Tate McRae 10 NE 01 10 TOO SWEET Hozier 11 10 20 01 LOVIN ON ME Jack Harlow 12 12 11 12 SCARED TO START Michael Marcagi 13 11 31 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan Feat. Kacey Musgraves 14 09 07 05 CARNIVAL Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign 15 17 07 15 STUMBLIN' IN Cyril 16 NE 01 16 OBSESSED Olivia Rodrigo 17 13 32 03 PRADA Casso x Raye x D-Block Europe 18 16 89 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 19 15 05 08 SATURN SZA 20 20 28 06 WATER Tyla 21 23 03 21 AUSTIN Dasha 22 14 16 13 LEAVEMEALONE Fred again.. & Baby Keem 23 19 60 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 24 21 08 26 HOME Good Neighbours 25 NE 01 25 I LIKE THE WAY YOU KISS ME Artemas 26 24 75 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 27 25 06 12 TRAINING SEASON Dua Lipa 28 26 14 10 SAVING UP Dom Dolla 29 NE 01 29 TYPE S**T Future, Metro Boomin 30 29 34 01 PAINT THE TOWN RED Doja Cat 31 39 04 31 WHATEVER SHE WANTS Bryson Tiller 32 35 190 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 33 18 30 02 STRANGERS Kenya Grace 34 31 23 15 UNWRITTEN Natasha Bedingfield 35 33 63 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 36 37 52 02 FAST CAR Luke Combs 37 32 20 07 HOUDINI Dua Lipa 38 30 13 23 FEATHER Sabrina Carpenter 39 36 60 21 SNOOZE SZA 40 NE 01 40 CINDERELLA Future, Metro Boomin 41 22 11 02 YES, AND? Ariana Grande 42 27 11 16 REDRUM 21 Savage 43 38 15 30 ONE OF THE GIRLS The Weeknd 44 52 39 01 VAMPIRE Olivia Rodrigo 45 40 62 03 LOVER Taylor Swift 46 28 03 28 THE BOY IS MINE Ariana Grande 47 43 19 15 EXES Tate McRae 48 51 95 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 49 56 50 04 DAYLIGHT David Kushner 50 59 46 46 THINKIN' BOUT ME Morgan Wallen Bubbling Under 19 (16) PRAISE JAH IN THE MOONLIGHT YG Marley 20 (NE) SO AMERICAN Olivia Rodrigo Albums 01 01 003 01 ETERNAL SUNSHINE Ariana Grande 02 NE 001 02 WE DON'T TRUST YOU Future, Metro Boomin 03 12 029 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 04 03 240 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 05 02 022 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 06 NE 001 06 GOTHIC SUMMER The Veronicas 07 05 164 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 08 04 192 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 09 06 078 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 10 07 333 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 11 08 068 01 SOS SZA 12 09 049 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 13 10 056 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 14 13 149 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 15 11 162 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 16 15 042 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 17 14 124 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 18 18 355 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 19 19 315 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 20 25 303 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 21 20 038 01 SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 22 27 182 16 CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS Creedence Clearwater Revival 23 24 243 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 24 22 035 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 25 28 072 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 26 29 427 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 27 34 031 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 28 33 410 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 29 36 472 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 30 32 074 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 31 21 007 01 VULTURES 1 Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign 32 31 113 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 33 38 069 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin 34 37 295 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 35 30 095 03 HOZIER Hozier 36 40 229 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 37 41 168 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 38 16 042 01 TRUSTFALL P!nk 39 42 053 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 40 39 369 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 41 46 113 22 CTRL SZA 42 45 300 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 43 47 284 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 44 43 492 01 1989 Taylor Swift 45 48 097 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 46 52 075 36 STUDIO ALBUMS ABBA 47 53 185 40 GREATEST HITS Pitbull 48 49 261 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 49 51 094 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 50 50 025 01 FOR ALL THE DOGS Drake Don't let the date fool you, this is the real chart, and "Beautiful Things" is #1 for a 4th week. It's still miles ahead of the competition and begs the question for if it could well be the biggest hit of the year. Anyway we do have two top 10 debuts this week, firstly "Like That", which gives Future his 3rd top 10 hit, just 1 spot high of his career high of #7 he got with "Way 2 Sexy". Actually #7 is as high as Metro Boomin has ever gotten too, but that was with "Creepin'", and yes that includes all of his production work. Kendrick Lamar isn't credited but he's been at #1 before. Next up is Hozier scoring his second ever top 10 hit, and first charting hit since "Someone New" which had a quite respectable chart run in 2015. Michael Marcagi is stuck at #12 and could overtake Jack Harlow while being overtaken by Artemas next week, so we can only hope he does the 12 12 12 12 chart standing which is always fun. The best instance of this I believe is when "Little Lion Man" held at its #16 peak in its 16th week in early 2010 and I've always been on the lookout for new instances. Maybe if you only include top 50 weeks then there's still hope for "No Role Modelz" to pull off a miracle. But speaking of Artemas, his song that sounds like a nightcore remix of itself is fresh in at #25 with a bullet in the back pocket. Ahead of that with less of a segue is Olivia Rodrigo which has a moderately interesting detail of having been available on vinyl releases months ago, so it doesn't appear on the New Music chart, and also appears with a last week position on the ARIA website of #2110. I am very curious if that's a sign that there were 2109 songs that registered sales last week or if ARIA got *some* late Thursday data in the mix. That's a number to look out for I suppose! Despite the Olivia omission, the Bubbling Under chart is fairly lean this week. It might grow next week as several songs drop out and "leavemealone" ousts itself as the penultimate 2023 song on the list (YG Marley released *right* at the end of December). Earlier in Ariana Grande's career, her albums tended to drop off quite a bit after debut week. "My Everything" dropped to #8 in its second week for instance. "thank u, next" managed 5 weeks at #1 though and now "Eternal Sunshine" is sitting strong after 3 weeks. It'll certainly be ousted next week by Beyonce. Meanwhile Metro Boomin has a second #2 album (following the second Spider-Verse soundtrack). Future actually has had a #1 album though. Surprisingly The Veronicas have never had a #1 album (they've had 2 #1 singles though), and this week they pick up 6 for 6 on top 10 albums, and this one's landing in the middle of the #5 & #7 peaks their two 2021 albums scored. It's their first album not released on a major label. You know it's a slow week when Pitbull's Greatest Hits can find room in the top 50 though.

Lucky he has those streams too then! :P

One of these days I'll get to post for legitimate reasons.

+5 Ariana Grande - yes, and? +4 Dua Lipa - Training Season +3 Djo - End Of Beginning +2 Beyonce - TEXAS HOLD 'EM +1 Ariana Grande - we can't be friends (wait for your love) -1 Teddy Swims - Lose Control -2 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things -3 Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer -4 Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign - CARNIVAL ---- +5 Ariana Grande - yes, and? +4 Dua Lipa - Training Season +3 Djo - End Of Beginning +2 Beyonce - TEXAS HOLD 'EM +1 Ariana Grande - we can't be friends (wait for your love) -1 Teddy Swims - Lose Control -2 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things -3 Michael Marcagi - Scared To Start -4 Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign - CARNIVAL

I can somewhat understand the rationale, it probably barely changes things where it matters, and it really does take exceedingly long to get it all through. But it does add a degree of uncertainty looking at the chart, especially if you have ACR a factor, making those very precise week-to-week differences crucial.

It is, although technically speaking the OCC don't actually get the Thursday Spotify data, they just estimate it.

I'd go further and say it's more of a personal commitment to spend 5 hours listening to something than spending under a dollar on it as well. (Before anyone points out that people can just stream things in the background without listening, people can and also will buy things they don't listen to, people for whom that amount of money is a trifle).

25/03/2024 Singles 01 01 09 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 02 02 02 02 WE CAN'T BE FRIENDS (WAIT FOR YOUR LOVE) Ariana Grande 03 03 05 03 END OF BEGINNING Djo 04 06 22 01 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 05 05 52 01 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 06 07 18 06 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 07 04 06 02 TEXAS HOLD 'EM Beyonce 08 08 27 02 GREEDY Tate McRae 09 09 06 05 CARNIVAL Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign 10 10 19 01 LOVIN ON ME Jack Harlow 11 13 30 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan Feat. Kacey Musgraves 12 16 10 12 SCARED TO START Michael Marcagi 13 12 31 03 PRADA Casso x Raye x D-Block Europe 14 15 15 13 LEAVEMEALONE Fred again.. & Baby Keem 15 14 04 08 SATURN SZA 16 17 88 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 17 20 06 19 STUMBLIN' IN Cyril 18 23 29 02 STRANGERS Kenya Grace 19 25 59 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 20 21 27 06 WATER Tyla 21 26 07 26 HOME Good Neighbours 22 11 10 02 YES, AND? Ariana Grande 23 63 02 23 AUSTIN Dasha 24 24 74 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 25 29 05 12 TRAINING SEASON Dua Lipa 26 30 13 10 SAVING UP Dom Dolla 27 27 10 16 REDRUM 21 Savage 28 48 02 28 THE BOY IS MINE Ariana Grande 29 32 33 01 PAINT THE TOWN RED Doja Cat 30 34 12 23 FEATHER Sabrina Carpenter 31 31 22 15 UNWRITTEN Natasha Bedingfield 32 28 19 07 HOUDINI Dua Lipa 33 33 62 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 34 18 02 18 SUPERNATURAL Ariana Grande 35 44 189 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 36 35 59 21 SNOOZE SZA 37 37 51 02 FAST CAR Luke Combs 38 42 14 30 ONE OF THE GIRLS The Weeknd 39 43 03 39 WHATEVER SHE WANTS Bryson Tiller 40 41 61 03 LOVER Taylor Swift 41 40 35 01 WHAT WAS I MADE FOR? Billie Eilish 42 50 10 23 NEVER LOSE ME Flo Milli 43 45 18 15 EXES Tate McRae 44 19 02 19 BYE Ariana Grande 45 36 40 03 MURDER ON THE DANCEFLOOR Sophie Ellis-Bextor 46 56 07 11 FE!N Travis Scott feat. Playboi Carti 47 47 12 25 DELILAH (PULL ME OUT OF THIS) Fred Again.. 48 38 08 19 PRAISE JAH IN THE MOONLIGHT YG Marley 49 NE 01 49 FRI(END)S V 50 22 02 22 ETERNAL SUNSHINE Ariana Grande Bubbling Under 18 (17) BURN Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign 19 (18) STAYINIT Fred Again.. & Lil Yachty & Overmono 20 (NE) ACT II: DATE @ 8 (REMIX) 4Bats & Drake Albums 01 01 002 01 ETERNAL SUNSHINE Ariana Grande 02 02 021 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 03 04 239 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 04 05 191 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 05 08 163 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 06 06 077 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 07 07 332 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 08 09 067 01 SOS SZA 09 10 048 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 10 12 055 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 11 14 161 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 12 15 028 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 13 18 148 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 14 17 123 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 15 19 041 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 16 13 041 01 TRUSTFALL P!nk 17 NE 001 17 THE TRUE NORTH Peter Garrett 18 22 354 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 19 23 314 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 20 21 037 01 SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 21 20 006 01 VULTURES 1 Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign 22 24 034 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 23 NE 001 23 EVERYTHING I THOUGHT IT WAS Justin Timberlake 24 25 242 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 25 26 302 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 26 NE 001 26 DEEPER WELL Kacey Musgraves 27 28 181 16 CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS Creedence Clearwater Revival 28 27 071 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 29 31 426 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 30 48 094 03 HOZIER Hozier 31 29 112 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 32 33 073 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 33 32 409 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 34 34 030 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 35 NE 001 35 BELL BOTTOM COUNTRY Lainey Wilson 36 30 471 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 37 35 294 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 38 38 068 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin 39 40 368 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 40 37 228 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 41 42 167 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 42 41 052 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 43 36 491 01 1989 Taylor Swift 44 44 010 01 AMERICAN DREAM 21 Savage 45 43 299 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 46 39 112 22 CTRL SZA 47 46 283 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 48 45 096 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 49 50 260 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 50 47 024 01 FOR ALL THE DOGS Drake "Beautiful Things" is #1 for a 3rd week. The lead is solidified so I don't expect anything to change next week. In what is a relatively quiet week, we've got a new bolting in for Dasha, which ARIA have curiously allowed on the New Music chart despite being a few weeks over for that, maybe they're using the album release date. Of course it's far from the biggest muck up that we've got this week, as you'll notice a big surge for "the boy is mine". I'll have to forgive for not paying close enough attention to the Ariana Grande debuts last week to notice myself, but suffice to say, it should never have been as low as #48 then. It dropped from #22 to #29 on this week's Spotify chart if you want a decent estimate on where it should have been, but what a bizarre thing to not only happen but actually be corrected. We've also got a return for Travis Scott, and a sneak-in for V who is buoyed by all the sales of the instrumental & sped-up versions and such to get his first ever solo entry. Bubbling Under we can shine a light on another error, where it seems like the second week reaction strikes again. This time it's for 4batz who charts a week late compared to everywhere else, and at a considerable distance away from the top 50 for something that went #15->#24 in New Zealand this week. So not only did ARIA not count it last week but if the typo on the chart is anything to go by, it's very possible that they didn't even combine the two versions. Ariana Grande scores a second week at #1. She'll probably come crashing down to the Taylor Swift zone next week which means someone else will be #1 then. Maybe Future & Metro. Leading the new arrivals is a second solo album for Peter Garrett, who you either know from Midnight Oil or Kevin Rudd's Labor ministry back in the day. His first solo album debuted at #3 behind Good Charlotte, this one can't quite match its second week position at #17. But in any case, that's nothing compared to the drop off for Justin Timberlake who arrives well short of any of his previous albums, and his last album hit #2. Kacey Musgraves also made the top 10 with her last album but instead retreats to a more typical debut position for herself. On the optimistic side, Lainey Wilson is charting for the first time ever with her new album.

Have always suspected as much. Just this week's chart has goddard. & Dylan Gossett converting their #185 & #192 weekly Spotify ranks (with no appearance on Apple's chart at present) to #58 & #67 on the OCC chart. Polyhex also tells an interesting story: The number of new entries on the chart is relatively stable post-ACR/3-track rule, but the average weeks on the chart comfortably lifted past the highs of 2015-2016, suggesting an increasing disconnect between the mega-hits and the also-rans that are given a whimpering breath of life by the rules. But then I wonder if we're on the brink of a dam burst, somewhat like the album chart where the average number of new entries has started to decline.

She's out from #20 in Australia with no obvious sign of replacement so probably not.

+5 Ariana Grande - yes, and? +4 Djo - End Of Beginning (if I had a nickel for every song I liked a lot years ago in this top 10...) +3 Dua Lipa - Training Season +2 Beyonce - TEXAS HOLD 'EM +1 YG Marley - Praise Jah In The Moonlight -1 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things -2 Teddy Swims - Lose Control -3 Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer -4 Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign - CARNIVAL (why is the only good part of this song when it samples a better Ye song) -- +5 Dua Lipa - Training Season +4 Djo - End Of Beginning +3 Beyonce - TEXAS HOLD 'EM +2 YG Marley - Praise Jah In The Moonlight +1 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things -1 Teddy Swims - Lose Control -2 Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer -3 Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign - CARNIVAL -4 Ella Henderson - Alibi (funniest song I've heard this year admittedly)

18/03/2024 Singles 01 01 08 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 02 NE 01 02 WE CAN'T BE FRIENDS (WAIT FOR YOUR LOVE) Ariana Grande 03 09 04 03 END OF BEGINNING Djo 04 02 05 02 TEXAS HOLD 'EM Beyonce 05 03 51 01 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 06 04 21 01 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 07 07 17 07 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 08 06 26 02 GREEDY Tate McRae 09 05 05 05 CARNIVAL Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign 10 08 18 01 LOVIN ON ME Jack Harlow 11 34 09 02 YES, AND? Ariana Grande 12 10 30 03 PRADA Casso x Raye x D-Block Europe 13 11 29 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan Feat. Kacey Musgraves 14 12 03 08 SATURN SZA 15 13 14 13 LEAVEMEALONE Fred again.. & Baby Keem 16 18 09 16 SCARED TO START Michael Marcagi 17 14 87 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 18 NE 01 18 SUPERNATURAL Ariana Grande 19 NE 01 19 BYE Ariana Grande 20 19 05 19 STUMBLIN' IN Cyril 21 20 26 06 WATER Tyla 22 NE 01 22 ETERNAL SUNSHINE Ariana Grande 23 22 28 02 STRANGERS Kenya Grace 24 15 73 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 25 17 58 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 26 30 06 26 HOME Good Neighbours 27 16 09 16 REDRUM 21 Savage 28 24 18 07 HOUDINI Dua Lipa 29 21 04 12 TRAINING SEASON Dua Lipa 30 23 12 10 SAVING UP Dom Dolla 31 27 21 15 UNWRITTEN Natasha Bedingfield 32 25 32 01 PAINT THE TOWN RED Doja Cat 33 33 61 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 34 26 11 23 FEATHER Sabrina Carpenter 35 32 58 21 SNOOZE SZA 36 31 39 03 MURDER ON THE DANCEFLOOR Sophie Ellis-Bextor 37 37 50 02 FAST CAR Luke Combs 38 28 07 19 PRAISE JAH IN THE MOONLIGHT YG Marley 39 NE 01 39 TRUE STORY Ariana Grande 40 75 34 01 WHAT WAS I MADE FOR? Billie Eilish 41 29 60 03 LOVER Taylor Swift 42 36 13 30 ONE OF THE GIRLS The Weeknd 43 56 02 43 WHATEVER SHE WANTS Bryson Tiller 44 40 188 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 45 41 17 15 EXES Tate McRae 46 NE 01 46 WISH I HATED YOU Ariana Grande 47 39 11 25 DELILAH (PULL ME OUT OF THIS) Fred Again.. 48 NE 01 48 THE BOY IS MINE Ariana Grande 49 38 20 01 IS IT OVER NOW? (TAYLOR'S VERSION) [FROM THE VAULT] Taylor Swift 50 46 09 23 NEVER LOSE ME Flo Milli Bubbling Under 16 (NE) AUSTIN Dasha 17 (13) BURN Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign 18 (15) STAYINIT Fred Again.. & Lil Yachty & Overmono 19 (17) MURDER ON THE DANCE FLOOR - TRIPLE J LIKE A VERSION Royel Otis 20 (21) MAKE YOU MINE Madison Beer Albums 01 NE 001 01 ETERNAL SUNSHINE Ariana Grande 02 02 020 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 03 NE 001 03 ON MY OWN Ricki-Lee 04 01 238 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 05 03 190 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 06 04 073 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 07 05 331 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 08 06 162 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 09 07 066 01 SOS SZA 10 08 047 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 11 RE 086 11 CARESS YOUR SOUL (10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY) Sticky Fingers 12 11 054 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 13 10 040 01 TRUSTFALL P!nk 14 09 160 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 15 14 027 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 16 NE 001 16 INVINCIBLE SHIELD Judas Priest 17 12 122 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 18 15 147 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 19 17 040 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 20 13 005 01 VULTURES 1 Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign 21 16 036 01 SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 22 18 353 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 23 21 313 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 24 19 033 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 25 22 241 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 26 23 301 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 27 25 070 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 28 24 180 16 CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS Creedence Clearwater Revival 29 20 111 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 30 30 470 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 31 27 425 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 32 26 408 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 33 28 072 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 34 31 029 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 35 35 293 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 36 29 490 01 1989 Taylor Swift 37 38 227 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 38 32 067 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin 39 33 111 22 CTRL SZA 40 42 367 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 41 39 051 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 42 41 166 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 43 45 298 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 44 37 009 01 AMERICAN DREAM 21 Savage 45 43 095 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 46 44 282 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 47 40 023 01 FOR ALL THE DOGS Drake 48 74 093 03 HOZIER Hozier 49 34 007 27 EMAILS I CAN'T SEND Sabrina Carpenter 50 48 259 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish "Beautiful Things" is #1 for a second week. It does not look to be under immediate threat although we must always consider the volatility/tendency to spike of new arrivals. With that in mind, Ariana Grande scores a second #2 debut of the year. She briefly found herself atop the Spotify chart but things have calmed down a little since then. Djo also continues to vault with "End Of Beginning" and should close the gap a little even if he can't keep that momentum up in the week following me hitting the Add Reply button. Ariana Grande releasing a new album is a prompt for everyone else to take the week off so there's not much else to say, with the exception of a new arrival for Bryson Tiller. This is actually his first ever lead artist entry, he's only made the top 50 before with "Wild Thoughts". A rare W for the Australian music scene in 2020 was managing to get to #1 ahead of tough competition, namely Ariana Grande's "Positions" album. It spent its first two weeks at #2 behind Midnight Oil & Kylie Minogue and never got there in the end. Ariana Grande reverses fortunes to go back to #1 with her newest album, which gives her 5 #1 albums in total. In that regard you could take this week as an Australian music L but actually I think it's quite impressive that some 2 decades after first appearing on Australian Idol, Ricki-Lee scores her highest ever album chart position. Of course maybe at this point she's more recognised as a media personality but in any case she released her first new album in a decade and hits #3 with it. Speaking of new points, Australian music culture war focal point Sticky Fingers take their first album to its highest ever position thanks to an anniversary vinyl. Kylie Minogue's anniversary vinyl looks to have just missed the top 50. We've also got Judas Priest returning to the chart for the first time in 6 years, where the top 10 still eludes them but they're quite consistently making the top 20, even on what could still be considered a tough week.

Oh, I understand the dissonance in that regard. To an extent the album chart tips the balance as a lot of those bands with unremarkable single success sold truckloads of albums instead. Growing up in the 2000s I didn't really understand or experience much of the appeal of CD singles (outside of one novelty single I got my parents to buy when I was 7). Further to that, my version of your events was that everyone I knew just illegally downloaded & burned CDs, which made for a lot of widely distributed artists who were gaining notoriety without sales to match. The funny thing about all this is that when I started reading charts & chart discussions, I would find people for whom this disparity served their interests well (people who like the charts are more likely to keep following them, not shocking), and they would drum out lines about how if people really were fans of so-and-so, then they would buy their music. I found early Spotify charts in Australia very interesting in that regard because they opened things up to the kinds of things the sales chart never envisioned: The xx & Flume flooding the chart with their new albums, artists like Grimes & Alpine skirting around the top 20, "Retrograde" by James Blake going top 5 on the official streaming chart. It all really gave voice to the fact that the sales format was creating a distorted version of things since it represented such a small sample of the music listening audience. Inevitably this ended up being true of the early streaming chart as well but it was still boasting a higher audience reach than the sales chart so there was at least something in it. So I guess what I really meant to ask is whether or not there were ever articles written in a tone of 'What's to be done with the Singles Chart?' in response to an endemic of charity singles & the like diminishing the credibility of a #1 hit. Because I sure see a lot of takes based on nebulous conjecture that it's all the fault of passive streams. Not saying I actually agree with the former (a sale is a sale, that's what the chart is/was for). Honestly I think they're both in a similar bucket of elitism, the kind that never gets called out because it's in the context of mainstream music chart fandom.

I'm curious because it's before my time but was there ever any discourse surrounding the validity of records in the '80s/'90s etc that charted high (or often got to #1) on the basis of charity/not-necessarily-wanted gifts and the like? Because it feels like a parallel to the whole thing with intentional vs. incidental streams*. It feels like nowadays there's just an accepted validity to the word of the sales figure of yesteryear and only controversy when it happens nowadays because we have the empirical data that tells us not that many people are actually listening to the LadBaby singles or things of that nature. *I still suspect that there's an inherent belief that this is making the chart 'worse' because everyone thinks their favourite songs have more active support. In reality I think labels work overtime to try and push us onto new hit songs and the charts would be even less fresh if left to actively pursued streams. Like it's the difference between TikTok hits that get a marketing push and the ones that don't and just flutter away after a couple of weeks.

+5 Ariana Grande - yes, and? +4 Beyonce - TEXAS HOLD 'EM +3 YG Marley - Praise Jah In The Moonlight +2 Teddy Swims - Lose Control +1 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor -1 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things -2 casso - Prada -3 Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer -4 Tate McRae - greedy ---- +5 Ariana Grande - yes, and? +4 Dua Lipa - Training Season +3 Beyonce - TEXAS HOLD 'EM +2 YG Marley - Praise Jah In The Moonlight +1 Teddy Swims - Lose Control -1 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things -2 casso - Prada -3 Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer -4 Tate McRae - greedy

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Thanks for posting that article, appreciate it as a measured observation rather than a thinly veiled whinge that a lot of these articles can be. I'm not sure I could necessarily agree on this point. I think if anything it's increased internet visibility of opinions, which is increasingly aged & jaded. People who don't like things complain on Facebook and/or Reddit. People who like things avoid those negativity zones and just enjoy it to themselves. Furthermore, if anything's happened, it's that the new dominance of streaming has shifted the dominant demographic so rapidly that a lot of folk have found their interests pushed aside, almost like a whole generation was skipped. Streaming and such makes for an easy scapegoat as well. You can bet that the moment the Bryan Adams (or Frankie Laine ~) record is beaten, there'll be debate on the merits of it that'll largely be fuelled by people not willing to accept the changing of the guard. Everyone loves to quote the records & milestones that serve their interests until they don't. :lol: The merits of physical product is worthwhile to discuss without an easy solution. A while back I was watching a talk between label heads about the industry and one of them admitted that utilising pre-orders/formats was their only way to get a strong first week chart position, but that it felt like cheating to them. I always get a bit suspicious of them on the UK Charts as well, like last year when for a while, about half of the songs that hit #1, did so with conveniently timed physical boosts. Not only that, but often conveniently stacked, like Lewis Capaldi pulling out two narrow victories, and pulling more CD sales for a brand new single than a new Metallica album one week. It just feels like a carefully planned design that always seems to work out. I can't say for sure if it's all above board but in any case, it takes away the illusion that the public at large is choosing what's going to #1. There's an argument to be made that a streaming only chart would make for something more historically relevant, but admittedly I've never been a fan of gate-keeping music consumption. Maybe the ratios could use some tweaking, but I don't want to just assume that someone is buying a single to never spin it, nor that someone passively hearing a song on a playlist necessarily enjoys it less than someone who typed it into the search bar.

11/03/2024 Singles 01 03 07 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 02 02 04 02 TEXAS HOLD 'EM Beyonce 03 01 50 01 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 04 04 20 01 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 05 12 04 05 CARNIVAL Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign 06 06 25 02 GREEDY Tate McRae 07 07 16 07 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 08 05 17 01 LOVIN ON ME Jack Harlow 09 14 03 09 END OF BEGINNING Djo 10 11 29 03 PRADA Casso x Raye x D-Block Europe 11 13 28 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan Feat. Kacey Musgraves 12 08 02 08 SATURN SZA 13 56 13 13 LEAVEMEALONE Fred again.. & Baby Keem 14 16 86 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 15 09 72 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 16 23 08 16 REDRUM 21 Savage 17 33 57 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 18 38 08 18 SCARED TO START Michael Marcagi 19 45 04 19 STUMBLIN' IN Cyril 20 36 25 06 WATER Tyla 21 25 03 12 TRAINING SEASON Dua Lipa 22 24 27 02 STRANGERS Kenya Grace 23 18 11 10 SAVING UP Dom Dolla 24 29 17 07 HOUDINI Dua Lipa 25 30 31 01 PAINT THE TOWN RED Doja Cat 26 32 10 23 FEATHER Sabrina Carpenter 27 20 20 15 UNWRITTEN Natasha Bedingfield 28 19 06 19 PRAISE JAH IN THE MOONLIGHT YG Marley 29 10 59 03 LOVER Taylor Swift 30 34 05 30 HOME Good Neighbours 31 22 38 03 MURDER ON THE DANCEFLOOR Sophie Ellis-Bextor 32 31 57 21 SNOOZE SZA 33 41 60 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 34 40 08 02 YES, AND? Ariana Grande 35 15 49 02 KARMA Taylor Swift 36 43 12 30 ONE OF THE GIRLS The Weeknd 37 49 49 02 FAST CAR Luke Combs 38 28 19 01 IS IT OVER NOW? (TAYLOR'S VERSION) [FROM THE VAULT] Taylor Swift 39 RE 10 25 DELILAH (PULL ME OUT OF THIS) Fred Again.. 40 55 187 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 41 51 16 15 EXES Tate McRae 42 17 25 16 DON'T BLAME ME Taylor Swift 43 47 40 08 POPULAR The Weeknd Feat. Playboi Carti, Madonna 44 54 04 24 BURN Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign 45 58 36 01 VAMPIRE Olivia Rodrigo 46 53 08 23 NEVER LOSE ME Flo Milli 47 52 22 11 RICH BABY DADDY Drake feat. Sexxy Red & SZA 48 61 47 04 DAYLIGHT David Kushner 49 RE 12 41 ADORE U Fred again.. & Obongjayar 50 67 92 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic Bubbling Under 15 (NE) STAYINIT Fred Again.. & Lil Yachty & Overmono 16 (20) WHATEVER SHE WANTS Bryson Tiller 17 (18) MURDER ON THE DANCE FLOOR - TRIPLE J LIKE A VERSION Royel Otis 18 (22) MADE FOR ME Muni Long, Lil Jon 19 (NE) BREATHE Yeat 20 (NE) DOCTOR (WORK IT OUT) Pharrell Williams feat. Miley Cyrus Albums 01 02 237 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 02 03 019 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 03 04 189 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 04 01 072 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 05 05 330 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 06 07 161 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 07 10 065 01 SOS SZA 08 12 046 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 09 06 159 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 10 09 039 01 TRUSTFALL P!nk 11 15 053 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 12 08 121 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 13 11 004 01 VULTURES 1 Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign 14 17 026 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 15 18 146 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 16 13 035 01 SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 17 16 039 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 18 20 352 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 19 21 032 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 20 14 110 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 21 26 312 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 22 22 240 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 23 24 300 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 24 28 179 16 CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS Creedence Clearwater Revival 25 25 069 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 26 30 407 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 27 31 424 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 28 32 071 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 29 23 489 01 1989 Taylor Swift 30 29 469 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 31 35 028 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 32 34 066 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin 33 37 110 22 CTRL SZA 34 27 006 27 EMAILS I CAN'T SEND Sabrina Carpenter 35 36 292 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 36 NE 001 36 CHORUS Mildlife 37 33 008 01 AMERICAN DREAM 21 Savage 38 39 226 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 39 45 050 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 40 40 022 01 FOR ALL THE DOGS Drake 41 41 165 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 42 38 366 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 43 46 094 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 44 42 281 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 45 44 297 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 46 NE 001 46 INFINITE DESIRES Donny Benét 47 NE 001 47 UNDER THE LIGHT San Cisco 48 51 258 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 49 48 206 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 50 49 204 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd "Beautiful Things" climbs to #1. How long it takes up residence there obviously depends on the competition willing to unseat it. Beyonce's timing has been pretty bad and doesn't look like contending anymore. Djo climbs into the top 10 for the first time with a bit of momentum still on his side. The big news of, actually two weeks ago was Fred again.. announcing a run of very soon Australian shows (well, just Melbourne & Sydney). He's actually already done the Melbourne shows, but in any case, all of his stuff is flying up, most notably "leavemealone" which scores a massive new peak and is his highest charting single ever now. Michael Marcagi & CYRIL also take big climbs into the top 20, I can't actually figure out how the latter is quite so high even though his sales are quite good. Also Muni Long's team has worked out the lifehack for the New Music chart by crediting the Lil Jon version, since the original is too old to be included. After nearly 5 years, "Lover" finally scores a second week at #1. Of her #1 albums, it was one of only a few that hadn't stayed multiple weeks, and gives us a whole new permutation of her holding the top 5. With Ariana Grande & The Weeknd (thankfully not together) this reign of tomfoolery will very much be over next week. We've got a real new music problem on the album chart this year too. "american dream" and "Vultures 1" are the only albums this year to last more than a single week in the top 50. We've got three more for the pile of one weekers here, and as a nice treat they're all Australian. As a less nice treat, they're all down on previous peaks, one has to wonder if that general influx in new streamers this year is gonna make a serious roadblock in the charts to come. Anyhow, congrats to Mildlife, Donny Benét & San Cisco for getting to the top 50, because it ain't easy anymore.

Yeah exactly. Popularity begets popularity to such an extent that you rarely see any sign of fatigue...see your own avatar :lol: but then even on the iTunes chart, there's so little new music that people are exposed to liven it up. Stuff like "The Sound Of Silence" (the cover) and "A Thousand Years" have been mainstays on that chart from new purchases for like a decade now. As a side note too: there's been a big influx in new users on Spotify this year, #50 on the chart is often 90K a day when it used to be 70K for ages. Can't imagine it's favouring new music.

+5 Ariana Grande - yes, and? +4 Jack Harlow - Lovin On Me +3 Noah Kahan & Sam Fender - Homesick +2 casso - Prada +1 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor -1 Teddy Swims - Lose Control -2 Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer -3 Tate McRae - greedy -4 The Weeknd - Popular ------- +5 Ariana Grande - yes, and? +4 Jack Harlow - Lovin On Me +3 YG Marley - Praise Jah In The Moonlight +2 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things +1 casso - Prada -1 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor -2 Teddy Swims - Lose Control -3 Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer -4 Tate McRae - greedy Think it gets better but wasn't super fond of the charts last month.