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+5 Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine +4 Tyla - Water +3 Chase & Status - Baddadan +2 Dua Lipa - Houdini +1 Jack Harlow - Lovin On Me -1 casso - Prada -2 Taylor Swift - Is It Over Now? (Taylor's Version) [From The Vault] -3 Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer -4 Tate McRae - greedy -5 Noah Kahan - Stick Season :wave: +5 Tyla - Water +4 Dua Lipa - Houdini +3 Jack Harlow - Lovin On Me +2 casso - Prada +1 Taylor Swift - Is It Over Now? (Taylor's Version) [From The Vault] -1 Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer -2 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You -3 Tate McRae - greedy -4 Wham! - Last Christmas -5 Noah Kahan - Stick Season

11/12/2023 Singles 01 01 04 01 LOVIN ON ME Jack Harlow 02 15 63 01 ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey 03 02 12 02 GREEDY Tate McRae 04 03 18 01 PAINT THE TOWN RED Doja Cat 05 05 37 02 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 06 30 54 02 LAST CHRISTMAS Wham! 07 04 16 04 PRADA Casso x Raye x D-Block Europe 08 42 18 02 ROCKIN' AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE Brenda Lee 09 12 44 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 10 08 73 08 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 11 07 15 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves 12 06 12 06 WATER Tyla 13 NE 01 13 YOU'RE LOSING ME (FROM THE VAULT) Taylor Swift 14 11 07 11 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 15 72 23 03 IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS Michael Buble 16 65 16 06 JINGLE BELL ROCK Bobby Helms 17 09 14 02 STRANGERS Kenya Grace 18 69 24 05 SANTA TELL ME Ariana Grande 19 16 39 09 CONFIDENCE Ocean Alley 20 19 36 02 FAST CAR Luke Combs 21 10 06 01 IS IT OVER NOW? (TAYLOR'S VERSION) [FROM THE VAULT] Taylor Swift 22 26 47 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 23 25 23 01 VAMPIRE Olivia Rodrigo 24 13 04 07 HOUDINI Dua Lipa 25 27 34 13 CHEMICAL Post Malone 26 17 09 11 RICH BABY DADDY Drake feat. Sexyy Red & SZA 27 31 59 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 28 28 27 01 SPRINTER Dave, Central Cee 29 29 34 04 DAYLIGHT David Kushner 30 20 28 03 DANCE THE NIGHT Dua Lipa 31 14 11 14 AGORA HILLS Doja Cat 32 18 03 15 EXES Tate McRae 33 32 66 11 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 34 22 08 19 LIL BOO THANG Paul Russell 35 24 10 19 MY LOVE MINE ALL MINE Mitski 36 21 174 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 37 44 52 01 KILL BILL SZA 38 34 178 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 39 36 88 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 40 23 05 29 CAN'T CATCH ME NOW Olivia Rodrigo 41 39 79 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 42 RE 13 08 IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR Andy Williams 43 38 180 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 44 41 77 17 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 45 35 261 01 SUNFLOWER Post Malone & Swae Lee 46 37 27 08 POPULAR The Weeknd feat. Playboi Carti, Madonna 47 RE 16 07 HOLLY JOLLY CHRISTMAS Michael Buble 48 53 21 12 RUSH Troye Sivan 49 RE 14 15 UNDERNEATH THE TREE Kelly Clarkson 50 33 112 02 VIVA LA VIDA Coldplay Bubbling 13 (17) BLEED The Kid Laroi 14 (14) GOT ME STARTED Troye Sivan 15 (16) ONE OF YOUR GIRLS Troye Sivan 16 (18) WILD ONES Jessie Murph feat. Jelly Roll 17 (NE) MY HOUSE Beyonce 18 (15) NOW THAT WE DON'T TALK (Taylor's Version) [From The Vault] Taylor Swift 19 (33) SAVING UP Dom Dolla 20 (23) HEY DRIVER Zach Bryan feat. The War and Treaty Albums 01 01 006 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 02 02 059 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 03 05 033 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 04 07 148 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 05 45 103 01 CHRISTMAS Michael Buble 06 04 176 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 07 13 040 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 08 03 224 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 09 20 058 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 10 06 013 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 11 09 317 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 12 RE 026 01 TRUSTFALL P!nk 13 37 019 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 14 16 052 01 SOS SZA 15 08 022 01 SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 16 21 126 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 17 23 299 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 18 19 133 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 19 29 411 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 20 NE 001 20 I/O Peter Gabriel 21 17 019 01 BARBIE THE ALBUM Soundtrack 22 12 108 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 23 24 287 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 24 18 009 01 FOR ALL THE DOGS Drake 25 26 339 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 26 27 081 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 27 11 146 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 28 36 456 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 29 47 070 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 30 50 015 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 31 30 279 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 32 34 037 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 33 53 053 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin 34 52 026 13 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 35 38 056 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 36 35 476 01 1989 Taylor Swift 37 32 284 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 38 43 213 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 39 10 004 02 ROCK-STAR Stray Kids 40 NE 001 40 HOT POTATOES! THE BEST OF THE OG WIGGLES The Wiggles 41 42 394 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 42 74 079 02 MERRY CHRISTMAS Mariah Carey 43 44 353 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 44 33 008 01 SOMETHING TO GIVE EACH OTHER Troye Sivan 45 46 004 03 THE FIRST TIME The Kid Laroi 46 49 053 22 CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS Creedence Clearwater Revival 47 25 097 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 48 41 019 02 AUSTIN Post Malone 49 60 152 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 50 39 005 02 GOLDEN Jung Kook "Lovin' On Me" is #1 for a 4th week. Attempts at a Christmas takeover have been slightly thwarted, although Mariah Carey is slightly higher on the chart than she was on the equivalent chart last year. Jack Harlow looks solid to keep the top spot again next week but the chart week that hasn't even started yet is up for grabs, who knew? The big winner of Christmas this week is Kelly Clarkson who charts a week earlier than before. If she can somehow maintain this position, a top 10 placing is in the cards. Otherwise there's a new Taylor Swift song which will at least get a second week in the top 50. The Bubbling Under chart has gotten a lot bigger this week which is putting it quite a distance away from the top 50 at this point. "1989" gets a 6th or 15th week at #1. It seemed far away before but maybe overtaking the original reign is on the cards. Post Malone touring Australia again is getting his compilation just that little bit higher to #3, and speaking of compilations, Coldplay's live in Argentina album has apparently been vanquished from the chart, so congrats to everyone who gets to spend those weeks at #50 or #100 they otherwise wouldn't have. If that feels so unnatural, we've got Peter Gabriel too. It's his first solo entry in over 2 decades. Lastly I just love the fact that a Wiggles album has the term 'OG' in it.

04/12/2023 Singles 01 01 03 01 LOVIN ON ME Jack Harlow 02 02 11 02 GREEDY Tate McRae 03 03 17 01 PAINT THE TOWN RED Doja Cat 04 04 15 04 PRADA Casso x Raye x D-Block Europe 05 05 36 02 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 06 06 11 06 WATER Tyla 07 08 14 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves 08 10 72 08 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 09 09 13 02 STRANGERS Kenya Grace 10 07 05 01 IS IT OVER NOW? (TAYLOR'S VERSION) [FROM THE VAULT] Taylor Swift 11 13 06 11 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 12 12 43 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 13 11 03 07 HOUDINI Dua Lipa 14 14 10 14 AGORA HILLS Doja Cat 15 RE 62 01 ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey 16 40 38 09 CONFIDENCE Ocean Alley 17 16 08 11 RICH BABY DADDY Drake feat. Sexyy Red & SZA 18 15 02 15 EXES Tate McRae 19 17 35 02 FAST CAR Luke Combs 20 18 27 03 DANCE THE NIGHT Dua Lipa 21 21 173 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 22 19 07 19 LIL BOO THANG Paul Russell 23 29 04 29 CAN'T CATCH ME NOW Olivia Rodrigo 24 22 09 19 MY LOVE MINE ALL MINE Mitski 25 20 22 01 VAMPIRE Olivia Rodrigo 26 23 46 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 27 36 33 13 CHEMICAL Post Malone 28 24 26 01 SPRINTER Dave, Central Cee 29 25 33 04 DAYLIGHT David Kushner 30 RE 53 02 LAST CHRISTMAS Wham! 31 27 58 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 32 26 65 11 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 33 28 111 02 VIVA LA VIDA Coldplay 34 32 177 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 35 52 260 01 SUNFLOWER Post Malone & Swae Lee 36 33 87 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 37 31 26 08 POPULAR The Weeknd feat. Playboi Carti, Madonna 38 34 179 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 39 37 78 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 40 44 124 01 IRIS Goo Goo Dolls 41 35 76 17 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 42 RE 17 02 ROCKIN' AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE Brenda Lee 43 38 10 21 GOT ME STARTED Troye Sivan 44 49 51 01 KILL BILL SZA 45 48 172 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 46 45 44 21 SNOOZE SZA 47 42 35 05 YELLOW Coldplay 48 46 20 01 WHAT WAS I MADE FOR? Billie Eilish 49 51 69 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 50 30 05 02 NOW THAT WE DON'T TALK (TAYLOR'S VERSION) [FROM THE VAULT] Taylor Swift Bubbling 16 (17) ONE OF YOUR GIRLS Troye Sivan 17 (18) BLEED The Kid Laroi 18 (25) WILD ONES Jessie Murph feat. Jelly Roll 19 (20) IDGAF Drake feat. Yeat 20 (19) FIRST PERSON SHOOTER Drake feat. J. Cole Albums 01 01 005 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 02 05 058 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 03 06 223 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 04 10 175 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 05 11 032 05 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 06 09 012 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 07 08 147 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 08 15 021 01 SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 09 12 316 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 10 02 003 02 ROCK-STAR Stray Kids 11 26 145 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 12 24 107 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 13 13 039 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 14 RE 006 01 BLUE CHRISTMAS Jimmy Barnes 15 07 224 07 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay 16 17 051 01 SOS SZA 17 18 018 01 BARBIE THE ALBUM Soundtrack 18 04 008 01 FOR ALL THE DOGS Drake 19 23 132 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 20 30 057 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 21 22 125 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 22 41 006 01 HACKNEY DIAMONDS The Rolling Stones 23 20 298 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 24 27 286 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 25 48 096 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 26 25 338 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 27 35 080 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 28 RE 002 28 SICK BOI Ren 29 31 410 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 30 40 278 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 31 16 002 16 ROCKSTAR Dolly Parton 32 47 283 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 33 36 007 01 SOMETHING TO GIVE EACH OTHER Troye Sivan 34 37 036 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 35 32 475 01 1989 Taylor Swift 36 33 455 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 37 38 018 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 38 34 055 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 39 28 004 02 GOLDEN Jung Kook 40 RE 064 02 KYLIE (35TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION) Kylie Minogue 41 70 018 02 AUSTIN Post Malone 42 44 393 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 43 42 212 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 44 45 352 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 45 RE 102 01 CHRISTMAS Michael Buble 46 19 003 03 THE FIRST TIME The Kid Laroi 47 50 069 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 48 83 287 01 BEERBONGS & BENTLEYS Post Malone 49 46 052 22 CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS Creedence Clearwater Revival 50 39 014 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan "Lovin On Me" is #1 for a 3rd week. There's not much to note this week except for our latest chapter of funny stuff happening on the ARIA Chart that no one except me seems to care about. We've got some Christmas songs re-entering this week, except they're not just re-entering, they're re-appearing from the void, because they weren't on the ARIA survey last week. This mostly doesn't really affect the top 50 except I suspect Mariah Carey probably would have made the top 50 last week and now I don't know. The interesting thing here is that Brenda Lee is in the top 50 this week, whereas the equivalent top 50 week last year had Michael Buble instead. Brenda Lee did eventually climb to #2 last year but this is an early changing of the guard. It might be more about the strength of the surrounding songs but Mariah Carey is slightly lower than last year, Wham! are in the same position.

This is always an interesting thing to think about because it's also automatically course-'correcting' anytime something different happens. Something can come from left field, but once it hangs around, it's signifying a new but purportedly same blandness. "Bohemian Rhapsody" is avant-garde and increasingly out of step with modern popular music, but paradoxically it's simultaneously one of the biggest normie anthems ever made. All that being said, every year I see the contradicting arguments that the Christmas charts pecking order doesn't change enough but also that it changes too much so it's never pleasing everyone.

It's kind of a mathematical thing. The lower down the chart you go, the smaller the gaps are between positions. So it's less likely that any particular Christmas song is going to land in-between two lower songs. The same thing happens on the iTunes chart when someone passes away.

+5 Tyla - Water +4 Chase & Status - Baddadan +3 casso - Prada +2 Jack Harlow - Lovin On Me +1 Dua Lipa - Houdini -1 The Beatles - Now and Then -2 Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer -3 Tate McRae - greedy -4 Taylor Swift - Is It Over Now? (Taylor's Version) [From The Vault] -5 Noah Kahan - Stick Season

27/11/2023 Singles 01 01 02 01 LOVIN ON ME Jack Harlow 02 02 10 02 GREEDY Tate McRae 03 03 16 01 PAINT THE TOWN RED Doja Cat 04 06 14 04 PRADA Casso x Raye x D-Block Europe 05 05 35 02 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 06 08 10 06 WATER Tyla 07 04 04 01 IS IT OVER NOW? (TAYLOR'S VERSION) [FROM THE VAULT] Taylor Swift 08 09 13 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves 09 10 12 02 STRANGERS Kenya Grace 10 11 71 08 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 11 07 02 07 HOUDINI Dua Lipa 12 12 42 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 13 13 05 13 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 14 15 09 14 AGORA HILLS Doja Cat 15 NE 01 15 EXES Tate McRae 16 17 07 11 RICH BABY DADDY Drake feat. Sexyy Red & SZA 17 14 34 02 FAST CAR Luke Combs 18 16 26 03 DANCE THE NIGHT Dua Lipa 19 21 06 19 LIL BOO THANG Paul Russell 20 20 21 01 VAMPIRE Olivia Rodrigo 21 28 172 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 22 22 08 19 MY LOVE MINE ALL MINE Mitski 23 23 45 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 24 19 25 01 SPRINTER Dave, Central Cee 25 26 32 04 DAYLIGHT David Kushner 26 24 64 11 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 27 25 57 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 28 77 110 02 VIVA LA VIDA Coldplay 29 100 03 29 CAN'T CATCH ME NOW Olivia Rodrigo 30 18 04 02 NOW THAT WE DON'T TALK (TAYLOR'S VERSION) [FROM THE VAULT] Taylor Swift 31 27 25 08 POPULAR The Weeknd feat. Playboi Carti, Madonna 32 29 176 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 33 32 86 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 34 34 178 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 35 30 75 17 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 36 37 32 13 CHEMICAL Post Malone 37 35 77 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 38 44 09 21 GOT ME STARTED Troye Sivan 39 42 19 12 RUSH Troye Sivan 40 95 37 09 CONFIDENCE Ocean Alley 41 31 06 24 ONE OF YOUR GIRLS Troye Sivan 42 RE 34 05 YELLOW Coldplay 43 RE 42 02 A SKY FULL OF STARS Coldplay 44 40 123 01 IRIS Goo Goo Dolls 45 43 43 21 SNOOZE SZA 46 36 19 01 WHAT WAS I MADE FOR? Billie Eilish 47 52 03 47 BLEED The Kid Laroi 48 41 171 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 49 45 50 01 KILL BILL SZA 50 RE 06 04 FIRST PERSON SHOOTER Drake feat. J. Cole Bubbling 20 (23) IDGAF Drake feat. Yeat Albums 01 01 004 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 02 02 002 02 ROCK-STAR Stray Kids 03 NE 001 03 420DNA Chillinit 04 21 007 01 FOR ALL THE DOGS Drake 05 04 057 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 06 05 222 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 07 43 223 07 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay 08 06 146 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 09 07 011 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 10 12 174 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 11 11 031 10 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 12 09 315 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 13 10 038 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 14 RE 002 14 SONDER Dermot Kennedy 15 20 020 01 SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 16 NE 001 16 ROCKSTAR Dolly Parton 17 17 050 01 SOS SZA 18 45 017 01 BARBIE THE ALBUM Soundtrack 19 03 002 03 THE FIRST TIME The Kid Laroi 20 18 297 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 21 RE 092 01 FALLEN Evanescence 22 22 124 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 23 19 131 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 24 24 106 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 25 23 337 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 26 26 144 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 27 25 285 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 28 14 003 02 GOLDEN Jung Kook 29 RE 032 08 LAST STAND (40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION) Cold Chisel 30 38 056 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 31 29 409 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 32 28 474 01 1989 Taylor Swift 33 32 454 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 34 34 054 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 35 36 079 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 36 35 006 01 SOMETHING TO GIVE EACH OTHER Troye Sivan 37 41 035 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 38 31 017 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 39 30 013 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 40 42 277 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 41 27 005 01 HACKNEY DIAMONDS The Rolling Stones 42 40 211 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 43 16 002 16 11:11 Chris Brown 44 39 392 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 45 46 351 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 46 47 051 22 CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS Creedence Clearwater Revival 47 50 282 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 48 54 095 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 49 44 024 13 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 50 48 068 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem "Lovin On Me" is #1 for a second week. Don't expect anything less than 9 years old to contest this in the near future. Tate McRae gets another entry in the top 20 which seems steady for the time being. For the main story of the week, I have to note that Australia has a perpetual discourse around the words 'National Tour'. Given the prohibitive bother of travelling to the slightly more remote population centres of the country, it's often fancy speak for 'East Coast Tour' or 'Melbourne, Sydney and maybe Brisbane Tour'. I do wonder how much more live music I would see if I didn't live on the wrong side of this country. At least Alvvays are coming here in a couple of weeks. But also last week with thanks to the hand of TourismWA, Coldplay did an Australian tour with an itinerary consisting of just playing a show in Perth. They did announce east coast shows about a year from now but not until after they pranked a bunch of people into flying 3000km over. In any case the circumstances has brought a bunch of Coldplay songs back (I suspect "Yellow" isn't being counted properly as it should be closer to "Viva La Vida", but at least it's now on the system). Last time Coldplay had some songs re-enter the chart, it was when they performed at a bushfire relief concert in 2009. By sheer coincidence there was a bushfire like 2km away from where I live in the past week so now I have to associate the two I suppose. Back in 2014 I came up with what I'm retroactively calling the Hozier rule. What it means is that when something gets globally successful in the streaming era, no level of overexposure in territories it's already been a hit will prevent it from having a second run, the kind of which that implies everyone forgot it was already a hit. This is notedly different to pre-streaming where you might see a half-hearted bounce back at most. "Rude" by MAGIC! was a big hit here about 6 months before the rest of the world and did not return to the chart when it became a Hot 100 #1. Recent developments make me wonder if I should revise this rule, given the pillow of equilibrium streams that most/all past hits receive. This is to say that now something that becomes a hit twice will actually be a bigger hit in the established territory since there are already people listening to it every week. This long ramble is just to note that Ocean Alley are back in the top 50 with "Confidence", and charting higher here than anywhere else, except for New Zealand because what is "Confidence" except the exact sort of thing they love there (though one must note that it's also 4xPlatinum over there). But of course then, commercial radio never really played the song despite being a rare Australian top 10 hit, and anyone using TikTok wasn't even born yet in 2018 so I guess it is a completely new song to a lot of people. I personally made a mission to have an iTunes collection of every Hottest 100 entry ever back in 2012 which meant I made a deal with the devil to eventually purchase 14 different Ocean Alley songs and counting ("Touch Back Down" and "Deepest Darkness" were done of my own volition though). Back on topic we now have an absurd 6(!) Australian songs in the top 50 as The Kid LAROI sneaks in with "Bleed". This gives us a 9th Australian song to debut this year, but tragically we remain stable with only 4 different artists. None of the nominees for Breakthrough Artist at the ARIA Awards this year had a top 50 hit. Chillinit has the highest debut this week. If you're thinking 'haha, 420', then yes it's absolutely intentional and it's even in the name of his self-run subsidiary label. I did not know the Australian Dermot Kennedy vinyl market existed but gets him a big new peak (originally #37). Dolly Parton charts with a non-Christmas non-compilation album for the first time in quite a many years, although back in 2016 she made the top 10. The vinyl market extends to Evanescence and Cold Chisel, where actually Cold Chisel had the best selling vinyl of the three. I would recycle my classic 'it's the album with' bit except Last Stand is a live album so it's basically the album that has all of the songs you're thinking of.

I want to say a key difference might be that "ceilings" was doing pretty strong numbers on its own before the viral turn. Source: I started tracking its daily global streams back in Sep 2022 because I wanted to see if it was pacing to be Lizzy's most streamed song and in doing so, saw it bubbling up in real time waiting to explode. I was surprised at how quickly "Players" dissipated but it was still pretty fresh when it first charted, so it hadn't established a steady audience in the same way. Ah thanks! I took a look at the chart when it peaked at #8 but couldn't tell for sure how many songs were getting pushed under.

+5 Tyla - Water +4 Jung Kook - Standing Next To You +3 Chase & Status - Baddadan +2 casso, RAYE & D-Block Europe - Prada +1 Taylor Swift - Now That We Don't Talk (Taylor's Version) [From The Vault] -1 Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer -2 Tate McRae - greedy -3 The Beatles - Now And Then -4 Taylor Swift - Is It Over Now (Taylor's Version) [From The Vault] -5 Noah Kahan - Stick Season

That works both ways though doesn't it? Was it only a top 10 hit because of ACR freeing up space? Certainly it's a recipe for making songs appear to be bigger hits than they are. Though I think also in this case it highlights that the differing longevity of songs after leaving the top 40/top 100 is not insignificant.

20/11/2023 Singles 01 NE 01 01 LOVIN ON ME Jack Harlow 02 03 09 02 GREEDY Tate McRae 03 02 15 01 PAINT THE TOWN RED Doja Cat 04 01 03 01 IS IT OVER NOW? (TAYLOR'S VERSION) [FROM THE VAULT] Taylor Swift 05 05 34 02 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 06 04 13 04 PRADA Casso x Raye x D-Block Europe 07 NE 01 07 HOUDINI Dua Lipa 08 07 09 06 WATER Tyla 09 09 12 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves 10 08 11 02 STRANGERS Kenya Grace 11 11 70 08 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 12 12 41 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 13 18 04 13 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 14 14 33 02 FAST CAR Luke Combs 15 16 08 15 AGORA HILLS Doja Cat 16 15 25 03 DANCE THE NIGHT Dua Lipa 17 13 06 11 RICH BABY DADDY Drake feat. Sexyy Red & SZA 18 10 03 02 NOW THAT WE DON'T TALK (TAYLOR'S VERSION) [FROM THE VAULT] Taylor Swift 19 21 24 01 SPRINTER Dave, Central Cee 20 17 20 01 VAMPIRE Olivia Rodrigo 21 23 05 21 LIL BOO THANG Paul Russell 22 26 07 19 MY LOVE MINE ALL MINE Mitski 23 24 44 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 24 22 63 11 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 25 28 56 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 26 27 31 04 DAYLIGHT David Kushner 27 25 24 08 POPULAR The Weeknd feat. Playboi Carti, Madonna 28 30 171 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 29 31 175 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 30 35 74 17 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 31 29 05 24 ONE OF YOUR GIRLS Troye Sivan 32 36 85 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 33 20 03 04 "SL**!" (TAYLOR'S VERSION) [FROM THE VAULT] Taylor Swift 34 38 177 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 35 39 76 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 36 34 18 01 WHAT WAS I MADE FOR? Billie Eilish 37 43 31 13 CHEMICAL Post Malone 38 54 04 10 TOO MUCH The Kid Laroi, Jung Kook, Central Cee 39 19 03 03 SAY DON'T GO (TAYLOR'S VERSION) [FROM THE VAULT] Taylor Swift 40 50 122 01 IRIS Goo Goo Dolls 41 42 170 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 42 53 18 12 RUSH Troye Sivan 43 44 42 21 SNOOZE SZA 44 52 08 21 GOT ME STARTED Troye Sivan 45 45 49 01 KILL BILL SZA 46 40 68 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 47 64 33 02 KARMA Taylor Swift 48 48 242 04 SOMEONE YOU LOVED Lewis Capaldi 49 32 03 07 STYLE (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 50 47 20 07 F*KUMEAN Gunna Bubbling 19 (17) BLEED The Kid Laroi 20 (16) STANDING NEXT TO YOU Jung Kook Albums 01 01 003 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 02 NE 001 02 ROCK-STAR Stray Kids 03 NE 001 03 THE FIRST TIME The Kid Laroi 04 03 056 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 05 06 221 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 06 04 145 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 07 05 010 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 08 RE 073 08 1967-1970 The Beatles 09 09 314 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 10 11 037 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 11 10 030 10 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 12 08 173 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 13 NE 001 13 HIGHER Chris Stapleton 14 02 002 02 GOLDEN Jung Kook 15 RE 068 09 1962-1966 The Beatles 16 NE 001 16 11:11 Chris Brown 17 14 049 01 SOS SZA 18 17 296 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 19 16 130 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 20 15 019 01 SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 21 12 006 01 FOR ALL THE DOGS Drake 22 13 123 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 23 19 336 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 24 21 105 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 25 18 284 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 26 22 143 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 27 07 004 01 HACKNEY DIAMONDS The Rolling Stones 28 20 473 01 1989 Taylor Swift 29 23 408 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 30 29 012 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 31 25 016 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 32 27 453 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 33 NE 001 33 GIVE IT UP Old Mervs 34 24 053 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 35 31 005 01 SOMETHING TO GIVE EACH OTHER Troye Sivan 36 28 078 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 37 NE 001 37 THE HIGHLIGHTS Hilltop Hoods 38 32 055 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 39 33 391 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 40 34 210 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 41 37 034 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 42 36 276 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 43 47 222 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay 44 41 023 13 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 45 26 016 01 BARBIE THE ALBUM Soundtrack 46 38 350 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 47 35 050 22 CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS Creedence Clearwater Revival 48 39 067 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 49 52 190 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 50 42 281 01 AM Arctic Monkeys In the year and a half since Jack Harlow scored a huge #1 debut smash hit I have been informed on two separate indications by the internet that he has completely derailed his career by releasing a polarising album. This week Jack Harlow gets a second #1 debut smash hit. I want to say that it was pretty close when I was writing about it last week but he pretty much ran away with it by the end of the week. In a very "Moves Like Jagger" type move, it happens on the very week that "greedy" finally manages to overcome "Paint The Town Red". Part of why Jack Harlow had to work for it at the end of the week is that he didn't even have the highest debut on Spotify at the start of the week. He was only #12 behind Dua Lipa's "Houdini" which just like on the ARIA Chart, debuted at #7. The future looks dicey for it though as it's getting dangerously close to falling behind "Dance The Night" on each platform. How good is that Foster The People song though? Remember 5 years ago when Noah Kahan had a song become a long lasting hit due to extremely generous Spotify promotion? As of this week, "Hurt Somebody" is not his highest charting song. Troye Sivan has two top 50 re-entries this week, which coincides with a pretty good night at the ARIA Awards for him. I'm skeptical of the correlation though considering that the ARIA Awards are on a Wednesday night which give very little time to produce eligible streams to impact the chart, gone are the days when you could actually tell the ARIA Awards happened by looking at the chart. Taylor Swift's reign on the album chart continues for a 3rd week. "1989" originally managed 9 weeks at the top, but perhaps the sky's the limit this time around. Once again the dedicated following of K-Pop shows itself with the highest debut this week being Stray Kids. This is the second time this year they've landed at #2. Remember earlier this year when there was a lot of talk about hip-hop's diminishing impact where the main citation was the lack of #1 albums, completely ignoring how much of that was just the result of Morgan Wallen styling on everyone? Anyway it's interesting that I believe BTS are still the only K-Pop group to go to #1 despite so many getting close in recent years. There's more K-Pop up here too because Jung Kook is on The Kid Laroi's debut album which enters at #3. He did of course get to #1 with his mixtape, but let's not give up hope. Until this year, Troye Sivan's only #1 was his EP. Let the record show that The Beatles did not score a new peak, but merely replicated their 1993 peak. Also isn't it interesting that the gap in popularity between Blue Version & Red Version has increased quite a bit in 30 years? Chris Stapleton narrowly scores his highest ever debut this week at #13. Chris of the Brown variety is somewhat low by his usual top 10 standards. Of his regular releases, only his debut and the absolutely rejected "Graffiti" charted lower. One must respect the extremely supporting Perth music scene. Everyone knows everyone, I'm only a degree of separation from knowing Old Mervs personally. They haven't even put out an album, they're getting their first entry here with just an EP. Lastly I must warn you that just like my offhand remark about a Foster The People song that isn't "Pumped Up Kicks", I'm about to get extremely Australian millennial on y'all. Probably the most peculiar debut on this week's chart comes from Hilltop Hoods. If the ominous title isn't indicative enough, yes, it's one of those albums. Yes, it doesn't actually have a physical release. In fact this album didn't even exist a week ago. If Spotify and iTunes are to be trusted, it first turned up online on Wednesday. That's 6 days into the tracking week and means that without a shed of doubt, streams are being applied to an album that didn't even exist when the streams happened. Hilltop Hoods' only acknowledgement of this release comes via so far three YouTube shorts just playing 30 second snippets of songs with a linktree to the release, the first of which came on Thursday. I am currently very convinced that Suffa, Pressure & DJ Debris have no interest in this and might not even know it exists, but we need to save the album chart from going bare on Australian artists so this can tide it over perhaps. But, the greatest crime about this compilation is the name in combination with the tracklist. Apart from a surprise inclusion of "Rattling The Keys To The Kingdom", the entire tracklist is just their newest singles and most streamed singles (I guess they also left out "A Whole Day's Night" as a recent single, but understandably so). What this means that if you witnessed the Hilltop Hoods uprising of the mid 2000s, you will be baffled to know that this compilation has just 1 song from "The Calling" (no points for guessing), and NOTHING from "The Hard Road". I can't think of a good example but like imagine if there was a Beatles highlights compilation that ignored "Revolver" and "The White Album". Or a Kasabian compilation that had just "Club Foot" from their first two albums. Like I'm not saying that I expect "Stopping All Stations" to make the cut, but the title track for "The Hard Road" is like a signature song that unlike Marlon Brandon has only gotten better with age. It's a bloody outrage it is. In any case it arrives on a pretty packed week so I expect it'll reach a higher peak in the future.

me rn

Just saw Ocean Alley made the Irish Spotify chart with "Confidence", so maybe they'll hit the UK one soon, wild if true.

*begins my 5,000 word essay on why "Doja" is a Christmas song*

13/11/2023 Singles 01 01 02 01 IS IT OVER NOW? (TAYLOR'S VERSION) [FROM THE VAULT] Taylor Swift 02 05 14 01 PAINT THE TOWN RED Doja Cat 03 06 08 02 GREEDY Tate McRae 04 13 12 04 PRADA Casso x Raye x D-Block Europe 05 10 33 02 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 06 NE 01 06 NOW AND THEN The Beatles 07 15 08 06 WATER Tyla 08 16 10 02 STRANGERS Kenya Grace 09 17 11 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves 10 02 02 02 NOW THAT WE DON'T TALK (TAYLOR'S VERSION) [FROM THE VAULT] Taylor Swift 11 20 69 08 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 12 19 40 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 13 21 05 11 RICH BABY DADDY Drake feat. Sexyy Red & SZA 14 24 32 02 FAST CAR Luke Combs 15 28 24 03 DANCE THE NIGHT Dua Lipa 16 26 07 16 AGORA HILLS Doja Cat 17 25 19 01 VAMPIRE Olivia Rodrigo 18 34 03 18 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 19 03 02 03 SAY DON'T GO (TAYLOR'S VERSION) [FROM THE VAULT] Taylor Swift 20 04 02 04 "SL**!" (TAYLOR'S VERSION) [FROM THE VAULT] Taylor Swift 21 27 23 01 SPRINTER Dave, Central Cee 22 29 62 11 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 23 40 04 23 LIL BOO THANG Paul Russell 24 30 43 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 25 31 23 08 POPULAR The Weeknd feat. Playboi Carti, Madonna 26 33 06 19 MY LOVE MINE ALL MINE Mitski 27 36 30 04 DAYLIGHT David Kushner 28 38 55 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 29 37 04 24 ONE OF YOUR GIRLS Troye Sivan 30 32 170 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 31 35 174 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 32 07 02 07 STYLE (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 33 NE 01 33 STANDING NEXT TO YOU Jung Kook 34 41 17 01 WHAT WAS I MADE FOR? Billie Eilish 35 43 73 17 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 36 44 84 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 37 08 02 08 SUBURBAN LEGENDS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) [FROM THE VAULT] Taylor Swift 38 46 176 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 39 49 75 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 40 42 67 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 41 74 17 02 SEVEN Jung Kook feat. Latto 42 48 169 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 43 50 30 13 CHEMICAL Post Malone 44 51 41 21 SNOOZE SZA 45 45 48 01 KILL BILL SZA 46 09 02 09 BLANK SPACE (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 47 47 19 07 F*KUMEAN Gunna 48 53 241 04 SOMEONE YOU LOVED Lewis Capaldi 49 14 07 14 WILDEST DREAMS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 50 75 121 01 IRIS Goo Goo Dolls Bubbling 17 (NE) BLEED The Kid Laroi 18 (21) GOT ME STARTED Troye Sivan 19 (14) TOO MUCH The Kid Laroi, Jung Kook, Central Cee 20 (20) GET HIM BACK! Olivia Rodrigo Albums 01 01 002 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 02 NE 001 02 GOLDEN Jung Kook 03 04 055 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 04 08 144 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 05 07 009 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 06 09 220 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 07 02 003 01 HACKNEY DIAMONDS The Rolling Stones 08 12 172 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 09 14 313 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 10 15 029 10 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 11 13 036 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 12 11 005 01 FOR ALL THE DOGS Drake 13 18 122 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 14 19 048 01 SOS SZA 15 16 018 01 SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 16 20 129 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 17 21 295 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 18 25 283 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 19 24 335 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 20 17 472 01 1989 Taylor Swift 21 22 104 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 22 29 142 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 23 31 407 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 24 32 052 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 25 26 015 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 26 36 015 01 BARBIE THE ALBUM Soundtrack 27 30 452 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 28 28 077 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 29 27 011 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 30 03 009 02 ONE MORE TIME... Blink-182 31 23 004 01 SOMETHING TO GIVE EACH OTHER Troye Sivan 32 34 054 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 33 35 390 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 34 33 209 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 35 40 049 22 CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS Creedence Clearwater Revival 36 38 275 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 37 37 033 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 38 42 349 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 39 43 066 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 40 NE 001 40 ILL AT EASE The Mark Of Cain 41 50 022 13 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 42 48 280 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 43 41 187 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 44 45 148 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 45 47 264 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 46 44 049 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 47 51 221 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay 48 39 093 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 49 54 204 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 50 53 241 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish It's not over yet. It definitely will be next week but it's a mystery as to who it goes to. One would think that Tate McRae finally gets over that Doja Cat hurdle this week, but she does so with awful timing because Jack Harlow's coming in hot. With the momentum he's on right now, I should think he'll get there, but it's not a guarantee. The other notable thing that happened this week is that The Beatles made the top 10. I don't know if you believe in the idea of satanic messages in their music, but I will tell you that their last three singles, "Free As A Bird", "Real Love" and now this one, all peaked at #6. Don't think I'm not onto that. Jung Kook also gets a debut and re-entry this week. Jung Kook also gets a debut on the album chart and it's not enough to get to #1. He has one of only two albums in the top 16 that hasn't already hit #1, the other being Post Malone. I discovered recently that there's now a deluxe version of the album that has basically all of his hits, and I'm guessing that's why it's charting higher than before. The only other arrival this week is Australian rock stalwarts The Mark Of Cain, who get only their 3rd ever top 50 album surprisingly. But maybe worth noting that they do contribute to proving me wrong from last week. Dua Lipa's new single didn't come in time and "Future Nostalgia" drops out of the top 50 for the first time ever. It was the second longest lasting album from debut in the chart until now. The longest lasting album remains "What You See Ain't Always What You Get".

+5 Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine +4 Kenya Grace - Strangers +3 Tyla - Water +2 Chase & Status - Baddadan +1 Sonny Fodera, MK & Clementine Douglas - Asking -1 casso - Prada -2 The Kid LAROI - TOO MUCH -3 Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer -4 Tate McRae - greedy -5 Noah Kahan - Stick Season line +5 Kenya Grace - Strangers +4 Tyla - Water +3 Taylor Swift - "Slut!" (Taylor's Version) [From The Vault] +2 Chase & Status - Baddadan +1 Sonny Fodera, MK & Clementine Douglas - Asking -1 casso - Prada -2 Taylor Swift - Now That We Don't Talk (Taylor's Version) [From The Vault] -3 Tate McRae - greedy -4 Taylor Swift - Is It Over Now? (Taylor's Version) [From The Vault] -5 Noah Kahan - Stick Season

06/11/2023 Singles 01 NE 001 01 IS IT OVER NOW? (TAYLOR'S VERSION) [FROM THE VAULT] Taylor Swift 02 NE 001 02 NOW THAT WE DON'T TALK (TAYLOR'S VERSION) [FROM THE VAULT] Taylor Swift 03 NE 001 03 SAY DON'T GO (TAYLOR'S VERSION) [FROM THE VAULT] Taylor Swift 04 NE 001 04 "SL**!" (TAYLOR'S VERSION) [FROM THE VAULT] Taylor Swift 05 01 13 01 PAINT THE TOWN RED Doja Cat 06 03 07 02 GREEDY Tate McRae 07 NE 01 07 STYLE (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 08 NE 01 08 SUBURBAN LEGENDS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) [FROM THE VAULT] Taylor Swift 09 NE 01 09 BLANK SPACE (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 10 02 32 02 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 11 NE 01 11 WELCOME TO NEW YORK (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 12 NE 01 12 OUT OF THE WOODS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 13 04 11 04 PRADA Casso x Raye x D-Block Europe 14 RE 06 14 WILDEST DREAMS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 15 06 07 06 WATER Tyla 16 05 09 02 STRANGERS Kenya Grace 17 07 10 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves 18 NE 01 18 SHAKE IT OFF (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 19 08 39 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 20 09 68 08 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 21 11 04 11 RICH BABY DADDY Drake feat. Sexyy Red & SZA 22 NE 01 22 WONDERLAND (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 23 RE 02 23 THIS LOVE (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 24 12 31 02 FAST CAR Luke Combs 25 13 18 01 VAMPIRE Olivia Rodrigo 26 16 06 16 AGORA HILLS Doja Cat 27 14 22 01 SPRINTER Dave, Central Cee 28 15 23 03 DANCE THE NIGHT Dua Lipa 29 18 61 11 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 30 20 42 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 31 17 22 08 POPULAR The Weeknd feat. Playboi Carti, Madonna 32 22 169 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 33 19 05 19 MY LOVE MINE ALL MINE Mitski 34 45 02 34 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 35 25 173 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 36 23 29 04 DAYLIGHT David Kushner 37 24 03 24 ONE OF YOUR GIRLS Troye Sivan 38 21 54 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 39 10 02 10 TOO MUCH The Kid Laroi, Jung Kook, Central Cee 40 32 03 32 LIL BOO THANG Paul Russell 41 29 16 01 WHAT WAS I MADE FOR? Billie Eilish 42 28 66 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 43 33 72 17 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 44 35 83 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 45 43 47 01 KILL BILL SZA 46 42 175 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 47 34 18 07 F*KUMEAN Gunna 48 38 168 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 49 39 74 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 50 36 29 13 CHEMICAL Post Malone Bubbling 17 (12) IDGAF Drake feat. Yeat 18 (17) RUSH Troye Sivan 19 (13) FIRST PERSON SHOOTER Drake feat. J. Cole 20 (18) GET HIM BACK! Olivia Rodrigo Albums 01 NE 001 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 02 01 002 01 HACKNEY DIAMONDS The Rolling Stones 03 02 008 02 ONE MORE TIME... Blink-182 04 05 054 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 05 NE 001 05 THE SILVER CORD King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard 06 NE 001 06 LIGHT, DARK, LIGHT AGAIN Angie McMahon 07 03 008 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 08 06 143 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 09 07 219 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 10 RE 005 01 PORTALS Melanie Martinez 11 04 004 01 FOR ALL THE DOGS Drake 12 10 171 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 13 12 035 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 14 11 312 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 15 13 028 13 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 16 16 017 01 SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 17 09 471 01 1989 Taylor Swift 18 14 121 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 19 15 047 01 SOS SZA 20 17 128 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 21 18 294 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 22 25 103 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 23 08 003 01 SOMETHING TO GIVE EACH OTHER Troye Sivan 24 23 334 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 25 21 282 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 26 19 014 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 27 20 010 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 28 27 076 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 29 22 141 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 30 28 451 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 31 29 406 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 32 35 051 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 33 32 208 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 34 31 053 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 35 24 389 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 36 26 014 01 BARBIE THE ALBUM Soundtrack 37 33 032 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 38 34 274 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 39 44 092 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 40 40 048 22 CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS Creedence Clearwater Revival 41 38 186 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 42 37 348 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 43 41 065 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 44 39 048 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 45 42 147 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 46 RE 002 46 BEWITCHED Laufey 47 46 263 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 48 45 279 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 49 43 188 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 50 30 021 13 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan I've got a puzzle for you: Try to work out the rationale behind which Taylor Swift songs have and have not been included. You can take "Wildest Dreams" and "This Love" out of the equation because they already charted before and it'd be especially strange if they disappeared in this context. You can almost say that it was limited to just the new songs and prior singles except that "New Romantics" has been swapped out for "Wonderland" (I'm led to believe that "Bad Blood" just missed the top 50 as it only included points from the Kendrick Lamar version. Combined it would probably be around #8. The biggest casualty of this is "All You Had To Do Was Stay" which probably landed between "Wildest Dreams" and "Shake It Off", and she's missing 8 songs all up I think. Or perhaps the true casualty of this whole situation is Lewis Capaldi, who got booted from the top 50 again allowing Glass Animals to dubiously shave another week between the two, with just a 5 week gap. "Someone You Loved" actually reached 3 years (157 weeks) last time it was in the top 50, while "Heat Waves" will be trying to manage that consecutively. It's having some trouble finding its footing again though so it's hard to say at the moment if it'll manage. If both songs fall out for good, they've got a solid year at least before The Killers or Fleetwood Mac could possibly catch up. As for the top end of the chart, that's also quite a race. I expect Taylor Swift to hold again but it's been back and forth on Spotify between "Paint The Town Red" and "greedy" for who gets #1 in the aftermath. It probably won't be The Beatles in case you were wondering. I assume their sales are good but the streams are unimpressive. They'll make the top 50 but I won't begin to predict it. Otherwise basically nothing else happened this week. Australia never gets quite as invested in Halloween (although "Thriller" would've made top 50 on Spotify for the first time this year under less irregular competition). In any case we have a more stacked Bubbling Under chart again, and perhaps we will again next week as "What Was I Made For?" and "Rush" both retire. Of course I only mean stacked in a numerical sense, clearly there aren't new, budding hits to be seen here. I will shock nobody to tell you that Taylor Swift has a #1 album this week. I might shock you to say that according to ARIA's social media, this is her biggest single week sales ever. It does beg the question of what the future holds for "1989 (Taylor's Version)" with respect to "1989". We've nearly got the first crack in the armour as "Blank Space (Taylor's Version)' is only 11,000 streams ahead of "Blank Space" and pacing to fall behind this week. Previous instances with "Red (Taylor's Version)" and "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)" have seen the original versions evicted from the chart permanently on release week, but "1989" only has a notable but modest decline this week. Notably this also means that I'm now teaching you that "÷" is the best charting album of all time in Australia and "1989" is a somewhat distant second, but if it sticks around in the top 50 it might eventually take the lead. "÷" has actually had a bad showing this year, hitting a new non-December low this week and teetering on the edge of no longer being a top 50 mainstay. It dropped out for 1 week on Christmas last year so it's not unbroken. With that in mind, maybe "1989" can still keep up the pace. On a similar note, Dua Lipa's new single couldn't be coming at a better time as "Future Nostalgia" hits a new low of #49 to just barely stay in. Similarly, we can't be sure how much longer "Dance The Night" will hang around, but it's helping her still be the only artist to be in the top 50 singles chart every single week of the 2020s so far. Actually next week it'll be 4 consecutive years all up, yes, "Don't Start Now" is that old. In the non-Taylor Swift tangents, I have to say I'm surprised to see that otherwise The Rolling Stones and blink-182 would've maintained their positions on last week, as they've managed to beat the 25th album (not an exaggeration) by King Gizz. I'm also hearing good things about the new Angie McMahon album which becomes her second top 10 album. triple j actually nominated it for album of the year before this chart even came out, which is the sort of speedy adjudication I think more industries should get behind. Otherwise of note this week, Laufey makes the top 50 for the first time thanks to the vinyl release. That's an album I have heard and I thought it was pretty good. It also means I can more officially add her to the collective of surprisingly loads of artists from Iceland who have found success in Australia despite a population of less than half a million and being one of the furthest away countries from us. According to a Sporcle quiz, only a bunch of countries in Central America and the upper parts of South America are further. The big winner is

30/10/2023 Singles 01 01 12 01 PAINT THE TOWN RED Doja Cat 02 03 31 02 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 03 02 06 02 GREEDY Tate McRae 04 04 10 04 PRADA Casso x Raye x D-Block Europe 05 05 08 02 STRANGERS Kenya Grace 06 09 06 06 WATER Tyla 07 06 09 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves 08 07 38 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 09 08 67 08 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 10 NE 01 10 TOO MUCH The Kid Laroi, Jung Kook, Central Cee 11 19 03 11 RICH BABY DADDY Drake feat. Sexyy Red & SZA 12 12 30 02 FAST CAR Luke Combs 13 10 17 01 VAMPIRE Olivia Rodrigo 14 11 21 01 SPRINTER Dave, Central Cee 15 13 22 03 DANCE THE NIGHT Dua Lipa 16 31 05 16 AGORA HILLS Doja Cat 17 16 21 08 POPULAR The Weeknd feat. Playboi Carti, Madonna 18 17 60 11 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 19 20 04 19 MY LOVE MINE ALL MINE Mitski 20 22 41 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 21 23 53 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 22 18 168 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 23 21 28 04 DAYLIGHT David Kushner 24 28 02 24 ONE OF YOUR GIRLS Troye Sivan 25 24 172 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 26 15 03 06 IDGAF Drake feat. Yeat 27 14 03 04 FIRST PERSON SHOOTER Drake feat. J. Cole 28 30 65 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 29 25 15 01 WHAT WAS I MADE FOR? Billie Eilish 30 42 56 08 STYLE Taylor Swift 31 27 05 21 GOT ME STARTED Troye Sivan 32 80 02 32 LIL BOO THANG Paul Russell 33 32 71 17 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 34 29 17 07 F*KUMEAN Gunna 35 33 82 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 36 36 28 13 CHEMICAL Post Malone 37 44 73 01 BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift 38 39 167 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 39 35 73 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 40 43 30 02 KARMA Taylor Swift 41 26 15 12 RUSH Troye Sivan 42 40 174 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 43 37 46 01 KILL BILL SZA 44 41 39 21 SNOOZE SZA 45 NE 01 45 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 46 34 07 06 GET HIM BACK! Olivia Rodrigo 47 45 239 03 SOMEONE YOU LOVED Lewis Capaldi 48 38 11 03 BAD IDEA RIGHT? Olivia Rodrigo 49 48 145 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 50 49 40 06 SURE THING Miguel Bubbling 20 (20) SEVEN Jung Kook feat. Latto Albums 01 NE 001 01 HACKNEY DIAMONDS The Rolling Stones 02 NE 001 02 ONE MORE TIME... Blink-182 03 03 007 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 04 02 003 01 FOR ALL THE DOGS Drake 05 06 053 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 06 05 142 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 07 08 218 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 08 01 002 01 SOMETHING TO GIVE EACH OTHER Troye Sivan 09 09 470 01 1989 Taylor Swift 10 10 170 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 11 12 311 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 12 11 034 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 13 13 027 13 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 14 14 120 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 15 15 046 01 SOS SZA 16 16 016 01 SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 17 18 127 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 18 17 293 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 19 19 013 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 20 07 009 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 21 24 281 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 22 21 140 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 23 20 333 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 24 35 388 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 25 23 102 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 26 25 013 01 BARBIE THE ALBUM Soundtrack 27 22 075 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 28 26 450 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 29 28 405 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 30 51 020 13 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 31 30 052 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 32 29 207 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 33 27 031 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 34 36 273 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 35 33 050 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 36 NE 001 36 ENDLESS Clowns 37 41 347 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 38 32 185 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 39 37 047 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 40 34 047 22 CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS Creedence Clearwater Revival 41 40 064 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 42 38 146 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 43 39 187 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 44 44 091 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 45 42 278 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 46 45 262 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 47 46 153 01 BORN TO DIE Lana Del Rey 48 48 239 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 49 47 011 18 EGO: THE MICHAEL GUDINSKI STORY - MUSIC FROM THE FEATURE DOCUMENTARY Soundtrack 50 50 219 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay "Paint The Town Red" is #1 for a 10th week. We're spared the crossfire of the Billboard trophy cabinet hunting to get "Cruel Summer" to #1, so maybe I'll be able to get out of 2023 still liking the song. Taylor Swift will probably be #1 next week but the mystery is with which song. Just because there is past precedent that when a Taylor Swift album comes out, not all of the tracks actually appear on the chart, where the extras are the ones usually afflicted. However this week, it's the extras that are doing the best. You'd probably put your money on "Is It Over Now?" but then who can say? A side effect of this looks to be that it'll probably end "Heat Waves"'s 151 week streak in the ARIA top 50. For the time being, The Kid LAROI does gift us our 8th Australian top 50 hit of the year. This and "Love Again" are the only ones to hit the top 10, and seemingly just for a week each. It also means that Drake gets a taste of his own medicine as now his potential top 10 hit has been blocked by a debut out of nowhere. It's been a hot minute but we've finally got a new forced random hit that the industry really wants to make happen that also has a blatant sample. Paul Russell breaks the cardinal Coi Leray rule, which is to say that it should be illegal to sample a song that is both already well known, and also already sampled in a Billboard #1 hit. As an added bonus, also please don't sample songs that were overplayed on TV ads. I'm going to assume that Noah Kahan's debut doesn't also do this but I've not ventured to check yet. This is his 3rd top 50 hit. For the first time in 7 years, The Rolling Stones have a #1 album. I actually wasn't totally sure they'd do so up against blink-182 despite the lack of historical success. This is blink-182's 4th #2 album, still not having hit #1. I must share that this morning I had a dream in which I was typing this column(?) up and I made a joke that clearly this 'poppy' new direction (with some very distracting punctuation littered about) was welcomed by fans as it was their highest charter, and someone I won't name (and it's definitely not who you think) made an out of character remark where they completely missed my sarcasm and went on a tirade about how meaningless this chart peak is. There's not much else going on this chart. "Teenage Dream" gets a bit of a boost due to the vinyl release, but actually the best selling old vinyl this week was Glass Animals' 2014 debut album. Australian punk band Clowns get their second top 40 album, and I feel obliged to mention since these events are somewhat rare, but after 200+ weeks in the top 50, "Fine Line" has dropped out for the first time ever. It's probably always more interesting to ponder on the last time a long standing album appears in the top 50 (since they're usually jumping in and out), but you don't really ever know that's happened once it has, so this is the more interesting side product we do have. In fact I didn't notice the same thing happen to Billie Eilish's album a few weeks ago. The next album to watch in that line is "Future Nostalgia", which will probably be seen out by the Christmas season if not sooner.

Actually I see where I've been lead astray on "RUSH", the 3rd week was the week "UTOPIA" came out so it has a sort of exaggerated position decline there. "Got Me Started" absolutely still falls under the same category though, these sort of 'artificial' boosts tend to run from around day 7 to day 13 of release and that's been replicated here.

Is Troye Sivan not 3/3 for singles these past few months charting surprisingly high and then plummeting at around the start of week 3?

+5 Fred again.. & Obongjayar - adore u +4 Kenya Grace - Strangers +3 Drake - Regular Virginia Beach +2 Tyla - Water +1 Drake - First Person Shooter -1 Becky Hill & Chase & Status - Disconnect -2 Sonny Fodera, MK & Clementine Douglas - Asking -3 casso - Prada -4 Drake - IDGAF -5 Tate McRae - greedy -=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- +5 Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine +4 Kenya Grace - Strangers +3 Tyla - Water +2 Becky Hill & Chase & Status - Disconnect +1 Chase & Status & IRAH - Baddadan -1 Sonny Fodera, MK & Clementine Douglas - Asking -2 Doja Cat - Paint The Town Red -3 casso - Prada -4 Drake - IDGAF -5 Tate McRae - greedy

23/10/2023 Singles 01 01 11 01 PAINT THE TOWN RED Doja Cat 02 02 05 02 GREEDY Tate McRae 03 08 30 02 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 04 05 09 04 PRADA Casso x Raye x D-Block Europe 05 03 07 02 STRANGERS Kenya Grace 06 07 08 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves 07 10 37 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 08 11 66 08 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 09 20 05 09 WATER Tyla 10 12 16 01 VAMPIRE Olivia Rodrigo 11 15 20 01 SPRINTER Dave, Central Cee 12 16 29 02 FAST CAR Luke Combs 13 14 21 03 DANCE THE NIGHT Dua Lipa 14 04 02 04 FIRST PERSON SHOOTER Drake feat. J. Cole 15 06 02 06 IDGAF Drake feat. Yeat 16 18 20 08 POPULAR The Weeknd feat. Playboi Carti, Madonna 17 19 59 11 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 18 23 167 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 19 35 02 19 RICH BABY DADDY Drake feat. Sexyy Red & SZA 20 30 03 20 MY LOVE MINE ALL MINE Mitski 21 24 27 04 DAYLIGHT David Kushner 22 25 40 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 23 33 52 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 24 31 171 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 25 27 14 01 WHAT WAS I MADE FOR? Billie Eilish 26 43 14 12 RUSH Troye Sivan 27 45 04 21 GOT ME STARTED Troye Sivan 28 NE 01 28 ONE OF YOUR GIRLS Troye Sivan 29 28 16 07 F*KUMEAN Gunna 30 34 64 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 31 50 04 31 AGORA HILLS Doja Cat 32 36 70 17 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 33 39 81 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 34 29 06 06 GET HIM BACK! Olivia Rodrigo 35 37 72 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 36 38 27 13 CHEMICAL Post Malone 37 42 45 01 KILL BILL SZA 38 32 10 03 BAD IDEA RIGHT? Olivia Rodrigo 39 47 166 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 40 46 173 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 41 44 38 21 SNOOZE SZA 42 62 55 08 STYLE Taylor Swift 43 55 29 02 KARMA Taylor Swift 44 63 72 01 BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift 45 52 238 03 SOMEONE YOU LOVED Lewis Capaldi 46 13 05 12 SLIME YOU OUT Drake feat. SZA 47 49 10 14 RICH MEN NORTH OF RICHMOND Oliver Anthony Music 48 56 144 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 49 57 39 06 SURE THING Miguel 50 48 17 03 BARBIE WORLD Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice & Aqua Bubbling 20 (21) SEVEN Jung Kook feat. Latto Albums 01 NE 001 01 SOMETHING TO GIVE EACH OTHER Troye Sivan 02 01 002 01 FOR ALL THE DOGS Drake 03 02 006 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 04 RE 084 01 THE LIVING END (25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION) The Living End 05 04 141 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 06 07 052 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 07 14 008 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 08 11 217 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 09 10 469 01 1989 Taylor Swift 10 12 169 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 11 08 033 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 12 16 310 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 13 22 026 13 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 14 13 119 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 15 15 045 01 SOS SZA 16 20 015 01 SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 17 18 292 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 18 17 126 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 19 19 012 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 20 25 332 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 21 36 139 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 22 23 074 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 23 35 101 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 24 24 280 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 25 21 012 01 BARBIE THE ALBUM Soundtrack 26 27 449 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 27 28 030 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 28 29 404 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 29 30 206 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 30 32 051 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 31 NE 001 31 THE NAME CHAPTER: FREEFALL Tomorrow X Together 32 34 184 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 33 37 049 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 34 38 046 22 CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS Creedence Clearwater Revival 35 39 387 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 36 40 272 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 37 45 046 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 38 44 145 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 39 42 186 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 40 47 063 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 41 41 346 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 42 43 277 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 43 NE 001 43 BOOTLEG MELANCHOLY Diesel 44 58 090 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 45 48 261 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 46 51 152 01 BORN TO DIE Lana Del Rey 47 50 010 18 EGO: THE MICHAEL GUDINSKI STORY - MUSIC FROM THE FEATURE DOCUMENTARY Soundtrack 48 52 238 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 49 49 201 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 50 53 218 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay "Paint The Town Red" is #1 for a 9th week. Might get dethroned this week, I'm not sure. I have to take the time to acknowledge my own errors however. I wrongfully asserted that "Slime You Out" would probably only manage 3 weeks in the top 50 but it snuck a 4th. In this era where boosts more typically spread across entire catalogues rather than single songs (well sometimes), Zach Bryan once again has a pair of new peaks which notably includes "Something In The Orange" absolutely obliterating whatever the previous record for longest climb into the top 10 was. Tyla also hits the top 10 this week with relatively brisk pace. Troye Sivan has the only debut this week, under odd circumstances that see his three top 50 entries all sitting next to each other. He's not even alone because Taylor Swift also has 3 in a row below him. This is now the 7th Australian song to hit the top 50 this year and we might have a chance of breaking double digits because The Kid LAROI should see us one step closer next week. That also still means we've only had 4 different Australian artists in the top 50 and one of them wasn't even the first credited artist on the song, yes, it's a bit shit, no, OCC fanfiction rules won't make it better. I'll stop defending ARIA for a moment because they've multiple times on social media this week made the erroneous claim that this is Troye Sivan's first ever #1 on the album chart. He quite notably had a milestone #1 many years ago when "WILD" became the first ever EP to hit #1. To be clear, they did not say "Something To Give Each Other" is his first #1 album, which would technically be true. I just assume whoever was researching this stuff went as far as a single table on his Wikipedia discography where "WILD" is separated from his albums and easy to overlook. Anyway it's good for him that he has 3 hit songs at the moment because you tend to find that's enough to keep an album in the top 50 for a decent while. Earlier this year, Chris Cheney had a top 3 album with supergroup The Barnestormers, and now this week he's back with his more famous band The Living End, whose debut album got a multi-format re-release that includes a recently recovered live performance recording as a bonus disk. Post Malone's compilation is basically unable to fall down the chart until "Chemical" completely vanishes from discussion so it randomly gets a sizeable new peak this week. Tomorrow X Together chart for the first time, and local stalwart Diesel pops in with another new album.

Pretty much unwittingly proving my point here. Going straight for the artist whereas my paraphrased point was about the song (and album really. To the OCC's credit, they have got it on the Americana chart). A tell-tale sign of mental pigeon-holing. It's absolutely in line with traditional country balladry. She even lives in Nashville lol. Elements of chamber pop too, but hey, sometimes genres get blended like that.

Most of his #1 hits pre-date the Billboard Hot 100 (he actually has the last #1 hit before that), so he only has 7 from August 1958 to present.