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31/07/2023 Singles 01 01 08 01 SPRINTER Dave, Central Cee 02 08 02 02 WHAT WAS I MADE FOR? Billie Eilish 03 23 05 03 BARBIE WORLD Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice & Aqua 04 03 04 01 VAMPIRE Olivia Rodrigo 05 04 25 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 06 27 09 06 DANCE THE NIGHT (FROM BARBIE THE ALBUM) Dua Lipa 07 02 02 02 SEVEN Jung Kook feat. Latto 08 05 18 03 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 09 07 04 07 F*KUMEAN Gunna 10 06 17 03 FAST CAR Luke Combs 11 11 08 11 POPULAR The Weeknd feat. Playboi Carti, Madonna 12 09 15 04 DAYLIGHT David Kushner 13 10 28 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 14 26 03 14 SUPER SHY New Jeans 15 12 02 12 RUSH Troye Sivan 16 15 33 01 KILL BILL SZA 17 14 47 11 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 18 13 40 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 19 19 54 13 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 20 22 52 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 21 24 25 02 BOY'S A LIAR PinkPantheress 22 17 15 14 CHEMICAL Post Malone 23 18 17 02 KARMA Taylor Swift 24 21 69 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 25 25 60 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 26 16 18 02 THE BEGINNING: CUPID Fifty Fifty 27 NE 01 27 K-POP Travis Scott, Bad Bunny & The Weeknd 28 31 154 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 29 33 155 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 30 30 11 09 ALL MY LIFE Lil Durk feat. J. Cole 31 29 226 04 SOMEONE YOU LOVED Lewis Capaldi 32 28 20 13 MIRACLE Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding 33 34 34 07 CREEPIN' Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 34 NE 01 34 ETA NewJeans 35 36 242 01 SUNFLOWER Post Malone & Swae Lee 36 37 34 03 ESCAPISM. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 37 32 49 08 UNTIL I FOUND YOU Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold 38 39 58 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 39 35 43 08 STYLE Taylor Swift 40 NE 01 40 COOL WITH YOU NewJeans 41 41 23 20 YOU PROOF Morgan Wallen 42 20 03 05 I CAN SEE YOU (TAYLOR'S VERSION) (FROM THE VAULT) Taylor Swift 43 38 61 01 BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift 44 44 10 19 PADAM PADAM Kylie Minogue 45 96 04 45 DIAL DRUNK Noah Kahan 46 43 27 06 SURE THING Miguel 47 46 102 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 48 40 99 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 49 47 161 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 50 45 133 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd Bubbling 20 (18) WISH YOU THE BEST Lewis Capaldi Albums 01 NE 001 01 BARBIE THE ALBUM Soundtrack 02 01 003 01 SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 03 03 040 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 04 06 457 01 1989 Taylor Swift 05 05 021 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 06 04 205 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 07 08 129 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 08 07 298 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 09 RE 002 09 GREATEST HITS John Farnham 10 NE 001 10 THE BALLAD OF DARREN Blur 11 10 157 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 12 09 033 01 SOS SZA 13 11 062 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 14 NE 001 14 BLOOD RED Busby Marou 15 13 107 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 16 12 114 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 17 14 014 16 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 18 NE 001 18 RIVERS RUN RED Ian Moss 19 16 280 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 20 15 018 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 21 RE 005 02 FINDING THE VOICE (MUSIC FROM THE FEATURE DOCUMENTARY) John Farnham 22 18 392 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 23 21 034 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 24 20 268 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 25 19 089 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 26 22 320 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 27 17 008 02 METRO BOOMIN PRESENTS SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE Metro Boomin 28 40 375 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 29 26 039 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 30 28 194 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 31 25 334 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 32 30 133 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 33 27 127 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 34 29 437 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 35 23 078 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 36 33 189 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 37 RE 005 01 STACK IS THE NEW BLACK Short Stack 38 36 226 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 39 32 051 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 40 31 219 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 41 RE 115 01 WHISPERING JACK John Farnham 42 37 265 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 43 38 037 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 44 42 174 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 45 45 140 01 BORN TO DIE Lana Del Rey 46 39 172 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 47 44 034 22 CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS Creedence Clearwater Revival 48 43 059 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM. XXXTentacion 49 48 206 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay 50 49 260 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day "Sprinter" is #1 for a 7th week. As noted last week, this makes it the longest reigning #1 hit that hasn't made the airplay chart (circa 2008-present is the data I have, but I'd be surprised if there were a bigger example prior to that anyhow). It might just be the last week at #1 however as the Barbie bump is fully in swing. Billie Eilish is up to #2 this week, with "What Was I Made For?" temporarily appearing to be her 2nd #2 hit, but might get upgraded to being her 2nd #1 hit. It's really hard to call based on the data I've seen. She's lagging behind the other two Barbie tracks on Apple, which both vault into the top 10, but also has a bigger bullet on Spotify presently so you'd have to favour the relatively incumbent right? Anyway it all makes the chart aesthetically pleasing because "vampire" has dropped 1 position every week and "Seven" is now #7. Also I'm seeing the movie tomorrow so don't spoil it, but honestly ARIA have been nice enough to not spoil it too because the one-week lag on new entries appears to have struck again, and no other Barbie songs from the album released this past week have made an appearance anywhere. That's apt for this coming week too, as Travis Scott debuts "K-POP", which you would think is set to be joined by a dozen or so more entries next week, but when "ASTROWORLD" debuted, only "SICKO MODE", "STARGAZING" and already released "BUTTERFLY EFFECT" made it on week one. The rest of the album had to wait an extra week for inclusion. Who knows what will happen this time? Speaking of K-Pop, NewJeans get a bunch of entries from their new EP which is too short to actually appear on the album chart. In fact it's so short that they may have made ARIA Chart history, with "Get Up" potentially being the shortest ever ARIA top 100 entry ever (I suspect it's moved enough units, but again, you never know if that counts here). Spotify marks it as 0:36 although I'd argue that it feels like it finishes at the 0:34 mark. In any case, it's at least a second shorter than Ariana Grande's "raindrops (an angel cried)" the current record holder. Pumping us up for Post Malone's new album, we've got Noah Kahan lucky to score his second top 50 hit. I feel like he's cribbing a bit from Kim Churchill's playbook on this one so I dunno, maybe you'll like him if you like that. Perhaps a dawning of a new age. For the first time since Covid-19, we have a theatrically released film soundtrack at #1 on the charts. No but really keep wearing a mask for your sake and everyone else's. We're scant on Australians at #1 here so maybe we can choose to count this. Anyway if you recall a couple months ago, there was a documentary about John Farnham. I believe this week it aired on TV and the result was fairly substantial. I'm also being thoroughly gaslit because I can't exactly work out what "Greatest Hits" in particular is charting in the top 10. The artwork is very familiar to me and seems to date to a compilation from 2009 except that there was a Farnham compilation that charted in 2009 and it's not that. I'm guessing I used to see the artwork on the iTunes chart a lot. In any case though, it's also certified 5xPlatinum which I'm finding difficult to accept with how little chart history it seems to have. My only conclusion is that Sony is up to some shit as per usual. To note also among his re-entries is his 1986 album "Whispering Jack", the 3rd highest selling album of all time in this country, behind Meat Loaf & Shania Twain. Absolutely nothing is close to changing those standings as of yet. Blur score just their 3rd ever top 10 album. Their highest peak came with previous album "The Magic Whip", which did what this album couldn't do and outsold Taylor Swift's "1989", which was also in the top 10 at the time. Not to be confused with extremely '90s gaming mascots, Busby Marou score their 5th top 50 album, though with a bit of a comedown as they'd made the top 5 three times in a row with even a #1 album to boot. I simply assumed that Ian Moss's new album was a re-release because the title sounded familiar, but no, Mossy's got a new album, making the top 20 just like his self-titled did 5 years ago. The re-release we do get, and one I'm absolutely certain is from 2009, is Short Stack's debut album "Stack Is The New Black". Truly it wasn't just a phase. Next week I would expect Travis Scott to debut at the top, but then I could just as easily see it being Barbie or Post Malone, hard to call.

You can sort kworb's daily totals (load warning? It's a very large list), it's alphabetised in a messy way but the info's there. "Dance Monkey" is 2nd with 81 days, then there's "rockstar" (77), "All I Want For Christmas Is You" (76), "God's Plan" (75) and "One Kiss" (73)

Noticed this yesterday, I think because I'm 8 hours ahead the website just reads my clock and calculates based on that, suggesting that I get a rather early scoop for the new charts :lol:

+5 Olivia Rodrigo - vampire +4 Dave & Central Cee - Sprinter +3 Peggy Gou - (It Goes Like) Nanana +2 Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer +1 Kylie Minogue - Padam Padam -1 J Hus - Who Told You -2 D-Block Europe - Pakistan -3 Hannah Laing - Good Love -4 Taylor Swift - I Can See You (Taylor's Version) (From The Vault) -5 Nathan Dawe, Joel Corry & Ella Henderson - 0800 HEAVEN (not wretchedly bad or anything but the bottom end of my vote has collapsed out lately)

Morgan Wallen did a really stupid thing on camera 30 months ago but I think branding him as a lifetime racist is a bit much. At the very least he's never leant into it as a reactionary (Jason Aldean on the other hand...), I know it breeds cynicism but I do genuinely think he's learnt from it and it's not useful to permanently ostracise folk like that.

24/07/2023 Singles 01 01 07 01 SPRINTER Dave, Central Cee 02 NE 01 02 SEVEN Jung Kook feat. Latto 03 02 03 01 VAMPIRE Olivia Rodrigo 04 03 24 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 05 04 17 03 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 06 06 16 03 FAST CAR Luke Combs 07 15 03 07 F*KUMEAN Gunna 08 NE 01 08 WHAT WAS I MADE FOR? (FROM THE MOTION PICTURE BARBIE) Billie Eilish 09 09 14 04 DAYLIGHT David Kushner 10 08 27 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 11 13 07 11 POPULAR The Weeknd feat. Playboi Carti, Madonna 12 NE 01 12 RUSH Troye Sivan 13 12 39 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 14 19 46 11 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 15 20 32 01 KILL BILL SZA 16 18 17 02 THE BEGINNING: CUPID Fifty Fifty 17 24 14 14 CHEMICAL Post Malone 18 16 16 02 KARMA Taylor Swift 19 25 53 13 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 20 05 02 05 I CAN SEE YOU (TAYLOR'S VERSION) (FROM THE VAULT) Taylor Swift 21 23 68 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 22 21 51 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 23 42 04 23 BARBIE WORLD Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice & Aqua 24 28 24 02 BOY'S A LIAR PinkPantheress 25 29 59 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 26 27 02 27 SUPER SHY New Jeans 27 40 08 14 DANCE THE NIGHT (FROM BARBIE THE ALBUM) Dua Lipa 28 35 19 13 MIRACLE Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding 29 34 225 04 SOMEONE YOU LOVED Lewis Capaldi 30 37 10 09 ALL MY LIFE Lil Durk feat. J. Cole 31 46 153 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 32 39 48 08 UNTIL I FOUND YOU Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold 33 41 154 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 34 44 33 07 CREEPIN' Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 35 31 42 08 STYLE Taylor Swift 36 45 241 01 SUNFLOWER Post Malone & Swae Lee 37 47 33 03 ESCAPISM. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 38 36 60 01 BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift 39 52 57 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 40 57 98 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 41 51 22 20 YOU PROOF Morgan Wallen 42 55 27 22 PEOPLE Libianca 43 58 26 06 SURE THING Miguel 44 49 09 19 PADAM PADAM Kylie Minogue 45 72 132 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 46 61 101 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 47 62 160 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 48 54 17 06 EYES CLOSED Ed Sheeran 49 07 02 07 ENCHANTED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 50 66 116 40 NO ROLE MODELZ J. Cole Bubbling 17 (19) AREA CODES Kali 18 (18) WISH YOU THE BEST Lewis Capaldi 19 (NE) OVERDRIVE Post Malone 20 (21) SAY YES TO HEAVEN Lana Del Rey Albums 01 01 002 01 SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 02 NE 001 02 LOVE SAVES Tina Arena 03 03 039 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 04 04 204 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 05 07 020 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 06 06 456 01 1989 Taylor Swift 07 05 297 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 08 08 128 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 09 10 032 01 SOS SZA 10 09 156 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 11 12 061 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 12 15 113 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 13 17 106 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 14 16 013 16 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 15 20 017 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 16 19 279 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 17 13 007 02 METRO BOOMIN PRESENTS SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE Metro Boomin 18 22 391 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 19 11 088 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 20 21 267 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 21 23 033 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 22 27 319 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 23 18 077 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 24 NE 001 24 MIRROR Lauren Spencer-Smith 25 28 333 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 26 29 038 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 27 24 126 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 28 32 193 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 29 33 436 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 30 31 132 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 31 30 218 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 32 36 050 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 33 34 188 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 34 NE 001 34 THE FEELING OF FALLING UPWARDS (LIVE FROM THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL) 5 Seconds Of Summer 35 NE 001 35 FEARLESS IN LOVE Voyager 36 42 225 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 37 40 264 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 38 39 036 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 39 46 171 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 40 37 374 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 41 NE 001 41 222 Lil Tjay 42 41 173 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 43 47 058 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM. XXXTentacion 44 38 033 22 CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS Creedence Clearwater Revival 45 51 139 01 BORN TO DIE Lana Del Rey 46 49 248 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 47 48 011 01 - Ed Sheeran 48 45 205 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay 49 52 259 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 50 53 039 36 STUDIO ALBUMS ABBA "Sprinter" is #1 for a 6th week. To my knowledge, it hasn't really gotten much of any airplay on any commercial radio stations (triple j have it in rotation but that's it). The last time this happened with a long running #1 hit was DaBaby's "ROCKSTAR", which also managed 6 weeks at #1. Since Dave & Cench are very likely to maintain this position, we're on the precipice of an unprecedented decoupling of radio & pop music. We'll see yet if that also applies to this week's #2 entry for Jung Kook. I have to imagine it was a close race particularly given "Seven"'s quite good streaming performance all things considered. It's receding now but not as much as you might expect. BTS previously got as high as #2 with "Dynamite" and this is comfortably the highest of any solo member on the singles chart. That's not the only action we've got in the top 10 either. Billie Eilish scores the first top 10 hit from the "Barbie" soundtrack, a list that I expect will grow next week, but I couldn't confidently say the order will remain given how much it's fluctuated this week. Billie Eilish is actually #2 on Spotify and Apple right now but was quite behind "Barbie World" and "Dance The Night" at the start of the week. Gunna scores his first ever solo top 10 and is getting oddly close to matching the peak of "Lemonade" which hit #5 back in 2020. Not quite included in this top 10 fold is Troye Sivan. "Rush" is now his 7th top 10 hit but the only time he ever made the top 10 was when his first ever entry "Happy Little Pill" had sales of his "Trxye" EP combined into it and it briefly shot up to #10. I'm sure the Aus music industry is glad to get a new hit with no tangible effort, I'm sure it's not an excuse to get complacent again, ha. Anyway now I will dedicate a portion of this write-up for all of the songs that had their chance at top 50 success hampered by all of Taylor Swift's album tracks last week: Anyway Taylor Swift is #1 again on the album chart. Given that "Speak Now" is not exactly one of her most enduring albums on the average week, I have to wonder how long it'll spend high up on the chart after the streaming recedes. There are only two tracks from it left in the Spotify top 200. Anyway she gets another chance to stop more Australian artists from reaching the top. For the 3rd time in a row, Tina Arena is blocked by a massively popular international star (the last two were Elvis Presley & Ed Sheeran) and debuts at #2. She previously had two #2 albums in the '90s and it's also making me realise that basically everyone I've watched appear on RocKwiz recently has had an album to promote on the pipeline. I'm coloured impressed that Lauren Spencer-Smith has converted her occasional TikTok virality into a respectable album chart debut. 5 Seconds Of Summer debut with a live album that came out digitally 3 months ago. You might remember Voyager as that band that represented Australia in Eurovision (for possibly the last time?) this year. I'll say in truth I'd not heard of them before that, but they land their first chart entry this week. ARIA actually did tweet at the time after Eurovision that their entry "Promise" made the top 50 Australian artist singles chart, and it makes me wonder if it was the only Eurovision track that was actually added to the survey that week. Lil Tjay gets his 2nd top 50 album, a bit of a far cry from his first but I suppose that one had a big hit on it.

Reckon #12 looks pretty likely :thinking:

Yeah, that's the point I was making. Probably an extra 15 million from all those weeks which makes it a close second. (Also on YouTube it's 40 million ahead of "Obsessed With You"). Well actually though the main point I wanted to make is that obviously Cench can get a solo non-sample hit, it just so happens to be these stipulations put on his latest releases of note. It's a self-fulfilling process because it used to just be 'he needs to have a sample' before "Sprinter" came out, now he needs to have a collaborator yada yada goal posts.

Last I checked "Loading" is still his most streamed song on YouTube, and pretty close on UK Spotify stats (I suppose "Obsessed With You" is slightly ahead), and I checked 2 minutes ago.

+5 Olivia Rodrigo - vampire +4 Dave & Central Cee - Sprinter +3 Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer +2 Peggy Gou - (It Goes Like) Nanana +1 J Hus - Who Told You -1 D-Block Europe - Pakistan -2 Hannah Laing - Good Love -3 Calvin Harris - Miracle -4 Rudimental - Dancing Is Healing

17/07/2023 Singles 01 02 06 01 SPRINTER Dave, Central Cee 02 01 02 01 VAMPIRE Olivia Rodrigo 03 04 23 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 04 03 16 03 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 05 NE 01 05 I CAN SEE YOU (TAYLOR'S VERSION) (FROM THE VAULT) Taylor Swift 06 05 15 03 FAST CAR Luke Combs 07 NE 01 07 ENCHANTED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 08 08 26 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 09 09 13 04 DAYLIGHT David Kushner 10 NE 01 10 MINE (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 11 NE 01 11 BACK TO DECEMBER (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 12 06 38 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 13 19 06 19 POPULAR The Weeknd feat. Playboi Carti, Madonna 14 NE 01 14 BETTER THAN REVENGE (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 15 39 02 15 F*KUMEAN Gunna 16 07 15 02 KARMA Taylor Swift 17 NE 01 17 SPARKS FLY (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 18 10 16 02 THE BEGINNING: CUPID Fifty Fifty 19 14 45 11 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 20 13 31 01 KILL BILL SZA 21 15 50 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 22 NE 01 22 SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 23 17 67 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 24 22 13 14 CHEMICAL Post Malone 25 18 52 13 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 26 NE 01 26 DEAR JOHN (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 27 NE 01 27 SUPER SHY New Jeans 28 16 23 02 BOY'S A LIAR PinkPantheress 29 20 58 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 30 NE 01 30 MEAN (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 31 11 41 08 STYLE Taylor Swift 32 NE 01 32 THE STORY OF US (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 33 NE 01 33 CASTLES CRUMBLING (TAYLOR'S VERSION) (FROM THE VAULT) Taylor Swift 34 21 224 04 SOMEONE YOU LOVED Lewis Capaldi 35 30 18 13 MIRACLE Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding 36 12 59 01 BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift 37 23 09 09 ALL MY LIFE Lil Durk feat. J. Cole 38 NE 01 38 ELECTRIC TOUCH (TAYLOR'S VERSION) (FROM THE VAULT) Taylor Swift 39 25 47 08 UNTIL I FOUND YOU Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold 40 38 07 14 DANCE THE NIGHT (FROM BARBIE THE ALBUM) Dua Lipa 41 28 153 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 42 24 03 24 BARBIE WORLD Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice & Aqua 43 NE 01 43 WHEN EMMA FALLS IN LOVE (TAYLOR'S VERSION) (FROM THE VAULT) Taylor Swift 44 31 32 07 CREEPIN' Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 45 32 240 01 SUNFLOWER Post Malone & Swae Lee 46 36 152 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 47 37 32 03 ESCAPISM. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 48 NE 01 48 HAUNTED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 49 35 08 19 PADAM PADAM Kylie Minogue 50 NE 01 50 FOOLISH ONE (TAYLOR'S VERSION) (FROM THE VAULT) Taylor Swift Bubbling 16 (12) EYES CLOSED Ed Sheeran 17 (14) AM I DREAMING Metro Boomin, A$AP Rocky, Roisee 18 (15) WISH YOU THE BEST Lewis Capaldi 19 (13) AREA CODES Kali 20 (17) BABY DON'T HURT ME David Guetta, Anne-Marie & Coi Leray Albums 01 NE 001 01 SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 02 NE 001 02 PETRODRAGONIC APOCALYPSE; OR, DAWN OF ETERNAL NIGHT: AN ANNIHILATION OF PLANET EARTH AND THE BEGINNING OF MERCILESS DAMNATION King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard 03 01 038 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 04 02 203 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 05 04 296 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 06 03 455 01 1989 Taylor Swift 07 06 019 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 08 08 127 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 09 05 155 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 10 11 031 01 SOS SZA 11 09 087 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 12 13 060 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 13 12 006 02 METRO BOOMIN PRESENTS SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE Metro Boomin 14 NE 001 14 LIVE FROM JOSHUA TREE Rüfüs Du Sol 15 15 112 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 16 19 012 16 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 17 17 105 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 18 16 076 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 19 22 278 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 20 21 016 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 21 23 266 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 22 25 390 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 23 27 032 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 24 14 125 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 25 NE 001 25 SUNBURN Dominic Fike 26 NE 001 26 THE SINGLES: ECHOES FROM THE EDGE OF HEAVEN Wham! 27 28 318 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 28 29 332 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 29 30 037 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 30 24 217 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 31 31 131 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 32 34 192 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 33 33 435 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 34 32 187 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 35 20 006 02 5-STAR Stray Kids 36 36 049 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 37 40 373 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 38 44 032 22 CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS Creedence Clearwater Revival 39 43 035 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 40 35 263 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 41 39 172 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 42 42 224 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 43 NE 001 43 SOFA KINGS Royel Otis 44 NE 001 44 I INSIDE THE OLD YEAR DYING PJ Harvey 45 48 204 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay 46 45 170 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 47 47 057 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM. XXXTentacion 48 41 010 01 - Ed Sheeran 49 50 247 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 50 07 002 07 PINK TAPE Lil Uzi Vert "Sprinter" returns for a 5th week at #1. It's riding a second wave at the moment (possibly buoyed in the same way it just hit a new peak on US Spotify tonight), so it could be getting cozy there for a while. That also might depend on Jung Kook's sales & YouTube, because his streaming is quite promising, but it's a bigger gap to overcome than when BLACKPINK managed to sneak a #1 last year. Otherwise this is a Taylor Swift week with a guest appearance from New Jeans. I don't have much interesting to say about the chart this week but instead I have a more universal observation. The state of the chart is something that's come under increasing scrutiny this year. Like an unoiled machine left unchecked. The thing I often notice with this is that it's always a very emotionally driven observation, and with that, things don't always line up to reality. People will quickly decry that the problem with the chart is the fact that Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran or Drake or whoever is given free reign to just chart all their album tracks. I'm not here to debate the relevance of those chart weeks, but rather note that it's taken until July for this to actually happen this year. Ignoring the likes of "Last Night" and "Fast Car" which are by some definition not actually singles, this is basically a non-issue, yet it still lingers in the mind. But more so than this, I just want to highlight what ARIA's CEO said about the charts, specifically that there's a false desire to blame the charts for all of this, and subsequently a desire to arbitrarily fix the charts. As she rightly points out, the charts aren't the problem at all, they're just displaying it. Taking out your Taylor Swift album tracks, long running Glass Animals hits and whatnot, this does not change anything in the habits of music listeners. They're still going to listen to these tracks. Artists and labels aren't paid by the chart position, so whoever gets propped up as a result merely gets the illusion of greater success but without anything tangible that goes with it. You can give yourself a pat on the back and say you've fixed things (and maybe that's what the OCC have done), but you've done nothing to address the root of it, and you're just gonna get blindsided again and again as things just escalate. The album chart is perhaps more endemic of this, where it's been noted (by myself as well) the lack of Australian artists in the chart of late. An irrational thinker might simply point out that streaming is to blame, given that it typically works against Australian artists. But even then, a pure sales chart would still be only a temporary solution. You're still creating an environment where we pretend our local artists are more successful despite the fact that very few are actually listening to them. It doesn't take a genius to realise that this is not a sustainable long term model. In any case, if everyone who ever got mad about this sort of thing actually put their money where their mouth is and supported local artists, they'd surely be able to outnumber the unassailable 99.5% whose streaming ratios are so dismal as to give you a shot for glory. I suppose it's easier to complain and get mad rather than do anything (before anyone comes at me for hypocrisy, I absolutely do support local artists. More than half of the stuff I've listened to in the time I've been typing this post up has been Australian music I purchased myself, but anyone on the BuzzJack discord probably could have already figured that). Anyway speaking of Australian music, King Gizz are on the precipice of an inauspicious chart record. Their new album whose title made up a non-insignificant percentage of my time typing this up becomes their 5th #2 album. They still don't have a #1, but I suppose it could always happen some day if formats line up properly. This album actually came out a few weeks ago digitally and only now has the vinyl shipped. Radiohead still hold this record with 6 #2 albums. Last time Radiohead released an album, it was just a week after King Gizz made their ARIA Chart debut with their belter of an album "Nonagon Infinity". They have since charted 25 more albums in the top 50. Similarly I imagine Radiohead could readily drum up sufficient numbers to get a #1 album if they chose a good week for it, which would also give Stu & co. the record by default. "Speak Now (Taylor's Version)" is her 11th #1 album also in case you were wondering. The original version dropped drastically out of the top 50 this week but it's not that far off. Speaking of vinyl shipping, we've also got varying amounts of old albums from RÜFÜS DU SOL & Royel Otis debuting this week. The former album is so old that it actually debuts on the Catalogue Chart this week as well. Dominic Fike gets his second (and highest) album chart entry while PJ Harvey misses the top 40 for the first time in about 3 decades. Wham! had a big boxset out this week that ties in nicely with the Netflix doco, so it's probably not suggesting a new chart staple, but what is worth noting in that regard is CCR. I didn't mention it last week because I wanted to see where it would go, but it does seem now that a large set of Creedence's back catalogue has now been assigned streaming to this particular compilation, so it looks like it could be hanging around for a while.

Nonetheless, the example I cited breaks this supposed rule. In any case, if the individual song's relatively greater popularity can't overcome the percentage of people who start, but don't finish listening to an album, then it's not an especially noteworthy margin. We can just as easily say 'oh, this album track is actually more popular than this single but it just isn't on playlists etc'. If "Enchanted" is the more popular track in the long run, that'll show, but all those day 1 streams still count to week 1, and aside from the premium/free split, we're not about to re-appraise individual streams' values based on how much someone really liked it. A stream is a stream.

10/07/2023 Singles 01 NE 01 01 VAMPIRE Olivia Rodrigo 02 01 05 01 SPRINTER Dave, Central Cee 03 03 15 03 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 04 02 22 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 05 04 14 03 FAST CAR Luke Combs 06 07 37 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 07 08 14 02 KARMA Taylor Swift 08 05 25 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 09 06 12 04 DAYLIGHT David Kushner 10 09 15 02 THE BEGINNING: CUPID Fifty Fifty 11 RE 40 08 STYLE Taylor Swift 12 20 58 01 BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift 13 10 30 01 KILL BILL SZA 14 12 44 11 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 15 11 49 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 16 13 22 02 BOY'S A LIAR PinkPantheress 17 14 66 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 18 15 51 13 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 19 21 05 19 POPULAR The Weeknd feat. Playboi Carti, Madonna 20 17 57 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 21 18 223 04 SOMEONE YOU LOVED Lewis Capaldi 22 36 12 14 CHEMICAL Post Malone 23 16 08 09 ALL MY LIFE Lil Durk feat. J. Cole 24 34 02 24 BARBIE WORLD Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice & Aqua 25 19 46 08 UNTIL I FOUND YOU Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold 26 35 30 03 LOVER Taylor Swift 27 43 04 27 ENCHANTED Taylor Swift 28 24 152 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 29 38 16 01 CARDIGAN Taylor Swift 30 22 17 13 MIRACLE Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding 31 23 31 07 CREEPIN' Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 32 28 239 01 SUNFLOWER Post Malone & Swae Lee 33 40 89 01 SHAKE IT OFF Taylor Swift 34 41 10 34 DON'T BLAME ME Taylor Swift 35 27 07 19 PADAM PADAM Kylie Minogue 36 25 151 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 37 29 31 03 ESCAPISM. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 38 33 06 14 DANCE THE NIGHT (FROM BARBIE THE ALBUM) Dua Lipa 39 NE 01 39 F*KUMEAN Gunna 40 45 35 02 LAVENDER HAZE Taylor Swift 41 32 15 06 EYES CLOSED Ed Sheeran 42 55 25 01 ALL TOO WELL (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 43 26 25 22 PEOPLE Libianca 44 30 08 17 AREA CODES Kali 45 39 52 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 46 37 30 20 YOU PROOF Morgan Wallen 47 31 05 20 AM I DREAMING Metro Boomin, A$AP Rocky, Roisee 48 42 95 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 49 69 06 21 LOVE STORY (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 50 44 24 06 SURE THING Miguel Bubbling 15 (14) WISH YOU THE BEST Lewis Capaldi 16 (15) SAY YES TO HEAVEN Lana Del Rey 17 (18) BABY DON'T HURT ME David Guetta, Anne-Marie & Coi Leray 18 (NE) FLOODED THE FACE Lil Uzi Vert 19 (17) ATTENTION Doja Cat 20 (20) WHO TOLD YOU J Hus feat. Drake Albums 01 02 037 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 02 03 202 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 03 05 454 01 1989 Taylor Swift 04 06 295 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 05 10 154 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 06 09 018 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 07 NE 001 07 PINK TAPE Lil Uzi Vert 08 11 126 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 09 15 086 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 10 NE 001 10 DEAD CLUB CITY Nothing But Thieves 11 12 030 01 SOS SZA 12 07 005 02 METRO BOOMIN PRESENTS SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE Metro Boomin 13 13 059 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 14 17 124 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 15 28 111 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 16 18 075 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 17 14 104 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 18 34 098 01 SPEAK NOW Taylor Swift 19 24 011 16 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 20 19 005 02 5-STAR Stray Kids 21 16 015 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 22 20 277 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 23 21 265 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 24 25 216 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 25 22 389 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 26 NE 001 26 UP, DOWN & SIDEWAYS Brooke McClymont & Adam Eckersley 27 27 031 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 28 32 317 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 29 29 331 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 30 30 036 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 31 35 130 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 32 46 186 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 33 41 434 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 34 43 191 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 35 40 262 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 36 45 048 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 37 NE 001 37 LEKKERBOY Sticky Fingers 38 42 007 01 BROKEN BY DESIRE TO BE HEAVENLY SENT Lewis Capaldi 39 48 171 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 40 50 372 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 41 44 009 01 - Ed Sheeran 42 49 223 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 43 47 034 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 44 RE 031 22 CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS Creedence Clearwater Revival 45 52 169 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 46 56 137 01 BORN TO DIE Lana Del Rey 47 54 056 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM. XXXTentacion 48 53 203 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay 49 55 257 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 50 51 246 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen Before I continue I just want to get out something for consideration. Say you're interested in music charts, you're probably interested in records/milestones, that sort of thing right? But ask yourself, are you truly interested in those records, or do you just want to wield them for your convenience? Does your interest hinge on your investment in what it propagates? If all of a sudden history gets made and you suddenly stop talking about it, or dismissing it, maybe you really weren't interested at all. I bring this all up because as a fan of music charts for more than half of my life, I love seeing crazy, over-the-top things happen on the charts. It's a spectacle, you wonder how much further this sort of thing can go. The discourse surrounding music charts has me confused as to what people actually want from it. Like you get the feeling that people just want a steady clockwork where nothing of note ever happens. The most remarkable things that ever happen on the charts are treated like a sign that it's gone to hell in a handbasket. But please, no more bad takes just because TayTay's popularity rocks the foundations in which you use to prop up your favourite artists. Anyway we have a new #1 this week from Olivia Rodrigo. "vampire" is her 3rd #1 hit and second to debut at #1. It appears it'll be the only week the song spends at #1 though as it has receded back, while simultaneously, "Sprinter" has surged back up quite a bit in the past week. I'm not convinced Olivia would have won if she released this week. Not only are Dave & Cench ahead by heaps on Spotify, but last night they actually took the top spot on Apple for the first time (though I check now and "Last Night" is #1 again, suffice to say it's a much closer race than ever before). Because the ARIA Charts are funny like that, "Style" re-enters at #11, a considerably larger jump up the chart than any other Taylor Swift song this week, how weird. This week "Popular" rises into the top 20, which you might be interested to know is Madonna's first top 20 hit since "4 Minutes" in 2008(!). Also in the world of erroneously belated debuts, Gunna arrives with "f*kumean", which is up to the top 10 on Spotify so expect a bit of a rise next week, no matter how many Taylor Swift songs enter alongside that. If you're wondering about that, expect "I Can See You" to be the highest, but I'm not confident it can land much higher than #6. Not much to note on the Bubbling Under aspects. David Guetta might be getting close to the top 50 but will have to wait for a slower week perhaps. Uzi gets just the one entry from their new album. In a few weeks we'll have a steady stream of entries aging out of the chart ("Area Codes", "Fast Car", "Eyes Closed", "Daylight", "Chemical", "Wish You The Best" etc) so who knows what will get brought up as a result? Apropos of no prior hinting, we've got history of a sort happening this week. Despite being the week *before* the new album drops, Taylor Swift has the entire top 5 on this week's chart. If you want to be that cynic, maybe focus less on the merits of streaming vs. pure sales (the latter is of course a foreign concept to Taylor Swift???????) but more just it wasn't a big week for new releases. The highest new entry is for Lil Uzi Vert, who admittedly did score a #1 with "Eternal Atake" back in 2020 but lands at #7 this week. Nothing But Thieves split the difference between their last two albums (#8, #12) and land at #10. Back in 2018, Adam Eckersley & Brooke McClymont charted with a collaborative album. This time around the names have switched order and they've landed 10 places lower. I also must note to any non-Australians that the most controversial band in the country is a reggae rock fusion band. Paradoxically, as they've gotten more controversial, they've gotten more talked about, but in reality, their newer music doesn't really move the needle as much. Some might say this is because triple j effectively blacklisted them years ago but that would ignore the fact that their most popular song is one triple j never played. Anyway, Sticky Fingers released a new album last year, digitally only so it didn't chart. This week the vinyl is out, and does top the vinyl chart, but it lands at #37. Only scarcely not a career low because their debut album only reached #39 but has since gone platinum. I'll let you do your own research and decide for yourself whether or not they're the bad guys, although to be fair, Bluesfest literally promoted them as such when they were briefly expected to be on their line up.

In fairness, when Ed Sheeran released his 3rd album, track 1 was instantly ranked 9th on day 1, so there's no hard and fast rule here.

+5 Dave & Central Cee - Sprinter +4 Peggy Gou - (It Goes Like) Nanana (lucky it's grown on me in the time between this top 10 placement and this voting) +3 Kylie Minogue - Padam Padam +2 Hannah Laing - Good Love +1 J Hus - Who Told You -1 Calvin Harris - Miracle -2 Rudimental - Dancing Is Healing -3 Switch Disco - REACT -4 Harry Styles - As It Was

This is tangential to the discussion but I feel like more credit should be given to the fact that when older songs get boosted up the chart, a significant reason they do so well is that they have a base-line weekly streaming performance that the new chart run is riding on top of. For new songs they always start from 0 so it's harder to hang around as well. So by that token, if "Hell N Back" just came out a few months ago, it'd probably not make the chart at all, and most of its streams are from before 2023 (I have 12 scrobbles of it from 2020-2022 and none since, we exist!).

03/07/2023 Singles 01 01 04 01 SPRINTER Dave, Central Cee 02 02 21 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 03 29 14 03 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 04 03 13 03 FAST CAR Luke Combs 05 04 24 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 06 05 11 04 DAYLIGHT David Kushner 07 09 36 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 08 15 13 02 KARMA Taylor Swift 09 06 14 02 THE BEGINNING: CUPID Fifty Fifty 10 07 29 01 KILL BILL SZA 11 08 48 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 12 11 43 11 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 13 10 21 02 BOY'S A LIAR PinkPantheress 14 12 65 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 15 14 50 13 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 16 13 07 09 ALL MY LIFE Lil Durk feat. J. Cole 17 16 56 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 18 40 222 04 SOMEONE YOU LOVED Lewis Capaldi 19 17 45 08 UNTIL I FOUND YOU Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold 20 58 57 01 BLANK SPACE Taylor Swift 21 31 04 21 POPULAR The Weeknd feat. Playboi Carti, Madonna 22 18 16 13 MIRACLE Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding 23 20 30 07 CREEPIN' Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 24 26 151 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 25 23 150 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 26 28 24 22 PEOPLE Libianca 27 19 06 19 PADAM PADAM Kylie Minogue 28 25 238 01 SUNFLOWER Post Malone & Swae Lee 29 24 30 03 ESCAPISM. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 30 21 07 17 AREA CODES Kali 31 22 04 20 AM I DREAMING Metro Boomin, A$AP Rocky, Roisee 32 32 14 06 EYES CLOSED Ed Sheeran 33 27 05 14 DANCE THE NIGHT (FROM BARBIE THE ALBUM) Dua Lipa 34 NE 01 34 BARBIE WORLD Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice & Aqua 35 RE 29 03 LOVER Taylor Swift 36 39 11 14 CHEMICAL Post Malone 37 35 29 20 YOU PROOF Morgan Wallen 38 90 15 01 CARDIGAN Taylor Swift 39 36 51 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 40 75 88 01 SHAKE IT OFF Taylor Swift 41 RE 09 41 DON'T BLAME ME Taylor Swift 42 37 94 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 43 RE 03 43 ENCHANTED Taylor Swift 44 38 23 06 SURE THING Miguel 45 93 34 02 LAVENDER HAZE Taylor Swift 46 33 31 23 07 PLAYERS Coi Leray 47 41 30 13 10:35 Tiësto & Tate McRae 48 44 157 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 49 64 11 23 WISH YOU THE BEST Lewis Capaldi 50 42 98 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa Bubbling 15 (16) SAY YES TO HEAVEN Lana Del Rey 16 (13) CALLING Metro Boomin, Swae Lee, NAV feat. A Boogie wit da Hoodie 17 (10) ATTENTION Doja Cat 18 (18) BABY DON'T HURT ME David Guetta, Anne-Marie & Coi Leray 19 (15) ANNIHILATE Metro Boomin, Swae Lee, Lil Wayne, Offset 20 (21) WHO TOLD YOU J Hus feat. Drake Albums 01 NE 001 01 A GIFT & A KERS Kerser 02 05 036 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 03 11 201 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 04 NE 001 04 THE GOOD WITCH Maisie Peters 05 09 453 01 1989 Taylor Swift 06 13 294 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 07 04 004 02 METRO BOOMIN PRESENTS SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE Metro Boomin 08 NE 001 08 SUICIDE AND SUNSHINE Trophy Eyes 09 06 017 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 10 16 153 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 11 07 125 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 12 08 029 01 SOS SZA 13 10 058 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 14 12 103 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 15 40 085 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 16 15 014 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 17 50 123 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 18 45 074 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 19 19 004 02 5-STAR Stray Kids 20 22 276 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 21 20 264 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 22 21 388 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 23 RE 055 04 THE HONEYMOON IS OVER (30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION) The Cruel Sea 24 23 010 16 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 25 37 215 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 26 NE 001 26 MINECRAFT VOLUME ONE C418 27 18 030 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 28 26 110 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 29 27 330 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 30 25 035 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 31 NE 001 31 CHEMISTRY Kelly Clarkson 32 28 316 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 33 01 002 01 THE WINDING WAY The Teskey Brothers 34 55 097 01 SPEAK NOW Taylor Swift 35 30 129 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 36 NE 001 36 BUSINESS IS BUSINESS Young Thug 37 02 002 02 IN TIMES NEW ROMAN... Queens Of The Stone Age 38 14 004 01 BUT HERE WE ARE Foo Fighters 39 NE 001 39 PERFECT WORLD Lastlings 40 35 261 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 41 31 433 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 42 51 006 01 BROKEN BY DESIRE TO BE HEAVENLY SENT Lewis Capaldi 43 33 190 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 44 29 008 01 - Ed Sheeran 45 34 047 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 46 32 185 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 47 36 033 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 48 39 170 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 49 44 222 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 50 41 371 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry "Sprinter" is #1 for a 4th week. Next week is very difficult to call. Dave & Cench continue to lose steam so Morgan Wallen who continues to sell well could take over again. Or maybe there's "Cruel Summer", which briefly got to #1 on Spotify this week, but might not have the legs to maintain for the next 2 days. If like me, you like the song but are fairly jaded by spurious copyright suits (I don't know who instigated it but they sure didn't stop it), then it's a lot easier to root for Olivia Rodrigo, who had a slightly slow start but is climbing up on Spotify day by day which could offset lower numbers elsewhere. Oh but speaking of Taylor Swift, everything is up. Everything. What's not immediately obvious though is that the ARIA Charts have done that thing again. Much like with Adele's "21" hits, the first two singles were able to remain on the survey perennially, but the rest faltered. In this case, all of her entries this week have managed to hang around, but "Style" which had no streaming to back it up through those trying 2015 & 2016 months did not. It should probably be slightly above "Blank Space" this week, which one should hope is high enough for the omission to be noticed and for it to return next week, but you never truly know with these things. I do now know that "Cold Heart" has cheated both a week at #1 and now a week at #50. I have not yet chosen to engage with the week's only debut, I'm sure it's great. "Style" isn't the only song missing, as I suspect Gunna should have snuck onto the New Music chart with "fukumean". It does mean that J Hus sneaks through, with what I believe is his first ever Australian chart entry outside of the Ed Sheeran feature. There are actually only 4 'new' songs in the top 20 this week, and "Fast Car" is only barely still eligible for that, I suspect this is a record for non-Christmas time but it might also be a record overall. In a truly bizarre turn of events, Taylor Swift has been beaten to the top by Kerser. I'm sure you're all familiar with him by now, but just in case, I'll refresh that he's an MC who's been around for over a decade releasing albums fairly regularly and charting high. I most recall back around 2011/2012 when he was feuding with 360 who at the time was much more popular, but it's fair to say that his fairweather fandom has faded faster than Kerser by now. This is Kerser's 8th top 10 album and his first ever to hit the top spot, which also means he's hit every position from #1 to #5. He continues to power along with no label backing or airplay. As for the non-Taylor Swift portion of the top 10, Maisie Peters is charting for the first time, and I must of course note that Trophy Eyes have debuted at #8 for the 3rd time in a row, it's the only chart position they've ever had because they always drop straight out of the top 50 the week after. This week's vinyl lottery winner is The Cruel Sea's classic album "The Honeymoon Is Over", aka the album that has the title track & "Black Stick" which as a not-actually-Gen X Aussie I can confirm are bangers. We've got the always rare instance of a video game soundtrack charting. I think it's the second time ever after Angus & Julia Stone's "Life Is Strange" soundtrack, but this time it's the slightly more notable "Minecraft" soundtrack, which got a vinyl release this week. Volume 2 also appeared on the vinyl chart so it's probably not far off the top 50 either. While Kelly Clarkson is usually prone to a top 10 debut, this #31 debut is still not actually a career low for her because her debut album, while long charting, only got to #33. Thugger lands in the middle of the chart as he tends to do, while Lastlings get in for the first time ever with their 2nd album. As a not-actually-Zoomer Aussie I can confirm they've made many a banger over the years.

+5 Dave & Central Cee - Sprinter +4 Rema & Selena Gomez - Calm Down +3 Kylie Minogue - Padam Padam +2 J Hus - Who Told You +1 Hannah Laing - Good Love -1 Rudimental - Dancing Is Healing -2 Calvin Harris - Miracle -3 Switch Disco & Ella Henderson - REACT -4 Harry Styles - As It Was

It's spent quite a while bubbling under in Australia for the same reason it's charted so long in the UK (a couple minor chart/huge radio hits here). Problem with album charts now is that regardless of how one feels about obvious stream bait 'hit' albums, truth is that a non-charting album can very easily outsell a #1 in the space of a year, so there isn't much good shorthand for knowing what the biggest albums really are.

To be clear, that's a new peak only within the time-frame of charts.spotify, which only goes back to the start of 2017. It got to #7 in 2014 on the weekly Spotify chart, possibly higher on the daily one as well.

I'm just looking at it now, and it's actually still on a similar pace. "Flowers" looks to drop below 1.3M on its 24th week, but "drivers license" kept above that until its 25th week. Suspect "Flowers" could catch up after the fact (Olivia's album was later in the timeline so that helped more), but I think it still stands as an apt comparison for now.

Perhaps but I feel it's a folly to only interpret the chart in terms of week to week positions. Where available the raw numbers tell a much more realistic story. I actually went into this surprised it was as low as it was...no pun intended.

26/06/2023 Singles 01 01 03 01 SPRINTER Dave, Central Cee 02 02 20 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 03 03 12 03 FAST CAR Luke Combs 04 04 23 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 05 06 10 04 DAYLIGHT David Kushner 06 05 13 02 THE BEGINNING: CUPID Fifty Fifty 07 08 28 01 KILL BILL SZA 08 09 47 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 09 11 35 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 10 07 20 02 BOY'S A LIAR PinkPantheress 11 17 42 11 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 12 12 64 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 13 10 06 09 ALL MY LIFE Lil Durk feat. J. Cole 14 13 49 13 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 15 14 12 02 KARMA Taylor Swift 16 16 55 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 17 15 44 08 UNTIL I FOUND YOU Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold 18 19 15 13 MIRACLE Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding 19 29 05 19 PADAM PADAM Kylie Minogue 20 21 29 07 CREEPIN' Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 21 18 06 17 AREA CODES Kali 22 20 03 20 AM I DREAMING Metro Boomin, A$AP Rocky, Roisee 23 31 149 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 24 22 29 03 ESCAPISM. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 25 24 237 01 SUNFLOWER Post Malone & Swae Lee 26 26 150 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 27 23 04 14 DANCE THE NIGHT (FROM BARBIE THE ALBUM) Dua Lipa 28 25 23 22 PEOPLE Libianca 29 52 13 22 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 30 NE 01 30 ATTENTION Doja Cat 31 28 03 24 POPULAR The Weeknd feat. Playboi Carti, Madonna 32 32 13 06 EYES CLOSED Ed Sheeran 33 33 30 23 07 PLAYERS Coi Leray 34 27 03 27 CALLING Metro Boomin, Swae Lee, NAV feat. A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie 35 36 28 20 YOU PROOF Morgan Wallen 36 34 50 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 37 37 93 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 38 35 22 06 SURE THING Miguel 39 38 10 14 CHEMICAL Post Malone 40 40 221 04 SOMEONE YOU LOVED Lewis Capaldi 41 42 29 13 10:35 Tiësto & Tate McRae 42 44 97 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 43 33 03 33 ANNIHILATE Metro Boomin, Swae Lee, Lil Wayne, Offset 44 46 156 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 45 47 112 40 NO ROLE MODELZ J. Cole 46 41 03 41 SELF LOVE Metro Boomin, Coi Leray 47 45 128 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 48 50 58 21 ANOTHER LOVE Tom Odell 49 53 43 01 I'M GOOD (BLUE) David Guetta & Bebe Rexha 50 51 154 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac Bubbling 16 (16) SAY YES TO HEAVEN Lana Del Rey 17 (20) WISH YOU THE BEST Lewis Capaldi 18 (24) BABY DON'T HURT ME David Guetta, Anne-Marie & Coi Leray 19 (27) THINKIN' BOUT ME Morgan Wallen 20 (23) DIAL DRUNK Noah Kahan Albums 01 NE 001 01 THE WINDING WAY The Teskey Brothers 02 NE 001 02 IN TIMES NEW ROMAN... Queens Of The Stone Age 03 NE 001 03 ANY LESS ANYMORE Travis Collins 04 02 003 02 METRO BOOMIN PRESENTS SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE Metro Boomin 05 04 035 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 06 06 016 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 07 07 124 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 08 08 028 01 SOS SZA 09 10 452 01 1989 Taylor Swift 10 09 057 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 11 14 200 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 12 11 102 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 13 16 293 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 14 05 003 01 BUT HERE WE ARE Foo Fighters 15 12 013 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 16 19 152 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 17 RE 007 17 NEON NIGHTS (20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION) Dannii Minogue 18 17 029 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 19 03 003 02 5-STAR Stray Kids 20 20 263 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 21 18 387 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 22 23 275 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 23 22 009 16 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 24 01 002 01 THE SHOW Niall Horan 25 21 034 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 26 26 109 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 27 24 329 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 28 25 315 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 29 15 007 01 - Ed Sheeran 30 28 128 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 31 27 432 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 32 31 184 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 33 29 189 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 34 33 046 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 35 34 260 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 36 38 032 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 37 37 214 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 38 40 167 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 39 36 169 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 40 46 084 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 41 42 370 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 42 45 054 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 43 43 201 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay 44 44 221 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 45 62 073 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 46 13 002 13 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 47 41 244 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 48 49 255 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 49 NE 001 49 A GIFT & A CURSE Gunna 50 52 122 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift "Sprinter" is #1 for a 3rd week. It looks reasonably safe for a 4th week, and its descent has been slowing down so it could stick ahead of "Last Night" for a little longer. Last week was Zach Bryan's shock boost to nearly top 10, this week "Calm Down" gets a new peak of #11. In a shock twist, we have an Australian song in the top 20, "Padam Padam" made the Spotify top 50 for a day this week. Doja Cat has the only debut of the week and also is already out of the Spotify top 50, it's another one of those times. The Bubbling Under chart if nothing else, proves that Noah Kahan was on the chart last week. Lewis Capaldi will probably return to the top 50 next week, whereas I think Morgan Wallen's track will be removed from the New Singles chart next week. The Teskey Brothers score their 2nd #1 album. It's no slouch of a week as they best Queens Of The Stone Age, whose last two albums went to #1. Behind them at #3 is local country singer Travis Collins, who scores his 6th top 50 entry and highest ever. The Australian version of Girls Aloud returning to the top 50 is that we have Dannii Minogue back in the top 50, actually scoring a new peak for "Neon Nights" which originally reached #25, and makes it now her highest charting album ever. Gunna also sneaks in with his 4th top 50 album. "fukumean" has just cracked the Spotify top 50 so we'll see how it goes as a rare new song in the chart.

I'd say all things considered, "Flowers" is actually dropping quite fast, it's just that it started off a lot higher than most others! It's been out for just 5 months and it's already only getting about 20% as many streams as at its peak. When you consider that includes people who only just started streaming it, the vast majority of initial listeners have moved on from it.

+5 Dave & Central Cee - Sprinter +4 Rema & Selena Gomez - Calm Down +3 Kylie Minogue - Padam Padam +2 J Hus - Who Told You +1 Calvin Harris - Miracle -1 Rudimental - Dancing Is Healing -2 Switch Disco - REACT -3 David Kushner - Daylight -4 Harry Styles - As It Was