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And I've said it before but why does it matter the exact machinations of how someone lands on a stream? I largely do my music listening through a double-nested set of Smart Playlists that dynamically updates itself and makes sure I don't hear the same old songs over and over again. Then I just hit the shuffle button. Simultaneously way more effort and way less effort than most people. If people didn't like the music that's on Today's Top Hits or whatever, they just wouldn't listen to it anymore. If they don't like that one song, they skip it. I don't like the insinuation that everyone but me is an automaton with no agency in the music they choose to listen to. It only looks that way because once you collate millions of people's listens together, you're just not going to see that individual freedom of choice on display, but it is there, being tugged at in a million directions at once. And I like the gross genre elitism even less, yucky.

Can also almost guarantee that if people saw what the chart looked like under that ruling, they'd almost immediately like it even less than the current system.

Everyone always says this but I suspect the empirical data would do more to knee-cap buzzed about current hits rather than the ironed-on ones. People on last.fm have been scrobbling "Mr. Brightside" for 20 years and counting. On average they've listened to it 12 times each. By comparison, it's taken 2 months for Billie Eilish's "BIRDS OF A FEATHER" to reach an average of 15 plays per person. It doesn't feel like a fruitful pursuit.

22/07/2024 Singles 01 01 14 01 A BAR SONG (TIPSY) Shaboozey 02 02 14 01 ESPRESSO Sabrina Carpenter 03 04 09 03 BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish 04 03 06 01 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Sabrina Carpenter 05 06 10 01 I HAD SOME HELP Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen 06 10 07 01 HOUDINI Eminem 07 05 11 05 NOT LIKE US Kendrick Lamar 08 08 26 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 09 07 12 01 MILLION DOLLAR BABY Tommy Richman 10 13 35 04 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 11 09 14 09 GOOD LUCK, BABE Chappell Roan 12 11 17 01 TOO SWEET Hozier 13 12 19 10 AUSTIN Dasha 14 14 10 11 STARGAZING Myles Smith 15 15 13 01 FORTNIGHT Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone 16 17 39 01 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 17 NE 01 17 HABITS Eminem 18 NE 01 18 RENAISSANCE Eminem 19 16 08 12 PINK SKIES Zach Bryan 20 19 03 19 GIRLS The Kid Laroi 21 NE 01 21 BRAND NEW DANCE Eminem 22 20 09 05 LUNCH Billie Eilish 23 26 27 12 SCARED TO START Michael Marcagi 24 18 05 20 DEVIL IS A LIE Tommy Richman 25 21 17 03 I LIKE THE WAY YOU KISS ME Artemas 26 23 69 01 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 27 22 47 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan Feat. Kacey Musgraves 28 NE 01 28 FUEL Eminem 29 38 02 29 TOBEY Eminem, Big Sean, BabyTron 30 24 08 09 BAND4BAND Central Cee feat. Lil Baby 31 25 105 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 32 NE 01 32 EVIL Eminem 33 35 02 33 LIES LIES LIES Morgan Wallen 34 27 17 22 SLOW IT DOWN Benson Boone 35 NE 01 35 TROUBLE Eminem 36 NE 01 36 LUCIFER Eminem 37 28 17 18 BELONG TOGETHER Mark Ambor 38 NE 01 38 ANTICHRIST Eminem 39 29 05 26 NIGHTS LIKE THIS The Kid Laroi 40 34 205 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 41 33 76 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 42 30 23 15 STUMBLIN' IN Cyril 43 37 13 05 I CAN DO IT WITH A BROKEN HEART Taylor Swift 44 31 19 02 WE CAN'T BE FRIENDS (WAIT FOR YOUR LOVE) Ariana Grande 45 32 22 03 END OF BEGINNING Djo 46 NE 01 46 GUILTY CONSCIENCE 2 Eminem 47 NE 01 47 DID IT FIRST Ice Spice, Central Cee 48 NE 01 48 SOMEBODY SAVE ME Eminem 49 NE 01 49 TEMPORARY Eminem 50 41 04 41 HOT TO GO! Chappell Roan Bubbling Under Nothing this week! Albums 01 NE 001 01 THE DEATH OF SLIM SHADY (COUP DE GRÂCE) Eminem 02 01 009 01 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish 03 02 013 01 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Taylor Swift 04 NE 001 04 CHARM Clairo 05 04 014 04 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS Chappell Roan 06 07 006 03 BRAT Charli XCX 07 08 180 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 08 05 072 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 09 03 002 03 THE GREAT AMERICAN BAR SCENE Zach Bryan 10 NE 001 10 ONLY ONE MODE Speed 11 06 004 01 THE SECRET OF US Gracie Abrams 12 09 084 01 SOS SZA 13 11 065 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 14 10 165 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 15 12 256 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 16 13 038 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 17 14 045 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 18 15 208 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 19 20 443 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 20 45 008 04 I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING BUT THERAPY (PART 1) Teddy Swims 21 18 058 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 22 21 331 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 23 19 371 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 24 16 349 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 25 17 094 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 26 22 319 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 27 NE 001 27 VERTIGO Griff 28 NE 001 28 NOTHING TO SHOW Complete 29 24 014 07 PAPERCUTS Linkin Park 30 28 488 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 31 26 198 16 CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS Creedence Clearwater Revival 32 NE 001 32 X'S Cigarettes After Sex 33 29 426 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 34 36 140 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 35 30 259 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 36 33 277 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 37 27 019 01 ETERNAL SUNSHINE Ariana Grande 38 34 015 17 FIREWORKS & ROLLERBLADES Benson Boone 39 35 090 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 40 32 184 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 41 31 047 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 42 37 088 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 43 48 339 01 THE EMINEM SHOW Eminem 44 38 110 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 45 52 178 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 46 25 005 03 FATHERS & SONS Luke Combs 47 39 245 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 48 44 051 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 49 NE 001 49 INCARNATION In Hearts Wake 50 41 300 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" is #1 for a 3rd week. Back in 2019 it seemed as though the 24 week reign of "Dance Monkey" was a sign of the times going forward. 2024 seems to disagree because we've had 11 different #1 hits in about the same time frame. Maybe this is our new song to break this trend in the same way, just being slightly ahead of the competition for an extended period. Billie Eilish has started to dethrone him on Spotify, but Apple & iTunes are gonna require a much bigger margin to make it over the line. Eminem arrives with many new entries this week. With 13 songs in the top 50, it's the most he's ever simultaneously charted, but in 2018 he actually managed more debuts at once, with 12 new entries that week. My interesting anecdote of this is that "Guilty Conscience" actually never charted in Australia back in the day, so if you were simply following the top 50 without any outsider influence, you'd have no clue what this song is supposed to be a sequel to. You might not even know that the music video (but not the album version) has narration from the iconic Robert Culp. What's your favourite Columbo performance from him? Mine has got to be "Double Exposure" for the quintessential cat-and-mouse game that it is. The scene where he avoids implicating himself by driving to a not-yet-revealed murder location gets me every time. Ice Spice also debuts this week and for the first time ever, she has the first name on a charting entry. Sadly Australian music listeners are not even the fart, much less the shit. Also remember last week when I said that the Bubbling Under chart was on the verge of returning? This week was a massive boon in that as the bottom song on the New Music chart is #43 this week, with only 1 further eligible song in the top 50. Eminem might clear some space next week, but he's also contributing strongly to that chart so it might just cancel out in a couple of weeks. Eminem scores his 11th #1 album this week. You may also be willing to call it his 12th #1 album if you include the "8 Mile" soundtrack, but I'll leave that up to you. The mass exodus of his tracks on the streaming charts suggests a relatively short stay but he's probably good for a second week at least. In what can only be described as a massive plot twist, Clairo who has never made the top 50 before, now arrives at #4. This means that I've never had the chance to put a dreadfully bad joke in this column that causes everyone to walk out the door with their bags. Or to extend my fascination of how much Claire Rosinkranz's "don't miss me" sounds like a parody version of her fellow Claire's recently released "Amoeba". Anyway I need to get around to listening to this album because I heard an album track from it on the radio the other day that sounded pretty good but I don't remember what it was called. Anyway, this week's ACTUAL AUSTRALIAN CONTENT comes in threes, and somewhat different threes but also not really. It's not often that an Australian artist can surpass the tall-poppy syndrome (or the 'who?' syndrome) of our online comment sections, but there is genuinely quite a bit of enthusiasm for the hardcore group Speed. They had a top 5 EP a couple of years ago and now have a top 10 album. Also this week, I have often lamented the fact that the Australian hip-hop canon in the charts kind of just stopped building after around 2014, or just when The Kid LAROI decided to stop rapping. Anyway, we do have the return of Complete this week. Back in 2019 he had a #12 album, which has a song with 47 million plays on Spotify, real Hilltop Hoods numbers. He doesn't have that viral hit around this time but he does return to the top 50 this week. Lastly there's In Hearts Wake sneaking through. A Far cry from their frequent top 5 appearances but we take what we can get nowadays. In the midst of this, Griff & Cigarettes After Sex make their first appearances. Wouldn't have guessed they'd be in that order but whaddaya know.

Feel like a factor comes in that the constant influx of new, massive hits has dried up to an extent. Like the top 10 is still relatively fresh, but it's also still largely the same stuff from over a month ago, and that can only sustain itself for so long.

New Zealand have a chart vaguely of this nature, which tracks week-on-week gains on overall chart metrics plus airplay for some reason (which doesn't factor in the actual chart). If you're in the interest of seeing deeper cuts get some level of chart representation in the Anglosphere, then it's just about your best bet, but I don't think anyone's flocking to look at it now that I've said this. I find this approach just kind of leads to data for the sake of data and it's somewhat meaningless in terms of actually capturing audience habits in a meaningful way. How often is anyone's first listen to a song also their most profound experience with it? How often is it just finding out a notable artist has listened to a new song and checking it out to see if it's any good? I listen to nearly 100 new songs a week and only save about 5 or 6 of them for future listening. I'd hate for my chart contribution to just be one-to-one on everything I listened to, with all-time favourite and forgotten filler treated the same. It's actually my favourite thing about the prioritising of streams compared to downloads. You're actually weighting that significance with your listening habits. I understand that this leads to an inherently more 'boring' chart, but it's far more accurate. It's where I come at odds with any sort of chart tinkering generally. How much can people be willing to distort the reality for the sake of a more interesting picture? How cognizant of this distortion can one be while also convincing themselves that the Frankenchart holds credibility? It's like playing Chess against the same pre-programmed bot over and over again. Eventually you're gonna piece together its general procedure. The artifice of playing against an actual opponent will slip away, and it'll be boring.

Good fix would be to stop truncating credits to the point of ambiguity/omission. If they simply must have the excessive amount of empty space on the increasingly large chart presentation they've got, then just make some alt-text or something.

Think the fact that it regularly does pop up on Spotify tells the story enough. Probably 500K+ a week there, which over the course of an entire year makes for a pretty handy figure.

+5 Billie Eilish - BIRDS OF A FEATHER +4 Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy) +3 David Baddiel, Frank Skinner & The Lightning Seeds - Three Lions +2 Myles Smith - Stargazing +1 Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please -1 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso -2 Dasha - Austin -3 Post Malone - I Had Some Help -4 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! -5 Eminem - Houdini

I still maintain that it kind of was a one-off, or at the very least the most extreme culmination. From my recollection it took nearly 6 years for Taylor Swift to have 9 out of 10 on the weekly Spotify chart (and no one else has done it?), itself such an extreme she couldn't even do it with her latest album. But the doom-and-gloom posting of the time seemed to think that Ed's scale of domination was going to become the new normal.

CCR have been doing great numbers on Spotify for years. Both songs have been continuously on the Australian Spotify chart for the last 14 months, so probably just hovering around in the UK too.

I don't usually catch current hits out in the wild. "Beautiful Things" is the biggest hit of the year over here and I wouldn't know it exists if I didn't read the charts. With that in mind, Kendrick's stuff feels like it's making the most impact in my closed circle.

Another banger. Nice cheeky "Make You Mine" reference too ;)

Oh of course I should've thought of that :lol:

I will say with regards to newer songs on this list, I'm a little surprised "As It Was" isn't even higher. Obviously it's just one source, but it was top 50 of all time on Global Spotify by the end of 2022, and #5 nowadays (in less than a week it'll be #4 too!). It's a pretty big discrepancy to only be #53 on this list. link to bluesky post I made about the old vs. new streaming focus at the start of the year, this stuff interests me a lot.

15/07/2024 Singles 01 01 13 01 A BAR SONG (TIPSY) Shaboozey 02 02 13 01 ESPRESSO Sabrina Carpenter 03 03 05 01 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Sabrina Carpenter 04 04 08 04 BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish 05 09 10 05 NOT LIKE US Kendrick Lamar 06 05 09 01 I HAD SOME HELP Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen 07 06 11 01 MILLION DOLLAR BABY Tommy Richman 08 07 25 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 09 10 13 09 GOOD LUCK, BABE Chappell Roan 10 08 06 01 HOUDINI Eminem 11 11 16 01 TOO SWEET Hozier 12 12 18 10 AUSTIN Dasha 13 14 34 04 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 14 13 09 11 STARGAZING Myles Smith 15 15 12 01 FORTNIGHT Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone 16 19 07 12 PINK SKIES Zach Bryan 17 16 38 01 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 18 20 04 20 DEVIL IS A LIE Tommy Richman 19 21 02 19 GIRLS The Kid Laroi 20 17 08 05 LUNCH Billie Eilish 21 18 16 03 I LIKE THE WAY YOU KISS ME Artemas 22 24 46 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan Feat. Kacey Musgraves 23 23 68 01 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 24 22 07 09 BAND4BAND Central Cee feat. Lil Baby 25 28 104 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 26 25 26 12 SCARED TO START Michael Marcagi 27 29 16 22 SLOW IT DOWN Benson Boone 28 27 16 18 BELONG TOGETHER Mark Ambor 29 26 04 26 NIGHTS LIKE THIS The Kid Laroi 30 31 22 15 STUMBLIN' IN Cyril 31 30 18 02 WE CAN'T BE FRIENDS (WAIT FOR YOUR LOVE) Ariana Grande 32 32 21 03 END OF BEGINNING Djo 33 34 75 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 34 37 204 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 35 NE 01 35 LIES LIES LIES Morgan Wallen 36 35 08 07 CHIHIRO Billie Eilish 37 36 12 05 I CAN DO IT WITH A BROKEN HEART Taylor Swift 38 NE 01 38 TOBEY Eminem, Big Sean, BabyTron 39 38 43 02 GREEDY Tate McRae 40 NE 01 40 TOUGH Quavo, Lana Del Rey 41 43 03 41 HOT TO GO! Chappell Roan 42 40 67 02 FAST CAR Luke Combs 43 44 61 35 THINKIN' BOUT ME Morgan Wallen 44 50 04 44 MISSES Dominic Fike 45 48 16 08 LIKE THAT Future, Metro Boomin 46 49 20 08 SATURN SZA 47 51 211 19 MR BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 48 53 03 48 KEHLANI Jordan Adetunji 49 NE 01 49 28 Zach Bryan 50 58 05 20 360 Charli XCX Bubbling Under Nothing this week! Albums 01 02 008 01 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish 02 01 012 01 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Taylor Swift 03 NE 001 03 THE GREAT AMERICAN BAR SCENE Zach Bryan 04 04 013 04 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS Chappell Roan 05 05 071 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 06 03 003 01 THE SECRET OF US Gracie Abrams 07 07 005 03 BRAT Charli XCX 08 06 179 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 09 09 083 01 SOS SZA 10 10 164 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 11 08 064 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 12 13 255 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 13 12 037 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 14 14 044 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 15 15 207 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 16 22 348 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 17 20 093 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 18 21 057 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 19 18 370 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 20 16 442 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 21 19 330 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 22 26 318 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 23 NE 001 23 BURNT TAPES Eves Karydas 24 24 013 07 PAPERCUTS Linkin Park 25 23 004 03 FATHERS & SONS Luke Combs 26 25 197 16 CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS Creedence Clearwater Revival 27 28 018 01 ETERNAL SUNSHINE Ariana Grande 28 27 487 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 29 33 425 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 30 35 258 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 31 32 046 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 32 34 183 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 33 39 276 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 34 31 014 17 FIREWORKS & ROLLERBLADES Benson Boone 35 38 089 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 36 41 139 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 37 37 087 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 38 36 109 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 39 50 244 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 40 30 004 06 NEW WORLD DEPRESSION $uicideboy$ 41 48 299 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 42 44 190 01 BORN TO DIE Lana Del Rey 43 46 310 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 44 42 050 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 45 RE 007 04 I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING BUT THERAPY (PART 1) Teddy Swims 46 52 247 02 DAMN. Kendrick Lamar 47 43 010 02 RADICAL OPTIMISM Dua Lipa 48 49 338 01 THE EMINEM SHOW Eminem 49 55 384 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 50 45 024 27 EMAILS I CAN'T SEND Sabrina Carpenter I dunno about y'all but I did get to see the Lions win a football game on Sunday, it was a great time. "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" is #1 for a second week. You know what they say, the chart is very equilibrium based so once you get to the top spot, it's hard to naturally be unseated. This flies in the face of the very rapid turn around at the top lately but I posit that in the past month there hasn't been much in the way of that constant stream of new smash hits. You may have forgotten that the Bubbling Under section exists in this thread, as it's gone AWOL for 10 weeks straight, to the point that the bottom song on the New Music chart has often been in the top 30 lately! That might be changing soon as the crop of new hits that ushered in this era are all about to age out of it. "i like the way you kiss me", "Too Sweet" and "Slow It Down" are all leaving it this week. Eminem's new album should fill in the gaps next week but I can't say for sure they'll be sticking around. There's not much else to talk about this week. We've got a handful of debuts, it's a first time on the chart for BabyTron, but in keeping with the chart slow down, none are especially zooming up the chart right now. Yes it is very funny that "360" actually managed to debut 2 weeks after I thought it wasn't going to. Billie Eilish returns to #1 for a 5th week. Zach Bryan still can't make the stars align. His self-titled album entered at #2 behind a re-issue, now he's stuck still unable to match the lingering streams of these two months old albums. If you're a fan of neat little patterns and I'm sure you are, then you'll be delighted to know that all of last week's debuts dropped out of the top 50, and nothing else. I don't think that will happen again next week but we also only have two debuts. For the other one, if you ever want to make a throwaway joke about an artist who keeps changing their stage name but don't want to talk about that guy anymore, then I present Eves Karydas because it's the 4th name she's put out music under. I'm actually surprised to realise that this is her first top 50 album because I would've guessed her previous album entered in the top 10 but I digress. I'm going to digress even further because it presents me an opportunity to highlight the state of the industry in a way that's judgemental to you, strawman. Eves was signed to a major label in 2014. She never really hit it big but her early singles did pretty well on the iTunes chart, and a couple more since then have gotten certifications. In 2022 she posted an essay on Instagram about her experience as a woman in the music industry. About how she was essentially forced to objectify herself to be marketable and would spend more time working on that than actually making music. Definitely worth a read and worth doing some self-reflection as to whether or not you are more likely to listen to music made by a woman if she's physically attractive and whether you're a cog in that supposedly sexist music industry that is equally just reciprocating the whims of its buyers. She ended the post by announcing that she was going independent, and she has done so for this album with no label or manager. As literally the only Australian album in the top 50 this week, this can be seen as a success I think. I've been enjoying recently. I don't do much parasocial media so I mostly don't know what they look like. Your favourite pop star is not going to ever be romantically linked to you, I'm sorry. Also if you feel slighted by this strawman, I apologise. But to re-iterate, it's very valuable to self-reflect on these things, I know I have. Oh and Teddy Swims is currently in the country. That's why his album re-entered and he's gonna climb even more next week.

I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the 3rd album in a row that Eminem's had a delayed physical release on, it's pretty expected at this point.

I get that it's generally an SEO thing but I find it funny because Spotify's search engine is already built for people who don't know the names of songs :lol:

+5 Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us +4 Billie Eilish - BIRDS OF A FEATHER +3 Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy) +2 Myles Smith - Stargazing +1 Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please -1 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso -2 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! -3 Dasha - Austin -4 Post Malone - I Had Some Help -5 Eminem - Houdini

08/07/2024 Singles 01 02 12 01 A BAR SONG (TIPSY) Shaboozey 02 03 12 01 ESPRESSO Sabrina Carpenter 03 01 04 01 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Sabrina Carpenter 04 05 07 04 BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish 05 04 08 01 I HAD SOME HELP Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen 06 06 10 01 MILLION DOLLAR BABY Tommy Richman 07 08 24 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 08 07 05 01 HOUDINI Eminem 09 09 09 05 NOT LIKE US Kendrick Lamar 10 12 12 10 GOOD LUCK, BABE Chappell Roan 11 10 15 01 TOO SWEET Hozier 12 11 17 10 AUSTIN Dasha 13 13 08 11 STARGAZING Myles Smith 14 14 33 04 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 15 15 11 01 FORTNIGHT Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone 16 17 37 01 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 17 16 07 05 LUNCH Billie Eilish 18 18 15 03 I LIKE THE WAY YOU KISS ME Artemas 19 20 06 12 PINK SKIES Zach Bryan 20 27 03 20 DEVIL IS A LIE Tommy Richman 21 NE 01 21 GIRLS The Kid Laroi 22 19 06 09 BAND4BAND Central Cee feat. Lil Baby 23 22 67 01 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 24 23 45 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan Feat. Kacey Musgraves 25 21 25 12 SCARED TO START Michael Marcagi 26 48 03 26 NIGHTS LIKE THIS The Kid Laroi 27 30 15 18 BELONG TOGETHER Mark Ambor 28 31 103 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 29 24 15 22 SLOW IT DOWN Benson Boone 30 26 17 02 WE CAN'T BE FRIENDS (WAIT FOR YOUR LOVE) Ariana Grande 31 32 21 15 STUMBLIN' IN Cyril 32 28 20 03 END OF BEGINNING Djo 33 33 02 33 POUR ME A DRINK Post Malone feat. Blake Shelton 34 35 74 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 35 29 07 07 CHIHIRO Billie Eilish 36 34 11 05 I CAN DO IT WITH A BROKEN HEART Taylor Swift 37 37 203 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 38 42 42 02 GREEDY Tate McRae 39 38 46 03 PRADA Casso x Raye x D-Block Europe 40 44 66 02 FAST CAR Luke Combs 41 39 27 23 FEATHER Sabrina Carpenter 42 47 116 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 43 58 02 43 HOT TO GO! Chappell Roan 44 43 60 35 THINKIN' BOUT ME Morgan Wallen 45 36 04 34 CLOSE TO YOU Gracie Abrams 46 40 34 01 LOVIN ON ME Jack Harlow 47 25 02 25 US. Gracie Abrams feat. Taylor Swift 48 41 15 08 LIKE THAT Future, Metro Boomin 49 49 19 08 SATURN SZA 50 68 03 50 MISSES Dominic Fike Bubbling Under Nothing this week! Albums 01 03 011 01 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Taylor Swift 02 02 007 01 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish 03 01 002 01 THE SECRET OF US Gracie Abrams 04 07 012 04 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS Chappell Roan 05 05 070 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 06 06 178 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 07 04 004 03 BRAT Charli XCX 08 12 063 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 09 11 082 01 SOS SZA 10 10 163 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 11 NE 001 11 GOD SAID NO Omar Apollo 12 16 036 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 13 14 254 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 14 13 043 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 15 17 206 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 16 20 441 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 17 NE 001 17 LOOM Imagine Dragons 18 21 369 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 19 22 329 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 20 18 092 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 21 24 056 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 22 19 347 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 23 09 003 03 FATHERS & SONS Luke Combs 24 23 012 07 PAPERCUTS Linkin Park 25 27 196 16 CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS Creedence Clearwater Revival 26 26 317 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 27 30 486 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 28 25 017 01 ETERNAL SUNSHINE Ariana Grande 29 NE 001 29 C,XOXO Camila Cabello 30 15 003 06 NEW WORLD DEPRESSION $uicideboy$ 31 28 013 17 FIREWORKS & ROLLERBLADES Benson Boone 32 29 045 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 33 31 424 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 34 32 182 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 35 34 257 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 36 38 108 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 37 35 086 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 38 40 088 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 39 37 275 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 40 NE 001 40 LOVE HEART CHEAT CODE Hiatus Kaiyote 41 52 138 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 42 42 049 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 43 36 009 02 RADICAL OPTIMISM Dua Lipa 44 47 189 01 BORN TO DIE Lana Del Rey 45 39 023 27 EMAILS I CAN'T SEND Sabrina Carpenter 46 45 309 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 47 NE 001 47 YOUTH IS WASTED ON THE YOUNG Maundz 48 43 298 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 49 50 337 01 THE EMINEM SHOW Eminem 50 46 243 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs In one of those uncharacteristic instances, a song has gotten to #1 in a manner that is neither prompt nor forced upon us with a tacky remix boost. The stars finally align for Shaboozey to take the top spot. This makes for probably at least 2 songs that got to #1 thanks to strong iTunes sales this year, possibly 3 as I'm not sure about "Houdini". I can never really read into YouTube stats until after the fact so there is a slight possibility that "Not Like Us" could climb to the top spot but I suspect the top 3 are probably out of reach. Speaking of the top 3 being out of reach, Billie Eilish now has a new highest charting song from the current album as "BIRDS OF A FEATHER" gets to #4. Chappell Roan also has a top 10 hit and a further entry lower down, we are nothing if not just a pale imitation of all the other charts. But we have one thing the other countries don't which is the NEW AUSTRALIAN MUSIC KLAXON. It's almost as rare as a North Melbourne win and we were even blessed with that this weekend. The Kid LAROI actually has two songs in the top 30 this week as "NIGHTS LIKE THIS" also has a big climb. I would really be highly amused if it got nominated for a Single Of The Year ARIA Award but I suspect it's too late in the year to accumulate the sales if they haven't tracked its sales prior to this month. That makes 5 new Australian songs in the top 50 this year. Sneaking into the top 50 this week is Dominic Fike, who despite many minor successes, is only just now getting a second top 50 hit after "3 Nights". Given the relative streaming numbers on Spotify, I'd hazard a guess that the album chart was decided by pure sales as well as Taylor Swift returns to #1 for a 5th week. Chappell Roan has also climbed all the way up to #4, probably too far away to catch the top 2 unless she really maintains this momentum for several more weeks. He's kept out of the top 10 by a fellow 'starts and ends with O', but Omar Apollo has his first charting album this week at a not-too-shabby #11. Behind him is Imagine Dragons, who notably started their chart career off with 4 #4 albums but have found themselves in double digits ever since. This is their lowest charting album but not by very much. Camila Cabello's last album came with a pretty big hit but only debuted at #27, all things considered maybe #29 is a relative success? Lastly our weekly Australian 1 week content comes from Hiatus Kaiyote & Maundz. Both have charted two albums before this although Hiatus Kaiyote's last landed at #4, so this is a bit of a drop off. Once again Luke Combs' 2nd album is at #50, it has still never left the top 50 for a week, but continues to be on thin ice.

+5 Billie Eilish - BIRDS OF A FEATHER +4 Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy) +3 Central Cee & Lil Baby - BAND4BAND +2 Myles Smith - Stargazing +1 Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please -1 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso -2 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! -3 Dasha - Austin -4 Post Malone - I Had Some Help -5 Eminem - Houdini

This is a very minor one (I didn't realise until checking now that it never charted in the UK, just top 50 on the download chart which maybe was modestly close), but in 2016 Halsey did a triple j Like A Version cover of Justin Bieber's "Love Yourself" but with the ha ha twist they say the rude word that Justin's only implying ha ha. It would've aired on the radio in mid-January except...David Bowie died, and the station decided to switch out on the weekly segment and do a David Bowie cover. Halsey's segment would end up getting delayed a couple of weeks (they'd already recorded it and left the country but they sometimes air them on a delay). In this interim period, another cover of the song with the same premise by Yo Preston & Kelly Kiara goes viral briefly, before going viral a second time and becoming a top 20 hit in Australia and briefly top 20 on UK iTunes. I can't help but wonder if Halsey's version had already made it online before that first stint, even though it never got put on DSPs, there's a chance that the second version loses its novelty factor and never takes off. Mainly I just like to entertain that David Bowie dying is responsible for it being a hit.

I don't think of this as especially a fluke. Maybe getting to #1 exceeds expectations, but the song was released through Atlantic Records and they farmed cheap virality out of it. Her not getting another major hit is just standard bad artist management. Proper flukes I find are hard to come by. I'd think something like "Harness Your Hopes", the random b-side that became Pavement's career defining song due to an algorithm quirk, except that's never really charted. Maybe Richy Mitch is something similar but I've never really looked into it. Maybe that fake JLS song :lol:

01/07/2024 Singles 01 01 03 01 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Sabrina Carpenter 02 03 11 02 A BAR SONG (TIPSY) Shaboozey 03 02 11 01 ESPRESSO Sabrina Carpenter 04 06 07 01 I HAD SOME HELP Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen 05 05 06 05 BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish 06 07 09 01 MILLION DOLLAR BABY Tommy Richman 07 04 04 01 HOUDINI Eminem 08 08 23 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 09 17 08 05 NOT LIKE US Kendrick Lamar 10 09 14 01 TOO SWEET Hozier 11 10 16 10 AUSTIN Dasha 12 20 11 12 GOOD LUCK, BABE Chappell Roan 13 11 07 11 STARGAZING Myles Smith 14 15 32 04 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 15 16 10 01 FORTNIGHT Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone 16 12 06 05 LUNCH Billie Eilish 17 19 36 01 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 18 18 14 03 I LIKE THE WAY YOU KISS ME Artemas 19 14 05 09 BAND4BAND Central Cee feat. Lil Baby 20 13 05 12 PINK SKIES Zach Bryan 21 23 24 12 SCARED TO START Michael Marcagi 22 25 66 01 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 23 24 44 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan Feat. Kacey Musgraves 24 22 14 22 SLOW IT DOWN Benson Boone 25 NE 01 25 US. Gracie Abrams feat. Taylor Swift 26 26 16 02 WE CAN'T BE FRIENDS (WAIT FOR YOUR LOVE) Ariana Grande 27 60 02 27 DEVIL IS A LIE Tommy Richman 28 28 19 03 END OF BEGINNING Djo 29 21 06 07 CHIHIRO Billie Eilish 30 27 14 18 BELONG TOGETHER Mark Ambor 31 29 102 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 32 31 20 15 STUMBLIN' IN Cyril 33 NE 01 33 POUR ME A DRINK Post Malone feat. Blake Shelton 34 30 10 05 I CAN DO IT WITH A BROKEN HEART Taylor Swift 35 32 73 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 36 34 03 34 CLOSE TO YOU Gracie Abrams 37 36 202 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 38 35 45 03 PRADA Casso x Raye x D-Block Europe 39 37 26 23 FEATHER Sabrina Carpenter 40 40 33 01 LOVIN ON ME Jack Harlow 41 45 14 08 LIKE THAT Future, Metro Boomin 42 39 41 02 GREEDY Tate McRae 43 44 59 35 THINKIN' BOUT ME Morgan Wallen 44 43 65 02 FAST CAR Luke Combs 45 33 06 14 WILDFLOWER Billie Eilish 46 RE 06 28 THE BOY IS MINE Ariana Grande 47 51 115 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 48 93 02 48 NIGHTS LIKE THIS The Kid Laroi 49 41 18 08 SATURN SZA 50 NE 01 50 GIRL, SO CONFUSING Charli XCX Bubbling Under Nothing this week! Albums 01 NE 001 01 THE SECRET OF US Gracie Abrams 02 01 006 01 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish 03 02 010 01 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Taylor Swift 04 05 003 03 BRAT Charli XCX 05 07 069 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 06 08 177 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 07 14 011 07 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS Chappell Roan 08 NE 001 08 ZORA Sheppard 09 03 002 03 FATHERS & SONS Luke Combs 10 10 162 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 11 09 081 01 SOS SZA 12 11 062 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 13 13 042 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 14 17 253 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 15 06 002 06 NEW WORLD DEPRESSION $uicideboy$ 16 18 035 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 17 19 205 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 18 21 091 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 19 22 346 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 20 20 440 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 21 25 368 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 22 23 328 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 23 27 011 07 PAPERCUTS Linkin Park 24 26 055 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 25 24 016 01 ETERNAL SUNSHINE Ariana Grande 26 28 316 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 27 30 195 16 CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS Creedence Clearwater Revival 28 29 012 17 FIREWORKS & ROLLERBLADES Benson Boone 29 33 044 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 30 31 485 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 31 36 423 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 32 34 181 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 33 16 002 16 HARDSTONE PSYCHO Don Toliver 34 37 256 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 35 41 085 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 36 35 008 02 RADICAL OPTIMISM Dua Lipa 37 39 274 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 38 40 107 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 39 38 022 27 EMAILS I CAN'T SEND Sabrina Carpenter 40 42 087 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 41 32 005 04 POST HUMAN: NEX GEN Bring Me The Horizon 42 46 048 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 43 45 297 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 44 52 245 02 DAMN. Kendrick Lamar 45 48 308 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 46 47 242 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 47 51 188 01 BORN TO DIE Lana Del Rey 48 NE 001 48 I WANT TO DISAPPEAR The Story So Far 49 NE 001 49 STUNG! Pond 50 43 336 01 THE EMINEM SHOW Eminem "Please Please Please" is #1 for a second week. Will it be #1 next week? Maybe. Shaboozey is back to #2 and is definitely thinning the margin but it might not be enough. We have multiple new arrivals that don't look to necessarily break through to the top but I guess something has to eventually. Gracie Abrams picks up another entry, but unless it finds some second wind, the story of "us." looks a lot like a tragedy. It'll last a second week in the top 50 for sure though. Maybe more likely to climb is Tommy Richman who not only has a second song in the top 50 but now we also have a second song in the top 50 that tells us the devil is a lie. The other one rebounds a lot this week for completely unrelated reasons. I'm a little surprised to say that Blake Shelton is getting his first ever top 50 hit this week. Ariana Grande returns thanks to the new version of "the boy is mine", a reminder that the song's peak position is borked because something weird happened on the week it debuted and it should've charted a lot higher. Charli XCX debuts thanks to the new version of "girl, so confusing". Neither version is in the top 200 on Spotify anymore so I have no idea what it's gonna do but this looks like a one week wonder. "360" looked like it was getting pretty close to the top 50 but doesn't appear to be happening anymore. Also most importantly, Australian music is now saved thanks to an 80 second interlude by The Kid LAROI. That's time to ring out the NEW AUSTRALIAN MUSIC KLAXON although technically it doesn't qualify under the New Music chart rules. We're up to 4 new Australian songs in the top 50 this week, and the 4 month gap has served us with some potential energy as The Kid LAROI is gonna get ANOTHER top 50 hit next week. Once again nepotism has struck and the top end of the album chart has to contend with another album funded by the crimes against humanity committed by the artist's father. But enough about Sheppard, we've got a new #1 album from Gracie Abrams. In what has been a bumper year for mostly massive pop stars getting the #1 slot week in week out, this could be a relative tide-turn. On the other hand, Taylor Swift is on this album so maybe it doesn't really count. Just sneaking into the top 50 this week, The Story So Far missed with their last album but return to get a second top 50. Pond are usually more reliable for a top 50 placement, but they're quite a way down from the top 10 finish on their previous album.

+5 Tommy Richman - MILLION DOLLAR BABY +4 Billie Eilish - BIRDS OF A FEATHER +3 Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy) +2 Myles Smith - Stargazing +1 Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please -1 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! -2 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso -3 Dasha - Austin -4 Post Malone - I Had Some Help -5 Eminem - Houdini