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05/06/2023 Singles 01 01 17 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 02 61 09 02 KARMA Taylor Swift 03 02 10 02 THE BEGINNING: CUPID Fifty Fifty 04 03 20 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 05 05 09 05 FAST CAR Luke Combs 06 04 07 04 DAYLIGHT David Kushner 07 06 17 02 BOY'S A LIAR PinkPantheress 08 07 25 01 KILL BILL SZA 09 08 44 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 10 11 32 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 11 09 03 09 ALL MY LIFE Lil Durk feat. J. Cole 12 RE 07 03 SNOW ON THE BEACH Taylor Swift feat. Lana Del Rey 13 15 12 13 MIRACLE Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding 14 10 41 08 UNTIL I FOUND YOU Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold 15 12 61 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 16 NE 01 16 HITS DIFFERENT Taylor Swift 17 13 26 07 CREEPIN' Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 18 14 52 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 19 16 26 03 ESCAPISM. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 20 19 46 15 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 21 17 39 12 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 22 NE 01 22 DANCE THE NIGHT (FROM BARBIE THE ALBUM) Dua Lipa 23 18 20 07 PLAYERS Coi Leray 24 21 10 06 EYES CLOSED Ed Sheeran 25 26 20 22 PEOPLE Libianca 26 24 19 06 SURE THING Miguel 27 30 03 27 AREA CODES Kali 28 20 02 20 SAY YES TO HEAVEN Lana Del Rey 29 RE 36 04 THE BEST Tina Turner 30 25 146 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 31 29 147 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 32 NE 01 32 AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar 33 28 07 14 CHEMICAL Post Malone 34 32 25 20 YOU PROOF Morgan Wallen 35 31 90 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 36 37 47 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 37 34 26 13 10:35 Tiësto & Tate McRae 38 33 19 19 GREEN GREEN GRASS George Ezra 39 35 07 28 SEE YOU AGAIN Tyler, The Creator 40 44 109 40 NO ROLE MODELZ J. Cole 41 38 36 01 UNHOLY Sam Smith feat. Kim Petras 42 36 218 04 SOMEONE YOU LOVED Lewis Capaldi 43 52 13 43 MONEY TREES Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock 44 27 07 23 WISH YOU THE BEST Lewis Capaldi 45 45 153 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 46 43 40 01 I'M GOOD (BLUE) David Guetta feat. Bebe Rexha 47 41 125 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 48 46 94 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 49 42 55 21 ANOTHER LOVE Tom Odell 50 40 39 29 GOLDEN HOUR JVKE Bubbling 13 (10) LIFE GOES ON Ed Sheeran feat. Luke Combs 14 (09) MATHEMATICAL DISRESPECT Lil Mabu 15 (14) PADAM PADAM Kylie Minogue 16 (15) NEVER FELT SO ALONE Labrinth 17 (18) BABY DON'T HURT ME David Guetta, Anne-Marie & Coi Leray 18 (19) THINKIN' BOUT ME Morgan Wallen 19 (17) STRAIGHT AND NARROW Sam Barber 20 (20) RHYME DUST MK & Dom Dolla Albums 01 07 032 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 02 NE 001 02 WHERE THE LIGHT GOES Matchbox Twenty 03 NE 001 03 THE BARNESTORMERS The Barnestormers 04 NE 001 04 BOY & BEAR Boy & Bear 05 06 013 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 06 04 004 01 - Ed Sheeran 07 05 025 01 SOS SZA 08 09 121 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 09 02 002 02 JOHN FARNHAM: FINDING THE VOICE (MUSIC FROM THE FEATURE DOCUMENTARY) Soundtrack 10 11 054 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 11 12 449 01 1989 Taylor Swift 12 13 200 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 13 01 002 01 BROKEN BY DESIRE TO BE HEAVENLY SENT Lewis Capaldi 14 14 010 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 15 18 197 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 16 19 260 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 17 28 002 17 ALL THE BEST Tina Turner 18 17 290 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 19 20 026 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 20 23 149 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 21 15 004 09 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3: AWESOME MIX VOL. 3 Soundtrack 22 21 006 16 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 23 22 384 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 24 25 326 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 25 24 106 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 26 26 272 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 27 27 125 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 28 29 312 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 29 31 181 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 30 33 429 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 31 35 031 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 32 NE 001 32 ALMOST HEALED Lil Durk 33 NE 001 33 WHERE ONLY MEMORY CAN FIND YOU Mick Thomas & the Roving Commission 34 30 211 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 35 37 043 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 36 34 186 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 37 03 002 03 TAKE ME BACK TO EDEN Sleep Token 38 43 009 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 39 36 257 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 40 39 166 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 41 38 164 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 42 44 367 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 43 40 218 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 44 32 198 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay 45 41 081 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 46 45 051 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 47 42 083 01 = Ed Sheeran 48 48 119 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 49 47 241 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 50 52 252 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day "Last Night" is #1 for an 8th week, but could this be it? You're probably aware of Dave & Central Cee putting out an EP this week and "Sprinter" is making an Usain Bolt dash for the top spot. Only I don't have enough info to really call the race. You'd think the 115K gap they pushed last night on Spotify would be enough, but Morgan Wallen remains very solid on digital sales. He's also still #1 on Apple although that might be because "Sprinter" is split into two versions there and it's anyone's guess where #4 and #59 combined gets you there. No doubt though it'll be a new chart peak for both of them. Speaking of new peaks, it was almost a race last week except that "Karma" dropped off a cliff during the week and couldn't maintain its strength. So it did enough to pick up #2, a step up from its #9 peak last year (you could say this is the second time that it's been bested by only one non-Taylor Swift song). Taylor Swift also arrives a further two times in the top 20. Debuting behind them is Dua Lipa who I'm pretty sure will climb next week but we don't know yet if it's just algorithm funnies. Certainly Hot Hits Australia is being very kind to the song. Might also be worth noting that Dua Lipa still maintains having been in the top 50 every single week of this decade, and with "Cold Heart" perhaps finally being on the brink of leaving, it's good timing for this arrival. Tina Turner's sole return to the chart this week is "The Best", which is not her highest charting song ("What's Love Got To Do With It" and "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)" both hit #1), but it is a song with a certain connection to Australia, due to its use in advertisements for Rugby League. Or so I'm told. I live on the other side of the Barassi Line so I know hardly anything about the NRL. I have perhaps mentioned before that ARIA requires every entry on the chart to be manually submitted and if not done at the start of the tracking week, that can take a week to process. What I'm saying is that Beyonce belatedly arrives after being needlessly omitted last week (actually there's a point to Morgan Wallen's favour next week, we can't be certain Dave & Cench will absolutely chart). At long last, J. Cole's "No Role Modelz" is a top 40 hit, and in similar respects, after just missing the top 50 a few years ago, Kendrick Lamar has finally cracked the top 50 with "Money Trees". "Swimming Pools (Drank)" made the top 100 back in 2013 so this is actually the first ever top 50 entry from "good kid, m.A.A.d city", and I'm fairly sure it's also the only top 50 hit with writing credits for Beach House. Pog to be sure. The abrupt arrival of Taylor Swift's entries effectively replaces some abrupt entries, as Ed Sheeran & Lil Mabu plummet quite hard this week. Kylie Minogue has faired a bit better (relatively), though I couldn't tell you if she's poised to climb back into the top 50 as her streaming gains need to better offset her digital declines. Taylor Swift's deluxe antics naturally return her to the top spot on the album chart, which is unlucky for several artists who in fairness have seen the top spot before. The words Matchbox Twenty might not mean much in the UK, but they've always been a big deal over here. The majority of their albums + "Exile On Main Street" have all hit the top spot, and this new one is only their second to miss out (2002's "More Than You Think You Are" climbed to #3 in 2003, which of course means that Delta Goodrem was in front of them). Earlier this year I just so happened to see an episode of RocKwiz with Jimmy Barnes on it where he revealed the existence of a rockabilly super group with Chris Cheney from The Living End and Slim Jim Phantom from the Stray Cats. They've also got Kevin Shirley & Jools Holland in tow. That arrives this week as The Barnestormers, a pun that Jimmy Barnes has already used before for a 1988 live album which went to #1. On the more relaxed side of Australian rock & roll, we've got Boy & Bear, two time #1 album getters who reverse their fortune to arrive at #4 this week, after their last album only got to #9. My son Lil Durk gets his second top 50 album and first that's a solo project. Also going solo, we've got Mick Thomas and the Roving Commission charting for the first time. Who's that you say? Why Mick Thomas is the frontman for early '90s hit band Weddings, Parties, Anything, I'm sure that settles things.

+5 Rema & Selena Gomez - Calm Down +4 Lewis Capaldi - Wish You The Best +3 Loreen - Tattoo +2 Calvin Harris - Miracle +1 Ed Sheeran - Eyes Closed -1 David Kushner - Daylight -2 Lana Del Rey - Say Yes To Heaven -3 Switch Disco - React -4 Harry Styles - As It Was do not support Belters Only

Highest to my knowledge is "Doja" at #14.

Yeah I was wondering about "Snow On The Beach" just after I made my post, seems likely. Can't think of a case of this happening to a song that was already freefalling so I'm curious how this develops over the next 7 days :heehee:

Think there might be an auto-play booster in play with the "Karma" remix too, haven't had time to check every individual chart but it's gone from plummeting every day globally to a solid 34 place jump today.

29/05/2023 Singles 01 01 16 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 02 02 09 02 THE BEGINNING: CUPID Fifty Fifty 03 03 19 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 04 04 06 04 DAYLIGHT David Kushner 05 07 08 05 FAST CAR Luke Combs 06 05 16 02 BOY'S A LIAR PinkPantheress 07 06 24 01 KILL BILL SZA 08 08 43 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 09 23 02 09 ALL MY LIFE Lil Durk feat. J. Cole 10 10 40 08 UNTIL I FOUND YOU Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold 11 09 31 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 12 11 60 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 13 15 25 07 CREEPIN' Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 14 13 51 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 15 18 11 15 MIRACLE Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding 16 14 25 03 ESCAPISM. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 17 16 38 12 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 18 17 19 07 PLAYERS Coi Leray 19 19 45 15 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 20 NE 01 20 SAY YES TO HEAVEN Lana Del Rey 21 12 09 06 EYES CLOSED Ed Sheeran 22 21 02 21 MATHEMATICAL DISRESPECT Lil Mabu 23 31 02 23 LIFE GOES ON Ed Sheeran feat. Luke Combs 24 20 18 06 SURE THING Miguel 25 34 145 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 26 22 19 22 PEOPLE Libianca 27 33 06 23 WISH YOU THE BEST Lewis Capaldi 28 27 06 14 CHEMICAL Post Malone 29 30 146 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 30 52 02 30 AREA CODES Kali 31 25 89 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 32 29 24 20 YOU PROOF Morgan Wallen 33 24 18 19 GREEN GREEN GRASS George Ezra 34 26 25 13 10:35 Tiësto & Tate McRae 35 28 06 28 SEE YOU AGAIN Tyler, The Creator 36 35 217 04 SOMEONE YOU LOVED Lewis Capaldi 37 36 46 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 38 32 35 01 UNHOLY Sam Smith feat. Kim Petras 39 NE 01 39 PADAM PADAM Kylie Minogue 40 37 38 29 GOLDEN HOUR JVKE 41 41 124 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 42 39 54 21 ANOTHER LOVE Tom Odell 43 38 39 01 I'M GOOD (BLUE) David Guetta feat. Bebe Rexha 44 43 108 43 NO ROLE MODELZ J. Cole 45 44 152 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 46 45 93 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 47 47 20 46 SNOOZE SZA 48 40 06 28 NEVER FELT SO ALONE Labrinth 49 42 100 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 50 NE 01 50 MOURNING Post Malone Bubbling 17 (13) STRAIGHT AND NARROW Sam Barber 18 (22) BABY DON'T HURT ME David Guetta, Anne-Marie & Coi Leray 19 (19) THINKIN' BOUT ME Morgan Wallen 20 (18) RHYME DUST MK & Dom Dolla Albums 01 NE 001 01 BROKEN BY DESIRE TO BE HEAVENLY SENT Lewis Capaldi 02 NE 001 02 JOHN FARNHAM: FINDING THE VOICE (MUSIC FROM THE FEATURE DOCUMENTARY) Soundtrack 03 NE 001 03 TAKE ME BACK TO EDEN Sleep Token 04 01 003 01 - Ed Sheeran 05 10 024 01 SOS SZA 06 04 012 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 07 03 031 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 08 NE 001 08 LAST OF YOUR KIND The Vanns 09 05 120 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 10 NE 001 10 HOO HA! Bad//Dreems 11 08 053 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 12 11 448 01 1989 Taylor Swift 13 13 199 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 14 12 009 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 15 09 003 09 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3: AWESOME MIX VOL. 3 Soundtrack 16 NE 001 16 BEST OF Pete Murray 17 17 289 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 18 16 196 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 19 18 259 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 20 19 025 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 21 21 005 16 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 22 23 383 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 23 22 148 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 24 28 105 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 25 24 325 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 26 26 271 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 27 30 124 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 28 NE 001 28 ALL THE BEST Tina Turner 29 31 311 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 30 34 210 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 31 32 180 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 32 29 197 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay 33 35 428 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 34 38 185 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 35 42 030 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 36 37 256 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 37 43 042 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 38 41 163 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 39 44 165 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 40 39 217 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 41 40 080 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 42 36 082 01 = Ed Sheeran 43 RE 008 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 44 45 366 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 45 47 050 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 46 NE 001 46 DRASTIC SYMPHONIES Def Leppard 47 51 240 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 48 46 118 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 49 48 092 01 SPEAK NOW Taylor Swift 50 15 002 15 EUROVISION SONG CONTEST LIVERPOOL 2023 Various "Last Night" is #1 for a 7th week. It is dropping, but not as fast as anything near it so its lead is getting incredulously larger, while simultaneously our country is not interested in discovering anything new to take over. Of note this week, J. Cole has his first ever top 10 hit, guesting on "All My Life". Lana Del Rey has been allowed to debut on the chart, as has Kylie Minogue and Post Malone. Why yes that is an unusual way to phrase that but of course I must note that Beyonce was not given such liberty. Kali also jumps into the top 50 for the first time. Tragically the original Ludacris & Nate Dogg track never quite did. Also Lewis Capaldi makes history again as "Someone You Loved" is again the equal longest running top 50 hit. I am using top 100 weeks here, but on top 50 weeks, it equals "Blinding Lights" on 136, and with them both gaining 1 per week, it makes it quite difficult for "Heat Waves" to catch up which is 7 weeks behind. Lewis will be in the country again in July so any suspicion that the song is starting to drop off is irrelevant, we're never getting rid of it. That being said with a busy week of new entries, the Bubbling Under chart is slim on giving us new information. After all this time though, "Baby Don't Hurt Me" has gotten the playlist treatment (and quite high up too) which is rocketing it up, not to the extent that it's threatening the top 50 yet but give it time. For the first time ever, Lewis Capaldi is #1 in Australia. In fact the #4 peak of "Someone You Loved" was the highest he'd ever charted before. One may be skeptical of the album's futures though, given that it debuted at #9 on the Spotify album chart, with the previous album not far behind at #15, so it might not even be his most streamed album on Spotify next week. It also means we miss out on a philosophical debate as to whether or not a soundtrack album counts to John Farnham's hefty tally of #1 albums, given his name is in the title but not the artist credit. We've got a rare sighting of a metal band formed in the last 10 years, with Sleep Token getting their first chart appearance all the way up at #3. Also charting for the first time is Australian band The Vanns with their second album. They are otherwise most famous for doing a cover of Bon Iver's "Hey, Ma". Bad//Dreems have charted a bunch of times before but score their first ever top 10 this week. Lower down we have a Best Of from Pete Murray, who you can read as Dean Lewis for millennials, and also Tina Turner, who I suspect could chart higher next week given the timing of things for this week, but I'm not really sure how all the streaming data gets divvied out, I never am. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra has taken a break from working with Elvis to hang out with Def Leppard, and that results in a top 50 charter. I also must of course note more ARIA silliness, as Kanye West's "Graduation" has appeared out of nowhere for the first time since 2007. I suspect it wouldn't have been in the top 50 previously and only climbs in now because "Flashing Lights" and "I Wonder" have been popping off in streams lately and probably some other tracks are too, to an extent. I still think "Graduation" is Kanye West's worst album until "JESUS IS KING" came out so I do not endorse this increasing zoomer narrative that it's actually his masterpiece.

Yeah I know, great song. Just couldn't resist :lol:

This checks out, you're the LAST member I'd assume to be into sleep music :basil:

+5 Libianca - People +4 Rema & Selena Gomez - Calm Down +3 The Krown Jewels - Scrap The Monarchy +2 Lewis Capaldi - Wish You The Best +1 FIFTY FIFTY - Cupid -1 Calvin Harris - Miracle -2 Ed Sheeran - Eyes Closed -3 David Kushner - Daylight -4 Switch Disco - REACT -5 Harry Styles - As It Was -=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- +5 Karrija - Cha Cha Cha +4 Rema & Selena Gomez - Calm Down +3 Lewis Capaldi - Wish You The Best +2 Mae Muller - I Wrote A Song +1 Loreen - Tattoo -1 Calvin Harris - Miracle -2 Ed Sheeran - Eyes Closed -3 David Kushner - Daylight -4 Switch Disco - REACT -5 Alessandra - Queen Of Kings

I think Celine gets played during the credits but also possibly the song is sprinkled in the movie as a leitmotif. I will say though as I've been watching a lot more films than I used to in the past few years, it's been an interesting point of observation. A lot of the time, you'll get those big soundtrack hits and they just play during the credits, or pretty early on, but then on the flipside, you can get films that liberally put the song in all over the film, like "Sunflower" in "Spider-Verse", "Danger Zone" in "Top Gun", or "The Sound of Silence" in "The Graduate".

I assume "I Ain't Worried" doesn't count for some vague reason? (also need a moratorium on calling anything a flop honestly, but at least not before the first week is even over)

If you're in need for an Australian music icon who isn't...that, I just learnt that Chris Bailey from The Saints passed away. (I'm) Stranded, This Perfect Day, Know Your Product etc, all iconic tracks.

22/05/2023 Singles 01 01 15 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 02 02 08 02 THE BEGINNING: CUPID Fifty Fifty 03 03 18 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 04 06 05 04 DAYLIGHT David Kushner 05 05 15 02 BOY'S A LIAR PinkPantheress 06 04 23 01 KILL BILL SZA 07 08 07 07 FAST CAR Luke Combs 08 09 42 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 09 10 30 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 10 11 39 08 UNTIL I FOUND YOU Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold 11 13 59 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 12 07 08 06 EYES CLOSED Ed Sheeran 13 18 50 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 14 14 24 03 ESCAPISM. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 15 15 24 07 CREEPIN' Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 16 12 37 12 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 17 16 18 07 PLAYERS Coi Leray 18 17 10 16 MIRACLE Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding 19 19 44 15 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 20 20 17 06 SURE THING Miguel 21 NE 01 21 MATHEMATICAL DISRESPECT Lil Mabu 22 28 18 22 PEOPLE Libianca 23 NE 01 23 ALL MY LIFE Lil Durk feat. J. Cole 24 25 17 19 GREEN GREEN GRASS George Ezra 25 22 88 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 26 23 24 13 10:35 Tiësto & Tate McRae 27 21 05 14 CHEMICAL Post Malone 28 31 05 28 SEE YOU AGAIN Tyler, The Creator 29 26 23 20 YOU PROOF Morgan Wallen 30 27 145 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 31 NE 01 31 LIFE GOES ON Ed Sheeran feat. Luke Combs 32 30 34 01 UNHOLY Sam Smith feat. Kim Petras 33 44 05 23 WISH YOU THE BEST Lewis Capaldi 34 33 144 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 35 34 216 04 SOMEONE YOU LOVED Lewis Capaldi 36 36 45 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 37 35 37 29 GOLDEN HOUR JVKE 38 32 38 01 I'M GOOD (BLUE) David Guetta feat. Bebe Rexha 39 38 53 21 ANOTHER LOVE Tom Odell 40 29 05 28 NEVER FELT SO ALONE Labrinth 41 43 123 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 42 40 99 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 43 49 107 43 NO ROLE MODELZ J. Cole 44 46 151 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 45 45 92 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 46 42 13 19 CEILINGS Lizzy McAlpine 47 57 19 46 SNOOZE SZA 48 52 149 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 49 41 05 41 STRAIGHT AND NARROW Sam Barber 50 72 85 02 VIVA LA VIDA Coldplay Bubbling 14 (NE) AREA CODES Kali 15 (08) CURTAINS Ed Sheeran 16 (14) SEARCH & RESCUE Drake 17 (10) DOUBLE FANTASY The Weeknd, Featuring Future 18 (15) RHYME DUST MK & Dom Dolla 19 (16) THINKIN' BOUT ME Morgan Wallen 20 (17) TRUSTFALL P!nk Albums 01 01 002 01 - Ed Sheeran 02 NE 001 02 NOT WITHOUT MY GHOSTS The Amity Affliction 03 04 030 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 04 02 011 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 05 06 119 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 06 NE 001 06 MY LIFE IS A SYMPHONY Kate Ceberano 07 NE 001 07 LIVE AT THE OLD LION, ADELAIDE 1982 Midnight Oil 08 09 052 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 09 23 002 09 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3: AWESOME MIX VOL. 3 Soundtrack 10 08 023 01 SOS SZA 11 11 447 01 1989 Taylor Swift 12 10 008 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 13 12 198 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 14 RE 059 01 RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES (10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION) Daft Punk 15 NE 001 15 EUROVISION SONG CONTEST LIVERPOOL 2023 Various 16 13 195 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 17 14 288 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 18 15 258 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 19 18 024 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 20 NE 001 20 THE ALBUM Jonas Brothers 21 20 004 16 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 22 21 147 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 23 24 382 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 24 17 324 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 25 NE 001 25 RELIGIOUSLY. THE ALBUM. Bailey Zimmerman 26 27 270 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 27 NE 001 27 WAKE UP & IT'S OVER Lovejoy 28 26 104 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 29 45 196 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay 30 25 123 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 31 28 310 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 32 33 179 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 33 22 013 01 TRUSTFALL P!nk 34 31 209 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 35 35 427 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 36 19 081 01 = Ed Sheeran 37 42 255 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 38 34 184 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 39 41 216 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 40 37 079 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 41 40 162 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 42 38 029 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 43 36 041 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 44 39 164 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 45 43 365 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 46 47 117 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 47 44 049 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 48 30 091 01 SPEAK NOW Taylor Swift 49 32 005 01 72 SEASONS Metallica 50 51 030 36 STUDIO ALBUMS ABBA "Last Night" is #1 for a 6th week. Any declines it ever shows on the streaming chart is matched by anything near it, so I can't see the current crop unsettling it unless we get one of those screwy remixes or something. David Kushner does manage a new peak and could keep climbing given there's nothing else to do the same. Mind you our top two debuts should continue to climb but I suspect they don't have that full cross-market popularity to go far enough. Lil Mabu charts for the first time and Lil Durk has his first ever lead artist entry. Featured J. Cole actually re-climbs to the #43 peak of "No Role Modelz", but maybe it is a spiritual new peak because "Riptide" is on the chart now and wasn't when it peaked last year. Maybe he'll just get a new peak next week anyway. Speaking of songs not being included, the debut for Ed Sheeran this week strongly suggests that at least some of his album tracks weren't included last week. Given that sequence of events, it lines up well for Luke Combs being credited on "Life Goes On". Last week Coldplay announced a second show in Perth, and despite my frequent assertion that nobody actually lives here, it's enough of a reason for "Viva la vida" to re-enter the top 50 for the first time since 2009 (I believe this was also when Coldplay were touring Australia). I don't think it would've quite gotten there, but to my knowledge, ARIA is not counting "Yellow" which achieved similarly high streaming numbers this week. Just missing the top 50 this week is Kali, who almost certainly will get there next week. Ed Sheeran does what he couldn't do in 2021 and achieves a second week at #1 with his album. In the process we're prevented another Australian #1 album from The Amity Affliction. They had a string of #1's in the 2010s but don't quite have that same reliable fanbase to do it anymore. They do still lead the pack of Australian entries in the top 10 though, with Kate Ceberano and Midnight Oil also entering. I don't have Midnight Oil's chart history on hand but this is Kate's 8th top 10 album. Guardians of the Galaxy indeed do make a big climb this week, I don't know if "Dog Days Are Over" is being counted on the chart, but it might be in the top 100 if so. Daft Punk return with a re-issue, while this year's ESC album appears lower than last year, but higher than the year before that. It's a big week for The Album in the middle of the chart, in addition to Morgan Wallen at #30, we've got a new The Album from Jonas Brothers, and a new The Album from Bailey Zimmerman. Next week I imagine is Lewis Capaldi's to take although he's not exactly lighting up the streaming chart. He'll make history either way.

I actually think it's a perfectly normal thing to do that puts things into better perspective. The moment you realise someone is completely incapable of saying a critical thing (or a good thing!) about an artist, it's like showing too much of the hand and it's hard to take anything they say on the topic seriously.

"Heat Waves" vaulting back up again lmao.

Oh my bad completely! I swear every other chart in the world I know does it the way I described. Completely agree with that being a mistake.

They don't count them twice. They put them onto the album that otherwise has the most streams, so of course a Greatest Hits album is going to do better than a studio album since the former has more well known hits on it. But like for instance, there's some tracklist overlap between Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits and Rumours, but no track is contributing to both of them simultaneously. The latter is charting on the strength of the non-GH portion of the tracklisting (and I imagine it's a perennial seller of course).

Considering the way that people respond to any sort of attempt to fan the flames on any controversy going their way, I'd 100% not say anything in her case. Just imagine the comment section if she tried to call out Belters Only and it got any media coverage: 'who?' 'what even is a belters only?' 'yeah nice try hun, real grateful to the guys who gave you a career' 'who?' 'I just listened to it, and it sounds just as unoriginal as everything else in the chart, who cares?' 'maybe you should've written your own song then you wouldn't have this problem' 'who?' 'is this news?'

Might be worth noting as a case where this action has taken place, New Zealand just out of nowhere sharpened up their recurrency rules last month. Now anything 18 months or older is exiled to a catalogue chart. With regard to renewed popularity of all kinds, they have it covered where re-issues/first time hits (not actually sure what exceptions they make at this stage) get a 10 week grace period. So for instance Tyler, The Creator is climbing up at the moment with "See You Again" but will be removed from the chart 7 weeks from now (I assume). Truth be told, as someone who's not really a fan of mucking around with the chart like that, it's not a bad implementation of it (though I'm very curious what they do with Christmas music later this year).

is Jazzy culpable in that? All ire to Belters Only sure but she was just a vocalist on it. Even if she based it on the original as a top line, maybe she didn't know and had no reason to think it wasn't above board.

I don't mind the idea of separating Greatest Hits although I suspect it would just move the goalposts to a new form of inertia. No longer will it be 'grr The Weeknd's The Highlights' every week, instead people will get sick of Arctic Monkeys' "AM", Taylor Swift's "1989" etc. Actually depending on how it's handled, I'd think that they'd have to transfer a lot of those Greatest Hits streams over to their original studio albums. So wouldn't Oasis, Fleetwood Mac, The Weeknd and so-on just vault back up the charts with their big studio albums that are currently having a good chunk of their streams siphoned? I think there are three main issues at play: 1. There's an idealised version of how the album chart should flow along that doesn't really match public consumption in any capacity anymore. There just aren't enough people browsing to keep the uptick on weeks/months old albums apart from the very famous few, which also comes down to music being so decentralised that there aren't really moderately famous household names in the charts anymore. 2. The streaming model over time does a very good job at giving people what they want, but that doesn't provide a dynamic long term solution. Most people have had their streaming accounts for 5-10 years. Even if they haven't aged out of liking new music, most people engage with music they discover and like by just chucking it into an increasingly big playlist where it has to fight for shuffle airtime with increasingly old competition. Having a music library is great, but unless it's doubling in size every year, it's impossible to keep it from slowly getting older and older. 3. Putting a band-aid on the charts doesn't actually change these trends. If you just get rid of the discernible 'filler', people are still going to be listening to it. There's no real evidence that someone's #80 hit turned into a #50 hit by ACR makes for an appreciable increase in exposure, and the fact that people seem to want ACR to go further (not part of this discussion, but a valid example) shows that it's done nothing to fight these trends. It just gives the illusion of chart dynamics but without the compounding effects* *Although in general I often wonder, doesn't the notion of heightened exposure by artificial chart position boosting kind of bring the same problem? We're just wanting these bubbling under hits to reach an exposure threshold that if successful, will turn them into chart monoliths that we all want to go away. People make fun of a certain poster for explicitly rooting for songs while they're new but booing them after a couple of months, but everyone does it to an extent! To that, I can't really offer a solution. I guess a Bubbling Under/New Music chart could give people the always certainly active chart they want, but I always think that a chart of the most popular singles/albums is always inherently interesting, whether there are 3 month parabola chart runs or not. Don't see why we can't have both.

+5 Libianca - People +4 Nines - Tony Soprano 2 +3 Rema & Selena Gomez - Calm Down +2 Lewis Capaldi - Wish You The Best +1 Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding - Miracle -1 Ed Sheeran - Eyes Closed -2 FIFTY FIFTY - Cupid -3 David Kushner - Daylight -4 Switch Disco & Ella Henderson - REACT -5 Harry Styles - As It Was

Yeah, streaming numbers spreading out is the key. The streaming number of the #200 song is more relevant to track than #1, as a barometer of that sort of thing. Even #200 might be too high to get a proper reading, but it's the best we've got.

15/05/2023 Singles 01 01 14 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 02 02 07 02 THE BEGINNING: CUPID Fifty Fifty 03 03 17 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 04 04 22 01 KILL BILL SZA 05 05 14 02 BOY'S A LIAR PinkPantheress 06 06 04 05 DAYLIGHT David Kushner 07 21 07 06 EYES CLOSED Ed Sheeran 08 08 06 07 FAST CAR Luke Combs 09 07 41 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 10 10 29 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 11 09 38 08 UNTIL I FOUND YOU Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold 12 14 36 12 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 13 12 58 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 14 11 23 03 ESCAPISM. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 15 13 23 07 CREEPIN' Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 16 15 17 07 PLAYERS Coi Leray 17 16 09 16 MIRACLE Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding 18 17 49 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 19 19 43 15 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 20 20 16 06 SURE THING Miguel 21 22 04 14 CHEMICAL Post Malone 22 24 87 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 23 26 23 13 10:35 Tiësto & Tate McRae 24 NE 01 24 CURTAINS Ed Sheeran 25 25 16 19 GREEN GREEN GRASS George Ezra 26 30 22 20 YOU PROOF Morgan Wallen 27 RE 144 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 28 34 17 28 PEOPLE Libianca 29 28 04 28 NEVER FELT SO ALONE Labrinth 30 29 33 01 UNHOLY Sam Smith feat. Kim Petras 31 32 04 31 SEE YOU AGAIN Tyler, The Creator 32 27 37 01 I'M GOOD (BLUE) David Guetta feat. Bebe Rexha 33 33 143 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 34 36 215 04 SOMEONE YOU LOVED Lewis Capaldi 35 35 36 29 GOLDEN HOUR JVKE 36 38 44 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 37 18 03 09 DOUBLE FANTASY The Weeknd, Featuring Future 38 37 52 21 ANOTHER LOVE Tom Odell 39 42 49 08 SUNROOF Nicky Youre & dazy 40 46 98 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 41 41 04 41 STRAIGHT AND NARROW Sam Barber 42 39 12 19 CEILINGS Lizzy McAlpine 43 43 122 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 44 23 04 23 WISH YOU THE BEST Lewis Capaldi 45 44 91 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 46 45 150 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 47 48 96 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 48 RE 02 48 BOAT Ed Sheeran 49 50 106 43 NO ROLE MODELZ J. Cole 50 31 05 08 SEARCH & RESCUE Drake Bubbling 15 (14) RHYME DUST MK & Dom Dolla 16 (17) THINKIN' BOUT ME Morgan Wallen 17 (16) TRUSTFALL P!nk 18 (15) LOVE AGAIN The Kid Laroi 19 (NE) LOST Bring Me The Horizon 20 (20) THEY DON'T LOVE IT Jack Harlow Albums 01 NE 001 01 - Ed Sheeran 02 02 010 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 03 NE 001 03 FLOWERS Pacific Avenue 04 03 029 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 05 NE 001 05 ATUM The Smashing Pumpkins 06 04 118 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 07 NE 001 07 ACRES Brad Cox 08 05 022 01 SOS SZA 09 06 051 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 10 07 007 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 11 10 446 01 1989 Taylor Swift 12 08 197 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 13 14 194 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 14 15 287 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 15 12 257 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 16 RE 005 03 SMITHEREENS Joji 17 23 323 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 18 16 023 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 19 39 080 01 = Ed Sheeran 20 17 003 16 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 21 21 146 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 22 36 012 01 TRUSTFALL P!nk 23 NE 001 23 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3: AWESOME MIX VOL. 3 Soundtrack 24 18 381 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 25 19 122 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 26 22 103 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 27 20 269 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 28 24 309 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 29 NE 001 29 JUST THE TWO OF US: THE DUETS COLLECTION [ VOL. 1 ] Olivia Newton-John 30 78 090 01 SPEAK NOW Taylor Swift 31 25 208 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 32 13 004 01 72 SEASONS Metallica 33 26 178 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 34 27 183 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 35 29 426 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 36 35 040 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 37 41 078 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 38 28 028 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 39 33 163 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 40 31 161 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 41 32 215 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 42 30 254 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 43 34 364 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 44 40 048 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 45 48 195 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay 46 11 002 01 JACKMAN. Jack Harlow 47 43 116 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 48 42 238 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 49 45 007 01 DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A TUNNEL UNDER OCEAN BLVD. Lana Del Rey 50 38 003 26 DRIVE Tiësto "Last Night" is #1 for a 5th week. I have to imagine this was a remarkably tight margin as FIFTY FIFTY made up a lot of ground in this week but have fallen just barely short. It looks also like this was their best shot as the week so far is trending back to Morgan Wallen. Ed Sheeran vaults back into the top 10 but doesn't quite get a new peak, however seemingly has prevented Rema from a remarkably belated #11 peak. "Calm Down" is also retreating this week so it'll be a tough ask to get any higher. Ed Sheeran has just the two top 50 debuts this week with "Curtains" and "Boat", though both are receding fast, maybe "Life Goes On" might make a better impression next week. Anyway, this is all window dressing for the biggest news of the week/year(?), "Riptide" is back. I forget the last time I explained this, but "Riptide" is the most enduring hit ever in some ways, having never left the Spotify top 200 for a single week since first appearing there a little over 10 years ago. There are no records of it on kworb but I have it on my own authority that it actually topped the Spotify chart in early 2014. On one week in 2020, the song vanished without explanation from the ARIA Chart. My theory for this relates to the fact that the song constantly has its crediting switched between the single and the EP, in fact it was last seen as "God Loves Us When We're Dancing - EP" on the chart. This sort of thing could easily cause a clerical error that erases it from the chart. The song ebbs and flows on the Spotify chart but has been on a particularly good stride lately, actually getting its highest daily position since early 2014 (#12). This makes me believe that it could've squeaked the top 20 last week, which brings in my second pet theory. The ARIA Chart is riddled with errors, but usually once you reach the top 20, things are cleared up. However, my understanding with ARIA is that they tend to take a week to process these things, so "Riptide" is re-entering this week in response to its last week performance. This is a far cry from the ARIA of 10 years ago that issued a public correction when Troy Cassar-Daley had erroneous sales counted to put him ahead of Kanye West on the album chart. In theory, we should be prepared for a lengthy tenure going on, which should at least stop us from having 0 Australian entries in the near future. This also means that it's the most accurate top 50 in a long time, however in saying that, it's possible that "Princess Diana" should be in the top 50 but is missing. Frank Ocean's "Pink + White" (and "Blonde" for that matter) is also forever missing just below the top 50. On the Bubbling Under side of things with songs that are actually being counted. Bring Me The Horizon are back. They've actually had a decent handful of chart entries, including top 50 entries for "Drown", and featuring on MGK's "maybe". The former was actually their first ever singles chart entry and was aided by weeks of pre-ordering, as was the style at the time. At this point they'd already had 2 #1 albums and they've picked up 3 more since. Ed Sheeran scores his 6th #1 album, you probably don't need me to tell you what the other 5 were. We have a surprisingly healthy supply of Australian entries this week, which comes with a peculiar chart stat that someone on Facebook noticed and I will share. #3 this week is "Flowers", on both charts. I tried to no avail to see if this has ever happened before (with different artists ofc) and the closest I found was that Neon Trees and Kesha had their respective "Animal"s 1 position apart on the singles & albums charts at one point in early 2011. As for the album itself, we are still dealing with the remnants of this year's Hottest 100, as Pacific Avenue picked up their first entry with "Leaving For London". Supposedly that is, my iTunes shuffle playlist doesn't ever seem to want to play it so I don't recall it very well. In any case, that song made it onto this album 4 months later. It's their first album and they come with a pretty decent showing at #3. Also on that Australian tilt in the top 10 is Brad Cox, with a new high for him, having previously entered at #12 back in 2020. Vaguely sandwiched between is The Smashing Pumpkins, who after a pretty lousy showing in 2020, have their highest charting album in over 2 decades. It's their 8th top 10 peak. Joji returns on the back of vinyl sales and we also have new entries for Guardians of the Galaxy and a posthumous ONJ. This is fairly underwhelming for GOTG as the first two volumes peaked at #2, and also had very lengthy chart runs, but we'll have to see how this one follows through. Next week's top challenger will likely be perennial #1 peakers The Amity Affliction (although their last album missed out). There's also the annual Eurovision album entry. In case you're wondering, only Sweden & Finland's entries popped into the Spotify top 200 over here last night, so I'm not expecting any singles chart impact (which is the norm for the past few years).

Yeah, you stream the whole album, you give considerably more streaming points to it than if you stream just the hits incidentally (and most of the time, those big playlists are contributing a pittance because artists rarely have more than 1 or 2 songs on them, which are downweighted and contribute, if you will, ZERO streaming points). If heaps more people actually did stream full albums, they'd be in total control of this destiny, in the same way that the Billboard Hot 100 gets regularly exploited for generous sales ratios that account for regular activity, but not contrived fanbase activity. But then I do think artists like Taylor Swift or Harry Styles do benefit from people who listen to their albums in full, so the system does work in that regard, but the listeners have to show up.