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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.

Why does it matter what page someone is sourcing their stream from?? I don't ever understand this weird 'hmm I manually queued up my stream therefore I'm really listening to the song' elitism. I own four albums by The National but that attitude makes me want to root against them honestly.

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

08/05/2023 Singles 01 01 13 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 02 06 06 02 THE BEGINNING: CUPID Fifty Fifty 03 02 16 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 04 03 21 01 KILL BILL SZA 05 04 13 02 BOY'S A LIAR PinkPantheress 06 05 03 05 DAYLIGHT David Kushner 07 07 40 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 08 08 05 07 FAST CAR Luke Combs 09 13 37 08 UNTIL I FOUND YOU Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold 10 11 28 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 11 10 22 03 ESCAPISM. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 12 12 57 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 13 14 22 07 CREEPIN' Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 14 16 35 14 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 15 15 16 07 PLAYERS Coi Leray 16 18 08 16 MIRACLE Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding 17 17 48 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 18 09 02 09 DOUBLE FANTASY The Weeknd, Featuring Future 19 22 42 15 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 20 21 15 06 SURE THING Miguel 21 19 06 06 EYES CLOSED Ed Sheeran 22 20 03 14 CHEMICAL Post Malone 23 34 03 23 WISH YOU THE BEST Lewis Capaldi 24 24 86 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 25 25 15 19 GREEN GREEN GRASS George Ezra 26 23 22 13 10:35 Tiësto & Tate McRae 27 29 36 01 I'M GOOD (BLUE) David Guetta feat. Bebe Rexha 28 28 03 28 NEVER FELT SO ALONE Labrinth 29 26 32 01 UNHOLY Sam Smith feat. Kim Petras 30 30 21 20 YOU PROOF Morgan Wallen 31 27 04 08 SEARCH & RESCUE Drake 32 48 03 32 SEE YOU AGAIN Tyler, The Creator 33 31 142 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 34 41 16 34 PEOPLE Libianca 35 35 35 29 GOLDEN HOUR JVKE 36 38 214 04 SOMEONE YOU LOVED Lewis Capaldi 37 42 51 21 ANOTHER LOVE Tom Odell 38 36 43 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 39 37 11 19 CEILINGS Lizzy McAlpine 40 33 28 03 MADE YOU LOOK Meghan Trainor 41 62 03 41 STRAIGHT AND NARROW Sam Barber 42 39 48 08 SUNROOF Nicky Youre & dazy 43 44 121 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 44 40 90 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 45 45 149 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 46 47 97 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 47 46 147 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 48 43 95 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 49 32 31 04 MISS YOU Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz 50 53 105 43 NO ROLE MODELZ J. Cole Bubbling 14 (13) RHYME DUST MK & Dom Dolla 15 (15) LOVE AGAIN The Kid Laroi 16 (14) TRUSTFALL P!nk 17 (17) THINKIN' BOUT ME Morgan Wallen 18 (23) BABY DON'T HURT ME David Guetta, Anne-Marie & Coi Leray 19 (20) LOVE YOU ANYWAY Luke Combs 20 (NE) THEY DON'T LOVE IT Jack Harlow Albums 01 NE 001 01 MANIC DREAM PIXIE Peach PRC 02 01 009 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 03 03 028 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 04 05 117 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 05 06 021 01 SOS SZA 06 09 050 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 07 08 006 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 08 11 196 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 09 NE 001 09 FIRST TWO PAGES OF FRANKENSTEIN The National 10 10 445 01 1989 Taylor Swift 11 NE 001 01 JACKMAN. Jack Harlow 12 15 256 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 13 02 003 01 72 SEASONS Metallica 14 12 193 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 15 13 286 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 16 17 022 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 17 16 002 16 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 18 18 380 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 19 19 121 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 20 20 268 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 21 14 145 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 22 21 102 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 23 23 322 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 24 25 308 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 25 27 207 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 26 22 177 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 27 29 182 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 28 34 027 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 29 30 425 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 30 28 253 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 31 33 160 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 32 37 214 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 33 36 162 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 34 43 363 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 35 41 039 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 36 35 011 01 TRUSTFALL P!nk 37 NE 001 37 DAMN LOVE Kip Moore 38 26 002 26 DRIVE Tiësto 39 38 079 01 = Ed Sheeran 40 48 047 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 41 40 077 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 42 47 237 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 43 46 115 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 44 42 008 01 ENDLESS SUMMER VACATION Miley Cyrus 45 31 006 01 DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A TUNNEL UNDER OCEAN BLVD. Lana Del Rey 46 51 248 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 47 56 028 36 STUDIO ALBUMS ABBA 48 54 194 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay 49 58 356 01 25 Adele 50 64 148 01 SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR THE MOON Pop Smoke "Last Night" is #1 for a 4th week. This could potentially be its last week as FIFTY FIFTY are vaulting up the chart. They have a pretty hefty lead on Spotify and YouTube but are behind elsewhere. For now they're #2 which makes it the equal 3rd highest charting K-Pop song in history. BTS got to #2 with "Dynamite", while we've had #1 hits in "Gangnam Style" and "Pink Venom", the big two. My David Kushner shade is justified as his streams retreated back this week. An interesting climb to note this week is "Calm Down", which gets a new peak in its 35th week on the chart. I have to look further into this but it's looking like climbing again next week and I suspect it might be the slowest ever climb into the top 10 if so. Also an interesting climb this week is for "Wish You The Best", which has been retreating on streams but had a bizarre boost on YouTube. I'm not sure what to make of it, but with it currently #43 on Apple and #53 on Spotify, one has to suspect that the low on-demand streaming is gonna catch up with it eventually. New in the top 50 this week is Sam Barber who is doing curiously well in Australia compared to other markets. Once upon a time Australia was a proving ground for future global hits. For the Bubbling Under chart, we arrive upon that Haddaway remake that I have been carefully avoiding so far. Jack Harlow also sneaks in an entry though I'm not certain he's even made the ARIA top 100 with this. Ed Sheeran may be able to populate the upper end of this chart next week, although my gut feeling at the moment is that he'll have 3 songs in the top 50 this week. For comparison, "=" had 6 songs in the top 50 on release week, 3 of which were debuts. Another week on the album chart, another week of no second weeks for Australian artists. Maybe things can be different this time because we actually have one at #1. The TikTok era has been brutal for Australian artists trying to break out, but maybe the only major exception is Peach PRC, who has amassed a huge following on the platform. She hasn't really lit up the charts as of yet but she's racking up Hottest 100 entries. This week's #1 album is an interesting one as it might just be the shortest running #1 album ever. Last year Huskii got to #1 with an EP that ran for 19 minutes but this 6 track EP skirts hard on the line of eligibility and is also just shy of 18 minutes. The biggest single from it heavily interpolates "Stars Are Blind" by Paris Hilton. Elsewhere this week, The National have their 4th consecutive top 10 album though with a not particularly optimistic trajectory. Their best selling album "High Violet" only peaked at #29. Jack Harlow also now can claim both of the least desired peaks in his discography, following up his #2 peaking album last year with a #11 peak this week. Lastly we have a new entry for Kip Moore, who has previously made the top 10 twice. This week also showcases the funny second weeks of Post Malone & Tiesto, letting us know how much of their performance last week was just based on incidental streaming. Next week you have to imagine is Ed Sheeran's for the taking, while I think there's a posthumous Olivia Newton-John album to save Australian music for another week.

+5 Libianca - People +4 Rema & Selena Gomez - Calm Down +3 Drake - Search & Rescue +2 Calvin Harris - Miracle +1 Ed Sheeran - Eyes Closed -1 Lewis Capaldi - Wish You The Best -2 Miley Cyrus - Flowers -3 David Kushner - Daylight -4 Lewis Capaldi - Forget Me -5 Harry Styles - As It Was

01/05/2023 Singles 01 01 12 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 02 02 15 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 03 03 20 01 KILL BILL SZA 04 04 12 02 BOY'S A LIAR PinkPantheress 05 06 02 05 DAYLIGHT David Kushner 06 09 05 06 THE BEGINNING: CUPID Fifty Fifty 07 05 39 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 08 07 04 07 FAST CAR Luke Combs 09 NE 01 09 DOUBLE FANTASY The Weeknd, Featuring Future 10 12 21 03 ESCAPISM. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 11 08 27 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 12 10 56 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 13 11 36 08 UNTIL I FOUND YOU Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold 14 15 21 07 CREEPIN' Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 15 16 15 07 PLAYERS Coi Leray 16 18 34 15 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 17 19 47 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 18 24 07 18 MIRACLE Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding 19 13 05 06 EYES CLOSED Ed Sheeran 20 14 02 14 CHEMICAL Post Malone 21 21 14 06 SURE THING Miguel 22 22 41 15 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 23 27 21 13 10:35 Tiësto & Tate McRae 24 23 85 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 25 25 14 19 GREEN GREEN GRASS George Ezra 26 26 31 01 UNHOLY Sam Smith feat. Kim Petras 27 20 03 08 SEARCH & RESCUE Drake 28 31 02 28 NEVER FELT SO ALONE Labrinth 29 29 35 01 I'M GOOD (BLUE) David Guetta feat. Bebe Rexha 30 28 20 20 YOU PROOF Morgan Wallen 31 17 141 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 32 33 30 04 MISS YOU Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz 33 30 27 03 MADE YOU LOOK Meghan Trainor 34 58 02 34 WISH YOU THE BEST Lewis Capaldi 35 34 34 29 GOLDEN HOUR JVKE 36 37 42 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 37 36 10 19 CEILINGS Lizzy McAlpine 38 32 213 04 SOMEONE YOU LOVED Lewis Capaldi 39 35 47 08 SUNROOF Nicky Youre & dazy 40 38 89 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 41 46 15 41 PEOPLE Libianca 42 39 50 21 ANOTHER LOVE Tom Odell 43 41 94 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 44 42 120 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 45 44 148 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 46 40 146 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 47 43 96 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 48 99 02 48 SEE YOU AGAIN Tyler, The Creator 49 45 26 02 LAVENDER HAZE Taylor Swift 50 47 12 41 ROCK AND A HARD PLACE Bailey Zimmerman Bubbling 13 (11) RHYME DUST MK & Dom Dolla 14 (12) TRUSTFALL P!nk 15 (13) LOVE AGAIN The Kid Laroi 16 (17) STRAIGHT AND NARROW Sam Barber 17 (15) THINKIN' BOUT ME Morgan Wallen 18 (19) PEACHES Jack Black 19 (NE) BOAT Ed Sheeran 20 (20) LOVE YOU ANYWAY Luke Combs Albums 01 02 008 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 02 01 002 01 72 SEASONS Metallica 03 03 027 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 04 NE 001 04 D-DAY Agust D 05 05 116 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 06 06 020 01 SOS SZA 07 NE 001 07 DANCE MODE! Bluey 08 04 005 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 09 07 049 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 10 09 444 01 1989 Taylor Swift 11 10 195 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 12 11 192 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 13 17 285 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 14 18 144 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 15 12 255 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 16 NE 001 16 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 17 15 021 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 18 13 379 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 19 14 120 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 20 20 267 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 21 25 101 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 22 24 176 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 23 21 321 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 24 NE 001 24 FOLKLORE: THE LONG POND STUDIO SESSIONS Taylor Swift 25 23 307 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 26 NE 001 26 DRIVE Tiësto 27 16 206 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 28 26 252 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 29 29 181 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 30 28 424 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 31 19 005 01 DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A TUNNEL UNDER OCEAN BLVD. Lana Del Rey 32 42 004 03 THE RECORD Boygenius 33 30 159 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 34 32 026 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 35 27 010 01 TRUSTFALL P!nk 36 34 161 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 37 35 213 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 38 38 078 01 = Ed Sheeran 39 NE 001 39 FUSE Everything But The Girl 40 41 076 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 41 37 038 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 42 33 007 01 ENDLESS SUMMER VACATION Miley Cyrus 43 36 362 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 44 31 020 01 BEING FUNNY IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE The 1975 45 22 003 02 HOPE NF 46 43 114 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 47 39 236 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 48 40 046 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 49 NE 001 49 A KISS FOR THE WHOLE WORLD Enter Shikari 50 63 127 01 BORN TO DIE Lana Del Rey "Last Night" is #1 for a 3rd week. It's showing signs of slipping but also every now and then gets a new jolt of energy. In any case nothing is close to overtaking. It turns out I was right to ridicule David Kushner because "Daylight" tanked dramatically this week, but is showing signs of recovery now. Maybe the real one to watch is Fifty Fifty who have been vaulting up the streaming charts and I could see them reaching the top 3 next week. The Weeknd arrives in the top 10 with "Double Fantasy", for which I must preserve ARIA's funny typo of a listing that's still on the website. As his penchant is to not quite reach the top 10 normally, this is just Future's second top 10 hit after "Way 2 Sexy". "Heat Waves" drops to quite a bit lower than it was 2 weeks ago which to me implies that there's been an overcorrection after last week's oddity. There are two debuts this week. Firstly Lewis Capaldi who seems to have had a convenient algorithm boost to solidify a top 50 position so he'll potentially drop back a bit next week but it won't be the end of the world. The other top 50 entry proves it's a good week for cupid as he hits me with precision in allowing Tyler, The Creator to score a top 50 hit with "See You Again". The vast majority of Tyler's top 50 hits spent a single week in, but this looks like it will continue to climb next week. It's also Kali Uchis' second top 50 hit after "telepatia", although ARIA have neglected to put her name on it. It also got upgraded to triple platinum status this week which puts it probably on par in lifetime sales with bafflingly perennial hit "Sunroof" which you probably scrolled past on the chart but yes, it's still here. In Australian music update, things got increasingly bleak as "STAY" is now out of the top 50 and "Rhyme Dust" also surprisingly slipped out. If you even want to dignify "Cold Heart" as counting, even that's starting to approach an exit. "Riptide" is #13 on Spotify right now which is its highest ever position in the 3105 days that kworb's been tracking it, although I know with certainty that it got to #1 for a week at the start of 2014 after triple j's Hottest 100, still before streams counted to the official chart. For this week's Bubbling Under chart, we note "Boat". Sam Barber is climbing fast though and might be the only new entry in the top 50 next week. There's basically nothing else within striking distance right now although I shall root for "Money Trees" to get some action because it's creeping curiously high lately. It is amusing how particularly ancient the bottom end of the top 50 is though, with "Wish You The Best" at #34 being the lowest song that's actually from this year. It'll keep the new hits afloat though for now, with nothing close to slipping out and only "Flowers" poised to age out in the near future. Morgan Wallen returns to #1 on the album chart, achieving the rare double. I want to say it's a rarer double that neither are debuts but honestly the #1 single/#1 album debut double is not particularly common unless you're Taylor Swift. The highest debut this week goes to Agust D at #4, though he previously made #2 back in 2020. We regrettably only have one Australian album in the top 50 again, oddly enough it's Bluey. Bluey previously had a #1 album in 2021, which interestingly enough, held off The Kid LAROI temporarily on his quest for a #1 album. This time Bluey can only manage #7 and I have no idea if a second week in the top 50 is on the cards. I'm not sure what to expect next week, possibly Peach PRC's 6 track EP will count to the chart but I don't think Morgan Evans' 5 track EP will. Potentially set to make it tougher to do so is the new Post Malone chart occupier. However, we must remember that the ARIA Charts are funny like that, and so what I gather is that only the crossover tracks from "Hollywood's Bleeding" have been included because it's the only Post Malone album that saw a significant shift down the chart this week. HOWEVER, I can't make the maths make sense with just 3 tracks counting. I'll keep an eye on this one. Taylor Swift lands a new entry which is mostly just notable because she now has 8 simultaneous top 50 albums, which I'm sure bothers no one because they're real albums (ironically she's probably an artist whose positions wouldn't change much if big hit songs dominating were taken out of the equation). Tiesto has what is only his 3rd ever top 50 album here. Lower down we have two of those big new entries on the UK album chart that are so on the edge of the top 50 you have to wonder if any excited campaigning splashing out to here by accident helped them over the line. Everything But The Girl previously had two top 50 albums both with respectable longevity. Enter Shikari also only have had two previously and they only started getting them in 2012, even though I remember being scared shitless when I saw the music video for "Sorry, You're Not A Winner" back in 2007, but with time I accept it as an all-time banger.

Yeah if this lawsuit goes through, it sets a *really* bad precedent that affects basically every artist past, present & future. No music fan should want this.

Haven't seen anyone mention it, but "Daylight" and "Wish You The Best" just got un-algorithmed (or it's just been a week since) and lost 90K each in their bullets on Spotify last night.

+5 Libianca - People +4 Rema & Selena Gomez - Calm Down +3 Drake - Rescue Me +2 Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage - Creepin' +1 Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding - Miracle -1 Ed Sheeran - Eyes Closed -2 Miley Cyrus - Flowers -3 Lewis Capaldi - Forget Me -4 Harry Styles - As It Was -5 George Ezra - Green Green Grass

I'd say it's similar to whatever's boosting it back up in the UK. Ours is a bit more exaggerated because it's got a playlisting boost on Spotify it didn't have before, and I guess it's a little less overexposed if that matters. Though for what it's worth it already had a radio run here last year that went nowhere (it's only improved its radio peak by 1 position so far this year). 24/04/2023 Singles 01 01 11 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 02 02 14 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 03 04 19 01 KILL BILL SZA 04 03 11 02 BOY'S A LIAR PinkPantheress 05 05 38 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 06 NE 01 06 DAYLIGHT David Kushner 07 12 03 07 FAST CAR Luke Combs 08 06 26 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 09 17 04 09 THE BEGINNING: CUPID Fifty Fifty 10 07 55 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 11 11 35 08 UNTIL I FOUND YOU Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold 12 10 20 03 ESCAPISM. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 13 09 04 06 EYES CLOSED Ed Sheeran 14 NE 01 14 CHEMICAL Post Malone 15 14 20 07 CREEPIN' Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 16 13 14 07 PLAYERS Coi Leray 17 24 140 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 18 16 33 15 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 19 15 46 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 20 08 02 08 SEARCH & RESCUE Drake 21 18 13 06 SURE THING Miguel 22 21 40 15 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 23 20 84 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 24 28 06 24 MIRACLE Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding 25 19 13 19 GREEN GREEN GRASS George Ezra 26 22 30 01 UNHOLY Sam Smith feat. Kim Petras 27 25 20 13 10:35 Tiësto & Tate McRae 28 27 09 20 YOU PROOF Morgan Wallen 29 26 34 01 I'M GOOD (BLUE) David Guetta feat. Bebe Rexha 30 23 26 03 MADE YOU LOOK Meghan Trainor 31 NE 01 31 NEVER FELT SO ALONE Labrinth 32 30 212 04 SOMEONE YOU LOVED Lewis Capaldi 33 29 29 04 MISS YOU Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz 34 35 33 29 GOLDEN HOUR JVKE 35 32 46 08 SUNROOF Nicky Youre & dazy 36 31 09 19 CEILINGS Lizzy McAlpine 37 33 41 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 38 34 88 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 39 38 49 21 ANOTHER LOVE Tom Odell 40 40 145 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 41 37 93 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 42 41 119 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 43 36 95 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 44 39 147 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 45 43 25 02 LAVENDER HAZE Taylor Swift 46 54 14 46 PEOPLE Libianca 47 42 11 41 ROCK AND A HARD PLACE Bailey Zimmerman 48 52 103 43 NO ROLE MODELZ J. Cole 49 44 41 03 BAD HABIT Steve Lacy 50 50 08 32 RHYME DUST MK & Dom Dolla Bubbling 12 (10) TRUSTFALL P!nk 13 (08) LOVE AGAIN The Kid Laroi 14 (NE) WISH YOU THE BEST Lewis Capaldi 15 (12) THINKIN' BOUT ME Morgan Wallen 16 (11) ALL OF THE GIRLS YOU LOVED BEFORE Taylor Swift 17 (NE) STRAIGHT AND NARROW Sam Barber 18 (16) I KNOW Kanii 19 (NE) PEACHES Jack Black 20 (18) LOVE YOU ANYWAY Luke Combs Albums 01 NE 001 01 72 SEASONS Metallica 02 03 007 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 03 05 026 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 04 04 004 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 05 06 115 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 06 09 019 01 SOS SZA 07 07 048 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 08 NE 001 08 LIVIN' THE DREAM The Wolfe Brothers 09 10 443 01 1989 Taylor Swift 10 11 194 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 11 15 191 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 12 14 254 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 13 16 378 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 14 18 119 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 15 25 020 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 16 17 205 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 17 19 284 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 18 20 143 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 19 13 004 01 DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A TUNNEL UNDER OCEAN BLVD. Lana Del Rey 20 26 266 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 21 23 320 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 22 02 002 02 HOPE NF 23 29 306 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 24 21 175 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 25 24 100 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 26 31 251 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 27 22 009 01 TRUSTFALL P!nk 28 27 423 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 29 32 180 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 30 30 158 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 31 39 019 01 BEING FUNNY IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE The 1975 32 33 025 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 33 28 006 01 ENDLESS SUMMER VACATION Miley Cyrus 34 35 160 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 35 34 212 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 36 40 361 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 37 37 037 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 38 36 077 01 = Ed Sheeran 39 42 235 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 40 41 045 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 41 45 075 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 42 38 003 03 THE RECORD Boygenius 43 49 113 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 44 NE 001 44 READY, STEADY, WIGGLE! The Wiggles 45 53 246 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 46 50 043 02 GROWIN' UP Luke Combs 47 54 192 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay 48 65 187 01 HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDING Post Malone 49 47 026 36 STUDIO ALBUMS ABBA 50 59 274 01 THE EMINEM SHOW Eminem "Last Night" is #1 for a second week, but will it be the last night? No. Not just because the charts come out on Friday and are dated for the Monday so there's guaranteed time to soak up the sun, but also because it'll almost certainly be #1 again next week. There's momentum for David Kushner on Spotify this week though I'm suspicious that it might be built on algorithms. If that turns out to be the case I will make sure not to needlessly neg the song for a 3rd week in a row. It's doing quite well for him in any case, he previously got to #36 with "Miserable Man" last year. Luke Combs also has his first ever top 10 hit this week, and the 3rd version of "Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman to make the top 10. Time will tell if we ever increase the number of versions of "Fast Car" by Taio Cruz to make the top 10, we're currently at a steady 0. Fifty Fifty are also in the top 10 for the first time ever. Post Malone debuts at #14, and seems to be declining slightly on Spotify, so that could be the overall peak. I have no idea what will happen with Post Malone's new compilation and whether or not it will sabotage his first three albums' near permanent residency on the top 50 hip-hop/R&B charts despite a sometimes dubious claim to those genres. Labrinth is new in the top 50 and is the latest recipient of a funny timing on an autoplay algorithm that is completely misrepresented on the chart. So he'll probably climb but you'd have no way of knowing he was #8 on Spotify not long ago. J. Cole is back again with "No Role Modelz" which is an excuse to highlight that it has spent 25 weeks between #43 and #50. I don't know if there are still people who draw the line at the top 40 for representing a hit but they are surely letting their dislike of J. Cole cloud reasonable judgement if they're still at it. The highest selling song to not reach the top 50 is probably "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey which peaked at #100 (it may have been higher if let back on the chart in 2009 but my memory of the incident is foggy), or "Chasing Cars" by Snow Patrol which technically peaked at #52 but only because it took a year to be included. "The Nosebleed Section" by Hilltop Hoods was not a commercial single back in 2003 but eventually peaked at #75 a couple of years ago. It regularly outsells the rest of their catalogue and is probably another contender. The biggest one with no dubious incident behind it is possibly "Ni**as In Paris" even with several years of not being on Spotify. It's currently not on the ARIA survey to my knowledge as a consequence of that but it's not on track to match its #66 peak anyway. To note on the Bubbling Under chart, Lewis Capaldi looks to be relying on an algorithm to make the top 50 next week as he just snuck into the Spotify top 50 after a very suspicious one day climb on Friday that stopped very suddenly the next day. Sam Barber is here to prove that Australia is interested in more than just 3 country singers, while also probably providing the first ARIA top 100 hit written by Samuel Barber since William Orbit's version of "Adagio For Strings". Yes it's a very good joke, no need to thank me. As is often the case, the 'debut' for Barber on this chart implies that it was submitted for tracking after blowing up 2 weeks ago, and so there was a one week lag before ARIA added it to their data. The same is also true of Jack Black, and I'll just use this opportunity to point out that Tenacious D's "Tribute" was a massive hit in Australia, talking, #15 on the 2002 End Of Year list, wedged closely between "Lose Yourself" and "Hot In Herre" big. Metallica score their 8th #1 album this week. Clearly they were made famous by Stranger Things. Once again we have 2 Australian albums debuting in the top 50, and 2 Australian albums in the top 50. This week's honours go to The Wolfe Brothers who pick up their 4th top 10 album, and The Wiggles who are also familiar to this rodeo or so I'm told. Next week Australian music is ready to be saved again, by Bluey.

I also noticed with the album chart that they shifted off Foo Fighters' Essential collection and Ed Sheeran's "=", neither of which had hit 18 months yet (though Ed is *very* close). It's kind of an interesting look at just how many albums were affected by the original recurrency rules. Six60's EP went from #39 last week to #40 on the catalogue chart this week, implying that all along, the #40 album was really something like #80 at this point, and why so many of those long charting albums were kept standing by having a lower and lower threshold to clear :lol:

Unless I'm mistaken, Labrinth just got hit by the algorithm stream redaction thingo around the world today.