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17/04/2023 Singles 01 02 10 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 02 01 13 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 03 03 10 02 BOY'S A LIAR PinkPantheress 04 04 18 01 KILL BILL SZA 05 05 37 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 06 06 25 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 07 07 54 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 08 NE 01 08 SEARCH & RESCUE Drake 09 10 03 06 EYES CLOSED Ed Sheeran 10 09 19 03 ESCAPISM. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 11 08 34 08 UNTIL I FOUND YOU Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold 12 18 02 12 FAST CAR Luke Combs 13 11 13 07 PLAYERS Coi Leray 14 12 19 07 CREEPIN' Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 15 13 45 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 16 15 32 15 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 17 30 03 17 THE BEGINNING: CUPID Fifty Fifty 18 14 12 06 SURE THING Miguel 19 19 12 19 GREEN GREEN GRASS George Ezra 20 16 83 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 21 20 39 15 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 22 17 29 01 UNHOLY Sam Smith feat. Kim Petras 23 26 25 03 MADE YOU LOOK Meghan Trainor 24 25 139 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 25 21 19 13 10:35 Tiësto & Tate McRae 26 29 33 01 I'M GOOD (BLUE) David Guetta feat. Bebe Rexha 27 23 08 20 YOU PROOF Morgan Wallen 28 28 05 28 MIRACLE Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding 29 24 28 04 MISS YOU Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz 30 51 211 04 SOMEONE YOU LOVED Lewis Capaldi 31 22 08 19 CEILINGS Lizzy McAlpine 32 32 45 08 SUNROOF Nicky Youre & dazy 33 27 40 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 34 36 87 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 35 31 32 29 GOLDEN HOUR JVKE 36 35 94 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 37 37 92 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 38 34 48 21 ANOTHER LOVE Tom Odell 39 40 146 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 40 56 144 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 41 38 118 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 42 41 10 41 ROCK AND A HARD PLACE Bailey Zimmerman 43 64 24 02 LAVENDER HAZE Taylor Swift 44 35 40 03 BAD HABIT Steve Lacy 45 81 31 21 FORGET ME Lewis Capaldi 46 55 131 04 LEVITATING Dua Lipa 47 47 11 06 LOVE AGAIN The Kid Laroi 48 NE 01 48 S**T ME OUT NLE Choppa 49 50 34 04 B.O.T.A. (BADDEST OF THEM ALL) Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal 50 57 07 32 RHYME DUST MK & Dom Dolla Bubbling 10 (10) TRUSTFALL P!nk 11 (09) ALL OF THE GIRLS YOU LOVED BEFORE Taylor Swift 12 (15) THINKIN' BOUT ME Morgan Wallen 13 (NE) NEVER FELT SO ALONE Labrinth 14 (11) 5 LEAF CLOVER Luke Combs 15 (07) FLOWER Jisoo 16 (25) I KNOW Kanii 17 (16) MOTHER Meghan Trainor 18 (17) LOVE YOU ANYWAY Luke Combs 19 (08) DOGTOOTH Tyler, The Creator 20 (18) AIN'T THAT SOME Morgan Wallen Albums 01 NE 001 01 JESUS AT THE GAY BAR Cub Sport 02 NE 001 02 HOPE NF 03 04 006 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 04 05 003 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 05 06 025 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 06 07 114 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 07 08 047 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 08 RE 082 02 METEORA 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION Linkin Park 09 10 018 01 SOS SZA 10 15 442 01 1989 Taylor Swift 11 12 193 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 12 NE 001 12 THE CUP OF PESTILENCE Frenzal Rhomb 13 09 003 01 DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A TUNNEL UNDER OCEAN BLVD. Lana Del Rey 14 17 253 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 15 21 190 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 16 19 377 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 17 39 204 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 18 20 118 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 19 25 283 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 20 28 142 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 21 22 174 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 22 14 008 01 TRUSTFALL P!nk 23 24 319 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 24 27 099 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 25 23 019 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 26 26 265 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 27 32 422 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 28 13 005 01 ENDLESS SUMMER VACATION Miley Cyrus 29 29 305 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 30 30 157 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 31 35 250 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 32 33 179 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 33 34 024 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 34 36 211 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 35 38 159 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 36 31 076 01 = Ed Sheeran 37 37 036 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 38 03 002 03 THE RECORD Boygenius 39 RE 018 01 BEING FUNNY IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE The 1975 40 41 360 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 41 42 044 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 42 45 234 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 43 NE 001 43 NEVER ENOUGH Daniel Caesar 44 18 036 02 CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST Tyler, The Creator 45 43 074 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 46 01 002 01 PORTALS Melanie Martinez 47 47 025 36 STUDIO ALBUMS ABBA 48 49 224 01 HARRY STYLES Harry Styles 49 55 112 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 50 44 042 02 GROWIN' UP Luke Combs If anyone cares about complete historical accuracy, I will point out that last week I accidentally swapped Ed Sheeran & Steve Lacy's similarly titled songs, which I didn't catch because honestly those trajectories look more reasonable than what actually happened that week, but anyway yes, the former is the more popular one right now. For only the 3rd time this year, we have a new #1. I don't know if there's any proof that moving into the #1 spot is a 'big deal' that generates more buzz, but it is interesting to me that "Last Night" is showing big gains again after seemingly fading on Spotify lately. If it's true though, we could see some galvanising that'll solidify Morgan Wallen at #1 for a while because I'm not sure what's supposed to take over. David Kushner is maybe hoping for a top 5 debut but I'm not yet convinced this isn't another one of those "Fingers Crossed" type deals that fade once the radio audience doesn't replace the TikTok audience fast enough. On an unrelated note, Drake debuts in the top 10, and won't be in the top 10 next week, you know the drill. Unless the last two days are a complete aberration, perhaps Glass Animals will be back to extend their reign for longest running top 10 hit ever. I noticed the other day that Ed Sheeran's "Shivers" became one of a very small group of songs that have been in the ARIA top 10 in 3 different calendar years. The only other non-Christmas songs I can think of that have done this are "Black Or White" and "I Will Always Love You", but "Heat Waves" could join this odd group next week. If not, at least it was a good excuse for me to research this odd curiosity. Speaking of songs that are allergic to not being in the chart, Lewis Capaldi is back with another attempt to have the longest reigning top 50 hit of all time. "Someone You Loved" is back up to #30 this week and is still making gains on Spotify well over a week after the documentary came out, which might be because he was announced as a sort of headliner for Splendour In The Grass. The rule of inertia means that the song could continue to remain in the top 50 for a long time. On an unrelated note, "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac is also back. I feared there might only be one Australian song in the top 50 this week but against all odds, "Love Again" survived another week and "Rhyme Dust" even snuck back in. Lastly, NLE Choppa gets his first ever chart entry here. He's made the Spotify chart a few times before but I don't recall what's actually been let on the ARIA Chart before. "Rhyme Dust"'s return also prevents the New Music chart from tying its record on Christmas for having only 8 songs in the top 50. We might be safe from that list getting smaller in the near future with David Kushner & Labrinth climbing up, and maybe Kanii can reach the top 50 next week too, hard to tell with the two versions. For the first time this year, we have an Australian artist at #1. It comes from perennial stalwarts Cub Sport hitting #1 for the first time in their career. In case you were wondering, Cub Sport have been around since 2010. For a few years they were known as Cub Scouts but then got an injunction from Scouts Australia. They'd released a bunch of EPs but didn't actually put out a full length until 2016, and it's not unreasonable to say that the song "Come On Mess Me Up" sent them to the relative stratosphere. Around the same time, the lead singer came out and married the keyboard player, with many of their songs of late exploring this relationship. This new #1 keeps off NF, who can take solace in now having hit the 3 highest prime number ranks on the chart. Linkin Park return to the top 10 with "Meteora". You'd think it would've been a sure bet for #1 back in 2003 but unfortunately they chose to release it on the same week as Delta Goodrem's debut album, the first of 29 weeks that "Innocent Eyes" spent at #1. Lower down, Cub Sport were actually beaten on the vinyl chart this week by Frenzal Rhomb who score their 4th top 20 peak, having gotten as high as #9 in 2017. It's been almost 20 years since Jay from Frenzal made a fool out of Kyle Sandilands in a radio interview and we're still stuck with him on the airwaves being generally awful. The 1975 are back on the album chart corresponding with them playing shows here recently. Daniel Caesar gets his second top 50 album, and has been on a pretty solid run of singles lately in my opinion. Next week is Metallica's for the taking and perhaps The Wolfe Brothers can provide our weekly Australian contingent.

+5 Lizzy McAlpine - ceilings +4 Libianca - People +3 Strandz - Us Against The World +2 Rema & Selena Gomez - Calm Down +1 Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage - Creepin' -1 Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding - Miracle -2 Ed Sheeran - Eyes Closed -3 Miley Cyrus - Flowers -4 PinkPantheress - Boy's a liar -5 Harry Styles - As It Was

The rebound is happening in every country so I'm not sure there's any reason to speculate UK chart specific conspiracy.

Thing with this is that it might seem sound in theory, but in reality, the actual experience is probably not what you expect. Take for instance, a select handful of songs and their ratio of listeners:plays on last.fm, which doesn't really correlate to 'long charting songs are propelled by the same people playing it again and again' (I've always said in the case of The Killers, people do not actually listen to it that often, it's just that it's had 2 decades of pop culture relevance so it's known by *soooooo* many more people than anything new in the charts. If these people stream it once a year, it'll clown on most of the current hits)

+5 Lizzy McAlpine - ceilings +4 Libianca - People +3 Jimin - Like Crazy +2 Rema & Selena Gomez - Calm Down +1 The Weeknd - Die For You -1 Calvin Harris - Miracle -2 Ed Sheeran - Eyes Closed -3 Miley Cyrus - Flowers -4 PinkPantheress - Boy's a liar -5 Harry Styles - As It Was

+5 RAYE & 070 Shake - Escapism. +4 SZA - Kill Bill +3 Miguel - Sure Thing +2 Rema & Selena Gomez - Calm Down +1 Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero -1 Sam Smith & Kim Petras - Unholy -2 Miley Cyrus - Flowers -3 venbee & goddard. - messy in heaven -4 PinkPantheress - Boy's a liar -5 David Guetta - I'm Good (Blue)

But by the same token, I believe "House Every Weekend" would otherwise still be #1 if it didn't coincide with Spotify losing its data on that particular week.

03/04/2023 Singles 01 01 12 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 02 02 09 02 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 03 03 09 02 BOY'S A LIAR PinkPantheress 04 04 17 01 KILL BILL SZA 05 05 36 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 06 07 24 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 07 11 53 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 08 10 33 08 UNTIL I FOUND YOU Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold 09 08 18 03 ESCAPISM. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 10 06 02 06 EYES CLOSED Ed Sheeran 11 12 12 07 PLAYERS Coi Leray 12 09 18 07 CREEPIN' Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 13 14 44 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 14 13 11 06 SURE THING Miguel 15 18 31 15 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 16 16 82 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 17 17 28 01 UNHOLY Sam Smith feat. Kim Petras 18 NE 01 18 FAST CAR Luke Combs 19 22 11 19 GREEN GREEN GRASS George Ezra 20 21 38 15 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 21 19 18 13 10:35 Tiësto & Tate McRae 22 24 07 19 CEILINGS Lizzy McAlpine 23 20 07 20 YOU PROOF Morgan Wallen 24 26 27 04 MISS YOU Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz 25 29 138 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 26 25 24 03 MADE YOU LOOK Meghan Trainor 27 28 39 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 28 33 04 28 MIRACLE Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding 29 27 32 01 I'M GOOD (BLUE) David Guetta feat. Bebe Rexha 30 96 02 30 THE BEGINNING: CUPID Fifty Fifty 31 31 31 29 GOLDEN HOUR JVKE 32 35 44 08 SUNROOF Nicky Youre & dazy 33 NE 01 33 FLOWER Jisoo 34 39 47 21 ANOTHER LOVE Tom Odell 35 30 39 03 BAD HABIT Steve Lacy 36 36 86 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 37 37 91 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 38 38 117 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 39 NE 01 39 DOGTOOTH Tyler, The Creator 40 44 145 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 41 68 09 41 ROCK AND A HARD PLACE Bailey Zimmerman 42 15 03 15 ALL OF THE GIRLS YOU LOVED BEFORE Taylor Swift 43 34 93 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 44 42 09 19 TRUSTFALL P!nk 45 32 02 32 5 LEAF CLOVER Luke Combs 46 51 12 46 PEOPLE Libianca 47 41 10 06 LOVE AGAIN The Kid Laroi 48 46 34 08 CUFF IT Beyoncé 49 48 22 03 RICH FLEX Drake & 21 Savage 50 45 33 04 B.O.T.A. (BADDEST OF THEM ALL) Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal Bubbling 13 (12) LET GO Central Cee 14 (17) RHYME DUST MK & Dom Dolla 15 (16) THINKIN' BOUT ME Morgan Wallen 16 (20) MOTHER Meghan Trainor 17 (09) LOVE YOU ANYWAY Luke Combs 18 (18) AIN'T THAT SOME Morgan Wallen 19 (06) LIKE CRAZY Jimin 20 (22) OMG NewJeans Albums 01 NE 001 01 PORTALS Melanie Martinez 02 NE 001 02 HOW MANY DREAMS? DMA'S 03 NE 001 03 THE RECORD Boygenius 04 03 005 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 05 02 002 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 06 06 024 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 07 07 113 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 08 05 046 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 09 01 002 01 DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A TUNNEL UNDER OCEAN BLVD. Lana Del Rey 10 09 017 01 SOS SZA 11 NE 001 11 370HSSV 0773H Private Function 12 10 192 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 13 11 004 01 ENDLESS SUMMER VACATION Miley Cyrus 14 13 007 01 TRUSTFALL P!nk 15 17 441 01 1989 Taylor Swift 16 NE 001 16 THE LOVE STILL HELD ME NEAR City and Colour 17 15 252 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 18 RE 035 02 CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST Tyler, The Creator 19 21 376 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 20 14 117 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 21 19 189 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 22 18 173 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 23 20 018 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 24 16 318 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 25 28 282 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 26 22 264 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 27 26 098 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 28 23 141 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 29 24 304 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 30 29 156 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 31 25 075 01 = Ed Sheeran 32 30 421 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 33 31 178 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 34 32 023 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 35 27 249 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 36 34 210 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 37 35 035 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 38 33 158 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 39 40 203 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 40 12 137 02 THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (50TH ANNIVERSARY) Pink Floyd 41 38 359 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 42 39 043 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 43 43 073 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 44 37 041 02 GROWIN' UP Luke Combs 45 45 233 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 46 42 005 42 AURORA Daisy Jones & The Six 47 47 024 36 STUDIO ALBUMS ABBA 48 46 244 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 49 41 223 01 HARRY STYLES Harry Styles 50 52 272 01 THE EMINEM SHOW Eminem "Flowers" is #1 for a 12th week. If you want to make for an interesting target, the uncredited but Billy Ray Cyrus assisted "Old Town Road" spent 13 weeks at #1. On the other hand, it seems strongly likely that this will be the last week at #1 for Miley because "Last Night" was super close this week and is eating further into that gap on streaming so far this week. The top end of the chart is fairly stagnant and well engaged into 'actually the older songs kick out the newer ones' mode. Drake could potentially debut into the top 10 and be a further example of this, but it's also possible we could see strong engagement for Luke Combs' cover of "Fast Car". Given that ARIA's website includes outrageously large Last Week positions, we have complete confirmation that the song was not included whatsoever last week, but in any case it's definitely on the up from there anyway. Australia does have a strong fascination with that particular Tracy Chapman song, given that the original went into the top 5, and then in 2016 we had two separate cover versions charting side by side with one bafflingly going to #1. With his previous highest being #12, this has a strong chance to become Luke Combs' first ever top 10 hit in the coming weeks. Speaking of songs not included on last week's survey, Tyler, The Creator makes the top 50 with "DOGTOOTH", which admittedly would not have gotten close to the chart on its midweek release but it's still worth pointing out these chart inaccuracies when they pop up. The real curiosity is that the song definitely only made the top 50 because of Hot Hits Australia's uncharacteristic fondness for it, helping steady its decline enough for it to hang on here for a week. Speaking of bizarre Spotify things, briefly over the weekend they put Meghan Trainor's "Made You Look" at the very top of the playlist, and then put it right back down to the bottom, feeling like a sort of drunk with power moment or maybe someone just wants to measure how much of a difference playlist position makes. Fifty Fifty get their first top fifty hit which I assume is good news if you like songs that sound like those Dr. Luke hit songs in recent years. Jisoo becomes the 3rd member of BLACKPINK to score a solo top 50 hit, while we have very belated entrances for both Bailey Zimmerman and Libianca. "Rock and a Hard Place" first started charting here almost a year ago, and follows in the line of many US hit songs that go high on initial streaming buzz but go even higher ages later when radio catches up even if the streaming has fizzled a bit since then. It is quite common though in some of these cases to see a decent boost over here that coincides with it though. The Bubbling Under chart gets bigger this week as SZA's album no longer qualifies as New Music, and actually Libianca also just tipped over. Central Cee will be off either next week or the week after too, it's currently the last 2022 hold out. Not much to note this week apart from the fact I'm slightly surprised Jimin managed a second week. For the second time in their career, DMA'S hit the #2 spot. Their previous album "The Glow" chose a battle with Lime Cordiale that they were likely never going to win, but maybe it's impressive that they managed to out-debut Juice WRLD's first posthumous album (though it went to #1 the very next week). DMA'S had a 7 year streak of entries in triple j's Hottest 100 that ended when they failed to manifest in 2021, but it's a streak that I think only The Living End, Illy & Peking Duk can lay claim to having beaten. They only barely made this year's list with only one of their several releases so I don't know if this album will be able to maintain their usual standard of spending more than 1 week in the top 50. Likely it means another week in a row where every Australian album in the top 50 is one that just debuted there and will be gone next week. Speaking of which, maybe the most interesting entry this week comes from Private Function. They're a band that doesn't really get a lot of airplay anywhere, but I heard about this album a while ago when it was revealed that it was initially considered illegal to sell in South Australia. The reason being that the album's vinyl contains a scratchie ticket in the sleeve with a potential prize, which is illegal to do so in South Australia without a permit. To my knowledge they will eventually press the album without it so that South Australians can buy it, but either way, it's a very funny story and it probably helped this lesser known band chart as high as #11 this week. Also the album title is very funny if you read it upside down. In-between these, we've got a top 3 debut for boygenius. Phoebe Bridgers and Julian Baker have both made the top 50 before but this is comfortably their highest chart position to date. I've also always suspected that Julian Baker's "Something" is a lost Hottest 100 hit that got a lot of buzz and airplay in 2016 but was ineligible for polling because it came out the year before. Phoebe herself has had a curious history with the poll due to limited airplay which felt out of step, but funnily enough "Kyoto" nearly polled with practically no airplay at the time. I think they've finally caught up to this though because "Sidelines" did start getting airplay and snuck into this year's list. "Emily I'm Sorry" is getting quite a bit of airplay from this album so maybe there's more to come. City and Colour debuts in the top 20, he's previously had 4 solo top 10 albums, getting as high as #2 on his own, but also again hitting #2 in his collaboration album with P!nk. Alexisonfire only once narrowly made the top 20. Tyler, The Creator returns on the back of the album's extension, and that's about all to note this week. Next week's 1 week Australian contingent looks to potentially be Cub Sport and Frenzal Rhomb. Possibly NF has a chance at the top?

+5 Lizzy McAlpine - ceilings +4 Libianca - People +3 Rema & Selena Gomez - Calm Down +2 Strandz - Us Against The World +1 Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage - Creepin' -1 The Weeknd - Die For You -2 Miley Cyrus - Flowers -3 Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding - Miracle -4 PinkPantheress - Boy's a liar -5 Harry Styles - As It Was

le indie gem "Riptide"

03/04/2023 Singles 01 01 11 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 02 03 08 02 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 03 02 08 02 BOY'S A LIAR PinkPantheress 04 04 16 01 KILL BILL SZA 05 05 35 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 06 NE 01 06 EYES CLOSED Ed Sheeran 07 08 23 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 08 06 17 03 ESCAPISM. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 09 10 17 07 CREEPIN' Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 10 09 32 08 UNTIL I FOUND YOU Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold 11 11 52 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 12 07 11 07 PLAYERS Coi Leray 13 12 10 06 SURE THING Miguel 14 13 43 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 15 18 02 15 ALL OF THE GIRLS YOU LOVED BEFORE Taylor Swift 16 15 81 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 17 14 27 01 UNHOLY Sam Smith feat. Kim Petras 18 17 30 17 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 19 16 17 13 10:35 Tiësto & Tate McRae 20 40 06 20 YOU PROOF Morgan Wallen 21 24 37 15 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 22 21 10 21 GREEN GREEN GRASS George Ezra 23 NE 01 23 LIKE CRAZY Jimin 24 19 06 19 CEILINGS Lizzy McAlpine 25 23 23 03 MADE YOU LOOK Meghan Trainor 26 20 26 04 MISS YOU Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz 27 22 31 01 I'M GOOD (BLUE) David Guetta feat. Bebe Rexha 28 26 38 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 29 25 137 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 30 27 38 03 BAD HABIT Steve Lacy 31 31 30 29 GOLDEN HOUR JVKE 32 NE 01 32 5 LEAF CLOVER Luke Combs 33 36 03 33 MIRACLE Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding 34 28 92 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 35 30 43 08 SUNROOF Nicky Youre & dazy 36 33 85 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 37 34 90 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 38 39 116 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 39 32 46 21 ANOTHER LOVE Tom Odell 40 RE 05 28 LOVE YOU ANYWAY Luke Combs 41 29 09 06 LOVE AGAIN The Kid Laroi 42 35 08 19 TRUSTFALL P!nk 43 42 06 20 PAINTING PICTURES Superstar Pride 44 45 144 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 45 37 32 04 B.O.T.A. (BADDEST OF THEM ALL) Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal 46 44 33 08 CUFF IT Beyoncé 47 41 15 11 LET GO Central Cee 48 43 21 03 RICH FLEX Drake & 21 Savage 49 46 13 46 SNOOZE SZA 50 RE 04 50 GROWIN' UP AND GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs Bubbling 15 (16) PEOPLE Libianca 16 (NE) THINKIN' BOUT ME Morgan Wallen 17 (21) RHYME DUST MK & Dom Dolla 18 (17) AIN'T THAT SOME Morgan Wallen 19 (11) RIVER Miley Cyrus 20 (14) MOTHER Meghan Trainor Albums 01 NE 001 01 DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A TUNNEL UNDER OCEAN BLVD. Lana Del Rey 02 NE 001 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 03 01 004 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 04 NE 001 04 SO MUCH (FOR) STARDUST Fall Out Boy 05 02 045 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 06 05 023 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 07 06 112 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 08 NE 001 08 EVERYTHING'S FINE Matt Corby 09 08 016 01 SOS SZA 10 09 191 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 11 04 003 01 ENDLESS SUMMER VACATION Miley Cyrus 12 RE 136 02 THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (50TH ANNIVERSARY) Pink Floyd 13 07 006 01 TRUSTFALL P!nk 14 11 116 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 15 13 251 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 16 12 317 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 17 14 440 01 1989 Taylor Swift 18 10 172 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 19 16 188 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 20 15 017 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 21 18 375 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 22 17 263 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 23 23 140 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 24 22 303 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 25 19 074 01 = Ed Sheeran 26 20 097 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 27 27 248 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 28 21 281 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 29 24 155 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 30 28 420 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 31 25 177 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 32 26 022 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 33 29 157 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 34 31 209 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 35 30 034 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 36 NE 001 36 MEMENTO MORI Depeche Mode 37 35 040 02 GROWIN' UP Luke Combs 38 34 358 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 39 36 042 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 40 37 202 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 41 33 222 01 HARRY STYLES Harry Styles 42 78 004 42 AURORA Daisy Jones & The Six 43 39 072 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 44 52 110 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 45 41 232 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 46 42 243 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 47 44 023 36 STUDIO ALBUMS ABBA 48 40 447 01 X Ed Sheeran 49 48 189 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay 50 47 092 02 PLANET HER Doja Cat "Flowers" is #1 for an 11th week. Things are tightening up so it could forfeit next week, but Morgan Wallen is also showing declines across the board at a similar rate. Never before has the top of the chart been so close and yet so not competitive as pretty much nothing is building traction anymore. Ed Sheeran does arrive in the top 10 but is not getting some magical streaming boost in week 2 so he looks to fall back down too. Speaking of magical streaming boosts, Taylor Swift climbs up a little with her song that dropped 20 places on Spotify the other day. If the BTS Army's aim was to get a Hot 100 #1 and also to land next to "ceilings" on both the ARIA & UK Charts, then they've succeeded on both counts. Otherwise it's been a notable week for Luke Combs, who earns two new top 50 entries this week with two of his previously released singles. It's important to note that they're older singles because it seems that Sony have omitted to submit all the new tracks to the survey. Maybe the popularity of "Fast Car" caught them by surprise and it'll turn up on the chart next week or the week after. To my surprise Libianca is getting very close to the top 50 and might just do it next week as there should be less competition. Morgan Wallen debuts another entry on the Bubbling Under chart by way of the 3 track rule, and "Rhyme Dust" recovers due to finally getting added to Hot Hits Australia. By the way there are only two Australian tracks in the top 50 and it might go down to 1 next week. "STAY" jumping ahead of "Love Again" means that The Kid LAROI could potentially claim the title of longest running #1 on the Australian ARIA Chart, currently he's a couple of weeks behind "Dance Monkey", but would be far ahead if he'd stopped releasing new singles that keep knocking "STAY" off. As for the albums chart, you can't spell Luke Combs without a capital L, which in this instance takes further form in Lana Del Rey. She hit #1 with her first 4 albums but actually hadn't made the top spot since, until now. This keeps Luke Combs to a second #2 album in a row, but at least he can boast charting higher than Nelly's "Sweat" & "Suit" combo. His entire back catalogue is still in the top 50 so one would guess that he'll probably win the war anyway. Fall Out Boy on the other hand, have never had a #1 album but tend to get themselves vaguely in the mix. Their closest effort was when "Save Rock and Roll" played second fiddle to a new Michael Buble album. I also feel bad for ARIA's social media team who needed to promote the debut of Matt Corby's 3rd album as impressive at #8, ignoring that his first two albums both landed higher, notably his debut hit the top spot. But given that he has the only Australian album in the entire top 50, I guess it's a lot harder to manage these heights 16 years removed from your Australian Idol runner up fame. I haven't listened to the album yet but it's got some good singles on it. On the topic of the oppressive nature of the global music scene, Pink Floyd are back with their woke album, and Depeche Mode have their first appearance in 6 years. Fictional band Daisy Jones & The Six manage to climb into the top 50 also. I can't be sure what to expect next week except that DMA'S will try to be the new only Australian album in the top 50, and hey, boygenius are really high on the UK midweeks so surely that'll splash over here as well.

I don't usually make it to this part of the broadcast, but maybe Ryuichi Sakamoto is a shout with Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence/Forbidden Colours, just found out he died :(

It's definitely an interesting echo chamber effect. Usually (but is not limited to) a result of spending too long on any of the triumvirate of r/...heads subreddits that one equates a small community with the bigger picture. When of course we have a bigger picture and it's published every Friday afternoon. Absolute shock that DJ Khaled is more popular than JID etc. I literally compile a fake music chart every week with like half a dozen friends and so need to constantly remind myself that no, the average person on the street has not heard of Magdalena Bay or think's they're the bee's knees. Relevant anecdote about Rina that is extremely Australian in content so read at your own peril: Mind you her album charted reasonably well at least. But it's why the charts have so much value because they can settle that score/debate, at least to an extent. Yes, so and so artist is being helped by playlists, algorithms, label tomfoolery etc, but so is basically everyone to an extent. At the end of the day, a stream is a stream, a sale is a sale, and an artist can be very popular even if they don't have a contingent online talking about it, and vice versa.

+5 Lizzy McAlpine - ceilings +4 Libianca - People +3 Rema & Selena Gomez - Calm Down +2 Strandz - Us Against The World +1 The Weeknd - Die For You -1 Miley Cyrus - Flowers -2 Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding - Miracle -3 Coi Leray - Players -4 PinkPantheress - Boy's a liar -5 Harry Styles - As It Was

I'm skeptical because radio is kinda firing on all cylinders and I don't see it sticking in the long run, compared to "Flowers" which I suspect will still be coasting on airplay this time next year.

:lol: I couldn't even remember. "Little Deer" was why I listened to it in the first place and I still love it but I'm definitely on team "Boys At School"

I think generally speaking, a critic is more likely to put someone onto an artist than off. So artists without any 'credibility' will still sell as they always will. The point is to be that person who sifts through everything so you don't have to, and so you'll have artists that owe their careers to that sort of word-of-mouth. There's plenty of stuff I've discovered due to it being covered on Pitchfork (Cymbals Eat Guitars were such a great band!), but conversely even back when all I did in my teens was listen to Muse, it never bothered me that they were hated there. I do think though it's a huge difference in the streaming age though because more often than not, people used to buy records that they only knew one or two songs (if that). Now people can much more readily listen to something before deciding to throw down any money (if they even do that). Chucking down $20 to see if the new hyped thing is really all that, is quite a commitment. Chucking on that Spellling album on Spotify for an hour because Anthony Fantano said it was great, is far less of one. All that being said though, it's not just Ed Sheeran. This is all reminding me that ~10 years ago there used to be this critic in the Sydney Morning Herald or something like that who earned a reputation as the guy who would write scathing 1 star reviews of music that clearly wasn't for him. Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Skrillex etc, paraded as a hero for taking these crappy pop artists down a peg but honestly the whole thing just seemed like a childish waste of space. Whether the new Sheeran record blows or not, I'd rather read/watch a review from someone who treats him as an artist, rather than just a punching bag to rattle off the last 2 years of zingers. Hitting easy targets is boring.

I mean to be fair most people just use critics as a means to reciprocate things they already think, and act like petulant children* when they don't. Ed Sheeran is an easy target because it lets you turn into full schoolyard bully with no consequences. I doubt anyone is still waiting for the reviews to come in to deduce their own verdict. Music criticism still has a purpose as a means to spark discussion, but it's hardly the much-needed consumer guide it once was. *I don't keep track of these things but probably a lot of these people actually are children.

27/03/2023 Singles 01 01 10 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 02 02 07 02 BOY'S A LIAR PinkPantheress 03 05 07 03 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 04 04 15 01 KILL BILL SZA 05 03 34 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 06 06 16 03 ESCAPISM. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 07 09 10 07 PLAYERS Coi Leray 08 10 22 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 09 08 31 08 UNTIL I FOUND YOU Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold 10 11 16 07 CREEPIN' Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 11 07 51 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 12 12 09 06 SURE THING Miguel 13 13 42 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 14 15 26 01 UNHOLY Sam Smith feat. Kim Petras 15 14 80 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 16 16 16 13 10:35 Tiësto & Tate McRae 17 19 29 17 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 18 NE 01 18 ALL OF THE GIRLS YOU LOVED BEFORE Taylor Swift 19 20 05 19 CEILINGS Lizzy McAlpine 20 17 25 04 MISS YOU Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz 21 23 09 21 GREEN GREEN GRASS George Ezra 22 18 30 01 I'M GOOD (BLUE) David Guetta feat. Bebe Rexha 23 21 22 03 MADE YOU LOOK Meghan Trainor 24 24 36 15 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 25 26 136 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 26 30 37 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 27 27 37 03 BAD HABIT Steve Lacy 28 25 91 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 29 28 08 06 LOVE AGAIN The Kid Laroi 30 32 42 08 SUNROOF Nicky Youre & dazy 31 31 29 29 GOLDEN HOUR JVKE 32 36 45 21 ANOTHER LOVE Tom Odell 33 35 84 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 34 33 89 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 35 29 07 19 TRUSTFALL P!nk 36 68 02 36 MIRACLE Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding 37 34 31 04 B.O.T.A. (BADDEST OF THEM ALL) Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal 38 22 02 22 RIVER Miley Cyrus 39 38 115 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 40 59 05 40 YOU PROOF Morgan Wallen 41 39 14 11 LET GO Central Cee 42 44 05 20 PAINTING PICTURES Superstar Pride 43 41 20 03 RICH FLEX Drake & 21 Savage 44 40 32 08 CUFF IT Beyoncé 45 43 143 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 46 49 12 46 SNOOZE SZA 47 37 41 02 LATE NIGHT TALKING Harry Styles 48 45 42 07 I LIKE YOU (A HAPPIER SONG) Post Malone feat. Doja Cat 49 89 02 49 MOTHER Meghan Trainor 50 54 99 43 NO ROLE MODELZ J. Cole Bubbling 15 (NE) 5 LEAF CLOVER Luke Combs 16 (14) PEOPLE Libianca 17 (17) AIN'T THAT SOME Morgan Wallen 18 (19) ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 19 (NE) SET ME FREE, PT. 2 Jimin 20 (16) OMG NewJeans Albums 01 04 003 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 02 02 044 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 03 NE 001 03 SONGS OF SURRENDER U2 04 01 002 01 ENDLESS SUMMER VACATION Miley Cyrus 05 07 022 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 06 05 111 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 07 03 005 01 TRUSTFALL P!nk 08 06 015 01 SOS SZA 09 11 190 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 10 09 171 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 11 24 115 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 12 10 316 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 13 12 250 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 14 21 439 01 1989 Taylor Swift 15 13 016 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 16 33 187 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 17 15 262 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 18 14 374 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 19 08 073 01 = Ed Sheeran 20 16 096 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 21 30 280 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 22 20 302 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 23 35 139 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 24 17 154 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 25 27 176 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 26 25 021 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 27 19 247 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 28 22 419 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 29 23 156 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 30 28 033 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 31 29 208 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 32 RE 041 11 CHIAROSCURO Ocean Alley 33 18 221 01 HARRY STYLES Harry Styles 34 32 357 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 35 36 039 02 GROWIN' UP Luke Combs 36 31 041 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 37 34 201 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 38 NE 001 38 TELL ME I'M ALIVE All Time Low 39 71 071 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 40 26 446 01 X Ed Sheeran 41 38 231 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 42 46 242 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 43 42 269 01 THE EMINEM SHOW Eminem 44 44 022 36 STUDIO ALBUMS ABBA 45 39 183 01 HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDING Post Malone 46 45 142 01 SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR THE MOON Pop Smoke 47 43 091 02 PLANET HER Doja Cat 48 48 188 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay 49 41 039 01 HERE COMES EVERYBODY Spacey Jane 50 54 350 01 25 Adele "Flowers" is #1 for a 10th week. 18 months ago, "STAY" spent its first 14 weeks at #1, so there's a little way to go to matching that. It does seem like PinkPantheress is not going to be the one to challenge it anymore though, as she's slipping back faster now. Actually if anything here is on the cards, it might be Morgan Wallen. It's hard to be certain because he just wrapped up some Australian shows which would suggest he could be trending back down, but as it stands, he's still moving on up and might be able to muscle ahead of the steadily weakening competition. He also gets a second top 50 hit this week with last year's "You Proof". Or I dunno, maybe Ed Sheeran sold a lot of physical copies here, I'm not at all privy to that sort of info until it happens. I just remember "Bad Habits" having an unremarkable start on streaming but debuting at #1 on the chart anyway. Taylor Swift has the top debut this week. I learnt this morning that saying nice things about Taylor Swift will earn you the ire of Taylor Swift fans. I suspect she could climb next week though. Calvin Harris climbs into the top 50 thanks to a massive help from Hot Hits Australia and also that funny algorithm thing, otherwise there's nothing to suggest to me that the song is much more popular than any other underperforming Calvin Harris single of late, interesting that. He's not alone anyhow though, because Meghan Trainor seems to have ridden that same algorithm to the top 50, but with Australian Idol over and the streaming also retreating hard this week, it might just be a one week thing. Then again Australia did make "Me Too" a #4 hit so you never know. J. Cole also returns to the top 50 with "No Role Modelz", roughly a year after he first made it. I have to highlight this though because the song has now spent 24 weeks in the top 50, getting no higher than #43. This week's Bubbling Under chart is actually stepping back up. I know that because I don't think Fred again.. was that far off the top 50 this week but he doesn't even make the cut for this. Luke Combs does, and I strongly suspect "5 Leaf Clover" will climb into the top 50 next week, alongside a couple other songs of his and/or Tracy Chapman's. Jimin doesn't quite make the top 50 this week but I wouldn't be surprised if he had a shot this coming week with "Like Crazy". I'm being crazy experimental with the album chart this week and adding another leading zero, just because most of the album chart entries are into their 3rd digit now and it makes it easier for me to type this up, and read it. Anyway, despite the streaming formula being somewhat against the idea of a 36 track album, Morgan Wallen's streaming has been so out of control that he can't help but climb up to #1 this week for the first time in his career. As a result, U2 land at #3 which might seem underwhelming but it is the highest peaking U2 album that starts with the words 'Songs Of'. Ocean Alley have a big re-entry thanks to a vinyl release, which manages to double the number of Australian albums in the top 50 this week. With Spacey Jane very close to slipping out, we'd be close to a net zero next week but at the very least Matt Corby should make an entrance. There's also an arrival for All Time Low, who usually end up in the top 20 but here land at #38. Next week I would think is Luke Combs' to take. Morgan Wallen could challenge him but I think their streaming is fairly level and Luke will have sales on his side. Lana Del Rey should also figure in somewhere, and maybe Depeche Mode, Fall Out Boy & BABYMETAL, who's to say?

To be honest as a neurodivergent person, I find whatever Big Hit is doing much more reprehensible. It's exploiting obsessive compulsive behaviour (which is more common for NDs) and fandom good will by shovelling out endless versions of everything they put out that they know will all get purchased. Reminds me a lot of the genuinely evil 'whale' concept in mobile gaming. (This also applies to the vinyl format business model).

I've been noticing this since around mid last year. I think between an aging streaming demographic, TikTok algorithms that don't produce audience retention, overweighted pure sales gimmicks that weaponise baked in fanbases, and a years long pandemic destroying the live music scene, it's incredibly difficult for new artists to make a significant mark. Genuinely I'm much more surprised to see a new artist break out with a hit than a 'shocking' comeback from major label artists like Meghan Trainor or Sam Smith.

independent release -> no one's gonna push it to radio no prior artist profile -> no precedent for radio airplay doesn't sample a hit from the '80s/'90s/'00s -> radio HATES that guitar ballad with no remix -> radio HAAAAATES that song is a year old + no local tour on the horizon -> no reason for triple j/FBi to touch it either

20/03/2023 Singles 01 01 09 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 02 02 06 02 BOY'S A LIAR PinkPantheress 03 03 33 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 04 04 14 01 KILL BILL SZA 05 06 06 06 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 06 07 15 03 ESCAPISM. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 07 05 50 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 08 08 30 08 UNTIL I FOUND YOU Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold 09 09 09 07 PLAYERS Coi Leray 10 12 21 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 11 13 15 07 CREEPIN' Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 12 11 08 06 SURE THING Miguel 13 15 41 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 14 10 79 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 15 14 25 01 UNHOLY Sam Smith feat. Kim Petras 16 19 15 13 10:35 Tiësto & Tate McRae 17 17 24 04 MISS YOU Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz 18 18 29 01 I'M GOOD (BLUE) David Guetta feat. Bebe Rexha 19 23 28 19 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 20 24 04 20 CEILINGS Lizzy McAlpine 21 21 21 03 MADE YOU LOOK Meghan Trainor 22 NE 01 22 RIVER Miley Cyrus 23 26 08 23 GREEN GREEN GRASS George Ezra 24 27 35 15 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 25 20 90 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 26 28 135 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 27 33 36 03 BAD HABIT Steve Lacy 28 29 07 06 LOVE AGAIN The Kid Laroi 29 34 06 19 TRUSTFALL P!nk 30 40 36 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 31 36 28 29 GOLDEN HOUR JVKE 32 46 41 08 SUNROOF Nicky Youre & dazy 33 43 88 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 34 38 30 04 B.O.T.A. (BADDEST OF THEM ALL) Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal 35 42 83 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 36 49 44 21 ANOTHER LOVE Tom Odell 37 16 40 02 LATE NIGHT TALKING Harry Styles 38 37 114 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 39 41 13 11 LET GO Central Cee 40 44 31 08 CUFF IT Beyoncé 41 47 19 03 RICH FLEX Drake & 21 Savage 42 31 307 01 PERFECT Ed Sheeran 43 57 142 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 44 45 04 20 PAINTING PICTURES Superstar Pride 45 51 41 07 I LIKE YOU (A HAPPIER SONG) Post Malone feat. Doja Cat 46 39 03 32 RHYME DUST MK & Dom Dolla 47 22 12 04 MUSIC FOR A SUSHI RESTAURANT Harry Styles 48 25 169 05 WATERMELON SUGAR Harry Styles 49 56 11 47 SNOOZE SZA 50 58 206 04 SOMEONE YOU LOVED Lewis Capaldi Bubbling 13 (13) COMMA'S Onefour feat. CG 14 (16) PEOPLE Libianca 15 (NE) MIRACLE Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding 16 (15) OMG NewJeans 17 (11) AIN'T THAT SOME Morgan Wallen 18 (NE) JADED Miley Cyrus 19 (14) ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 20 (19) HEAVEN Niall Horan Albums 01 NE 01 01 ENDLESS SUMMER VACATION Miley Cyrus 02 01 43 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 03 04 04 01 TRUSTFALL P!nk 04 02 02 02 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 05 07 110 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 06 08 14 01 SOS SZA 07 10 21 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 08 05 72 01 = Ed Sheeran 09 06 170 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 10 09 315 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 11 14 189 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 12 15 249 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 13 18 15 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 14 17 373 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 15 19 261 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 16 20 95 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 17 22 153 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 18 12 220 01 HARRY STYLES Harry Styles 19 25 246 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 20 23 301 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 21 24 438 01 1989 Taylor Swift 22 33 418 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 23 26 155 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 24 32 114 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 25 27 20 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 26 16 445 01 X Ed Sheeran 27 29 175 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 28 31 32 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 29 36 207 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 30 35 279 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 31 38 40 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 32 40 356 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 33 41 186 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 34 37 200 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 35 42 138 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 36 39 38 02 GROWIN' UP Luke Combs 37 21 03 02 CRACKER ISLAND Gorillaz 38 46 230 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 39 45 182 01 HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDING Post Malone 40 11 03 07 HIGH DRAMA Adam Lambert 41 44 38 01 HERE COMES EVERYBODY Spacey Jane 42 47 268 01 THE EMINEM SHOW Eminem 43 52 90 02 PLANET HER Doja Cat 44 50 21 36 STUDIO ALBUMS ABBA 45 51 141 01 SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR THE MOON Pop Smoke 46 49 241 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 47 90 102 PURE HEROINE Lorde 48 54 187 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay 49 55 331 02 DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS Bruno Mars 50 43 175 01 NO.6 COLLABORATIONS PROJECT Ed Sheeran "Flowers" is #1 for a 9th week. It's a little hard to really judge the margin on Spotify because the original version of "Boy's a liar" fell out of the top 200 a little while ago but it is possible that this will be its last week at #1, as it seems to be falling slightly faster. Aside from "Last Night", most of the top songs at the moment are dropping but being replaced by nothing. The highest new peak on the chart is actually "ceilings" at #20 but since that's basically radio poison in this country, it may as well not be there. Also the album's really good, more people should listen to it. Miley Cyrus does get the top/only debut with "River" but it doesn't seem to be catching on just yet. That said if you're on the lookout for new hits, that Calvin Harris dealie should probably do the job. Last night it got slotted in at #2 on Hot Hits Australia so it could well vault into the top 20 soon. There's probably another song climbing up too but I suspect if I don't give it any attention, it should eventually go away. I was under the impression that Miley Cyrus getting #1 albums was a regular occurrence but now I see this is only her 3rd #1 album. It does mean that she can boast 3 decades of #1 albums if you're into those sort of stats. It helps this time around that she has no competition, as the only debut for the week! If not for U2 coming in next week, I think Morgan Wallen might have a chance to climb up to #1 as he's seeing some good streaming legs for several songs. Then again maybe he can still pull it off. We're also back to only having 1 Australian album in the top 50, but maybe Ed Sheeran & Harry Styles dropping back down the chart will create a buffer in that regard.

Seems like rather than just one, several 10/03 releases are getting big out of nowhere boosts (Miracle, Mother, Jaded). The former has plausible deniability on the UK Chart but based on every other global chart it looks a bit more sus, so maybe keep that in mind. In the mean time, Die For You (Remix) is collapsing even harder than last week, so I guess that's where all those streams are coming from.

+5 Lizzy McAlpine - ceilings +4 SZA - Kill Bill +3 Miguel - Sure Thing +2 Libianca - People +1 Rema & Selena Gomez - Calm Down -1 The Weeknd - Die For You -2 Miley Cyrus - Flowers -3 Coi Leray - Players -4 PinkPantheress - Boy's a liar -5 Harry Styles - As It Was