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A lot of it specifically is centred around Queensland and northern New South Wales (specifically Tamworth) which has a strong local scene. Speaking as someone who lives on the opposite side of the country, it's not really a big deal here. That said, "Last Night" may as well be a pop song (and I believe it was pushed to pop radio first in the US) so it's not that radical to see it breaking out. And yes, Australia is incredibly white.

13/03/2023 Singles 01 01 08 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 02 02 05 02 BOY'S A LIAR PinkPantheress 03 03 32 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 04 04 13 01 KILL BILL SZA 05 05 49 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 06 08 05 06 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 07 06 14 03 ESCAPISM. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 08 09 29 08 UNTIL I FOUND YOU Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold 09 07 08 07 PLAYERS Coi Leray 10 17 78 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 11 11 07 06 SURE THING Miguel 12 12 20 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 13 13 14 07 CREEPIN' Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 14 10 24 01 UNHOLY Sam Smith feat. Kim Petras 15 14 40 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 16 16 39 02 LATE NIGHT TALKING Harry Styles 17 15 23 04 MISS YOU Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz 18 19 28 01 I'M GOOD (BLUE) David Guetta feat. Bebe Rexha 19 21 14 13 10:35 Tiësto & Tate McRae 20 22 89 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 21 18 20 03 MADE YOU LOOK Meghan Trainor 22 24 11 04 MUSIC FOR A SUSHI RESTAURANT Harry Styles 23 26 27 19 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 24 43 03 24 CEILINGS Lizzy McAlpine 25 23 168 05 WATERMELON SUGAR Harry Styles 26 31 07 26 GREEN GREEN GRASS George Ezra 27 27 34 15 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 28 29 134 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 29 25 06 06 LOVE AGAIN The Kid Laroi 30 39 08 10 SATELLITE Harry Styles 31 40 306 01 PERFECT Ed Sheeran 32 35 13 03 MATILDA Harry Styles 33 34 35 03 BAD HABIT Steve Lacy 34 28 05 19 TRUSTFALL P!nk 35 38 78 07 ADORE YOU Harry Styles 36 44 27 29 GOLDEN HOUR JVKE 37 46 113 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 38 36 29 04 B.O.T.A. (BADDEST OF THEM ALL) Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal 39 32 02 32 RHYME DUST MK & Dom Dolla 40 41 35 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 41 37 12 11 LET GO Central Cee 42 45 82 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 43 47 87 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 44 33 30 08 CUFF IT Beyoncé 45 20 03 20 PAINTING PICTURES Superstar Pride 46 42 40 08 SUNROOF Nicky Youre & dazy 47 48 18 03 RICH FLEX Drake & 21 Savage 48 51 25 01 SIGN OF THE TIMES Harry Styles 49 54 43 21 ANOTHER LOVE Tom Odell 50 58 221 01 SHAPE OF YOU Ed Sheeran Bubbling 11 (NE) AIN'T THAT SOME Morgan Wallen 12 (13) SNOOZE SZA 13 (16) COMMA'S Onefour feat. CG 14 (NE) ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 15 (14) OMG NewJeans 16 (17) PEOPLE Libianca 17 (NE) ON THE STREET j-hope & J. Cole 18 (15) LOVE YOU ANYWAY Luke Combs 19 (9) HEAVEN Niall Horan 20 (20) SUPERHERO (HEROES & VILLAINS) Metro Boomin, Future & Chris Brown Albums 01 01 42 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 02 NE 01 02 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 03 NE 01 03 4TH WALL Ruel 04 03 03 01 TRUSTFALL P!nk 05 06 71 01 = Ed Sheeran 06 05 169 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 07 08 109 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 08 09 13 01 SOS SZA 09 11 314 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 10 10 20 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 11 07 02 07 HIGH DRAMA Adam Lambert 12 12 219 01 HARRY STYLES Harry Styles 13 NE 01 13 AY-YO - THE 4TH ALBUM REPACKAGE NCT 127 14 13 188 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 15 14 248 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 16 16 444 01 X Ed Sheeran 17 18 372 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 18 20 14 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 19 19 260 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 20 23 94 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 21 02 02 02 CRACKER ISLAND Gorillaz 22 26 152 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 23 21 300 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 24 25 437 01 1989 Taylor Swift 25 24 245 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 26 22 154 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 27 27 19 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 28 NE 01 28 MIDNIGHT DRIVING Teenage Dads 29 28 174 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 30 NE 01 30 I AM THE RIVER, THE RIVER IS ME Jen Cloher 31 29 31 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 32 31 113 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 33 32 417 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 34 42 413 01 + Ed Sheeran 35 49 278 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 36 33 206 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 37 34 199 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 38 35 39 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 39 38 37 02 GROWIN' UP Luke Combs 40 40 355 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 41 41 185 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 42 37 137 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 43 43 174 01 NO.6 COLLABORATIONS PROJECT Ed Sheeran 44 39 37 01 HERE COMES EVERYBODY Spacey Jane 45 36 181 01 HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDING Post Malone 46 44 229 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 47 46 267 01 THE EMINEM SHOW Eminem 48 NE 01 48 BEN Macklemore 49 51 240 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 50 53 20 36 STUDIO ALBUMS ABBA It's an 8th week at #1 for "Flowers", but next week is an interesting spanner in the works. You would think that the album release would buoy it again but it's actually been dropping faster than "Boy's a liar" on Spotify lately, so it keeps this race open again although I imagine the margin is still too strong on other platforms to change anything. Actually pretty much everything in the top 10 is on the way out presently with not much looking to slot itself in. Miley will probably debut in the top 20 with "River" next week. Morgan Wallen rises to a new peak off the album release but surprisingly doesn't score any further top 50 entries. As you can probably parse from the Bubbling Under chart, he has several not far off (+ "You Proof" is one of the highest but is too old for that chart). Harry Styles wrapped up his tour in the middle of this tracking week but mostly improves on last week's positions, while Ed Sheeran played his last show on Sunday this week and should see another good week (even though the show is in the lower population centre of Perth). If you perchance found yourself looking at this chart and thinking 'gosh, "Shivers" is a bit high, innit?', that's a fair assessment, because it got put back on Hot Hits Australia and quite high at that. Nonetheless its jump up to #10 does make the top 10 this week on average a year less old so it's impossible to say if this is helping freshen up the chart or not. Superstar Pride plummets down the chart due to the handicap of being unable to be streamed for most of the week, although I have to note that all things considered, it's a bit higher than I'd have thought. If nothing else it lends more credence to my theory that ARIA doubles up Friday streams for Thursday data or something dumb like that because it went from being way higher on Spotify last week to being a bit lower on Spotify compared to its ARIA position, very strange. Also speaking of Spotify oddities, it is quite possible that "Rhyme Dust" was getting that algorithm goodness last week but it actually declines on this week's corresponding chart. The highest Australian song on the chart this week keeps getting lower and next week we might only have two in the top 50. I'm also just going to note that "ceilings" climbed a lot and I'm very supportive of this so I don't have to change the sub-header. We've also nearly got a record low in new music in the top 50 as there are only 10 qualifying songs in this week. The only time it's been lower I believe was the week of the big Christmas boom when it dropped down to 8. ONEFOUR's Hot Hits Australia boost picks them up a bit but they're already collapsing again this week. Niall has a monster collapse now that people aren't being forced at gunpoint to listen to his music, but he may be able to stick the landing a little and hang around. On the album chart, Harry Styles is #1 again. Morgan Wallen debuts at #2 yet again, in case you were wondering, his last album missed the top spot to Barry Gibb, but is still in the top 50 to this day so he's won the long term battle I suppose. The album chart actually does have some Australian music again as the next highest debut comes from Ruel, whose big breakthrough as a young wunderkind was so long ago that maybe he's not a notably young wunderkind anymore! This is his first proper studio album although he had quite a bit of success with his 2019 EP that also peaked at #3 on the album chart. Speaking of #3, NCT 127 got there last year with the 4th album, and this re-package gets them to #13. Teenage Dads had a bit of a breakthrough last year and made the Hottest 100 for the first time with their song "Teddy". It appears on their new EP which is only 6 tracks which is just long enough to be included here. Also debuting this week is Jen Cloher who made the top 5 back in 2017 and you might know them for being romantically linked with Courtney Barnett at that time although I don't think they are anymore. Macklemore sneaks into the top 50 which is quite a drop off for him position-wise but as we know, the album chart has a tendency to exaggerate this gap. In any case, his last album had a #2 hit on it and this does not.

To be fair, half of Dua Lipa's top 10 hits in the past 4 years have samples & interpolations and most people seem to like those. I think it's more if you don't like/don't want to like an artist, one is more likely to dismiss anything like that which pivots to success because 'how dare people fall for this trickery?!' (as well as being an easy scapegoat for 'why this is bad') when really it's a matter of taste.

I've been awaiting to see what would happen this week but with the feeling of no strong expectation for her to do anything substantial. The kinds of artists who tend to have big showings with their albums are the ones who *always* do (Ye had 3 top 20 hits from his gospel album!) or new artists that have a lot of hype behind them (eg Olivia, Billie). Miley doesn't really fit into either camp. She does well on pure sales but I don't know how many people who've never listened to a Miley Cyrus album on release are gonna start just because they like "Flowers", most have decided where they stand long ago.

And all of a sudden after consistently gaining 120K+ for an entire week it's now lost streams compared to a week ago, exactly on time. Knew it :lol: Not sure if there's a new beneficiary yet.

+5 Lizzy McAlpine - ceilings +4 SZA - Kill Bill +3 Miguel - Sure Thing +2 Rema & Selena Gomez - Calm Down +1 Tiesto & Tate McRae - 10:35 -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

Dunno if anyone else has seen it but I've been noticing an artist I'd never heard of vaulting up a lot of global artist charts lately (this is the UK one): They're difficult to Google and all I can seem to figure out is that they're Dutch and they dropped a 50+ track album of very standard dance remakes of popular songs, with a big following on YouTube & TikTok, but it all seems so bafflingly uneventful for something that seems to be rocketing up the charts. :lol:

Didn't see anyone mention it but "PAINTING PICTURES" got greyed out a couple days ago and vanished from every Spotify chart.

Unless there's some sales being shipped in this week it's not a chance. Harry's going to annihilate on streams again even if it's starting to wane.

Max Martin, Shellback & Fred again.. all worked with him before on "I Don't Care", "Beautiful People", "Take Me Back To London" and "Remember The Name" lol post-sniped by less than a minute :lol:

06/03/2023 Singles 01 01 07 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 02 02 04 02 BOY'S A LIAR PinkPantheress 03 42 31 03 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 04 03 12 01 KILL BILL SZA 05 05 48 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 06 04 13 03 ESCAPISM. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 07 07 07 07 PLAYERS Coi Leray 08 11 04 08 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 09 12 28 09 UNTIL I FOUND YOU Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold 10 08 23 01 UNHOLY Sam Smith feat. Kim Petras 11 06 06 06 SURE THING Miguel 12 09 19 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 13 10 13 07 CREEPIN' Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 14 14 39 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 15 13 21 04 MISS YOU Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz 16 39 38 02 LATE NIGHT TALKING Harry Styles 17 18 77 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 18 16 19 03 MADE YOU LOOK Meghan Trainor 19 15 27 01 I'M GOOD (BLUE) David Guetta feat. Bebe Rexha 20 56 02 20 PAINTING PICTURES Superstar Pride 21 17 13 13 10:35 Tiësto & Tate McRae 22 29 88 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 23 50 167 05 WATERMELON SUGAR Harry Styles 24 81 10 04 MUSIC FOR A SUSHI RESTAURANT Harry Styles 25 20 05 06 LOVE AGAIN The Kid Laroi 26 24 26 19 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 27 22 33 15 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 28 19 04 19 TRUSTFALL P!nk 29 26 133 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 30 88 02 30 HEAVEN Niall Horan 31 27 06 27 GREEN GREEN GRASS George Ezra 32 NE 01 32 RHYME DUST MK & Dom Dolla 33 28 29 08 CUFF IT Beyoncé 34 25 34 03 BAD HABIT Steve Lacy 35 97 12 03 MATILDA Harry Styles 36 23 28 04 B.O.T.A. (BADDEST OF THEM ALL) Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal 37 21 11 11 LET GO Central Cee 38 80 77 07 ADORE YOU Harry Styles 39 RE 07 10 SATELLITE Harry Styles 40 43 305 01 PERFECT Ed Sheeran 41 34 34 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 42 30 39 08 SUNROOF Nicky Youre & dazy 43 51 02 43 CEILINGS Lizzy McAlpine 44 33 26 29 GOLDEN HOUR JVKE 45 31 81 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 46 44 112 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 47 36 86 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 48 32 17 03 RICH FLEX Drake & 21 Savage 49 37 39 07 I LIKE YOU (A HAPPIER SONG) Post Malone feat. Doja Cat 50 RE 08 08 DAYLIGHT Harry Styles Bubbling 13 (12) SNOOZE SZA 14 (13) OMG NewJeans 15 (14) LOVE YOU ANYWAY Luke Combs 16 (NE) COMMA'S Onefour feat. CG 17 (17) PEOPLE Libianca 18 (21) LOW SZA 19 (16) RUMBLE Skrillex, Fred again.. & Flowdan 20 (19) SUPERHERO (HEROES & VILLAINS) Metro Boomin, Future & Chris Brown Albums 01 02 39 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 02 NE 01 02 CRACKER ISLAND Gorillaz 03 01 02 01 TRUSTFALL P!nk 04 NE 01 04 TINES OF STARS UNFURLED Tim Rogers & The Twin Set 05 07 168 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 06 06 70 01 = Ed Sheeran 07 NE 01 07 HIGH DRAMA Adam Lambert 08 04 108 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 09 03 12 01 SOS SZA 10 05 19 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 11 08 313 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 12 21 218 01 HARRY STYLES Harry Styles 13 09 187 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 14 10 247 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 15 NE 01 15 HOME Kingswood 16 18 443 01 X Ed Sheeran 17 NE 01 17 TRUE COLOUR The Terrys 18 11 371 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 19 17 259 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 20 12 13 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 21 15 299 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 22 14 153 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 23 13 93 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 24 25 244 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 25 16 436 01 1989 Taylor Swift 26 22 151 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 27 19 18 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 28 23 173 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 29 20 30 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 30 NE 01 30 GOOD RIDDANCE Gracie Abrams 31 27 112 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 32 28 416 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 33 30 205 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 34 39 198 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 35 31 38 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 36 29 180 01 HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDING Post Malone 37 35 136 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 38 36 36 02 GROWIN' UP Luke Combs 39 26 36 01 HERE COMES EVERYBODY Spacey Jane 40 34 354 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 41 37 184 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 42 58 412 01 + Ed Sheeran 43 57 173 01 NO.6 COLLABORATIONS PROJECT Ed Sheeran 44 43 228 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 45 45 88 02 PLANET HER Doja Cat 46 44 266 01 THE EMINEM SHOW Eminem 47 41 17 02 HER LOSS Drake & 21 Savage 48 48 139 01 SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR THE MOON Pop Smoke 49 51 277 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 50 32 61 05 ANTI Rihanna These past couple of months have been weird. I don't think I've ever really written at length on this topic so I hope you can forgive me using this thread as my soap box. (If you're just here to read about the new chart, I recommend skipping the next 5 paragraphs x) I've always marched to the beat of my own drum to an extent. I had a lot in common with what was well liked in the alternative scene for ages but would also run down my own rabbit holes as we all do. Ever since around 2018 this has gone completely off the rails. There's a certain expectation when you hear that someone likes indie music. It's more niche than pop music, but it still has the same sort of conglomeration around the more universally agreed upon artists. Be that RYMcore, P4Kcore, AOTYcore or whatever. I don't know if it's considered cooler to listen to BC,NR or instead something lesser known, opinions probably vary. In any case there's an inherent 'coolness' that's adopted which leads to perceptions of superiority. I reject that superiority because the music I listen to doesn't really fall into either camp. We're more talking about indie music that's obscure by way of it probably getting heard and passed up, or just not heard at all and if it was, it wouldn't get much interest either because it's not what people are interested in, or if it is, people are so territorial about these things that they'll dismiss it as a weaker facsimile of something that is approved. Also I listen to a lot of Australian music and that almost always gets a bad wrap online because there are far less of us to stick up for it and try to assert it into popular discourse. Which is to say I'm long beyond the expectation that music I listen to will make any discernable impact. I discovered Lizzy's music properly a little over a year ago. Actually I suspect that if not for poorly counted Thursday data, she would have made the ARIA top 50 last week and it would have been published on the exact one year anniversary of when I first listened to "reckless driving", a song I might have skipped over if not for a really compelling bridge and outro that reminded me a lot of "I Know The End", my favourite Phoebe song. I grew to like it a lot and it's my most listened to song of the last roughly 5 years. About a month after it came out, I listened to the album and really took to it immediately, helped by songs like "erase me" and "doomsday" that operated on unexpected but really engaging dynamics. It became apparent quickly that she operated on a basis of chucking in surprise twists and turns in her songs, whether it's the dramatic shifts in songs like "firearm" or "hate to be lame", or when you get those lyrical moments in "ceilings" or "chemtrails" that make you realise what the song's really been about the whole time. Maybe it sounds gimmicky written out like that but it just works on a sonic level and I latched onto her writing style really strongly. I wish I could tell you what I thought about "ceilings" initially but I think with the title that doesn't stick out, it's not one that I really could remember looking at the tracklist. I did however come to notice down the track around July that it was actually on the top of her Spotify top 10 which I might have initially dismissed as it being chill playlist fodder (let's be honest, it is), but it did also seem to be a fan favourite so I went back to it, and it clicked so hard into place. I still prefer "reckless driving" but "ceilings" had a hold on me and I became fascinated at its slow burn popularity, where I think I noticed around August that both it and the album were getting more plays on last.fm than the week the album actually came out. In September I started tracking its daily stats on Spotify because I was curious to see if it was catching up to "hate to be lame", at the time the most streamed song on the album, back when the songs were on 5.5 & 10 million streams respectively. The upward trend continued and the rest as you can figure is history. This is all just to say that it has been a very long time since I last had something to root for in the charts like this. Even when the possibility arrives, I'm used to getting screwed over, like how BENEE (back when she was just called Bene) was poised to crack the top 50 with "Soaked", my second favourite song of 2018, only for dumb beaurocracy to get in the way which meant that it never charted at all. My other favourite top 50 hit of recent times is "XO TOUR Llif3" which did chart but got so royally screwed over by a logistic error midway into its chart run that it soured the excitement. Never before has a song hit the ARIA top 50 a full 7 months after it topped my own personal charts so I am absolutely going to indulge in every moment of this. She's quite low at the moment in this particularly hectic chart but I'm expecting some strong progress in the coming weeks. Anyway as for this week's chart, "Flowers" is #1 for a 7th week. The 8th week is looking a bit more up in the air. She's down to effectively #3 on Spotify but PinkPantheress significantly lacks sales still and The Weeknd's suspiciously high streams on Spotify are not at all being reciprocated on Apple (and his sales aren't great either). For the time being though, The Weeknd once again tacks Ariana Grande onto an old song and climbs up to #3. The funniest aspect of this for me is because on the surface, it makes it look like "As It Was" has stalled out despite having one of the biggest climbs for his catalogue this week. He just wrapped up his Australian tour this week but that still carries well into the next tracking week so expect his songs to remain very high again. It's hard to believe that Ed Sheeran is once again having one of the most successful Australian tours of all time and he's still being relatively overshadowed, as I suspect Harry Styles is singlehandedly keeping "Shape Of You", "Celestial" and maybe "Thinking Out Loud" out of the top 50. Outside of that, it's still a fairly busy week with some big debuts. Superstar Pride has the highest at #20, although he's retreated back down quite a bit so he might not get any higher. That's almost certainly also true of Niall Horan who as you might suspect, had a terrific second week out of nowhere but next week looks to Sabrina Carpenter his way out of here. If not for my loonery I would say the most peculiar debut this week comes from MK & Dom Dolla. I don't know if this is surprising or not but MK has actually never charted before in Australia, apart from me just now learning that he contributed to a couple of Pitbull's hits, but nothing like "Look Right Through" or "17" has made any real impression over here. Dom Dolla also hasn't charted but has made a name for himself, getting roughly 1 Hottest 100 entry per year in recent times, his most recent, "Miracle Maker", is an absolute banger. Also Q-Tip is sampled on the song which just goes to show that he's had an extremely long spanning era of hitmaking. In this house we stan A Tribe Called Quest. "Rhyme Dust" actually debuted at #13 on Spotify which I have to assert is extremely unusual in Australia where hardly anything ever impacts out the gate on New Music Friday. Hot Hits Australia has updated about 3 times since the song has come out and still not added it which is also making its longevity look pretty dicey, despite the fact that it's free Aussie quota. Morgan Wallen also climbs into the top 10, getting just a little bit higher than Sam Hunt did with "Body Like A Back Road". He's hard pressed to have the biggest modern pop country crossover hit because technically "Meant To Be" got to #2 and "One Too Many" got to #6, but it's fairly notable. Oddly enough though it doesn't look certain that he'll be able to get another top 50 entry next week although "Ain't That Some" and "You Proof" could sneak in, so it's interesting to see just how focused the attention is on the one song. Notable on the Bubbling aspects this week, ONEFOUR enter with their best performing new single in a fair while, which actually has gotten the Hot Hits Australia tick of approval for some reason, while SZA climbs up with "Low", actually the first time it's ever been on this chart because it's never done better than 4th place for SZA until now. The album chart caught me off guard admittedly but I guess I underestimated just how much Harry Styles' streams have been adding up. He's back at #1 for the first time in many months, blocking Gorillaz who score their highest charting album in over a decade. 2010's "Plastic Beach" is to date their only #1 album as "Demon Days" lost out to System of a Down back in the day. Furthermore, it's pretty unheard of but P!nk is down to #3 already on week 2. I'd assume everyone's making way for Morgan Wallen next week but with limited physical availability and streaming that is being well outpaced by Harry Styles, he could be set for another #2 peak. Also debuting in the top 10 we've got an Australian icon in Tim Rogers, who you should know as the lead singer of You Am I who you'd do yourself a favour to listen to because they're one of the best bands of the '90s. He's charted many solo albums over the years but this is the first time he's made the top 10. He previously collaborated with The Twin Set back in 1999 and peaked at #14, which is also the only solo album of his that lasted more than a week in the top 50. Adam Lambert also makes the top 10, keeping up his perfect record as this is his 5th time in the echelon. For the past couple of weeks, there's only been one Australian album in the top 50 but refreshingly we've got a few this week. Also debuting is Kingswood, making the top 20 for the 4th time. It's been a while since I listened to them and I think they've changed up their sound a bit but they used to be a remarkable dead ringer for Queens of the Stone Age. On the more modern end of the spectrum, we've got The Terrys, who made the Hottest 100 in 2021 with their biggest hit "Our Paradise". Every other song I've heard of theirs sounds like a re-creation of that song, but it is a good one so I don't blame them. We've also got Gracie Abrams charting for the first time. Ed Sheeran joins Harry Styles in having his entire studio album catalogue on the chart again.

Is it not impossible that the autoplay magic has shifted from Niall to The Weeknd? It's less noticeable when the song's already high up but just on raw numbers it kind of checks out. (Unless there's a more logical reason that the remix has increased by 3 million daily streams in 2 days globally)

It might be by sheer coincidence, but I'm just taking the positions from the New Music Singles chart and starting from the ones that aren't in the top 50. I explained it in more detail on the 13/02/2023 chart post.

27/02/2023 Singles 01 01 06 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 02 03 03 02 BOY'S A LIAR PinkPantheress 03 02 11 01 KILL BILL SZA 04 04 12 03 ESCAPISM. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 05 09 47 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 06 07 05 06 SURE THING Miguel 07 08 06 07 PLAYERS Coi Leray 08 05 22 01 UNHOLY Sam Smith feat. Kim Petras 09 06 18 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 10 10 12 07 CREEPIN' Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 11 15 03 11 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 12 13 27 12 UNTIL I FOUND YOU Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold 13 11 20 04 MISS YOU Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz 14 12 38 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 15 17 26 01 I'M GOOD (BLUE) David Guetta feat. Bebe Rexha 16 16 18 03 MADE YOU LOOK Meghan Trainor 17 18 12 13 10:35 Tiësto & Tate McRae 18 30 76 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 19 34 03 19 TRUSTFALL P!nk 20 14 04 06 LOVE AGAIN The Kid Laroi 21 22 10 11 LET GO Central Cee 22 26 32 15 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 23 19 27 04 B.O.T.A. (BADDEST OF THEM ALL) Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal 24 23 25 19 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 25 21 33 03 BAD HABIT Steve Lacy 26 27 132 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 27 39 05 27 GREEN GREEN GRASS George Ezra 28 20 28 08 CUFF IT Beyoncé 29 44 87 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 30 33 38 08 SUNROOF Nicky Youre & dazy 31 31 80 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 32 36 16 03 RICH FLEX Drake & 21 Savage 33 32 25 29 GOLDEN HOUR JVKE 34 35 33 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 35 24 23 04 SAY NOTHING Flume feat. MAY-A 36 37 85 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 37 29 38 07 I LIKE YOU (A HAPPIER SONG) Post Malone feat. Doja Cat 38 38 25 14 HOW DO I SAY GOODBYE Dean Lewis 39 68 37 02 LATE NIGHT TALKING Harry Styles 40 25 04 25 DELILAH (PULL ME OUT OF THIS) Fred again.. 41 40 41 21 ANOTHER LOVE Tom Odell 42 41 30 38 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 43 66 304 01 PERFECT Ed Sheeran 44 42 111 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 45 48 14 39 JUST WANNA ROCK Lil Uzi Vert 46 54 139 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 47 50 07 47 SNOOZE SZA 48 45 27 11 2 BE LOVED (AM I READY) Lizzo 49 43 07 43 OMG NewJeans 50 76 166 05 WATERMELON SUGAR Harry Styles Bubbling 14 (12) LOVE YOU ANYWAY Luke Combs 15 (28) NEVER GONNA NOT DANCE AGAIN P!nk 16 (18) RUMBLE Skrillex, Fred again.. & Flowdan 17 (21) PEOPLE Libianca 18 (19) I'M NOT HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS Sam Smith 19 (25) SUPERHERO (HEROES & VILLAINS) Metro Boomin, Future & Chris Brown 20 (NE) HEAVEN Niall Horan Albums 01 NE 01 01 TRUSTFALL P!nk 02 02 38 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 03 04 11 01 SOS SZA 04 05 107 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 05 03 18 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 06 17 69 01 = Ed Sheeran 07 09 167 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 08 15 312 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 09 07 186 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 10 06 246 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 11 10 370 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 12 20 12 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 13 13 92 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 14 19 152 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 15 22 298 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 16 12 435 01 1989 Taylor Swift 17 14 258 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 18 68 442 01 X Ed Sheeran 19 16 17 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 20 24 29 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 21 56 217 01 HARRY STYLES Harry Styles 22 27 150 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 23 21 172 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 24 01 02 01 THIS IS WHY Paramore 25 28 243 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 26 11 35 01 HERE COMES EVERYBODY Spacey Jane 27 29 111 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 28 26 415 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 29 18 179 01 HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDING Post Malone 30 33 204 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 31 36 37 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 32 35 60 05 ANTI Rihanna 33 NE 01 33 QUEST FOR FIRE Skrillex 34 38 353 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 35 37 135 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 36 31 35 02 GROWIN' UP Luke Combs 37 30 183 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 38 32 102 02 GOOD GIRL GONE BAD Rihanna 39 43 197 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 40 85 10 02 BORN PINK BlackPink 41 44 16 02 HER LOSS Drake & 21 Savage 42 23 04 01 GLORIA Sam Smith 43 46 227 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 44 47 265 01 THE EMINEM SHOW Eminem 45 45 87 02 PLANET HER Doja Cat 46 25 482 02 GREATEST HITS Red Hot Chili Peppers 47 34 248 01 BEERBONGS & BENTLEYS Post Malone 48 51 138 01 SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR THE MOON Pop Smoke 49 50 18 36 STUDIO ALBUMS ABBA 50 53 184 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay "Flowers" is #1 for a 6th week. It's getting a little dicey as it's been usurped on Spotify but with a huge sales gap I'd rate it the favourite to be #1 again next week. Miguel does in fact match his best past chart peak with an even older song but otherwise there's not much else to note in the top 50 this week. Really this week is just a prelude to the fact that Harry Styles & Ed Sheeran are currently touring and both hit the major population centres in the past week, so while they're up a decent amount this week, steel yourself for next week's utter chaos. Also "Die For You" will probably jump into the top 5. There is however a bit of a clear out on the New Music chart (and I believe "10:35" and "Rich Flex" will both be out in the next 2 weeks), so now we're up to #14 being out of the top 50! Once again the highest actually bubbling under hit is likely not represented as I'd strongly suspect "ceilings" just missed the top 50 this week, but we do have actual non-top 50 hits courtesy of P!nk, Libanca & Niall Horan. The former two are almost definitely taking a dive next week but Niall will likely vault into the top 50, even if he magically stopped getting streams today which as we've learnt is not impossible. Welcome to Australia, P!nk is #1 obviously. This is her 6th consecutive #1 studio album + obviously her Greatest Hits went to #1 as well. The tale of the tape is usually a question of how many weeks she'll spend at #1 and you'd suspect Gorillaz and Harry Styles could provide slight challenges but it's hers to lose really. One of Skrillex's two new albums enters this week. He's had 5 top 50 albums although this is only the second of those that is actually a Skrillex album.

+5 RAYE & 070 Shake - Escapism. +4 SZA - Kill Bill +3 Miguel - Sure Thing +2 Metro Boomin', The Weeknd & 21 Savage - Creepin' +1 Rema & Selena Gomez - Calm Down -1 Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero -2 Miley Cyrus - Flowers -3 venbee & goddard. - messy in heaven -4 PinkPantheress - Boy's a liar -5 Harry Styles - As It Was +5 Lizzy McAlpine - ceilings (absolutely can't believe I am posting this song in this thread *.*) +4 RAYE & 070 Shake - Escapism. +3 SZA - Kill Bill +2 Miguel - Sure Thing +1 Tiesto & Tate McRae - 10:35 -1 Rema & Selena Gomez - Calm Down -2 Miley Cyrus - Flowers -3 Coi Leray - Players -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 Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage - Creepin' +1 Tiesto & Tate McRae - 10:35 -1 Rema & Selena Gomez - Calm Down -2 Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero -3 Miley Cyrus - Flowers -4 venbee & goddard. - messy in heaven -5 PinkPantheress - Boy's a liar (don't hate it but it's a strong top 10 and probably it's my least favourite PinkPantheress song anyway :/)

20/02/2023 Singles 01 01 05 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 02 02 10 01 KILL BILL SZA 03 25 02 03 BOY'S A LIAR PinkPantheress 04 04 11 03 ESCAPISM. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 05 03 21 01 UNHOLY Sam Smith feat. Kim Petras 06 05 17 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 07 11 04 07 SURE THING Miguel 08 18 05 08 PLAYERS Coi Leray 09 09 46 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 10 08 11 07 CREEPIN' Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 11 07 19 04 MISS YOU Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz 12 10 37 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 13 13 26 12 UNTIL I FOUND YOU Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold 14 06 03 06 LOVE AGAIN The Kid Laroi 15 30 02 15 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 16 12 17 03 MADE YOU LOOK Meghan Trainor 17 14 25 01 I'M GOOD (BLUE) David Guetta feat. Bebe Rexha 18 17 11 13 10:35 Tiësto & Tate McRae 19 15 26 04 B.O.T.A. (BADDEST OF THEM ALL) Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal 20 20 27 08 CUFF IT Beyoncé 21 19 32 03 BAD HABIT Steve Lacy 22 21 09 11 LET GO Central Cee 23 23 24 19 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 24 16 22 04 SAY NOTHING Flume feat. MAY-A 25 37 03 25 DELILAH (PULL ME OUT OF THIS) Fred again.. 26 22 31 15 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 27 24 131 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 28 NE 01 28 LOVE YOU ANYWAY Luke Combs 29 26 37 07 I LIKE YOU (A HAPPIER SONG) Post Malone feat. Doja Cat 30 36 75 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 31 29 79 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 32 33 24 29 GOLDEN HOUR JVKE 33 32 37 08 SUNROOF Nicky Youre & dazy 34 31 02 31 TRUSTFALL P!nk 35 35 32 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 36 27 15 03 RICH FLEX Drake & 21 Savage 37 34 84 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 38 28 24 14 HOW DO I SAY GOODBYE Dean Lewis 39 50 04 39 GREEN GREEN GRASS George Ezra 40 41 40 21 ANOTHER LOVE Tom Odell 41 43 29 38 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 42 42 110 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 43 46 06 43 OMG NewJeans 44 49 86 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 45 38 26 11 2 BE LOVED (AM I READY) Lizzo 46 67 98 02 I FALL APART Post Malone 47 39 42 03 ABOUT DAMN TIME Lizzo 48 57 13 39 JUST WANNA ROCK Lil Uzi Vert 49 NE 01 49 LOST Linkin Park 50 61 06 50 SNOOZE SZA Bubbling 18 (18) RUMBLE Skrillex, Fred again.. & Flowdan 19 (16) I'M NOT HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS Sam Smith 20 (22) LAVENDER HAZE Taylor Swift Albums 01 NE 01 01 THIS IS WHY Paramore 02 03 39 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 03 01 17 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 04 02 10 01 SOS SZA 05 04 106 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 06 06 245 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 07 08 185 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 08 NE 01 08 THE JAWS OF LIFE Pierce The Veil 09 11 166 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 10 09 369 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 11 13 34 01 HERE COMES EVERYBODY Spacey Jane 12 18 434 01 1989 Taylor Swift 13 17 91 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 14 16 257 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 15 23 311 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 16 14 16 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 17 21 68 01 = Ed Sheeran 18 19 178 01 HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDING Post Malone 19 12 151 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 20 15 11 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 21 22 171 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 22 20 297 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 23 07 03 01 GLORIA Sam Smith 24 27 28 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 25 10 481 02 GREATEST HITS Red Hot Chili Peppers 26 25 414 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 27 28 149 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 28 24 242 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 29 26 110 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 30 33 182 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 31 34 34 02 GROWIN' UP Luke Combs 32 RE 78 02 GOOD GIRL GONE BAD Rihanna 33 29 203 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 34 30 247 01 BEERBONGS & BENTLEYS Post Malone 35 RE 14 05 ANTI Rihanna 36 35 36 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 37 32 134 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 38 37 352 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 39 38 30 02 TWELVE CARAT TOOTHACHE Post Malone 40 39 284 05 STONEY Post Malone 41 45 28 01 RENAISSANCE Beyonce 42 05 02 05 QUEEN OF ME Shania Twain 43 41 196 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 44 36 15 02 HER LOSS Drake & 21 Savage 45 40 86 02 PLANET HER Doja Cat 46 44 226 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 47 43 264 01 THE EMINEM SHOW Eminem 48 42 275 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 49 46 137 01 CALIFORNICATION Red Hot Chili Peppers 50 50 17 36 STUDIO ALBUMS ABBA "Flowers" is #1 for a 5th week. It's technically no longer #1 combined on Spotify but its very high sales will likely help maintain things for at least another week. That competition of course comes from "Boy's a liar" which vaults up to #3 this week despite being strangely low on Hot Hits Australia. The song is co-produced with Mura Masa who had a top 20 hit in 2017 with "Love$ick" so it's also now his highest charting song too. It's a bit of a clean out of the top 10 but with the arrival of "Sure Thing", one that makes the top 10 considerably older on average. It's Miguel's second ever top 10 hit after "#Beautiful" which got to #6 in 2013. Coi Leray also jumps into the top 10 at the expense of The Kid LAROI which is a hard sentence to explain to your parents. Luke Combs didn't make the top 50 with the last song he released but this time he does much better and lands in the top 30, but it looks to be shortlived until the album comes out. Though the tour is over, Post Malone actually has an uncharacteristic climb for "I Fall Apart" that brings it back into the top 50, one has to imagine the omnipotent Spotify top 50 effect got it over the line. Incidentally that does not apply to Linkin Park as they spent the entire week not in the Spotify top 50 but still manage to sneak in with "Lost". Also sneaking in, SZA's "Snooze", doing well for itself as it was only about the 11th highest SZA song when the album first came out. The New Music chart doesn't capture it but I have to imagine Fred again..'s "Jungle" was extremely close to making the top 50 this week (it's above "Rumble" on the dance chart) which would've been pretty wild. Paramore score their 3rd #1 album this week. It's kind of what they've been doing ever since "Brand New Eyes", although "After Laughter" made the foolhardy decision to be released on the same week as "Harry Styles". None of the singles have charted from the album but they have started getting played on triple j lately which is crazy character development from the late 2000s. Pierce The Veil first charted in 2016 and made #12. I had not noticed that they'd had an even longer gestation period than Paramore but they're back with their newest album giving them a first time top 10. In typical Australian fashion, waiting for the AU news cycle in response to the US news cycle means that Rihanna's Super Bowl hype peaked on like Wednesday, I'm actually not sure her songs were even acknowledged on the ARIA Chart but she does have two albums returning. We're also seeing the prelude to Harry Styles & Ed Sheeran who are both on opposite sides of the country right now. That'll certainly pick up again next week. They won't go back to #1 on the albums chart though because there's a new P!nk album out now as I imagine you were aware.

Too true! So often the rhetoric is so poorly considered that it feels like a PSYOP to tarnish the left's reputation. When you're looking out for the minority you can't draw such a stark line in the sand because at the end of the day, the 'them' is so much larger than the 'us'. Empathy comes from seeing oneself in another, not from belittling people in the odd expectation that it'll somehow make them agree with you in order to get their approval. Who here has ever gotten into a band or artist because they saw someone trashing someone you liked for being inferior to this better, more obscure artist? Furthermore, even from a utilitarian stand point, boycotting wizard game or anything to the effect is honestly counter-intuitive. Most of us who don't like JKR already weren't going to play it even if she weren't what she is now, so it's impossible for me to take away a sale that never was going to exist*. On the other hand, the only time this sort of thing is effective is incidentally when it's targeting the work of marginalised folk who either slip up, are perceived to slip up, or associate with someone who did, since they're the ones with the proactive audience. From that it's hard to want to associate with anyone who's willing to toss you aside forever for the power trip of a witch hunt. Self-cannibalisation at its finest. *That being said here is a donation link for Mermaids UK for no reason in particular.

+5 RAYE & 070 Shake - Escapism. +4 SZA - Kill Bill +3 Miguel - Sure Thing +2 Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage - Creepin' +1 Rema & Selena Gomez - Calm Down -1 Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero -2 Miley Cyrus - Flowers -3 venbee & goddard. - messy in heaven -4 Central Cee - LET GO

I got 59 on first try including some *very* close guesses that seemed to all go my way until I had to guess Harry Styles vs. Ed Sheeran. It started off with Pixie Lott vs. The Weeknd though :lol:

Might be a slight misnomer for Yung Lean, the song is pretty old and I'm guessing it was on perma-ACR. Not like it'd be a huge smash but top 75 surely I think.

13/02/2023 Singles 01 01 04 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 02 02 09 01 KILL BILL SZA 03 05 20 01 UNHOLY Sam Smith feat. Kim Petras 04 03 10 03 ESCAPISM. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 05 06 16 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 06 14 02 06 LOVE AGAIN The Kid Laroi 07 07 18 04 MISS YOU Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz 08 09 10 07 CREEPIN' Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 09 15 45 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 10 11 36 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 11 17 03 11 SURE THING Miguel 12 10 16 03 MADE YOU LOOK Meghan Trainor 13 16 25 12 UNTIL I FOUND YOU Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold 14 12 24 01 I'M GOOD (BLUE) David Guetta feat. Bebe Rexha 15 08 25 04 B.O.T.A. (BADDEST OF THEM ALL) Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal 16 04 21 04 SAY NOTHING Flume feat. MAY-A 17 18 10 13 10:35 Tiësto & Tate McRae 18 31 04 18 PLAYERS Coi Leray 19 13 31 03 BAD HABIT Steve Lacy 20 21 26 08 CUFF IT Beyoncé 21 19 08 11 LET GO Central Cee 22 22 30 15 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 23 20 23 19 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 24 23 130 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 25 NE 01 25 BOY'S A LIAR PinkPantheress 26 35 36 07 I LIKE YOU (A HAPPIER SONG) Post Malone feat. Doja Cat 27 25 14 03 RICH FLEX Drake & 21 Savage 28 24 23 14 HOW DO I SAY GOODBYE Dean Lewis 29 26 78 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 30 NE 01 30 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 31 NE 01 31 TRUSTFALL P!nk 32 28 36 08 SUNROOF Nicky Youre & dazy 33 33 23 29 GOLDEN HOUR JVKE 34 27 83 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 35 30 31 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 36 34 74 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 37 69 02 37 DELILAH (PULL ME OUT OF THIS) Fred again.. 38 29 25 11 2 BE LOVED (AM I READY) Lizzo 39 32 41 03 ABOUT DAMN TIME Lizzo 40 77 02 40 I'M NOT HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS Sam Smith 41 36 39 21 ANOTHER LOVE Tom Odell 42 40 109 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 43 46 28 38 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 44 39 05 39 THE COLOR VIOLET Tory Lanez 45 38 23 29 FERRARI James Hype & Miggy Dela Rosa 46 52 05 46 OMG NewJeans 47 45 06 44 HERE WITH ME d4vd 48 43 137 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 49 41 85 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 50 63 03 50 GREEN GREEN GRASS George Ezra Bubbling 18 (15) RUMBLE Skrillex, Fred again.. & Flowdan 19 (13) JUST WANNA ROCK Lil Uzi Vert 20 (21) SNOOZE SZA Albums 01 02 16 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 02 03 09 01 SOS SZA 03 06 38 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 04 04 105 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 05 NE 01 05 QUEEN OF ME Shania Twain 06 07 244 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 07 01 02 01 GLORIA Sam Smith 08 08 184 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 09 09 368 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 10 32 480 02 GREATEST HITS Red Hot Chili Peppers 11 20 165 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 12 11 150 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 13 05 33 01 HERE COMES EVERYBODY Spacey Jane 14 15 15 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 15 10 10 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 16 12 256 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 17 14 90 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 18 16 433 01 1989 Taylor Swift 19 42 177 01 HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDING Post Malone 20 18 296 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 21 24 67 01 = Ed Sheeran 22 17 170 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 23 19 310 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 24 13 241 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 25 22 413 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 26 30 109 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 27 21 27 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 28 29 148 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 29 27 202 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 30 RE 05 02 RETURN OF THE DREAM CANTEEN Red Hot Chili Peppers 31 58 246 01 BEERBONGS & BENTLEYS Post Malone 32 25 133 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 33 23 181 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 34 28 33 02 GROWIN' UP Luke Combs 35 34 35 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 36 33 14 02 HER LOSS Drake & 21 Savage 37 36 351 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 38 71 29 02 TWELVE CARAT TOOTHACHE Post Malone 39 78 283 05 STONEY Post Malone 40 39 85 02 PLANET HER Doja Cat 41 40 195 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 42 38 274 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 43 41 263 01 THE EMINEM SHOW Eminem 44 43 225 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 45 97 27 01 RENAISSANCE Beyonce 46 72 136 01 CALIFORNICATION Red Hot Chili Peppers 47 35 80 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 48 46 136 01 SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOON Pop Smoke 49 49 182 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay 50 45 16 36 STUDIO ALBUMS ABBA Gonna try something different. Mid last year ARIA started publishing a New Music chart, possibly to satiate the anger around the slow moving chart but if anything making people angrier because it strengthens the idea that ARIA will not change the rules any time soon. In any case, for much of last year, this top 20 chart never actually got lower than the ARIA top 50, so you actually couldn't gleam much info out of it, but lately that isn't the case, so I thought I would highlight the songs that feature on it that are below the top 50, kind of like a Bubbling Under chart but in reality most of them are gonna be songs that already hit the top 50 in the past. The way the chart works is that artists are limited to 3 entries (although Metro Boomin' somehow had 4 late last year), and the songs have to have a release date on ARIA's archive within the last 4 months, which usually means 17 weeks max on this chart, but sometimes songs can get kicked off after 16 weeks. This means that any particularly old song that takes off may be fresh to the chart but not actually on the New Music Chart, so it'll probably never feel like the start of a movie I've seen before. Although in saying that "Sunroof" for some reason got a street date that actually came after when the song hit the Spotify top 200 here, so chaos rules, but I think it's accurate this week at least. We're also close to seeing "Anti-Hero", "Made You Look", "10:35", "Rich Flex", "Just Wanna Rock" and "Delilah (pull me out of this)" retired from the chart so there could be a lot of low charting songs sucked into it in the coming weeks. "Flowers" is still way ahead but a lesser way ahead than before. In a move that surely pleases people who dislike chart stagnation, "Unholy" has a belated rebound back to #3, unseating the newer "Escapism." but at least it's not the same top 3. The Kid LAROI jumps to #6 to score his 6th top 10 hit, if you can name the 6th highest of those, you'd be excellent at music trivia. I regret to say "Players" has outpeaked "The Message" although I'll inhale the copium and choose to believe that there was limited distribution and/or airplay for Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five in the early '80s but then at the same time I'm surprised a rap song charted that high at the time. There are a lot of debuts this week! The highest comes from PinkPantheress who has never charted here before I believe outside of not being credited on "Obsessed With You", but she looks poised to vault into the top 10 next week. Morgan Wallen is also in the top 50 for the first time ever, I think he made the top 100 with "Broadway Girls" but this is his first solo outing. I'm expecting a lot of enraged discourse and album tracks in the top 50 in the coming months and am hoping to restrain myself from joining in. For the record I believe in forgiveness and self-reflection/improvement. P!nk is back in the top 50 for the first time in nearly 2 years. Usually lately her songs have been managing a week in the top 100 at most. As you probably know, "TRUSTFALL"'s streaming success is dubious at best but I will note an interesting spin on things as it actually took an extra 2 days before the song collapsed on Spotify here compared to most other countries. Sabrina Carpenter was unanimously on the same day everywhere so I find this an interesting spin, although it did coincide with a P!nk national tour announcement, which if you know anything about Australia is a big deal, so maybe that weathered it for a little bit. In any case, the song may well survive in the top 50 next week as it hasn't fallen particularly far yet on Spotify. Speaking of big Australian tours, I have to say that Fred again.. is so hot right now. His tour with Laneway and associated sideshows that have become an internet meme, in addition to a stellar performance in triple j's Hottest 100 last month has his songs littered everywhere on the Spotify chart. "Delilah (pull me out of this)" is doing the best and may well challenge for a top 20 position if it can hold up well throughout the week (and "Jungle" is close to the top 50 too which is interesting because none of these songs charted this high anywhere else). For now though he gets his second credited top 50 hit. Sam Smith's not here to make friends which is why they're not credited on the song, and NewJeans manage to sneak onto the chart after weeks of hovering below with two of their songs. Oh and the UK has infected us with the green green grass, I'm not sure what the cure is but it might be interesting to know that it's only George Ezra's 4th top 50 hit, he hasn't charted since "Shotgun" became a huge #1 smash. Also if you like maths, all of his previous chart peaks multiply together to this current peak of #50. As last week may have helped signify, Taylor Swift returns to #1. Shania Twain misses the chance to have #1 albums spanning 4 decades as she lands at #5, having hit #1 with every album since "Come On Over". The chart continues to be even more covered with Red Hot Chili Peppers and Post Malone albums, while Spacey Jane have the only Australian album in the top 50 this week.

There's definitely a trend in general where Friday is strong for fresh, just dropped new releases, and then the weekend is more likely to see established hits of the past, party playlists etc. Monday is a good day for anything that's sort of new too. Source: have been tracking "ceilings" streams almost every day for the past 5 months :lol:

The whole thing reminds me a bit of "drivers license" so I made a graph of their Spotify performance, up to Olivia's last week at #1 I reckon long running #1's in the streaming era still thrive on the discovery element but in cases like this where they start off so strongly, that discovery just can't keep up. It's possible "Flowers" could rebound from this, but there's precedent for this to 'only' be the 3rd biggest hit of the year.

I'm still skeptical of it being payola and not just a weird algorithm quirk. Like, the whole point of astroturfing is for it to not be obvious so I can't say this is really doing the trick. But either way from that perspective I'm not convinced of the long term plan. If the whole point is to gain leverage to convince Spotify to add songs to their big playlists, I can't imagine they're too keen on it (and the way "Nonsense" has been shoved down a lot of those playlists since seems to imply this isn't something with long term prospects, unless that one is a failed experiment). In any case, almost everything owes its long term success to playlists and algorithms which can go away shockingly fast if Spotify decides they don't like you anymore. Everyone has to play the game even if some are better at hiding it than others.