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Not me just voting disproportionately for the stuff that is a slightly bigger deal in my neck of the woods (U2 were #1 for 6 weeks!)

+5 Steve Lacy - Bad Habit +4 Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal - B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All) +3 Beyonce - CUFF IT +2 Sam Smith & Kim Petras - Unholy +1 Ed Sheeran - Celestial -1 Lewis Capaldi - Forget Me -2 Chris Brown - Under The Influence -3 OneRepublic - I Ain't Worried -4 David Guetta & Bebe Rexha - I'm Good (Blue) -Dr.L Nicki Minaj - Super Freaky Girl

17/10/2022 Singles 01 01 03 01 UNHOLY Sam Smith feat. Kim Petras 02 02 07 01 I'M GOOD (BLUE) David Guetta feat. Bebe Rexha 03 03 19 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 04 05 08 04 B.O.T.A. (BADDEST OF THEM ALL) Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal 05 07 14 03 BAD HABIT Steve Lacy 06 04 09 01 SUPER FREAKY GIRL Nicki Minaj 07 06 28 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 08 16 09 08 CUFF IT Beyoncé 09 09 10 05 UNDER THE INFLUENCE Chris Brown 10 08 113 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 11 10 19 08 SUNROOF Nicky Youre & dazy 12 11 08 11 2 BE LOVED (AM I READY) Lizzo 13 15 07 01 HOLD ME CLOSER Elton John and Britney Spears 14 13 19 07 I LIKE YOU (A HAPPIER SONG) Post Malone feat. Doja Cat 15 12 12 03 DOJA Central Cee 16 14 24 03 ABOUT DAMN TIME Lizzo 17 17 66 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 18 31 13 18 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 19 18 61 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 20 19 10 19 AFRAID TO FEEL LF System 21 26 13 20 SNAP Rosa Linn 22 20 57 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 23 23 14 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 24 21 68 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 25 25 21 04 VEGAS Doja Cat 26 28 21 02 LATE NIGHT TALKING Harry Styles 27 34 22 26 ANOTHER LOVE Tom Odell 28 30 05 21 FORGET ME Lewis Capaldi 29 27 27 01 FIRST CLASS Jack Harlow 30 24 03 21 STAR WALKIN' Lil Nas X 31 32 45 05 WHERE ARE YOU NOW Lost Frequencies feat. Calum Scott 32 29 20 01 RUNNING UP THAT HILL (A DEAL WITH GOD) Kate Bush 33 37 04 33 EVERGREEN (YOU DON'T DESERVE ME AT ALL) Omar Apollo 34 40 14 34 SWEATER WEATHER The Neighbourhood 35 33 07 33 BILLIE EILISH. Armani White 36 38 18 01 GLIMPSE OF US Joji 37 57 02 37 CELESTIAL Ed Sheeran 38 39 120 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 39 49 06 39 HOW DO I SAY GOODBYE Dean Lewis 40 48 05 40 ROMANTIC HOMICIDE d4vd 41 41 105 04 LEVITATING Dua Lipa 42 42 92 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 43 45 06 43 FERRARI James Hype & Miggy Dela Rosa 44 43 55 11 GHOST Justin Bieber 45 46 17 38 NUMB Marshmello & Khalid 46 36 63 03 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 47 44 17 06 BREAK MY SOUL Beyoncé 48 47 11 28 LOVE LOST Mac Miller 49 54 77 43 NO ROLE MODELZ J. Cole 50 50 17 04 JIMMY COOKS Drake feat. 21 Savage Albums 01 42 14 01 FUTURENEVER Daniel Johns 02 02 88 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 03 03 21 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 04 NE 01 04 MAXIDENT Stray Kids 05 NE 01 05 CHARLIE Charlie Puth 06 06 73 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 07 29 11 01 RENAISSANCE (ACT 1) Beyoncé 08 04 63 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 09 05 185 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 10 08 50 01 = Ed Sheeran 11 07 239 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 12 01 02 01 THE END, SO FAR Slipknot 13 16 351 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 14 10 16 02 GROWIN' UP Luke Combs 15 09 153 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 16 15 10 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 17 17 279 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 18 18 416 01 1989 Taylor Swift 19 26 116 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 20 21 133 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 21 20 167 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 22 30 18 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 23 14 04 02 BORN PINK BLACKpink 24 22 224 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 25 27 68 02 PLANET HER Doja Cat 26 28 293 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 27 23 148 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 28 25 227 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 29 32 164 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 30 34 334 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 31 31 396 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 32 41 92 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 33 35 119 01 SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOON Pop Smoke 34 33 212 06 DON'T SMILE AT ME Billie Eilish 35 39 131 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 36 NE 01 36 ICE, DEATH, PLANETS, LUNGS, MUSHROOMS & LAVA King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard 37 37 116 01 F*CK LOVE The Kid Laroi 38 40 178 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 39 44 82 01 JUSTICE Justin Bieber 40 47 257 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 41 46 165 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay 42 12 03 01 5SOS5 5 Seconds of Summer 43 36 431 01 GREATEST HITS Foo Fighters 44 45 208 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Soundtrack 45 48 311 02 DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS Bruno Mars 46 43 48 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 47 NE 01 47 CASTLE ST. Six60 48 54 246 01 THE EMINEM SHOW Eminem 49 38 15 02 SPECIAL Lizzo 50 51 254 08 DUA LIPA Dua Lipa It's another easy week at #1 for Sam Smith and it will be next week too. There's not a lot happening this week although Beyonce gets a 2nd top 10 hit from her newest album with "CUFF IT" up to #8. "Heat Waves" will very likely leave the top 10 next week and cap its run at 88 weeks in the top 10 with no likely route to return there in the future. "STAY"'s 53 weeks in the top 10 is the next closest song so it's safe to say that this is a record they'll be holding for a very long time. The only song to newly enter the top 10 this week is Ed Sheeran's "Celestial", another case of Australia being a little behind the world plus the big playlist also being a little slow so this song that certainly peaked on week one around the world has a big climb in week two. It is possible that next week, both versions of "Miss You" will enter the top 50, Southside is stuck just outside the Spotify top 50 but the faster version also just entered today so one would think that it's comfortably in the top 50 combined. Once again I forget about the new release schedules once it comes to typing up these posts. Daniel Johns has been charting all over the shop since release thanks to various multi-formats, but surprisingly his album only just now got a vinyl release which pushes it back to #1 for a second time (also note: it did not debut at #1), which feels like there's a big disparity between how high it's been charting and how many people are listening to the album, but whatever works, works. Debuting in the top 5 for the first time are Stray Kids & Charlie Puth. In what is otherwise a pretty bleak week for Australian content, the second highest Australian album is all the way down at #36 via King Gizz. Naturally they are once again debuting low due to not having full format availability so I expect to see this album in the top 10 at some point. There's also a low debut for New Zealand's Six60, bizarrely not making another self-titled album, and also quite a bit lower than their previous top 10 debut. In this day and age, guessing album chart debuts before the midweeks come out is a fool's errand, but I do expect Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ocean Alley & The 1975 to appear near the top.

This is how I learnt that the Wock has finally been brought to Spotify, we're truly blessed.

+5 Steve Lacy - Bad Habit +4 Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal - B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All) +3 Sam Smith & Kim Petras - Unholy +2 Lewis Capaldi - Forget Me +1 Chris Brown - Under The Influence -1 Luude & Mattafix - Big City Life -2 James Hype & Miggy Dela Rosa - Ferrari -3 OneRepublic - I Ain't Worried -4 David Guetta & Bebe Rexha - I'm Good (Blue) -Dr.L Nicki Minaj - Super Freaky Girl

Worth it if it means he gets interviewed on the chart show :lol:

10/10/2022 Singles 01 01 02 01 UNHOLY Sam Smith & Kim Petras 02 02 06 01 I'M GOOD (BLUE) David Guetta & Bebe Rexha 03 03 18 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 04 04 08 01 SUPER FREAKY GIRL Nicki Minaj 05 05 07 04 B.O.T.A. (BADDEST OF THEM ALL) Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal 06 06 27 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 07 09 13 03 BAD HABIT Steve Lacy 08 07 112 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 09 08 09 05 UNDER THE INFLUENCE Chris Brown 10 10 18 08 SUNROOF Nicky Youre & Dazy 11 13 07 11 2 BE LOVED (AM I READY) Lizzo 12 15 11 03 DOJA Central Cee 13 11 18 07 I LIKE YOU (A HAPPIER SONG) Post Malone Feat. Doja Cat 14 14 23 03 ABOUT DAMN TIME Lizzo 15 12 06 01 HOLD ME CLOSER Elton John & Britney Spears 16 19 08 16 CUFF IT Beyonce 17 16 65 01 STAY The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber 18 17 60 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 19 22 09 19 AFRAID TO FEEL LF System 20 23 56 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 21 26 67 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 22 RE 24 01 GANGSTA'S PARADISE Coolio 23 24 16 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 24 21 02 21 STAR WALKIN' (LEAGUE OF LEGENDS WORLDS ANTHEM) Lil Nas X 25 25 20 04 VEGAS Doja Cat 26 28 12 20 SNAP Rosa Linn 27 27 26 01 FIRST CLASS Jack Harlow 28 29 20 02 LATE NIGHT TALKING Harry Styles 29 20 30 01 RUNNING UP THAT HILL (A DEAL WITH GOD) Kate Bush 30 32 04 21 FORGET ME Lewis Capaldi 31 34 12 31 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 32 33 44 05 WHERE ARE YOU NOW Lost Frequencies & Calum Scott 33 35 06 33 BILLIE EILISH. Armani White 34 36 21 26 ANOTHER LOVE Tom Odell 35 18 03 05 SHUT DOWN BlackPink 36 30 62 03 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 37 47 03 37 EVERGREEN (YOU DIDN'T DESERVE ME AT ALL) Omar Apollo 38 31 17 01 GLIMPSE OF US Joji 39 39 119 23 MR BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 40 37 13 34 SWEATER WEATHER The Neighbourhood 41 42 104 04 LEVITATING Dua Lipa 42 43 91 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 43 38 54 11 GHOST Justin Bieber 44 40 16 06 BREAK MY SOUL Beyonce 45 60 05 45 FERRARI James Hype & Miggy Dela Rosa 46 44 16 38 NUMB Marshmello & Khalid 47 45 10 28 LOVE LOST Mac Miller 48 48 04 48 ROMANTIC HOMICIDE d4vd 49 59 05 49 HOW DO I SAY GOODBYE Dean Lewis 50 46 16 04 JIMMY COOKS Drake Feat. 21 Savage Albums 01 NE 01 01 THE END, SO FAR Slipknot 02 03 87 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 03 05 20 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 04 06 62 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 05 07 184 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 06 08 72 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 07 09 238 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 08 13 49 01 = Ed Sheeran 09 12 152 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 10 10 15 02 GROWIN' UP Luke Combs 11 02 04 02 XXV Robbie Williams 12 01 02 01 5SOS5 5 Seconds Of Summer 13 RE 03 12 MELT MY EYEZ SEE YOUR FUTURE Denzel Curry 14 04 03 02 BORN PINK BlackPink 15 14 09 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 16 15 350 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 17 16 278 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 18 21 415 01 1989 Taylor Swift 19 NE 01 19 COOL IT DOWN Yeah Yeah Yeahs 20 17 166 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 21 20 132 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 22 23 223 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 23 19 147 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 24 NE 01 24 TRUTH Christie Lamb 25 28 226 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 26 27 115 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 27 18 67 02 PLANET HER Doja Cat 28 26 292 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 29 24 10 01 RENAISSANCE Beyonce 30 22 17 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM. XXXTentacion 31 25 395 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 32 29 163 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 33 30 211 06 DONT SMILE AT ME Billie Eilish 34 34 333 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 35 31 118 01 SHOOT FOR THE STARS AIM FOR THE MOON Pop Smoke 36 36 430 01 GREATEST HITS Foo Fighters 37 37 115 01 F*CK LOVE (OVER YOU) The Kid Laroi 38 45 12 02 SPECIAL Lizzo 39 38 130 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 40 42 177 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 41 40 91 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 42 32 13 01 FUTURENEVER Daniel Johns 43 41 47 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 44 39 81 01 JUSTICE Justin Bieber 45 46 207 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 46 43 164 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay 47 51 256 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 48 49 310 02 DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS Bruno Mars 49 33 04 01 DARKER STILL Parkway Drive 50 53 218 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day It's another easy week at #1 for Sam Smith and it will be next week too. With Coolio passing away we have the return of "Gangsta's Paradise", which is notably the longest reigning #1 hit of the 1990s, spending 13 weeks at #1. It may well be able to hang on for a second week in the top 50, which makes sense as it's spent pretty much every day of 2022 in the Spotify top 200 already. Climbing into the top 50 this week is James Hype who had just gotten added to Hot Hits Australia, I'm pretty sure "More Than Friends" didn't really do much over here so this is a first for him. Then we have Dean Lewis whose new single is making significant waves :basil: overseas, but oddly radio hasn't hopped onto it immediately like they usually do. Maybe that'll change in the coming weeks but I expect him to keep climbing either way. Slipknot score their 4th #1 album this week. I think it's the first time they've not managed an ARIA top 100 charting single. The Weeknd is back to #2 which means he might well actually be able to climb to #1 for the first time next week unless Darren Hayes or Lamb of God or something sells particularly well. Denzel Curry returns to the chart and nearly gets a new peak thanks to the vinyl release, landing ahead of Yeah Yeah Yeahs' first new album in 9 years. They have typically debuted in the top 20 with every new album since 2006. Christie Lamb scores a 3rd top 50 album and there's not much else to note this week.

"Doin' Time" is such a weird one that I think is spoiled for me by being exceedingly familiar with the original (via a slightly niche video game soundtrack). I can't even say it's bad (it's probably an improvement) but the thrill of discovery is gone and it just becomes this odd thing sitting in the middle of an otherwise really good album that becomes the last thing on it I wanna go back to. It's like a really crucial plot twist getting spoiled before you see it so you never get to experience it like everyone else and you get totally estranged from the experience. Maybe I'd have been really into it???

Its streams have generally been increasing every year. Before 2022 it had never cleared 1 million in a week on Spotify but it's done so 9 times this year.

+5 Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal - B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All) +4 KSI - Not Over Yet +3 Lewis Capaldi - Forget Me +2 Chris Brown - Under The Influence +1 Central Cee - Doja -1 Luude & Mattafix - Big City Life -2 James Hype & Miggy Dela Rosa - Ferrari -3 OneRepublic - I Ain't Worried -4 David Guetta & Bebe Rexha - I'm Good (Blue) -Dr.L Nicki Minaj - Super Freaky Girl

03/10/2022 Singles 01 NE 01 01 UNHOLY Sam Smith & Kim Petras 02 01 05 01 I'M GOOD (BLUE) David Guetta feat. Bebe Rexha 03 03 17 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 04 02 07 01 SUPER FREAKY GIRL Nicki Minaj 05 04 06 04 B.O.T.A. (BADDEST OF THEM ALL) Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal 06 06 26 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 07 07 111 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 08 08 08 05 UNDER THE INFLUENCE Chris Brown 09 10 12 03 BAD HABIT Steve Lacy 10 09 17 08 SUNROOF Nicky Youre & dazy 11 12 17 07 I LIKE YOU (A HAPPIER SONG) Post Malone feat. Doja Cat 12 11 05 01 HOLD ME CLOSER Elton John and Britney Spears 13 34 06 13 2 BE LOVED (AM I READY) Lizzo 14 13 22 03 ABOUT DAMN TIME Lizzo 15 16 10 03 DOJA Central Cee 16 15 64 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 17 14 59 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 18 05 02 05 SHUT DOWN BlackPink 19 29 07 19 CUFF IT Beyoncé 20 17 29 01 RUNNING UP THAT HILL (A DEAL WITH GOD) Kate Bush 21 NE 01 21 STAR WALKIN' (LEAGUE OF LEGENDS WORLDS ANTHEM) Lil Nas X 22 23 08 22 AFRAID TO FEEL LF System 23 19 55 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 24 22 12 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 25 20 19 04 VEGAS Doja Cat 26 25 66 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 27 24 25 01 FIRST CLASS Jack Harlow 28 27 11 20 SNAP Rosa Linn 29 28 19 02 LATE NIGHT TALKING Harry Styles 30 32 61 03 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 31 26 16 01 GLIMPSE OF US Joji 32 21 03 21 FORGET ME Lewis Capaldi 33 30 43 05 WHERE ARE YOU NOW Lost Frequencies feat. Calum Scott 34 31 11 31 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 35 42 05 35 BILLIE EILISH. Armani White 36 35 20 26 ANOTHER LOVE Tom Odell 37 38 12 34 SWEATER WEATHER The Neighbourhood 38 36 53 11 GHOST Justin Bieber 39 37 118 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 40 33 15 06 BREAK MY SOUL Beyoncé 41 18 06 01 PINK VENOM BlackPink 42 39 103 04 LEVITATING Dua Lipa 43 41 90 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 44 45 15 38 NUMB Marshmello & Khalid 45 40 09 28 LOVE LOST Mac Miller feat. The Temper Trap 46 47 15 04 JIMMY COOKS Drake feat. 21 Savage 47 97 02 47 EVERGREEN (YOU DIDN'T DESERVE ME AT ALL) Omar Apollo 48 55 03 48 ROMANTIC HOMICIDE d4vd 49 46 23 04 THOUSAND MILES The Kid Laroi 50 52 10 38 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd Albums 01 NE 01 01 5SOS5 5 Seconds Of Summer 02 19 03 02 XXV Robbie Williams 03 04 86 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 04 02 02 02 BORN PINK BlackPink 05 05 19 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 06 07 61 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 07 10 183 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 08 11 71 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 09 08 237 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 10 06 14 02 GROWIN' UP Luke Combs 11 RE 07 06 THIS WAS TOMORROW Seth Sentry 12 09 151 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 13 13 48 01 = Ed Sheeran 14 17 08 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 15 20 349 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 16 21 277 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 17 24 165 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 18 23 66 02 PLANET HER Doja Cat 19 29 146 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 20 26 131 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 21 32 414 01 1989 Taylor Swift 22 30 16 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 23 25 222 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 24 22 09 01 RENAISSANCE Beyoncé 25 36 394 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 26 33 291 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 27 34 114 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 28 31 225 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 29 38 162 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 30 37 210 06 DON'T SMILE AT ME Billie Eilish 31 35 117 01 SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOON Pop Smoke 32 18 12 01 FUTURENEVER Daniel Johns 33 15 03 01 DARKER STILL Parkway Drive 34 41 332 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 35 03 02 03 2 BADDIES - THE 4TH ALBUM NCT 127 36 39 429 01 GREATEST HITS Foo Fighters 37 40 114 01 F*CK LOVE The Kid Laroi 38 43 129 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 39 46 80 01 JUSTICE Justin Bieber 40 44 90 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 41 52 46 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 42 49 176 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 43 50 163 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay 44 48 03 17 DIFFERENT MAN Kane Brown 45 53 13 02 SPECIAL Lizzo 46 51 206 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Queen 47 47 56 01 CERTIFIED LOVER BOY Drake 48 RE 20 13 DIRT Alice In Chains 49 56 309 02 DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS Bruno Mars 50 54 05 50 QUEEN RADIO: VOLUME 1 Nicki Minaj Fairly historic week as for the first time ever we have a #1 by artists known to be trans and non-binary. Sam Smith's only prior #1 hit "Too Good At Goodbyes" finished up its run at #1 just before Sam made their public announcement. As much as Sam loves to be the first on things, they're not the first to reach #1 on the whole as Tash Sultana had a #1 album in 2021. Kim Petras has not ever been close to charting before previously I'm pretty sure. Noted enemy of both overnight flute experts and that idiot I was arguing with on reddit last week, Lizzo takes a big jump this week as does Beyonce, actually scoring a new peak for "CUFF IT" ahead of its initial debut of #24. Lil Nas X has the 2nd highest debut of the week with "STAR WALKIN'", as I suppose Sam & Kim called dibs on top laning. We've also got first time entries for both Omar Apollo & d4vd, the former should jump a fair bit next week too. 5 Seconds Of Summer score their 5th #1 album. All their previous albums have had at least a top 15 hit on them to help with crossover appeal but they've only had a 1 week charter at #90 on this one so it probably won't have the respectable decline that they usually command. Next I have to draw attention to a frustrating Australian thing. Over the previous weekend we had the Australian Football League Grand Final, which for American readers is like our Super Bowl and for British readers it's like the Premier League final...which isn't a thing but if it was, it would be. A long standing feature is the Half Time show/After show where the former is usually a reasonably well known artist playing their songs, and the latter is usually a bunch of Australian artists who are well known mostly to triple j listeners and could probably use the leg up. Of course if they were able to play their own music, the extremely baby boomer audiences would be like 'what is this shit?' because it's a song recorded later in history than "Thunderstruck". So they're always made to do covers of more well known songs which instead allows the extremely baby boomer audience to go 'worst entertainment ever, ruined that song, Meat Loaf, all is forgiven*. Even when Birds of Tokyo played at Half Time, they only got to do 3 songs and one of them was a cover of "Straight Lines" by Silverchair. So anyway, the local artists get shafted and the international artists reinforce their status, so Robbie Williams has a very good week and climbs up to a new peak of #2. I must now continue to be very Australian because next up we have a re-entry for Seth Sentry thanks to the vinyl re-issue for 10 years since his debut album "This Was Tomorrow". His 2015 album "Strange New Past" charted higher and spent longer in the chart but I feel like this is his most popular album regardless. It's the album that has "Dear Science" on it, which is very important for people who are both fans of Australian hip-hop and "Back to the Future". A lot of those titles I just spouted out have oxymoronic titles relating to the past & future which is a great time for me to plug The Sekimeiya which I just spent the last several weeks reading. Nifty (not very) little visual novel that's sold not a whole lot, but definitely worth it if there are somehow any Umineko/Zero Escape fans reading this. Actually matching up a little closer to its proper anniversary week is the re-entry for Alice In Chains' "Dirt". Sneaking into the top 50 also is Nicki Minaj's "Queen Radio: Volume 1", which I must note as is the case with all Greatest Hits/pseudo Greatest Hits albums, there is no way of knowing which songs on it are actually contributing to these points and thus aside from its general week by week progression, its chart positions should be taken with a grain of salt. Next week I expect Slipknot to debut at #1 but who knows for sure. *Meat Loaf performed in 2011 with health issues and is the go-to example of a derided performance

Oh? What's known about that? Mabel was #100 the previous week so there is a lot of plausible deniability though I suppose you'd expect her to jump in and out for a little while.

To say nothing else apart from 'this thread is not as old as I thought it was', the aforementioned Mabel album has been gone from the chart for months, so for these sorts of artificial consumption magnets, the lack of widespread popularity catches up eventually :lol:

The good thing is that it's possible to be smugly dismissive about Ed Sheeran whether his songs are successful on day one* or not *Bad Habits is still a flop, right?

+40 Billie Eilish - Everything I Wanted (ok I forgot this was here when I made that claim in the previous thread) +39 Wolf Alice - Don't Delete The Kisses +38 Wolf Alice - The Last Man On Earth +37 CHVRCHES - The Mother We Share +36 Carly Rae Jepsen - Run Away With Me +35 Jay-Z & Kanye West - N****s In Paris +34 Azealia Banks (feat. Lazy Jay) - 212 +33 Katy B - Crying For No Reason +32 Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? +31 Daft Punk (feat. Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers) - Get Lucky +30. Rita Ora - Anywhere +29 Gotye (feat. Kimbra) - Somebody That I Used To Know +28 HAIM - If I Could Change Your Mind +27 Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks +26 Lorde - Green Light +25 Porter Robinson - Language +24 Taylor Swift - Style +23 Weeknd - The Hills +22 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy +21 Billie Eilish - Bury a Friend +20 Dua Lipa - Be The One +19 xx - On Hold +18 Lorde - Royals +17 Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel +16 Lorde - Perfect Places +15 Kungs vs. Cookin On 3 Burners - This Girl +14 Dua Lipa - Hallucinate +13 Mark Ronson (feat. Bruno Mars) - Uptown Funk +12 Major Lazer (feat. DJ Snake & MØ) - Lean On +11 Hozier - Take Me To Church +10 Taylor Swift - Cardigan +9 Rihanna - Diamonds +8 Ariana Grande - Into You +7 Justin Timberlake - Mirrors +6 Weeknd (feat. Daft Punk) - Starboy +5 Years & Years - King +4 Galantis - Runaway (U & I) +3 Lilly Wood and The Prick - Prayer In C (Robin Schulz Remix) +2 Taylor Swift - Blank Space +1 Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever

It's already popped up in the top 200 a few times in the past month and it's also hovering around that spot on the global chart so it's probably *just* outside of the top 200 as it is. And of course, typically those are the kinds of songs that hang around after the initial boost.

Aha! I'd been trying to figure out who they are and couldn't find anything, figured it was something like that. (gonna tell my grandkids that this was let's eat grandma)

26/09/2022 Singles 01 01 04 01 I'M GOOD (BLUE) David Guetta feat. Bebe Rexha 02 02 06 01 SUPER FREAKY GIRL Nicki Minaj 03 03 16 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 04 07 05 04 B.O.T.A. (BADDEST OF THEM ALL) Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal 05 NE 01 05 SHUT DOWN BlackPink 06 04 25 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 07 06 110 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 08 05 07 05 UNDER THE INFLUENCE Chris Brown 09 08 16 08 SUNROOF Nicky Youre & dazy 10 09 11 03 BAD HABIT Steve Lacy 11 10 04 01 HOLD ME CLOSER Elton John and Britney Spears 12 11 16 07 I LIKE YOU (A HAPPIER SONG) Post Malone feat. Doja Cat 13 12 21 03 ABOUT DAMN TIME Lizzo 14 14 58 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 15 15 63 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 16 17 09 03 DOJA Central Cee 17 13 28 01 RUNNING UP THAT HILL (A DEAL WITH GOD) Kate Bush 18 29 05 01 PINK VENOM BlackPink 19 18 54 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 20 16 18 04 VEGAS Doja Cat 21 24 02 21 FORGET ME Lewis Capaldi 22 21 11 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 23 22 07 22 AFRAID TO FEEL LF System 24 19 24 01 FIRST CLASS Jack Harlow 25 26 65 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 26 20 15 01 GLIMPSE OF US Joji 27 25 10 20 SNAP Rosa Linn 28 23 18 02 LATE NIGHT TALKING Harry Styles 29 47 06 24 CUFF IT Beyoncé 30 28 42 05 WHERE ARE YOU NOW Lost Frequencies feat. Calum Scott 31 31 10 31 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 32 50 60 03 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 33 27 14 06 BREAK MY SOUL Beyoncé 34 41 05 34 2 BE LOVED (AM I READY) Lizzo 35 30 19 26 ANOTHER LOVE Tom Odell 36 32 52 11 GHOST Justin Bieber 37 34 117 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 38 39 11 34 SWEATER WEATHER The Neighbourhood 39 42 102 04 LEVITATING Dua Lipa 40 33 08 28 LOVE LOST Mac Miller feat. The Temper Trap 41 37 89 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 42 69 04 42 BILLIE EILISH. Armani White 43 36 02 36 WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS Luke Combs 44 35 14 25 SWAY MY WAY R3hab feat. Amy Shark 45 44 14 38 NUMB Marshmello & Khalid 46 40 22 04 THOUSAND MILES The Kid Laroi 47 38 14 04 JIMMY COOKS Drake feat. 21 Savage 48 NE 01 48 HOTEL Montell Fish 49 45 29 06 BIG ENERGY Latto x Mariah Carey x DJ Khaled 50 RE 04 50 BOUND 2 Kanye West Albums 01 NE 01 01 MATTER OF TIME Meg Mac 02 NE 01 02 BORN PINK BlackPink 03 NE 01 03 2 BADDIES - THE 4TH ALBUM NCT 127 04 04 85 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 05 05 18 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 06 03 13 02 GROWIN' UP Luke Combs 07 11 60 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 08 07 236 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 09 06 150 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 10 13 182 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 11 09 70 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 12 NE 01 12 HOLD THE GIRL Rina Sawayama 13 14 47 01 = Ed Sheeran 14 02 02 02 PATIENT NUMBER 9 Ozzy Osbourne 15 01 02 01 DARKER STILL Parkway Drive 16 NE 01 16 NOTHING BUT WILD Amy Sheppard 17 15 07 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 18 28 11 01 FUTURENEVER Daniel Johns 19 08 02 08 XXV Robbie Williams 20 18 348 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 21 20 276 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 22 16 08 01 RENAISSANCE Beyoncé 23 22 65 02 PLANET HER Doja Cat 24 21 164 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 25 24 221 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 26 26 130 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 27 RE 28 03 ANIMALS Pink Floyd 28 NE 01 28 TRAVELLING HEART TC Cassidy 29 23 145 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 30 25 15 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 31 27 224 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 32 30 413 01 1989 Taylor Swift 33 31 290 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 34 34 113 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 35 35 116 01 SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOON Pop Smoke 36 33 393 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 37 55 209 06 DON'T SMILE AT ME Billie Eilish 38 37 161 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 39 29 428 01 GREATEST HITS Foo Fighters 40 38 113 01 F*CK LOVE The Kid Laroi 41 45 331 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 42 NE 01 42 GIRL OF MY DREAMS Fletcher 43 40 128 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 44 44 89 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 45 41 19 01 MR. MORALE & THE BIG STEPPERS Kendrick Lamar 46 39 79 01 JUSTICE Justin Bieber 47 42 55 01 CERTIFIED LOVER BOY Drake 48 17 02 17 DIFFERENT MAN Kane Brown 49 43 175 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 50 47 162 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay Back in 2020, what started as a joke turned real when Flume released a remix of "Blue (Da Ba Dee)", saying at the time that the song reminded him of good times in 1998. One would of course quickly note that Flume more likely first heard the song in late 1999 or early 2000 when it was at #1 in Australia, and isn't it interesting how easily some technically accurate information about release dates on the internet can get us to misremember our version of events? Eliza Rose jumps up to #4 but it's a fairly uphill task to get any higher than that, to say nothing of the likely arrival of Sam Smith & Kim Petras at #1 next week. BLACKPINK once again ride big YouTube views but with slightly tougher competition can only get to #5 compared to the #1 peak of "Pink Venom". As predicted last week, Armani White makes the top 50 pretending to ride on the boost of Billie Eilish's tour but really it's just a coincidence. Montell Fish managed to debut in the Spotify top 50 last week but hasn't really taken off from there so he'll probably drop back out next week. Lastly belatedly we have the arrival of Kanye West's "Bound 2", which might have been in the top 50 last week but I'm not certain. It originally made the top 60 back in 2013 (as did "Black Skinhead") but by making the top 50 this week, now every single Kanye West studio album, plus "Watch The Throne", plus "KIDS SEE GHOSTS", plus "Cruel Summer" has at least one top 50 hit. Now we just have to wait for "Ni**as In Paris" (which also incidentally is yet to make the top 50) to get counted on the chart again and almost all will be right again. In a twist, BLACKPINK don't quite land the #1 album and instead it goes to Meg Mac. She got popular around 2014 on the back of her first EP. Her debut album got to #2 behind Ed Sheeran's long incumbent Divide (which incidentally is at its lowest ever non-December 2020 position ever this week). A 2019 EP got to #9 and now she has her first ever #1 album. As someone who has never really been a fan, some of the singles on this one have been pretty good. A year ago, NCT 127 charted for the first time at #16, now they're all the way up to #3. Rina Sawayama at #12 is charting for the first time period. It is also time for the semi-regular reminder that the band Sheppard were managed & financed by their father who has made hundreds of millions of dollars from committing alleged mass fraud and also running offshore detention centres, which helped the band rise to stardom. Anyway Amy Sheppard has a new album in the chart. Elsewhere we have a return for Pink Floyd's "Animals", and a first ever charting album (and first album in a long time) for local country singer TC Cassidy. US singer FLETCHER also makes her first appearance. Next week 5 Seconds of Summer should have the top debut I think, potentially challenged by Robbie Williams who has been in the country recently.

JavaScript & C# have been the most 'natural' to me. I'd probably be fine with Python if I'd used it earlier but alas.

+5 Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal - B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All) +4 KSI - Not Over Yet +3 Lewis Capaldi - Forget Me +2 Chris Brown - Under The Influence +1 Central Cee - Doja -1 James Hype - Ferrari -2 OneRepublic - I Ain't Worried -3 David Guetta & Bebe Rexha - I'm Good (Blue) (3 weeks in a row, incredible) -4 Elton John & Britney Spears - Hold Me Closer -Dr.L Nicki Minaj - Super Freaky Girl

Can confirm, waiting to vote a Wolf Alice quinella again

For me I keep seeing the playlist switching between the previously 'set' order and the supposedly curated one. Annoyingly so is New Music Friday in the middle of me listening to it <_<

+25 Wolf Alice - Don't Delete The Kisses +24 Wolf Alice - The Last Man On Earth +23 Kendrick Lamar - Humble. +22 Jay-Z & Kanye West - N****s In Paris +21 Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks +20 Rudimental (feat. John Newman) - Feel The Love +19 Weeknd - The Hills +18 Olivia Rodrigo - Drivers License +17 Billie Eilish - Bury a Friend +16 Lorde - Royals +15 Dua Lipa - Hallucinate +14 Adele - When We Were Young +13 Lorde - Perfect Places +12 Years & Years - Shine +11 Hozier - Take Me To Church +10 Kesha - Praying +9 Oliver Heldens & Becky Hill - Gecko (Overdrive) +8 Lilly Wood and The Prick - Prayer In C (Robin Schulz Remix) +7 Years & Years - King +6 Jax Jones & Martin Solveig present Europa with Madison Beer - All Day and Night +5 Lana Del Rey - Mariners Apartment Complex +4 Paramore - Hard Times +3 Måneskin - I Wanna Be Your Slave +2 Beyoncé (feat. Jay-Z) - Drunk in Love +1 George Ezra - Paradise

+25 CHVRCHES (feat. Robert Smith) - How Not to Drown +24 Azealia Banks (feat. Lazy Jay) - 212 +23 Calvin Harris (feat. HAIM) - Pray To God +22 Drake - Nice For What +21 HAIM - If I Could Change Your Mind +20 HAIM - Falling +19 Calvin Harris (feat. Frank Ocean & Migos) - Slide +18 Porter Robinson - Language +17 Weeknd - After Hours +16 Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel +15 Tones and I - Dance Monkey +14 xx - On Hold +13 Lorde - Team +12 Disclosure (feat. Sam Smith) - Latch +11 Sigrid - Strangers +10 Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut To The Feeling +9 Charli XCX & Christine And The Queens - Gone +8 Clean Bandit (feat. Demi Lovato) - Solo +7 Måneskin - Zitti E Buoni +6 Lil Nas X - Old Town Road +5 Little Mix - Move +4 Taylor Swift - Cardigan +3 Rihanna - Diamonds +2 Galantis - Runaway (U & I) +1 Ariana Grande - 7 Rings