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Lorde's an artist that I think could potentially come back into play through a heightened reputation that defies her actual chart history (a la Hozier). She's got a lot of popular songs that never really got their flowers at a specific point, and "Royals" is only her 5th most popular song right now so it's not casting a shadow over her discography.

Lizzy taking a break between album cycles to go act on Broadway and then NO, NEW VIRAL SONG(S)*, GET PROMOTING *"Pushing It Down and Praying" has jumped up a lot lately too

Not to pile on more, but do think in general it's a folly to only stick to the subsidiary chart that best presents the narrative. Last week the song was #5 on the official streaming chart but only #14 on Spotify's weekly chart, that to me suggests a differential that warrants using better observation for tracking this. Spotify's a pretty good shorthand and it gives us numbers, but it's not the whole story.

Early hits have a habit of contradicting the charts' lay of the land, steadily accumulating without necessarily being in the spotlight. If you take a big hit from its time (like a "One Kiss" or a "Lucid Dreams") and took away all of their sales from when they're in the top 40, you'd still end up with a massive hit*. So in many countries, "lovely" is just that actualised. Although I'd be remiss to not point out that in Australia & Aotearoa, it was a massive top 5 hit that spent roughly a year in the top 50, so I'm speaking outside of my own perspective where it's just obviously a popular hit song. *My favourite example of this, "Uptown Funk" was demonstrably huge in Australia when it came out, the first song to ever spend an entire calendar year in the top 50. When it finally left the top 50 for good, it was 9 times Platinum. It's now 22 times Platinum, meaning that not only has it sold more outside of the chart than in it, but it'd still be one of the biggest hits of all time if it was starting from scratch in 2016.

21/04/2025 Singles 01 01 10 01 ORDINARY Alex Warren 02 02 26 01 APT. Rosé, Bruno Mars 03 03 33 03 PINK PONY CLUB Chappell Roan 04 09 35 02 DIE WITH A SMILE Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars 05 04 26 01 THAT'S SO TRUE Gracie Abrams 06 08 65 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 07 05 09 05 NOKIA Drake 08 06 20 01 MESSY Lola Young 09 07 48 01 BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish 10 12 21 02 LUTHER Kendrick Lamar 11 10 06 01 ANXIETY Doechii 12 14 53 01 A BAR SONG (TIPSY) Shaboozey 13 11 12 08 SPORTS CAR Tate McRae 14 13 18 05 THE DAYS - NOTION REMIX Chrystal 15 15 74 04 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 16 17 49 01 I HAD SOME HELP Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen 17 18 53 01 ESPRESSO Sabrina Carpenter 18 16 35 08 SAILOR SONG Gigi Perez 19 19 07 19 MUTT Leon Thomas 20 30 02 20 AZIZAM Ed Sheeran 21 24 34 01 TASTE Sabrina Carpenter 22 25 07 22 LOVE ME NOT Ravyn Lenae 23 20 53 04 GOOD LUCK, BABE Chappell Roan 24 52 11 12 ABRACADABRA Lady Gaga 25 26 03 25 UNDRESSED sombr 26 32 40 21 THE DOOR Teddy Swims 27 31 27 27 BAD DREAMS Teddy Swims 28 23 49 01 NOT LIKE US Kendrick Lamar 29 22 22 20 CARRY YOU HOME Alex Warren 30 27 195 01 IRIS Goo Goo Dolls 31 28 17 23 INDIGO Sam Barber feat. Avery Anna 32 39 04 32 BACK TO FRIENDS Sombr 33 35 29 11 TIMELESS The Weeknd, Playboi Carti 34 29 89 02 ALL THE STARS Kendrick Lamar & SZA 35 37 249 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 36 41 45 19 AIN'T NO LOVE IN OKLAHOMA (FROM TWISTERS: THE ALBUM) Luke Combs 37 45 58 10 AUSTIN Dasha 38 47 56 01 TOO SWEET Hozier 39 40 86 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves 40 34 08 13 REVOLVING DOOR Tate McRae 41 43 49 11 STARGAZING Myles Smith 42 38 48 14 WILDFLOWER Billie Eilish 43 48 144 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 44 42 245 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 45 44 09 22 BUSY WOMAN Sabrina Carpenter 46 21 03 16 TWILIGHT ZONE Ariana Grande 47 33 05 22 DARK THOUGHTS Lil Tecca 48 49 251 19 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 49 46 38 07 I LOVE YOU, I'M SORRY Gracie Abrams 50 59 06 50 SORRY I'M HERE FOR SOMEONE ELSE Benson Boone Bubbling Under 14 (20) SHOW ME LOVE WizTheMc, bees & honey 15 (18) LIKE JENNIE Jennie 16 (16) I'M THE PROBLEM Morgan Wallen 17 (17) JUST IN CASE Morgan Wallen 18 (14) THE GIVER Chappell Roan 19 (RE) DREAMIN Dom Dolla feat. Daya 20 (19) I KNOW LOVE Tate McRae feat. The Kid Laroi Albums 01 NE 001 01 THE MOON (THE LIGHT SIDE) Bliss n Eso 02 02 034 01 SHORT N' SWEET Sabrina Carpenter 03 03 008 01 SO CLOSE TO WHAT Tate McRae 04 NE 001 04 SABLE, FABLE Bon Iver 05 07 048 01 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish 06 14 006 01 MAYHEM Lady Gaga 07 08 029 04 +-=÷× (TOUR COLLECTION) Ed Sheeran 08 09 123 01 SOS SZA 09 11 043 01 THE SECRET OF US Gracie Abrams 10 10 219 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 11 06 057 01 ETERNAL SUNSHINE Ariana Grande 12 17 045 01 BRAT Charli XCX 13 12 048 03 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS Chappell Roan 14 13 204 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 15 19 410 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 16 16 370 05 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 17 60 339 03 THE FAME Lady Gaga 18 18 021 01 GNX Kendrick Lamar 19 24 104 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 20 27 052 01 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Taylor Swift 21 21 111 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 22 20 150 03 HOZIER Hozier 23 23 097 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 24 15 316 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 25 30 465 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 26 29 194 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 27 38 527 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 28 33 355 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 29 36 482 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 30 37 240 27 GREATEST HITS Pitbull 31 39 084 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 32 35 006 02 RUBY Jennie 33 25 004 05 I SAID I LOVE YOU FIRST Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco 34 32 018 15 YOU'LL BE ALRIGHT, KID (CHAPTER 1) Alex Warren 35 40 247 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 36 42 053 07 PAPERCUTS Linkin Park 37 46 010 29 ALLIGATOR BITES NEVER HEAL Doechii 38 48 424 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 39 54 077 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 40 44 127 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 41 45 214 02 GOOD GIRL GONE BAD Rihanna 42 55 295 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 43 43 377 08 DUA LIPA Dua Lipa 44 52 358 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 45 50 388 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 46 61 053 17 FIREWORKS & ROLLERBLADES Benson Boone 47 47 036 30 96 MONTHS Calvin Harris 48 41 009 02 $OME $EXY $ONGS 4 U PartyNextDoor, Drake 49 56 284 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 50 NE 001 50 THE IDOL COLLECTION Marshall Hamburger "Ordinary" is #1 for a 4th. Nope, still no competition. Look at all those 3's for "Pink Pony Club", wouldn't it be a shame if multiple of them were shifted away next week? It's more likely than you think that it could climb up to #2. We're provided an interesting look into the world of FOMO and how it compares to not missing out, where the associated boosts from Coachella aren't not especially different to the kinds you'd get if there actually was a festival like that here that people in this country went to. Lady Gaga makes the most obvious gains from it, including "The Fame" coming back from the dead. I wonder if the streams for "Bad Romance" are counting to it, which is funny because "The Fame Monster" originally charted separately (and actually hit #1). Benson Boone's been coasting in and around the top 10 for a really long time without actually having a new entry to his name in like a year, but he does that this week. In what feels like standing up to a vague challenge I made on my blog months ago, Bliss n Eso score their 4th #1 album this week. They were off the #1 Christmas release with their previous album "The Sun", probably because they released on the same week as Kanye West's "DONDA"...the album that has the song "Moon" on it. We have that accompanying "The Moon" album this time around so they're back at #1 for the first time since 2017. Bon Iver's adventures in putting somewhat similar phrases on either side of a comma for album titles finds new inspiriation with rhyming words. It works out a bit better than last time as they're up to #4 this time, having never had a #1 album but hitting #2 twice. If you managed to scroll all the way to the bottom, hi, but also then you'll see a debut at #50 for our latest Australian Idol winner. You might find yourself asking 'Is this high? Is this low?' From a series that used to commandeer the charts to the point that the best selling single of the entire 2000s was Guy Sebastian's winning song, and the second place song was Anthony Callea's not-winning song, maybe it's fallen on hard times. On the other hand, I believe Marshall Hamburger is the first winner since the 2020s revival (which is in its 3rd season) to actually make the chart, so this is a huge win for the burger bros out there. I don't watch the show, ostensibly because Kyle Sandilands is involved but more likely because it's not a venture that lends itself to investment, so I don't know if they've been making jokes about his amusing surname. I don't consider myself above the show in general, as you'd expect from someone who lists an 11th place finisher in Australian Idol from 2008 on my left-side profile.

Suspect "bad guy" and "lovely" have it beaten in most places for now, but it's en route to changing that in the coming years.

If an artist isn't obsessed with the charts, then they're 'so stupid!' for not strategising with the charts, can't win.

Just came to the thread to give the vooooooooooooote to Poland, but honestly some underrated bangers here.

Reckon the best barometer for him is when the album comes out. "You Proof" and "Wasted On You" went from non-entities in Australia in 2022 to Year End hits in 2023 (the former is triple platinum and that might be outdated). Album before that was already huge so it's not just down to the profile boost. I think he just drops too many loosies to keep up with. Already been 7 in the last 9 months.

Granted, it's not a large part of their audience, but I'm amused that they still haven't figured out how to make their countdown timer work properly outside of UK timezones

Utterly bleak. It's Easter but it's also Christmas for the worst people you could ever have the misfortune of engaging with. Hugs and support to all my trans & non-binary acquaintances up north, including the ones I've never met.

14/04/2025 Singles 01 01 09 01 ORDINARY Alex Warren 02 02 25 01 APT. Rosé, Bruno Mars 03 04 32 04 PINK PONY CLUB Chappell Roan 04 03 25 01 THAT'S SO TRUE Gracie Abrams 05 10 08 05 NOKIA Drake 06 06 19 01 MESSY Lola Young 07 07 47 01 BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish 08 08 64 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 09 09 34 02 DIE WITH A SMILE Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars 10 05 05 01 ANXIETY Doechii 11 11 11 08 SPORTS CAR Tate McRae 12 12 20 02 LUTHER Kendrick Lamar 13 13 17 05 THE DAYS - NOTION REMIX Chrystal 14 15 52 01 A BAR SONG (TIPSY) Shaboozey 15 14 73 04 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 16 17 34 08 SAILOR SONG Gigi Perez 17 20 48 01 I HAD SOME HELP Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen 18 22 52 01 ESPRESSO Sabrina Carpenter 19 23 06 19 MUTT Leon Thomas 20 19 52 04 GOOD LUCK, BABE Chappell Roan 21 16 02 16 TWILIGHT ZONE Ariana Grande 22 21 21 20 CARRY YOU HOME Alex Warren 23 18 48 01 NOT LIKE US Kendrick Lamar 24 25 33 01 TASTE Sabrina Carpenter 25 32 06 25 LOVE ME NOT Ravyn Lenae 26 35 02 26 UNDRESSED sombr 27 28 194 01 IRIS Goo Goo Dolls 28 29 16 23 INDIGO Sam Barber feat. Avery Anna 29 30 88 02 ALL THE STARS Kendrick Lamar & SZA 30 NE 01 30 AZIZAM Ed Sheeran 31 31 26 27 BAD DREAMS Teddy Swims 32 26 39 21 THE DOOR Teddy Swims 33 24 04 22 DARK THOUGHTS Lil Tecca 34 27 07 13 REVOLVING DOOR Tate McRae 35 33 28 11 TIMELESS The Weeknd, Playboi Carti 36 NE 01 36 CARAMEL Sleep Token 37 39 248 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 38 34 47 14 WILDFLOWER Billie Eilish 39 57 03 39 BACK TO FRIENDS Sombr 40 38 85 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves 41 44 44 19 AIN'T NO LOVE IN OKLAHOMA (FROM TWISTERS: THE ALBUM) Luke Combs 42 36 244 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 43 52 48 11 STARGAZING Myles Smith 44 47 08 22 BUSY WOMAN Sabrina Carpenter 45 41 57 10 AUSTIN Dasha 46 40 37 07 I LOVE YOU, I'M SORRY Gracie Abrams 47 42 55 01 TOO SWEET Hozier 48 48 143 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 49 49 250 19 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 50 46 46 12 PINK SKIES Zach Bryan Bubbling Under 13 (12) ABRACADABRA Lady Gaga 14 (9) THE GIVER Chappell Roan 15 (18) SORRY I'M HERE FOR SOMEONE ELSE Benson Boone 16 (17) I'M THE PROBLEM Morgan Wallen 17 (16) JUST IN CASE Morgan Wallen 18 (15) LIKE JENNIE Jennie 19 (RE) I KNOW LOVE Tate McRae feat. The Kid Laroi 20 (NE) SHOW ME LOVE WizTheMc, bees & honey Albums 01 NE 001 01 LIKE LOVE Ball Park Music 02 02 033 01 SHORT N' SWEET Sabrina Carpenter 03 04 007 01 SO CLOSE TO WHAT Tate McRae 04 NE 001 04 BODIES Thornhill 05 NE 001 05 PREACHER'S DAUGHTER Ethel Cain 06 01 056 01 ETERNAL SUNSHINE Ariana Grande 07 05 047 01 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish 08 08 028 04 +-=÷× (TOUR COLLECTION) Ed Sheeran 09 06 122 01 SOS SZA 10 09 218 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 11 11 042 01 THE SECRET OF US Gracie Abrams 12 12 047 03 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS Chappell Roan 13 18 203 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 14 10 005 01 MAYHEM Lady Gaga 15 19 315 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 16 16 369 05 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 17 15 044 01 BRAT Charli XCX 18 17 020 01 GNX Kendrick Lamar 19 20 409 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 20 22 149 03 HOZIER Hozier 21 26 110 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 22 NE 001 22 FOREVER HOWLONG Black Country, New Road 23 25 096 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 24 24 103 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 25 13 003 05 I SAID I LOVE YOU FIRST Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco 26 NE 001 26 WHO BELIEVES IN ANGELS? Elton John & Brandi Carlile 27 28 051 01 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Taylor Swift 28 NE 001 28 TE WHARE TIWEKAWEK Marlon Williams 29 30 193 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 30 31 464 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 31 NE 001 31 THE CRUX Djo 32 27 017 15 YOU'LL BE ALRIGHT, KID (CHAPTER 1) Alex Warren 33 34 354 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 34 14 004 01 MUSIC Playboi Carti 35 23 005 02 RUBY Jennie 36 35 481 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 37 36 239 27 GREATEST HITS Pitbull 38 41 526 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 39 37 083 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 40 38 246 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 41 33 008 02 $OME $EXY $ONGS 4 U PartyNextDoor, Drake 42 40 052 07 PAPERCUTS Linkin Park 43 39 376 08 DUA LIPA Dua Lipa 44 42 126 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 45 44 213 02 GOOD GIRL GONE BAD Rihanna 46 43 009 29 ALLIGATOR BITES NEVER HEAL Doechii 47 52 035 30 96 MONTHS Calvin Harris 48 46 423 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 49 21 263 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 50 50 387 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift "Ordinary" secures a 3rd week at #1. It's really not being challenged by anything. I do have to note the bizarre persistence of "Pink Pony Club" which felt like it stalled out weeks ago, but is making small gains along the way. It's now Chappell Roan's highest charting single ever, and I can't even discount the possibility it gets a little bit higher. "APT." has been hanging around the top 2 for so long at this point (although not as long as "Dance Monkey", stay humble). Drake makes a considerable jump to #5 with "NOKIA", the last time he was this high was with 2023's "First Person Shooter", the last time he was this high outside of a debut week was 2022's "Rich Flex", and the last time this was all true with a solo track was 2020's "Toosie Slide". Ed Sheeran annihilates wannabes Sleep Token to have the highest debut of the week, although technically sombr was close too with the promised second debut week in a row. It's a historic week for Australian music this week as Ball Park Music score their first ever #1 album. They're up to their 8th album and previously have hit #2 3 times before, losing to an incumbent Harry Styles and debutant Bruce Springsteen. The roughest moment for them though was in 2014 when they first reached #2, missing the top spot by what I recall being less than 20 sales to the highly incumbent INXS "Greatest Hits" set, coasting off the TV mini-series for weeks and weeks (but that was the final week). Ball Park Music are from Brisbane and in a bizarre twist of fate, both Queensland AFL teams are the only 2 undefeated teams so far in 2025. To put this into context, Gold Coast have never finished at the top half of the ladder in 14 years of contending, and in 2017, the two teams finished at the very bottom. Maybe Ball Park Music were onto something when they released the song "Please Don't Move To Melbourne" earlier this year. Done with the football content for the week, but not Australian content, as Thornhill score a #4 debut, a few years after reaching #3 with their last album. It's meltdown week for all the people making fun of Ethel Cain and her politics after her extremely uncommercial release this year didn't sell particularly well. The vinyl release of her debut gives her a first time ever on the chart at #5. "American Teenager" is a classic but you probably didn't need to hear it from me. Speaking of artists causing meltdowns from people who are too online, it's a huge week for besties and people who have birthdays alike, as Black Country, New Road return with their newest album at #22. I do have to note that their last album got to #6 but I do think this one's way more enjoyable to listen to. For Elton John it's just another one, but for Brandi Carlile, she's scoring her first ever top 50 album this week. "The Story" only got to #44 in 2007 so this is her highest chart position ever in Australia. Marlon Williams is a star in Aotearoa and still goes pretty alright in Australia as he scores a 4th top 50 album, he's had two top 10s before. Possibly helped by his recent Australian tour, though Djo isn't looking like getting a second hit song at the moment, he does manage to chart his new album nonetheless.

Just btw, this version of the song has been out for a few weeks now, might be its first day in the top 200 but it probably wasn't far off last week.

Like, I don't use TikTok myself (not my kind of content, that's fine), but I always find the treatment of it as some sort of omniscient spectre of influence so weird, and strangely utilised at that. 'X can't get a hit anymore because TikTok, therefore Gen Z have short attention spans?' It used to be 'Y just keeps getting hits on past reputation because insert generation have no imagination or desire to discover new and better artists'. It's just this clumsy self-correcting attempt to both try and explain why certain music is popular but with this odd veneer of 'back in my day we had standards and control', like it's any different to a baby boomer insisting that music was objectively better when they were a teenager. All the while, using isolated examples that fit the narrative, and ignoring the cases that don't. C'mon, we're all better than this.

Or alternatively, they're big on TikTok because people care about them?

07/04/2025 Singles 01 01 08 01 ORDINARY Alex Warren 02 02 24 01 APT. Rosé, Bruno Mars 03 04 24 01 THAT'S SO TRUE Gracie Abrams 04 05 31 04 PINK PONY CLUB Chappell Roan 05 03 04 01 ANXIETY Doechii 06 06 18 01 MESSY Lola Young 07 10 46 01 BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish 08 09 63 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 09 07 33 02 DIE WITH A SMILE Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars 10 11 07 10 NOKIA Drake 11 12 10 08 SPORTS CAR Tate McRae 12 08 19 02 LUTHER Kendrick Lamar 13 13 16 05 THE DAYS - NOTION REMIX Chrystal 14 14 72 04 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 15 15 51 01 A BAR SONG (TIPSY) Shaboozey 16 NE 01 16 TWILIGHT ZONE Ariana Grande 17 17 33 08 SAILOR SONG Gigi Perez 18 16 47 01 NOT LIKE US Kendrick Lamar 19 18 51 04 GOOD LUCK, BABE Chappell Roan 20 21 47 01 I HAD SOME HELP Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen 21 20 20 20 CARRY YOU HOME Alex Warren 22 19 51 01 ESPRESSO Sabrina Carpenter 23 79 05 23 MUTT Leon Thomas 24 22 03 22 DARK THOUGHTS Lil Tecca 25 24 32 01 TASTE Sabrina Carpenter 26 26 38 21 THE DOOR Teddy Swims 27 23 06 13 REVOLVING DOOR Tate McRae 28 31 193 01 IRIS Goo Goo Dolls 29 34 15 23 INDIGO Sam Barber feat. Avery Anna 30 25 87 02 ALL THE STARS Kendrick Lamar & SZA 31 27 25 27 BAD DREAMS Teddy Swims 32 37 05 32 LOVE ME NOT Ravyn Lenae 33 29 27 11 TIMELESS The Weeknd, Playboi Carti 34 32 46 14 WILDFLOWER Billie Eilish 35 NE 01 35 UNDRESSED sombr 36 44 243 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 37 30 12 13 DENIAL IS A RIVER Doechii 38 35 84 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves 39 40 247 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 40 38 36 07 I LOVE YOU, I'M SORRY Gracie Abrams 41 45 56 10 AUSTIN Dasha 42 42 54 01 TOO SWEET Hozier 43 28 03 14 THE GIVER Chappell Roan 44 41 43 19 AIN'T NO LOVE IN OKLAHOMA (FROM TWISTERS: THE ALBUM) Luke Combs 45 NE 01 45 DANDELION Ariana Grande 46 46 45 12 PINK SKIES Zach Bryan 47 52 07 22 BUSY WOMAN Sabrina Carpenter 48 48 142 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 49 51 249 19 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 50 43 18 12 TV OFF Kendrick Lamar Bubbling Under 12 (10) ABRACADABRA Lady Gaga 13 (18) BACK TO FRIENDS Sombr 14 (NE) WARM Ariana Grande 15 (11) LIKE JENNIE Jennie 16 (NE) JUST IN CASE Morgan Wallen 17 (13) I'M THE PROBLEM Morgan Wallen 18 (16) SORRY I'M HERE FOR SOMEONE ELSE Benson Boone 19 (9) RATHER LIE Playboi Carti 20 (15) DREAMIN Dom Dolla feat. Daya Albums 01 79 055 01 ETERNAL SUNSHINE Ariana Grande 02 01 032 01 SHORT N' SWEET Sabrina Carpenter 03 NE 001 03 BACKFLIPS IN A RESTAURANT grentperez 04 02 006 01 SO CLOSE TO WHAT Tate McRae 05 03 046 01 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish 06 06 121 01 SOS SZA 07 NE 001 07 RUSHMERE Mumford & Sons 08 09 027 04 +-=÷× (TOUR COLLECTION) Ed Sheeran 09 11 217 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 10 08 004 01 MAYHEM Lady Gaga 11 10 041 01 THE SECRET OF US Gracie Abrams 12 12 046 03 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS Chappell Roan 13 05 002 05 I SAID I LOVE YOU FIRST Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco 14 07 003 01 MUSIC Playboi Carti 15 17 043 01 BRAT Charli XCX 16 15 368 05 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 17 14 019 01 GNX Kendrick Lamar 18 26 202 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 19 21 314 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 20 19 408 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 21 23 262 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 22 27 148 03 HOZIER Hozier 23 16 004 02 RUBY Jennie 24 20 102 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 25 22 095 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 26 24 109 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 27 25 016 15 YOU'LL BE ALRIGHT, KID (CHAPTER 1) Alex Warren 28 29 050 01 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Taylor Swift 29 NE 001 29 THE BAND ALBUM Travis Collins 30 30 192 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 31 31 463 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 32 13 019 02 RADICAL OPTIMISM Dua Lipa 33 28 007 02 $OME $EXY $ONGS 4 U PartyNextDoor, Drake 34 35 353 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 35 34 480 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 36 37 238 27 GREATEST HITS Pitbull 37 36 082 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 38 38 245 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 39 39 375 08 DUA LIPA Dua Lipa 40 40 051 07 PAPERCUTS Linkin Park 41 41 525 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 42 42 125 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 43 33 008 29 ALLIGATOR BITES NEVER HEAL Doechii 44 43 212 02 GOOD GIRL GONE BAD Rihanna 45 NE 001 45 DREAMS ON TOAST The Darkness 46 44 422 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 47 32 009 01 HURRY UP TOMORROW The Weeknd 48 45 356 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 49 NE 001 49 FOREVER IS A FEELING Lucy Dacus 50 46 386 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift "Ordinary" secures a second week at #1. When "APT." is still the closest competition you shouldn't be too surprised. The top 8 is nearly entirely #1 hits, with the one exception being "Pink Pony Club" that now lays claim to being Chappell Roan's equal highest charting song. Really benefitting from sliding competition. Drake defies the curse and manages to slot into the top 10 with "NOKIA", and it looks like it'll keep climbing next week. Ariana Grande's new deluxe set gets her a couple of new entries, while there's also a big climb for Leon Thomas to score his first top 50 hit with "MUTT". The Chris Brown remix heavily aided this boost although it's interesting that over in Aotearoa, this boost happened a week earlier, typical Australian slowness. sombr is currently making big moves with two songs at once, but for now it's "undressed" that gets into the top 50 first. I just want to note "Mr. Brightside" re-entering because we've had a reversal of fortunes, where usually of the two, "Dreams" was the one that was more prone to falling out of the top 50. The script has been flipped and it means that "Dreams" has a cozy lead for weeks in the top 50 (155 vs. 146), and is two months away from matching the all-time record from Lewis Capaldi. Ariana Grande returns to #1 for a 4th week with "eternal sunshine". This will likely give it some extra time in the top 50 to prevent it from being her shortest charting album since "Yours Truly", which is interesting because it's now only 1 week away from being her longest reigning album ("thank u, next" managed 5 weeks at #1). Leading the debuts is the debut album from Australian singer-songwriter grentperez from Sydney. Something of a wunderkind, he's been putting out music since 2021 when he was 19 and slowly picking up accolades along the way. I gotta shout out the fact that while a lot of Like A Version covers of late are very restricted to safe and obvious choices, I respect the fact that he made his a cover of the Battle of the Bands song from "School of Rock", just a breath of fresh air. The album is called "Backflips In A Restaurant". For your consideration, I have attached a GIF below of Richmond footballer Seth Campbell doing a backflip in front of about 80,000 fans last month when he kicked the game-sealing goal that allowed his team to perform the upset victory of the year after not being expected to win a single game in 2025. It continues to be the funniest thing that's happened this year. Mumford & Sons return with their 5th album which is also their 5th top 10 (but first to miss the top 5). I'm shocked their last album lasted 11 weeks in the top 50, can this one make it to 2?? Local country singer Travis Collins had been improving his album peaks consistently up until his last which got to #3, he has to settle for #29 this time around. Meanwhile The Darkness have to be credited as one of the more consistently hanging around artists to never reach the top 10, they admittedly missed the top 50 with their last album but they've come roaring back to #45 now. Lucy Dacus may have gone triple stumper on Jeopardy! a couple years ago but she has a solo top 50 album now. Taylor Swift fervour quietens down for the first time in a while as she loses two from the top 50 this week, including "Lover" which has been charting every single week since September 2022. Keep an eye out for "folklore" at #38, which has never left the top 50 once since debut.

Can't remember if it was with this group, but I was trying to find an old tweet of mine just now and unearthed this one from 2021

Just want to put this forward as a point of interest (and because it took way too long for me to collect and present the data to discard it), the distribution of #1 debuts as a concept varies quite a bit on different charts, so it's as much about the era in general as it is the way the chart is calculated. You'd imagine there'd be a lot more #1s in the US if not for airplay! Adding the UK would be too much work but I imagine a VERY drastic progression.

July last year, Ed Sheeran had 66 million listeners on Spotify (19th), according to a tweet from then I saw. Prior to the release of this single, he was up to 76 million (14th). These things ebb and flow. Could easily go past his highest non-"Merry Christmas" boosted peak with this one. The reality doesn't always follow the vibes or the narrative, but that's why we have the charts.

If you put those former #1 debuts in the landscape of today, it's not quite as drastic a change it seems. Streaming just re-calibrates the way we look at it all. After all, those #1 debuts typically didn't just appear in an instant like the chart tells. They come from weeks (months?) of advance promotion & airplay using an industry certified formula specifically for maximising those first week sales. If we convert them to modern times, they're either not debuting at the top, or they're not truly the most listened-to record on that given week. Ariana Grande debuted at #14 on the streaming chart this week with "twilight zone". Out of all songs this week, it very likely had the biggest increase in new listeners (given that it had 0 the week before). With the charts the way they were back then, that'd make it a cozy #1 debut, one of many that instantly pop up there to be replaced by next week's sensation, very few of which actually go to #1 instantly on the official chart. It might still be possible to some degree. TikTok promotion can work in a similar way for a song that's not officially 'out', might just take a vagrant Addison Rae-type celebrity with a big following to do it.

Just wanna say that while the urge to be a prophet of doom is at an all time high, often times things aren't as good or bad as they seem. Just go to the end of the June 2021 streaming thread and see all the forecasts of pessimism on day 1 for what turned out to be the biggest hit of the year. The idea that everything is dependent on early figures doesn't really apply with infinite shelf life, and performance 6, 12, 60 months down the track affects the bottom line more. Maybe not as fun but it's true. Or if you will, an example. Dua Lipa releases "Don't Start Now", huge smash, no one's denying this. 33 weeks in the global Spotify top 10, keeps bobbing up there and has appeared on the chart as recently as late 2024, 5 years after release. 4 years later she releases "Houdini". Sceptics come out in full force. It only manages 1 week in the global Spotify top 10, after 36 weeks it's out of the top 200, never to return, sounds like an absolute failure. And yet you compare the two over the first 18 months. "Don't Start Now" managed about 1.5 billion streams, "Houdini" 0.8 billion. No doubt it's a decline, but way too fine a gap to measure between a smash and an underperformance, and also I think a far smaller gap than most would have thought. In any case those regular sized hits can be the exception that proves the rule. Expecting every new lead single to hit in the same way is to take credit away from those past hits and how much they resonated.

31/03/2025 Singles 01 04 07 01 ORDINARY Alex Warren 02 02 23 01 APT. Rosé, Bruno Mars 03 01 03 01 ANXIETY Doechii 04 03 23 01 THAT'S SO TRUE Gracie Abrams 05 05 30 05 PINK PONY CLUB Chappell Roan 06 06 17 01 MESSY Lola Young 07 09 32 02 DIE WITH A SMILE Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars 08 08 18 02 LUTHER Kendrick Lamar 09 11 62 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 10 10 45 01 BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish 11 12 06 11 NOKIA Drake 12 13 09 08 SPORTS CAR Tate McRae 13 15 15 05 THE DAYS - NOTION REMIX Chrystal 14 22 71 04 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 15 18 50 01 A BAR SONG (TIPSY) Shaboozey 16 17 46 01 NOT LIKE US Kendrick Lamar 17 21 32 08 SAILOR SONG Gigi Perez 18 19 50 04 GOOD LUCK, BABE Chappell Roan 19 24 50 01 ESPRESSO Sabrina Carpenter 20 28 19 20 CARRY YOU HOME Alex Warren 21 25 46 01 I HAD SOME HELP Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen 22 75 02 22 DARK THOUGHTS Lil Tecca 23 20 05 13 REVOLVING DOOR Tate McRae 24 27 31 01 TASTE Sabrina Carpenter 25 26 86 02 ALL THE STARS Kendrick Lamar & SZA 26 36 37 21 THE DOOR Teddy Swims 27 45 24 27 BAD DREAMS Teddy Swims 28 14 02 14 THE GIVER Chappell Roan 29 32 26 11 TIMELESS The Weeknd, Playboi Carti 30 23 11 13 DENIAL IS A RIVER Doechii 31 33 192 01 IRIS Goo Goo Dolls 32 30 45 14 WILDFLOWER Billie Eilish 33 07 02 07 EVIL J0RDAN Playboi Carti 34 35 14 23 INDIGO Sam Barber feat. Avery Anna 35 37 83 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves 36 16 02 16 RATHER LIE Playboi Carti 37 57 04 37 LOVE ME NOT Ravyn Lenae 38 39 35 07 I LOVE YOU, I'M SORRY Gracie Abrams 39 31 08 12 ABRACADABRA Lady Gaga 40 42 246 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 41 44 42 19 AIN'T NO LOVE IN OKLAHOMA (FROM TWISTERS: THE ALBUM) Luke Combs 42 43 53 01 TOO SWEET Hozier 43 34 17 12 TV OFF Kendrick Lamar 44 48 242 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 45 47 55 10 AUSTIN Dasha 46 57 44 12 PINK SKIES Zach Bryan 47 52 10 47 BURNING DOWN Alex Warren 48 53 141 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 49 40 03 35 LIKE JENNIE Jennie 50 56 46 11 STARGAZING Myles Smith Bubbling Under 12 (15) BUSY WOMAN Sabrina Carpenter 13 (19) I'M THE PROBLEM Morgan Wallen 14 (16) I KNOW LOVE Tate McRae feat. The Kid Laroi 15 (RE) DREAMIN Dom Dolla feat. Daya 16 (20) SORRY I'M HERE FOR SOMEONE ELSE Benson Boone 17 (17) DIE TRYING PartyNextDoor, Drake & Yebba 18 (NE) BACK TO FRIENDS Sombr 19 (RE) CALL ME WHEN YOU BREAK UP Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco, Gracie Abrams 20 (NE) I'M A LITTLE CRAZY Morgan Wallen Albums 01 02 031 01 SHORT N' SWEET Sabrina Carpenter 02 03 005 01 SO CLOSE TO WHAT Tate McRae 03 05 045 01 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish 04 NE 001 04 OLD MERVS Old Mervs 05 NE 001 05 I SAID I LOVE YOU FIRST Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco 06 06 120 01 SOS SZA 07 01 002 01 MUSIC Playboi Carti 08 04 003 01 MAYHEM Lady Gaga 09 07 026 04 +-=÷× (TOUR COLLECTION) Ed Sheeran 10 10 040 01 THE SECRET OF US Gracie Abrams 11 11 216 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 12 09 045 03 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS Chappell Roan 13 25 018 02 RADICAL OPTIMISM Dua Lipa 14 12 018 01 GNX Kendrick Lamar 15 14 367 05 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 16 08 003 02 RUBY Jennie 17 13 042 01 BRAT Charli XCX 18 NE 001 18 BIRD IN PARADISE The Cat Empire 19 22 407 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 20 18 101 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 21 17 313 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 22 20 094 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 23 36 261 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 24 24 108 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 25 15 015 15 YOU'LL BE ALRIGHT, KID (CHAPTER 1) Alex Warren 26 28 201 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 27 23 147 03 HOZIER Hozier 28 16 006 02 $OME $EXY $ONGS 4 U PartyNextDoor, Drake 29 19 049 01 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Taylor Swift 30 27 191 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 31 31 462 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 32 21 008 01 HURRY UP TOMORROW The Weeknd 33 29 007 29 ALLIGATOR BITES NEVER HEAL Doechii 34 30 479 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 35 32 352 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 36 35 081 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 37 37 237 27 GREATEST HITS Pitbull 38 33 244 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 39 49 374 08 DUA LIPA Dua Lipa 40 38 050 07 PAPERCUTS Linkin Park 41 34 524 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 42 40 124 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 43 41 211 02 GOOD GIRL GONE BAD Rihanna 44 43 421 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 45 46 355 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 46 45 385 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 47 44 292 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 48 42 281 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 49 48 050 17 FIREWORKS & ROLLERBLADES Benson Boone 50 47 074 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift Alex Warren scores his first ever #1 hit with "Ordinary". With the vaulting of this and much of his back catalogue, it is clear that he's having a Chappell Roan moment at present, except oddly enough his album dropped quite a bit this week, so maybe this week was just an individualised boost for "Ordinary". In any case, he's got a huge lead now on Spotify, whether or not he's got room to grow elsewhere or he's peaked early remains to be seen. His lack of airplay does make me think he's gonna keep climbing on iTunes though. Alex Warren also gets a new entry with "Burning Down", the second time he's done so with a song that charted below the top 50 last year, I think he's out of those. Lil Tecca scores his second ever top 50 hit with "Dark Thoughts", while Ravyn Lenae is charting for the first time with "Love Me Not". A long time coming for a song I first heard back in June last year. When in doubt, just put Sabrina Carpenter back at #1. This is her 12th week there. Her 6 concurrent songs in the Spotify top 200 are doing a lot of legwork, but it's probably very beatable if a major release comes along. I am gesturing in the direction of Ariana Grande. In new entry lack, leading the pack we have some prime WESTERN AUSTRALIAN content. Up and comers Old Mervs get their first ever entry with their self-titled set in at an impressive #4. So far this year, the only win that either of the two Western Australian football teams have gotten is when the two of them played each other and thus one of them had to (probably) win, so a rare W for my state of late. Selena Gomez also scores her 4th top 10 album, and helps benny blanco to heights he'd never seen on his own, as he barely cracked the top 40 with his own album a few years back. The Australian content continues as famed terrorisers of my blog The Cat Empire, are still going at it. They're back with their first new album in 6 years, although it's also their first album to miss the top 10 other than their long charting debut. They previously had two #1 albums, and are currently living off the royalties of "Hello" being on TV commercials again. Maybe I'll have to use that one for next year's thread intro.

(Oh hey 'quote section', what a neat feature) I know the answer is radio, but the extent to which it's possible to skirt the recurrency rules by way of a glacial uptick in audience is getting really out of hand. And Billboard bases their End Of Year charts solely around these accumulated weeks, where a few extra weeks can jump you up dozens of spots! Funny to think also that Billboard enacted the change to the rules re: 52 weeks when there were just 3 songs mildly flaunting it ("Uptown Funk", "Shut Up and Dance", "Thinking Out Loud" all between #36-#45 with 50something weeks), they're on the cusp of having about 8-9 songs on 52+ weeks while within the top 25, wonder what it'd take for them to change the rules again. Ironically, tightening it up just creates less competition and thus more songs able to go on such runs.

Funnily enough, in the past few weeks, "Shape Of You" has been outstreaming "Blinding Lights", the song that unseated it as the most streamed song of all time on Spotify, for the first time ever.

24/03/2025 Singles 01 09 02 01 ANXIETY Doechii 02 01 22 01 APT. Rosé, Bruno Mars 03 03 22 01 THAT'S SO TRUE Gracie Abrams 04 14 06 04 ORDINARY Alex Warren 05 06 29 05 PINK PONY CLUB Chappell Roan 06 04 16 01 MESSY Lola Young 07 NE 01 07 EVIL J0RDAN Playboi Carti 08 05 17 02 LUTHER Kendrick Lamar 09 02 31 02 DIE WITH A SMILE Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars 10 07 44 01 BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish 11 10 61 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 12 11 05 11 NOKIA Drake 13 08 08 08 SPORTS CAR Tate McRae 14 NE 01 14 THE GIVER Chappell Roan 15 13 14 05 THE DAYS - NOTION REMIX Chrystal 16 NE 01 16 RATHER LIE Playboi Carti 17 12 45 01 NOT LIKE US Kendrick Lamar 18 16 49 01 A BAR SONG (TIPSY) Shaboozey 19 17 49 04 GOOD LUCK, BABE Chappell Roan 20 15 04 13 REVOLVING DOOR Tate McRae 21 22 31 08 SAILOR SONG Gigi Perez 22 27 70 04 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 23 18 10 13 DENIAL IS A RIVER Doechii 24 23 49 01 ESPRESSO Sabrina Carpenter 25 25 45 01 I HAD SOME HELP Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen 26 20 85 02 ALL THE STARS Kendrick Lamar & SZA 27 26 30 01 TASTE Sabrina Carpenter 28 30 18 30 CARRY YOU HOME Alex Warren 29 NE 01 29 CRUSH Playboi Carti 30 24 44 14 WILDFLOWER Billie Eilish 31 21 07 12 ABRACADABRA Lady Gaga 32 31 25 11 TIMELESS The Weeknd, Playboi Carti 33 29 191 01 IRIS Goo Goo Dolls 34 28 16 12 TV OFF Kendrick Lamar 35 36 13 23 INDIGO Sam Barber feat. Avery Anna 36 41 36 21 THE DOOR Teddy Swims 37 37 82 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves 38 NE 01 38 EMERGENCE Sleep Token 39 33 34 07 I LOVE YOU, I'M SORRY Gracie Abrams 40 35 02 35 LIKE JENNIE Jennie 41 19 04 14 A N X I E T Y Sleepy Hallow feat. Doechii 42 39 245 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 43 43 52 01 TOO SWEET Hozier 44 40 41 19 AIN'T NO LOVE IN OKLAHOMA (FROM TWISTERS: THE ALBUM) Luke Combs 45 45 23 30 BAD DREAMS Teddy Swims 46 NE 01 46 TOXIC Playboi Carti 47 47 54 10 AUSTIN Dasha 48 50 241 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 49 NE 01 49 PHILLY Playboi Carti 50 NE 01 50 GOOD CREDIT Playboi Carti Bubbling Under 15 (11) BUSY WOMAN Sabrina Carpenter 16 (09) I KNOW LOVE Tate McRae feat. The Kid Laroi 17 (12) DIE TRYING PartyNextDoor, Drake & Yebba 18 (NE) DARK THOUGHTS Lil Tecca 19 (17) I'M THE PROBLEM Morgan Wallen 20 (13) SORRY I'M HERE FOR SOMEONE ELSE Benson Boone Albums 01 NE 001 01 MUSIC Playboi Carti 02 04 030 01 SHORT N' SWEET Sabrina Carpenter 03 03 004 01 SO CLOSE TO WHAT Tate McRae 04 01 002 01 MAYHEM Lady Gaga 05 05 044 01 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish 06 06 119 01 SOS SZA 07 09 025 04 +-=÷× (TOUR COLLECTION) Ed Sheeran 08 02 002 02 RUBY Jennie 09 11 044 03 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS Chappell Roan 10 10 039 01 THE SECRET OF US Gracie Abrams 11 12 215 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 12 08 017 01 GNX Kendrick Lamar 13 13 041 01 BRAT Charli XCX 14 15 366 05 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 15 27 014 15 YOU'LL BE ALRIGHT, KID (CHAPTER 1) Alex Warren 16 14 005 02 $OME $EXY $ONGS 4 U PartyNextDoor, Drake 17 16 312 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 18 20 100 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 19 24 048 01 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Taylor Swift 20 25 093 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 21 21 007 01 HURRY UP TOMORROW The Weeknd 22 23 406 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 23 19 146 03 HOZIER Hozier 24 22 107 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 25 RE 017 02 RADICAL OPTIMISM Dua Lipa 26 NE 001 26 HI, IT'S NICE TO MEET ME Mia Wray 27 17 190 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 28 28 200 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 29 RE 006 29 ALLIGATOR BITES NEVER HEAL Doechii 30 31 478 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 31 29 461 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 32 30 351 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 33 36 243 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 34 35 523 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 35 33 080 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 36 62 260 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 37 32 236 27 GREATEST HITS Pitbull 38 39 049 07 PAPERCUTS Linkin Park 39 90 006 07 POPULAR MONSTER Falling In Reverse 40 37 123 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 41 42 210 02 GOOD GIRL GONE BAD Rihanna 42 41 280 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 43 55 420 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 44 43 291 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 45 46 384 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 46 45 354 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 47 52 073 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 48 49 049 17 FIREWORKS & ROLLERBLADES Benson Boone 49 72 373 08 DUA LIPA Dua Lipa 50 51 294 01 STARBOY The Weeknd "Anxiety" climbs to #1. Last week I pondered the last time a #1 hit samples another #1 hit in anticipation for this. Evidently the lesson is that it only hits particularly strongly this time when I'm old enough to remember seeing both songs climb to the top, because it's actually not that uncommon. Just last year Eminem did it with "Houdini", and we also had David Guetta & Bebe Rexha's "I'm Good (Blue)". Technically speaking Taylor Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do" counts, and then you can go back to The Black Eyed Peas' "The Time (Dirty Bit)" before that. But yes, the important thing is that now Gotye has written two #1 hits, so get that one hit wonder tag outta here. As much as I'd like to revel in weekly updates on the Australian perspective, this looks to be short-lived, as the song is dropping about as fast as the Sleepy Hallow version but even if it wasn't, Alex Warren is here to pick up the slack. His large lead on UK Spotify promised to follow through on the Australian chart and with his huge 5 digit gains on Spotify last night, that look to set him atop the throne for weeks to come. Amidst everything else, Chappell Roan sneaks a second top 5 hit and it's weird to think that "Pink Pony Club" is only 1 spot away from being her highest charter, although I do realise I'm typing this on a UK forum. She does this by staying just ahead of the avalanche of Playboi Carti entries. Prior to this week, Carti has operated solely as a featured artist on the chart, but he's forged his own identity now with 6 new entries in the top 50. "EVIL J0RDAN" lands the highest and gives him a 3rd top 10 hit. Alongside all those debuts, Chappell Roan enters at #14 but looks like having a heavy decline next week. It looks to be a sketchy title defence for the reigning Hottest 100 champion. By the way, my blog hits the 20% complete mark at the end of the week. Sleep Token have been accumulating many weeks around the #100 mark for their most recent album and now they translate that to some singles chart success as they enter for the first time ever. Playboi Carti also scores his first ever #1 album this week. I'm reminded of how J. Cole used to release his albums in December and really squander his chart positions in Australia until he finally opted for a regular week and instantly went to #1. I'm not saying that "Whole Lotta Red" would've debuted at #1, but you have to wonder when it still managed to reach #15 here what it could've accomplished. I once again have to check and make sure Alex Warren hasn't snuck "Ordinary" onto his album as it continues to have strong gains but it really probably is just his whole catalogue moving up. I can't say the same for Doechii who I have to call out for this exact tactic, as she re-enters with a new peak thanks to a 'Deluxe' version of her mixtape that just has "Anxiety" tacked on the end. I can't allow this shamelessness to go unreported. Our one other new entry this week is also the only Australian entry this week, as it's the debut album for Mia Wray. She's dabbled in the worlds of pop, rock, dance & country music over the years and never truly broken through although her song "Never Gonna Be The Same" was something of a digital sales hit, and "Where I Stand" has over 20 million streams. I think she's been on a pretty solid run of singles lately, but in any case, this is her first ever chart appearance. Dua Lipa's recent Australian tour brings her entire catalogue back into the top 50, which includes having her newest album ahead of the other two for the first time in quite a while. I guess I should also say that Falling In Reverse were in Australia too. The album is certified gold and I have a hard time believing it's managed to accumulate that. Amusingly, Dua Lipa's self-titled album is also certified gold, I suspect that one's just a little outdated.