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I feel like a prior peak should be irrelevant to the whole conversation, it just becomes totally arbitrary at that point. Like, had Kate Bush had a resurgence with "Wuthering Heights" instead of "Running Up That Hill", should that not warrant the same treatment? The only difference is that the former peaked at #1 instead of #3 so it couldn't get a new peak even if it tried but if it were clearly the biggest song in the country, it'd look silly to not reset it on that arbitrary ruling. Or imagine a world where Arctic Monkeys put out "Do I Wanna Know?" at the start of the week, Tom Odell wouldn't have a top 10 hit...until this year, and many would celebrate that in the moment. It'd be really dumb if the OCC were just sitting looking at the trigger and waiting to see if he got 1 place higher than he did 10 years ago to warrant a reset that's merely depicting a notable resurgence. The purpose of the chart should be to demonstrate what is relevant/popular etc, not to just fiddle around and generate as many arbitrary hits as possible. At some point *that* devalues the chart more so than a reset that is costing a few new songs 1 position on the chart for a bit until it's swiftly forgotten about once it's back on ACR.

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

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

Gotta at least give some leeway to songs facing ACR that have only a 0.6% decline :lol:

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

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

It wouldn't be an Ed Sheeran album cycle without people making up negative traits about him to get mad about again and again :lol:

I'll admit I've been very wrong about this in the past but I just heard the new Lewis song and it doesn't exactly scream #1 to me.

I think to give the album credit, it was the 5th best selling album that actually dropped in 2022. That's nothing to sneeze at. A year after release and it's still charting too. A lot of underperforming new material is just in reaction to a market that's increasingly driven by catalogue releases.

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.

I dunno how much it factors into it, but if the iTunes chart is anything to judge by, Freya is better at selling her singles than PinkPantheress tbf.

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)

Didn't think people still cared that much about Game of Thrones!

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.