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This is par for the course. The numbers are a little higher than last year on Spotify (except for "Santa Tell Me" which was probably boosted by "Positions" last year). Something something nobody wants to listen to Tony Bennett on a 40C day in summer.

Looking through the games I think the underlying problem is that most of the 1v3 games have always been pretty bad or unbalanced :lol: Maybe I'd chuck in Lights Out but there's not much on offer.

13/12/2021 Singles 01 02 17 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 02 01 08 01 EASY ON ME Adele 03 03 22 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 04 04 03 04 ABCDEFU Gayle 05 08 69 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 06 06 24 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 07 05 13 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 08 18 51 01 ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey 09 07 04 01 ALL TOO WELL (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 10 09 20 04 INDUSTRY BABY Lil Nas X feat. Jack Harlow 11 11 05 11 DO IT TO IT Acraze feat. Cherish 12 16 30 01 GOOD 4 U Olivia Rodrigo 13 12 11 11 GHOST Justin Bieber 14 35 13 04 IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS Michael Buble 15 22 35 02 KISS ME MORE Doja Cat feat. SZA 16 24 61 04 LEVITATING Dua Lipa 17 13 05 09 ONE RIGHT NOW Post Malone & The Weeknd 18 41 44 02 LAST CHRISTMAS Wham! 19 NE 01 19 I HATE U SZA 20 15 12 07 THAT'S WHAT I WANT Lil Nas X 21 10 03 06 OH MY GOD Adele 22 20 04 20 ENEMY Imagine Dragons, JID & League of Legends 23 28 48 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 24 17 13 08 MEET ME AT OUR SPOT The Anxiety 25 21 19 03 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 26 NE 01 26 WHERE ARE YOU NOW Lost Frequencies feat. Calum Scott 27 NE 01 27 MERRY CHRISTMAS Ed Sheeran & Elton John 28 31 37 01 MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) Lil Nas X 29 19 06 16 BETTER DAYS NEIKED & Mae Muller feat. Polo G 30 25 25 03 BEGGIN' Måneskin 31 RE 14 06 SANTA TELL ME Ariana Grande 32 14 05 08 SMOKIN' OUT THE WINDOW Silk Sonic 33 44 53 01 WITHOUT YOU The Kid Laroi 34 32 29 14 MISSING PIECE Vance Joy 35 30 15 16 WOMAN Doja Cat 36 37 106 01 BLINDING LIGHTS The Weeknd 37 55 48 01 DRIVER'S LICENSE Olivia Rodrigo 38 26 12 08 LOVE NWANTITI (AH AH AH) CKay 39 27 11 07 MY UNIVERSE Coldplay and BTS 40 23 06 08 OVERPASS GRAFFITI Ed Sheeran 41 29 07 08 MOTH TO A FLAME Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd 42 43 74 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 43 60 02 43 I AM WOMAN Emmy Meli 44 33 09 30 ACAPULCO Jason DeRulo 45 38 21 22 LOVE TONIGHT Shouse 46 42 26 09 NEED TO KNOW Doja Cat 47 34 21 16 DREAMS Jolyon Petch 48 54 54 04 THE BUSINESS Tiësto 49 RE 08 31 ROCKIN' AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE Brenda Lee 50 61 44 04 ASTRONAUT IN THE OCEAN Masked Wolf Albums 01 01 03 01 30 Adele 02 02 06 01 = Ed Sheeran 03 06 03 02 PAUL KELLY'S CHRISTMAS TRAIN Paul Kelly 04 03 04 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 05 NE 01 05 SONGS OF DISAPPEARANCE Australian Bird Calls 06 04 05 01 VOYAGE ABBA 07 08 92 01 CHRISTMAS Michael Buble 08 07 29 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 09 09 24 02 PLANET HER Doja Cat 10 13 38 01 JUSTICE Justin Bieber 11 NE 01 11 LIVE AT HAMER HALL The Teskey Brothers & Orchestra Victoria 12 10 283 01 25 Adele 13 14 89 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 14 15 44 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 15 22 72 01 F*CK LOVE The Kid Laroi 16 11 104 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 17 21 19 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 18 35 69 02 MERRY CHRISTMAS Mariah Carey 19 12 311 02 NEVERMIND Nirvana 20 20 14 01 CERTIFIED LOVER BOY Drake 21 18 421 01 21 Adele 22 28 12 01 MONTERO Lil' Nas X 23 23 32 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 24 19 03 18 RAISE THE ROOF Robert Plant & Alison Krauss 25 42 10 02 ONLY SANTA KNOWS Delta Goodrem 26 RE 13 03 HALL OF FAME Polo G 27 27 183 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 28 17 04 04 AN EVENING WITH SILK SONIC Silk Sonic 29 33 109 01 WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 30 31 249 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 31 24 59 01 LET IT BE The Beatles 32 30 372 01 1989 Taylor Swift 33 29 72 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 34 26 180 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 35 43 352 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 36 32 04 08 BETWEEN US Little Mix 37 05 02 05 FAMILY TIES ChillinIT 38 34 141 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 39 44 195 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 40 39 235 16 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 41 NE 01 41 NO ONE GETS LOST ANYMORE The Smith Street Band 42 53 03 28 HAPPY TOGETHER Andre Rieu & Johanna Strauss Orchestra 43 40 307 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 44 36 52 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 45 37 120 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 46 63 48 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 47 38 07 01 SURRENDER Rüfüs du Sol 48 54 75 01 SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOON Pop Smoke 49 52 441 02 THE BEST OF: ALL FOR YOU Cold Chisel 50 51 169 06 DON'T SMILE AT ME Billie Eilish With Spotify Wrapped and Christmas shenanigans, this week's chart is so algorithmically driven as to be autonomous, which in the event of a close top 10, means that tragically Australia is being made to post cringe again. We'll probably be stuck like this until Mariah Carey claims #1 for the 4th year in a row. Two things I will note about Christmas stuff this year, firstly that Michael Buble has seemingly charged ahead of Wham! which is atypical, while Brenda Lee is charting higher than usual purely because she no longer has her streams split on Spotify so ARIA is actually counting it correctly...or at least it appears to be, as she's still quite low all things considered, so maybe Apple streams aren't counting. In ARIA getting things right, Lost Frequencies finally arrives for both his and Calum Scott's 3rd top 50 hits, it just took about 6 weeks to finally get the tick of approval. Arriving higher is SZA who may have to wait until January to really get going though she's doing well so far. Ed Sheeran & Elton John are largely being carried by sales without much in the way of streaming, but that might increase enough next week to offset the sales dip. Oh and someone called Emmy Meli is in the top 50 for the first time. Adele holds the top album slot as she is known to do. She'll need another 5 weeks to match "25"'s reign. This week's big new entry comes from an album of bird calls, comprised of 53 of our most threatened species. Below that is a live Teskey Brothers album, a surprisingly acknowledged re-issue for Polo G, and a 10th anniversary re-issue of The Smith Street Band's first album, which seems to be the common route to getting bands' back catalogues onto the chart for the first time now.

+5 Adele - Oh My God +4 Ed Sheeran - Overpass Graffiti +3 Adele - Easy On Me +2 Taylor Swift - All Too Well (Taylor's Version) +1 D-Block Europe - Overseas (I've finally heard a DBE song!) -1 Adele - I Drink Wine -2 Kyle Gibson - Seventeen Going Under -3 Ed Sheeran - Shivers -4 ArrDee - Flowers (Say My Name) -5 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits

Or for that matter, the most famous "All Fired Up" :heehee: (though curiously The Saturdays have a barely over 0.1% margin on Spotify against Pat Benatar :P)

06/12/2021 Singles 01 01 07 01 EASY ON ME Adele 02 03 16 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 03 04 21 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 04 17 02 04 ABCDEFU Gayle 05 05 12 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 06 07 23 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 07 02 03 01 ALL TOO WELL (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 08 08 68 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 09 09 19 04 INDUSTRY BABY Lil Nas X feat. Jack Harlow 10 06 02 06 OH MY GOD Adele 11 16 04 11 DO IT TO IT Acraze feat. Cherish 12 12 10 11 GHOST Justin Bieber 13 14 04 09 ONE RIGHT NOW Post Malone & The Weeknd 14 13 04 08 SMOKIN' OUT THE WINDOW Silk Sonic 15 19 11 07 THAT'S WHAT I WANT Lil Nas X 16 22 29 01 GOOD 4 U Olivia Rodrigo 17 20 12 08 MEET ME AT OUR SPOT The Anxiety 18 76 50 01 ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey 19 23 05 16 BETTER DAYS NEIKED & Mae Muller feat. Polo G 20 35 03 20 ENEMY Imagine Dragons, JID & League of Legends 21 24 18 03 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 22 27 34 02 KISS ME MORE Doja Cat feat. SZA 23 29 05 08 OVERPASS GRAFFITI Ed Sheeran 24 30 60 04 LEVITATING Dua Lipa 25 28 24 03 BEGGIN' Måneskin 26 26 11 08 LOVE NWANTITI (AH AH AH) CKay 27 34 10 07 MY UNIVERSE Coldplay and BTS 28 32 47 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 29 36 06 08 MOTH TO A FLAME Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd 30 37 14 16 WOMAN Doja Cat 31 38 36 01 MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) Lil Nas X 32 39 28 14 MISSING PIECE Vance Joy 33 44 08 30 ACAPULCO Jason Derulo 34 42 20 16 DREAMS Jolyon Petch 35 RE 12 04 IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS Michael Buble 36 10 02 10 I DRINK WINE Adele 37 40 105 01 BLINDING LIGHTS The Weeknd 38 41 20 22 LOVE TONIGHT Shouse 39 11 02 11 MY LITTLE LOVE Adele 40 15 02 15 CAN I GET IT Adele 41 RE 43 02 LAST CHRISTMAS Wham! 42 43 25 09 NEED TO KNOW Doja Cat 43 45 73 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 44 47 52 01 WITHOUT YOU The Kid Laroi 45 48 21 13 2055 Sleepy Hallow 46 51 13 24 A-O-K Tai Verdes 47 53 18 42 FANCY LIKE Walker Hayes 48 60 10 31 OUT OUT Joel Corry, Jax Jones, Charli XCX & Saweetie 49 62 03 49 FLOWERS (SAY MY NAME) ArrDee 50 57 75 29 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers Albums 01 01 02 01 30 Adele 02 04 05 01 = Ed Sheeran 03 03 03 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 04 05 04 01 VOYAGE ABBA 05 NE 01 05 FAMILY TIES ChillinIT 06 02 02 02 PAUL KELLY'S CHRISTMAS TRAIN Paul Kelly 07 08 28 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 08 40 91 01 CHRISTMAS Michael Buble 09 09 23 02 PLANET HER Doja Cat 10 07 282 01 25 Adele 11 16 103 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 12 20 310 02 NEVERMIND Nirvana 13 12 37 01 JUSTICE Justin Bieber 14 14 88 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 15 17 43 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 16 RE 14 16 RINGSIDE Cold Chisel 17 11 03 04 AN EVENING WITH SILK SONIC Silk Sonic 18 10 420 01 21 Adele 19 18 02 18 RAISE THE ROOF Robert Plant & Alison Krauss 20 15 13 01 CERTIFIED LOVER BOY Drake 21 21 18 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 22 19 71 01 F*CK LOVE The Kid Laroi 23 30 31 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 24 100 59 01 LET IT BE The Beatles 25 06 02 06 THE LEGENDARY 1979 NO NUKES CONCERTS Bruce Springsteen 26 49 179 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 27 31 182 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 28 22 11 01 MONTERO Lil Nas X 29 26 71 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 30 25 371 01 1989 Taylor Swift 31 24 248 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 32 23 03 08 BETWEEN US Little Mix 33 32 108 01 WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 34 36 140 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 35 78 68 02 MERRY CHRISTMAS Mariah Carey 36 42 51 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 37 37 119 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 38 27 06 01 SURRENDER Rüfüs du Sol 39 33 234 16 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 40 38 306 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 41 97 437 02 GREATEST HITS Queen 42 13 09 02 ONLY SANTA KNOWS Delta Goodrem 43 39 351 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 44 41 194 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 45 69 02 45 THE STARS BENEATH MY FEET (2004 - 2021) James Blunt 46 45 06 02 THE LOCKDOWN SESSIONS Elton John 47 55 163 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Queen / Soundtrack 48 35 14 01 DONDA Kanye West 49 75 173 04 BACK TO BLACK Amy Winehouse 50 46 484 01 THE VERY BEST INXS I'm not going to pretend that December/January charts are remotely interesting but here we are. Adele gets a 4th week at #1 or perhaps befitting of 2021, a second 2 week reign at #1. She should maintain it next week although afterwards it's hard to say. GAYLE storms into the top 5 no less prior to being yanked back down by the forces of Spotify Wrapped. Our typical Christmas affair begins as we try and work out which songs will be let onto the chart and when. Oddly it seems that "Santa Tell Me" is missing from the chart, but stuff like this will be more apparent next week. It seems even ARIA don't care enough to write midweeks anymore. I also must apologise to all the people who might recall me mentioning that ArrDee's "Flowers" wasn't doing anything in Australia because I had somehow glazed over it. Anyway Sweet Female Attitude never charted here of course so make of that what you will. This is ArrDee's first proper credited entry in the top 50 if you're a stickler for that. Adele is #1 again of course on the album chart. The only new arrival we get is from Chillinit who of course last week was also arrested for not wearing a mask in a shopping centre. James Blunt also climbs into the top 50 after debuting below it last week.

Charting in the past shouldn't be a pre-requisite, the charts themselves iterate on people discovering/listening to music over time. Not to mention there are massive swathes of people not even born in 1957 who see Jingle Bell Rock as a staple via its inclusion in Home Alone 2, Mean Girls or perhaps even playlists of past Christmases! Who are we to judge?

To be fair, looking at the current charts to credit long running TikTok hits as proof of concept is very plane with red dots on it I don't know about the UK Chart as well but I know on the AU chart in the past few months, stuff like Everybody Talks, Everybody Dies In Their Nightmares, Loverboy, Strange, Collard Greens, Teenagers have popped onto the Spotify chart for a few weeks at most before vanishing into the ether. I'm expecting the same of I Love You So & Notion which just arrived too.

I feel like locking in a new position at the end of this Christmas season is highly unlikely just because last year's chart that started with Friday on Dec 25th was enough to keep her at #2, whereas this year's equivalent chart starts on Dec 24th, giving the two biggest days together which is likely enough to beat any non-Christmas song.

Oh that doesn't surprise me but we're talking about how known songs are which doesn't necessarily correlate to how much people go out of their way to listen to them, very different situations! I'll also say regarding Mr. Brightside that it has very little notable traction outside of countries where English is the only official language. It never even cracks the global top 100 on Spotify because UK/US/AU/CA/NZ/IE can only do so much.

I think it's important to note that music as an interest is *relatively* niche compared to things like sports, film & such. Which is to say that there are probably TV Themes that could make a good shout though I would be just chipping in with my age if I could decide the best suggestion there. Or it could just be something like Macarena idk. Edit: Also there are a lot of extremely famous classical compositions that make the best shout for 'everyone has heard this but doesn't necessarily know what it's called'

#7, #9 & #10 I think. This week was actually its first ever at #3.

+5 Ed Sheeran - Overpass Graffiti +4 Adele - Easy On Me +3 Taylor Swift - All Too Well (Taylor's Version) +2 CKay - love nwantiti (ah ah ah) +1 Johnny Football Hero - Seventeen Going Under -1 Ed Sheeran - Shivers -2 ArrDee - Flowers (Say My Name) -3 SwitchOTR - Coming For You -4 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits -5 Just realised I left the tab open for like 7 hours because I couldn't think of a fun way to deride the song

29/11/2021 Singles 01 02 06 01 EASY ON ME Adele 02 01 02 01 ALL TOO WELL (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 03 03 15 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 04 04 20 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 05 05 11 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 06 NE 01 06 OH MY GOD Adele 07 06 22 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 08 07 67 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 09 09 18 04 INDUSTRY BABY Lil Nas X feat. Jack Harlow 10 NE 01 10 I DRINK WINE Adele 11 NE 01 11 MY LITTLE LOVE Adele 12 11 09 11 GHOST Justin Bieber 13 08 03 08 SMOKIN' OUT THE WINDOW Silk Sonic 14 10 03 09 ONE RIGHT NOW Post Malone & The Weeknd 15 NE 01 15 CAN I GET IT Adele 16 39 03 16 DO IT TO IT Acraze feat. Cherish 17 NE 01 17 ABCDEFU Gayle 18 NE 01 18 STRANGERS BY NATURE Adele 19 14 10 07 THAT'S WHAT I WANT Lil Nas X 20 13 11 08 MEET ME AT OUR SPOT The Anxiety 21 NE 01 21 CRY YOUR HEART OUT Adele 22 17 28 01 GOOD 4 U Olivia Rodrigo 23 16 04 16 BETTER DAYS NEIKED & Mae Muller feat. Polo G 24 15 17 03 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 25 NE 01 25 TO BE LOVED Adele 26 18 10 08 LOVE NWANTITI (AH AH AH) CKay 27 23 33 02 KISS ME MORE Doja Cat feat. SZA 28 20 23 03 BEGGIN' Måneskin 29 22 04 08 OVERPASS GRAFFITI Ed Sheeran 30 24 59 04 LEVITATING Dua Lipa 31 NE 01 31 HOLD ON Adele 32 30 46 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 33 NE 01 33 ALL NIGHT PARKING Adele & Errol Garner 34 28 09 07 MY UNIVERSE Coldplay and BTS 35 85 02 35 ENEMY Imagine Dragons, JID & League Of Legends 36 26 05 08 MOTH TO A FLAME Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd 37 32 13 16 WOMAN Doja Cat 38 36 35 01 MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) Lil Nas X 39 35 27 14 MISSING PIECE Vance Joy 40 40 104 01 BLINDING LIGHTS The Weeknd 41 42 19 22 LOVE TONIGHT Shouse 42 44 19 16 DREAMS Jolyon Petch 43 37 24 09 NEED TO KNOW Doja Cat 44 46 07 30 ACAPULCO Jason Derulo 45 47 72 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 46 87 91 03 ROLLING IN THE DEEP Adele 47 52 51 01 WITHOUT YOU The Kid LAROI with Miley Cyrus 48 51 20 13 2055 SLEEPY HALLOW 49 19 02 19 RUN (TAYLOR'S VERSION) (FROM THE VAULT) Taylor Swift feat. Ed Sheeran 50 NE 01 50 ENCHANTED Taylor Swift Albums 01 NE 01 01 30 Adele 02 NE 01 02 PAUL KELLY'S CHRISTMAS TRAIN Paul Kelly 03 01 02 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 04 03 04 01 = Ed Sheeran 05 02 03 01 VOYAGE ABBA 06 NE 01 06 THE LEGENDARY 1979 NO NUKES CONCERTS Bruce Springsteen 07 11 281 01 25 Adele 08 09 27 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 09 10 22 02 PLANET HER Doja Cat 10 23 419 01 21 Adele 11 04 02 04 AN EVENING WITH SILK SONIC Silk Sonic 12 14 36 01 JUSTICE Justin Bieber 13 RE 08 02 ONLY SANTA KNOWS Delta Goodrem 14 15 87 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 15 12 12 01 CERTIFIED LOVER BOY Drake 16 19 102 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 17 16 42 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 18 NE 01 18 RAISE THE ROOF Robert Plant & Alison Krauss 19 17 70 01 F*CK LOVE The Kid Laroi 20 13 309 02 NEVERMIND Nirvana 21 20 17 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 22 22 10 01 MONTERO Lil Nas X 23 08 02 08 BETWEEN US Little Mix 24 27 247 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 25 25 370 01 1989 Taylor Swift 26 24 70 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 27 21 05 01 SURRENDER Rüfüs du Sol 28 NE 01 28 HAPPY TOGETHER Andre Rieu & Johann Strauss Orchestra 29 69 136 03 19 Adele 30 18 30 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 31 30 181 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 32 29 107 01 WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 33 33 233 16 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 34 NE 01 34 NOT SO TOUGH NOW Frenzal Rhomb 35 31 13 01 DONDA Kanye West 36 34 139 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 37 28 118 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 38 36 305 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 39 35 350 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 40 RE 81 01 CHRISTMAS Michael Buble 41 37 193 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 42 40 50 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 43 39 02 39 THE TEARS OF HERCULES Rod Stewart 44 RE 04 03 SCALED AND ICY Twenty One Pilots 45 38 05 02 THE LOCKDOWN SESSIONS Elton John 46 41 483 01 THE VERY BEST INXS 47 42 73 01 SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOON Pop Smoke 48 44 288 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 49 52 178 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 50 48 06 01 MUSIC OF THE SPHERES Coldplay Adele returns for her 3rd week at #1. She's definitely solid for next week although it does seem that she's likely to succumb to her prior equilibrium, which is an unnecessarily wordy way to say she'll go back to moving the units she was before the album came out which probably isn't enough for #1. Adele also has the lion's share of new entries this week, including two in the top 10. This gives her the rare feat of having 3 top 10 singles and albums at the same time which hasn't been done since Ed Sheeran did it back in 2017. It also allows me to point out ARIA Shenanigans™, as eagle-eyed viewers might note that Adele has merely 9 debuts this week, with "Woman Like Me" and "Love Is A Game" missing. I think they'd probably have made the top 50 but not quite top 40 with the rest of the album. We'll never know why they're missing though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. The other proper debut this week is from GAYLE who is showing some serious Arizona Zervas energy by vaulting up the chart at rapid speed near the end of the year, and continues to introduce a world where globally charting artists have Twitter follower counts in a similar ballpark to me, though in her defence it is slightly difficult to find her. Perhaps her handle suggests she'll be appearing on Jeopardy! soon. "abcdefu" will probably climb into the top 10 next week. Imagine Dragons climb into the top 50 to score their biggest hit in ages with "Enemy". It's the first time in the chart for JID and shockingly also the first time for the intangible entity of League of Legends. A few months back Angus & Julia Stone got the first ever video game soundtrack into the chart, and now League is the first ever video game to have a hit single, unless there's some dumb other technicality you can think of. The best I had is that Celeste is the name of a (very good) video game and Daphne & Celeste had some hits back in the day. The other improper debut is from Taylor Swift whose "Enchanted" has been curiously missing from the chart for weeks but now is allowed in and just squeaks into the top 50 but is certainly on its way out. Of note, apart from "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)", her only debut to last in the top 50 is the Ed Sheeran collab solely because it's the one that's on Hot Hits Australia. As well as there being songs missing from the chart which does not just include Adele, but also "SAD GIRLZ LUV MONEY" and "Where Are You Now", the latter is actually the top track on HHA, the second time this year that it's been a song ARIA aren't counting. HHA added "The Thrill" back in March. It's now December and it's still on there. ON THE TOPIC OF SUSPICIOUSLY ASTROTURFED HITS, you've probably noticed for the past 4 months that there's been a cover of "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac on the chart here. It coinciding with the presence of actual "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac is a mark against its need to be here, and in fact it was pretty much set to get overtaken by the original article pretty soon, although it's now seeing a boost of inauspicious activity. Last week was the ARIA Awards which for the first time in decades wasn't actually broadcast on TV but just on YouTube, which I probably would've watched if I didn't just happen to be out for the exact time slot that it was being aired. Congrats go out to Genesis Owusu for dominating the awards though. Anyway, that cover of "Dreams" was nominated for Best Dance Release which if we're looking for silver linings, means that at least it won't be nominated for Song Of The Year in 2022 because it 100% would have otherwise because we have the dumbest system in place. It didn't win the award (shout out to ya bois RÜFÜS DU SOL), but it generated controversy in the sidelines. As I noted when it entered the top 50, the vocalist on the track is Reigan Derry, who is probably familiar to you if you've been invested in Australian reality TV singing competitions in the past decade and a half, or for that matter the charts as she's had several top 50 hits over the years, though nothing with the sustained success (via playlists & radio spam lol) of "Dreams". Since she's not credited on the track, nor on any of the metadata, she's been unable to see any profit on this windfall. This all boils down to Jolyon being kind of an arsehole regarding residuals but also seemingly releasing the song through his label without her permission (the vocal track was merely a demo). When she tried to reach out to him about amending things, he blocked her on social media and proceeded to avoid mentioning her in interviews. Apparently all of this bureaucracy also meant that she wasn't even able to attend the ARIA Awards because she technically hadn't been nominated (sidebar: in general acting like an artist didn't have a hit song because they're not credited, whether on official metadata or the OCC is pretty shitty). There's been some back & forth on social media however the posts have now been deleted, and Jolyon has privated his instagram account and seemingly deleted his Twitter account, so I don't know where any of this is going but I really just want to point out the surprisingly slimy underbelly of a made-for-radio cash in on a TikTok with "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac from a year ago. On the album chart, Adele has her 3rd #1 album. One should probably not even pretend to be shocked by that. Doing so, she bests Australian music royalty Paul Kelly, who lately seems to be putting out a new album pretty much every year. This latest one is a Christmas album which includes newly written songs among a multitude of covers. It also of course features a new version of Australia's only noteworthy Christmas canon "How To Make Gravy" (I assume because "Hey Santa Claus" isn't ever going to end up on playlists), because how could it possibly be a Paul Kelly Christmas album without it. Bruce Springsteen reaches the top 10 with a live album. Plant & Krauss are back again at last and chart much higher than their first album together, which briefly reached the top 50 after its big Grammy win in 2009. Speaking of the late 2000s, Andre Rieu is back on the charts. In the world of vinyl re-releases and the like we have a return for twenty one pilots (and I guess Michael Buble also technically counts but that's not why he's here), and a debut for Frenzal Rhomb's second album from 1996 which unlike Adele's new album, debuts with a gold certification. Notably it's the only album I've ever known to have 35 secret tracks.

I think what you'll see over time is that the streaming demographic is slowly skewing older and older, over time more and more old songs are becoming seemingly permanent staples and only a select few new hits last the distance. As for Spice Girls vs. Little Mix, I don't think we can use bestowed reverence as a yardstick. The charts have always favoured all manner of random material that's merely a time capsule in hindsight, while classics can go through with monster sales or also minute sales. The charts are there to tell us what people are actually buying/listening to as an exact yardstick. You can spend all day mentally admiring Adele's new album but unless you're actively buying/listening to it, that's none of the chart's business. If there is a problem to be had with streaming it's that it's strongly influenced by what has found its way into people's personal playlists to get repeated plays, but at the end of the day, they are listening to that material over material that's not playlisted, and that's what the chart's here to tell us. But still you have to look at the *really* long term. Shape Of You is just shy of 5 years old, Bohemian Rhapsody is over 45 years old, and yet today on Spotify they posted roughly the same number on the global chart. I hate to subscribe to the ultra-boomer take of 'music that's still remembered half a century later is good music'*, but either Shape Of You is going to fall to the wayside and drop its margin over Queen every day for the rest of time until they trade ranks, or it'll stay above them and at some point we just have to say that its position is justified by its extended popularity (mind you Blinding Lights will probably be #1 on Spotify in early 2023). *Or for that matter, insinuating that my own childhood nostalgia invalidates that of someone younger than me, who may well be seeing recent releases as the most important music in their life, and '90s/'00s/etc music is just crappy old music.

Then we could use the technicality that the midweeks cover those extra 3 days after 104 weeks that makes it to 2 years :heehee:

Is there a valid problem with songs accumulating huge sales numbers that doesn't boil down to 'I'm mad because old music better'? If anything streaming is the great equaliser because anything (that's available online) can accumulate these long term numbers and over time*, it's actually the older songs that set the insurmountable amounts because they're *always* gaining. Bohemian Rhapsody & Wonderwall are slowly ascending the ranks of the most streamed songs ever, and they're both multiple times as old as Spotify itself. *historical pure sales numbers are so often defined by the differing market strength of different eras as is

Did a thing. No childhood bias in theory :thinking:

If we really wanna go there, it's not 2 years until it's spent 105 weeks in the chart. 104 weeks is less than 2 years.

+5 Ed Sheeran - Overpass Graffiti +4 Adele - Easy On Me +3 THE ANXIETY - Meet Me At Our Spot +2 CKay - love nwantiti (ah ah ah) +1 Central Cee - Obsessed With You -1 Ed Sheeran - Shivers -2 ArrDee - Flowers (Say My Name) -3 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits -4 apparently the cold heart is mine -5 'ass glanimals'

22/11/2021 Singles 01 NE 01 01 ALL TOO WELL (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 02 02 05 01 EASY ON ME Adele 03 01 14 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 04 03 19 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 05 04 10 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 06 05 21 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 07 06 66 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 08 34 02 08 SMOKIN' OUT THE WINDOW Silk Sonic 09 07 17 04 INDUSTRY BABY Lil Nas X feat. Jack Harlow 10 09 02 09 ONE RIGHT NOW Post Malone & The Weeknd 11 12 08 11 GHOST Justin Bieber 12 NE 01 12 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 13 08 10 08 MEET ME AT OUR SPOT The Anxiety 14 10 09 07 THAT'S WHAT I WANT Lil Nas X 15 11 16 03 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 16 16 03 16 BETTER DAYS NEIKED & Mae Muller feat. Polo G 17 14 27 01 GOOD 4 U Olivia Rodrigo 18 15 09 08 LOVE NWANTITI (AH AH AH) CKay 19 NE 01 19 RUN (TAYLOR'S VERSION) (FROM THE VAULT) Taylor Swift feat. Ed Sheeran 20 18 22 03 BEGGIN' Måneskin 21 NE 01 21 I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 22 13 03 08 OVERPASS GRAFFITI Ed Sheeran 23 19 32 02 KISS ME MORE Doja Cat feat. SZA 24 17 58 04 LEVITATING Dua Lipa 25 NE 01 25 STATE OF GRACE (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 26 20 04 08 MOTH TO A FLAME Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd 27 NE 01 27 22 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 28 21 08 07 MY UNIVERSE Coldplay and BTS 29 NE 01 29 ALREADY DEAD Juice WRLD 30 23 45 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 31 NE 01 31 NOTHING NEW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) (FROM THE VAULT) Taylor Swift feat. Phoebe Bridgers 32 24 12 16 WOMAN Doja Cat 33 NE 01 33 MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE (TAYLOR'S VERSION) (FROM THE VAULT) Taylor Swift 34 NE 01 34 WE ARE NEVER EVER GETTING BACK TOGETHER (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 35 25 26 14 MISSING PIECE Vance Joy 36 26 34 01 MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) Lil Nas X 37 27 23 09 NEED TO KNOW Doja Cat 38 NE 01 38 TREACHEROUS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 39 53 02 39 DO IT TO IT Acraze feat. Cherish 40 31 103 01 BLINDING LIGHTS The Weeknd 41 105 26 10 LEAVE THE DOOR OPEN Silk Sonic 42 32 18 22 LOVE TONIGHT Shouse 43 NE 01 43 I BET YOU THINK ABOUT ME (TAYLOR'S VERSION) (FROM THE VAULT) Taylor Swift feat. Chris Stapleton 44 28 18 16 DREAMS Jolyon Petch 45 NE 01 45 I ALMOST DO (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 46 30 6 30 ACAPULCO Jason Derulo 47 35 71 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 48 NE 01 48 BAD MAN (SMOOTH CRIMINAL) Polo G 49 33 11 13 KNIFE TALK Drake with 21 Savage & Project Pat 50 29 11 24 A-O-K Tai Verdes Albums 01 NE 01 01 RED (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 02 01 02 01 VOYAGE ABBA 03 02 03 01 = Ed Sheeran 04 NE 01 04 AN EVENING WITH SILK SONIC Silk Sonic 05 NE 01 05 THINGS TAKE TIME, TAKE TIME Courtney Barnett 06 NE 01 06 FOREVER Flight Facilities 07 RE 11 01 DISCO Kylie Minogue 08 NE 01 08 BETWEEN US Little Mix 09 05 26 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 10 04 21 02 PLANET HER Doja Cat 11 13 280 01 25 Adele 12 06 11 01 CERTIFIED LOVER BOY Drake 13 64 308 02 NEVERMIND Nirvana 14 09 35 01 JUSTICE Justin Bieber 15 08 86 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 16 11 41 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 17 14 69 01 F*CK LOVE The Kid Laroi 18 42 29 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 19 16 101 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 20 12 16 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 21 07 04 01 SURRENDER Rüfüs du Sol 22 15 09 01 MONTERO Lil Nas X 23 28 418 01 21 Adele 24 25 69 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 25 31 369 01 1989 Taylor Swift 26 NE 01 26 CRAWLER Idles 27 19 246 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 28 36 117 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 29 29 106 01 WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 30 20 180 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 31 27 12 01 DONDA Kanye West 32 RE 48 02 THE WOMBATS PROUDLY PRESENT… THIS MODERN GLITCH The Wombats 33 23 232 16 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 34 24 138 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 35 21 349 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 36 32 304 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 37 37 192 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 38 10 04 02 THE LOCKDOWN SESSIONS Elton John 39 NE 01 39 THE TEARS OF HERCULES Rod Stewart 40 38 49 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 41 53 482 01 THE VERY BEST INXS 42 39 72 01 SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOON Pop Smoke 43 48 210 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 44 45 287 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 45 41 131 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 46 43 161 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Queen / Soundtrack 47 46 207 08 DUA LIPA Dua Lipa 48 33 05 01 MUSIC OF THE SPHERES Coldplay 49 44 45 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 50 51 264 02 DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS Bruno Mars This week Taylor Swift scores her 8th #1 single. This has been pretty par the course of late as she scored two #1 hits last year. Though the long term is uncertain, it looks like "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)" will have a better second week than either "cardigan" or "willow" and might only drop to #2 next week. Adele was initially looking like going back to #1 last week but she'll probably do it for real next week alongside her new album. Elsewhere this week Silk Sonic climb into the top 10 with "Smokin Out The Window". "Leave The Door Open" actually only got to #10 so this is a new high for the duo (though Anderson .Paak still has the cursed fact that his highest chart entry is still Macklemore's "Dance Off"). Taylor Swift takes over the chart otherwise this week except that's the funny thing. Last week I said that they may have bungled things as the vast majority of her debuts (including "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)") weren't even on the midweeks. This was largely fixed up but not quite because I still think there are a couple missing in the top 50. This week Taylor Swift scores her 9th #1 album. This has been pretty par the course of late as she scored two #1 albums last year. She leads up a pretty busy top 10 for debuts. Silk Sonic debut at #4, relatively low for Bruno Mars but relatively high for Anderson .Paak. Courtney Barnett returns to score her 4th top 5 album, and ever the slow gestators, Flight Facilities (aka the source of my avatar, aka the source of Australians have very different opinions on "Clair de lune" to you) return with their 2nd album which lands a little lower than their hit-laden debut. Kylie Minogue returns thanks to the new versions of "DISCO" out last week and Little Mix impressively maintain their top 10 streak despite being further and further out from the last time they actually had a hit here (apart from "Heartbreak Anthem"). IDLES last year scored a top 10 album though this time their new album which I admit I didn't even know was coming until the day it dropped lands at #26. The Wombats issued a 10th anniversary album of their 2nd album, which is the album that started the era in which they were undeniably more popular in Australia than in the UK, Australia just really bloody loved this and the next Wombats albums. Next week Adele will arrive at the #1 spot. I don't know what else will even make the top 50, maybe James Blunt. (Note to self: drag Jolyon Petch next week)

Contextually it makes sense though, Billboard's formula gives strong weight to sales that (especially in the US) have big first week hype numbers. And then on the chart itself, it was tipping over to December with heaps of Christmas songs overtaking it, Spotify Wrapped coming out that week to gear focus away from new hits, and tragically it was also the week Juice WRLD passed away and he had several songs climb ahead. If he put out the song a month back, it probably would've been a more gentle decline. There was a solid 2 months of 'this is obviously a hit but radio isn't letting it happen' of course, because why give even the illusion of free will on the charts :bounce:

Problem with implementing it is that it'll probably make an even bigger mess since most people probably don't actively seek out the most apropos album to stream tracks from. They'll just search it and add the first result that comes up no matter how random it is, either sticking with it forever (by adding it to their own personal playlist), or be subject to whatever fluctuations the algorithm decides for future listens. For instance, I just searched up "Lose Yourself" and the first result was neither Curtain Call nor the 8 Mile soundtrack, but the 2014 Shady Records compilation album, and I believe in the past it's also often come up with the "Just Lose It" single which in either case is just the same as not counting the song at all. Maybe to some this is a more just chart that puts cherry picking into perspective but I think it'd just make the chart impossible to interpret and meaningless (...more so).

Fair. It doesn't really specify that they combine both rates for the album chart so I can't feel certain on it (it seems pretty out of character/illogical to change it solely for that purpose?). Either way though the actual numbers aren't really the point of my post from before, but cheers for the clarification.

Is there any documentation on this? Not necessarily doubting but it's the first I've heard of it, what with chart companies being notoriously coy about explaining their methodologies properly and making it easy to find.