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

I reckon that aside from cases like LadBaby and the like, this is one of the more extreme margins in terms of pure sales so that's definitely contributing to it.

+5 RAYE & 070 Shake - Escapism. +4 SZA - Kill Bill +3 Miguel - Sure Thing +2 Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage - Creepin' +1 Tiesto & Tate McRae - 10:35 -1 Rema & Selena Gomez - Calm Down -2 Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero -3 Miley Cyrus - Flowers -4 venbee & goddard. - messy in heaven -5 PinkPantheress - Boy's a liar (don't hate it but it's a strong top 10 and probably it's my least favourite PinkPantheress song anyway :/)

"ceilings" also slightly older than "Green Green Grass" :lol: Have to imagine they make the switch before Friday though, the Spotify gap which is all the more important in completing the week's data is still widening.

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

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

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

Means that it's up to 1 week of declining, 3 in a row means it hits ACR

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

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

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

It's actually the most likely permutation when it gets down to it. The top 3 is a good example of how this can come to be. Even ignoring that "Flowers" has been way ahead for weeks now, why should "Escapism.", the song it dethroned (more or less, don't @ me) have any reason to get back ahead of it. Similarly, how should "Kill Bill" suddenly overtake "Escapism." with so much ground to make up and no reason to suddenly do so. If you think 'oh, there should be another new smash hit by now', then that's a different story but in any case, you can use this distant top 3 as a means to rationalise any further stagnation lower down the chart, just smaller versions of the same situation. I do think on the whole though, whenever a big #1 smash tears through the gates, this sort of situation is more likely to happen, not just because one position of the chart is fairly locked up, but because it dominates the conversation and gives less reason for labels to try to make a push for a less obtainable top spot.

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

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

Lizzyyyyyyyyyy! :wub:

Just here to be the person who types 'Lizzy!' with a bunch of y's because 2022 me is still reeling trying to process all this.

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

*incoherent grumbles about superior single version being deleted from DSPs* P!nk actually climbed in Australia today but that might be her tour announcement offsetting things

The fact that RAYE is independent kind of validates her doing whatever she's doing, the deck is so stacked against you from the outset (and she's already had a week at #1 taken away by a more egregious major label artist this year!)

+5 RAYE & 070 Shake - Escapism. +4 SZA - Kill Bill +3 Headie One - Martin's Sofa +2 Miguel - Sure Thing +1 Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage - Creepin' -1 Rema & Selena Gomez - Calm Down -2 Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero -3 Miley Cyrus - Flowers -4 venbee & goddard. - messy in heaven -5 Central Cee - LET GO really solid top 10

I'm just glad there's only one subsidiary label that's done anything paramount to being cancelled, otherwise it'd be a lot harder to listen to music!

Yeah interesting shout! I don't think I realised until now that its huge success was exclusive to Australia* so it looks largely glossed over as a lesser hit on the back end of her Greatest Hits, but for me it's definitely one of her most recognisable songs. *Well US success is complicated because country hits weren't properly counted in the '90s and it wasn't until she started deliberately making pop crossover versions that she was properly represented on the Hot 100.

Incumbent P!nk album, still at #1 on week 4. I'd guess "Love Again" would be higher if Hot Hits Australia weren't a little slow to adding it (though Australia in general always feels a couple days behind the pace on new releases). And I guess maybe if ARIA had ACR he could be close to the top 5 :lol:

06/02/2023 Singles 01 01 03 01 FLOWERS Miley Cyrus 02 02 08 01 KILL BILL SZA 03 03 09 03 ESCAPISM. RAYE feat. 070 Shake 04 RE 20 04 SAY NOTHING Flume feat. MAY-A 05 04 19 01 UNHOLY Sam Smith feat. Kim Petras 06 05 15 01 ANTI-HERO Taylor Swift 07 06 17 04 MISS YOU Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz 08 17 24 04 B.O.T.A. (BADDEST OF THEM ALL) Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal 09 07 09 07 CREEPIN' Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage 10 10 15 03 MADE YOU LOOK Meghan Trainor 11 08 35 02 I AIN'T WORRIED OneRepublic 12 09 23 01 I'M GOOD (BLUE) David Guetta feat. Bebe Rexha 13 21 30 03 BAD HABIT Steve Lacy 14 NE 01 14 LOVE AGAIN The Kid Laroi 15 11 44 01 AS IT WAS Harry Styles 16 14 24 12 UNTIL I FOUND YOU Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold 17 15 02 15 SURE THING Miguel 18 13 09 13 10:35 Tiësto & Tate McRae 19 12 07 11 LET GO Central Cee 20 20 22 19 CALM DOWN Rema & Selena Gomez 21 26 25 08 CUFF IT Beyoncé 22 16 29 15 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 23 18 129 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 24 23 22 14 HOW DO I SAY GOODBYE Dean Lewis 25 25 13 03 RICH FLEX Drake & 21 Savage 26 19 77 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 27 31 82 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 28 24 35 08 SUNROOF Nicky Youre & dazy 29 27 24 11 2 BE LOVED (AM I READY) Lizzo 30 36 30 21 THE KIND OF LOVE WE MAKE Luke Combs 31 53 03 31 PLAYERS Coi Leray 32 48 40 03 ABOUT DAMN TIME Lizzo 33 30 22 29 GOLDEN HOUR JVKE 34 28 73 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 35 41 35 07 I LIKE YOU (A HAPPIER SONG) Post Malone feat. Doja Cat 36 29 38 21 ANOTHER LOVE Tom Odell 37 43 18 21 STAR WALKIN' Lil Nas X 38 33 22 29 FERRARI James Hype & Miggy Dela Rosa 39 46 04 39 THE COLOR VIOLET Tory Lanez 40 42 108 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 41 37 84 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 42 35 29 20 SNAP Rosa Linn 43 39 136 23 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 44 34 21 21 FORGET ME Lewis Capaldi 45 44 05 44 HERE WITH ME d4vd 46 49 27 38 DIE FOR YOU The Weeknd 47 38 26 19 AFRAID TO FEEL LF System 48 70 14 02 LAVENDER HAZE Taylor Swift 49 100 30 01 GLIMPSE OF US Joji 50 54 11 39 JUST WANNA ROCK Lil Uzi Vert Albums 01 NE 01 01 GLORIA Sam Smith 02 02 15 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 03 01 08 01 SOS SZA 04 03 104 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 05 38 32 01 HERE COMES EVERYBODY Spacey Jane 06 05 37 01 HARRY'S HOUSE Harry Styles 07 04 243 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 08 09 183 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 09 07 367 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 10 06 09 05 HEROES & VILLAINS Metro Boomin' 11 10 149 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 12 13 255 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 13 08 240 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 14 12 89 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 15 11 14 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 16 15 432 01 1989 Taylor Swift 17 14 169 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 18 16 295 14 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 19 18 309 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 20 17 164 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 21 19 26 02 CURTAIN CALL 2 Eminem 22 20 412 02 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 23 25 180 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 24 21 66 01 = Ed Sheeran 25 32 132 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 26 NE 01 26 FRAGMENTS - TIME OUT OF MIND SESSIONS (1996-1997): THE BOOTLEG SERIES Bob Dylan 27 26 201 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 28 24 32 02 GROWIN' UP Luke Combs 29 23 147 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 30 22 108 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 31 NE 01 31 DIAMONDS & DANCEFLOORS Ava Max 32 47 479 02 GREATEST HITS Red Hot Chili Peppers 33 28 13 02 HER LOSS Drake & 21 Savage 34 30 34 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 35 40 79 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 36 35 350 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 37 NE 01 37 LET'S START HERE. Lil Yachty 38 31 273 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 39 29 84 02 PLANET HER Doja Cat 40 34 194 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 41 33 262 01 THE EMINEM SHOW Eminem 42 56 176 01 HOLLYWOOD'S BLEEDING Post Malone 43 36 224 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 44 61 131 01 F*CK LOVE (OVER YOU) The Kid Laroi 45 44 15 36 STUDIO ALBUMS ABBA 46 43 135 01 SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOON Pop Smoke 47 39 212 23 GOOD KID, M.A.A.D. CITY Kendrick Lamar 48 41 133 01 CURRENTS Tame Impala 49 46 181 18 LIVE IN BUENOS AIRES Coldplay 50 42 270 08 DUA LIPA Dua Lipa Third week at #1 for "Flowers". When I said that it wasn't slowing down very much last week, that turned out to be the opposite of prescient because the song is tanking streams pretty hard lately. Not hard enough to threaten its position at all, but hey, maybe the End Of Year #1 Single isn't as wrapped up as it might have seemed. triple j's Hottest 100 happened a bit over a week ago and it's once again a great time to be Flume, who tends to have a visible benefit on the ARIA Chart from it on most years. He topped the poll back in 2016 but in what to me feels like the doldrums of playlist engineered charts of the time didn't have a drastic effect. His 2019 runner up "Rushing Back" actually got quite a bit higher and became a top 10 hit. That's happened again this year for "Say Nothing" which is now his 2nd highest charting single ever, behind #1 hit "Never Be Like You" of course. It's also the first Australian song to hit the top 10 in quite a bit of time, as we haven't seen one since "Glimpse Of Us" departed from those ranks about 5 months ago. We'll likely get another next week as The Kid LAROI looks to jump up with "Love Again", this week's highest debut. It's a good week for those particular consonant sounds too as we also have a top 50 debut for Coi Leray, who has never charted before. I don't know who needs to hear this but "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five is an absolute classic and worth hearing if it's eluded your life. The MC on the track, Melle Mel, scored a #1 hit here in 2015 with "Downtown". Sam Smith scores a second #1 album, and first to debut at pole position. We are assured chaos as Taylor Swift jumps back ahead of SZA and I couldn't tell you where they're gonna settle next week. If there's one thing to know about me it's that I'm an avid Hottest 100 nerd/historian/collector/whatnot. A funny thing happened this year because in addition to the first two singles polling last year, Spacey Jane picked up another 6 entries this year, all 8 coming from their second album. It was pretty clear to me that it actually was cheaper to just buy the whole album than cherry pick each individual entry. I'm not saying that anyone else did this but Spacey Jane don't quite crack the ARIA top 50 singles chart, and instead vault back into the top 5 of the albums chart. Elsewhere this week, Bob Dylan continues to chart with the Bootleg Series, almost reaching up to the point in time when they started. Ava Max hasn't really had any singles chart success lately outside of "The Motto" but she does manage to chart again with her 2nd album, having previously made the top 10 with her first. We've also got the return for legendary US prog rock act Lil Yachty, charting just 1 spot lower than their only other entry, "Lil Boat" from 2018. There's a climb for Red Hot Chili Peppers and re-entry for Post Malone, as a prelude to further action next week as they're currently touring together.

Was curious about this and looked into it. It does seem like that sort of mass music video watching peaked around 2018, just in the space of that year 13 different music videos hit 1 billion views. In 2022, not including "Baby Shark", the most viewed music video is one T-Series uploaded over a decade ago that's raking in a lot of views over time (esp. as India's YouTube presence continues to grow). But that video 'only' got 700 million views. The next highest is "Tití Me Preguntó" which might be closer to a billion if it had been out all year but still only gets a little over 600 million views in 2022. I wonder if it's just a case of music being usurped by other forms of media like TV/film which continue to get relatively easier to engage with while music is the same as always. I'd say it's people switching to audio platforms to listen to music but I'm not sure Apple/Spotify are showing significant growth lately?