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I have to assume it's a sample although Rita Ora featured on an entirely unrelated song called "R.I.P." a couple years ago so it wouldn't be the first #1 hit from the early 2010s to hold this ignoble distinction if so :lol:

Incredible that Adele can defy mathematics

In all fairness, it's not just Christmas music. Spotify Wrapped drops around the end of November and there's a general reminiscence around the year that was in December with publications putting out their Best of 2021 stuff too. People aren't really feasting for new music in December, not that much of it is generally released anyway.

I find it's a little varied, easier to notice the long lasting ones since they're ever-present :lol: For instance, Gym Class Heroes blew up with "Cupid's Chokehold" earlier this year but it was only about a month and a half in the sun before dropping off back to usual business pretty much everywhere. For what it's worth, "Seventeen Going Under" actually entered the Australian Spotify chart about a week ago, a first for Sam, and it quickly got into the top 50 before getting kicked out by Taylor Swift & Silk Sonic, but its diminished daily total suggests it might already be on the way out after just a few days.

15/11/2021 Singles 01 01 13 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 02 03 04 01 EASY ON ME Adele 03 05 18 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 04 02 09 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 05 04 20 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 06 06 65 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 07 07 16 04 INDUSTRY BABY Lil Nas X feat. Jack Harlow 08 10 09 08 MEET ME AT OUR SPOT The Anxiety 09 NE 01 09 ONE RIGHT NOW Post Malone & The Weeknd 10 09 08 07 THAT'S WHAT I WANT Lil Nas X 11 11 15 03 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 12 14 07 12 GHOST Justin Bieber 13 08 02 08 OVERPASS GRAFFITI Ed Sheeran 14 12 26 01 GOOD 4 U Olivia Rodrigo 15 13 08 08 LOVE NWANTITI (AH AH AH) CKay 16 20 02 16 BETTER DAYS NEIKED & Mae Muller feat. Polo G 17 17 57 01 LEVITATING Dua Lipa 18 16 21 03 BEGGIN' Måneskin 19 18 31 02 KISS ME MORE Doja Cat feat. SZA 20 15 03 08 MOTH TO A FLAME Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd 21 19 07 07 MY UNIVERSE Coldplay and BTS 22 NE 01 22 ESCAPE PLAN Travis Scott 23 21 44 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 24 23 11 16 WOMAN Doja Cat 25 25 25 14 MISSING PIECE Vance Joy 26 22 33 01 MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) Lil Nas X 27 24 22 09 NEED TO KNOW Doja Cat 28 26 17 16 DREAMS Jolyon Petch 29 27 10 24 A-O-K Tai Verdes 30 35 05 30 ACAPULCO Jason Derulo 31 28 102 01 BLINDING LIGHTS The Weeknd 32 30 17 22 LOVE TONIGHT Shouse 33 33 10 13 KNIFE TALK Drake with 21 Savage & Project Pat 34 NE 01 34 SMOKIN OUT THE WINDOW Silk Sonic 35 36 70 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 36 37 18 13 2055 Sleepy Hallow 37 32 24 26 LEAVE BEFORE YOU LOVE ME Marshmello feat. Jonas Brothers 38 40 49 01 WITHOUT YOU The Kid Laroi 39 34 07 31 OUT OUT Joel Corry, Jax Jones, Charli XCX & Saweetie 40 38 14 09 TAKE MY BREATH The Weeknd 41 39 10 07 WAY 2 SEXY Drake with Future & Young Thug 42 45 15 42 FANCY LIKE Walker Hayes 43 42 25 16 LITTLE BIT OF LOVE Tom Grennan 44 47 12 25 I GUESS I'M IN LOVE Clinton Kane 45 50 72 29 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 46 41 34 01 PEACHES Justin Bieber feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon 47 NE 01 47 MAFIA Travis Scott 48 48 10 03 FAIR TRADE Drake with Travis Scott 49 44 08 34 LIFE GOES ON Oliver Tree 50 49 50 04 THE BUSINESS Tiësto Albums 01 NE 01 01 VOYAGE ABBA 02 01 02 01 = Ed Sheeran 03 NE 01 03 KID A MNESIA Radiohead 04 02 20 02 PLANET HER Doja Cat 05 03 25 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 06 04 10 01 CERTIFIED LOVER BOY Drake 07 05 03 01 SURRENDER Rüfüs du Sol 08 07 85 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 09 06 34 01 JUSTICE Justin Bieber 10 14 03 02 THE LOCKDOWN SESSIONS Elton John 11 13 40 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 12 08 15 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 13 11 279 01 25 Adele 14 15 68 01 F*CK LOVE The Kid Laroi 15 10 08 01 MONTERO Lil Nas X 16 17 100 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 17 NE 01 17 BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Bullet For My Valentine 18 NE 01 18 STILL OVER IT Summer Walker 19 19 245 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 20 20 179 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 21 30 348 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 22 NE 01 22 LIVE AT THE DRIVE IN Hockey Dad 23 26 231 16 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 24 23 137 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 25 28 68 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 26 24 03 03 BLUE BANISTERS Lana Del Rey 27 22 11 01 DONDA Kanye West 28 25 417 01 21 Adele 29 27 105 01 WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 30 NE 01 30 DAY/NIGHT Parcels 31 29 368 01 1989 Taylor Swift 32 32 303 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 33 09 04 01 MUSIC OF THE SPHERES Coldplay 34 NE 01 34 SPRINGTIME Springtime 35 NE 01 35 VALENTINE Snail Mail 36 34 116 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 37 33 191 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 38 39 48 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 39 36 71 01 SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOON Pop Smoke 40 88 118 01 RED Taylor Swift 41 40 130 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 42 38 28 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 43 37 160 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Queen / Soundtrack 44 42 44 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 45 45 286 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 46 43 206 08 DUA LIPA Dua Lipa 47 60 171 01 ASTROWORLD Travis Scott 48 44 209 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 49 52 191 02 ? XXXTENTACION 50 47 385 01 X Ed Sheeran In bizarre news, Adele might be returning to #1 this coming week. Not for legitimate purposes but because ARIA just posted their mid-week preview and the only Taylor Swift debuts are the new versions of "Red", "We Are Never Getting Back Together", and also "I Bet You Think About Me", which would be somewhere along the lines of the 2nd, 7th & 9th highest entries she naturally would look poised for and doesn't even include the song that's being promoted by Hot Hits Australia or you know, either version of "All Too Well" which has been leading on Spotify all week. Make no mistake that if combined, "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)" is absolutely a lock for #1, if not then I suspect it's a close miss, but basically if there are any Swifties reading this then by all means raise hell with ARIA before they out-parody themselves. In this week news, Post Malone gets into the top 10 after missing out with his last single, evidently The Weeknd has a knack for low top 10 debuts this year. I need not dwell on the inauspicious timing of the arrival of two new Travis Scott songs though I will point out that while Today's Top Hits on Spotify has been steadily sliding "ESCAPE PLAN" down its playlist in the past week, Hot Hits Australia, slow as they ever are, waited until after Travis Scott was somewhat complicit in the circumstances surrounding the deaths of 10 concert goers to ADD the song to their playlist which is certainly a choice. Silk Sonic arrive with their 3rd top 40 hit and it looks like "Smokin Out The Window" should be vaulting in or towards the top 10 next week. To the shock of (I assume) nobody, ABBA arrive at the #1 spot with "Voyage", their first stint at #1 since "ABBA Gold" started stuffing stockings in 1992, which I believe in some respects might make it my birthday #1 although it depends on your interpretation of which weeks line up to which days of which I don't think there's a clear answer to. So it's either that or a Simple Minds Greatest Hits and don't you forget it. Radiohead are immensely good at hitting the #2 spot on the album chart and in fact did it with both "Kid A" and "Amnesiac"...and every studio album that followed them. So for a change of pace, the new "Kid A Mnesia" collection enters at a modest #3, though being ahead of the streaming giants does lean big credence to the idea that Radiohead could easily get a #1 album if they stop choosing the worst weeks to release on. Bullet For My Valentine have been hitting the top 10 regularly since 2008, even the #1 spot in 2015 but this week they're a little lower in the top 20. Summer Walker also doesn't *quite* match the #17 peak of "Over It" but she's close on a tougher week. Hockey Dad's new live album release does not contain any transmissions to the one armed scissor, nor any hexes that were delivered spent, but it does chart slightly higher than At The Drive-In's "Relationship Of Command" and holy shit what a banger of an album that is. Local but overseas based spacebar boycotters Parcels score their first ever top 50 album this week while we have yet another Gareth Liddiard side project entering with the self-titled first album for Springtime. Snail Mail is also debuting for the first time. Next week's album chart has a bit more safe certainty on Taylor Swift debuting at #1, and she'll likely be joined by Silk Sonic, Flight Facilities, Courtney Barnett and Little Mix in the top 10. IDLES & Rod Stewart should also get in somewhere.

I'll try to give this a go but I'll definitely need to do some research first.

Really don't get why the OCC can't just make it mouse-over scroll or alt-text if they insist on their ugly all-caps format.

Yep, you'll see no disagreement from me on that front.

I figured I'll bite and look into it. I took the top 50 most streamed albums last week via Spotify and checked their numbers Note: I took original editions when applicable, since this was a comment on artistic integrity and you don't typically see critical appraisal, whether present or retrospect take bonus tracks to task. Personally I think the last 22 minutes of "DONDA" have the makings of deluxe edition material but for all official intents and purposes, it is the album. I think in general what you get here is a small handful of outliers distorting the mean, as the median length is comfortably under 50 minutes, which I would consider pretty regular. Even of those outliers, we have a clearly defined double album and a triple(!) album, while Kanye West's album length is quite atypical for him as 4 of the 6 albums he's released in the last 10 years have averaged under 30 minutes. Overall though, the exceptions have always existed and I don't think there's anything to suggest a brewing trend. I would note though that I feel like less successful artists are less and less likely to get the chance to actually record albums, since they're usually big risks for labels unless they want a loss leader. These types of artists are probably less likely to make ambitiously long albums and so that dilutes the pool more so in the favour of high profile artists who may do just that. But I'd attribute that to streaming as a less lucrative platform than music stores, rather than the algorithmic nature of our listening habits shaping industry decisions. Not sure what in particular you're aiming this at but I think much of Legends Never Die was mostly done before his passing. Perhaps the most egregious sounding song "Come & Go" is not monstrously different to the early demo Juice posted when he was still alive.

You think so? In an era where more and more hit songs are running short of 3 or even 2 minutes? I think if anything the enduring popularity of "SOUR" as an 'every single track is a hit' success shows that a concise product is what a lot of people are after. I wouldn't remotely use "Red (Taylor's Version)" as an example of anything. Re-release/anniversary/what have you albums are frequently excessively long. The point of my post was to note that excess far pre-dates the algorithmic streaming age because it's not the only reason artists have done it.

+5 Ed Sheeran - Overpass Graffiti +4 Adele - Easy On Me +3 THE ANXIETY - Meet Me At Our Spot (verses are tragically bad, among the worst moments in any of these 10 songs tho) +2 CKay - love nwantiti (ah ah ah) +1 Central Cee - Obsessed With You -1 Ed Sheeran - Shivers -2 JOUT COUT - OUT OUT -3 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits -4 I'd rather go and pick some of those wild strawberries -5 Let the record show that Cold Heart is infinitely worse but I refuse to end this streak

Also true of the CD era where rock especially had a tendency towards bloat because 'more is better' (and who knows, maybe the RIAA's certification rules doubling for double albums was encouraging too), thus so many blockbuster albums are way too long for their own good. I've still never listened to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness because even though at least 4 of its singles are stone cold classics, the whole thing is 2 hours long and nobody's got time for that. Side note: "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)" doesn't remotely feel like a slog at all. For some reason I was expecting a 5 minute guitar solo :lol:

Ehh, if you're gonna make that argument then you're severely limiting the realistic range of difference, especially since songwriters/listeners only gravitate to a very select set of chord progressions as being listenable. There's a about this phenomenon. Hayley Williams herself pretty much said that the whole thing was absurd.

They literally aren't the same chords though lol? The crediting is just to save face in the wake of Marvin Gaye's estate making a case for the worst thing to happen to music of late with their unfortunately successful lawsuit.

I've never understood this as going any deeper than 'a woman doing pop punk??!' (same thing happens when people hear Tonight Alive for the first time), the two songs sound nothing alike. Let's not lend credibility to these dumb "Blurred Lines"-esque cases.

08/11/2021 Singles 01 02 12 01 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 02 05 08 02 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 03 01 03 01 EASY ON ME Adele 04 04 19 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 05 03 17 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 06 06 64 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 07 07 15 04 INDUSTRY BABY Lil Nas X feat. Jack Harlow 08 NE 01 08 OVERPASS GRAFFITI Ed Sheeran 09 10 07 07 THAT'S WHAT I WANT Lil Nas X 10 11 08 10 MEET ME AT OUR SPOT The Anxiety 11 09 14 03 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 12 13 25 01 GOOD 4 U Olivia Rodrigo 13 12 07 08 LOVE NWANTITI (AH AH AH) CKay 14 15 06 14 GHOST Justin Bieber 15 08 02 08 MOTH TO A FLAME Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd 16 14 20 03 BEGGIN' Måneskin 17 17 56 01 LEVITATING Dua Lipa 18 18 30 02 KISS ME MORE Doja Cat feat. SZA 19 16 06 07 MY UNIVERSE Coldplay and BTS 20 NE 01 20 BETTER DAYS NEIKED & Mae Muller feat. Polo G 21 21 43 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 22 19 32 01 MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) Lil Nas X 23 20 10 16 WOMAN Doja Cat 24 22 21 09 NEED TO KNOW Doja Cat 25 24 24 14 MISSING PIECE Vance Joy 26 23 16 16 DREAMS Jolyon Petch 27 25 09 24 A-O-K Tai Verdes 28 29 101 01 BLINDING LIGHTS The Weeknd 29 80 11 03 VISITING HOURS Ed Sheeran 30 27 16 22 LOVE TONIGHT Shouse 31 NE 01 31 FIRST TIMES Ed Sheeran 32 28 23 26 LEAVE BEFORE YOU LOVE ME Marshmello feat. Jonas Brothers 33 26 09 13 KNIFE TALK Drake with 21 Savage & Project Pat 34 31 06 31 OUT OUT Joel Corry, Jax Jones, Charli XCX & Saweetie 35 44 04 35 ACAPULCO Jason DeRulo 36 38 69 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 37 34 17 13 2055 Sleepy Hallow 38 30 13 09 TAKE MY BREATH The Weeknd 39 33 09 07 WAY 2 SEXY Drake with Future & Young Thug 40 35 48 01 WITHOUT YOU The Kid Laroi 41 36 33 01 PEACHES Justin Bieber feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon 42 32 24 16 LITTLE BIT OF LOVE Tom Grennan 43 NE 01 43 TIDES Ed Sheeran 44 40 07 34 LIFE GOES ON Oliver Tree 45 42 14 42 FANCY LIKE Walker Hayes 46 37 05 32 MONEY Lisa 47 41 11 25 I GUESS I'M IN LOVE Clinton Kane 48 39 09 03 FAIR TRADE Drake with Travis Scott 49 45 49 04 THE BUSINESS Tiësto 50 54 71 29 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers Albums 01 NE 01 01 = Ed Sheeran 02 05 19 02 PLANET HER Doja Cat 03 06 24 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 04 07 09 01 CERTIFIED LOVER BOY Drake 05 01 02 01 SURRENDER Rüfüs du Sol 06 12 33 01 JUSTICE Justin Bieber 07 10 84 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 08 13 14 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 09 08 03 01 MUSIC OF THE SPHERES Coldplay 10 11 07 01 MONTERO Lil Nas X 11 09 278 01 25 Adele 12 NE 01 12 MY REALITY Dami Im 13 15 39 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 14 02 02 02 THE LOCKDOWN SESSIONS Elton John 15 14 67 01 F*CK LOVE The Kid Laroi 16 NE 01 16 HUSHED AND GRIM Mastodon 17 17 99 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 18 NE 01 18 REVERSE LIGHT YEARS Even 19 20 244 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 20 19 178 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 21 NE 01 21 I DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE The War on Drugs 22 21 10 01 DONDA Kanye West 23 22 136 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 24 03 02 03 BLUE BANISTERS Lana Del Rey 25 18 416 01 21 Adele 26 24 230 16 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 27 27 104 01 WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 28 29 67 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 29 28 367 01 1989 Taylor Swift 30 30 347 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 31 RE 114 03 SPICE Spice Girls 32 33 302 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 33 32 190 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 34 36 115 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 35 NE 01 35 STILL SUCKS Limp Bizkit 36 34 70 01 SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOON Pop Smoke 37 37 159 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Queen / Soundtrack 38 49 27 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 39 41 47 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 40 40 129 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 41 47 60 40 GREATEST HITS Pitbull 42 45 43 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 43 43 205 08 DUA LIPA Dua Lipa 44 58 208 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 45 44 285 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 46 NE 01 46 OCEAN TO OCEAN Tori Amos 47 51 384 01 X Ed Sheeran 48 56 121 01 NO.6 COLLABORATIONS PROJECT Ed Sheeran 49 54 436 02 THE BEST OF: ALL FOR YOU Cold Chisel 50 53 480 01 THE VERY BEST INXS Canonically, Ed Sheeran has gained a #1 due to digital sales ("I Don't Care"), and gained a #1 due to physical sales ("Bad Habits"). On the other hand, this week he misses out due to digital sales. In a correct world, he'd have the only debuts this week but ARIA have mixed it up by needlessly taking an extra week to acknowledge NEIKED's "Better Days". Ed Sheeran also debuts in the top 10 with "Overpass Graffiti" as the highest of 3 top 50 debuts but admittedly it's already dipping away so he'll need some sort of break out hit to salvage what is inarguably his least impactful album release in the streaming era. "Mr. Brightside" returns for the 3rd time this year and it's worth noting that I'm still 95% sure ARIA is messing up the numbers because it's always way higher on Spotify than ARIA and there is not a single notable platform in which "Fair Trade" isn't being distinctly outperformed by it and yet. Next week we'll find out if ARIA will add to the nonsense in a rare time where I am prepared to say that Calum Scott is underrepresented on the chart because Where Are You Now seems to be missing. bbno$ also is looking to finally break into the top 50 if ARIA choose to acknowledge "edamame". To nobody's surprise, Ed Sheeran has his 5th #1 album this week. Typically speaking, the arrival of a new album from him brings the rest of his back catalogue vaulting back up the chart but that has scarcely happened this time. Mind you it's an above average week in terms of how busy it is. On the other hand, it's finally a slow enough week for Doja Cat to reach #2 for the first time, though she has the only non-#1 album in the top 10. Dami Im misses the top 10 for the first time but by all accounts is doing far better than an X Factor winner 8 years after the fact should be expected to do. Mastodon also dip back considerably after their last album reached #3. Extremely '90s Australian music moment is the return of Even, who actually get their highest ever charting album this week. The War On Drugs also take a similar decline to Mastodon after reaching the top 5 a few years ago. Spice Girls return thanks to their copious vinyl sales, and as an ominous preview to next week's chart, we see the return of Limp Bizkit, who you might recall 20 years ago in this very nation had a victim of crowd crushing during their Big Day Out set 2 decades ago. Next week I suspect it will be ABBA returning to the top of the charts, followed by assorted arrivals by Radiohead, Bullet For My Valentine, Summer Walker & Parcels.

I believe it's because 24/5 is interpreted as May 24th, 2021 which is then converted into a number in Excel's sequence of dates which start from Jan 1st, 1900. So it's the 44340th day since then.

Absolutely losing my mind over them re-including Tug of War with a safety warning rather than just...leaving it in the past. Instead Nintendo have brought back the true Prisoner's Dilemma of whether or not you destroy your hand/joystick to win 10 coins. And of course it's funny that they couldn't possibly have planned it but it also gives them a big proxy to Squid Game, which alongside Sneak n Snore, Crazy Cutters & Tackle Takedown there are quite a few :lol:

+5 Lil Nas X - THATS WHAT I WANT +4 Adele - Easy On Me +3 CKay - love nwantiti (ah ah ah) +2 Central Cee - Obsessed With You +1 Ed Sheeran - Shivers -1 JOUT COUT - OUT OUT -2 Coldplay & BTS - My Universe -3 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits -4 Why Sacrifice Still Sucks In '21 -5 Remember when Dream cheated in a speedrun and lied about it and was still proven to be a cheat and then he admitted it but that he was the victim in this and that he's the most famous person in the world in my craft partly because of it and isn't it funny that Glass Animals named their album Dreamland not knowing it was set to become the soundtrack to homoerotic fanfiction about Dream and also I still think ACR is one of the worst things to ever happen to the chart but I will allow it just this one time to spare me from this nonsense once and for all until TikTok discovers the song again

+5 Lil Nas X - THATS WHAT I WANT +4 Adele - Easy On Me +3 CKay - love nwantiti (ah ah ah) +2 Central Cee - Obsessed With You +1 Ed Sheeran - Shivers -1 JOUT COUT - OUT OUT -2 Coldplay & BTS - My Universe -3 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits -4 boomer cringe -5 millennial cringe

Yeah, it's such a weird vibe that grown adults feel the need to stake their superiority in what they like and to do it towards children of all people who have no idea these dumb arguments are even happening. People (children included!) who just like stuff because they like it will always be cooler than elitists.

01/11/2021 Singles 01 01 02 01 EASY ON ME Adele 02 02 11 02 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 03 03 16 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 04 04 18 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 05 05 07 04 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 06 06 63 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 07 07 14 04 INDUSTRY BABY Lil Nas X feat. Jack Harlow 08 NE 01 08 MOTH TO A FLAME Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd 09 08 13 03 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 10 09 06 07 THAT'S WHAT I WANT Lil Nas X 11 14 07 11 MEET ME AT OUR SPOT The Anxiety 12 10 06 08 LOVE NWANTITI (AH AH AH) CKay 13 11 24 01 GOOD 4 U Olivia Rodrigo 14 12 19 03 BEGGIN' Måneskin 15 17 05 15 GHOST Justin Bieber 16 13 05 07 MY UNIVERSE Coldplay and BTS 17 15 55 04 LEVITATING Dua Lipa 18 16 29 02 KISS ME MORE Doja Cat feat. SZA 19 18 31 01 MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) Lil Nas X 20 19 09 16 WOMAN Doja Cat 21 21 42 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 22 22 20 09 NEED TO KNOW Doja Cat 23 23 15 16 DREAMS Jolyon Petch 24 20 23 14 MISSING PIECE Vance Joy 25 24 08 24 A-O-K Tai Verdes 26 25 08 13 KNIFE TALK Drake with 21 Savage & Project Pat 27 26 15 22 LOVE TONIGHT Shouse 28 27 22 26 LEAVE BEFORE YOU LOVE ME Marshmello feat. Jonas Brothers 29 34 100 01 BLINDING LIGHTS The Weeknd 30 31 12 09 TAKE MY BREATH The Weeknd 31 39 05 31 OUT OUT Joel Corry, Jax Jones, Charli XCX & Saweetie 32 33 23 16 LITTLE BIT OF LOVE Tom Grennan 33 38 08 07 WAY 2 SEXY Drake with Future & Young Thug 34 28 16 13 2055 Sleepy Hallow 35 29 47 01 WITHOUT YOU The Kid Laroi 36 36 32 01 PEACHES Justin Bieber feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon 37 32 04 32 MONEY Lisa 38 41 68 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 39 30 08 03 FAIR TRADE Drake with Travis Scott 40 37 06 34 LIFE GOES ON Oliver Tree 41 42 10 25 I GUESS I'M IN LOVE Clinton Kane 42 44 13 42 FANCY LIKE Walker Hayes 43 80 05 43 ON MY KNEES RÜFÜS DU SOL 44 63 03 44 ACAPULCO Jason Derulo 45 48 48 04 THE BUSINESS Tiësto 46 47 09 30 GET INTO IT (YUH) Doja Cat 47 40 79 01 SOMEONE LIKE YOU Adele 48 45 07 30 OBSESSED WITH YOU Central Cee 49 50 05 43 ALONE WITH YOU Arz 50 43 87 03 ROLLING IN THE DEEP Adele Albums 01 NE 01 01 SURRENDER RÜFÜS DU SOL 02 NE 01 02 THE LOCKDOWN SESSIONS Elton John 03 NE 01 03 BLUE BANISTERS Lana Del Rey 04 RE 19 02 ALL FOR ONE The Screaming Jets 05 04 18 03 PLANET HER Doja Cat 06 05 23 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 07 07 08 01 CERTIFIED LOVER BOY Drake 08 01 02 01 MUSIC OF THE SPHERES Coldplay 09 08 277 01 25 Adele 10 13 83 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 11 12 06 01 MONTERO Lil Nas X 12 10 32 01 JUSTICE Justin Bieber 13 09 13 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 14 15 66 01 F*CK LOVE The Kid Laroi 15 17 38 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 16 NE 01 16 FUTURE PAST Duran Duran 17 18 98 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 18 11 415 01 21 Adele 19 21 177 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 20 22 243 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 21 19 09 01 DONDA Kanye West 22 23 135 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 23 NE 01 23 RADICAL Every Time I Die 24 25 229 16 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 25 NE 01 25 BREAKIN' HEARTS Hayley Jensen 26 NE 01 26 SYMPATHY FOR LIFE Parquet Courts 27 24 103 01 WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 28 28 366 01 1989 Taylor Swift 29 29 66 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 30 27 346 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 31 72 13 01 LOVE SIGNS The Jungle Giants 32 32 189 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 33 30 301 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 34 36 69 01 SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOON Pop Smoke 35 02 50 01 LET IT BE The Beatles 36 33 114 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 37 31 158 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Queen / Soundtrack 38 NE 01 38 B-SIDES & RARITIES (PART II) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 39 RE 34 01 TATTOO YOU The Rolling Stones 40 38 128 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 41 46 46 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 42 NE 01 42 A VIEW FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD Dream Theater 43 43 204 08 DUA LIPA Dua Lipa 44 45 284 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 45 49 42 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 46 40 46 01 T.R.U.T.H. Guy Sebastian 47 53 59 40 GREATEST HITS Pitbull 48 NE 01 48 WHAT A SONG CAN DO Lady A 49 37 26 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 50 62 169 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day Adele is #1 for a second week. It will probably be the last week as her sales stranglehold has slipped a bit. I initially expected Ed Sheeran could grab the top spot with either of his two current top 10 hits but his impact on Spotify has been a bit less than anticipated so we could instead get something much worse at #1. Much like 6-8 months ago, the ARIA Chart is locked into a slooooow period where we're lucky to get 2 debuts in a week that stick around. This week's top 10 entry that will be outlasted by "Heat Waves" and everything else is "Moth To A Flame", which is Swedish House Mafia's 2nd ever top 10 hit and 3rd ever top 50 hit, although they actually did manage to make the top 100 with all of their singles in their original run. Speaking of curious consistency, RÜFÜS DU SOL have had 5 top 50 hits as of this week although only one of them ever made the top 40. They've also had at least one top 50 hit from each of their albums, as 3rd single "On My Knees" was showing enough longevity after release that the album release boost slotted it in there. The one debut that will probably actually climb is Jason Derulo's, because it's not coin based. Mind you we probably should've had 4 debuts this week but ARIA forgot to count NEIKED's new song, so they'll debut next week instead, alongside probably 4 Ed Sheeran debuts. RÜFÜS DU SOL claim their 3rd #1 album. They were close to a 4th but released their last album on the week that "A Star Is Born" came out in theatres. In fact, last time they were at #1 they were ending Adele's reign with "25" for good, which just goes to show how long gestation periods are for some. The new Elton John album debuts at #2 which I can certainly say is the highest chart position ever reached by Rina Sawayama, Yo-Yo Ma & SG Lewis among others. For the 2nd time this year Lana Del Rey beats all the incumbents but is at a lower #3 position. If you're not an Australian cis straight man over the age of 30, the phrase 'said you'd never get anywhere' probably doesn't hold some significance, but if you are, I hope I got that stuck in your head for the rest of the day. I have a long standing belief that the cut off for classic rock radio in this country is around 1991, where a significant audience has refused to listen to a single song beyond that point, making the newest acceptable songs "Thunderstruck", "The Horses" and of course the most overplayed song of all time, "Better" by The Screaming Jets. Newcastle's finest released their debut album in 1991 which got as high as #2 on the album charts at the time, and this week it's back at #4 on the back of an anniversary re-issue. Duran Duran have their highest charting album in 35 years this week, while Every Time I Die also continue their very slow but upward trajectory with an all new high at #23. Charting for the first time ever is Hayley Jensen who eagle-eyed ancients like me might remember seeing on their TV screens 17 years ago as the 4th place finisher on Season 2 of Australian Idol. Just below her, Parquet Courts score their first ever top 50 position with their latest album. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds released two B-Sides compilations this week though they were also released as a single package on vinyl so they may or may not have been combined under the Part II name, which if nothing else is consistent with Warner's release form that week which listed Part II first, which I noted as quite unusual at the time. Dream Theater quite often chart in the top 20 though this time they're lucky to make the top 50, so they might be pulling you under. Also Lady A are back in the charts for the first time since they awkwardly decided to change their name in solidarity with BLM only to completely show themselves when they changed it to a name already used by a person of colour and tried to sue her over it. You gotta love corporate wokeness. Anyway next week I hazard a guess that Ed Sheeran is going to debut at #1 and you'll also find the likes of Mastodon, The Spice Girls, The War On Drugs, Tori Amos, Dami Im, A$AP Rocky and Even. Something for everyone probably.

Champagne Supernova I assume?

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You can also subjectively debate the merits of what actually counts as a Halloween song, and how much weighting is given to how appropriate it is, given that it's highly likely the most successful example of something is not going to be the best example of it. Like you could argue that "The Hills" by The Weeknd has a tenuous enough link to count and that's a bigger hit than anything else outside of 'err actually song I hate is clearly horror because hurr hurr I'm funny'. A lot of these associations are handed to songs after the fact. Otherwise Thriller wouldn't have been released both as an album and a single in November lol.