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Honestly I probably should've given it more points. As a neurodivergent I don't think there's another #1 hit (and how apt!) that better captures the joy and especially comfort in indulging the love of music as a special interest. Maybe "Come On Eileen" is a close second.

+5 Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever +4 Lil Nas X - INDUSTRY BABY +3 CKay - love nwantiti (ah ah ah) +2 Central Cee - Obsessed With You +1 Jesy Nelson - Boyz -1 Ed Sheeran - Shivers -2 JOUT COUT - OUT OUT -3 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits -4 I thought this song couldn't get more cursed then I saw the music video -5 At this point even 4th wave Heat Waves has been around egregiously long

Not *quite* as well as 2017 but he had most of the top 10

Honestly Ed Sheeran's album is a major litmus test for me with regards to big album release streaming numbers. He set a still unrivaled benchmark in 2017 but so far in 2021 we've had Olivia, Kanye & Drake pull exceedingly good numbers. If he pulls something similar it'll just prove that those album releases were huge stories but it's also possible that they're exaggerated compared to our usual standard, and Ed Sheeran with his record-breaking ways could pull off something we've never seen before even despite not having the perfect storm of success as with "÷". Yes I know I'm the only person whose interest in these stats supersedes interest in avoiding chart entropy.

25/10/2021 Singles 01 NE 01 01 EASY ON ME Adele 02 02 10 02 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 03 01 15 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 04 03 17 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 05 04 06 04 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 06 05 62 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 07 06 13 04 INDUSTRY BABY Lil Nas X feat. Jack Harlow 08 07 12 03 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 09 08 05 07 THAT'S WHAT I WANT Lil Nas X 10 09 05 08 LOVE NWANTITI (AH AH AH) CKay 11 10 23 01 GOOD 4 U Olivia Rodrigo 12 11 18 03 BEGGIN' Måneskin 13 17 04 07 MY UNIVERSE Coldplay and BTS 14 13 06 13 MEET ME AT OUR SPOT The Anxiety 15 12 54 04 LEVITATING Dua Lipa 16 14 28 02 KISS ME MORE Doja Cat feat. SZA 17 28 04 17 GHOST Justin Bieber 18 15 30 01 MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) Lil Nas X 19 16 08 16 WOMAN Doja Cat 20 23 22 14 MISSING PIECE Vance Joy 21 19 41 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 22 18 19 09 NEED TO KNOW Doja Cat 23 21 14 16 DREAMS Jolyon Petch 24 26 07 24 A-O-K Tai Verdes 25 20 07 13 KNIFE TALK Drake with 21 Savage & Project Pat 26 22 14 22 LOVE TONIGHT Shouse 27 31 21 26 LEAVE BEFORE YOU LOVE ME Marshmello feat. Jonas Brothers 28 25 15 13 2055 Sleepy Hallow 29 27 46 01 WITHOUT YOU The Kid Laroi 30 24 07 03 FAIR TRADE Drake with Travis Scott 31 36 11 09 TAKE MY BREATH The Weeknd 32 49 03 32 MONEY Lisa 33 33 22 16 LITTLE BIT OF LOVE Tom Grennan 34 35 99 01 BLINDING LIGHTS The Weeknd 35 29 07 02 GIRLS WANT GIRLS Drake with Lil Baby 36 32 31 01 PEACHES Justin Bieber feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon 37 34 05 34 LIFE GOES ON Oliver Tree 38 30 07 07 WAY 2 SEXY Drake with Future & Young Thug 39 42 04 39 OUT OUT Joel Corry, Jax Jones, Charli XCX & Saweetie 40 RE 78 01 SOMEONE LIKE YOU Adele 41 38 67 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 42 40 09 25 I GUESS I'M IN LOVE Clinton Kane 43 RE 86 03 ROLLING IN THE DEEP Adele 44 45 12 44 FANCY LIKE Walker Hayes 45 37 06 30 OBSESSED WITH YOU Central Cee 46 39 37 04 ASTRONAUT IN THE OCEAN Masked Wolf 47 41 08 30 GET INTO IT (YUH) Doja Cat 48 48 47 04 THE BUSINESS Tiësto 49 44 22 05 TRAITOR Olivia Rodrigo 50 43 04 43 ALONE WITH YOU Arz Albums 01 NE 01 01 MUSIC OF THE SPHERES Coldplay 02 RE 49 01 LET IT BE The Beatles 03 NE 01 03 GELA Baker Boy 04 03 17 03 PLANET HER Doja Cat 05 01 22 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 06 RE 88 01 FEVER Kylie Minogue 07 02 07 01 CERTIFIED LOVER BOY Drake 08 18 276 01 25 Adele 09 05 12 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 10 06 31 01 JUSTICE Justin Bieber 11 24 414 01 21 Adele 12 07 05 01 MONTERO Lil Nas X 13 08 82 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 14 NE 01 14 LIVE FROM A BEACH HOUSE IN THE RAIN Wil Wagner 15 10 65 01 F*CK LOVE The Kid Laroi 16 NE 01 16 FACES Mac Miller 17 12 37 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 18 13 97 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 19 11 08 01 DONDA Kanye West 20 NE 01 20 VENGEANCE Twelve Foot Ninja 21 14 176 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 22 16 242 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 23 19 134 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 24 20 102 01 WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 25 21 228 16 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 26 NE 01 26 PUNK Young Thug 27 27 345 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 28 22 365 01 1989 Taylor Swift 29 25 65 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 30 26 300 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 31 35 157 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Queen / Soundtrack 32 23 188 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 33 34 113 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 34 NE 01 34 JACK CHROME & THE DARKNESS WALTZ The Morris Spingfield Project 35 NE 01 35 WELCOME TO HORRORWOOD: THE SILVER SCREAM 2 Ice Nine Kills 36 32 68 01 SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOON Pop Smoke 37 57 25 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 38 31 127 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 39 RE 434 02 GREATEST HITS Queen 40 28 45 01 T.R.U.T.H. Guy Sebastian 41 RE 133 03 19 Adele 42 NE 01 42 THE COMEBACK Zac Brown Band 43 38 203 08 DUA LIPA Dua Lipa 44 39 478 01 THE VERY BEST INXS 45 45 283 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 46 36 45 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 47 RE 68 03 IVY AND THE BIG APPLES Spiderbait 48 47 67 01 LEGENDS NEVER DIE Juice WRLD 49 44 41 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 50 54 206 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift I'm here to provide you the shocking revelation that an Adele song has hit #1 somewhere. I dare say that it'll stay as such next week too, potentially bumping up Dua Lipa's career weeks spent at #2 on the Singles chart to 17, which is certainly a record among non-#1 getting artists unless you subscribe to the theory that pre & post-2010 Maroon 5 are different bands. This is such an uneventful week but it is time to ring out for yet another classic 'Only on the ARIA Charts' moment. This week, Adele returns to the charts with "Rolling In The Deep" and "Someone Like You", nothing unreasonable about that but it's all the songs she didn't chart with that spark curiosity. "When We Were Young" in particular should have been her highest re-entry. The reason they weren't is because no Adele songs were allowed to return to the chart. "Rolling In The Deep" and "Someone Like You" merely got there because they've never fallen so low in sales to fall off of ARIA's survey, flawless logic honestly. There's a lot more happening on the album chart though, where Coldplay score their 7th #1 album, having hit #1 with everything except "Parachutes" and "A Head Full Of Dreams". They faced surprisingly close competition from The Beatles' vinyl re-release. Coming through in 3rd is the Fresh Prince of Arnhem Land himself Baker Boy. He's been making a name for himself in the past 4 years for his energetic performances and positive vibes while often switching between rapping in English and his native Yolngu tongue. Alongside The Kid LAROI it means we have Indigenous artists at #3 on both charts this week. The Beatles are not alone in their remastering, as Kylie Minogue also returns for the 20th anniversary of "Fever", an album which I cannot in good conscience say revived her career here because unlike the rest of the world, Australia actually rightly recognises that "Impossible Princess" rules, and also "Light Years" was very successful the year before. But it does have 4 banger singles, two of which went to #1 here. On the topic of late '90s Australian alt rock bangers, there's also a return for Spiderbait's "Ivy and the Big Apples", the band's most beloved album possibly because it's the one with "Buy Me A Pony" (the first ever Australian Hottest 100 #1) and "Calypso" (the 'sunshine on the window' song that is somehow by the same band). In a different world of re-releases, Mac Miller's most beloved mixtape "Faces" was finally given a wide release, which as a fan of Mac Miller, jazz rap and all things , I wholeheartedly endorse. The Smith Street Band's Wil Wagner may or may not be cancelled but he's here with a new live album, while Twelve Foot Ninja return to the chart for the first time in 5 years, just narrowly making the top 20 on a tough week having gone top 10 before. Young Thug scores his highest ever album chart entry this week, while Zac Brown Band are far from it, which one has to wonder if it's a result of their disastrous last album. Australian music icons Russell Morris and Rick Springfield (yes, that one) enter with a collaborative album under the name The Morris Springfield Project, while Ice Nine Kills get their first ever chart entry. The band have been around for over a decade so their name is not a Zero Escape reference sadly. Next week could be a competitive heat between Elton John, RÜFÜS DU SOL and Lana Del Rey, alongside further entries for Duran Duran, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Dream Theater.

Actually thought Breathe might have been my +30, with the list so small I *think* I know what it is now. Also expected it to be the first Prodigy song to drop but it's worth saying that it is an absolute monster of a hit over in my parts, where The Prodigy never had another top 20 hit, but "Breathe" was the longest running top 10 hit of all time until like 2019!

Wait did I really give Fastlove points? It's a fine song but I must have been super delirious and not reading it correctly if so.

Well Jason Derulo's current single mentions Dogecoin, so give it a few years and he'll drop a lyric like 'a non-fungible token of gratitude' and we'll have to reset all recorded music and start again.

my one take away from 2021 is that Red Light Green Light is a very violent game

I've been expecting Sleeping Satellite to show up for so long now, just because it's such a random entity up here that I could easily see it passed up on votes in such a big list. Hard to think of a more pleasant nostalgia blanket though.

18/10/2021 01 01 14 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 02 02 09 02 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 03 03 16 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 04 05 05 04 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 05 04 61 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 06 06 12 04 INDUSTRY BABY Lil Nas X feat. Jack Harlow 07 09 11 03 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 08 07 04 07 THAT'S WHAT I WANT Lil Nas X 09 08 04 08 LOVE NWANTITI (AH AH AH) CKay 10 10 22 01 GOOD 4 U Olivia Rodrigo 11 11 17 03 BEGGIN' Måneskin 12 12 53 04 LEVITATING Dua Lipa 13 16 05 13 MEET ME AT OUR SPOT The Anxiety 14 15 27 02 KISS ME MORE Doja Cat feat. SZA 15 13 29 01 MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) Lil Nas X 16 18 07 16 WOMAN Doja Cat 17 14 03 07 MY UNIVERSE Coldplay and BTS 18 20 18 09 NEED TO KNOW Doja Cat 19 19 40 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 20 21 06 13 KNIFE TALK Drake with 21 Savage & Project Pat 21 22 13 16 DREAMS Jolyon Petch 22 33 13 22 LOVE TONIGHT Shouse 23 24 21 14 MISSING PIECE Vance Joy 24 23 06 03 FAIR TRADE Drake with Travis Scott 25 25 14 13 2055 Sleepy Hallow 26 28 06 26 A-O-K Tai Verdes 27 29 45 01 WITHOUT YOU The Kid Laroi 28 RE 03 28 GHOST Justin Bieber 29 26 06 02 GIRLS WANT GIRLS Drake with Lil Baby 30 27 06 07 WAY 2 SEXY Drake with Future & Young Thug 31 32 20 26 LEAVE BEFORE YOU LOVE ME Marshmello feat. Jonas Brothers 32 39 30 01 PEACHES Justin Bieber feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon 33 31 21 16 LITTLE BIT OF LOVE Tom Grennan 34 41 04 34 LIFE GOES ON Oliver Tree 35 35 98 01 BLINDING LIGHTS The Weeknd 36 34 10 09 TAKE MY BREATH The Weeknd 37 30 05 30 OBSESSED WITH YOU Central Cee 38 36 66 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 39 38 36 04 ASTRONAUT IN THE OCEAN Masked Wolf 40 37 08 25 I GUESS I'M IN LOVE Clinton Kane 41 42 07 30 GET INTO IT (YUH) Doja Cat 42 50 03 42 OUT OUT Joel Corry, Jax Jones, Charli XCX & Saweetie 43 49 03 43 ALONE WITH YOU Arz 44 43 21 05 TRAITOR Olivia Rodrigo 45 47 11 45 FANCY LIKE Walker Hayes 46 44 40 01 DRIVER'S LICENSE Olivia Rodrigo 47 40 07 04 HURRICANE (VERSION 2) Kanye West 48 46 46 04 THE BUSINESS Tiësto 49 77 02 49 MONEY Lisa 50 45 61 01 MOOD 24kGoldn feat. Iann Dior Albums 01 02 21 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 02 01 06 01 CERTIFIED LOVER BOY Drake 03 03 16 03 PLANET HER Doja Cat 04 NE 01 04 I'M SORRY SIR, THAT RIFF'S BEEN TAKEN The Hard-Ons 05 10 11 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 06 13 30 01 JUSTICE Justin Bieber 07 04 04 01 MONTERO Lil Nas X 08 08 81 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 09 NE 01 09 IN THE COURT OF THE DRAGON Trivium 10 09 64 01 F*CK LOVE The Kid Laroi 11 12 07 01 DONDA Kanye West 12 15 36 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 13 14 96 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 14 18 175 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 15 NE 01 15 OLD GODS Shihad 16 17 241 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 17 NE 01 17 LIFE OF A DON Don Toliver 18 31 275 01 25 Adele 19 22 133 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 20 20 101 01 WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 21 21 227 16 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 22 26 364 01 1989 Taylor Swift 23 25 187 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 24 60 413 01 21 Adele 25 23 64 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 26 27 299 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 27 24 344 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 28 33 44 01 T.R.U.T.H. Guy Sebastian 29 48 06 03 SENJUTSU Iron Maiden 30 RE 14 01 BLUEY THE ALBUM Bluey 31 28 126 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 32 30 67 01 SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOON Pop Smoke 33 11 02 11 LOVE FOR SALE Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga 34 38 112 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 35 32 156 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Queen / Soundtrack 36 40 44 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 37 16 02 16 TALES FROM THE SCRIPT: GREATEST HITS The Script 38 36 202 08 DUA LIPA Dua Lipa 39 35 477 01 THE VERY BEST INXS 40 37 303 02 NEVERMIND Nirvana 41 52 381 01 X Ed Sheeran 42 39 433 02 THE BEST OF: ALL FOR YOU Cold Chisel 43 29 286 01 METALLICA Metallica 44 49 40 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 45 41 282 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 46 NE 01 46 SEVENTEEN GOING UNDER Sam Fender 47 42 66 01 LEGENDS NEVER DIE Juice WRLD 48 45 259 02 DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS Bruno Mars 49 43 118 01 NO.6 COLLABORATIONS PROJECT Ed Sheeran 50 34 05 34 THE GURRUMUL STORY Gurrumul A 14th and final week at #1 for "STAY". Regardless of what Adele's longevity prospects end up being, "STAY" is within an inch of being overtaken by "Cold Heart" anyway. It's an especially uneventful week, which I assume based on the people whinging 5 weeks ago is what people want but it gives me little to acknowledge. Justin Bieber returns to the chart with "Ghost" which narrowly missed the top 50 when his album came out, while LISA scores her first solo top 50 entry with "MONEY" which is set to climb a bit next week as well. After a 3 month absence, Olivia Rodrigo returns to the #1 spot for an 8th very non-consecutive week, which is to say that less people listened to Drake this week. As Q4 ramps up you have to wonder if Doja Cat just missed her last good chance to get a new peak. The highest new entry this week comes from The Hard-Ons, a band formed 40 years ago that have achieved great notoriety but surprisingly never made the top 50 before this week. Their former lead singer was ousted from the band for sexual misconduct and replaced by You Am I's Tim Rogers, whose proficiency at selling records might go some way to explaining this boost in popularity. Trivium on the other hand are old hat on the chart and rack up their 7th top 10 peak this week. New Zealand's Shihad tend to have long gestation periods between albums but this is their 4th top 20 album this week, having gotten as high as #9 in 2014. Don Toliver makes a slight improvement on last year's peak position of #20 landing at #17. Current UK #1 from Sam Fender also manages to sneak in after his first album didn't quite make the top 50. Next week you'd have to think Coldplay have a good chance but don't count out Baker Boy's debut album that's been 4 years in the making.

Continue to be excited to be reminded of what I actually gave my top marks to because I genuinely can't remember

It's probably not necessarily people spamming the song, but it's a song that's reached such a critical mass that everyone's occasional listens get it into the chart at its height, it has a much wider audience than the 2021 releases that it's rubbing shoulders with. You also notice a reverse effect with Spotify Wrapped, where it (and other similar such situations like "Someone You Loved") don't get near as much of a rebound as other songs despite technically being among the biggest hits of the year. Because relatively much less people will find it among their most played songs of the year. So the recipe is that people aren't really getting sick of it any time soon.

I'd definitely class "Fancy Like" as one of those exceptions. It was riding high in the top 20 of the Hot 100 for weeks on the back of sales & streaming. Airplay is just playing catch up to strike while this iron is hot, given that it's subverting the standard 9 month climb to the top of the country airplay chart, but it didn't even appear on the chart for a few weeks.

I mean typically Adele is more frontloaded and Ed sustains his figures for months. Ed Sheeran has 4 of the top 20 most streamed songs of all time on Spotify so if anything it's Adele that's out of his league on this platform.

I've seen quotes from Spotify staff to the effect. Once the steady flow of new content dries up, it takes the artist outside of people's daily/weekly routine and makes it harder to return to it. There's probably also an element of music trends shifting and not going with it can make one seem stale and behind the times when they do return, or have their abrupt shift into it feel so jarring without any middle steps towards it. I think though it's more applicable to artists who aren't household names, Adele is too big to fail. I don't think we consciously toss aside artists who take too long breaks, but algorithms aren't always kind, and there's probably data that shows that we're all guilty of giving artists the cold shoulder when they don't play the game effectively. Or alternatively, turning them into nostalgia artists eventually, a la new Killers songs never coming close to matching the comfortable familiarity of Mr. Brightside and its ineffable daily streams.

+5 Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever +4 Lil Nas X - INDUSTRY BABY +3 Drake - Girls Want Girls +2 Central Cee - Obsessed With You +1 CKay - love nwantiti (ah ah ah) -1 Ed Sheeran - Shivers -2 JOUT COUT - OUT OUT -3 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits -4 elton john had a bunch of hits -5 limp 'indie' makes me sick

It is but it's more complicated. The daily Spotify charts have filters for manipulating plays/going over the 10 a day limit, but when Spotify tracks a song's lifetime plays on the app, it does *not* have this filter in place. Whether by attempting to game the chart or just pure raw enthusiasm at a new song (the latter is more real than people give it credit), BTS managed about 10 million more plays than Spotify gave them on the chart. The validity of those plays is up to your own scrutiny, but they did happen. For instance: if you add up My Universe's weekly numbers on the Spotify global chart so far, you get about 83 million, yet on Coldplay's page it has 101 million. By comparison, Shivers adds up to 130 million but on Ed Sheeran's page it's 132 million, much less of a discrepancy given the circumstances.

13/10/2021 Singles 01 01 13 01 STAY The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 02 02 08 02 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) Elton John & Dua Lipa 03 03 15 01 BAD HABITS Ed Sheeran 04 04 60 01 HEAT WAVES Glass Animals 05 06 04 05 SHIVERS Ed Sheeran 06 05 11 04 INDUSTRY BABY Lil Nas X feat. Jack Harlow 07 08 03 07 THAT'S WHAT I WANT Lil Nas X 08 13 03 08 LOVE NWANTITI (AH AH AH) CKay 09 11 10 03 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 10 09 21 01 GOOD 4 U Olivia Rodrigo 11 10 16 03 BEGGIN' Måneskin 12 14 52 04 LEVITATING Dua Lipa 13 12 28 01 MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) Lil Nas X 14 07 02 07 MY UNIVERSE Coldplay and BTS 15 15 26 02 KISS ME MORE Doja Cat feat. SZA 16 17 04 16 MEET ME AT OUR SPOT The Anxiety 17 60 02 17 DRY Rancid Eddie 18 19 06 17 WOMAN Doja Cat 19 21 39 03 SAVE YOUR TEARS The Weeknd 20 20 17 09 NEED TO KNOW Doja Cat 21 27 05 13 KNIFE TALK Drake with 21 Savage & Project Pat 22 22 12 16 DREAMS Jolyon Petch 23 16 05 03 FAIR TRADE Drake with Travis Scott 24 26 20 14 MISSING PIECE Vance Joy 25 25 13 13 2055 Sleepy Hallow 26 18 05 02 GIRLS WANT GIRLS Drake with Lil Baby 27 23 05 07 WAY 2 SEXY Drake with Future & Young Thug 28 28 05 28 A-O-K Tai Verdes 29 24 44 01 WITHOUT YOU The Kid Laroi 30 31 04 30 OBSESSED WITH YOU Central Cee 31 30 20 16 LITTLE BIT OF LOVE Tom Grennan 32 34 19 26 LEAVE BEFORE YOU LOVE ME Marshmello feat. Jonas Brothers 33 35 12 33 LOVE TONIGHT Shouse 34 33 09 09 TAKE MY BREATH The Weeknd 35 38 97 01 BLINDING LIGHTS The Weeknd 36 39 65 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 37 32 07 25 I GUESS I'M IN LOVE Clinton Kane 38 36 35 04 ASTRONAUT IN THE OCEAN Masked Wolf 39 37 29 01 PEACHES Justin Bieber feat. Daniel Caesar & Giveon 40 29 06 04 HURRICANE (VERSION 2) Kanye West 41 49 03 41 LIFE GOES ON Oliver Tree 42 42 06 30 GET INTO IT (YUH) Doja Cat 43 40 20 05 TRAITOR Olivia Rodrigo 44 44 39 01 DRIVER'S LICENSE Olivia Rodrigo 45 45 60 01 MOOD 24kGoldn feat. Iann Dior 46 48 45 04 THE BUSINESS Tiësto 47 50 10 47 FANCY LIKE Walker Hayes 48 41 33 12 FRIDAY (DOPAMINE RE-EDIT) Riton x Nightcrawlers feat. Mufasa & Hypeman 49 52 02 49 ALONE WITH YOU Arz 50 67 02 50 OUT OUT Joel Corry, Jax Jones, Charli XCX & Saweetie Albums 01 02 05 01 CERTIFIED LOVER BOY Drake 02 03 20 01 SOUR Olivia Rodigo 03 05 15 03 PLANET HER Doja Cat 04 04 03 01 MONTERO Lil' Nas X 05 78 23 01 FEARLESS (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 06 NE 01 06 9 Pond 07 NE 01 07 DIVINE INTERVENTION Client Liaison 08 06 80 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 09 07 63 01 F*CK LOVE The Kid Laroi 10 10 10 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 11 NE 01 11 LOVE FOR SALE Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga 12 08 06 01 DONDA Kanye West 13 11 29 01 JUSTICE Justin Bieber 14 12 95 01 FINE LINE Harry Styles 15 13 35 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 16 NE 01 16 TALES FROM THE SCRIPT: GREATEST HITS The Script 17 15 240 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 18 14 174 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 19 NE 01 19 THE SCRAPBOOK Angus Gill 20 16 100 01 WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 21 17 226 16 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 22 21 132 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 23 22 63 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 24 19 343 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 25 23 186 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 26 18 363 01 1989 Taylor Swift 27 27 298 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 28 28 125 07 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT Lewis Capaldi 29 24 285 01 METALLICA Metallica 30 29 66 01 SHOOT FOR THE STARS, AIM FOR THE MOON Pop Smoke 31 58 274 01 25 Adele 32 33 155 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Queen / Soundtrack 33 26 43 01 T.R.U.T.H. Guy Sebastian 34 43 04 34 THE GURRUMUL STORY Gurrumul 35 32 476 01 THE VERY BEST INXS 36 31 201 08 DUA LIPA Dua Lipa 37 RE 302 02 NEVERMIND Nirvana 38 38 111 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 39 39 432 02 THE BEST OF: ALL FOR YOU Cold Chisel 40 44 43 01 EVERMORE Taylor Swift 41 36 281 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 42 37 65 01 LEGENDS NEVER DIE Juice WRLD 43 34 117 01 NO.6 COLLABORATIONS PROJECT Ed Sheeran 44 40 146 01 HARRY STYLES Harry Styles 45 42 258 02 DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS Bruno Mars 46 48 56 40 GREATEST HITS Pitbull 47 41 166 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVOURITE BAND Green Day 48 35 05 03 SENJUTSU Iron Maiden 49 46 39 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 50 52 204 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift Ever since late July there have been two constants for me, Matt Amodio winning every night on Jeopardy! and "STAY" being #1 on ARIA. The former's reign ended this week so could that be the same after 13 weeks here? It'll definitely be closer but I think "Cold Heart"'s streaming momentum has started to stall a little in the last couple of days so short of some desperate extra sales from other revenue outlets, we've likely got one more week for The Kid LAROI until Adele does her thing. Elsewhere this week, CKay climbs into the top 10, and Billie Eilish returns, possibly helped by the rare feat of having two versions of the same song in the Spotify top 50, both racking up those sweet sweet incidental plays from people who hopefully won't notice her song getting played 1.5x as often as any other. Arz continues the recent run of TikTok hits with high pitched sample choruses while Joel of many surnames brings "OUT OUT" to the top 50. Stromae only barely reached the top 100 in 2010 with the Kanye West remix of "Alors on danse" so I have to imagine there are a lot of people hearing the loop for the first time here. Anyway the real main story of this week is a big one so strap in. Australia has a reputation for larrikinism which to put it nicely often puts us well behind the rest of the world in decency. We are a country that regularly participates in the 'is blackface okay' or 'why can't we say this racial slur' debates. Honestly I imagine that the only reason we're not our own TERF Island is because we haven't caught up to actually knowing that trans folk exist yet. From this, we have a history in the music industry of abuse, misogyny and the like. Heck, the head of Sony Music Australia just recently stepped down after nearly 4 decades of being just generally terrible to his staff and anyone around him. We've developed culture wars out of this as anytime allegations come out against a band, those making the accusations are hurled abuse and dismissal. You all know about that but nonetheless it keeps happening. Now the year is 2021 and enter Rancid Eddie. They're a 5 piece band from Melbourne who hit it big on TikTok a few months ago with an acoustic version of their song "Dry". It was released as a studio track 3 Sundays ago and instantly vaulted into the Spotify top 50, and within a few days was entrenched in the top 20, getting as high as #10 once Hot Hits Australia got on board with it. So with its midweek release it wouldn't turn up on New Music Friday until 5 days after where it was gifted the top spot on the playlist. It was at this point that they started to get more of a spotlight as the nature of their lyrics with less than savoury takes about women started to be discussed. In the near two weeks since then, the band have released a series of increasingly bad apologies about distancing the performative nature of lyrics with an artist's real view point, and in doing so, the lead singer managed to repeatedly show their ass in replies doubling down on slurs & misogyny. As well as that, over the weekend more videos surfaced of the band performing even more unpleasant material referring to a woman as a 'c*m rag' and what not. So basically over the space of a single weekend the band sank their career in record time. But the song arrives here in the top 20! This is simple enough to understand since the chart covers the whole week and no matter what happens, you can't really tank a song that's already done enough in a few days to chart. I'm not going to completely be judgemental of the team at Spotify Australia but suffice to say they took an unusually long time to update Hot Hits Australia, leaving it completely untouched from Friday to Wednesday, at which point they saw fit to dump their initially unwitting support of this rising Australian band, as well as taking them off many other playlists. This is why there is a decent chance that we will completely never have to think about the band after this week as "Dry" may well drop right out of the top 50 (think it'll be somewhere between #45 & #60). Honestly nothing sums up the situation better than the band's last response this weekend (just after this ARIA Chart was released) wherein they called criticism of their lyrics 'the most repulsive form of punching down' as they're working class blokes and the criticism is coming from 'mostly young, privileged, university-educated, inner city champagne socialists', so you've heard it hear first: Women of colour are more privileged than white men in Australia, according to Rancid Eddie. They also referred to their detractors as 'sooks' and a 'social media gestapo'. Whether they are truly clueless or this is just a dog whistling attempt to court their new demographic I couldn't tell you but either way I'll gladly never have to think about this band again. (I also mainly say all of this because there's been a lot of incorrect reporting (even from ARIA) that their arrival on the chart this week is a case of 'the Streisand effect', but in actuality, they just arrived low last week since they only had half a week of streams and they were always en route to a peak of this calibre. The real effect will be the collapse next week as they've been largely deplatformed). On the album chart it's a slow week and Drake returns to the #1 spot, which is basically what "Scorpion" did in 2018 making them both his equal longest reigning albums at 3 weeks apiece. The top debut this week comes from Pond who you might know as that band who share a Venn diagram of members with Tame Impala, but have been much more prolific as "9" is indeed their 9th album and their first top 10. A little less prolific is Client Liaison who have been around for almost as long but are just putting out their 2nd album which also is their first top 10. Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga's 2nd collaborative album arrives at #11, their first entered at #7 and climbed back up to #7 2 weeks later so I guess it's up to how it gets promoted from here. The Script entered the top 10 with their first 5 albums while their 6th made #11 in 2019. That's not too bad going as they've not had a top 50 hit here since "Superheroes" in 2014. This week their Greatest Hits arrives at #16 and it remains to be seen what the streaming magnate chooses to think about it in the coming weeks. Australian country singer Angus Gill keeps charting higher and higher as he scores a new peak of #19 with his 4th album. Every week someone has to be #1 so fans of Trivium, The Hard-Ons or Shihad should try buying up because it's gonna be one of the easiest weeks to take the top spot. Don Toliver will perhaps also figure in.

+5 Lil Nas X - INDUSTRY BABY +4 Drake - Girls Want Girls +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 I swear Pnau used to be interesting -5 I swear Glass Animals used to be interesting

Just want to say that I really didn't like the Spice Girls when I was 5...or 15, but by 25 I got much more appreciation, and a good half of those still to come are great #1's.

ftr its New Zealand placement is on NZ's Hot Tracks chart which just means it was one of the 40 biggest gainers of that week and in reality is miles away from the chart. Not to say it couldn't get there eventually. It's #132 on Australian Spotify without major playlisting so similar markets suggest it could be close to NZ's Spotify chart as well.

She's always been signed to XL so she counts! :D

I did notice recently that on the OCC's Indie chart, "When We Were Young" has been charting for about 40 more weeks than "Hello", they're often quite close together, though they swing quite a bit.

Counterargument: Flat Beat good.