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+25 Rina Sawayama - XS +24 Tame Impala - Let It Happen +23 Metric - Doomscroller +22 Weeknd - The Hills +21 Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel +20 Chemical Brothers (feat. Q-Tip) - Go +19 xx – On Hold +18 FKA Twigs - Two Weeks +17 Paramore - This Is Why +16 Rihanna - Kiss It Better +15 Cardi B (feat. Megan Thee Stallion) - WAP +14 Demi Lovato - Cool For The Summer +13 Lorde - Team +12 Ten Walls - Walking With Elephants +11 Sigrid - Strangers +10 Twenty One Pilots - Jumpsuit +9 Lizzo - Juice +8 French Montana (feat. Swae Lee) - Unforgettable +7 Oliver Heldens & Becky Hill - Gecko (Overdrive) +6 Mark Ronson (feat. Lykke Li) - Late Night Feelings +5 Steve Lacy - Bad Habit +4 alt-J - 3WW +3 Lorde - Perfect Places +2 Lil Nas X - Montero (Call Me By Your Name) +1 Mark Ronson (feat. Bruno Mars) - Uptown Funk

+5 Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars - Die With A Smile +4 Sonny Fodera - Somedays +3 Chappell Roan - HOT TO GO! +2 Gigi Perez - Sailor Song +1 Charli xcx - Sympathy is a knife -1 Adam Port - Move -2 Sabrina Carpenter - Bed Chem -3 Sabrina Carpenter - Taste -4 KSI - Thick Of It -5 Gracie Abrams - I Love You, I'm Sorry (shout out to when I decided to just not listen to this song, not horrible but I was spot on and saved myself a lot of time)

21/10/2024 Singles 01 01 08 01 TASTE Sabrina Carpenter 02 03 22 01 BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish 03 02 27 01 A BAR SONG (TIPSY) Shaboozey 04 04 09 02 DIE WITH A SMILE Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars 05 05 27 01 ESPRESSO Sabrina Carpenter 06 06 39 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 07 07 27 04 GOOD LUCK, BABE Chappell Roan 08 08 23 01 I HAD SOME HELP Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen 09 09 19 01 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Sabrina Carpenter 10 10 08 10 BED CHEM Sabrina Carpenter 11 11 03 11 TIMELESS The Weeknd, Playboi Carti 12 17 09 12 SAILOR SONG Gigi Perez 13 15 48 04 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 14 12 30 01 TOO SWEET Hozier 15 14 32 10 AUSTIN Dasha 16 22 11 01 GUESS Charli XCX feat. Billie Eilish 17 13 23 11 STARGAZING Myles Smith 18 20 12 19 I LOVE YOU, I'M SORRY Gracie Abrams 19 16 52 01 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 20 19 118 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 21 NE 001 21 SYMPATHY IS A KNIFE Charli XCX 22 18 08 18 DIET PEPSI Addison Rae 23 21 30 21 SLOW IT DOWN Benson Boone 24 26 60 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves 25 28 25 01 MILLION DOLLAR BABY Tommy Richman 26 24 17 19 HOT TO GO! Chappell Roan 27 25 18 25 NIGHTS LIKE THIS The Kid Laroi 28 23 218 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 29 74 02 29 THICK OF IT KSI feat. Trippie Redd 30 27 21 12 PINK SKIES Zach Bryan 31 30 19 21 AIN'T NO LOVE IN OKLAHOMA (FROM TWISTERS: THE ALBUM) Luke Combs 32 34 40 12 SCARED TO START Michael Marcagi 33 31 82 01 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 34 32 08 19 JUNO Sabrina Carpenter 35 47 22 14 WILDFLOWER Billie Eilish 36 29 05 14 IT'S OK I'M OK Tate McRae 37 44 14 33 THE DOOR Teddy Swims 38 61 30 11 FE!N Travis Scott feat. Playboi Carti 39 39 11 31 KISSES BL3SS x CamrinWatsin feat. bbyclose 40 35 225 19 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 41 36 24 05 NOT LIKE US Kendrick Lamar 42 33 223 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 43 RE 17 24 360 Charli XCX 44 38 169 01 IRIS Goo Goo Dolls 45 41 89 03 I LIKE THE WAY YOU KISS ME Artemas 46 48 03 46 EMBRACE IT Ndotz 47 37 81 02 FAST CAR Luke Combs 48 45 89 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 49 RE 03 42 TALK TALK Charli XCX 50 40 08 37 BABY I'M BACK The Kid Laroi Bubbling Under 12 (13) GIRLS The Kid Laroi 13 (11) BIG DAWGS Hanumankind, Kalmi 14 (NE) MANTRA Jennie 15 (16) GUY FOR THAT Post Malone feat. Luke Combs 16 (17) BACKBONE Chase & Status, Stormzy 17 (14) DANCING IN THE FLAMES The Weeknd 18 (22) BAD DREAMS Teddy Swims 19 (NE) APEROL SPRITZ The Kid Laroi 20 (24) SOMEDAYS Sonny Fodera, D.O.D & Jazzy Albums 01 16 019 01 BRAT Charli XCX 02 01 008 01 SHORT N' SWEET Sabrina Carpenter 03 NE 001 03 INHALE / EXHALE Rüfüs Du Sol 04 NE 001 04 SUPERCHARGED The Offspring 05 07 058 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 06 04 027 03 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS Chappell Roan 07 06 022 01 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish 08 05 193 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 09 09 178 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 10 02 002 02 MOON MUSIC Coldplay 11 08 003 04 +-=÷× (TOUR COLLECTION) Ed Sheeran 12 12 017 01 THE SECRET OF US Gracie Abrams 13 10 026 01 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Taylor Swift 14 11 085 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 15 32 064 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 16 14 078 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 17 13 344 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 18 18 027 07 PAPERCUTS Linkin Park 19 NE 001 19 BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN Jelly Roll 20 19 097 01 SOS SZA 21 25 009 01 50 YEARS - THE BEST OF Cold Chisel 22 17 009 02 F-1 TRILLION Post Malone 23 21 384 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 24 24 071 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 25 23 020 03 THE FIRST TIME The Kid Laroi 26 22 439 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 27 26 456 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 28 27 051 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 29 20 272 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 30 30 269 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 31 31 221 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 32 RE 003 08 ZORA Sheppard 33 34 501 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 34 36 362 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 35 28 014 01 THE DEATH OF SLIM SHADY (COUP DE GRÂCE) Eminem 36 39 101 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 37 35 258 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 38 55 298 01 ASTROWORLD Travis Scott 39 38 290 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 40 37 107 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 41 40 010 30 96 MONTHS Calvin Harris 42 43 332 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 43 33 236 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 44 45 329 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 45 42 060 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 46 44 324 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 47 49 313 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 48 53 123 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 49 50 398 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 50 47 103 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters "Taste" is #1 for an 8th week. With only 11 weeks left in the chart year it might be a decent shout to say that it'll be the longest running #1 hit of the year, but you never really know until it's mathematically impossible to not know it. In any case it gets a little juicier (tastier?) next week because it may well be dethroned. The new ROSÉ song has rocketed to a healthy lead on Spotify and has the sales & YouTube edge to make me suspect it only needs to half-ass the rest of the week to get there. For comparison also, BLACKPINK already scored a #1 hit 2 years ago with "Pink Venom", despite it finishing the Spotify week at #11 with a 340,000 stream deficit. They can't be underestimated. For possibly the last time I can report that "Bed Chem" is at #10, 7 weeks in a row, crazy! This one has an asterisk attached to it because I believe ARIA did not combine the streams for the live version of "I Love You, I'm Sorry", which I'm sure would have made the difference. Whether they fix that or not next week though, it looks like "Bed Chem" will fall back into the pack next week and will need a jolt of momentum to come back. Speaking of that pack, Myles Smith has now been in the #11-#20 section for 21 consecutive weeks without a top 10 peak. I believe this to be a record, although it's worth noting that Justin Bieber's "Ghost" had a longer run interrupted by Christmas. Dasha would be on 25 consecutive weeks had "Austin" not gotten a single lucky week at #10. In a fascinatingly fast-tracked version of what the charts used to be like, Charli XCX now has 6 top 50 entries from her latest album despite the fact that none of them had done so until several weeks after the release. Also arriving is the new KSI song which I haven't listened to but if you can believe it, it's his second highest charting single ever (behind "Holiday"). Maybe you can believe it, I'm always skeptical of internet hivemind opinions that reach easy punchline ubiquity. My favourite depiction of the new music chart slowing down has been reached. As suspected last week, "GIRLS" by The Kid LAROI does in fact reach a new peak on the New Music chart, despite being a top 20 hit that's no longer in the top 50. It has to be retired next week though, but the arrival of ROSÉ & Morgan Wallen should stem the tide back the other way for a bit. The new arrival of "Somedays" (which I'd guess isn't in the ARIA top 100 as it's only #137 on Spotify) reminds me of the news I feel I need to document. Over the past couple of months, Hot Hits Australia has been slowly expanding. It's been 50 songs for as long as I can remember but every week or so I check and it's added another 5 songs. It's currently 75 songs, and as an amazing bonus, the Australian content quota has really surpassed the usual. When I checked on the weekend, it had 22/75 songs counting as Australian which is far better than the 8-9/50 it was sitting at for a lot of this year. Granted there are some sketchy inclusions in that 22 (Troye Sivan via Charli XCX, CYRIL via Robin Schulz, an Odd Mob remix of Sean Paul's "Get Busy"), but it's the kind of progress I have to commend. Maybe something will be done about the state of the algorithms. Earlier this year Charli XCX debuted at #3 which was a slight comedown as her last album hit the top spot. She's reversed fortunes though and now has a second #1 album. A fair effort given the incumbent streaming avalanche hasn't really slowed down all that much. Sadly the chart personification of Santa Claus has to take another Australian artist off the nice list. RÜFÜS DU SOL missed the top spot in 2018 when they went up against the rough competition in "A Star Is Born", but they got back to #1 again with their next album. Now they're only at #3 which makes you wonder if they could ever get there again. Actually I'm misrepresenting it because they actually haven't released the album physically yet. Maybe with enough pre-orders they'll have the last laugh but I feel like they're just gonna get back into the top 5. The Offspring also return this week. They've had 2 #1 albums in the past (the obvious two), and nearly got a 3rd in 2021 but lost out to London Grammar. Did you know that London Grammar's album a few weeks ago didn't even make the top 50 here? I guess The Offspring had the last laugh, I dunno what happened with that one though, it's an aberration. The potential chart dominance of Jelly Roll seems to loom in the distance. He scored his first top 50 hit earlier this year via Eminem (with a song that's still selling decently), and now has a top 20 album to his name. Sheppard return thanks to vinyl sales, and I should also clarify for context that Olivia Rodrigo, Coldplay & Travis Scott have all been in the country recently. This week is also the first time in 2 years that Taylor Swift has been out of the top 10.

11-10-10-10-10-10-10-10 (think it got there on a technicality this week but we take these)

+5 Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars - Die With A Smile +4 Sonny Fodera - Somedays +3 Chase & Status - BACKBONE +2 Chappell Roan - HOT TO GO! +1 BL3SS - Kisses -1 Gigi Perez - Sailor Song -2 Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please -3 Sabrina Carpenter - Taste -4 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso -5 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!

Former came out in May 2023 so not all of its sales are from this year.

14/10/2024 Singles 01 01 07 01 TASTE Sabrina Carpenter 02 04 26 01 A BAR SONG (TIPSY) Shaboozey 03 02 21 01 BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish 04 03 08 02 DIE WITH A SMILE Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars 05 05 26 01 ESPRESSO Sabrina Carpenter 06 07 38 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 07 06 26 04 GOOD LUCK, BABE Chappell Roan 08 08 22 01 I HAD SOME HELP Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen 09 09 18 01 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Sabrina Carpenter 10 10 07 10 BED CHEM Sabrina Carpenter 11 11 02 11 TIMELESS The Weeknd, Playboi Carti 12 14 29 01 TOO SWEET Hozier 13 15 22 11 STARGAZING Myles Smith 14 13 31 10 AUSTIN Dasha 15 12 47 04 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 16 16 51 01 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 17 26 08 17 SAILOR SONG Gigi Perez 18 27 07 18 DIET PEPSI Addison Rae 19 18 117 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 20 35 11 19 I LOVE YOU, I'M SORRY Gracie Abrams 21 24 29 21 SLOW IT DOWN Benson Boone 22 17 10 01 GUESS Charli XCX feat. Billie Eilish 23 22 217 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 24 23 16 19 HOT TO GO! Chappell Roan 25 31 17 25 NIGHTS LIKE THIS The Kid Laroi 26 28 59 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan Feat. Kacey Musgraves 27 25 20 12 PINK SKIES Zach Bryan 28 20 24 01 MILLION DOLLAR BABY Tommy Richman 29 19 04 14 IT'S OK I'M OK Tate McRae 30 21 18 21 AIN'T NO LOVE IN OKLAHOMA (FROM TWISTERS: THE ALBUM) Luke Combs 31 32 81 01 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 32 39 07 19 JUNO Sabrina Carpenter 33 48 222 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 34 29 39 12 SCARED TO START Michael Marcagi 35 40 224 19 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 36 33 23 05 NOT LIKE US Kendrick Lamar 37 51 80 02 FAST CAR Luke Combs 38 41 168 01 IRIS Goo Goo Dolls 39 34 10 31 KISSES BL3SS x CamrinWatsin feat. bbyclose 40 37 07 37 BABY I'M BACK The Kid Laroi 41 43 88 03 I LIKE THE WAY YOU KISS ME Artemas 42 38 07 12 GOOD GRACES Sabrina Carpenter 43 50 122 02 TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier 44 36 13 33 THE DOOR Teddy Swims 45 45 88 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 46 30 11 09 BIG DAWGS Hanumankind, Kalmi 47 53 21 14 WILDFLOWER Billie Eilish 48 65 02 48 EMBRACE IT Ndotz 49 RE 17 08 DON'T DREAM IT'S OVER Crowded House 50 42 93 25 WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS Luke Combs Bubbling Under 13 (13) GIRLS The Kid Laroi 14 (15) DANCING IN THE FLAMES The Weeknd 15 (NE) THICK OF IT KSI feat. Trippie Redd 16 (17) GUY FOR THAT Post Malone feat. Luke Combs 17 (19) BACKBONE Chase & Status, Stormzy 18 (20) BURNING DOWN Alex Warren 19 (23) LIES LIES LIES Morgan Wallen 20 (14) THE EMPTINESS MACHINE Linkin Park Albums 01 01 007 01 SHORT N' SWEET Sabrina Carpenter 02 NE 001 02 MOON MUSIC Coldplay 03 NE 001 03 BACKBONE Kasey Chambers 04 03 026 03 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS Chappell Roan 05 06 192 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 06 05 021 01 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish 07 11 057 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 08 04 002 04 +-=÷× (TOUR COLLECTION) Ed Sheeran 09 12 177 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 10 08 025 01 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Taylor Swift 11 10 084 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 12 16 016 01 THE SECRET OF US Gracie Abrams 13 09 343 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 14 15 077 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 15 NE 001 15 DEATH TO ART TISM 16 27 018 03 BRAT Charli XCX 17 14 008 02 F-1 TRILLION Post Malone 18 18 026 07 PAPERCUTS Linkin Park 19 19 096 01 SOS SZA 20 31 271 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 21 17 383 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 22 13 438 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 23 23 019 03 THE FIRST TIME The Kid Laroi 24 22 070 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 25 45 008 01 50 YEARS - THE BEST OF Cold Chisel 26 29 455 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 27 28 050 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 28 25 013 01 THE DEATH OF SLIM SHADY (COUP DE GRÂCE) Eminem 29 NE 001 29 CUTOUTS The Smile 30 24 268 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 31 26 220 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 32 37 063 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 33 58 235 01 AFTER HOURS The Weeknd 34 33 500 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 35 30 257 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 36 32 361 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 37 36 106 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 38 42 289 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 39 38 100 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 40 39 009 30 96 MONTHS Calvin Harris 41 02 012 02 POST HUMAN: NEX GEN Bring Me The Horizon 42 43 059 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 43 41 331 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 44 59 323 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 45 48 328 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 46 NE 001 46 SELECTED AMBIENT WORKS, VOLUME II Aphex Twin 47 56 102 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 48 52 213 40 GREATEST HITS Pitbull 49 46 312 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 50 47 397 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran "Taste" is #1 for a 7th week. If you are waiting with bated breath for the week where I say it's probably done, you'll have to come back another time because there still isn't anything making a challenge. Again the more important Sabrina news is that "Bed Chem" is #10 for a 6th consecutive week. This far exceeds the benchmark for this which has always been WSTRN's "In2", which if you remember that song, you might remember it spent 4 weeks at its #10 peak. The song will probably decline this week as "Sailor Song" and "I Love You, I'm Sorry" may well overtake it. Or a Charli XCX song? I don't have the capacity to keep up with these things without midweeks so you'll find out with me. In a move that potentially has ACR in shambles, two fairly ancient top 50 entries in "Slow It Down" and "NIGHTS LIKE THIS" both manage new peaks this week. Speaking of The Kid LAROI, I forgot to fire up the NEW AUSTRALIAN MUSIC KLAXON last week for "BABY I'M BACK", which benefitted from a belated Hot Hits Australia appearance to finally get over the line. This is an extremely Australian coded sample of Player's "Baby Come Back" because in addition to Ocean Alley's very popular cover of it (certified Gold 4 years ago by ARIA), it's of course used as hold music for the Department Of Missing Babies in Season 3 of The Simpsons. Anyway, in order to repent my mistake, I've been enjoying lately. Look at those view counts, you could be the hippest cat in town if you got in on this. Or if you just want to embrace familiarity, the definitely Australian band Crowded House have returned to the top 50 for the first time in nearly 2 decades, with their notedly popular "Don't Dream It's Over". Speaking of embrace, Ndotz also makes an ARIA debut this week. Sabrina Carpenter has a 6th week at #1 on the album chart. This means that Codpay finally complete their name with a second L. In 2015 they were unable to unseat incumbent Adele, and once again it's an incumbent who blocks them. All of their studio albums have peaked in the top 2 though. This is also just the second of their albums to not net a top 50 hit although I believe "feelslikeimfallinginlove" was quite close on debut. Earlier this year, Stormzy made a strange declaration of an insult on the ARIA Albums Chart, I'm sure you remember. The ARIA Albums Chart has finally responded in kind and now does in fact have a "Backbone", courtesy of Kasey Chambers. Kasey Chambers was inducted into the ARIA Hall Of Fame a few years back which is a rare feat because the selection committee has largely skipped over much of the '90s. Silverchair, Powderfinger, You Am I, Savage Garden, Something For Kate? Not in the ARIA Hall of Fame. Gotta make room for Jet instead. That said, Kasey Chambers' success is largely in the 2000s where she scored 4 #1 albums and a #1 single in "Not Pretty Enough", the goal song of The Big O, Oscar McInerney who tragically missed out on a premiership medal last month when he dislocated his shoulder twice in the preliminary final. Kasey got a 5th #1 album in 2017 and this is her highest chart position since then. On the topic of '90s legends who absolutely should be in the ARIA Hall Of Fame, I'd be remiss not to bring up TISM. You might know them as that band that everyone keeps insisting should go to Eurovision. For over 40 years they've been providing utter irreverance with pointed literary awareness mixed in with Australian nonsense that makes absolutely no sense outside of this country. They do this while remaining largely anonymous, performing with balaclavas at all times. They were on hiatus for most of the 21st century until 2022, and now have a new album to show for it. It's the first one with new member Vladimir Lenin-McCartney, and yes, all of their stage names are ridiculous. Anyway, remember in 2000 when Radiohead released "Kid A", and then had the audacity to put out another album shortly after that was just a bunch of leftovers from those sessions, including songs like "Pyramid Song" and "Life In A Glasshouse"? Absurd. Anyway, The Smile have done something similar and released another album from the same sessions as their album earlier this year. Lastly we have a first time ever entry for Aphex Twin's second "Selected Ambient Works" album. The only other top 50 album he's had is his 2014 album "Syro", perhaps the most iconic album with a harsh, confrontational green shade?

Legendary chart run for this in Australia thus far: 11-10-10-10-10-10-10

+30 My Chemical Romance - The Foundations of Decay +29 Kendrick Lamar - The Heart Part 5 +28 Sigrid - A Driver Saved My Night +27 Metric - Doomscroller +26 Ethel Cain - American Teenager +25 Let's Eat Grandma - Happy New Year +24 RAYE (feat. 070 Shake) - Escapism. +23 Zach Bryan - Something in the Orange +22 bbno$ (feat. Rich Brian) - edamame +21 Muse - Won’t Stand Down +20 MUNA - What I Want +19 Paramore - This Is Why +18 Tate McRae - She's All I Wanna Be +17 Fred again… - Delilah (pull me out of this) +16 Arctic Monkeys - Body Paint +15 Steve Lacy - Bad Habit +14 Beyoncé - Cuff It +13 Dove Cameron - Boyfriend +12 Florence & the Machine - King +11 Arctic Monkeys - There'd Better Be a Mirrorball +10 LF System - Afraid To Feel +9 Lizzo - About Damn Time +8 Fontaines D.C. - Jackie Down The Line +7 Future (feat. Drake & Tems) - Wait For U +6 Beyoncé - Break My Soul +5 Caroline Polachek - Billions +4 Tove Lo - No One Dies From Love +3 Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal - B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All) +2 Röyksopp (feat. Susanne Sundfør) - Oh, Lover +1 Joji - Glimpse Of Us

Wires crossed here a bit. I believe kworb's data is correct (it comes directly from charts.spotify), but you're only looking at the single day increase (10/10 vs. 03/10), whereas Emails is looking at the whole week (basically 7 of those increases). When kworb's weekly chart updates later tonight it'll say the same thing. As for the increase, it's going from 699,504 to 969,089, you divide the difference into the first value and it gets you a 38.5% increase, I'm guessing the 28% comes from using the other as a denominator.

Love the search function on this site, top marks I'll also add to this that if ACR was heightened, you'll probably get a nice bit of relief on that week, but then all those songs that might still be hanging around at lower spots will do just that (with less movement because they need to fluctuate more to move the needle) and at best, it will just be a new bland state of affairs that'll need a rule fix in a few years.

didn't see the big decline last week, lmao I knew it.

+5 Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars - Die With A Smile +4 Sonny Fodera - Somedays +3 Chase & Status - BACKBONE +2 Chappell Roan - HOT TO GO! +1 BL3SS - Kisses -1 Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please -2 Sabrina Carpenter - Taste -3 Charli XCX - Guess -4 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso -5 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! ------ +5 Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars - Die With A Smile +4 Sonny Fodera - Somedays +3 Chase & Status - BACKBONE +2 Chappell Roan - HOT TO GO! +1 The Weeknd - TIMELESS -1 BL3SS - Kisses -2 Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please -3 Sabrina Carpenter - Taste -4 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso -5 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!

07/10/2024 Singles 01 01 06 01 TASTE Sabrina Carpenter 02 04 20 01 BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish 03 02 07 02 DIE WITH A SMILE Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars 04 03 25 01 A BAR SONG (TIPSY) Shaboozey 05 05 25 01 ESPRESSO Sabrina Carpenter 06 06 25 04 GOOD LUCK, BABE Chappell Roan 07 07 37 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 08 08 21 01 I HAD SOME HELP Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen 09 09 17 01 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Sabrina Carpenter 10 10 06 10 BED CHEM Sabrina Carpenter 11 NE 01 11 TIMELESS The Weeknd, Playboi Carti 12 11 46 04 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 13 13 30 10 AUSTIN Dasha 14 12 28 01 TOO SWEET Hozier 15 15 21 11 STARGAZING Myles Smith 16 18 50 01 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 17 16 09 01 GUESS Charli XCX feat. Billie Eilish 18 20 116 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 19 14 03 14 IT'S OK I'M OK Tate McRae 20 17 23 01 MILLION DOLLAR BABY Tommy Richman 21 21 17 21 AIN'T NO LOVE IN OKLAHOMA (FROM TWISTERS: THE ALBUM) Luke Combs 22 23 216 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 23 19 15 19 HOT TO GO! Chappell Roan 24 25 28 22 SLOW IT DOWN Benson Boone 25 28 19 12 PINK SKIES Zach Bryan 26 22 07 22 SAILOR SONG Gigi Perez 27 39 06 27 DIET PEPSI Addison Rae 28 24 58 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan Feat. Kacey Musgraves 29 29 38 12 SCARED TO START Michael Marcagi 30 26 10 09 BIG DAWGS Hanumankind, Kalmi 31 32 16 26 NIGHTS LIKE THIS The Kid Laroi 32 34 80 01 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 33 27 22 05 NOT LIKE US Kendrick Lamar 34 31 09 31 KISSES BL3SS x CamrinWatsin feat. bbyclose 35 30 10 19 I LOVE YOU, I'M SORRY Gracie Abrams 36 33 12 33 THE DOOR Teddy Swims 37 53 06 37 BABY I'M BACK The Kid Laroi 38 43 06 12 GOOD GRACES Sabrina Carpenter 39 67 06 19 JUNO Sabrina Carpenter 40 37 223 19 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 41 35 167 01 IRIS Goo Goo Dolls 42 38 92 25 WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS Luke Combs 43 44 87 03 I LIKE THE WAY YOU KISS ME Artemas 44 36 09 18 APPLE Charli XCX 45 46 87 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 46 45 18 01 HOUDINI Eminem 47 47 24 01 FORTNIGHT Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone 48 54 221 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 49 48 30 02 WE CAN'T BE FRIENDS (WAIT FOR YOUR LOVE) Ariana Grande 50 52 121 02 TAKE ME TO CHURCH Hozier Bubbling Under 13 (13) GIRLS The Kid Laroi 14 (14) THE EMPTINESS MACHINE Linkin Park 15 (12) DANCING IN THE FLAMES The Weeknd 16 (NE) EMBRACE IT Ndotz 17 (16) GUY FOR THAT Post Malone feat. Luke Combs 18 (59) HEAVY IS THE CROWN Linkin Park 19 (17) BACKBONE Chase & Status, Stormzy 20 (19) BURNING DOWN Alex Warren Albums 01 01 006 01 SHORT N' SWEET Sabrina Carpenter 02 RE 011 02 POST HUMAN: NEX GEN Bring Me The Horizon 03 05 025 03 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS Chappell Roan 04 NE 001 04 +-=÷× (TOUR COLLECTION) Ed Sheeran 05 06 020 01 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish 06 07 191 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 07 NE 001 07 LET THE OCEAN TAKE ME (REDUX) The Amity Affliction 08 09 024 01 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Taylor Swift 09 08 342 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 10 11 083 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 11 16 056 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 12 13 176 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 13 24 437 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 14 12 007 02 F-1 TRILLION Post Malone 15 15 076 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 16 14 015 01 THE SECRET OF US Gracie Abrams 17 19 382 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 18 20 025 07 PAPERCUTS Linkin Park 19 18 095 01 SOS SZA 20 02 002 02 143 Katy Perry 21 NE 001 21 PS4: OPERATION BURNER RAP Posseshot 22 22 069 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 23 21 018 03 THE FIRST TIME The Kid Laroi 24 28 267 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 25 17 012 01 THE DEATH OF SLIM SHADY (COUP DE GRÂCE) Eminem 26 26 219 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 27 23 017 03 BRAT Charli XCX 28 29 049 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 29 32 454 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 30 25 256 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 31 34 270 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 32 30 360 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 33 37 499 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 34 RE 003 09 DAYS BEFORE RODEO Travis Scott 35 NE 001 35 HAPPINESS IN A PLACE IT SHOULDN'T BE The Rions 36 33 105 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 37 36 062 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 38 39 099 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 39 35 008 30 96 MONTHS Calvin Harris 40 NE 001 40 HARLEQUIN Lady Gaga 41 38 330 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 42 53 288 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 43 40 058 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 44 31 014 03 FATHERS & SONS Luke Combs 45 42 007 01 50 YEARS - THE BEST OF Cold Chisel 46 43 311 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 47 48 396 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 48 50 327 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 49 62 036 27 EMAILS I CAN'T SEND Sabrina Carpenter 50 NE 001 50 YOU'LL BE ALRIGHT, KID (CHAPTER 1) Alex Warren "Taste" is #1 for a 6th week. It'll be #1 again next week I'm pretty sure. The other interesting Sabrina Carpenter thing going on here is that despite quite a bit of chaos in the positions of some of her entries, "Bed Chem" has managed to sit at a peak of #10 for a 5th consecutive week. There's a decent chance it'll land there again, as The Weeknd's "Timeless" is the big competition. It's dwindled in other countries, but The Weeknd is currently touring Australia so that's combatting the anchor. "Take Me To Church" has been a streaming behemoth for quite some time, but this week it actually manages to get back into the top 50 for the first time since 2015. Hozier will be in the country soon so it could get even higher. Sabrina Carpenter has a 5th week at #1 on the album chart. Most of the album is still on the Spotify chart so that sets a bar that's hard to beat. Maybe Coldplay can do it? The British band that can't is Bring Me The Horizon, whose full physical release brings them to a new peak of #2 (prev. #4). We've also got the ominous arrival of that Ed Sheeran collection, and get to anticipate what the week 2 & week 3 movement will be. In saying that, Foo Fighters' "Essential" album just fell out of the top 50 for the first time since debuting 2 years ago, so you can't always overestimate the longevity (as I eye the teetering "Diamonds"). Also I suspect you're familiar with the words 'Taylor's Version', what if I told you that Australia can do this as well. In 2014, The Amity Affliction reached their highest high of popularity, you could even say the same for metalcore. Not before or since have we ever seen songs that dominate digital sales over and over again (The Amity Affliction have three top 30 singles). The second of their 4 consecutive #1 albums, "Let The Ocean Take Me" was a massive success that spent 5 months in the top 50. Thanks to industry rule #4080, the band see very little profit from its sales (your target of ire this time is Roadrunner Records), and so they have re-recorded it. There's also a new peak for Chappell Roan in the top 5 (prev. #4). I'm not quite as familiar with the next Australian debut which is Posseshot at #21. I do know of The Rions who previously won triple j's Unearthed High competition allowing them to hit the big stage before even graduating. They've been putting out music for a few years now and get their first charting album. Also Alex Warren sneaks into the top 50 with one of those albums that has a lot of singles and suspiciously low streams for the few remaining deep cuts. He's on the rise though so hard to say where this album is gonna generally reside.

+30 CHVRCHES (feat. Robert Smith) - How Not to Drown +29 Wolf Alice - The Last Man On Earth +28 Let's Eat Grandma - Hall of Mirrors +27 Little Simz - Introvert +26 Olivia Rodrigo - Drivers License +25 Mitski - The Only Heartbreaker +24 Halsey - I Am Not a Woman, I'm a God +23 Magdalena Bay - You Lose! +22 London Grammar - Lord It's a Feeling +21 Silk Sonic - Leave the Door Open +20 Olivia Rodrigo - Déjà Vu +19 Rain Radio & DJ Craig Gorman - Talk About +18 SZA - Good Days +17 Lil Nas X - Montero (Call Me By Your Name) +16 Mabel - Let Them Know +15 Weeknd - Take My Breath +14 Cardi B - Up +13 Imagine Dragons (feat. J.I.D) - Enemy +12 Måneskin - Zitii E Buoni +11 Wolf Alice - How Can I Make It OK? +10 Fred again.. (feat. The Blessed Madonna) - Marea (We've Lost Dancing) +9 Charli XCX - Good Ones +8 Måneskin - I Wanna Be Your Slave +7 Olivia Rodrigo - Good 4 U +6 Wet Leg - Chaise Longue +5 Willow (feat. Travis Barker) - t r a n s p a r e n t s o u l +4 Billie Eilish - Billie Bossa Nova +3 Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd - Moth to a Flame +2 Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow - Industry Baby +1 Japanese Breakfast - Be Sweet

+5 Lady Gaga - Die With A Smile +4 Sonny Fodera - Somedays (crazy how an Australian artist can have two UK top 10 hits and still not chart here) +3 Chase & Status - BACKBONE +2 BL3SS - Kisses +1 Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please -1 Charli XCX - Guess -2 Linkin Park - The Emptiness Machine -3 Sabrina Carpenter - Taste -4 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso -5 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! /////////// +5 Lady Gaga - Die With A Smile +4 Sonny Fodera - Somedays +3 Chase & Status - BACKBONE +2 Chappell Roan - HOT TO GO! +1 BL3SS - Kisses -1 Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please -2 Linkin Park - The Emptiness Machine -3 Sabrina Carpenter - Taste -4 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso -5 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!

Oh and as it were, Australia and New Zealand were completely unaffected by whatever this is, yet every other country sees this boost. "Yellow" did get a massive decline though so the two aren't necessarily one to one linked. As to the reason behind it, it's possible that it's intentional, but it also might just be algorithm quirks. The sorts that can just happen by accident. I always suspect that no one intentionally made "Harness Your Hopes" by Pavement a big thing, but a Spotify algorithm made it happen.

30/09/2024 Singles 01 01 05 01 TASTE Sabrina Carpenter 02 02 06 02 DIE WITH A SMILE Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars 03 04 24 01 A BAR SONG (TIPSY) Shaboozey 04 03 19 01 BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish 05 05 24 01 ESPRESSO Sabrina Carpenter 06 06 24 04 GOOD LUCK, BABE Chappell Roan 07 07 36 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 08 09 20 01 I HAD SOME HELP Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen 09 08 16 01 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Sabrina Carpenter 10 10 05 10 BED CHEM Sabrina Carpenter 11 11 45 04 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 12 13 27 01 TOO SWEET Hozier 13 12 29 10 AUSTIN Dasha 14 14 02 14 IT'S OK I'M OK Tate McRae 15 15 20 11 STARGAZING Myles Smith 16 16 08 01 GUESS Charli XCX feat. Billie Eilish 17 18 22 01 MILLION DOLLAR BABY Tommy Richman 18 17 49 01 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 19 24 14 22 HOT TO GO! Chappell Roan 20 21 115 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 21 39 16 21 AIN'T NO LOVE IN OKLAHOMA (FROM TWISTERS: THE ALBUM) Luke Combs 22 27 06 34 SAILOR SONG Gigi Perez 23 23 215 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 24 26 57 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan Feat. Kacey Musgraves 25 28 27 22 SLOW IT DOWN Benson Boone 26 20 09 09 BIG DAWGS Hanumankind, Kalmi 27 25 21 05 NOT LIKE US Kendrick Lamar 28 29 18 12 PINK SKIES Zach Bryan 29 30 37 12 SCARED TO START Michael Marcagi 30 22 09 19 I LOVE YOU, I'M SORRY Gracie Abrams 31 35 08 31 KISSES BL3SS x CamrinWatsin feat. bbyclose 32 32 15 26 NIGHTS LIKE THIS The Kid Laroi 33 40 11 33 THE DOOR Teddy Swims 34 34 79 01 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 35 41 166 01 IRIS Goo Goo Dolls 36 37 08 18 APPLE Charli XCX 37 44 222 19 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 38 71 91 25 WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS Luke Combs 39 46 05 39 DIET PEPSI Addison Rae 40 33 14 23 KEHLANI Jordan Adetunji 41 19 02 19 DANCING IN THE FLAMES The Weeknd 42 47 13 18 GIRLS The Kid Laroi 43 31 05 12 GOOD GRACES Sabrina Carpenter 44 48 86 03 I LIKE THE WAY YOU KISS ME Artemas 45 43 17 01 HOUDINI Eminem 46 53 86 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 47 38 23 01 FORTNIGHT Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone 48 45 29 02 WE CAN'T BE FRIENDS (WAIT FOR YOUR LOVE) Ariana Grande 49 56 33 15 STUMBLIN' IN Cyril 50 75 78 02 FAST CAR Luke Combs Bubbling Under 14 (11) THE EMPTINESS MACHINE Linkin Park 15 (19) BABY I'M BACK The Kid Laroi 16 (23) GUY FOR THAT Post Malone feat. Luke Combs 17 (17) BACKBONE Chase & Status, Stormzy 18 (20) BAD DREAMS Teddy Swims 19 (NE) BURNING DOWN Alex Warren 20 (21) CLOSE TO YOU Gracie Abrams Albums 01 01 005 01 SHORT N' SWEET Sabrina Carpenter 02 NE 001 02 143 Katy Perry 03 NE 001 03 HIGH Keith Urban 04 NE 001 04 SODA The Rubens 05 04 024 04 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS Chappell Roan 06 03 019 01 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish 07 05 190 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 08 19 341 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 09 06 023 01 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Taylor Swift 10 NE 001 10 IN WAVES Jamie XX 11 10 082 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 12 07 006 02 F-1 TRILLION Post Malone 13 11 175 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 14 09 014 01 THE SECRET OF US Gracie Abrams 15 12 075 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 16 08 055 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 17 02 011 01 THE DEATH OF SLIM SHADY (COUP DE GRÂCE) Eminem 18 15 094 01 SOS SZA 19 18 381 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 20 13 024 07 PAPERCUTS Linkin Park 21 20 017 03 THE FIRST TIME The Kid Laroi 22 21 068 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 23 16 016 03 BRAT Charli XCX 24 27 436 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 25 53 255 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 26 23 218 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 27 NE 001 27 MIXTAPE PLUTO Future 28 22 266 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 29 28 048 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 30 26 359 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 31 71 013 03 FATHERS & SONS Luke Combs 32 29 453 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 33 31 104 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 34 32 269 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 35 33 007 30 96 MONTHS Calvin Harris 36 35 061 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 37 30 498 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 38 39 329 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 39 37 098 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 40 38 057 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 41 87 078 02 GETTIN' OLD Luke Combs 42 49 006 01 50 YEARS - THE BEST OF Cold Chisel 43 43 310 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 44 46 211 40 GREATEST HITS Pitbull 45 44 025 17 FIREWORKS & ROLLERBLADES Benson Boone 46 41 100 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 47 50 194 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 48 52 395 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 49 25 003 03 TEN DAYS Fred Again.. 50 42 326 01 AM Arctic Monkeys "Taste" is #1 for a 5th week. Continues to weather the storm so expect a 6th week on the horizon. I'd write more but I apologise, I'm riding the weekend high from the footy and don't have much in the way of thoughts elsewhere. In case you were wondering though, Katy Perry's last 3 albums have debuted at #2, and given that she was just here, maybe this one won't collapse so dramatically.

Would like to thank Katy Perry for singing "Roar" and giving the Lions the morale boost to get their first premiership since I was in primary school :cheeseblock:

23/09/2024 Singles 01 01 04 01 TASTE Sabrina Carpenter 02 03 05 02 DIE WITH A SMILE Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars 03 02 18 01 BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish 04 04 23 01 A BAR SONG (TIPSY) Shaboozey 05 05 23 01 ESPRESSO Sabrina Carpenter 06 08 23 04 GOOD LUCK, BABE Chappell Roan 07 09 35 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 08 06 15 01 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Sabrina Carpenter 09 07 19 01 I HAD SOME HELP Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen 10 10 04 10 BED CHEM Sabrina Carpenter 11 12 44 04 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 12 11 28 10 AUSTIN Dasha 13 13 26 01 TOO SWEET Hozier 14 NE 01 14 IT'S OK I'M OK Tate McRae 15 14 19 11 STARGAZING Myles Smith 16 15 07 01 GUESS Charli XCX feat. Billie Eilish 17 18 48 01 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 18 17 21 01 MILLION DOLLAR BABY Tommy Richman 19 NE 01 19 DANCING IN THE FLAMES The Weeknd 20 16 08 09 BIG DAWGS Hanumankind, Kalmi 21 24 114 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 22 19 08 19 I LOVE YOU, I'M SORRY Gracie Abrams 23 21 214 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 24 22 13 22 HOT TO GO! Chappell Roan 25 20 20 05 NOT LIKE US Kendrick Lamar 26 25 56 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan Feat. Kacey Musgraves 27 34 05 34 SAILOR SONG Gigi Perez 28 28 26 22 SLOW IT DOWN Benson Boone 29 29 17 12 PINK SKIES Zach Bryan 30 26 36 12 SCARED TO START Michael Marcagi 31 23 04 12 GOOD GRACES Sabrina Carpenter 32 33 14 26 NIGHTS LIKE THIS The Kid Laroi 33 31 13 23 KEHLANI Jordan Adetunji 34 32 78 01 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 35 44 07 35 KISSES BL3SS x CamrinWatsin feat. bbyclose 36 27 02 27 THE EMPTINESS MACHINE Linkin Park 37 30 07 18 APPLE Charli XCX 38 45 22 01 FORTNIGHT Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone 39 35 15 35 AIN'T NO LOVE IN OKLAHOMA (FROM TWISTERS: THE ALBUM) Luke Combs 40 43 10 40 THE DOOR Teddy Swims 41 38 165 01 IRIS Goo Goo Dolls 42 NE 01 42 TALK TALK Charli XCX 43 39 16 01 HOUDINI Eminem 44 47 221 19 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 45 37 28 02 WE CAN'T BE FRIENDS (WAIT FOR YOUR LOVE) Ariana Grande 46 52 04 46 DIET PEPSI Addison Rae 47 46 12 18 GIRLS The Kid Laroi 48 41 85 03 I LIKE THE WAY YOU KISS ME Artemas 49 36 04 19 JUNO Sabrina Carpenter 50 40 06 36 BACKBONE Chase & Status, Stormzy Bubbling Under 18 (NE) ALL RED Playboi Carti 19 (16) BABY I'M BACK The Kid Laroi 20 (NE) BAD DREAM Teddy Swims Albums 01 02 004 01 SHORT N' SWEET Sabrina Carpenter 02 48 010 01 THE DEATH OF SLIM SHADY (COUP DE GRÂCE) Eminem 03 04 018 01 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish 04 05 023 04 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS Chappell Roan 05 07 189 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 06 10 022 01 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Taylor Swift 07 08 005 02 F-1 TRILLION Post Malone 08 15 054 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 09 09 013 01 THE SECRET OF US Gracie Abrams 10 12 081 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 11 16 174 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 12 13 074 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 13 14 023 07 PAPERCUTS Linkin Park 14 NE 001 14 REQUIEM Keshi 15 17 093 01 SOS SZA 16 22 015 03 BRAT Charli XCX 17 NE 001 17 THE ONLY PLACE I KNOW Surf Trash 18 19 380 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 19 20 340 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 20 18 016 03 THE FIRST TIME The Kid Laroi 21 23 067 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 22 24 265 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 23 21 217 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 24 11 011 06 BEWITCHED Laufey 25 03 002 03 TEN DAYS Fred Again.. 26 26 358 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 27 28 435 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 28 25 047 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 29 31 452 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 30 30 497 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 31 29 103 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 32 33 268 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 33 34 006 30 96 MONTHS Calvin Harris 34 06 002 06 LUCK AND STRANGE David Gilmour 35 32 060 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 36 01 002 01 THE SECOND ACT Missy Higgins 37 36 097 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 38 42 056 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 39 38 328 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 40 39 097 02 METEORA Linkin Park 41 37 099 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 42 43 325 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 43 40 309 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 44 53 024 17 FIREWORKS & ROLLERBLADES Benson Boone 45 50 011 03 THE GREAT AMERICAN BAR SCENE Zach Bryan 46 44 210 40 GREATEST HITS Pitbull 47 61 320 16 GREATEST HITS: GOD'S FAVORITE BAND Green Day 48 91 016 04 I'VE TRIED EVERYTHING BUT THERAPY (PART 1) Teddy Swims 49 35 005 01 50 YEARS - THE BEST OF Cold Chisel 50 47 193 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen "Taste" is #1 for a 4th week. It has resumed declining which will open up the door for "Die With A Smile". That's on the upswing with a new peak this week and has the power of margin slimming sales on its side. It'll probably take at least another week of catch up though. As a frequent user of Microsoft Excel, I love the way Tate McRae has capitalised her new song which comes in hot at #14. It looks pretty steady at the moment but maybe it'll get the shot in the arm needed to go top 10 eventually. I have less faith in The Weeknd, who has debuted in the top 20 but already dropped out of the Spotify top 50. He is supposed to be coming to Australia eventually but given his last cancellation, the buzz isn't super high right now. We've sort of got Australian content as Charli XCX is assisted by Troye Sivan to another top 50 hit, with a song that shares its title with a George Maple song. Speaking of Australian song titles, Addison Rae gets her first ever top 50 entry. Back in 2020, "Addison Rae" was the title of one of The Kid LAROI's first hits. By an amusing coincidence, she has landed next to The Kid LAROI for two weeks in a row, as last weeks' Bubbling Under with this week's LW data confirms they were #51 & #52 last week. The Kid LAROI is still on the Bubbling Under chart but now he's girt by Playboi Carti & Teddy Swims, two artists I'm sure have a lot of fanbase crossover, who will both probably tumble next week. On the album chart, Sabrina Carpenter gets a 3rd week at #1. We see a fairly rare instance of a physical rebound buoyed by CDs and not vinyl as Eminem returns to #2. I could've sworn he had a vinyl release already but maybe they've been delayed and he's gonna get another decent showing at some point in the future. Oddly enough, Laufey actually climbed to #1 on the vinyl chart this week despite declining on the overall chart. Imagine if she could just get everyone to buy the album on the same week. In my experience with encountering new artists in the 2020s, I'd have put a fairly solid bet on Keshi being Australian an Surf Trash being American, but I would be so wrong as to be backwards on that call. Also I once again get to experience the anticipation of the Brisbane Lions playing in the AFL Grand Final, hopefully with a win this time. I can relate this to music because amidst all the very brave declarations on the quality of Katy Perry's new album, she'll be performing at the event, and given the perennial nature of "Teenage Dream" on the album chart, we'll probably see the effect. It will be mildly funny if she ends up performing "Roar" and "Dark Horse", the former is self-explanatory given the Lions' theme song ends with a mighty roar (I'll also note that there is a Tigers team and they finished in last place, oops), and the latter is funny because the Sydney Swans coach who will also be in the grand final is nicknamed 'Horse', although arguably the Lions are the dark horse here. Also it's funny because did I ever mention that "Dark Horse" never charted in Australia? I'm sure I did. Anyway, peep the #AFLGrandFinal hashtag on Saturday if you want to see Australian Gen Xers & Boomers give their thoughts on Katy Perry, and see if she actually performs something from her new album.

Strangely Australia missed the memo on that rebound, it's gone 77-165-162. Reminds me of earlier this year when "Riptide" was exhibiting odd behaviour everywhere except Australia. What's odd though is that this isn't even the first aberration for "Evergreen". Just a month ago it collapsed into a new, lower equilibrium, after an already strange steady climb the month before. Used to attribute this to big playlists but I don't think there is one with this much influence, let alone two. The last.fm graph is so weird

Justin Bieber really fell off that "Believe" high with his less successful follow up album "Justice", yes. Reason chart companies aren't interested in these sorts of simplistic quick fixes, aside from there being nothing in it for them, is because they have the common sense to pick them apart. I almost guarantee that every single 'this will fix the charts' solution that I see pop up will almost certainly either not help it, make it worse, or be so ineffectual that it'll be rendered insufficient in due time. Best anyone can really do is vote with their ears.

"Evergreen" just lost 30-40% of its streams in every major market in a single day yesterday.

+30 Billie Eilish - Everything I Wanted +29 Tyler, The Creator - Earfquake +28 FKA Twigs - Cellophane +27 Tones and I - Dance Monkey +26 Weyes Blood - Andromeda +25 BROCKHAMPTON - NO HALO +24 Stormzy - Vossi Bop +23 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy +22 Lizzo - Juice +21 Fisher - Losing It +20 Billie Eilish - Bury a Friend +19 100 gecs - money machine +18 Lil Nas X - Old Town Road +17 Lana Del Rey - The Greatest +16 Charli XCX & Christine And The Queens - Gone +15 Mark Ronson (feat. Camila Cabello) - Find U Again +14 Meduza, Becky Hill & Goodboys - Lose Control +13 Ariana Grande - 7 Rings +12 Mark Ronson (feat. Lykke Li) - Late Night Feelings +11 Lana Del Rey - F**k It I Love You +10 Lizzo – Truth Hurts +9 CamelPhat & Cristoph (feat. Jem Cooke) - Breathe +8 Jax Jones & Martin Solveig present Europa with Madison Beer - All Day and Night +7 Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer +6 Regard - Ride It +5 Harry Styles - Lights Up +4 Miley Cyrus - Slide Away +3 Meduza & Goodboys - Piece of Your Heart +2 Ghost - Mary On A Cross +1 Post Malone (feat. Young Thug) - Goodbyes

16/09/2024 Singles 01 01 03 01 TASTE Sabrina Carpenter 02 03 17 01 BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish 03 06 04 03 DIE WITH A SMILE Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars 04 05 22 01 A BAR SONG (TIPSY) Shaboozey 05 02 22 01 ESPRESSO Sabrina Carpenter 06 04 14 01 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Sabrina Carpenter 07 08 18 01 I HAD SOME HELP Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen 08 07 22 04 GOOD LUCK, BABE Chappell Roan 09 09 34 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 10 10 03 10 BED CHEM Sabrina Carpenter 11 11 27 10 AUSTIN Dasha 12 15 43 04 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 13 13 25 01 TOO SWEET Hozier 14 16 18 11 STARGAZING Myles Smith 15 14 06 01 GUESS Charli XCX feat. Billie Eilish 16 12 07 09 BIG DAWGS Hanumankind, Kalmi 17 17 20 01 MILLION DOLLAR BABY Tommy Richman 18 19 47 01 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 19 31 07 19 I LOVE YOU, I'M SORRY Gracie Abrams 20 20 19 05 NOT LIKE US Kendrick Lamar 21 32 213 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 22 22 12 22 HOT TO GO! Chappell Roan 23 18 03 12 GOOD GRACES Sabrina Carpenter 24 24 113 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 25 26 55 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan Feat. Kacey Musgraves 26 27 35 12 SCARED TO START Michael Marcagi 27 NE 01 27 THE EMPTINESS MACHINE Linkin Park 28 29 25 22 SLOW IT DOWN Benson Boone 29 30 16 12 PINK SKIES Zach Bryan 30 23 06 18 APPLE Charli XCX 31 25 12 23 KEHLANI Jordan Adetunji 32 33 77 01 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 33 28 13 26 NIGHTS LIKE THIS The Kid Laroi 34 41 04 34 SAILOR SONG Gigi Perez 35 42 14 35 AIN'T NO LOVE IN OKLAHOMA (FROM TWISTERS: THE ALBUM) Luke Combs 36 21 03 19 JUNO Sabrina Carpenter 37 48 27 02 WE CAN'T BE FRIENDS (WAIT FOR YOUR LOVE) Ariana Grande 38 43 164 01 IRIS Goo Goo Dolls 39 35 15 01 HOUDINI Eminem 40 40 05 36 BACKBONE Chase & Status, Stormzy 41 47 84 03 I LIKE THE WAY YOU KISS ME Artemas 42 36 24 01 BYE BYE BYE *NSYNC 43 44 09 43 THE DOOR Teddy Swims 44 37 06 37 KISSES BL3SS x CamrinWatsin feat. bbyclose 45 38 21 01 FORTNIGHT Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone 46 39 11 18 GIRLS The Kid Laroi 47 56 220 19 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 48 46 31 15 STUMBLIN' IN Cyril 49 49 84 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 50 54 218 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac Bubbling Under 16 (18) BABY I'M BACK The Kid Laroi 17 (21) DIET PEPSI Addison Rae 18 (22) CLOSE TO YOU Gracie Abrams 19 (20) GUY FOR THAT Post Malone feat. Luke Combs 20 (25) 28 Zach Bryan Albums 01 NE 001 01 THE SECOND ACT Missy Higgins 02 01 003 01 SHORT N' SWEET Sabrina Carpenter 03 NE 001 03 TEN DAYS Fred Again.. 04 03 017 01 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish 05 05 022 04 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS Chappell Roan 06 NE 001 06 LUCK AND STRANGE David Gilmour 07 07 188 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 08 04 004 02 F-1 TRILLION Post Malone 09 08 012 01 THE SECRET OF US Gracie Abrams 10 06 021 01 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Taylor Swift 11 RE 010 06 BEWITCHED Laufey 12 09 080 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 13 13 073 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 14 26 022 07 PAPERCUTS Linkin Park 15 15 053 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 16 12 173 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 17 16 092 01 SOS SZA 18 14 015 03 THE FIRST TIME The Kid Laroi 19 19 379 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 20 20 339 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 21 18 216 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 22 17 014 03 BRAT Charli XCX 23 21 066 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 24 22 264 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 25 23 046 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 26 25 357 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 27 02 002 02 WILD GOD Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 28 31 434 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 29 29 102 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 30 28 496 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 31 30 451 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 32 32 059 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 33 35 267 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 34 34 005 30 96 MONTHS Calvin Harris 35 11 004 01 50 YEARS - THE BEST OF Cold Chisel 36 37 096 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 37 36 098 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 38 38 327 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 39 75 096 02 METEORA Linkin Park 40 41 308 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 41 RE 223 01 DREAM YOUR LIFE AWAY (10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION) Vance Joy 42 40 055 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 43 42 324 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 44 43 209 40 GREATEST HITS Pitbull 45 49 118 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 46 44 393 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 47 47 192 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 48 39 009 01 THE DEATH OF SLIM SHADY (COUP DE GRÂCE) Eminem 49 54 253 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 50 45 010 03 THE GREAT AMERICAN BAR SCENE Zach Bryan "Taste" is #1 for a 3rd week. The previous comment about it not being challenged continues to be true, except now it's not even really catching back up to the pack, we could be here a while. If you're here for insightful and interesting Linkin Park takes, I don't have it. I haven't even listened to it yet. I can say that it's their first top 30 hit since 2009's "New Divide", following a run of 6 straight top 50 hits that didn't quite get that high. It's the only new entry this week too, but we should have some more next week too that I still haven't listened to. My excuse is that if labels are willing to screw over the midnight Australia market for their big deal releases then they have to face the microscopic consequence that I'll miss them on my New Music Friday listen throughs, tipping the scales with a pebble that will surely make them stop doing this. Anyway the Bubbling Under chart just got bigger again. It's done so in a very funny way because "Close To You" and "28" are actually debuts to this chart. Despite the former reaching #34 on the chart about 3 months ago, it never quite squeezed in. Now it's much lower and manages to get through. Hoist your klaxons because it's back, and I ain't talkin' about a Thomas Pynchon novel. I'm talking about 🚨🚨 AUSTRALIAN #1 ALBUM ALERT 🚨🚨, and this time it's a 4th #1 album for Missy Higgins. Famous for a style of singing that would probably not please Henry Higgins (although he does like a challenge), she hit #1 with ease with her first 3 albums. That was roughly 10-20 years ago and she's constantly not come close to the top since. She just performed "Scar" at triple j's One Night Stand concert with G Flip though so the nostalgia cycle is back, baby. You might actually also know that song even if you're not Australian, because it's the aggressively Australian song that gets slotted into The Axis Of Awesome's "4 Chords" song, and I bet I've made this exact same reference when one of her other albums has charted. Or to make this more modern and quickly dated, I guess we making triangles squeeze through circles now. After some mysterious circumstances where Fred again.. charted out of sync with the New Zealand charts (and very out of sync with the UK), he's back and charting ever-so-slightly higher than ever, this time at #3. David Gilmour also debuts in the top 10. 9 years ago Lana Del Rey stopped him from hitting #1. I forget what band he's from. Laufey gets yet another vinyl boost, while Vance Joy gets a minor one too. I say minor because he's always charting just a bit shy of the chart anyway, but this boost will keep him away from recurrency rules for a long while yet. Also I'm going to readily assume that there aren't any GWS Giants fans reading this and so I can safely say holy shit how good was the footy on the weekend?