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I can think of a handful of things that are otherwise impossible to find anywhere if I hadn't downloaded them while I could (and subsequently, plenty I missed out on). Plenty of major companies have expressed little interest in preserving their own catalogue (especially if it doesn't make a profit). It's not for everyone, but physical media is vital to not allow more lost media to be created.

Placebo - Special K is another one that was ineligible in the UK due to its irregular two CD single release I believe.

If we're talking about Spotify position, it's probably worth noting that "Azizam" has had a big collapse ever since the chart got a little askew with listing the Persian version of the song, might steer better in the days to come.

Lorde's an artist that I think could potentially come back into play through a heightened reputation that defies her actual chart history (a la Hozier). She's got a lot of popular songs that never really got their flowers at a specific point, and "Royals" is only her 5th most popular song right now so it's not casting a shadow over her discography.

Lizzy taking a break between album cycles to go act on Broadway and then NO, NEW VIRAL SONG(S)*, GET PROMOTING *"Pushing It Down and Praying" has jumped up a lot lately too

Doesn't necessarily mean it's the same people, just a portion of the same subset of Taylor Swift fans, I'm sure she has more diehards than there are copies sold of any particular variant, so there could be plenty of people who opt for one and that does it, or alternatively if they sell out so quickly, it becomes a luck of the draw for who in particular gets each one. Don't get me wrong, I don't doubt that there's overlap, but I'm not going to make assumptions on the proportion without convincing evidence.

I dunno I think there's more nuance to the situation than this. For one, it's a folly to just assume it's mostly the same buyers each time, what's the evidence or basis for that? For those who do overlap, what's their financial situation, or the purpose of their purchase? I think the limited release helps make these sorts of things collectors items that appreciate in value, in which case it's a wise investment. Even so, maybe they spark joy and that supersedes any financial value. I've personally got two very expensive things either side of me right now. One is an full set of an out-of-print manga (whose value has gone up thousands since I've acquired it), and the other is a piece of memorabilia for my favourite football team (whose value will diminish incredibly over time), but the latter makes me much happier. I suspect that very, very few Taylor Swift fans have spent as much money supporting her as I have supporting the Brissie Lions. I'll admit that I've spoken before about my concern with the whole relationship. It's quite probable that if there are compulsive collectors, that many of them are neurodivergent and possibly having their wealth abused, by constantly upping the stakes of what is a must-buy. I don't think this makes them dumb, just that they're potentially exploited. I don't want to stake the claim fully though because I haven't seen any studies done on this phenomenon, just some tangential cases relating to similar things, be they predatory monetary mechanics in video games, gacha or otherwise, and of course the perennial pox of pokies. I do think this sort of release pattern is potentially predatory, but it warrants more discussion than a glib dismissal. Problem is that the more pressing concern for most is that such-and-such is ruining the charts and it's the fault of their fans enabling it. There's no empathy shown when the relevant parties are made to be anonymous evil henchmen.

Not to pile on more, but do think in general it's a folly to only stick to the subsidiary chart that best presents the narrative. Last week the song was #5 on the official streaming chart but only #14 on Spotify's weekly chart, that to me suggests a differential that warrants using better observation for tracking this. Spotify's a pretty good shorthand and it gives us numbers, but it's not the whole story.

Saying that an artist you don't like is untalented and has dumb fans doesn't make you look smart, just btw.

Early hits have a habit of contradicting the charts' lay of the land, steadily accumulating without necessarily being in the spotlight. If you take a big hit from its time (like a "One Kiss" or a "Lucid Dreams") and took away all of their sales from when they're in the top 40, you'd still end up with a massive hit*. So in many countries, "lovely" is just that actualised. Although I'd be remiss to not point out that in Australia & Aotearoa, it was a massive top 5 hit that spent roughly a year in the top 50, so I'm speaking outside of my own perspective where it's just obviously a popular hit song. *My favourite example of this, "Uptown Funk" was demonstrably huge in Australia when it came out, the first song to ever spend an entire calendar year in the top 50. When it finally left the top 50 for good, it was 9 times Platinum. It's now 22 times Platinum, meaning that not only has it sold more outside of the chart than in it, but it'd still be one of the biggest hits of all time if it was starting from scratch in 2016.

21/04/2025 Singles 01 01 10 01 ORDINARY Alex Warren 02 02 26 01 APT. Rosé, Bruno Mars 03 03 33 03 PINK PONY CLUB Chappell Roan 04 09 35 02 DIE WITH A SMILE Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars 05 04 26 01 THAT'S SO TRUE Gracie Abrams 06 08 65 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 07 05 09 05 NOKIA Drake 08 06 20 01 MESSY Lola Young 09 07 48 01 BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish 10 12 21 02 LUTHER Kendrick Lamar 11 10 06 01 ANXIETY Doechii 12 14 53 01 A BAR SONG (TIPSY) Shaboozey 13 11 12 08 SPORTS CAR Tate McRae 14 13 18 05 THE DAYS - NOTION REMIX Chrystal 15 15 74 04 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 16 17 49 01 I HAD SOME HELP Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen 17 18 53 01 ESPRESSO Sabrina Carpenter 18 16 35 08 SAILOR SONG Gigi Perez 19 19 07 19 MUTT Leon Thomas 20 30 02 20 AZIZAM Ed Sheeran 21 24 34 01 TASTE Sabrina Carpenter 22 25 07 22 LOVE ME NOT Ravyn Lenae 23 20 53 04 GOOD LUCK, BABE Chappell Roan 24 52 11 12 ABRACADABRA Lady Gaga 25 26 03 25 UNDRESSED sombr 26 32 40 21 THE DOOR Teddy Swims 27 31 27 27 BAD DREAMS Teddy Swims 28 23 49 01 NOT LIKE US Kendrick Lamar 29 22 22 20 CARRY YOU HOME Alex Warren 30 27 195 01 IRIS Goo Goo Dolls 31 28 17 23 INDIGO Sam Barber feat. Avery Anna 32 39 04 32 BACK TO FRIENDS Sombr 33 35 29 11 TIMELESS The Weeknd, Playboi Carti 34 29 89 02 ALL THE STARS Kendrick Lamar & SZA 35 37 249 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 36 41 45 19 AIN'T NO LOVE IN OKLAHOMA (FROM TWISTERS: THE ALBUM) Luke Combs 37 45 58 10 AUSTIN Dasha 38 47 56 01 TOO SWEET Hozier 39 40 86 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves 40 34 08 13 REVOLVING DOOR Tate McRae 41 43 49 11 STARGAZING Myles Smith 42 38 48 14 WILDFLOWER Billie Eilish 43 48 144 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 44 42 245 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 45 44 09 22 BUSY WOMAN Sabrina Carpenter 46 21 03 16 TWILIGHT ZONE Ariana Grande 47 33 05 22 DARK THOUGHTS Lil Tecca 48 49 251 19 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 49 46 38 07 I LOVE YOU, I'M SORRY Gracie Abrams 50 59 06 50 SORRY I'M HERE FOR SOMEONE ELSE Benson Boone Bubbling Under 14 (20) SHOW ME LOVE WizTheMc, bees & honey 15 (18) LIKE JENNIE Jennie 16 (16) I'M THE PROBLEM Morgan Wallen 17 (17) JUST IN CASE Morgan Wallen 18 (14) THE GIVER Chappell Roan 19 (RE) DREAMIN Dom Dolla feat. Daya 20 (19) I KNOW LOVE Tate McRae feat. The Kid Laroi Albums 01 NE 001 01 THE MOON (THE LIGHT SIDE) Bliss n Eso 02 02 034 01 SHORT N' SWEET Sabrina Carpenter 03 03 008 01 SO CLOSE TO WHAT Tate McRae 04 NE 001 04 SABLE, FABLE Bon Iver 05 07 048 01 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish 06 14 006 01 MAYHEM Lady Gaga 07 08 029 04 +-=÷× (TOUR COLLECTION) Ed Sheeran 08 09 123 01 SOS SZA 09 11 043 01 THE SECRET OF US Gracie Abrams 10 10 219 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 11 06 057 01 ETERNAL SUNSHINE Ariana Grande 12 17 045 01 BRAT Charli XCX 13 12 048 03 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS Chappell Roan 14 13 204 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 15 19 410 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 16 16 370 05 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 17 60 339 03 THE FAME Lady Gaga 18 18 021 01 GNX Kendrick Lamar 19 24 104 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 20 27 052 01 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Taylor Swift 21 21 111 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 22 20 150 03 HOZIER Hozier 23 23 097 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 24 15 316 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 25 30 465 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 26 29 194 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 27 38 527 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 28 33 355 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 29 36 482 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 30 37 240 27 GREATEST HITS Pitbull 31 39 084 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 32 35 006 02 RUBY Jennie 33 25 004 05 I SAID I LOVE YOU FIRST Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco 34 32 018 15 YOU'LL BE ALRIGHT, KID (CHAPTER 1) Alex Warren 35 40 247 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 36 42 053 07 PAPERCUTS Linkin Park 37 46 010 29 ALLIGATOR BITES NEVER HEAL Doechii 38 48 424 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 39 54 077 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 40 44 127 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 41 45 214 02 GOOD GIRL GONE BAD Rihanna 42 55 295 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 43 43 377 08 DUA LIPA Dua Lipa 44 52 358 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 45 50 388 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 46 61 053 17 FIREWORKS & ROLLERBLADES Benson Boone 47 47 036 30 96 MONTHS Calvin Harris 48 41 009 02 $OME $EXY $ONGS 4 U PartyNextDoor, Drake 49 56 284 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 50 NE 001 50 THE IDOL COLLECTION Marshall Hamburger "Ordinary" is #1 for a 4th. Nope, still no competition. Look at all those 3's for "Pink Pony Club", wouldn't it be a shame if multiple of them were shifted away next week? It's more likely than you think that it could climb up to #2. We're provided an interesting look into the world of FOMO and how it compares to not missing out, where the associated boosts from Coachella aren't not especially different to the kinds you'd get if there actually was a festival like that here that people in this country went to. Lady Gaga makes the most obvious gains from it, including "The Fame" coming back from the dead. I wonder if the streams for "Bad Romance" are counting to it, which is funny because "The Fame Monster" originally charted separately (and actually hit #1). Benson Boone's been coasting in and around the top 10 for a really long time without actually having a new entry to his name in like a year, but he does that this week. In what feels like standing up to a vague challenge I made on my blog months ago, Bliss n Eso score their 4th #1 album this week. They were off the #1 Christmas release with their previous album "The Sun", probably because they released on the same week as Kanye West's "DONDA"...the album that has the song "Moon" on it. We have that accompanying "The Moon" album this time around so they're back at #1 for the first time since 2017. Bon Iver's adventures in putting somewhat similar phrases on either side of a comma for album titles finds new inspiriation with rhyming words. It works out a bit better than last time as they're up to #4 this time, having never had a #1 album but hitting #2 twice. If you managed to scroll all the way to the bottom, hi, but also then you'll see a debut at #50 for our latest Australian Idol winner. You might find yourself asking 'Is this high? Is this low?' From a series that used to commandeer the charts to the point that the best selling single of the entire 2000s was Guy Sebastian's winning song, and the second place song was Anthony Callea's not-winning song, maybe it's fallen on hard times. On the other hand, I believe Marshall Hamburger is the first winner since the 2020s revival (which is in its 3rd season) to actually make the chart, so this is a huge win for the burger bros out there. I don't watch the show, ostensibly because Kyle Sandilands is involved but more likely because it's not a venture that lends itself to investment, so I don't know if they've been making jokes about his amusing surname. I don't consider myself above the show in general, as you'd expect from someone who lists an 11th place finisher in Australian Idol from 2008 on my left-side profile.

Suspect "bad guy" and "lovely" have it beaten in most places for now, but it's en route to changing that in the coming years.

If an artist isn't obsessed with the charts, then they're 'so stupid!' for not strategising with the charts, can't win.

Just came to the thread to give the vooooooooooooote to Poland, but honestly some underrated bangers here.

Reckon the best barometer for him is when the album comes out. "You Proof" and "Wasted On You" went from non-entities in Australia in 2022 to Year End hits in 2023 (the former is triple platinum and that might be outdated). Album before that was already huge so it's not just down to the profile boost. I think he just drops too many loosies to keep up with. Already been 7 in the last 9 months.

Granted, it's not a large part of their audience, but I'm amused that they still haven't figured out how to make their countdown timer work properly outside of UK timezones

Utterly bleak. It's Easter but it's also Christmas for the worst people you could ever have the misfortune of engaging with. Hugs and support to all my trans & non-binary acquaintances up north, including the ones I've never met.

14/04/2025 Singles 01 01 09 01 ORDINARY Alex Warren 02 02 25 01 APT. Rosé, Bruno Mars 03 04 32 04 PINK PONY CLUB Chappell Roan 04 03 25 01 THAT'S SO TRUE Gracie Abrams 05 10 08 05 NOKIA Drake 06 06 19 01 MESSY Lola Young 07 07 47 01 BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish 08 08 64 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 09 09 34 02 DIE WITH A SMILE Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars 10 05 05 01 ANXIETY Doechii 11 11 11 08 SPORTS CAR Tate McRae 12 12 20 02 LUTHER Kendrick Lamar 13 13 17 05 THE DAYS - NOTION REMIX Chrystal 14 15 52 01 A BAR SONG (TIPSY) Shaboozey 15 14 73 04 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 16 17 34 08 SAILOR SONG Gigi Perez 17 20 48 01 I HAD SOME HELP Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen 18 22 52 01 ESPRESSO Sabrina Carpenter 19 23 06 19 MUTT Leon Thomas 20 19 52 04 GOOD LUCK, BABE Chappell Roan 21 16 02 16 TWILIGHT ZONE Ariana Grande 22 21 21 20 CARRY YOU HOME Alex Warren 23 18 48 01 NOT LIKE US Kendrick Lamar 24 25 33 01 TASTE Sabrina Carpenter 25 32 06 25 LOVE ME NOT Ravyn Lenae 26 35 02 26 UNDRESSED sombr 27 28 194 01 IRIS Goo Goo Dolls 28 29 16 23 INDIGO Sam Barber feat. Avery Anna 29 30 88 02 ALL THE STARS Kendrick Lamar & SZA 30 NE 01 30 AZIZAM Ed Sheeran 31 31 26 27 BAD DREAMS Teddy Swims 32 26 39 21 THE DOOR Teddy Swims 33 24 04 22 DARK THOUGHTS Lil Tecca 34 27 07 13 REVOLVING DOOR Tate McRae 35 33 28 11 TIMELESS The Weeknd, Playboi Carti 36 NE 01 36 CARAMEL Sleep Token 37 39 248 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 38 34 47 14 WILDFLOWER Billie Eilish 39 57 03 39 BACK TO FRIENDS Sombr 40 38 85 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves 41 44 44 19 AIN'T NO LOVE IN OKLAHOMA (FROM TWISTERS: THE ALBUM) Luke Combs 42 36 244 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 43 52 48 11 STARGAZING Myles Smith 44 47 08 22 BUSY WOMAN Sabrina Carpenter 45 41 57 10 AUSTIN Dasha 46 40 37 07 I LOVE YOU, I'M SORRY Gracie Abrams 47 42 55 01 TOO SWEET Hozier 48 48 143 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 49 49 250 19 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 50 46 46 12 PINK SKIES Zach Bryan Bubbling Under 13 (12) ABRACADABRA Lady Gaga 14 (9) THE GIVER Chappell Roan 15 (18) SORRY I'M HERE FOR SOMEONE ELSE Benson Boone 16 (17) I'M THE PROBLEM Morgan Wallen 17 (16) JUST IN CASE Morgan Wallen 18 (15) LIKE JENNIE Jennie 19 (RE) I KNOW LOVE Tate McRae feat. The Kid Laroi 20 (NE) SHOW ME LOVE WizTheMc, bees & honey Albums 01 NE 001 01 LIKE LOVE Ball Park Music 02 02 033 01 SHORT N' SWEET Sabrina Carpenter 03 04 007 01 SO CLOSE TO WHAT Tate McRae 04 NE 001 04 BODIES Thornhill 05 NE 001 05 PREACHER'S DAUGHTER Ethel Cain 06 01 056 01 ETERNAL SUNSHINE Ariana Grande 07 05 047 01 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish 08 08 028 04 +-=÷× (TOUR COLLECTION) Ed Sheeran 09 06 122 01 SOS SZA 10 09 218 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 11 11 042 01 THE SECRET OF US Gracie Abrams 12 12 047 03 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS Chappell Roan 13 18 203 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 14 10 005 01 MAYHEM Lady Gaga 15 19 315 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 16 16 369 05 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 17 15 044 01 BRAT Charli XCX 18 17 020 01 GNX Kendrick Lamar 19 20 409 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 20 22 149 03 HOZIER Hozier 21 26 110 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 22 NE 001 22 FOREVER HOWLONG Black Country, New Road 23 25 096 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 24 24 103 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 25 13 003 05 I SAID I LOVE YOU FIRST Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco 26 NE 001 26 WHO BELIEVES IN ANGELS? Elton John & Brandi Carlile 27 28 051 01 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Taylor Swift 28 NE 001 28 TE WHARE TIWEKAWEK Marlon Williams 29 30 193 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 30 31 464 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 31 NE 001 31 THE CRUX Djo 32 27 017 15 YOU'LL BE ALRIGHT, KID (CHAPTER 1) Alex Warren 33 34 354 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 34 14 004 01 MUSIC Playboi Carti 35 23 005 02 RUBY Jennie 36 35 481 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 37 36 239 27 GREATEST HITS Pitbull 38 41 526 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 39 37 083 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 40 38 246 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 41 33 008 02 $OME $EXY $ONGS 4 U PartyNextDoor, Drake 42 40 052 07 PAPERCUTS Linkin Park 43 39 376 08 DUA LIPA Dua Lipa 44 42 126 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 45 44 213 02 GOOD GIRL GONE BAD Rihanna 46 43 009 29 ALLIGATOR BITES NEVER HEAL Doechii 47 52 035 30 96 MONTHS Calvin Harris 48 46 423 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 49 21 263 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 50 50 387 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift "Ordinary" secures a 3rd week at #1. It's really not being challenged by anything. I do have to note the bizarre persistence of "Pink Pony Club" which felt like it stalled out weeks ago, but is making small gains along the way. It's now Chappell Roan's highest charting single ever, and I can't even discount the possibility it gets a little bit higher. "APT." has been hanging around the top 2 for so long at this point (although not as long as "Dance Monkey", stay humble). Drake makes a considerable jump to #5 with "NOKIA", the last time he was this high was with 2023's "First Person Shooter", the last time he was this high outside of a debut week was 2022's "Rich Flex", and the last time this was all true with a solo track was 2020's "Toosie Slide". Ed Sheeran annihilates wannabes Sleep Token to have the highest debut of the week, although technically sombr was close too with the promised second debut week in a row. It's a historic week for Australian music this week as Ball Park Music score their first ever #1 album. They're up to their 8th album and previously have hit #2 3 times before, losing to an incumbent Harry Styles and debutant Bruce Springsteen. The roughest moment for them though was in 2014 when they first reached #2, missing the top spot by what I recall being less than 20 sales to the highly incumbent INXS "Greatest Hits" set, coasting off the TV mini-series for weeks and weeks (but that was the final week). Ball Park Music are from Brisbane and in a bizarre twist of fate, both Queensland AFL teams are the only 2 undefeated teams so far in 2025. To put this into context, Gold Coast have never finished at the top half of the ladder in 14 years of contending, and in 2017, the two teams finished at the very bottom. Maybe Ball Park Music were onto something when they released the song "Please Don't Move To Melbourne" earlier this year. Done with the football content for the week, but not Australian content, as Thornhill score a #4 debut, a few years after reaching #3 with their last album. It's meltdown week for all the people making fun of Ethel Cain and her politics after her extremely uncommercial release this year didn't sell particularly well. The vinyl release of her debut gives her a first time ever on the chart at #5. "American Teenager" is a classic but you probably didn't need to hear it from me. Speaking of artists causing meltdowns from people who are too online, it's a huge week for besties and people who have birthdays alike, as Black Country, New Road return with their newest album at #22. I do have to note that their last album got to #6 but I do think this one's way more enjoyable to listen to. For Elton John it's just another one, but for Brandi Carlile, she's scoring her first ever top 50 album this week. "The Story" only got to #44 in 2007 so this is her highest chart position ever in Australia. Marlon Williams is a star in Aotearoa and still goes pretty alright in Australia as he scores a 4th top 50 album, he's had two top 10s before. Possibly helped by his recent Australian tour, though Djo isn't looking like getting a second hit song at the moment, he does manage to chart his new album nonetheless.

Not sure it makes the difference but I reckon that despite disappearing from the charts, it's still getting streamed loads. About 900K streams worldwide yesterday, that's a lot more than most re-entries of its ilk.

Just btw, this version of the song has been out for a few weeks now, might be its first day in the top 200 but it probably wasn't far off last week.

I just think that when the Apple chart is filled with baby lullabies, whale songs, thunderstorms, white noise and unceasingly insistent stage & screen soundtracks, that maybe the OCC's chart does a better job of depicting the chart as it should be.

So that would mean that PARTYNEXTDOOR & Drake, whose album is #3 on Apple, is even more hard done by through playlists, given that it's even lower on the midweeks? 🤔

Like, I don't use TikTok myself (not my kind of content, that's fine), but I always find the treatment of it as some sort of omniscient spectre of influence so weird, and strangely utilised at that. 'X can't get a hit anymore because TikTok, therefore Gen Z have short attention spans?' It used to be 'Y just keeps getting hits on past reputation because insert generation have no imagination or desire to discover new and better artists'. It's just this clumsy self-correcting attempt to both try and explain why certain music is popular but with this odd veneer of 'back in my day we had standards and control', like it's any different to a baby boomer insisting that music was objectively better when they were a teenager. All the while, using isolated examples that fit the narrative, and ignoring the cases that don't. C'mon, we're all better than this.

Or alternatively, they're big on TikTok because people care about them?

07/04/2025 Singles 01 01 08 01 ORDINARY Alex Warren 02 02 24 01 APT. Rosé, Bruno Mars 03 04 24 01 THAT'S SO TRUE Gracie Abrams 04 05 31 04 PINK PONY CLUB Chappell Roan 05 03 04 01 ANXIETY Doechii 06 06 18 01 MESSY Lola Young 07 10 46 01 BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish 08 09 63 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 09 07 33 02 DIE WITH A SMILE Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars 10 11 07 10 NOKIA Drake 11 12 10 08 SPORTS CAR Tate McRae 12 08 19 02 LUTHER Kendrick Lamar 13 13 16 05 THE DAYS - NOTION REMIX Chrystal 14 14 72 04 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 15 15 51 01 A BAR SONG (TIPSY) Shaboozey 16 NE 01 16 TWILIGHT ZONE Ariana Grande 17 17 33 08 SAILOR SONG Gigi Perez 18 16 47 01 NOT LIKE US Kendrick Lamar 19 18 51 04 GOOD LUCK, BABE Chappell Roan 20 21 47 01 I HAD SOME HELP Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen 21 20 20 20 CARRY YOU HOME Alex Warren 22 19 51 01 ESPRESSO Sabrina Carpenter 23 79 05 23 MUTT Leon Thomas 24 22 03 22 DARK THOUGHTS Lil Tecca 25 24 32 01 TASTE Sabrina Carpenter 26 26 38 21 THE DOOR Teddy Swims 27 23 06 13 REVOLVING DOOR Tate McRae 28 31 193 01 IRIS Goo Goo Dolls 29 34 15 23 INDIGO Sam Barber feat. Avery Anna 30 25 87 02 ALL THE STARS Kendrick Lamar & SZA 31 27 25 27 BAD DREAMS Teddy Swims 32 37 05 32 LOVE ME NOT Ravyn Lenae 33 29 27 11 TIMELESS The Weeknd, Playboi Carti 34 32 46 14 WILDFLOWER Billie Eilish 35 NE 01 35 UNDRESSED sombr 36 44 243 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 37 30 12 13 DENIAL IS A RIVER Doechii 38 35 84 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves 39 40 247 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac 40 38 36 07 I LOVE YOU, I'M SORRY Gracie Abrams 41 45 56 10 AUSTIN Dasha 42 42 54 01 TOO SWEET Hozier 43 28 03 14 THE GIVER Chappell Roan 44 41 43 19 AIN'T NO LOVE IN OKLAHOMA (FROM TWISTERS: THE ALBUM) Luke Combs 45 NE 01 45 DANDELION Ariana Grande 46 46 45 12 PINK SKIES Zach Bryan 47 52 07 22 BUSY WOMAN Sabrina Carpenter 48 48 142 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 49 51 249 19 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 50 43 18 12 TV OFF Kendrick Lamar Bubbling Under 12 (10) ABRACADABRA Lady Gaga 13 (18) BACK TO FRIENDS Sombr 14 (NE) WARM Ariana Grande 15 (11) LIKE JENNIE Jennie 16 (NE) JUST IN CASE Morgan Wallen 17 (13) I'M THE PROBLEM Morgan Wallen 18 (16) SORRY I'M HERE FOR SOMEONE ELSE Benson Boone 19 (9) RATHER LIE Playboi Carti 20 (15) DREAMIN Dom Dolla feat. Daya Albums 01 79 055 01 ETERNAL SUNSHINE Ariana Grande 02 01 032 01 SHORT N' SWEET Sabrina Carpenter 03 NE 001 03 BACKFLIPS IN A RESTAURANT grentperez 04 02 006 01 SO CLOSE TO WHAT Tate McRae 05 03 046 01 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish 06 06 121 01 SOS SZA 07 NE 001 07 RUSHMERE Mumford & Sons 08 09 027 04 +-=÷× (TOUR COLLECTION) Ed Sheeran 09 11 217 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 10 08 004 01 MAYHEM Lady Gaga 11 10 041 01 THE SECRET OF US Gracie Abrams 12 12 046 03 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS Chappell Roan 13 05 002 05 I SAID I LOVE YOU FIRST Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco 14 07 003 01 MUSIC Playboi Carti 15 17 043 01 BRAT Charli XCX 16 15 368 05 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 17 14 019 01 GNX Kendrick Lamar 18 26 202 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 19 21 314 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 20 19 408 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 21 23 262 01 FUTURE NOSTALGIA Dua Lipa 22 27 148 03 HOZIER Hozier 23 16 004 02 RUBY Jennie 24 20 102 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 25 22 095 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 26 24 109 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 27 25 016 15 YOU'LL BE ALRIGHT, KID (CHAPTER 1) Alex Warren 28 29 050 01 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Taylor Swift 29 NE 001 29 THE BAND ALBUM Travis Collins 30 30 192 01 HAPPIER THAN EVER Billie Eilish 31 31 463 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 32 13 019 02 RADICAL OPTIMISM Dua Lipa 33 28 007 02 $OME $EXY $ONGS 4 U PartyNextDoor, Drake 34 35 353 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 35 34 480 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 36 37 238 27 GREATEST HITS Pitbull 37 36 082 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 38 38 245 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 39 39 375 08 DUA LIPA Dua Lipa 40 40 051 07 PAPERCUTS Linkin Park 41 41 525 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 42 42 125 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 43 33 008 29 ALLIGATOR BITES NEVER HEAL Doechii 44 43 212 02 GOOD GIRL GONE BAD Rihanna 45 NE 001 45 DREAMS ON TOAST The Darkness 46 44 422 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 47 32 009 01 HURRY UP TOMORROW The Weeknd 48 45 356 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 49 NE 001 49 FOREVER IS A FEELING Lucy Dacus 50 46 386 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift "Ordinary" secures a second week at #1. When "APT." is still the closest competition you shouldn't be too surprised. The top 8 is nearly entirely #1 hits, with the one exception being "Pink Pony Club" that now lays claim to being Chappell Roan's equal highest charting song. Really benefitting from sliding competition. Drake defies the curse and manages to slot into the top 10 with "NOKIA", and it looks like it'll keep climbing next week. Ariana Grande's new deluxe set gets her a couple of new entries, while there's also a big climb for Leon Thomas to score his first top 50 hit with "MUTT". The Chris Brown remix heavily aided this boost although it's interesting that over in Aotearoa, this boost happened a week earlier, typical Australian slowness. sombr is currently making big moves with two songs at once, but for now it's "undressed" that gets into the top 50 first. I just want to note "Mr. Brightside" re-entering because we've had a reversal of fortunes, where usually of the two, "Dreams" was the one that was more prone to falling out of the top 50. The script has been flipped and it means that "Dreams" has a cozy lead for weeks in the top 50 (155 vs. 146), and is two months away from matching the all-time record from Lewis Capaldi. Ariana Grande returns to #1 for a 4th week with "eternal sunshine". This will likely give it some extra time in the top 50 to prevent it from being her shortest charting album since "Yours Truly", which is interesting because it's now only 1 week away from being her longest reigning album ("thank u, next" managed 5 weeks at #1). Leading the debuts is the debut album from Australian singer-songwriter grentperez from Sydney. Something of a wunderkind, he's been putting out music since 2021 when he was 19 and slowly picking up accolades along the way. I gotta shout out the fact that while a lot of Like A Version covers of late are very restricted to safe and obvious choices, I respect the fact that he made his a cover of the Battle of the Bands song from "School of Rock", just a breath of fresh air. The album is called "Backflips In A Restaurant". For your consideration, I have attached a GIF below of Richmond footballer Seth Campbell doing a backflip in front of about 80,000 fans last month when he kicked the game-sealing goal that allowed his team to perform the upset victory of the year after not being expected to win a single game in 2025. It continues to be the funniest thing that's happened this year. Mumford & Sons return with their 5th album which is also their 5th top 10 (but first to miss the top 5). I'm shocked their last album lasted 11 weeks in the top 50, can this one make it to 2?? Local country singer Travis Collins had been improving his album peaks consistently up until his last which got to #3, he has to settle for #29 this time around. Meanwhile The Darkness have to be credited as one of the more consistently hanging around artists to never reach the top 10, they admittedly missed the top 50 with their last album but they've come roaring back to #45 now. Lucy Dacus may have gone triple stumper on Jeopardy! a couple years ago but she has a solo top 50 album now. Taylor Swift fervour quietens down for the first time in a while as she loses two from the top 50 this week, including "Lover" which has been charting every single week since September 2022. Keep an eye out for "folklore" at #38, which has never left the top 50 once since debut.