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+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?

Bud Abbott & Lou Costello were an American comedy duo circa the 1940s. They're best known nowadays for their sketch where an attempt to name players on a baseball team devolves into lunacy due to the players having names that sound like parts of speech, and neither speaker being able to come to terms with the other's misinterpretation of what's being said. It's incredibly sharply written and delivered. I couldn't help but notice the similarity to the conversation that took place above my post.

This is a good Abbott & Costello bit thank you

+30 Metric - Risk +29 Pusha T - If You Know You Know +28 Drake - Nice For What +27 Childish Gambino - This Is America +26 Mitski – Nobody +25 Years & Years – Sanctify +24 1975 - Love It If We Made It +23 BROCKHAMPTON - 1999 Wildfire +22 Lana Del Rey - Venice Bitch +21 James Bay - Pink Lemonade +20 Robyn - Honey +19 Clean Bandit (feat. Marina & Luis Fonsi) - Baby +18 Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel +17 Sigrid - Strangers +16 Twenty One Pilots - Jumpsuit +15 Arctic Monkeys - Four Out of Five +14 Bruno Mars (feat. Cardi B) - Finesse +13 Joji - Slow Dancing In The Dark +12 A$AP Rocky (feat. Skepta) - Praise The Lord (Da Shine) +11 Post Malone & Swae Lee - Sunflower +10 Clean Bandit (feat. Demi Lovato) - Solo +9 Christine and the Queens - Doesn't Matter +8 Drake - God's Plan +7 Post Malone - Better Now +6 Jax Jones (feat. Ina Wroldsen) - Breathe +5 Lana Del Rey - Mariners Apartment Complex +4 Travis Scott (feat. Drake) - Sicko Mode +3 Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next +2 Hailee Steinfeld & BloodPop - Capital Letters +1 SOPHIE - Immaterial

+5 Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars - Die With A Smile +4 Billie Eilish - BIRDS OF A FEATHER +3 Chase & Status & Stormzy - BACKBONE +2 Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please +1 Charli xcx - Guess -1 Sabrina Carpenter - Taste -2 BL3SS & CamrinWatsin - Kisses -3 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso -4 Dasha - Austin -5 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! ------- +5 Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars - Die With A Smile +4 Billie Eilish - BIRDS OF A FEATHER +3 Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger +2 Chase & Status & Stormzy - BACKBONE +1 Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please -1 Oasis - Live Forever (thought I liked this more until I re-listened to it recently) -2 Sabrina Carpenter - Taste -3 BL3SS & CamrinWatsin - Kisses -4 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso -5 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!

I reckon what we'd find out is what we already knew, K-Pop fans are the most dedicated fans, and whether deliberately or by nature, they'd flood the album chart and people would find new ways to say it doesn't count because it doesn't fit their personal narrative of what *should* be the most popular albums.

But what does this actually accomplish? You've still got the same state of things just with the numbers tinkered around. As I was kind of saying in my previous post, what's the significant distinction between studio albums & greatest hits that the latter needs to be punished? Because the latter has an easier time charting despite there being less intrinsic attachment to it as a product because it's not an individual artistic statement? If that's the case, then they're already punished by the fact that surely less people will buy them (ignoring the fact that people do still buy them). But for instance, Olivia Rodrigo's "SOUR" received (according to kworb) 6.4 million streams yesterday. The least popular track is "hope ur ok" and that had 130 thousand streams. Even if absolutely nobody streamed that one song on its own, that's at most about a quarter of its streams coming from full listens. In reality, it's probably way less. Any studio album with legs on the chart is going to be subject to the same sort of cherry-picking as a Greatest Hits album. This is all just the nature of the attention & listening cycle nowadays. I'm yet to see a 'solution' that doesn't just create a different status quo to get bored and annoyed with.

09/09/2024 Singles 01 01 02 01 TASTE Sabrina Carpenter 02 03 21 01 ESPRESSO Sabrina Carpenter 03 04 16 01 BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish 04 02 13 01 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Sabrina Carpenter 05 06 21 01 A BAR SONG (TIPSY) Shaboozey 06 05 03 05 DIE WITH A SMILE Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars 07 07 21 04 GOOD LUCK, BABE Chappell Roan 08 08 17 01 I HAD SOME HELP Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen 09 09 33 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 10 11 02 11 BED CHEM Sabrina Carpenter 11 14 26 10 AUSTIN Dasha 12 13 06 09 BIG DAWGS Hanumankind, Kalmi 13 16 24 01 TOO SWEET Hozier 14 10 05 01 GUESS Charli XCX feat. Billie Eilish 15 15 42 04 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 16 17 17 11 STARGAZING Myles Smith 17 18 19 01 MILLION DOLLAR BABY Tommy Richman 18 12 02 12 GOOD GRACES Sabrina Carpenter 19 22 46 01 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 20 21 18 05 NOT LIKE US Kendrick Lamar 21 19 02 19 JUNO Sabrina Carpenter 22 28 11 22 HOT TO GO! Chappell Roan 23 23 05 18 APPLE Charli XCX 24 26 112 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 25 29 11 23 KEHLANI Jordan Adetunji 26 27 54 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan Feat. Kacey Musgraves 27 25 34 12 SCARED TO START Michael Marcagi 28 35 12 26 NIGHTS LIKE THIS The Kid Laroi 29 32 24 22 SLOW IT DOWN Benson Boone 30 30 15 12 PINK SKIES Zach Bryan 31 49 06 31 I LOVE YOU, I'M SORRY Gracie Abrams 32 37 212 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 33 36 76 01 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 34 20 02 20 SHARPEST TOOL Sabrina Carpenter 35 34 14 01 HOUDINI Eminem 36 31 23 01 BYE BYE BYE *NSYNC 37 42 05 37 KISSES BL3SS x CamrinWatsin feat. bbyclose 38 39 20 01 FORTNIGHT Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone 39 41 10 18 GIRLS The Kid Laroi 40 40 04 36 BACKBONE Chase & Status, Stormzy 41 60 03 41 SAILOR SONG Gigi Perez 42 58 13 39 AIN'T NO LOVE IN OKLAHOMA (FROM TWISTERS: THE ALBUM) Luke Combs 43 51 163 01 IRIS Goo Goo Dolls 44 48 08 44 THE DOOR Teddy Swims 45 24 02 24 SLIM PICKINS Sabrina Carpenter 46 46 30 15 STUMBLIN' IN Cyril 47 53 83 03 I LIKE THE WAY YOU KISS ME Artemas 48 47 26 02 WE CAN'T BE FRIENDS (WAIT FOR YOUR LOVE) Ariana Grande 49 45 83 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 50 44 16 05 LUNCH Billie Eilish Bubbling Under 18 (NE) BABY I'M BACK The Kid Laroi 19 (20) WILDFLOWER Billie Eilish 20 (RE) GUY FOR THAT Post Malone feat. Luke Combs Albums 01 01 002 01 SHORT N' SWEET Sabrina Carpenter 02 NE 001 02 WILD GOD Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 03 04 016 01 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish 04 05 003 02 F-1 TRILLION Post Malone 05 07 021 04 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS Chappell Roan 06 08 020 01 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Taylor Swift 07 10 187 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 08 18 011 01 THE SECRET OF US Gracie Abrams 09 12 079 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 10 RE 056 10 DEFINITELY MAYBE (30TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION) Oasis 11 11 003 01 50 YEARS - THE BEST OF Cold Chisel 12 16 172 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 13 14 072 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 14 22 014 03 THE FIRST TIME The Kid Laroi 15 15 052 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 16 17 091 01 SOS SZA 17 13 013 03 BRAT Charli XCX 18 20 215 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 19 23 378 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 20 25 338 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 21 24 065 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 22 21 263 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 23 26 045 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 24 RE 010 03 FATHERS & SONS Luke Combs 25 27 356 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 26 29 021 07 PAPERCUTS Linkin Park 27 71 091 01 (WHAT'S THE STORY) MORNING GLORY? Oasis 28 32 495 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 29 28 101 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 30 30 450 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 31 35 433 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 32 31 058 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 33 09 002 09 DAYS BEFORE RODEO Travis Scott 34 36 004 30 96 MONTHS Calvin Harris 35 34 266 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 36 40 097 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 37 38 095 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 38 41 326 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 39 33 008 01 THE DEATH OF SLIM SHADY (COUP DE GRÂCE) Eminem 40 44 054 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 41 48 307 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 42 52 323 01 AM Arctic Monkeys 43 58 208 40 GREATEST HITS Pitbull 44 53 392 01 ÷ Ed Sheeran 45 46 009 03 THE GREAT AMERICAN BAR SCENE Zach Bryan 46 43 022 17 FIREWORKS & ROLLERBLADES Benson Boone 47 51 191 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 48 74 007 02 ATE Stray Kids 49 49 117 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 50 37 006 30 DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE Soundtrack "Taste" is #1 for a 2nd week. Don't expect that to change any time soon. It is receding back to the pack, but it could do that for weeks and go unchallenged. The interesting one to note in the Sabrina Carpenter affairs is "Bed Chem" which manages to climb into the top 10 on its second week, and is generally holding pretty steady even in its 3rd week. Perhaps greater hit potential in the pipeline. I didn't get a chance to say last week that "The Door" is sneaking into the top 50 with help from the points provided by the CYRIL remix, but it's getting pretty close to the point where I'd say that it could get there without it. Gigi Perez scores a first top 50 hit. I don't have anything to say on that but it should keep climbing next week. Once again the Bubbling Under expands. We're gonna lose all of Billie Eilish's tracks next week so it's really gonna push the depths. As a bonus, we have a song that actually could be considered Bubbling Under, as The Kid LAROI comes through with "BABY I'M BACK". It doesn't look like it's gonna make the top 50 next week so I'll just say that this is a particularly Australian coded interpolation. Not just because the Player song "Baby Come Back" gets used memorably on The Simpsons, but also because Ocean Alley once covered the song for Like A Version and it was a particularly popular one. I wouldn't normally leap at the chance to promote international artists on an Australian entry, but I just have to point out how distracting the title is, as one of my favourite songs released last year is "BABY I'M HOME" by Odetari, Kanii & 9lives. Future classic I'm sure. Sabrina Carpenter is also #1 on the album chart for a second week. Once again we are robbed of an Australian artist at #1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have had two #1 albums in the past. It's the only debut this week, but we are treated to a new peak with Oasis's re-release. Though it had a lengthy chart run, "Definitely Maybe" only peaked at #23. Improving to #10 this week, now every Oasis studio album has hit the top 10. Luke Combs also gets a proper physical release that sees him back in the top 50.

So I've said in the past that I wouldn't mind Greatest Hits* compilations being shipped off to their own charts, but I have to wonder what does it actually accomplish in terms of the greater good of the chart? You'll see less brick wall big WI numbers but is there really all that much worthwhile in those positions below the top 100 that are being shoved out of the way? I feel like all of the full-intent album listening experiences kind of cancel each other out and you're just left with 'which album has the biggest 3rd single?' Are we truly enriched if an album has a chart run of 1-56-98-out instead of 1-85-out? I guess if there's an example worth looking at, it's New Zealand's album chart. They kick off any album that's been there for more than 18 months into a catalogue chart, a rule that's been enacted so many times that the catalogue chart houses higher sales once you go beyond the top end of both charts. Both charts are top 40s, but it feels like the official chart stretches that top 40 to the point that #40 is probably around #120 in reality. But is the chart more interesting for it? Not really. Removing so many albums just means that the live remaining ones have less ranks to slip through. It's a lot of treading water until their own 78 week limit runs out. So I guess I can't think of anything that would realistically liven up the album chart and make it interesting in the way that it once was, without tearing it all down into something that scarcely reflects reality (and will probably become stale and uninteresting once the novelty wears off). It's probably best off just leaving it to its own natural behaviour. *But even then, are hit packed albums like "Teenage Dream", "AM", "Divinely Uninspired..." etc that much functionally different to Greatest Hits? Reading the album chart week on week and these albums sure do walk, swim & quack like a duck