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Oh, didn't mean it to be confusing. Jan 1st is just me saying that I check it once a year, as an all-time list. The only hint of bias there is that Christmas music will have just peaked but will be declining again for another 10 months. So, when I got this list, Mariah had just snuck into the top 100, but quickly fell back out again. I assume she'll make the cut again for 2025, but if I'd been taking these snapshots in June, she'd have missed both times.

The album sure is a good as heck collection of songs that are good as heck.

Whole album top 60 in Australia ("Taste" #9) which seems pretty respectable.

That's what I always find interesting about this, the fact that it's always developing. Every single stream or download ticking over a new paradigm. Also any excuse to re-post my graphs This is data I took from Spotify's top 100 most streamed songs list on January 1st of each year (thanks Wikipedia!). The 'x' on each of the boxplots represents the mean release date. It was stuck in 2015 for ages but last year it actually jumped back. Despite the inclusion of newer songs, the average release year is now older than it was 7 years ago. You could also say that the average song in 2018 was 2-3 years old, now it's 10-11 years old(!) Suspect it'll still be trending back this way when I update it in January.

Simple version is the notion that once upon a time, due to lack of options & avenues, mostly everyone engaged with the same media. Back in the 1950s, there was a point where more than half of people who owned a TV were all watching "I Love Lucy" when it aired. In the US, the finale of M*A*S*H had over 100 million viewers at the time. Now that there's way more to do, see & hear, nothing comes close to this level of cultural penetration, and so even the biggest things going around can completely slip you by, without being a negative reflection upon it or you.

+5 Billie Eilish - BIRDS OF A FEATHER +4 JADE - Angel Of My Dreams +3 Chase & Status - BACKBONE +2 Charli XCX - Guess +1 BL3SS - Kisses -1 Myles Smith - Stargazing -2 Jordan Adetunji - KEHLANI -3 Charli XCX - Apple -4 Dasha - Austin -5 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!

I reckon the numbers are legitimate in the sense that the songs were listened to (a lot of the odd behaviour shows up on last.fm stats and they're not faking that). But it feels like the differential of agency for the streams is less important than ever. The chart gives off the impression that there are a lot of people who pick and choose their current faves to listen to, or have current hits playlists they cycle through, but it's too farfetched on a greater level. I don't entirely doubt that these songs got popular in the first place from user input & curiosity, but at some point they just get taken over by the reaper of algorithmic stream allocation. Makes it hard to get invested in the month to month movement when it doesn't seem to mean as much. The biggest bummer of it all though is the way it just guts the local flavour. The Australian festival circuit is falling apart at the moment. A lot of people are blaming bad line ups, but it feels like they're just being steered away from local artists on discovery platforms, so there's no value to get from reinforcing line ups beyond headliners anymore. I fear the flow-on effects will only get worse.

The number I highlighted is the day-by-day change for the 7-day rolling total. In simpler terms, it's how many streams it got compared to 7 days prior. Tends to be a better measure of momentum than just the daily change since different days of the week tend to fluctuate and miss the bigger picture.

See numbers like this and it makes me wanna re-evaluate the whole chart run, as well as a lot of other hits. Is the Marcagi snap to reality coming next? (still on Hot Hits UK & Today's Top Hits) Also noticed some very odd behaviour on Spotify's monthly listener stats. Two days in a row (almost) every artist was down, and now they're all back up, but way over-compensating for that, and with seemingly no logic to who's been boosted the most. All the while, nothing drastic on the Global chart. Re-calibration I guess?

To be fair, 'organic' is kind of nebulous. It just means that it's been better disguised.

19/08/2024 Singles 01 02 13 01 BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish 02 03 18 01 A BAR SONG (TIPSY) Shaboozey 03 01 02 01 GUESS Charli XCX feat. Billie Eilish 04 05 18 04 GOOD LUCK, BABE Chappell Roan 05 04 14 01 I HAD SOME HELP Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen 06 06 18 01 ESPRESSO Sabrina Carpenter 07 08 30 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 08 07 10 01 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Sabrina Carpenter 09 15 03 09 BIG DAWGS Hanumankind, Kalmi 10 09 15 05 NOT LIKE US Kendrick Lamar 11 11 39 04 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 12 10 16 01 MILLION DOLLAR BABY Tommy Richman 13 13 23 10 AUSTIN Dasha 14 14 21 01 TOO SWEET Hozier 15 12 14 11 STARGAZING Myles Smith 16 17 43 01 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 17 16 11 01 HOUDINI Eminem 18 18 02 18 APPLE Charli XCX 19 25 51 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan Feat. Kacey Musgraves 20 RE 20 01 BYE BYE BYE *NSYNC 21 20 31 12 SCARED TO START Michael Marcagi 22 19 12 12 PINK SKIES Zach Bryan 23 28 08 23 KEHLANI Jordan Adetunji 24 21 109 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 25 26 21 22 SLOW IT DOWN Benson Boone 26 23 17 01 FORTNIGHT Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone 27 29 09 26 NIGHTS LIKE THIS The Kid Laroi 28 27 73 01 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 29 22 13 05 LUNCH Billie Eilish 30 34 07 18 GIRLS The Kid Laroi 31 31 209 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 32 30 08 30 HOT TO GO! Chappell Roan 33 32 21 18 BELONG TOGETHER Mark Ambor 34 24 10 24 360 Charli XCX 35 33 03 18 GUY FOR THAT Post Malone feat. Luke Combs 36 37 21 03 I LIKE THE WAY YOU KISS ME Artemas 37 38 80 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 38 40 27 15 STUMBLIN' IN Cyril 39 39 23 02 WE CAN'T BE FRIENDS (WAIT FOR YOUR LOVE) Ariana Grande 40 35 09 20 DEVIL IS A LIE Tommy Richman 41 NE 01 41 BACKBONE Chase & Status, Stormzy 42 43 160 01 IRIS Goo Goo Dolls 43 42 26 03 END OF BEGINNING Djo 44 45 09 36 MISSES Dominic Fike 45 57 03 45 I LOVE YOU, I'M SORRY Gracie Abrams 46 44 13 14 WILDFLOWER Billie Eilish 47 46 216 19 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 48 41 12 09 BAND4BAND Central Cee feat. Lil Baby 49 47 10 39 AIN'T NO LOVE IN OKLAHOMA (FROM TWISTERS: THE ALBUM) Luke Combs 50 52 214 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac Bubbling Under Nothing this week! Albums 01 NE 001 01 SUNDAY SADNESS Amy Shark 02 02 013 01 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish 03 NE 001 03 WHATEVER, WHATEVER Grinspoon 04 05 017 01 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Taylor Swift 05 06 018 04 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS Chappell Roan 06 NE 001 06 THIS IS HOW TOMORROW MOVES Beabadoobee 07 07 010 03 BRAT Charli XCX 08 NE 001 08 FLIGHT B741 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard 09 08 184 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 10 04 002 04 VULTURES 2 ¥$, Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign 11 10 076 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 12 NE 001 12 KILL THE DEAD 3% 13 12 069 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 14 15 169 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 15 13 049 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 16 16 212 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 17 17 088 01 SOS SZA 18 11 008 01 THE SECRET OF US Gracie Abrams 19 09 005 01 THE DEATH OF SLIM SHADY (COUP DE GRÂCE) Eminem 20 18 260 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 21 RE 011 03 THE FIRST TIME The Kid Laroi 22 19 042 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 23 22 375 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 24 21 062 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 25 14 055 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 26 25 353 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 27 NE 001 27 MIDNIGHT ZOO Dice 28 23 335 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 29 26 098 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 30 NE 001 30 96 MONTHS Calvin Harris 31 27 447 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 32 30 018 07 PAPERCUTS Linkin Park 33 31 492 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 34 33 430 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 35 28 006 03 THE GREAT AMERICAN BAR SCENE Zach Bryan 36 36 092 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 37 38 263 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 38 20 004 02 ATE Stray Kids 39 40 051 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 40 35 323 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 41 32 003 30 DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE Soundtrack 42 39 281 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 43 44 094 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 44 34 019 17 FIREWORKS & ROLLERBLADES Benson Boone 45 43 188 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 46 42 023 01 ETERNAL SUNSHINE Ariana Grande 47 41 114 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 48 45 304 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 49 37 289 01 ASTROWORLD Travis Scott 50 55 320 01 AM Arctic Monkeys Remember a little while back when Shaboozey was stuck not getting to #1 and seemed like his chance might be up, and then he spent a solid while at #1? Most of that has happened so far for "BIRDS OF A FEATHER", notably the important part of getting to #1. Billie Eilish is technically replacing herself at #1, which hasn't happened on the singles chart since Drake did so in 2018, with "God's Plan" and "Nice For What" as you'd expect. Taylor Swift also did this twice on the album chart this year in permutations that you have no reason to recall. Belatedly we've got a re-entry for *NSYNC. If they were on last week's chart, I could've said that this week's top 35 is the same as last week's top 35 in a slightly different order. But wait, the chart isn't that boring, we've got an actual debut. From Chase & Status no less, who I have it on good authority have never charted in Australia before now. The significant different commercial viability of drum & bass is usually one of the key differences between Australia and New Zealand's charts, even today. Gracie Abrams also has a new entry. I apologise if anyone finds the emojis overbearing but I didn't expect I'd have to be hoisting them for a 3rd week in a row. 🚨🚨 AUSTRALIAN #1 ALBUM ALERT 🚨🚨. Amy Shark becomes the latest artist to continue their #1 album streak in spite of diminished returns on the singles chart. She's gone one better than the other two as she's got 3 #1 albums now. She leads a week of what must be the most Australian content we've gotten all year. 6 albums in the top 50, that's almost halfway to the quota that we're supposed to be getting. Though she's not directly responsible for it, Amy Shark getting to #1 means that Grinspoon continue their run of never being able to get there. I remember them having an interview on the radio over a decade ago (uh oh) that they had a habit of constantly releasing against the wrong competition and not getting there, but they've only actually had two #2 albums. beabadoobee continues to re-write history into convincing people that maybe she gave Powfu a hit with her own influence as she scores her first ever top 10 album. Then we go back to Australian artists without a #1 album, I'd say how many King Gizz are up to but it might go out of date by the time I hit 'Add reply'. Also debuting this week are the Australian trio 3% with their first album. There's three of them but also 3% is roughly the percentage of Australians who are Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders. Just the other day I was thinking about how I don't see many football references in Australian music lately but the album cover re-creates Nicky Winmar's iconic shirt lift from 1993. Speaking of Indigenous Australians, The Kid LAROI also returns with his most recent album boosted by some more tracks. In case you were wondering, "NIGHTS LIKE THIS PT. 2" was not combined otherwise he'd be a bit higher on the singles chart this week. At #27 this week is the first album from DICE, who are not only from Western Australia but my support worker has played with them on occasion so I have a conflict of interest when I say I think they're pretty good. Lastly Calvin Harris enters with an album that will potentially drop very, very slowly. Also remember when I said that Luke Combs had the longest charting album without dropping out until it dropped out? There's a secondary version of that because Elton John's "Diamonds" has spent the most weeks in a row on the chart at present on a re-entry. By dropping down to #40, it's the lowest position it's been in over 5 years, so maybe it's at risk as well.

Fine then I'll just take a nickel for every time someone predicted something but waited until after it happened to say it ;)

Damn, if I had a nickel for every time a song was declared a flop on day one and got a new peak afterwards, I wouldn't be posting on here anymore.

+30 Porter Robinson - Sad Machine +29 BANKS - Beggin' for Thread +28 Katy B - Crying For No Reason +27 Lana Del Rey - West Coast +26 Röyksopp & Robyn - Do It Again +25 Weeknd - Often +24 Röyksopp & Robyn - Monument +23 First Aid Kit - My Silver Lining +22 FKA Twigs - Two Weeks +21 Lorde - Yellow Flicker Beat +20 Magician (feat. Years & Years) – Sunlight +19 HAIM - If I Could Change Your Mind +18 Ten Walls - Walking With Elephants +17 Watermat - Bullit +16 Lorde - Team +15 DJ Snake & Lil Jon - Turn Down For What +14 Foxes - Let Go For Tonight +13 Marina and the Diamonds – Froot +12 Klingande - Jubel +11 Ariana Grande (feat. The Weeknd) - Love Me Harder +10 Oliver Heldens & Becky Hill - Gecko (Overdrive) +9 Duke Dumont (feat. Jax Jones) - I Got U +8 Lorde - 400 Lux +7 Lilly Wood and The Prick - Prayer In C (Robin Schulz Remix) +6 Coldplay – Midnight +5 Route 94 (feat. Jess Glynne) - My Love +4 Little Mix - Salute +3 alt-J - Every Other Freckle +2 J. Cole - No Role Modelz +1 Tinashe (feat. Schoolboy Q) - 2 On

+5 Billie Eilish - BIRDS OF A FEATHER +4 Myles Smith - Stargazing +3 Charli xcx - Apple +2 Jordan Adetunji - KEHLANI +1 Charli xcx - Guess -1 BL3SS & CamrinWatsin - Kisses -2 Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please -3 Dasha - Austin -4 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! -5 Eminem - Houdini Not really feeling this one

"Dreams" was already doing pretty well before that video happened. I reckon at this point it's just riding (no pun intended) on its own momentum.

I think in fairness, the nature of the charts exaggerates "Mr. Brightside" to an extent compared to its contemporaries. Since streaming has been part of the chart, it's accumulated over 300 weeks in the Official Top 100, while for instance "Somebody Told Me", which gets nearly half as many streams as it every day, has managed 0 weeks in the same period. Anything that just skates by on the chart in perpetuity is gonna look bigger than it is, while anything that's just outside feels like it's in no man's land, completely forgotten and un-appreciated.

This is global but I assume it's telling enough

12/08/2024 Singles 01 NE 01 01 GUESS Charli XCX feat. Billie Eilish 02 02 12 02 BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish 03 01 17 01 A BAR SONG (TIPSY) Shaboozey 04 03 13 01 I HAD SOME HELP Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen 05 05 17 05 GOOD LUCK, BABE Chappell Roan 06 04 17 01 ESPRESSO Sabrina Carpenter 07 06 09 01 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Sabrina Carpenter 08 07 29 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 09 08 14 05 NOT LIKE US Kendrick Lamar 10 10 15 01 MILLION DOLLAR BABY Tommy Richman 11 09 38 04 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 12 13 13 11 STARGAZING Myles Smith 13 11 22 10 AUSTIN Dasha 14 12 20 01 TOO SWEET Hozier 15 74 02 15 BIG DAWGS Hanumankind, Kalmi 16 14 10 01 HOUDINI Eminem 17 15 42 01 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 18 NE 01 18 APPLE Charli XCX 19 16 11 12 PINK SKIES Zach Bryan 20 21 30 12 SCARED TO START Michael Marcagi 21 20 108 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 22 23 12 05 LUNCH Billie Eilish 23 17 16 01 FORTNIGHT Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone 24 27 09 24 360 Charli XCX 25 19 50 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan Feat. Kacey Musgraves 26 24 20 22 SLOW IT DOWN Benson Boone 27 26 72 01 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 28 45 07 28 KEHLANI Jordan Adetunji 29 29 08 26 NIGHTS LIKE THIS The Kid Laroi 30 41 07 30 HOT TO GO! Chappell Roan 31 30 208 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 32 28 20 18 BELONG TOGETHER Mark Ambor 33 18 02 18 GUY FOR THAT Post Malone feat. Luke Combs 34 25 06 18 GIRLS The Kid Laroi 35 31 08 20 DEVIL IS A LIE Tommy Richman 36 22 04 22 DID IT FIRST Ice Spice, Central Cee 37 32 20 03 I LIKE THE WAY YOU KISS ME Artemas 38 37 79 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 39 35 22 02 WE CAN'T BE FRIENDS (WAIT FOR YOUR LOVE) Ariana Grande 40 38 26 15 STUMBLIN' IN Cyril 41 33 11 09 BAND4BAND Central Cee feat. Lil Baby 42 40 25 03 END OF BEGINNING Djo 43 34 159 01 IRIS Goo Goo Dolls 44 53 12 14 WILDFLOWER Billie Eilish 45 36 08 36 MISSES Dominic Fike 46 48 215 19 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 47 42 09 39 AIN'T NO LOVE IN OKLAHOMA (FROM TWISTERS: THE ALBUM) Luke Combs 48 39 05 28 LIES LIES LIES Morgan Wallen 49 49 12 07 CHIHIRO Billie Eilish 50 51 47 02 GREEDY Tate McRae Bubbling Under Nothing this week! Albums 01 NE 001 01 BEAUTIFULLY ORDINARY Tones And I 02 02 012 01 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish 03 NE 001 03 THE DELUGE Fanning Dempsey National Park 04 NE 001 04 VULTURES 2 ¥$, Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign 05 03 016 01 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Taylor Swift 06 05 017 04 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS Chappell Roan 07 06 009 03 BRAT Charli XCX 08 08 183 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 09 04 004 01 THE DEATH OF SLIM SHADY (COUP DE GRÂCE) Eminem 10 09 075 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 11 13 007 01 THE SECRET OF US Gracie Abrams 12 14 068 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 13 15 048 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 14 11 054 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 15 17 168 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 16 18 211 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 17 16 087 01 SOS SZA 18 19 259 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 19 21 041 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 20 07 003 02 ATE Stray Kids 21 20 061 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 22 24 374 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 23 23 334 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 24 01 002 01 ENOUGH OF THE SWEET TALK Lime Cordiale 25 25 352 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 26 27 097 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 27 26 446 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 28 22 005 03 THE GREAT AMERICAN BAR SCENE Zach Bryan 29 NE 001 29 IF IT SUCKS, TURN IT UP Dune Rats 30 32 017 07 PAPERCUTS Linkin Park 31 31 491 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 32 30 002 30 DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE Soundtrack 33 33 429 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 34 36 018 17 FIREWORKS & ROLLERBLADES Benson Boone 35 28 322 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 36 39 091 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 37 34 288 01 ASTROWORLD Travis Scott 38 35 262 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 39 38 280 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 40 37 050 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 41 40 113 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 42 41 022 01 ETERNAL SUNSHINE Ariana Grande 43 42 187 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 44 45 093 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 45 46 303 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 46 NE 001 46 SINCERE Khalid 47 48 004 04 CHARM Clairo 48 NE 001 48 THE NECKLACE Allday 49 47 194 01 BORN TO DIE Lana Del Rey 50 44 251 02 DAMN. Kendrick Lamar A huge week for Charli XCX. After registering 0 sales last week, "Apple" has managed to jump right into the top 20 in a near unprecedented sales acceleration for a song that's been out for 2 months. Also "Guess" is at #1. For those who are interested in that sort of thing, I can personally guarantee that Billie Eilish was not credited when the chart first dropped on Friday afternoon but at some point since then she's been added to that, so now she can only blame herself for blocking herself. As the first week sales calm down, it's possible that "BIRDS OF A FEATHER" could grab the top spot next week, but still too close to call with 3 days left to go. Hanumankind & Kalmi both burst into the top 20 this week. It's the sort of entry that has you wondering who the highest charting Indian artist is until you remember that A.R. Rahman had a #1 single in 2009. I can't believe I'm doing this in back to back weeks but I must once again subject you to 🚨🚨 AUSTRALIAN #1 ALBUM ALERT 🚨🚨. I also must issue a warning to anyone who makes it part of their personality to become a raging sociopath that has to remind everyone that they really don't like a song that came out over 5 years ago that Tones And I has a second #1 album. Fortunately I haven't seen too much of that recently. This one doesn't seem to be linked with NFTs either, hurrah! This week also has huge news for Australian men in their 40s. Not only are Carlton temporarily out of the 8 (lol), but there's a new collaborative album from Bernard Fanning and Paul Dempsey. If you don't fall roughly into that age group, then I'll let you know that Bernard Fanning is from Powderfinger, probably the highest selling band domestically in the last 30 years, and Paul Dempsey is from Something For Kate, who are not the highest selling band domestically in the last 30 years but they are probably one of the best, and Paul is possibly the tallest man in Australian music. Notably, Something For Kate have never won an ARIA Award and they probably have Powderfinger to blame for snatching them in their stead. No bad blood then obviously. Once upon a time, Dune Rats were at #1 with a self-deprecating album title. This week they're at #29 with a self-deprecating album title. Also imagine telling someone in 2019 that Khalid would soon only barely debut ahead of a month old Clairo album. Lastly we've got Allday scoring his 6th top 50 album, which also contributes to the shocking chart moment as Luke Combs' second album has finally fallen out of the top 50 for the first time ever. This means that "folklore" is now the longest charting album to have never dropped out. Pretty wild considering it was sitting at #49 on the chart 2 years ago. ARIA have also swung an axe to the CCR compilation after about a year of just chilling on the chart.

Yeah, I find the global uniformity of it all one of the most interesting aspects. It's a fair argument to say that the US/UK/Can/Aus/NZ charts are more alike than ever before, but how much of it is due to global TikTok influence, and how much is a phantom streaming algorithm that's guiding listeners along, and for songs no one had tabs on for suspicious inflation? Local hitmakers just can't compete* *Just to compound this, Chase & Status have soared into the top spot in the UK right now, they also popped up top 40 in Australia, having almost never appeared on any chart here whatsoever prior to this.

Anyone else notice a whole bunch of capitulations for fairly established hits last week? Was just running through the Australian chart (although it seems a lot of this is consistent across different countries) and as soon as August 1st hit, there were huge drops for "Babydoll", "As It Was", "Fast Car", "Iris", "Snooze" etc, and most of all "Flowers", just losing 20% of its streams instantly and dropping straight out of the UK weekly chart from #93! Kinda crazy to think such a huge chunk of any current hit's streams can just be switched on and off like that.

No you're right, it did go to #1 in Australia :heehee:

+5 Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us +4 Billie Eilish - BIRDS OF A FEATHER +3 Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy) +2 Myles Smith - Stargazing +1 Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please -1 BL3SS & CamrinWatsin - Kisses (feels like it's been so long since I've had to look up a random rising top 10 hit since it's not charting over here. The more ignoble Reshuffle streak continues however) -2 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso -3 Dasha - Austin -4 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! -5 Eminem - Houdini

05/08/2024 Singles 01 01 16 01 A BAR SONG (TIPSY) Shaboozey 02 02 11 02 BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish 03 04 12 01 I HAD SOME HELP Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen 04 03 16 01 ESPRESSO Sabrina Carpenter 05 08 16 05 GOOD LUCK, BABE Chappell Roan 06 05 08 01 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Sabrina Carpenter 07 06 09 27 01 BEAUTIFUL THINGS Benson Boone 08 07 13 05 NOT LIKE US Kendrick Lamar 09 10 37 04 LOSE CONTROL Teddy Swims 10 09 14 01 MILLION DOLLAR BABY Tommy Richman 11 12 21 10 AUSTIN Dasha 12 13 19 01 TOO SWEET Hozier 13 14 12 11 STARGAZING Myles Smith 14 11 09 01 HOUDINI Eminem 15 15 41 01 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 16 17 10 12 PINK SKIES Zach Bryan 17 16 15 01 FORTNIGHT Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone 18 NE 01 18 GUY FOR THAT Post Malone feat. Luke Combs 19 22 49 06 I REMEMBER EVERYTHING Zach Bryan Feat. Kacey Musgraves 20 25 107 06 SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE Zach Bryan 21 19 29 12 SCARED TO START Michael Marcagi 22 31 03 22 DID IT FIRST Ice Spice, Central Cee 23 20 11 05 LUNCH Billie Eilish 24 23 19 22 SLOW IT DOWN Benson Boone 25 18 05 18 GIRLS The Kid Laroi 26 21 71 01 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 27 35 08 27 360 Charli XCX 28 26 19 18 BELONG TOGETHER Mark Ambor 29 27 07 26 NIGHTS LIKE THIS The Kid Laroi 30 34 207 06 RIPTIDE Vance Joy 31 24 07 20 DEVIL IS A LIE Tommy Richman 32 29 19 03 I LIKE THE WAY YOU KISS ME Artemas 33 30 10 09 BAND4BAND Central Cee feat. Lil Baby 34 43 158 01 IRIS Goo Goo Dolls 35 32 21 02 WE CAN'T BE FRIENDS (WAIT FOR YOUR LOVE) Ariana Grande 36 37 07 36 MISSES Dominic Fike 37 38 78 01 LAST NIGHT Morgan Wallen 38 36 25 15 STUMBLIN' IN Cyril 39 28 04 28 LIES LIES LIES Morgan Wallen 40 33 24 03 END OF BEGINNING Djo 41 40 06 40 HOT TO GO! Chappell Roan 42 50 08 39 AIN'T NO LOVE IN OKLAHOMA (FROM TWISTERS: THE ALBUM) Luke Combs 43 98 19 11 FE!N Travis Scott feat. Playboi Carti 44 41 04 41 28 Zach Bryan 45 42 06 42 KEHLANI Jordan Adetunji 46 47 70 02 FAST CAR Luke Combs 47 39 15 05 I CAN DO IT WITH A BROKEN HEART Taylor Swift 48 48 214 19 MR. BRIGHTSIDE The Killers 49 44 11 07 CHIHIRO Billie Eilish 50 49 212 04 DREAMS Fleetwood Mac Bubbling Under Nothing this week! Albums 01 NE 001 01 ENOUGH OF THE SWEET TALK Lime Cordiale 02 03 011 01 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish 03 04 015 01 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT Taylor Swift 04 01 003 01 THE DEATH OF SLIM SHADY (COUP DE GRÂCE) Eminem 05 06 016 04 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS Chappell Roan 06 07 008 03 BRAT Charli XCX 07 02 002 02 ATE Stray Kids 08 09 182 02 THE HIGHLIGHTS The Weeknd 09 10 074 01 ONE THING AT A TIME Morgan Wallen 10 NE 001 10 ASK THAT GOD Empire Of The Sun 11 33 053 01 UTOPIA Travis Scott 12 NE 001 12 RITE HERE RITE NOW Ghost 13 11 006 01 THE SECRET OF US Gracie Abrams 14 15 067 03 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION Post Malone 15 08 047 01 GUTS Olivia Rodrigo 16 12 086 01 SOS SZA 17 16 167 01 SOUR Olivia Rodrigo 18 20 210 01 FOLKLORE Taylor Swift 19 17 258 01 LOVER Taylor Swift 20 21 060 06 STICK SEASON Noah Kahan 21 18 040 01 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) Taylor Swift 22 14 004 03 THE GREAT AMERICAN BAR SCENE Zach Bryan 23 22 333 07 THIS ONE'S FOR YOU Luke Combs 24 25 373 11 SINGLES COLLECTION Maroon 5 25 24 351 01 REPUTATION Taylor Swift 26 23 445 01 CURTAIN CALL: THE HITS Eminem 27 26 096 01 MIDNIGHTS Taylor Swift 28 28 321 03 DIAMONDS Elton John 29 35 200 16 CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS Creedence Clearwater Revival 30 NE 001 30 DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE Soundtrack 31 32 490 01 RUMOURS Fleetwood Mac 32 31 016 07 PAPERCUTS Linkin Park 33 36 428 01 TEENAGE DREAM: THE COMPLETE CONFECTION Katy Perry 34 70 287 01 ASTROWORLD Travis Scott 35 38 261 01 STARBOY The Weeknd 36 44 017 17 FIREWORKS & ROLLERBLADES Benson Boone 37 42 049 02 ZACH BRYAN Zach Bryan 38 39 279 01 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? Billie Eilish 39 47 090 02 GRADUATION Kanye West 40 45 112 15 LOOK AT ME: THE ALBUM XXXTentacion 41 37 021 01 ETERNAL SUNSHINE Ariana Grande 42 48 186 02 DANGEROUS: THE DOUBLE ALBUM Morgan Wallen 43 46 247 01 WHAT YOU SEE AIN'T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET Luke Combs 44 53 250 02 DAMN. Kendrick Lamar 45 41 092 05 THE ESSENTIAL Foo Fighters 46 50 302 01 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) Queen 47 55 193 01 BORN TO DIE Lana Del Rey 48 34 003 04 CHARM Clairo 49 60 093 36 STUDIO ALBUMS ABBA 50 57 203 40 GREATEST HITS Pitbull "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" is #1 for a 5th week. If you're looking for change, well you might get it next week. Billie Eilish continues to trim away at the lead and looks to be right in the mix next week. Alternatively we have the new debut chaos that's hard to predict so maybe Charli XCX will just debut at #1? Actually if you want to put maybes around, maybe she'll have 2 debuts next week. It has occurred to me that "Apple" still isn't on the ARIA Chart, maybe next week they'll do something about that. In any case, she'll certainly end that hegemony of the same songs in the top 15 we've had for months. If you need more proof, Post Malone can't quite debut in there this week. He seems to be driven by a strong sales week as the song only got to #24 on the Spotify chart. It's also the only debut we've had in the last 2 weeks. This means I'm once again teasing the possibility of the return of the Bubbling Under chart, but probably not next week. As I'm probably going to loudly edit into the subheader after I post this, 🚨🚨 AUSTRALIAN #1 ALBUM ALERT 🚨🚨. We have not had an Australian at #1 on either chart all year until now. Getting that honour is the 3rd album for Lime Cordiale. If you recall, their 2nd album also debuted at #1 and had an egregious number of singles that preceded it and ensured it a strong streaming fortune for months to come. This one also has a similar situation as it already has 5 triple j Hottest 100 entries on it. Ominously, only the title track is sitting in their top 6 tracks right now according to last.fm, so it's probably not going to hang around quite as long unless Americans decide it's really funny that there's a song called "Imposter Syndrome". Despite the rumours that they only ever made 2 songs, Empire Of The Sun return with their 4th album which maintains their run of hitting the top 10 with every one of them. I also tempted fate last week as we've now got 2 new soundtrack albums in the chart. One from Ghost, and yet another MCU one. I'm currently engaging in a slow Clockwork Orange-like experience of watching all of those MCU films for the first time so if there's still any life left in me, maybe I'll have a quippy remark about it next time.

+5 Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us +4 Billie Eilish - BIRDS OF A FEATHER +3 JADE - Angel Of My Dreams +2 Jimin - Who +1 Myles Smith - Stargazing -1 Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please -2 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso -3 Dasha - Austin -4 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! -5 Eminem - Houdini