If you are new to the thread, or not new, it might help to have a rundown. Every Sunday at midday, I record the current iTunes top 200 and the weekly Spotify chart, and sort together the highest songs on both of them (giving Spotify the edge on ties because it's honestly far more relevant). As that is usually less than 100 songs and this is 100 songs, I fill the rest of the slots with the oldest songs on the Spotify chart left over after that. The Bubbling Under chart lists the top 20 next newest songs on the Spotify chart that haven't yet appeared on this chart.
11/10/2020 (Week 262)
It's a new year and it starts with the likely result. After a lengthy spell of largely charting on Spotify inertia for the past year or so, "Dreams" has elevated itself so high that it doesn't even need Spotify anymore. In fact, most of the Fleetwood Mac songs on the Spotify chart are higher on iTunes this week. This coincides with the passing of Eddie Van Halen earlier in the week. Previously, only "Jump" had appeared here, and it's naturally the highest at #2. They have a further two in the top 10, meaning that two completely unrelated songs called "Dreams" are in the top 10. The '70s & '80s are very much in vogue this week as Journey take their own Spotify lingerer up to a huge new peak of #6, and just ahead is London Grammar who finally had a big iTunes boost coincide with this chart, getting "Strong" to #4. Xavier Rudd is not going down without a fight on the Australian guitar dude battle, and "Follow The Sun" enters the top 10 for the first time this week. It finished the previous year just 9 places behind "Let Me Be" on the all time stats so that's probably settled now. To return to Fleetwood Mac, "Everywhere" and "Gypsy" score new peaks but "Go Your Own Way" does not. Johnny Nash gets his first ever entry, as do The Jam, and surprisingly Blondie. There's a 2017 song called "Cumberland Gap" that's being used in a TV show, not to be confused with Jason Isbell's 2017 song called "Cumberland Gap". I also want to remark that Cardi B's "I Like It" was a lucky entrant early last year thanks to there being less competition to fill out the chart with oldies, but this week it has a return to the iTunes chart thus proving it was always destined to make an appearance here.
The Bubbling Under chart is an extremely 'I was right' moment. Namely in the 3 songs dropping out being the 3 I pointed out last week. "Dance Monkey" has its destined #1 peak but admittedly it's quite possible that it'll move back to #2 next week as the Capaldi fund seems to be on the up this week so far. "feel something" looks like it's not coming back though. It is replaced however by another similarly aged song, as Clairo's "Sofia" has hit the TikTok lottery to debut here. She gets to enjoy the chaotic July 26th pack which has again flipped around in favour of Regard. More vacancies means that Flume's STILL ON HOT HITS AUSTRALIA "Rushing Back" gets in, and Labrinth also has an appearance with "Still Don't Know My Name", but it's not the only song released on this same day, so it could slip back out of the chart.
iTunes songs: 60 Spotify songs: 40
1
2
100
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
2
RE
4
2
Van Halen
Jump
3
NE
1
3
Van Halen
Why Can't This Be Love
4
RE
12
4
London Grammar
Strong
5
3
13
1
Jubël (feat NEIMY)
Dancing In The Moonlight
6
45
88
6
Journey
Don't Stop Believin'
7
NE
1
7
Van Halen
Dreams
8
1
8
1
Helen Reddy
I Am Woman
9
6
34
1
Sam Fischer
This City
10
RE
12
10
Xavier Rudd
Follow The Sun
11
26
53
2
Fleetwood Mac
The Chain
12
93
17
12
Fleetwood Mac
Everywhere
13
NE
1
13
Van Halen
Panama
14
8
166
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
15
5
18
3
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
16
44
3
16
Fleetwood Mac
Little Lies
17
7
86
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
18
RE
17
1
John Lennon
Imagine
19
NE
1
19
Johnny Nash
I Can See Clearly Now
20
32
65
20
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
21
14
103
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
22
15
38
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
23
16
74
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
24
23
86
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
25
17
12
4
BØRNS
Electric Love
26
12
217
1
Kenny Rogers
The Gambler
27
27
233
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
28
RE
218
2
Queen
We Will Rock You
29
RE
4
29
Fleetwood Mac
Gypsy
30
29
165
9
Bryan Adams
Summer Of '69
31
RE
152
5
AC/DC
You Shook Me All Night Long
32
19
9
4
Kendrick Lamar (feat Jay Rock)
Money Trees
33
RE
12
9
Calum Scott
You Are The Reason
34
RE
5
33
Fleetwood Mac
Rhiannon
35
41
189
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
36
10
88
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
37
36
124
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
38
39
67
1
Tame Impala
The Less I Know The Better
39
83
203
1
Daryl Braithwaite
The Horses
40
40
160
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
41
24
187
3
Metallica
Enter Sandman
42
30
42
1
Travis Scott
goosebumps
43
RE
5
43
Tina Turner
The Best
44
18
205
5
Oasis
Wonderwall
45
92
21
11
Stevie Wonder
Happy Birthday
46
55
180
2
Darius Rucker
Wagon Wheel
47
33
32
6
Travis Scott
SICKO MODE
48
97
162
4
David Guetta (feat Sia)
Titanium
49
RE
47
3
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes
(I've Had) The Time Of My Life
50
RE
135
7
AC/DC
Highway To Hell
51
RE
93
3
Queen
We Are The Champions
52
RE
115
8
AC/DC
Back In Black
53
RE
14
13
Robbie Williams
Angels
54
RE
3
54
Calum Scott & Leona Lewis
You Are The Reason
55
31
190
6
Cold Chisel
Khe Sanh
56
64
124
8
Whitney Houston
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
57
59
14
52
MKTO
Classic
58
49
80
42
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
59
47
118
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
60
NE
1
60
David Rawlings
Cumberland Gap
61
68
189
1
Ed Sheeran
Thinking Out Loud
62
51
67
1
Lewis Capaldi
Bruises
63
RE
153
1
Ed Sheeran
Photograph
64
56
36
2
benny blanco, Halsey & Khalid
Eastside
65
20
78
1
George Ezra
Shotgun
66
RE
85
5
Post Malone (feat 21 Savage)
rockstar
67
RE
105
4
John Farnham
You're The Voice
68
RE
58
17
AC/DC
T.N.T.
69
RE
11
16
Fleetwood Mac
Landslide
70
48
21
15
Juice WRLD
All Girls Are The Same
71
RE
3
20
Billy Joel
We Didn't Start The Fire
72
61
161
1
Toto
Africa
73
RE
20
5
Elton John
Your Song
74
50
85
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
75
63
69
8
Anne-Marie
2002
76
58
2
58
Ziggy Alberts
Days In The Sun
77
78
9
19
Choirboys
Run To Paradise
78
79
240
1
Eminem
Lose Yourself
79
81
187
7
Metallica
Nothing Else Matters
80
RE
30
8
Bruce Springsteen
I'm On Fire
81
RE
84
5
AC/DC
It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)
Unsurprisingly, Fleetwood Mac are still at #1. If they can keep up this momentum, it'll be near insurmountable short of a weird fluke in the system. On an unrelated note, a big debut this week from an initially unlikely source. Avid 2010s chart watchers might remember Zach Sobiech scoring a brief chart appearance back in 2013, coming about after he passed away from cancer. I always remembered this but it also feels like such a forgotten blip in time. It clearly isn't because Disney made a movie about it, and now that very song, "Clouds" is in at #2. The most noteworthy thing otherwise in the top 10 is a new peak for New Radicals, as "You Get What You Give" is currently on an ad. "Radioactive" also has a strong re-entry among otherwise common company. Back on Fleetwood Mac for a bit, after not getting new peaks last week, "Go Your Own Way" and "Rhiannon" have improved their situation. In more recent territory, the duet version of "You Are The Reason" continues to show strong form lately, while "Always Remember Us This Way" returns after unluckily dropping out last week, to a new peak. The MKTO wave shows no signs of stopping at #41, while George Ezra gets a random new peak for "Hold My Girl", charting via iTunes for the first time here. It feels like Kina Grannis's cover of "Can't Help Falling In Love" has been appearing on the iTunes chart for ages, longer than most because it got replaced by a newer version of the same cover 2 years ago. Now that newer version is certainly 2 years old and gets in. 2 years old on this very week are "Sunflower" & "3 Nights", so expect to see them on here pretty regularly. For unexplained reasons (I mean I know, but I also don't), there is another song from the James Arthur 2016 album gaining traction, and you can expect it to climb rapidly next week. Lastly to my surprise, BLACKPINK manage a debut with one of their earliest singles, "DDU-DU DDU-DU". The volume of old singles in the charts right now is at a near all time high, so "Shape Of You" drops out for the first non-Christmas week.
I actually expected "Hold Me While You Wait" to return, but it must have been around #201 for the week. This is good news for BENEE, who barely snuck back into the chart and allows "Glitter" a new peak, but also notably, after being blocked by the slimmest of margins before, Lime Cordiale do manage to return with "Robbery", though I'm not sure it can be relied upon to last much longer. Clairo also takes the lead in the chaotic mess that is the July 26th songs.
iTunes songs: 58 Spotify songs: 42
1
1
101
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
2
NE
1
2
Zach Sobiech
Clouds
3
5
14
1
Jubël (feat NEIMY)
Dancing In The Moonlight
4
9
35
1
Sam Fischer
This City
5
14
167
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
6
RE
5
6
New Radicals
You Get What You Give
7
RE
115
4
Imagine Dragons
Radioactive
8
17
87
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
9
2
5
2
Van Halen
Jump
10
21
104
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
11
15
19
3
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
12
6
89
6
Journey
Don't Stop Believin'
13
11
54
2
Fleetwood Mac
The Chain
14
20
66
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
15
RE
25
14
The Righteous Brothers
Unchained Melody
16
22
39
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
17
16
4
16
Fleetwood Mac
Little Lies
18
24
87
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
19
8
9
1
Helen Reddy
I Am Woman
20
RE
8
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
21
23
75
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
22
25
13
4
BØRNS
Electric Love
23
RE
15
14
Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble
This Is Me
24
34
6
24
Fleetwood Mac
Rhiannon
25
54
4
25
Calum Scott & Leona Lewis
You Are The Reason
26
RE
50
1
The Cranberries
Zombie
27
RE
2
27
Lady Gaga
Always Remember Us This Way
28
RE
62
1
Lizzo
Good As Hell
29
30
166
9
Bryan Adams
Summer Of '69
30
7
2
7
Van Halen
Dreams
31
RE
5
24
Amy Shark
I Said Hi
32
27
234
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
33
12
18
12
Fleetwood Mac
Everywhere
34
36
89
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
35
RE
65
9
Neil Diamond
Sweet Caroline
36
32
10
4
Kendrick Lamar (feat Jay Rock)
Money Trees
37
3
2
3
Van Halen
Why Can't This Be Love
38
37
125
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
39
38
68
1
Tame Impala
The Less I Know The Better
40
RE
35
2
Guy Sebastian (feat Lupe Fiasco)
Battle Scars
41
57
15
41
MKTO
Classic
42
RE
119
2
Sia
Chandelier
43
35
190
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
44
33
13
9
Calum Scott
You Are The Reason
45
RE
8
45
George Ezra
Hold My Girl
46
NE
1
46
Kina Grannis
Can't Help Falling In Love
47
42
43
1
Travis Scott
goosebumps
48
RE
28
2
Natalie Taylor
Surrender
49
41
188
3
Metallica
Enter Sandman
50
RE
105
3
Queen
Don't Stop Me Now
51
62
68
1
Lewis Capaldi
Bruises
52
RE
32
1
Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers
Islands In The Stream
53
59
119
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
54
55
191
6
Cold Chisel
Khe Sanh
55
47
33
6
Travis Scott
SICKO MODE
56
44
206
5
Oasis
Wonderwall
57
82
226
1
John Legend
All Of Me
58
RE
77
32
The Chainsmokers (feat Halsey)
Closer
59
61
190
1
Ed Sheeran
Thinking Out Loud
60
RE
256
1
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
61
58
81
42
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
62
65
79
1
George Ezra
Shotgun
63
RE
44
1
Keith Urban (feat Carrie Underwood)
The Fighter
64
RE
49
1
Linkin Park
In The End
65
RE
65
4
Jimmy Barnes
Working Class Man
66
RE
11
9
Dominic Fike
3 Nights
67
83
36
13
Panic! At The Disco
High Hopes
68
64
37
2
benny blanco, Halsey & Khalid
Eastside
69
10
13
10
Xavier Rudd
Follow The Sun
70
RE
58
1
Phil Collins
In The Air Tonight
71
RE
10
41
Pinkfong
Baby Shark
72
75
70
8
Anne-Marie
2002
73
56
125
8
Whitney Houston
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
74
74
86
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
75
70
22
15
Juice WRLD
All Girls Are The Same
76
84
146
1
Passenger
Let Her Go
77
RE
113
2
Wiz Khalifa (feat Charlie Puth)
See You Again
78
88
70
6
Foster The People
Pumped Up Kicks
79
RE
5
50
Kings Of Leon
Sex On Fire
80
NE
1
80
James Arthur
Train Wreck
81
RE
6
9
Coldplay
Clocks
82
87
20
2
Powderfinger
My Happiness
83
31
153
5
AC/DC
You Shook Me All Night Long
84
77
10
19
Choirboys
Run To Paradise
85
50
136
7
AC/DC
Highway To Hell
86
86
85
1
Ocean Alley
Confidence
87
81
85
5
AC/DC
It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)
Usually each year of charts I do ends with relation to the AFL Grand Final, as it tends to be right at the end of September or the start of October. 2020 being what it is, we're only just now reaching it. It's quite notable in its own right though, the first Grand Final played at the Gabba, and with that, more chances for local bands of that region to make their mark on the pre-show entertainment. We actually got that indeed...and you'd never guess from looking at this chart because nobody is allowed to confuse the masses by not almost playing strictly top 40 hit singles, even if they're not your songs in the first place. Anyway, that's no problem for Sheppard, who take the top 2 this week, with "Coming Home" of all things actually topping the iTunes chart at the moment. Their first big hit "Let Me Down Easy" also reaches the top 20, coincidentally sharing the same peak as the Gang of Youths song of the same name. Thus we have the weird fluke in the system that pushes "Dreams" down to #3. Wolfmother are also remarkably 'low' on this chart with "Joker and the Thief" considering it was top 10 on iTunes, but it's a new peak for it nonetheless. I await Pennywise's response. Cub Sport also bring their song "These Days" by Powderfinger back to the top 5, while both versions of "Believe" sneak into the top 10, Cher's "Strong Enough" also re-enters the chart and it's up to you whether that's through casual association or people mis-remembering the song title. It also has to be remarked upon that Richmond have had such consistent form over the run of this chart that their club song has now spent 7 weeks on the chart. Geelong make do with a lower debut. "Up There Cazaly" also keeps managing to climb higher. There's more Gang Of Youths as their perennially on TV cover of "Heroes" gets in for the first time. Alan Jackson once bubbled under with "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere", but now makes the proper chart with "Remember When". MKTO are pacing similarly to Tame Impala a year ago, as "Classic" now slides up to #31. They debuted at #100, and incidentally, Nelly Furtado who just returned at #100, makes a decent jump to a new peak. We also have a new record, as this chart date marks exactly 5 years since Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk" first debuted at...#100, never to be seen since. Their still highest charting single ever manages a slight new peak this week with the longest ever gap between chart appearances, and one that is very easy to remember.
For real this time, "Hold Me While You Wait" returns to #1. We're approaching a noteworthy milestone for Lewis Capaldi but that'll be in 2 weeks. For a relatively vague milestone, "Dance Monkey" and "I Don't Care" become the first songs in this iteration of the Bubbling Under chart to reach 40 weeks. "I'm Yours" managed 49 weeks on the old system so depending on what happens with the Christmas chaos, they could reach this mark as well. Given the sudden descent and then re-emergence of "Hold Me While You Wait", it's hard to make much sense of what's going on with these long runners, but it's worth noting that perennial "Post Malone" has taken huge dives in the past 2 weeks and is not sitting nearly as safely as it usually is. More endangered though was "Glitter" which indeed drops back out, only to be replaced by another NZ track, as Drax Project's "Catching Feelings", which I must note is still in the NZ top 40, makes a surprise return to the Spotify chart after a nearly 4 month absence. Lime Cordiale are thus shoved out by lack of remaining spots but they're still lurking around the top 200. We also have the endless zaniness of "Dior" and "Ride It" swapping spots yet again.
On an unrelated note, I was doing some comparison points between the Spotify charts of now and 1 year ago, and I can report that on average, the chart of right now is actually older than the chart of a year ago. That is, not just respective of songs ages at those times, I mean that if you look at the two charts right now, the older chart is still fresher. I continue to find these developments fascinating.
iTunes songs: 52 Spotify songs: 48
1
RE
3
1
Sheppard
Coming Home
2
RE
37
2
Sheppard
Geronimo
3
1
102
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
4
RE
9
4
Wolfmother
Joker and the Thief
5
RE
16
1
Powderfinger
These Days
6
3
15
1
Jubël (feat NEIMY)
Dancing In The Moonlight
7
11
20
3
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
8
4
36
1
Sam Fischer
This City
9
RE
21
3
Cher
Believe
10
RE
2
10
DMA'S
Believe (triple j Like A Version)
11
RE
7
1
Footy Fever Themes
Richmond Tigers Football Club
12
5
168
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
13
6
6
6
New Radicals
You Get What You Give
14
80
2
14
James Arthur
Train Wreck
15
12
90
6
Journey
Don't Stop Believin'
16
8
88
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
17
10
105
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
18
RE
5
18
Mike Brady
Up There Cazaly (35th Year Anniversary - 2014)
19
NE
1
19
Sheppard
Let Me Down Easy
20
16
40
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
21
14
67
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
22
20
9
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
23
40
36
2
Guy Sebastian (feat Lupe Fiasco)
Battle Scars
24
21
76
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
25
43
191
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
26
22
14
4
BØRNS
Electric Love
27
19
10
1
Helen Reddy
I Am Woman
28
RE
241
1
Eminem
Lose Yourself
29
18
88
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
30
27
3
27
Lady Gaga
Always Remember Us This Way
31
41
16
31
MKTO
Classic
32
NE
1
32
Gang Of Youths
Heroes
33
92
205
1
Daryl Braithwaite
The Horses
34
RE
5
29
Fleetwood Mac
Gypsy
35
NE
1
35
Alan Jackson
Remember When
36
24
7
24
Fleetwood Mac
Rhiannon
37
93
17
9
Luke Combs
Beautiful Crazy
38
32
235
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
39
38
126
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
40
29
167
9
Bryan Adams
Summer Of '69
41
17
5
16
Fleetwood Mac
Little Lies
42
39
69
1
Tame Impala
The Less I Know The Better
43
34
90
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
44
13
55
2
Fleetwood Mac
The Chain
45
33
19
12
Fleetwood Mac
Everywhere
46
NE
1
46
Footy Fever Themes
Geelong Cats Football Club
47
47
44
1
Travis Scott
goosebumps
48
51
69
1
Lewis Capaldi
Bruises
49
36
11
4
Kendrick Lamar (feat Jay Rock)
Money Trees
50
RE
229
1
Christina Perri
A Thousand Years
51
RE
161
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
52
82
21
2
Powderfinger
My Happiness
53
23
16
14
Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble
This Is Me
54
53
120
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
55
RE
33
4
Led Zeppelin
Stairway To Heaven
56
67
37
13
Panic! At The Disco
High Hopes
57
55
34
6
Travis Scott
SICKO MODE
58
RE
20
3
The Cranberries
Dreams
59
72
71
8
Anne-Marie
2002
60
68
38
2
benny blanco, Halsey & Khalid
Eastside
61
100
3
61
Nelly Furtado (feat Timbaland)
Promiscuous
62
74
87
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
63
54
192
6
Cold Chisel
Khe Sanh
64
75
23
15
Juice WRLD
All Girls Are The Same
65
66
12
9
Dominic Fike
3 Nights
66
RE
130
9
Rachel Platten
Fight Song
67
49
189
3
Metallica
Enter Sandman
68
26
51
1
The Cranberries
Zombie
69
RE
31
8
Bruce Springsteen
I'm On Fire
70
RE
15
30
Luke Combs
When It Rains It Pours
71
88
75
1
Billie Eilish & Khalid
lovely
72
RE
5
20
Hunters & Collectors
Holy Grail
73
RE
36
20
Ike & Tina Turner
Nutbush City Limits
74
2
2
2
Zach Sobiech
Clouds
75
61
82
42
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
76
56
207
5
Oasis
Wonderwall
77
59
191
1
Ed Sheeran
Thinking Out Loud
78
57
227
1
John Legend
All Of Me
79
76
147
1
Passenger
Let Her Go
80
77
114
2
Wiz Khalifa (feat Charlie Puth)
See You Again
81
84
11
19
Choirboys
Run To Paradise
82
RE
163
4
David Guetta (feat Sia)
Titanium
83
60
257
1
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
84
78
71
6
Foster The People
Pumped Up Kicks
85
RE
37
3
Icehouse
Great Southern Land
86
50
106
3
Queen
Don't Stop Me Now
87
44
14
9
Calum Scott
You Are The Reason
88
94
95
1
Post Malone
I Fall Apart
89
86
86
1
Ocean Alley
Confidence
90
RE
218
1
Kenny Rogers
The Gambler
91
RE
2
91
Fleetwood Mac
Tusk
92
73
126
8
Whitney Houston
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
93
NE
1
93
Wolfmother
Woman
94
96
12
63
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
95
RE
6
15
Cher
Strong Enough
96
RE
11
1
Trevor Daniel
Falling
97
RE
82
13
Lauv
I Like Me Better
98
RE
141
1
Avicii
Wake Me Up
99
RE
31
6
Marshmello & Bastille
Happier
100
RE
6
24
Toploader
Dancing In The Moonlight
-
7
115
4
Imagine Dragons
Radioactive
-
9
5
2
Van Halen
Jump
-
15
25
14
The Righteous Brothers
Unchained Melody
-
25
4
25
Calum Scott & Leona Lewis
You Are The Reason
-
28
62
1
Lizzo
Good As Hell
-
30
2
7
Van Halen
Dreams
-
31
5
24
Amy Shark
I Said Hi
-
35
65
9
Neil Diamond
Sweet Caroline
-
37
2
3
Van Halen
Why Can't This Be Love
-
42
119
2
Sia
Chandelier
-
45
8
45
George Ezra
Hold My Girl
-
46
1
46
Kina Grannis
Can't Help Falling In Love
-
48
28
2
Natalie Taylor
Surrender
-
52
32
1
Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers
Islands In The Stream
-
58
77
32
The Chainsmokers (feat Halsey)
Closer
-
62
79
1
George Ezra
Shotgun
-
63
44
1
Keith Urban (feat Carrie Underwood)
The Fighter
-
64
49
1
Linkin Park
In The End
-
65
65
4
Jimmy Barnes
Working Class Man
-
69
13
10
Xavier Rudd
Follow The Sun
-
70
58
1
Phil Collins
In The Air Tonight
-
71
10
41
Pinkfong
Baby Shark
-
79
5
50
Kings Of Leon
Sex On Fire
-
81
6
9
Coldplay
Clocks
-
83
153
5
AC/DC
You Shook Me All Night Long
-
85
136
7
AC/DC
Highway To Hell
-
87
85
5
AC/DC
It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)
This was a slower week on iTunes so you'll be seeing the majority of this chart just climbing up from last week's setbacks. Fleetwood Mac thus get #1 out of inertia more than anything else. Last year tragically came and went with no graveyard smashes, largely due to timing, but this chart is perfectly aligned for "Monster Mash" to score a slight new peak at #2. The new Miley Cyrus 2009 EP is the 2016 James Arthur album, which has 2 songs in the top 10 this week. The same can apply with less randomness to the "A Star Is Born" soundtrack, although maybe it feels random since it's long gone from the charts while The Greatest Showman haunts me still. Nelly Furtado rides huge momentum, while MKTO ride modest momentum in the top 30. Bruce Springsteen just scored a #1 album, and is heavily populating this week's chart, with "Streets Of Philadelphia" scoring a new peak. There are just 2 debuts this week, firstly with "This Is Halloween" from "The Nightmare Before Christmas", and another belated streaming hit, The Neighbourhood's huge US hit from 2013, "Sweater Weather".
Not much to report on the Bubbling Under chart this week. "Hold Me While You Wait" could be considered precarious as the Spotify chart is about to be hammered by an Ariana Grande album, but moreso for that is "Catching Feelings", which is #200 for a 2nd week in a row. It seems to have leveled out a bit now, but "Pump It Up" took a huge hit this week.
It's just another regular week here, nothing of note to report. "Dreams" has vaguely hit 2 years on the chart and retains the #1 spot, just being contested by obviously, Delta Goodrem's first single "I Don't Care", which has just now been put on iTunes and seeing very Delta-esque heights on this chart that are not familiar to it on actual charts. Delta also has a debut for one of her more recent B-sides for less clear reasons. She lands just ahead of a big return for Kina Grannis, though probably the most noteworthy return here is for Lewis Capaldi, as on Sunday, "Someone You Loved" became 2 years old and you'll be shocked to know that it is magnetically locked to the Spotify top 40. Come 2021 and there's good reason to believe that it will be a very long running top 10 mainstay and a likely #1 candidate when the stars line up. Also becoming 2 years old in the past week is not quite a Lewis Capaldi song but instead "Before I Go" by Guy Sebastian which enters here for the first time. It would appear that some people have been watching the 2nd Mamma Mia film because it has 2 entries from the less obvious side of ABBA's canon, which also brings in the original "Andante, Andante" which previously only made the Bubbling Under chart. Speaking of Bubblers, a long runner of old, "YMCA" scores a new peak this week at #50, while Nelly Furtado bucks the trend of most this week and still manages to climb to a new peak. Speaking of random TikTok through to Spotify hits, grandson has a first time entry with "Blood // Water". Not either of those things...I imagine, but surprisingly it's the first time in the chart ever for "Layla".
Lewis Capaldi's promotion to permanent main chart mainstay coincides with him getting knocked out of the Spotify chart again. This is to be expected with the new Ariana Grande album, so it could well sneak back in again soon, but for the time being, Tones and I is #1 again. Drax Project also understandably drop out, and we can finally delve into October again. Flume is back again but as is one of two songs released on October 4th in the chart at the moment (Labrinth just dropped out this week). Dan + Shay previously had main chart success with "Tequila", which was about this old when it first entered the ARIA Chart, but the bigger hit "10,000 Hours" can't be counted out yet.
Just another week of "Dreams" at #1 preparing for the inevitable takeover. On an unrelated note, "Someone You Loved" gets a new peak of #2 as it waits for the stars to line up. Boston have a big new peak for "More Than A Feeling", while "Lovely Day" is yet again on a TV ad and is now having a 3rd stint in the top 10. James Arthur also sneaks a slight new peak with "Train Wreck". On the topic of those TikTok hits, Nelly Furtado gets higher yet with "Promiscuous" now up to #21, and "Sweater Weather" returns to slight new heights. Unrelated to that is Guy Sebastian halving his position with "Before I Go", and a new peak re-entry for "Classical Gas". There's just one debut this week, but it's quite notable as one of the longest running Bubbling Under entries of old, Dire Straits' "Sultans Of Swing".
There's also a Bubbling Under chart this week.
iTunes songs: 56 Spotify songs: 44
1
1
105
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
2
6
8
2
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
3
4
18
1
Jubël (feat NEIMY)
Dancing In The Moonlight
4
8
39
1
Sam Fischer
This City
5
9
5
5
James Arthur
Train Wreck
6
RE
6
6
Boston
More Than A Feeling
7
RE
11
3
Bill Withers
Lovely Day
8
15
108
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
9
60
42
1
Mariah Carey
All I Want For Christmas Is You
10
12
171
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
11
7
23
3
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
12
16
91
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
13
18
43
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
14
19
40
2
Sheppard
Geronimo
15
20
12
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
16
34
164
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
17
100
161
1
Chris Stapleton
Tennessee Whiskey
18
11
93
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
19
45
91
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
20
5
6
1
Sheppard
Coming Home
21
25
6
21
Nelly Furtado (feat Timbaland)
Promiscuous
22
27
79
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
23
22
194
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
24
23
40
3
Icehouse
Great Southern Land
25
68
16
10
Xavier Rudd
Follow The Sun
26
29
70
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
27
RE
70
5
Flo Rida (feat T-Pain)
Low
28
33
129
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
29
55
20
9
Luke Combs
Beautiful Crazy
30
30
238
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
31
31
17
4
BØRNS
Electric Love
32
75
78
1
Billie Eilish & Khalid
lovely
33
RE
79
6
Steve Earle
Copperhead Road
34
49
6
7
Lady Gaga
Always Remember Us This Way
35
39
72
1
Tame Impala
The Less I Know The Better
36
RE
219
1
Kenny Rogers
The Gambler
37
RE
3
37
Mason Williams
Classical Gas
38
38
170
9
Bryan Adams
Summer Of '69
39
RE
5
5
Stevie Nicks
Edge of Seventeen
40
44
26
15
Juice WRLD
All Girls Are The Same
41
82
2
41
Guy Sebastian
Before I Go
42
37
19
28
MKTO
Classic
43
48
47
1
Travis Scott
goosebumps
44
RE
159
3
Taylor Swift
Shake It Off
45
71
230
1
John Legend
All Of Me
46
59
231
1
Christina Perri
A Thousand Years
47
32
208
1
Daryl Braithwaite
The Horses
48
RE
191
3
Metallica
Enter Sandman
49
56
123
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
50
RE
188
7
Metallica
Nothing Else Matters
51
51
72
1
Lewis Capaldi
Bruises
52
17
69
8
INXS
Never Tear Us Apart
53
RE
18
14
Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble
This Is Me
54
57
90
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
55
RE
33
8
Bruce Springsteen
I'm On Fire
56
73
93
6
Journey
Don't Stop Believin'
57
69
85
42
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
58
RE
15
9
Calum Scott
You Are The Reason
59
61
195
6
Cold Chisel
Khe Sanh
60
94
58
2
Fleetwood Mac
The Chain
61
63
41
2
benny blanco, Halsey & Khalid
Eastside
62
53
15
29
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Have You Ever Seen The Rain
63
87
22
12
Fleetwood Mac
Everywhere
64
54
37
6
Travis Scott
SICKO MODE
65
RE
11
8
Blue Swede
Hooked On A Feeling
66
RE
66
9
Neil Diamond
Sweet Caroline
67
RE
4
38
Keith Urban
Blue Ain't Your Color
68
76
74
8
Anne-Marie
2002
69
83
150
1
Passenger
Let Her Go
70
67
15
9
Dominic Fike
3 Nights
71
78
210
5
Oasis
Wonderwall
72
92
15
63
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
73
81
194
1
Ed Sheeran
Thinking Out Loud
74
RE
57
8
OneRepublic
Counting Stars
75
RE
50
19
Bruno Mars
Count On Me
76
84
74
6
Foster The People
Pumped Up Kicks
77
35
170
1
Guns N' Roses
Sweet Child O' Mine
78
RE
259
1
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
79
99
89
1
Ocean Alley
Confidence
80
RE
118
1
Eminem
Without Me
81
RE
155
5
AC/DC
You Shook Me All Night Long
82
RE
2
82
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
83
RE
86
5
AC/DC
It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)
We nearly had a new #1 this week. In a neck & neck battle, Fleetwood Mac narrowly manage to hold onto the top spot. They fend off a big challenge which seems to amount to a lot of people watching "A Star Is Born" this week, because it is all over this week's chart. In addition to the obvious two vaulting to the top, we've got a clutter of entries lower down. I am privy enough to know that Supernatural is wrapping up this year and naturally we have a cover of "Carry On Wayward Son" that is just old enough to be included on the chart and enters at #13. Oddly enough, "Ride On Time" has never charted before this week. Less surprisingly, "Eenie Meenie" hasn't either, but now TikTok has made it so. Texas have their first ever entry with the less obvious pick of "Inner Smile", while many ineligible near misses have finally cumulated in FISHER landing a spot with the now old enough "Losing It". Speaking of which, Billie Eilish's "when the party's over" is charting for the first time since becoming 2 years old, just barely. J. Cole's "No Role Modelz" gets a big new peak seemingly out of nowhere, while The Neighbourhood keep climbing. In a moment that can only be described as extreme Westlife shade, "You Raise Me Up" and "Uptown Girl" both debut this week, by Josh Groban & Billy Joel respectively.
Regard & Pop Smoke are at it again.
iTunes songs: 53 Spotify songs: 47
1
1
106
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
2
11
24
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
3
34
7
3
Lady Gaga
Always Remember Us This Way
4
2
9
2
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
5
3
19
1
Jubël (feat NEIMY)
Dancing In The Moonlight
6
39
6
5
Stevie Nicks
Edge of Seventeen
7
4
40
1
Sam Fischer
This City
8
8
109
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
9
10
172
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
10
15
13
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
11
9
43
1
Mariah Carey
All I Want For Christmas Is You
12
12
92
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
13
NE
1
13
Neoni
Carry On Wayward Son
14
13
44
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
15
NE
1
15
Lady Gaga
I'll Never Love Again (Extended Version)
16
77
171
1
Guns N' Roses
Sweet Child O' Mine
17
81
156
5
AC/DC
You Shook Me All Night Long
18
56
94
6
Journey
Don't Stop Believin'
19
RE
3
19
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
20
22
80
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
21
23
195
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
22
21
7
21
Nelly Furtado (feat Timbaland)
Promiscuous
23
NE
1
23
Black Box
Ride On Time
24
26
71
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
25
14
41
2
Sheppard
Geronimo
26
16
165
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
27
19
92
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
28
30
239
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
29
20
7
1
Sheppard
Coming Home
30
RE
2
30
Natalie Imbruglia
Torn
31
32
79
1
Billie Eilish & Khalid
lovely
32
NE
1
32
Bradley Cooper
Maybe It's Time
33
28
130
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
34
25
17
10
Xavier Rudd
Follow The Sun
35
31
18
4
BØRNS
Electric Love
36
62
16
29
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Have You Ever Seen The Rain
37
35
73
1
Tame Impala
The Less I Know The Better
38
18
94
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
39
7
12
3
Bill Withers
Lovely Day
40
NE
1
40
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
I'll Never Love Again (Film Version)
41
43
48
1
Travis Scott
goosebumps
42
38
171
9
Bryan Adams
Summer Of '69
43
40
27
15
Juice WRLD
All Girls Are The Same
44
RE
98
18
Eminem (feat Rihanna)
Love The Way You Lie
45
72
16
45
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
46
99
83
1
George Ezra
Shotgun
47
82
3
47
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
48
RE
117
8
AC/DC
Back In Black
49
49
124
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
50
36
220
1
Kenny Rogers
The Gambler
51
57
86
42
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
52
54
91
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
53
68
75
8
Anne-Marie
2002
54
RE
242
1
Eminem
Lose Yourself
55
RE
13
18
Miley Cyrus
The Climb
56
78
260
1
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
57
51
73
1
Lewis Capaldi
Bruises
58
NE
1
58
Sean Kingston & Justin Bieber
Eenie Meenie
59
RE
13
4
Guns N' Roses
November Rain
60
59
196
6
Cold Chisel
Khe Sanh
61
RE
106
4
John Farnham
You're The Voice
62
61
42
2
benny blanco, Halsey & Khalid
Eastside
63
RE
137
7
AC/DC
Highway To Hell
64
83
87
5
AC/DC
It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)
Firstly I want to address several errors I have made. Firstly, I mislabeled the last 2 weeks in the 300s instead of the 200s. The rest is just me looking over songs accidentally in compiling, which somehow happened 3 times last week. "Train Wreck", "All Of Me", and "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" did not drop out last week, and this week's chart reflects the corrections. Also I accidentally had the wrong peak for "Sofia" on the Bubbling Under chart.
Now I know that it's 2020, but this week's #1 comes from Grey's Anatomy. It's Charlotte OC (do not steal) whose song has indeed been purchased legally enough to end the reign of Fleetwood Mac a week earlier than scheduled. Sam Fischer's run of 31 consecutive weeks in the top 10 also comes to an end. Making up for being lower than once published, Natalie Imbruglia & The Neighbourhood continue to climb, as does last week's "Eenie Meenie" debut transferring its powers from iTunes to Spotify. Last week's "Carry On Wayward Son" debut is gone and replaced by the Kansas original, which only ever made the Bubbling Under chart before. In TikTok things news, Studio Killers' "Jenny" debuts.
The Bubbling Under chart has another half-milestone as Tones and I plus Ed Sheeran get to 45 weeks. The July 26th rascals are at it again. It looks like "Sofia"'s momentum has dried up as it rapidly drops behind both "Dior" and "Ride It", which I must inform have indeed, switched places again. Possibly aided by the ARIA Awards, Lime Cordiale sneak back into the chart, assuring that the newest song in this list is from September 2019, as we inch towards December 2020.
iTunes songs: 54 Spotify songs: 46
1
NE
1
1
Charlotte OC
Where It Stays
2
1
107
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
3
12
44
1
Mariah Carey
All I Want For Christmas Is You
4
4
10
2
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
5
RE
11
1
Helen Reddy
I Am Woman
6
5
20
1
Jubël (feat NEIMY)
Dancing In The Moonlight
7
2
25
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
8
6
7
5
James Arthur
Train Wreck
9
11
14
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
10
9
110
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
11
10
173
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
12
13
93
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
13
3
8
3
Lady Gaga
Always Remember Us This Way
14
8
41
1
Sam Fischer
This City
15
39
95
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
16
RE
64
1
Lizzo
Good As Hell
17
15
45
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
18
45
99
18
Eminem (feat Rihanna)
Love The Way You Lie
19
26
42
2
Sheppard
Geronimo
20
47
84
1
George Ezra
Shotgun
21
31
3
21
Natalie Imbruglia
Torn
22
51
221
1
Kenny Rogers
The Gambler
23
21
81
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
24
RE
28
2
Michael Buble
It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas
25
RE
17
1
Powderfinger
These Days
26
30
8
1
Sheppard
Coming Home
27
25
72
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
28
27
166
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
29
28
93
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
30
22
196
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
31
RE
80
6
Steve Earle
Copperhead Road
32
23
8
21
Nelly Furtado (feat Timbaland)
Promiscuous
33
RE
94
3
Queen
We Are The Champions
34
29
240
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
35
RE
8
24
Amy Shark
I Said Hi
36
34
131
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
37
RE
45
1
Kaleo
Way Down We Go
38
32
80
1
Billie Eilish & Khalid
lovely
39
19
95
6
Journey
Don't Stop Believin'
40
48
4
40
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
41
38
74
1
Tame Impala
The Less I Know The Better
42
70
163
1
Chris Stapleton
Tennessee Whiskey
43
37
17
29
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Have You Ever Seen The Rain
44
82
24
12
Fleetwood Mac
Everywhere
45
42
49
1
Travis Scott
goosebumps
46
44
28
15
Juice WRLD
All Girls Are The Same
47
59
2
47
Sean Kingston & Justin Bieber
Eenie Meenie
48
RE
209
1
Daryl Braithwaite
The Horses
49
57
261
1
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
50
43
172
9
Bryan Adams
Summer Of '69
51
RE
26
33
The Chainsmokers & Coldplay
Something Just Like This
52
46
17
46
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
53
84
71
8
INXS
Never Tear Us Apart
54
RE
220
2
Queen
We Will Rock You
55
60
14
4
Guns N' Roses
November Rain
56
RE
4
55
Justin Timberlake
Mirrors
57
NE
1
57
Kansas
Carry On Wayward Son
58
50
125
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
59
52
87
42
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
60
RE
13
8
The Pogues (feat Kirsty MacColl)
Fairytale Of New York
61
36
19
4
BØRNS
Electric Love
62
RE
4
37
Mason Williams
Classical Gas
63
61
197
6
Cold Chisel
Khe Sanh
64
54
76
8
Anne-Marie
2002
65
53
92
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
66
63
43
2
benny blanco, Halsey & Khalid
Eastside
67
RE
187
4
Katy Perry
Roar
68
RE
85
2
The Black Eyed Peas
I Gotta Feeling
69
72
212
5
Oasis
Wonderwall
70
69
39
6
Travis Scott
SICKO MODE
71
RE
46
21
50 Cent
In Da Club
72
67
232
1
John Legend
All Of Me
73
18
157
5
AC/DC
You Shook Me All Night Long
74
49
118
8
AC/DC
Back In Black
75
RE
67
4
Queen
Another One Bites The Dust
76
58
74
1
Lewis Capaldi
Bruises
77
RE
16
9
Calum Scott
You Are The Reason
78
77
91
1
Ocean Alley
Confidence
79
99
166
1
Toto
Africa
80
80
196
1
Ed Sheeran
Thinking Out Loud
81
RE
6
24
Foo Fighters
My Hero
82
75
21
28
MKTO
Classic
83
RE
3
9
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Murder On The Dancefloor
84
RE
4
46
Montell Jordan
This Is How We Do It
85
RE
34
1
Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers
Islands In The Stream
86
RE
3
29
Taio Cruz
Dynamite
87
74
22
9
Luke Combs
Beautiful Crazy
88
78
76
6
Foster The People
Pumped Up Kicks
89
RE
30
2
Wham!
Last Christmas
90
7
7
5
Stevie Nicks
Edge of Seventeen
91
RE
47
12
Luke Combs
Hurricane
92
79
17
9
Dominic Fike
3 Nights
93
88
16
19
Choirboys
Run To Paradise
94
81
152
1
Passenger
Let Her Go
95
97
94
4
Ed Sheeran
Shape Of You
96
92
100
1
Post Malone
I Fall Apart
97
NE
1
97
Studio Killers
Jenny
98
85
130
8
Whitney Houston
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
99
90
35
6
Marshmello & Bastille
Happier
100
98
146
1
Avicii
Wake Me Up
-
14
1
14
Neoni
Carry On Wayward Son
-
16
1
16
Lady Gaga
I'll Never Love Again (Extended Version)
-
17
171
1
Guns N' Roses
Sweet Child O' Mine
-
20
3
20
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
-
24
1
24
Black Box
Ride On Time
-
33
1
33
Bradley Cooper
Maybe It's Time
-
35
17
10
Xavier Rudd
Follow The Sun
-
40
12
3
Bill Withers
Lovely Day
-
41
1
41
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
I'll Never Love Again (Film Version)
-
55
242
1
Eminem
Lose Yourself
-
56
13
18
Miley Cyrus
The Climb
-
62
106
4
John Farnham
You're The Voice
-
64
137
7
AC/DC
Highway To Hell
-
65
87
5
AC/DC
It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)
I messed up last week and forgot "Santa Tell Me", sorry Coolio. Incidentally, Ariana is really consolidating herself in the Christmas canon and gets a new peak of #3 (originally #6) this week. It's been roughly a year since Dido's "Here With Me" charted, and I don't know if that's a coincidence, but it's much, much higher this year at #7. Also getting a big new peak is CCR's "Have You Ever Seen The Rain". Another song that only seems to chart at the end of the year is Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now", which also scores a new peak. Kelly Clarkson is making a stake for an ARIA top 50 debut for "Underneath The Tree" this year as it's already at a new peak here this week. We have another casaulty of Covid this week as country legend Charley Pride passed away last night. There was just enough time for him to score two entries this week, having never charted before. Also charting for the first time is The Calling.
In addition to Christmas, this week's Spotify chart was totally disrupted by Spotify Wrapped, which you would think would cause curious effects to the Bubbling Under chart given that it largely affects big hits of a certain age. The effect is moderately there this week as we see the return of "Glitter" and "Purple Hat". The chart is so slow moving that despite being gone for 7 weeks, "Glitter" only is 2 spots higher than before. The most significant impact of course is that Regard has overtaken Pop Smoke again, and they'll probably be on their own soon as Clairo doesn't look like lasting much longer. Kygo also looks to be in a spot of trouble after months of casually hanging around the lower hundred, but honestly chaos rules this chart for the next few weeks.
This is the chart that Christmas fanatics want, I think. iTunes is to the rescue soaring the problematic duo into the top 10, alongside Brenda Lee and a new peak for Bobby Helms. Chris Rea, Justin Bieber & Jose Feliciano do not score new peaks, but Kelly Clarkson does. There are just two debuts this week and both come from Sia. Firstly there's TikTok's influence on the Christmas canon that has vaulted "Snowman" from her Christmas album, and then there's wait for it...another soundtrack single, this time "Angel By The Wings". Dean Martin, Darlene Love & John Williams also score new peaks.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about the Christmas onslaught is the space it takes up. It's actually surprisingly leading to a lower than usual quantity of old songs, possibly because iTunes and Spotify share such a decent chunk of them. It's quite possible that next week's overload of old but not that old songs on the iTunes chart will break the usual flow and we'll finally spill out this Bubbling Under chart. Before that though, we get a spill on the other side as a bunch of songs are knocked off from the list. The biggest hits of late last year and JP Saxe are now finding their place, though it remains to be seen what they do from here.
Because of cut off dates and chart arrival dates, this is not the last Christmas week on the chart. It's the peak of it for sure, but don't expect all these songs to disappear next week. This week The Ronettes & Justin Bieber get new top 10 peaks. Kelly Clarkson & Sia also get close to doing the same thing. The only debuts that come along this week have an Australian flavour. David Campbell gets his first entry with a cover of "It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year" that was just eligible this year, while Human Nature surprisingly also get their first entry, with a "White Christmas" cover off their perennial Christmas seller.
I think I didn't do this properly last year but I've had to re-assess how the Bubbling Under chart should work in a context that we're used to the 2 year cut off feeling more official since it's only been missed a couple times in the last 9 months. This is to say that it is entirely possible and we may see this in the future, that a song will be stuck in the not-quite-on-the-chart region of the Spotify chart once it becomes eligible. This kind of happened this year with some of the revolving cast of Christmas songs that have not yet made the main chart. Considering that the chart only got to about #140 this week, there was plenty of space. This space was occupied by some more recent ones which makes sense as 2 of them couldn't actually chart before this year. Samantha Jade's "Santa Baby" cover is actually #101 this week, and finds itself wedged behind Brett Eldredge's cover of an even more cursed song, and Katy Perry's originally Amazon exclusive song. The other thing to note is that there was a decent shoving out of non-Christmas music which wasn't quite filled with the Christmas music, so for that, Dua Lipa's "Don't Start Now" gets into the list, the first of likely very, very many weeks.
As is now tradition, the late publishing Christmas adjacent charts mean that well into January, we've still got "All I Want For Christmas Is You" at #1. In fairness Christmas is only just ending tonight. Normality is somewhat returning too, as most Christmas-adjacent material is on the decline, setting the stage for the typical inertia that we won't get to enjoy for long because the Hottest 100 will probably disrupt it again in 3 weeks. Possibly owing to the fact that it's less helped by Christmas playlists in the first place, Sia's "Snowman" falls slower to land in the top 10, while Amy Shark also jumps into the top 10 for less obvious reasons. The only other new peak this week is a re-entry for "Under The Milky Way", which indeed has only charted for 2 weeks. There are also only two debuts, Australian indie band Hollow Coves with "Coastline", and Marc Anthony getting his first ever entry with "You Sang To Me".
Usual business is mostly restored on the Bubbling Under chart. "Dance Monkey" and "I Don't Care" become the first songs to ever cross 50 weeks on the chart, and we'll see how it holds as we approach the very chart week last year that sucked them into the chart in the first place. Not all of the songs pushed out by Christmas are back in, which leaves some space for Doja Cat's "Say So", a song that probably won't last long as its longevity is somewhat hampered by the fact that people indeed are listening to the remix alongside it, allowing it to sit on the ARIA Chart while barely sitting top 200.
"Dreams" holds onto its default #1 status, though in a manner which would make "Mood" blush, it continues to look like "Someone You Loved" is destined to exert its even stronger inertia to eventually get sucked up into the #1 spot. Xavier Rudd manages a new top 10 peak with "Follow The Sun", preventing Hollow Coves from doing the same. TikTok's sea shanty trend makes waves here thanks to the popular version of "The Wellerman" being conveniently just old enough to chart here. J. Cole climbs into the top 40 for the first time with "No Role Modelz", though with less weeks, Kid Rock casually slides even higher with "All Summer Long".
With the upcoming influx from triple j's Hottest 100, this could be the last week on the Bubbling Under chart for several of these songs. If you're wondering why this chart took so long to post, it's largely due to fatigue of spending hours on Sunday amending the chart. A small error of inaccurately recording Freya Ridings' "Castles" as two months older than it actually is caused a huge series of errors that spiraled out of control, and also caused me to find several other unrelated ones. The short of it is that Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" remix got to chart instead of "Castles" for a single week, and changing the two songs' roles has changed a lot of Bubbling Under stats. There's also a couple of times when I didn't correctly increment the WI values. A curious side effect of this is that "Dance Monkey" actually charted for a week without "I Don't Care", giving it sole credit for the longevity record which is now over 1 year. Kygo's "Higher Love" also re-enters this week and incidentally I had to fix its WI data at least 3 times because nearly every error I made seemed to revolve around it.
This is kind of late just because I could never get around to typing up commentary even though admittedly it takes a lot less time than actually making the chart. Anyway we have a new #1 and it's the first time Enya has ever charted, but thanks to a strange TV commercial, "Orinoco Flow" is #1 this week, just barely beating out Fleetwood Mac. The big news of this week is that the Hottest 100 aired the day before and in fact has made a pretty big impact on the iTunes chart, the Spotify chart will follow next week. With a mass influx of songs that can't possibly be 2 years old, we have been pushed from our status quo of having 120+ songs that are 2+ years old across both charts, to a ~6 month low of just 98 of them. Last year it was considerably bigger to the point of almost the entire Bubbling Under chart getting in, but it seems 100+ weeks will be the norm going forward. If so, we have several months to wait still for Tones And I to make her entrance, though she was very close this week with Juice WRLD's "Robbery" and Jonas Brothers' "Sucker" getting early appearances back on the chart ahead of their approaching anniversaries. I believe "Dance Monkey" is 2nd in queue behind "bad guy". As for the songs that are on this week's chart, The Neighbourhood sneak another new peak, while Train & J. Cole's long runners also benefit from a bottom heavy iTunes chart to get new peaks. Boney M.'s "Rasputin" gets its 2nd week with a big new peak. As an early Hottest 100 effect, Glass Animals get a debut with their 2014 single "Gooey", while actually unrelated is Arctic Monkeys' "Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?" which is having a TikTok resurgence to make for a rare time when "Do I Wanna Know?" is not the biggest song on "AM", though it's not far behind either. I also forgot to mention last week that Roberta Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" set a new record for the longest gap between appearances, one that's hard to beat for the time being since it charted on the first 2 charts I made and never again until last week.
Well it's basically a reversal of the situation last week. Now the iTunes chart is plenty top heavy as the Australian flavour is much more vintage in keeping with Invasion Day, which even being 5 days prior, still shows itself. It's also much more pronounced on Spotify, more so than ever before I believe. Anyway Birds Of Tokyo are back at #1 again with "Lanterns". If "Good Lord" were a few weeks older, it'd be #1 instead. Iggy Pop is charting for the first time ever as "Candy" enters at #2, though "Lust For Life" snuck into the Bubbling Under chart a long time ago. Missy Higgins jumps the bracket as "The Sound Of White" overtakes her prior top 5 hits "Scar" and "The Special Two" to reach #3 on debut. James Reyne adds a couple of entries to his collection with "Motor's Too Fast" and "Hammerhead". His version of "Reckless" is actually charting twice above the Australian Crawl version this week surprisingly, but Australian Crawl do have a big new peak with "The Boys Light Up", which has in fact outpeaked "Reckless". Mondo Rock, Daryl Braithwaite & Noiseworks also get new top 20 peaks. Archie Roach didn't chart from the ARIA Awards last year probably because nobody watched it, but now "Took The Children Away" makes its debut. I endorse the music of Mia Wray but I was surprised to realise she had a relevant song that was eligible for this song, "Where I Stand" actually did make the iTunes chart back in 2017 too. The shifting tide means that basically everything from the Spotify chart drops quite a bit this week, as I note Arctic Monkeys are poised for a big jump, having gone from 41st to 31st just on Spotify rankings.
The Hottest 100 and Invasion Day disruption on the Spotify chart has made quite an impact on the Bubbling Under chart, basically just shifting out all the songs just hanging on, which means they might come back next week. Not enough to take us beyond October of course.
I've been saying it for a while, but Fleetwood Mac's time left as a default #1 is slipping week by week. More though they were lucky to get to the top as later on Sunday the top of the iTunes chart got swamped as it often does. One of those notables was "Day N Nite", though it's already high enough for this tracking moment to land a #8 debut, as Kid Cudi's first ever entry. It's not the highest debut though, that goes to The Hollies' "The Air That I Breathe", which in its first ever week on the chart, outcharts Radiohead's re-write "Creep" by 1 place. 50 Cent's nearly spent a year on the chart with "In Da Club" but had never even made the top 20 but this week gets a huge jump to #5. Carly Simon had a good week, and oddly enough "You're So Vain" isn't even her highest, and didn't even quite make the chart. "Coming Around Again" has now far outpeaked it at #17. I just want to shout out the oddity of "Gold Digger" appearing high on the chart as it's not been on there for years after it felt like Kanye antics made someone flip a switch to kill his otherwise very strong recurrent sales. It is currently discounted on iTunes and I'm not sure if that's usually the case. Also making a big return is "Tusk", significantly improving its peak to #22 and making Fleetwood Mac's two top 10 hits their highest songs on the chart this week. In a similar manner, Cheap Trick get two debuts this week with their two highest charting songs, "The Flame" and "If You Want My Love". Morgan Wallen's heated gamer moment also gets him a debut, though he's been riding Luke Combs type sustained success for quite some time now just with slightly newer songs so it was inevitable. On the topic of vintage ARIA #1's, Vanilla Ice picks up a new peak with "Ice Ice Baby", just ahead of Arctic Monkeys who deliver their promised vault for "Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?", now joined by "Do I Wanna Know?" on the chart. There's some strong 2000s action also with new peak for very long ago debut "Drop It Like It's Hot", while later from the decade, Rihanna's "Umbrella" gets a new peak alongside a back to back for Kings of Leon. Notably this week is the first time that the entire top 3 of last week (that does not contain "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and "Last Christmas") has dropped out of the chart.
Minor correction from last week, I missed Conan Gray's "Maniac" only because last time the chart dipped far enough for it to be included, that was a week that it dropped out and I am very methodical in incorrect manners. Nonetheless it's been kicked back out of the chart this week anyway as the pour away of last week brings Travis Scott back, but we also have a new curiosity, as The Kid LAROI is not the only Australian rapper making waves internationally. Masked Wolf uploaded "Astronaut In The Ocean" to triple j Unearthed (and everywhere else) back in June 2019, and is now entrenched in the Global top 50 on Spotify. If it takes off from here, we may have a big hit ready to capitalise on its long ago released date soon.
Next week could finally be the one. As has been anticipated by me for a solid year, inertia has a name and it's called "Someone You Loved". Between Trevor Daniel, Jubel & Fleetwood Mac, there's almost always been a song making a mockery of release dates riding ahead but it seems like the reign is over. Of course there's no guarantee due to the wild chaos that is the iTunes chart but there are several months of real estate for Lewis until Masked Wolf could pose a threat in June with the way he's climbing up the chart. The Killers patiently wait for the gap between the two to thin more. Benefitting from that iTunes chaos this week is The Weeknd, whose Super Bowl performance sent a lot of his post "Trilogy" music up the chart. Getting the highest is "I Feel It Coming", while "Starboy" is a little lower, both hitting top 10 for the first time. The Neighbourhood will be hoping for a slow iTunes week as "Sweater Weather" patiently creeps up to #11. There are generally new peaks all over the shop as Toploader, Cyndi Lauper, J. Cole, Hippie Sabotage & Arctic Monkeys do so, the big 5. The two debuts are possibly surprising that they haven't charted before. John Paul Young has charted before, but only now with "Love Is In The Air", while Mariah Carey's 2nd #1 hit according to me haplessly reading her Wikipedia discography, "Fantasy" gets in. Also notable this week, although it was recently in the chart due to extreme circumstances, Juice WRLD's "Robbery" now lodges itself as a 2 year old song, so expect to see it here every week for the foreseeable future.
There was also a Bubbling Under chart this week. In case you're wondering, it's 12 weeks away.
As was thoroughly documented last week, Lewis has indeed gotten to the destined #1 spot (for the 2nd time mind you, can't forget "Bruises"). Now the question is how long he will reign because it could very well be quite a while. Masked Wolf will likely overtake him on Spotify next week so if he gets some stability like Australian hits often do (once people latch onto him being Australian), he just needs to maintain this for another 3 months and it's golden. Incidentally it's possible that if "Dreams" wasn't split on multiple versions on iTunes, it could've held the #1 spot this week but we'll never know. The top 10 is a very familiar crew but we do get a new arrival from The Neighbourhood, as this seems to be one of those bottom loaded iTunes weeks causing the Spotify crew to vault up even more. For a prior slow creep, J. Cole has relatively surged to #23 this week for no particular reason. Arctic Monkeys have also found their way into the top 40 but look to have possibly peaked. I have a correction to issue last week as BANNERS' "Somebody To You" should have debuted last week, and now this week, it's moved into the top 20. Surprisingly The Weeknd has actually climbed on Spotify this week with "The Hills" which gets to #69. Re-entries from Trisha Yearwood & Luis Fonsi also score new peaks, while the only actual debut this week is Bob Seger's "Night Moves" a former bubbler.
There's a bit of action on the Bubbling Under this week as we seem to be shifting out the '2020' hits some more. Endor & Lime Cordiale are out of the chart, effectively the first time for the former. We can't dive any further as it's just a return for JP Saxe, but we do get a new arrival as Lil Tjay's "F.N" seemingly returns on the back of his new smash.
1
2
22
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
2
1
119
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
3
14
239
1
Christina Perri
A Thousand Years
4
15
105
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
5
6
185
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
6
3
37
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
7
37
107
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
8
8
122
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
9
12
105
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
10
11
15
10
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
11
13
32
1
Jubël (feat NEIMY)
Dancing In The Moonlight
12
74
205
1
Ed Sheeran
Thinking Out Loud
13
18
19
5
James Arthur
Train Wreck
14
19
53
1
Sam Fischer
This City
15
7
26
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
16
20
56
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
17
23
93
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
18
67
2
18
BANNERS
Someone To You
19
22
5
10
Juice WRLD
Robbery
20
72
180
1
Guns N' Roses
Sweet Child O' Mine
21
30
38
15
Juice WRLD
All Girls Are The Same
22
10
6
7
Boney M.
Rasputin
23
31
27
23
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
24
27
252
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
25
34
220
1
Daryl Braithwaite
The Horses
26
RE
35
4
Led Zeppelin
Stairway To Heaven
27
RE
22
8
Earth, Wind & Fire
September
28
RE
241
1
John Legend
All Of Me
29
16
174
1
Chris Stapleton
Tennessee Whiskey
30
RE
72
1
Lizzo
Good As Hell
31
38
102
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
32
RE
199
3
Metallica
Enter Sandman
33
RE
3
33
Trisha Yearwood
How Do I Live
34
41
85
1
Tame Impala
The Less I Know The Better
35
47
112
1
Hozier
Take Me To Church
36
RE
88
2
The Black Eyed Peas
I Gotta Feeling
37
RE
133
2
WALK THE MOON
Shut Up and Dance
38
55
104
4
Ed Sheeran
Shape Of You
39
48
5
39
Arctic Monkeys
Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?
40
35
178
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
41
44
142
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
42
RE
91
1
George Ezra
Shotgun
43
45
83
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
44
RE
31
11
Bruce Springsteen
Dancing In The Dark
45
21
230
1
Kenny Rogers
The Gambler
46
53
59
1
Travis Scott
goosebumps
47
RE
49
12
Luke Combs
Hurricane
48
51
134
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
49
91
38
1
Ellie Goulding
Love Me Like You Do
50
RE
270
1
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
51
RE
56
1
The Cranberries
Zombie
52
77
47
3
Icehouse
Great Southern Land
53
88
52
5
Bruno Mars
Just The Way You Are
54
RE
19
9
Calum Scott
You Are The Reason
55
69
222
5
Oasis
Wonderwall
56
82
49
3
Andra Day
Rise Up
57
63
96
40
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
58
54
208
6
Cold Chisel
Khe Sanh
59
56
86
8
Anne-Marie
2002
60
68
83
1
Lewis Capaldi
Bruises
61
RE
71
2
Coldplay
A Sky Full Of Stars
62
RE
3
62
Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee (feat Justin Bieber)
Despacito
63
61
91
1
Billie Eilish & Khalid
lovely
64
9
10
9
The Weeknd (feat Daft Punk)
Starboy
65
RE
206
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
66
5
14
3
Lady Gaga
Always Remember Us This Way
67
66
107
6
Journey
Don't Stop Believin'
68
RE
164
6
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Over The Rainbow
69
83
6
69
The Weeknd
The Hills
70
81
105
1
Post Malone
I Fall Apart
71
NE
1
71
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Night Moves
72
84
15
21
Nelly Furtado (feat Timbaland)
Promiscuous
73
RE
12
4
Kenny Loggins
Danger Zone
74
100
44
56
NF
Let You Down
75
RE
156
4
Bon Jovi
Livin' On A Prayer
76
65
101
1
Ocean Alley
Confidence
77
96
182
9
Bryan Adams
Summer Of '69
78
87
84
6
Foster The People
Pumped Up Kicks
79
80
67
10
Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit
80
85
9
5
Arctic Monkeys
Do I Wanna Know?
81
RE
8
21
Miley Cyrus
Wrecking Ball
82
71
52
2
benny blanco, Halsey & Khalid
Eastside
83
92
156
1
Passenger
Let Her Go
84
70
13
24
The Weeknd
Can't Feel My Face
85
95
26
3
Coldplay
Yellow
86
57
36
5
Lady A
Need You Now
87
58
22
14
Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble
This Is Me
88
RE
80
32
The Chainsmokers (feat Halsey)
Closer
89
RE
162
5
AC/DC
You Shook Me All Night Long
90
89
48
6
Travis Scott
SICKO MODE
91
RE
142
7
AC/DC
Highway To Hell
92
86
24
28
MKTO
Classic
93
RE
122
8
AC/DC
Back In Black
94
RE
151
1
Avicii
Wake Me Up
95
RE
88
5
AC/DC
It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)
Here's a wacky fact for you. Apart from The Weeknd's collaborations (and "Black Skinhead" I suppose), Daft Punk have never appeared on this chart before. Nonetheless, we truly mark the last day of summer as Daft Punk's disbandment impacts the chart quite a bit. "One More Time" just narrowly takes the top spot, with "Get Lucky" and "Around The World" not far off the top 10. There's a lower entry for "Da Funk", while they also have two near misses with "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" and "Lose Yourself To Dance". Ronan Keating returns to his old peak of #3, while Billie Eilish's biopic thingy brings "when the party's over" back to the top 10, perhaps we'll see some lingering effects on streaming in the near future, and it's worth noting that her album turns 2 years old in about a month. The Spotify gang are pretty much all down this week so the only new peak on this chart is Solomon Burke returning to new highs. The debuts aren't all Daft Punk though, as The Beatles cycle through some less obvious cuts with their last US #1 hit "The Long and Winding Road" getting through, alongside Elvis Costello's 2nd entry ever, "She" from Notting Hill, and oddly enough Lady Gaga's "Telephone".
Just like during Christmas, we get another utilisation of the arbitrary way I decided to record these charts with adherence to the top 200 status. What I mean is that Ryn Weaver is the latest 'victim' of a potentially becoming more frequent phenomenon of songs slipping into the Spotify chart, but not high enough to actually crack the top 100. Funnily enough she was doing the same thing with "Pierre" on the iTunes chart in recent weeks. She might not be able to actually make the chart just because she's dropped out on the latest Spotify chart, but for the time being, she's interrupting Tones and I's reign which has another 2 months to give out. Elsewhere, Travis Scott and Arizona Zervas drop out, the first time for the latter, but Endor is also back so all things balance out again.
1
NE
1
1
Daft Punk
One More Time
2
1
23
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
3
RE
18
3
Ronan Keating
When You Say Nothing At All
4
2
120
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
5
6
38
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
6
4
106
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
7
5
186
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
8
8
123
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
9
RE
10
6
Billie Eilish
when the party's over
10
9
106
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
11
10
16
10
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
12
32
200
3
Metallica
Enter Sandman
13
14
54
1
Sam Fischer
This City
14
NE
1
14
Daft Punk (feat Pharrell Williams)
Get Lucky
15
NE
1
15
Daft Punk
Around The World
16
15
27
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
17
11
33
1
Jubël (feat NEIMY)
Dancing In The Moonlight
18
3
240
1
Christina Perri
A Thousand Years
19
20
181
1
Guns N' Roses
Sweet Child O' Mine
20
16
57
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
21
51
57
1
The Cranberries
Zombie
22
13
20
5
James Arthur
Train Wreck
23
RE
14
7
Amy Shark
I Said Hi
24
RE
24
11
The Beatles
Here Comes The Sun
25
17
94
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
26
19
6
10
Juice WRLD
Robbery
27
23
28
23
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
28
RE
15
1
Helen Reddy
I Am Woman
29
RE
40
1
Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers
Islands In The Stream
30
RE
98
2
Billie Eilish
ocean eyes
31
24
253
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
32
RE
3
32
Solomon Burke
Cry To Me
33
65
207
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
34
21
39
15
Juice WRLD
All Girls Are The Same
35
87
23
14
Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble
This Is Me
36
43
84
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
37
29
175
1
Chris Stapleton
Tennessee Whiskey
38
35
113
1
Hozier
Take Me To Church
39
RE
41
2
Shania Twain
Man! I Feel Like A Woman!
40
63
92
1
Billie Eilish & Khalid
lovely
41
RE
5
9
The Beach Boys
Kokomo
42
RE
3
14
The Beatles
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
43
31
103
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
44
34
86
1
Tame Impala
The Less I Know The Better
45
40
179
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
46
41
143
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
47
RE
52
1
Linkin Park
In The End
48
66
15
3
Lady Gaga
Always Remember Us This Way
49
38
105
4
Ed Sheeran
Shape Of You
50
RE
11
31
KISS
I Was Made For Lovin' You
51
28
242
1
John Legend
All Of Me
52
RE
12
8
Blue Swede
Hooked On A Feeling
53
77
183
9
Bryan Adams
Summer Of '69
54
RE
190
2
Darius Rucker
Wagon Wheel
55
RE
2
36
Barry McGuire
Eve Of Destruction
56
NE
1
56
The Beatles
The Long and Winding Road
57
RE
3
31
Dolly Parton
I Will Always Love You
58
39
6
39
Arctic Monkeys
Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?
59
12
206
1
Ed Sheeran
Thinking Out Loud
60
48
135
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
61
RE
96
4
Coldplay
Fix You
62
46
60
1
Travis Scott
goosebumps
63
55
223
5
Oasis
Wonderwall
64
RE
227
2
Queen
We Will Rock You
65
58
209
6
Cold Chisel
Khe Sanh
66
RE
50
3
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes
(I've Had) The Time Of My Life
67
RE
70
32
Eminem (feat Nate Dogg)
'Till I Collapse
68
RE
12
9
GANGgajang
Sounds Of Then (This Is Australia)
69
57
97
40
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
70
59
87
8
Anne-Marie
2002
71
RE
11
21
Lady Gaga
Poker Face
72
RE
4
22
Fleetwood Mac
Tusk
73
22
7
7
Boney M.
Rasputin
74
NE
1
74
Daft Punk
Da Funk
75
RE
4
49
The Beatles
Yesterday
76
67
108
6
Journey
Don't Stop Believin'
77
RE
3
3
Kina Grannis
Can't Help Falling In Love
78
RE
89
7
John Denver
Take Me Home, Country Roads
79
72
16
21
Nelly Furtado (feat Timbaland)
Promiscuous
80
74
45
56
NF
Let You Down
81
NE
1
81
Elvis Costello
She
82
60
84
1
Lewis Capaldi
Bruises
83
96
138
8
Whitney Houston
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
84
RE
52
8
Gotye (feat Kimbra)
Somebody That I Used To Know
85
76
102
1
Ocean Alley
Confidence
86
94
152
1
Avicii
Wake Me Up
87
79
68
10
Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit
88
RE
12
6
Carly Rae Jepsen
Call Me Maybe
89
53
53
5
Bruno Mars
Just The Way You Are
90
RE
190
4
Katy Perry
Roar
91
70
106
1
Post Malone
I Fall Apart
92
RE
36
21
P!nk (feat Nate Ruess)
Just Give Me A Reason
93
80
10
5
Arctic Monkeys
Do I Wanna Know?
94
NE
1
94
Lady Gaga (feat Beyonce)
Telephone
95
78
85
6
Foster The People
Pumped Up Kicks
96
RE
31
33
The Chainsmokers & Coldplay
Something Just Like This
97
RE
109
4
John Farnham
You're The Voice
98
RE
24
19
Choirboys
Run To Paradise
99
52
48
3
Icehouse
Great Southern Land
100
88
81
32
The Chainsmokers (feat Halsey)
Closer
-
7
107
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
-
18
2
18
BANNERS
Someone To You
-
25
220
1
Daryl Braithwaite
The Horses
-
26
35
4
Led Zeppelin
Stairway To Heaven
-
27
22
8
Earth, Wind & Fire
September
-
30
72
1
Lizzo
Good As Hell
-
33
3
33
Trisha Yearwood
How Do I Live
-
36
88
2
The Black Eyed Peas
I Gotta Feeling
-
37
133
2
WALK THE MOON
Shut Up and Dance
-
42
91
1
George Ezra
Shotgun
-
44
31
11
Bruce Springsteen
Dancing In The Dark
-
45
230
1
Kenny Rogers
The Gambler
-
47
49
12
Luke Combs
Hurricane
-
49
38
1
Ellie Goulding
Love Me Like You Do
-
50
270
1
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
-
54
19
9
Calum Scott
You Are The Reason
-
56
49
3
Andra Day
Rise Up
-
61
71
2
Coldplay
A Sky Full Of Stars
-
62
3
62
Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee (feat Justin Bieber)
Despacito
-
64
10
9
The Weeknd (feat Daft Punk)
Starboy
-
68
164
6
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Over The Rainbow
-
69
6
69
The Weeknd
The Hills
-
71
1
71
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Night Moves
-
73
12
4
Kenny Loggins
Danger Zone
-
75
156
4
Bon Jovi
Livin' On A Prayer
-
81
8
21
Miley Cyrus
Wrecking Ball
-
82
52
2
benny blanco, Halsey & Khalid
Eastside
-
83
156
1
Passenger
Let Her Go
-
84
13
24
The Weeknd
Can't Feel My Face
-
85
26
3
Coldplay
Yellow
-
86
36
5
Lady A
Need You Now
-
89
162
5
AC/DC
You Shook Me All Night Long
-
90
48
6
Travis Scott
SICKO MODE
-
91
142
7
AC/DC
Highway To Hell
-
92
24
28
MKTO
Classic
-
93
122
8
AC/DC
Back In Black
-
95
88
5
AC/DC
It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)
Along with the obvious reason for Daft Punk appearing, the numerous Beatles re-entries are probably due to the movie 'Yesterday' airing on free-to-air TV over the weekend.
The more I look at it, TV/streaming programming probably accounts for a lot of the current chart. "Hooked on a Feeling" was also on the air as part of a notable scene in Guardians of the Galaxy, and as you pointed out Notting Hill presumably was shown too. Billie could well be a regular feature too if the documentary continues to be popular viewing
Add in the ad-related entries for GANGgajang and (possibly) Carly Rae Jespen and that's a significant part of the 100 which we can reasonably attribute to specific events.
Yeah I definitely agree, I just don't often comment on it because I'm usually not of the knowledge for what's causing the jumps lol. (Amusingly, the film "Yesterday" was a correct response on a Jeopardy! episode I just watched tonight)
Funnily enough, the most frequent time to see big old songs jumping up the chart is usually Sunday night after I've compiled the charts, you get a lot of things like The Voice or segments on 60 Minutes or stuff like that, which doesn't always last long enough to show here. Last edited:
In yet another instance of absurd happenstance that feels like I'd have to be making it up...we have yet another 1 position gap between the top two. Or perhaps Lewis is just being kind and not taking the #1 glory away from anyone who hasn't yet earned it. For the 2nd week in a row we have a #1 debut, and this time it's from Rita Ora, who's seeing a tremendous boon this week from performing at local Mardi Gras celebrations. Her only prior entry on this chart was her Liam Payne collaboration "For You", but now she gets a bit more action as in addition to "Anywhere" are also debuts for "Let You Love Me" and "I Will Never Let You Down". The only other debut this week is Ida Corr & Fedde Le Grand's "Let Me Think About It" which I'm assuming is also related, same going for Sneaky Sound System's "UFO", which has curiously matched its ARIA peak of #11. As The Wiggles became the 10th (give or take) artist to cover Tame Impala for Like A Version, "Elephant" vaults back into the chart at a big new high of #3. Last week's re-entries for Solomon Burke & KISS also score new highs, while Dolly Parton has now surpassed the peak of Whitney Houston's version of "I Will Always Love You" though that's also back this week. Hippie Sabotage also sneaks a 1 position improvement for "Devil Eyes" to #32. This was the week that "Sucker" by the Jonas Brothers became eligible, and also the week it dropped out of the Spotify chart, but it could always show up with a good iTunes week. We'll certainly get a long running 2 year old song in a few weeks though. Daft Punk give us the 3rd 1-out song presently on the chart, it's up to Rita Ora to not add to that next week.
And of course the Bubbling Under chart continues to promise some of its own. Ryn Weaver made a bit of a jump on the chart this week though still not quite enough to crack the hundred (she would be #113 this week). Endor continues to hover around dangerously, while Lil Tjay's revival looks to be short lived. MEDUZA also find themselves at a (non-Christmas) new low currently.
iTunes songs: 55 Spotify songs: 45
1
NE
1
1
Rita Ora
Anywhere
2
2
24
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
3
RE
2
3
Tame Impala
Elephant
4
4
121
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
5
73
8
7
Boney M.
Rasputin
6
57
4
6
Dolly Parton
I Will Always Love You
7
7
187
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
8
RE
108
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
9
8
124
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
10
5
39
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
11
RE
2
11
Sneaky Sound System
UFO
12
RE
76
9
Neil Diamond
Sweet Caroline
13
NE
1
13
Rita Ora
Let You Love Me
14
32
4
14
Solomon Burke
Cry To Me
15
10
107
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
16
18
241
1
Christina Perri
A Thousand Years
17
13
55
1
Sam Fischer
This City
18
11
17
10
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
19
19
182
1
Guns N' Roses
Sweet Child O' Mine
20
16
28
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
21
50
12
21
KISS
I Was Made For Lovin' You
22
20
58
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
23
RE
50
3
Andra Day
Rise Up
24
RE
62
7
Elton John
Tiny Dancer
25
22
21
5
James Arthur
Train Wreck
26
17
34
1
Jubël (feat NEIMY)
Dancing In The Moonlight
27
RE
271
1
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
28
48
16
3
Lady Gaga
Always Remember Us This Way
29
25
95
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
30
29
41
1
Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers
Islands In The Stream
31
26
7
10
Juice WRLD
Robbery
32
RE
3
32
Hippie Sabotage
Devil Eyes
33
27
29
23
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
34
31
254
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
35
RE
92
12
The White Stripes
Seven Nation Army
36
36
85
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
37
NE
1
37
Rita Ora
I Will Never Let You Down
38
97
110
4
John Farnham
You're The Voice
39
34
40
15
Juice WRLD
All Girls Are The Same
40
RE
12
23
Whitney Houston
I Will Always Love You
41
37
176
1
Chris Stapleton
Tennessee Whiskey
42
60
136
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
43
RE
21
5
Elton John
Your Song
44
88
13
6
Carly Rae Jepsen
Call Me Maybe
45
38
114
1
Hozier
Take Me To Church
46
RE
8
26
Kings Of Leon
Sex On Fire
47
6
107
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
48
45
180
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
49
43
104
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
50
63
224
5
Oasis
Wonderwall
51
53
184
9
Bryan Adams
Summer Of '69
52
12
201
3
Metallica
Enter Sandman
53
46
144
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
54
71
12
21
Lady Gaga
Poker Face
55
28
16
1
Helen Reddy
I Am Woman
56
49
106
4
Ed Sheeran
Shape Of You
57
87
69
10
Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit
58
51
243
1
John Legend
All Of Me
59
RE
37
13
Dolly Parton
Jolene
60
RE
59
3
Elton John
Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long Long Time)
I assure you that the game is not rigged but once again we find ourselves with a new #1 out of nowhere by a minor margin. Granted unlike the last two weeks it's not literally the smallest margin it can be, but it's pretty close. This time it's Starship's time at the top, with "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now". It's a more old school top 10 than usual too, as Boney M. keep rising, I forgot to mention their new peak last week but I can certainly mention this one as they're up to #3. Solomon Burke also keeps climbing, now to #8. BANNERS' recent debutant "Someone To You" returns to a new high of #12. Another recent debutant, but not a recent song, Mariah Carey's "Fantasy" now gets to #20, just ahead of Hippie Sabotage's new peak at #21. It's a quiet week for debuts, just the two with Reg Lindsay's long ago tribute to the then-recent news of the Apollo 11 moon landing with "Armstrong", but also we have Elle King's "America's Sweetheart", a song that I seem to see mentioned more and more over time. I'm also inclined to shout out the uncharacteristic drop out for Jubel's "Dancing In The Moonlight", which shows what happens when the big Spotify playlist drops a song that didn't have much business charting on its own. It actually got into the lower reaches of the iTunes chart this week but it completely vanished on Spotify (Toploader's version is actually outperforming it) with no sign of ever returning, so it might be gone for good after an extensive top 20 run.
Speaking of also on the iTunes chart, Ryn Weaver keeps showing up there but still just needs a slightly better week if she wants to make this chart. Her nest egg on Spotify seems to have disappeared though, putting Tones and I back to #1 with 8 weeks left before she can make her ascent. Right on cue to make sure no progress can be made in expanding the chart lore, Guy Sebastian returns to the chart. Lil Tjay & MEDUZA continue to decline, while "Beautiful People" starts to look a bit sketchy itself. It's hard to imagine a scenario where Masked Wolf doesn't hit #1 on the main chart eventually as he's still climbing higher and higher.
1
RE
4
1
Starship
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
2
2
25
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
3
5
9
3
Boney M.
Rasputin
4
4
122
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
5
19
183
1
Guns N' Roses
Sweet Child O' Mine
6
10
40
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
7
7
188
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
8
14
5
8
Solomon Burke
Cry To Me
9
6
5
6
Dolly Parton
I Will Always Love You
10
9
125
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
11
52
202
3
Metallica
Enter Sandman
12
RE
3
12
BANNERS
Someone To You
13
17
56
1
Sam Fischer
This City
14
18
18
10
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
15
15
108
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
16
22
59
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
17
12
77
9
Neil Diamond
Sweet Caroline
18
20
29
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
19
RE
9
13
Harry Styles
Sign Of The Times
20
RE
2
20
Mariah Carey
Fantasy
21
32
4
21
Hippie Sabotage
Devil Eyes
22
25
22
5
James Arthur
Train Wreck
23
38
111
4
John Farnham
You're The Voice
24
RE
6
13
Scorpions
Wind Of Change
25
33
30
23
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
26
59
38
13
Dolly Parton
Jolene
27
29
96
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
28
34
255
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
29
31
8
10
Juice WRLD
Robbery
30
41
177
1
Chris Stapleton
Tennessee Whiskey
31
73
43
2
Shania Twain
Man! I Feel Like A Woman!
32
42
137
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
33
36
86
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
34
16
242
1
Christina Perri
A Thousand Years
35
61
88
1
Tame Impala
The Less I Know The Better
36
RE
221
1
Daryl Braithwaite
The Horses
37
39
41
15
Juice WRLD
All Girls Are The Same
38
48
181
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
39
53
145
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
40
RE
77
8
INXS
Never Tear Us Apart
41
98
232
1
Kenny Rogers
The Gambler
42
30
42
1
Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers
Islands In The Stream
43
45
115
1
Hozier
Take Me To Church
44
47
108
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
45
RE
9
3
Starship
We Built This City
46
58
244
1
John Legend
All Of Me
47
RE
30
2
Natalie Taylor
Surrender
48
75
140
8
Whitney Houston
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
49
49
105
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
50
76
108
1
Post Malone
I Fall Apart
51
56
107
4
Ed Sheeran
Shape Of You
52
51
185
9
Bryan Adams
Summer Of '69
53
93
26
11
The Beatles
Here Comes The Sun
54
RE
8
6
New Radicals
You Get What You Give
55
8
109
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
56
62
211
6
Cold Chisel
Khe Sanh
57
55
17
1
Helen Reddy
I Am Woman
58
64
94
1
Billie Eilish & Khalid
lovely
59
RE
11
6
Billie Eilish
when the party's over
60
RE
20
5
Radiohead
Creep
61
71
99
40
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
62
RE
191
2
Darius Rucker
Wagon Wheel
63
69
89
8
Anne-Marie
2002
64
63
62
1
Travis Scott
goosebumps
65
NE
1
65
Reg Lindsay
Armstrong
66
66
8
39
Arctic Monkeys
Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?
67
RE
31
23
Katy Perry
Firework
68
50
225
5
Oasis
Wonderwall
69
84
209
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
70
RE
46
1
Kaleo
Way Down We Go
71
RE
13
3
Keane
Somewhere Only We Know
72
85
55
5
Bruno Mars
Just The Way You Are
73
28
17
3
Lady Gaga
Always Remember Us This Way
74
3
3
3
Tame Impala
Elephant
75
77
110
6
Journey
Don't Stop Believin'
76
83
18
21
Nelly Furtado (feat Timbaland)
Promiscuous
77
RE
2
71
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Night Moves
78
78
86
1
Lewis Capaldi
Bruises
79
23
51
3
Andra Day
Rise Up
80
81
47
56
NF
Let You Down
81
87
26
19
Choirboys
Run To Paradise
82
RE
14
27
Tears For Fears
Everybody Wants To Rule The World
83
90
87
6
Foster The People
Pumped Up Kicks
84
RE
30
2
Elton John
I'm Still Standing
85
99
26
28
MKTO
Classic
86
24
63
7
Elton John
Tiny Dancer
87
RE
53
8
Gotye (feat Kimbra)
Somebody That I Used To Know
88
RE
4
35
Pascal Letoublon
Friendships
89
88
104
1
Ocean Alley
Confidence
90
57
70
10
Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit
91
NE
1
91
Elle King
America's Sweetheart
92
RE
59
8
OneRepublic
Counting Stars
93
96
12
5
Arctic Monkeys
Do I Wanna Know?
94
RE
191
4
Katy Perry
Roar
95
RE
157
1
Passenger
Let Her Go
96
RE
53
19
Bruno Mars
Count On Me
97
100
83
32
The Chainsmokers (feat Halsey)
Closer
98
RE
7
31
Bruno Mars
24K Magic
99
RE
46
42
Van Morrison
Brown Eyed Girl
100
68
93
1
George Ezra
Shotgun
-
1
1
1
Rita Ora
Anywhere
-
11
2
11
Sneaky Sound System
UFO
-
13
1
13
Rita Ora
Let You Love Me
-
21
12
21
KISS
I Was Made For Lovin' You
-
26
34
1
Jubël (feat NEIMY)
Dancing In The Moonlight
-
27
271
1
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
-
35
92
12
The White Stripes
Seven Nation Army
-
37
1
37
Rita Ora
I Will Never Let You Down
-
40
12
23
Whitney Houston
I Will Always Love You
-
43
21
5
Elton John
Your Song
-
44
13
6
Carly Rae Jepsen
Call Me Maybe
-
46
8
26
Kings Of Leon
Sex On Fire
-
54
12
21
Lady Gaga
Poker Face
-
60
59
3
Elton John
Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long Long Time)
Spotify Charts isn't letting me download this week's chart which is surely them just prodding me for not posting this ages ago (I've been quite busy in my defence). Anyway I kid you not but the revolving door of Capaldi blockers continues again. This time it's Concrete Blonde's turn, as their first ever appearance on this chart comes in style with "Joey" debuting at #1. BANNERS seem to be being treated as a new hit song on the radio and even Spotify's getting behind them, so now "Someone To You" is up to #5. Gym Class Heroes on the other hand have got nothing going on with the iTunes department but Spotify is giving a lot of love to "Cupid's Chokehold" currently which is their first ever entry. Tina Arena has a new re-entry peak for "Sorrento Moon", while earlier in the week Doug Parkinson passed away, which had him at #1 on iTunes for a little while, and he lands at #19. Seemingly to mock me, Jubel did get that random iTunes boost this week to re-enter the chart. There was a lot of Snyder cutting going on in glorious 4:3 of which another cover of "Hallelujah" shows up on this chart. LeAnn Rimes also sneaks in with not one of her big hits here, but "I Need You".
If you think the Bubbling Under chart is progressing forward, guess again. Endor is bumped out of the chart again but there's no news with Dua Lipa back in the chart. We have several entries skating on dropping out this week though with a new Justin Bieber album perhaps taking some casualties.
iTunes songs: 53 Spotify songs: 47
1
NE
1
1
Concrete Blonde
Joey
2
2
26
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
3
4
123
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
4
1
5
1
Starship
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
5
12
4
5
BANNERS
Someone To You
6
3
10
3
Boney M.
Rasputin
7
34
243
1
Christina Perri
A Thousand Years
8
7
189
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
9
27
97
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
10
10
126
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
11
38
182
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
12
8
6
8
Solomon Burke
Cry To Me
13
RE
116
4
Imagine Dragons
Radioactive
14
13
57
1
Sam Fischer
This City
15
5
184
1
Guns N' Roses
Sweet Child O' Mine
16
14
19
10
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
17
RE
2
17
Tina Arena
Sorrento Moon (I Remember)
18
6
41
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
19
NE
1
19
Doug Parkinson
The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
20
15
109
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
21
16
60
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
22
RE
131
1
Tracy Chapman
Fast Car
23
RE
35
1
Jubël (feat NEIMY)
Dancing In The Moonlight
24
NE
1
24
Gym Class Heroes
Cupid's Chokehold / Breakfast In America
25
44
109
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
26
18
30
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
27
RE
175
1
Toto
Africa
28
41
233
1
Kenny Rogers
The Gambler
29
RE
22
5
Elton John
Your Song
30
17
78
9
Neil Diamond
Sweet Caroline
31
22
23
5
James Arthur
Train Wreck
32
88
5
32
Pascal Letoublon
Friendships
33
25
31
23
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
34
28
256
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
35
55
110
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
36
20
3
20
Mariah Carey
Fantasy
37
43
116
1
Hozier
Take Me To Church
38
86
64
7
Elton John
Tiny Dancer
39
9
6
6
Dolly Parton
I Will Always Love You
40
29
9
10
Juice WRLD
Robbery
41
NE
1
41
Allison Crowe
Hallelujah
42
RE
14
6
Carly Rae Jepsen
Call Me Maybe
43
33
87
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
44
RE
83
6
Steve Earle
Copperhead Road
45
RE
28
14
The Righteous Brothers
Unchained Melody
46
46
245
1
John Legend
All Of Me
47
RE
33
16
Dragon
Rain
48
51
108
4
Ed Sheeran
Shape Of You
49
30
178
1
Chris Stapleton
Tennessee Whiskey
50
37
42
15
Juice WRLD
All Girls Are The Same
51
31
44
2
Shania Twain
Man! I Feel Like A Woman!
52
49
106
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
53
58
95
1
Billie Eilish & Khalid
lovely
54
RE
30
9
Luke Combs
Beautiful Crazy
55
61
100
40
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
56
84
31
2
Elton John
I'm Still Standing
57
32
138
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
58
50
109
1
Post Malone
I Fall Apart
59
87
54
8
Gotye (feat Kimbra)
Somebody That I Used To Know
60
35
89
1
Tame Impala
The Less I Know The Better
61
39
146
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
62
40
78
8
INXS
Never Tear Us Apart
63
69
210
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
64
70
47
1
Kaleo
Way Down We Go
65
72
56
5
Bruno Mars
Just The Way You Are
66
53
27
11
The Beatles
Here Comes The Sun
67
RE
99
2
Billie Eilish
ocean eyes
68
63
90
8
Anne-Marie
2002
69
RE
60
3
Elton John
Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long Long Time)
Shenanigans cannot last forever. After weeks of blockages, Lewis is back to #1 this week, though in turn, providing a blockage of his own. Ed Sheeran's "Perfect" is back to its peak of #2, which it last reached a little over a year ago. That said, the rest of the top 5 this week are recipients of having blocked "Someone You Loved" at least once, and perhaps BANNERS at #7 could join the honours as iTunes is giving them a real jolt lately. Given that he's still climbing up, it is a near certainty that Masked Wolf will be taking the top spot though once he's done his training montage. Hippie Sabotage have had more consistent run of appearances lately and now net a top 10 entry for "Devil Eyes". Ed Sheeran's boost this week may be attributed to his recent appearance on our shores where he was doing a tribute to Michael Gudinski. "The A Team" and "Lego House" are back on the chart for the first time in literal years. Evanescence also have a big week just after the release of their newest album, and the band version of "My Immortal" makes its first ever appearance. The other debuts are somewhat surprising too. Steely Dan get their first ever appearance on the chart with "Dirty Work", while Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" has formerly only made the Bubbling Under chart, but now makes the main chart for the first time. Tina Turner picks up a pair of new peaks for "The Best" and "Proud Mary", while LeAnn Rimes makes a big climb from last week's debut.
The TikTok shenanigans continue. New at #1 on the Bubbling Under chart this week is noted phone owner Kevin Gates whose "Big Gangsta" is almost eligible as it makes its first ever chart impression. Impossible to tell if he'll hang around though as he's not made drastic moves in this new week, but I'm skeptical he could get there at the moment. The other notable thing this week is that Justin Bieber's new album has done a big clean out of the bottom end of the chart. Time will tell how long that will last, or these new entries. Billie Eilish is only presently back on the chart due to the Grammys so "everything i wanted" will probably drop out soon, Doja Cat & Harry Styles aren't going anywhere. "Say So" appeared on the Bubbling Under chart at the start of the year, but has since dropped out and is replaced by "Streets" which has the exact same release day. There are no doubt a cavalcade of Harry Styles songs waiting to join "Watermelon Sugar" possibly soon.
1
2
27
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
2
25
110
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
3
4
6
1
Starship
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
4
3
124
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
5
1
2
1
Concrete Blonde
Joey
6
6
11
3
Boney M.
Rasputin
7
5
5
5
BANNERS
Someone To You
8
RE
113
1
Evanescence
Bring Me To Life
9
35
111
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
10
72
6
10
Hippie Sabotage
Devil Eyes
11
8
190
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
12
57
139
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
13
RE
51
3
Ed Sheeran
The A Team
14
49
179
1
Chris Stapleton
Tennessee Whiskey
15
10
127
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
16
99
208
1
Ed Sheeran
Thinking Out Loud
17
RE
37
10
Ed Sheeran
Castle On The Hill
18
54
31
9
Luke Combs
Beautiful Crazy
19
18
42
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
20
63
211
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
21
RE
143
7
AC/DC
Highway To Hell
22
RE
41
1
Evanescence
My Immortal
23
RE
7
23
Tina Turner
The Best
24
24
2
24
Gym Class Heroes
Cupid's Chokehold / Breakfast In America
25
14
58
1
Sam Fischer
This City
26
16
20
10
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
27
20
110
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
28
21
61
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
29
83
135
9
Rachel Platten
Fight Song
30
RE
47
1
Linkin Park
Numb
31
12
7
8
Solomon Burke
Cry To Me
32
RE
120
1
Cold Chisel
Flame Trees
33
26
31
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
34
31
24
5
James Arthur
Train Wreck
35
11
183
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
36
15
185
1
Guns N' Roses
Sweet Child O' Mine
37
RE
193
7
Metallica
Nothing Else Matters
38
33
32
23
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
39
RE
53
1
Linkin Park
In The End
40
RE
89
5
AC/DC
It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)
41
89
21
9
Calum Scott
You Are The Reason
42
RE
5
42
Evanescence
Going Under
43
53
96
1
Billie Eilish & Khalid
lovely
44
34
257
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
45
RE
2
45
Tina Turner
Proud Mary
46
9
98
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
47
23
36
1
Jubël (feat NEIMY)
Dancing In The Moonlight
48
39
7
6
Dolly Parton
I Will Always Love You
49
97
2
49
LeAnn Rimes
I Need You
50
37
117
1
Hozier
Take Me To Church
51
40
10
10
Juice WRLD
Robbery
52
94
158
4
Bon Jovi
Livin' On A Prayer
53
NE
1
53
Evanescence
My Immortal (Band Version)
54
RE
38
20
Ike & Tina Turner
Nutbush City Limits
55
46
246
1
John Legend
All Of Me
56
50
43
15
Juice WRLD
All Girls Are The Same
57
NE
1
57
Steely Dan
Dirty Work
58
52
107
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
59
58
110
1
Post Malone
I Fall Apart
60
RE
203
3
Metallica
Enter Sandman
61
84
95
1
George Ezra
Shotgun
62
75
142
8
Whitney Houston
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
63
48
109
4
Ed Sheeran
Shape Of You
64
55
101
40
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
65
RE
123
8
AC/DC
Back In Black
66
RE
18
3
Lady Gaga
Always Remember Us This Way
67
RE
2
8
Icehouse
Electric Blue
68
43
88
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
69
RE
70
8
Imagine Dragons
Thunder
70
NE
1
70
Cyndi Lauper
Girls Just Want To Have Fun
71
36
4
20
Mariah Carey
Fantasy
72
61
147
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
73
68
91
8
Anne-Marie
2002
74
60
90
1
Tame Impala
The Less I Know The Better
75
65
57
5
Bruno Mars
Just The Way You Are
76
RE
69
10
Ed Sheeran
Lego House
77
73
64
1
Travis Scott
goosebumps
78
7
244
1
Christina Perri
A Thousand Years
79
77
49
56
NF
Let You Down
80
RE
172
1
Mark Ronson (feat Bruno Mars)
Uptown Funk
81
80
88
1
Lewis Capaldi
Bruises
82
RE
47
9
Timmy Trumpet & Savage
Freaks
83
RE
222
1
Daryl Braithwaite
The Horses
84
59
55
8
Gotye (feat Kimbra)
Somebody That I Used To Know
85
RE
93
12
The White Stripes
Seven Nation Army
86
79
20
21
Nelly Furtado (feat Timbaland)
Promiscuous
87
RE
58
1
The Cranberries
Zombie
88
76
227
5
Oasis
Wonderwall
89
45
29
14
The Righteous Brothers
Unchained Melody
90
RE
121
14
Survivor
Eye Of The Tiger
91
RE
6
15
Mr. Big
To Be With You
92
71
213
6
Cold Chisel
Khe Sanh
93
RE
15
7
Amy Shark
I Said Hi
94
70
187
9
Bryan Adams
Summer Of '69
95
RE
40
12
ABBA
Dancing Queen
96
78
10
39
Arctic Monkeys
Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?
97
RE
13
9
GANGgajang
Sounds Of Then (This Is Australia)
98
66
28
11
The Beatles
Here Comes The Sun
99
86
61
8
OneRepublic
Counting Stars
100
RE
9
6
New Radicals
You Get What You Give
-
13
116
4
Imagine Dragons
Radioactive
-
17
2
17
Tina Arena
Sorrento Moon (I Remember)
-
19
1
19
Doug Parkinson
The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
-
22
131
1
Tracy Chapman
Fast Car
-
27
175
1
Toto
Africa
-
28
233
1
Kenny Rogers
The Gambler
-
29
22
5
Elton John
Your Song
-
30
78
9
Neil Diamond
Sweet Caroline
-
32
5
32
Pascal Letoublon
Friendships
-
38
64
7
Elton John
Tiny Dancer
-
41
1
41
Allison Crowe
Hallelujah
-
42
14
6
Carly Rae Jepsen
Call Me Maybe
-
44
83
6
Steve Earle
Copperhead Road
-
47
33
16
Dragon
Rain
-
51
44
2
Shania Twain
Man! I Feel Like A Woman!
-
56
31
2
Elton John
I'm Still Standing
-
62
78
8
INXS
Never Tear Us Apart
-
64
47
1
Kaleo
Way Down We Go
-
67
99
2
Billie Eilish
ocean eyes
-
69
60
3
Elton John
Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long Long Time)
It's another week. Perhaps again you could put Lewis in good graces for preventing Calum Scott from returning to #1, as iTunes continues to be a bizarre haven of his sales, which usually doesn't extend to "Dancing On My Own" but does this week. Next week proves to be interesting as Fleetwood Mac have hit second wind with "Dreams" and could overtake Lewis on Spotify if they maintain it. BANNERS have dropped out of the Spotify chart but keep climbing here to a new #4 peak. Tina Turner keeps riding the current momentum and now "The Best" becomes her first top 10 entry. Speaking of which, with last week's chart leaning against Spotify hits, this week allows Gym Class Heroes a big jump into the top 20, the only other actual new peak this week. There's also only one debut this week but it's a doozy. I've long mentioned how despite their popularity and the constant charting of their Greatest Hits set, INXS have only ever had one entry on here, with "Never Tear Us Apart" racking up 1.5 years on this chart. No longer this is the case as it's not on the chart this week and instead we have "Need You Tonight" making its debut. We also have the unofficial debut of "bad guy" by Billie Eilish which is now 2 years old. It charts thanks to iTunes this week as otherwise on Spotify it's actually a bit lower than "lovely". This lack of new entries also means that the average weeks on chart this week is a bit over 95, possibly the highest it's ever been.
Kevin Gates is still at #1 but it's looking clear that this was a short lived burst that just happened to line up with two chart weeks, so he looks very likely to be gone next week. Also in danger is "Beautiful People" which could take "Afterglow"'s downward momentum with it, and "hot girl bummer", one of the few songs not to rebound this week after already taking a hefty drop the week before. It left the daily top 200 for the first non-Christmas time a few days ago, so it may be on its last legs. Long runners "Senorita" and "Never Seen The Rain" are also at the point where they're sitting below the main chart, so they could be stuck in limbo when their time arrives. That's already been made clear for Billie Eilish, who debuted just in time as "everything i wanted" leaves and shows no reason to return. Thus we dive deeper into the late 2019 canon and find Lewis Capaldi's newest single "Before You Go", which already is showing good staying power despite being overshadowed.
iTunes songs: 56 Spotify songs: 44
1
1
28
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
2
12
140
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
3
4
125
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
4
7
6
4
BANNERS
Someone To You
5
RE
234
1
Kenny Rogers
The Gambler
6
11
191
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
7
9
112
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
8
83
223
1
Daryl Braithwaite
The Horses
9
41
22
9
Calum Scott
You Are The Reason
10
23
8
10
Tina Turner
The Best
11
15
128
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
12
3
7
1
Starship
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
13
RE
192
2
Darius Rucker
Wagon Wheel
14
8
114
1
Evanescence
Bring Me To Life
15
RE
3
4
Billie Eilish
bad guy
16
24
3
16
Gym Class Heroes
Cupid's Chokehold / Breakfast In America
17
19
43
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
18
25
59
1
Sam Fischer
This City
19
RE
50
3
Icehouse
Great Southern Land
20
28
62
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
21
RE
73
1
Lizzo
Good As Hell
22
26
21
10
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
23
33
32
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
24
61
96
1
George Ezra
Shotgun
25
44
258
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
26
36
186
1
Guns N' Roses
Sweet Child O' Mine
27
RE
176
1
Toto
Africa
28
14
180
1
Chris Stapleton
Tennessee Whiskey
29
6
12
3
Boney M.
Rasputin
30
38
33
23
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
31
31
8
8
Solomon Burke
Cry To Me
32
46
99
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
33
16
209
1
Ed Sheeran
Thinking Out Loud
34
29
136
9
Rachel Platten
Fight Song
35
34
25
5
James Arthur
Train Wreck
36
RE
132
1
Tracy Chapman
Fast Car
37
68
89
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
38
2
111
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
39
RE
272
1
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
40
60
204
3
Metallica
Enter Sandman
41
RE
23
8
Earth, Wind & Fire
September
42
RE
78
2
Eagles
Hotel California
43
50
118
1
Hozier
Take Me To Church
44
RE
100
2
Billie Eilish
ocean eyes
45
54
39
20
Ike & Tina Turner
Nutbush City Limits
46
63
110
4
Ed Sheeran
Shape Of You
47
64
102
40
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
48
92
214
6
Cold Chisel
Khe Sanh
49
72
148
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
50
RE
65
7
Elton John
Tiny Dancer
51
51
11
10
Juice WRLD
Robbery
52
55
247
1
John Legend
All Of Me
53
43
97
1
Billie Eilish & Khalid
lovely
54
RE
192
4
Katy Perry
Roar
55
RE
251
1
Eminem
Lose Yourself
56
59
111
1
Post Malone
I Fall Apart
57
RE
69
4
Queen
Another One Bites The Dust
58
66
19
3
Lady Gaga
Always Remember Us This Way
59
RE
6
20
Billy Joel
We Didn't Start The Fire
60
RE
21
5
Xavier Rudd
Follow The Sun
61
56
44
15
Juice WRLD
All Girls Are The Same
62
45
3
45
Tina Turner
Proud Mary
63
94
188
9
Bryan Adams
Summer Of '69
64
47
37
1
Jubël (feat NEIMY)
Dancing In The Moonlight
65
58
108
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
66
88
228
5
Oasis
Wonderwall
67
73
92
8
Anne-Marie
2002
68
74
91
1
Tame Impala
The Less I Know The Better
69
RE
229
2
Queen
We Will Rock You
70
62
143
8
Whitney Houston
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
71
RE
32
11
Bruce Springsteen
Dancing In The Dark
72
75
58
5
Bruno Mars
Just The Way You Are
73
RE
30
3
Cher
If I Could Turn Back Time
74
RE
10
49
Johnny Cash
Ring Of Fire
75
RE
112
6
Journey
Don't Stop Believin'
76
RE
62
2
Fleetwood Mac
The Chain
77
18
32
9
Luke Combs
Beautiful Crazy
78
86
21
21
Nelly Furtado (feat Timbaland)
Promiscuous
79
NE
1
79
INXS
Need You Tonight
80
77
65
1
Travis Scott
goosebumps
81
RE
50
12
Luke Combs
Hurricane
82
79
50
56
NF
Let You Down
83
RE
90
7
John Denver
Take Me Home, Country Roads
84
32
121
1
Cold Chisel
Flame Trees
85
99
62
8
OneRepublic
Counting Stars
86
RE
89
6
Foster The People
Pumped Up Kicks
87
84
94
8
Gotye (feat Kimbra)
Somebody That I Used To Know
88
RE
138
2
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (feat Ray Dalton)
Can't Hold Us
89
RE
165
4
David Guetta (feat Sia)
Titanium
90
35
184
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
91
RE
28
28
MKTO
Classic
92
RE
154
1
Ed Sheeran
Photograph
93
RE
72
10
Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit
94
RE
96
20
Eminem
The Real Slim Shady
95
87
59
1
The Cranberries
Zombie
96
RE
106
1
Ocean Alley
Confidence
97
RE
96
3
Queen
We Are The Champions
98
RE
27
19
Choirboys
Run To Paradise
99
98
29
11
The Beatles
Here Comes The Sun
100
RE
159
1
Passenger
Let Her Go
-
5
2
1
Concrete Blonde
Joey
-
10
6
10
Hippie Sabotage
Devil Eyes
-
13
51
3
Ed Sheeran
The A Team
-
17
37
10
Ed Sheeran
Castle On The Hill
-
20
211
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
-
21
143
7
AC/DC
Highway To Hell
-
22
41
1
Evanescence
My Immortal
-
27
110
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
-
30
47
1
Linkin Park
Numb
-
37
193
7
Metallica
Nothing Else Matters
-
39
53
1
Linkin Park
In The End
-
40
89
5
AC/DC
It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)
I'm a dumb person. Even though the clues of Eurovision winner and COVID should've pieced it together for me, I have been spending weeks thinking that Duncan Laurence's "Arcade" is from 2020's contest. I have just now been prompted that it's actually from 2019 and thus it's been eligible for this chart for over a month now. I've fixed that on my spreadsheet so now all the numbers are gonna look wrong here. For the record, "Arcade"'s chart run so far has been 7-7-7-4-4-6. It also spent 2 weeks on the Bubbling Under chart which changes nothing really except now JP Saxe has had those 2 weeks taken from him.
For whatever reason, Easter means a lot of listening to old songs on Spotify. This meant that we had a serious battle for #1 this week which it seemed like Fleetwood Mac were gonna take until they slipped too hard on the last day and stay behind Lewis but much closer than they've been in quite a while. This all became irrelevant as after spending that whole week in a coma, DMX was pronounced dead on Friday night and his catalogue has vaulted to the top of this particular chart. It was 5 years ago in the early days of this chart that "X Gon' Give It To Ya" saw a massive run at #1 off the back of Deadpool, and as such we now have a vast new record for the longest gap between #1 stints as it returns this week. DMX has charted no other songs until this week. Of those new entries, "Party Up", "Ruff Ryders' Anthem" and "Where The Hood At" land in the top 10. On the topic of artists with only one chart entry prior, Electric Light Orchestra now have a second with "All Over The World". We also stay old school as Donovan gets his first entry "Catch The Wind" in the top 20. More than half of Bruno Mars' debut album has appeared on this chart now as TikTok latches onto "Talking To The Moon" in a big way. In more recent entries, an early Teskey Brothers track makes the cut while Blake Shelton's only recently eligible "God's Country" gets through. Rascal Flatts also get their first ever entry this week.
A funny thing happens. The revolving door of #1 entries continues as Kevin Gates departs from the list, and he's replaced by Gym Class Heroes. This is a rare instance that may soon become less rare but "Stereo Hearts" finds itself in the Spotify top 200 but not high enough to make this chart, and since it technically hasn't actually made the main chart yet, it's a distantly oldest song at #1 on the Bubbling Under chart. Otherwise nothing changes.
Actually not a band BANNERS is #1 as the power of being a current radio hit. In a similar sense, being a current streaming hit gives Duncan Laurence another good week now up to #3. I could make the same comment about AURORA as she's been on the way up there but it's actually a big iTunes performance that gets "Runaway" into the chart. In a similar sense, one of only two other new peaks this week comes from Bruno Mars' "Talking To The Moon" which continues to climb. The other is a new high for Eminem's re-entry "Shake That". There are 4 debuts this week, two are from The Offspring who just put out a new album (and they nearly had a 3rd with "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)". They come in strong with "Gone Away" at #15, and just barely sneak in with "Come Out and Play" which is obviously my Twitter impact yet again. Turin Brakes get their first entry with "Save You", and then we dive into the "Australia" Soundtrack with Edward Elgar's "Nimrod". A top heavy iTunes cohort this week in addition to a bunch of new Spotify entries means that the streaming cohort on this chart is mostly pushed back down again, notably XXXTENTACION's "Jocelyn Flores" which has been on every non-Christmas chart since debuting, has finally been pushed out of the chart.
The Weeknd gets a new entry on the Bubbling Under chart.
iTunes songs: 60 Spotify songs: 40
1
9
8
1
BANNERS
Someone To You
2
3
30
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
3
6
7
3
Duncan Laurence
Arcade
4
NE
1
4
AURORA
Runaway
5
4
127
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
6
1
41
1
DMX
X Gon' Give It To Ya
7
47
236
1
Kenny Rogers
The Gambler
8
RE
10
1
Ben E. King
Stand By Me
9
15
113
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
10
2
2
2
DMX
Party Up
11
8
193
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
12
36
114
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
13
72
9
1
Starship
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
14
12
130
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
15
NE
1
15
The Offspring
Gone Away
16
83
162
3
Taylor Swift
Shake It Off
17
31
182
1
Chris Stapleton
Tennessee Whiskey
18
11
45
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
19
48
14
3
Boney M.
Rasputin
20
21
213
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
21
98
194
2
Darius Rucker
Wagon Wheel
22
NE
1
22
Turin Brakes
Save You
23
RE
155
1
Ed Sheeran
Photograph
24
34
2
24
Bruno Mars
Talking To The Moon
25
19
61
1
Sam Fischer
This City
26
28
246
1
Christina Perri
A Thousand Years
27
55
206
3
Metallica
Enter Sandman
28
24
64
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
29
RE
7
15
Mr. Big
To Be With You
30
22
34
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
31
RE
79
9
Neil Diamond
Sweet Caroline
32
30
101
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
33
17
113
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
34
14
5
14
Gym Class Heroes
Cupid's Chokehold / Breakfast In America
35
27
23
10
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
36
NE
1
36
Sir Edward Elgar
Nimrod (From the Enigma Variations)
37
23
260
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
38
56
249
1
John Legend
All Of Me
39
35
186
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
40
RE
71
8
Imagine Dragons
Thunder
41
RE
134
2
WALK THE MOON
Shut Up and Dance
42
RE
90
5
AC/DC
It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)
Minor adjustment: For a few weeks, "Somebody That I Used To Know"'s WI has been far higher than it should be, that's been fixed now.
It is that day of the year, and thus The Bugler returns to #1, alongside everything else you've come to expect from the season. Redgum are #2 for the second year in a row behind The Bugler. Les from the Bay City Rollers passed away recently and they get their first two entries this week, "Bye Bye Baby" making the top 10. John Denver once made the Bubbling Under chart with a live version of "Thank God I'm A Country Boy". I don't know if it's the same version but now it has a much more specific credit. Incidentally, the original version also charts for the first time as well. Savage Garden get a slight new peak with "Truly, Madly, Deeply", while Bruno Mars keeps climbing with "Talking To The Moon", well entrenched into 'should probably be on the ARIA Chart' territory. Last year during all manner of charity concerts, Amy Shark nearly charted with "All Loved Up" which was just barely ineligible at the time, but now a year later she's free for landing. Lil Nas X also just became eligible a few weeks ago with the remix of "Old Town Road", which keeps just missing out on the chart, but now gets through. Adam Brand gets his first ever entry, and Tom Odell just barely sneaks in with "Another Love" which before I realised several compiling errors, was poised for yet another #1 entry on the Bubbling Under chart.
Nothing going on with the Bubbling Under chart as a result though next month things will start to develop. One must suspect "hot girl bummer" is in danger of dropping out as one of the few songs that didn't climb back up this week with the Taylor Swift vacancy. It's still sitting above "Never Seen The Rain" but both are not in a great spot.
iTunes songs: 55 Spotify songs: 45
1
RE
11
1
The Bugler
The Last Post
2
RE
19
2
Redgum
I Was Only 19 (A Walk In The Light Green)
3
2
31
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
4
5
128
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
5
RE
59
2
Vance Joy
Fire and the Flood
6
3
8
3
Duncan Laurence
Arcade
7
RE
5
3
Lee Kernaghan
Spirit Of The Anzacs
8
NE
1
8
Bay City Rollers
Bye Bye Baby
9
NE
1
9
John Denver
Thank God I'm A Country Boy (Live At The Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA - August/September 1974)
10
28
65
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
11
1
9
1
BANNERS
Someone To You
12
11
194
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
13
RE
10
13
Savage Garden
Truly, Madly, Deeply
14
4
2
4
AURORA
Runaway
15
RE
2
8
Augie March
One Crowded Hour
16
14
131
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
17
RE
16
7
Amy Shark
I Said Hi
18
24
3
18
Bruno Mars
Talking To The Moon
19
18
46
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
20
12
115
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
21
13
10
1
Starship
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
22
15
2
15
The Offspring
Gone Away
23
25
62
1
Sam Fischer
This City
24
7
237
1
Kenny Rogers
The Gambler
25
35
24
10
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
26
26
247
1
Christina Perri
A Thousand Years
27
RE
6
6
Chantal Kreviazuk
Feels Like Home
28
30
35
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
29
32
102
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
30
39
187
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
31
33
114
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
32
9
114
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
33
RE
13
1
Crowded House
Better Be Home Soon
34
37
261
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
35
RE
14
4
Crowded House
Don't Dream It's Over
36
47
36
23
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
37
38
250
1
John Legend
All Of Me
38
NE
1
38
Amy Shark
All Loved Up
39
48
113
4
Ed Sheeran
Shape Of You
40
RE
91
7
John Denver
Take Me Home, Country Roads
41
RE
3
4
Band Of The Royal Regiment Of New Zealand Artillery
The Last Post
42
34
6
14
Gym Class Heroes
Cupid's Chokehold / Breakfast In America
43
RE
2
19
Band Of The Royal Regiment Of New Zealand Artillery
Ode
44
52
92
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
45
61
143
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
46
63
61
5
Bruno Mars
Just The Way You Are
47
RE
195
7
Metallica
Nothing Else Matters
48
80
113
4
John Farnham
You're The Voice
49
19
15
3
Boney M.
Rasputin
50
RE
97
1
George Ezra
Shotgun
51
58
121
1
Hozier
Take Me To Church
52
NE
1
52
John Denver
Thank God I'm A Country Boy
53
60
6
4
Billie Eilish
bad guy
54
54
105
40
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
55
RE
97
4
Coldplay
Fix You
56
RE
164
5
AC/DC
You Shook Me All Night Long
57
RE
3
18
Tina Arena
Sorrento Moon (I Remember)
58
44
151
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
59
NE
1
59
The Go-Betweens
Streets Of Your Town
60
95
217
6
Cold Chisel
Khe Sanh
61
66
28
5
James Arthur
Train Wreck
62
65
100
1
Billie Eilish & Khalid
lovely
63
RE
225
1
Daryl Braithwaite
The Horses
64
74
231
5
Oasis
Wonderwall
65
70
95
8
Anne-Marie
2002
66
NE
1
66
Lil Nas X (feat Billy Ray Cyrus)
Old Town Road (Remix)
67
84
160
1
Passenger
Let Her Go
68
RE
21
3
Lady Gaga
Always Remember Us This Way
69
69
31
28
MKTO
Classic
70
97
45
1
Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers
Islands In The Stream
71
RE
122
1
Cold Chisel
Flame Trees
72
NE
1
72
Bay City Rollers
I Only Want To Be With You
73
RE
2
67
Savage Garden
Affirmation
74
79
94
1
Tame Impala
The Less I Know The Better
75
41
135
2
WALK THE MOON
Shut Up and Dance
76
71
191
9
Bryan Adams
Summer Of '69
77
RE
2
34
Band Of The Royal Regiment Of New Zealand Artillery
Reveille
78
93
24
21
Nelly Furtado (feat Timbaland)
Promiscuous
79
RE
274
1
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
80
27
207
3
Metallica
Enter Sandman
81
RE
39
5
Dean Lewis
Waves
82
68
14
10
Juice WRLD
Robbery
83
81
125
8
AC/DC
Back In Black
84
RE
58
8
Gotye (feat Kimbra)
Somebody That I Used To Know
85
RE
42
13
Panic! At The Disco
High Hopes
86
RE
83
32
The Chainsmokers (feat Halsey)
Closer
87
55
30
1
Rag'N'Bone Man
Human
88
91
114
1
Post Malone
I Fall Apart
89
RE
19
13
Dave Dobbyn & Herbs
Slice Of Heaven
90
43
115
6
Journey
Don't Stop Believin'
91
RE
6
11
Lauren Daigle
You Say
92
RE
15
27
Tears For Fears
Everybody Wants To Rule The World
93
76
146
8
Whitney Houston
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
94
RE
2
46
Crowded House
Something So Strong
95
NE
1
95
Adam Brand
The ANZAC
96
92
92
6
Foster The People
Pumped Up Kicks
97
99
140
2
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (feat Ray Dalton)
Can't Hold Us
98
RE
28
3
Coldplay
Yellow
99
RE
84
13
Lauv
I Like Me Better
100
NE
1
100
Tom Odell
Another Love
-
6
41
1
DMX
X Gon' Give It To Ya
-
8
10
1
Ben E. King
Stand By Me
-
10
2
2
DMX
Party Up
-
16
162
3
Taylor Swift
Shake It Off
-
17
182
1
Chris Stapleton
Tennessee Whiskey
-
20
213
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
-
21
194
2
Darius Rucker
Wagon Wheel
-
22
1
22
Turin Brakes
Save You
-
23
155
1
Ed Sheeran
Photograph
-
29
7
15
Mr. Big
To Be With You
-
31
79
9
Neil Diamond
Sweet Caroline
-
36
1
36
Sir Edward Elgar
Nimrod (From the Enigma Variations)
-
40
71
8
Imagine Dragons
Thunder
-
42
90
5
AC/DC
It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)
With no big competition this week, it's "Someone You Loved" assuming default position again. This may be the last time in a while it can do this though as AURORA is making significant ground, nearly overtaking this week but likely to do so by next week. Then again it's a relatively crowded pile up near the top so maybe someone else will take it. Oddly enough, John Denver's oddly specific debut from last week actually climbs again this week, just ahead of a big week for Elton John re-entries. Bruno Mars continues to climb with "Talking To The Moon". I forgot to mention The Go-Betweens getting their 2nd ever entry last week, but now I can acknowledge it this week as it vaults into the top 20 to be by far their highest peaker. Tom Odell's sneak debut from last week makes a nice move up, just behind this week's only debut, of all things, "Live Your Life" by T.I.. There's a new record for the longest gap between chart entries with Sarah Blasko's "We Won't Run", which previously charted on the 1st & 3rd weeks of this chart, and never again until now.
The day of Bubbling Under reckoning is close. In the meantime it was a rough week for the low stragglers. "Never Seen The Rain" is clinging on for life, while "Ride It", "Senorita", "I Don't Care" and "Beautiful People" have all taken huge declines.
iTunes songs: 53 Spotify songs: 47
1
3
32
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
2
14
3
2
AURORA
Runaway
3
11
10
1
BANNERS
Someone To You
4
19
47
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
5
4
129
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
6
6
9
3
Duncan Laurence
Arcade
7
9
2
7
John Denver
Thank God I'm A Country Boy (Live At The Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA - August/September 1974)
8
12
195
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
9
RE
23
5
Elton John
Your Song
10
RE
66
7
Elton John
Tiny Dancer
11
RE
61
3
Elton John
Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long Long Time)
12
18
4
12
Bruno Mars
Talking To The Moon
13
17
17
7
Amy Shark
I Said Hi
14
16
132
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
15
24
238
1
Kenny Rogers
The Gambler
16
RE
32
2
Elton John
I'm Still Standing
17
32
115
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
18
RE
12
7
Oasis
Don't Look Back In Anger
19
59
2
19
The Go-Betweens
Streets Of Your Town
20
10
66
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
21
23
63
1
Sam Fischer
This City
22
25
25
10
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
23
RE
48
9
Timmy Trumpet & Savage
Freaks
24
RE
23
5
Xavier Rudd
Follow The Sun
25
28
36
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
26
31
115
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
27
29
103
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
28
RE
9
26
Kings Of Leon
Sex On Fire
29
34
262
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
30
63
226
1
Daryl Braithwaite
The Horses
31
36
37
23
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
32
37
251
1
John Legend
All Of Me
33
62
101
1
Billie Eilish & Khalid
lovely
34
21
11
1
Starship
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
35
64
232
5
Oasis
Wonderwall
36
44
93
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
37
RE
4
27
Kings Of Leon
Use Somebody
38
30
188
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
39
53
7
4
Billie Eilish
bad guy
40
RE
183
1
Chris Stapleton
Tennessee Whiskey
41
45
144
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
42
RE
5
20
Ed Sheeran
Supermarket Flowers
43
51
122
1
Hozier
Take Me To Church
44
RE
34
9
Luke Combs
Beautiful Crazy
45
76
192
9
Bryan Adams
Summer Of '69
46
39
114
4
Ed Sheeran
Shape Of You
47
RE
7
40
Elton John
Crocodile Rock
48
60
218
6
Cold Chisel
Khe Sanh
49
87
31
1
Rag'N'Bone Man
Human
50
27
7
6
Chantal Kreviazuk
Feels Like Home
51
49
16
3
Boney M.
Rasputin
52
40
92
7
John Denver
Take Me Home, Country Roads
53
46
62
5
Bruno Mars
Just The Way You Are
54
RE
163
3
Taylor Swift
Shake It Off
55
RE
214
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
56
61
29
5
James Arthur
Train Wreck
57
RE
146
7
AC/DC
Highway To Hell
58
42
7
14
Gym Class Heroes
Cupid's Chokehold / Breakfast In America
59
RE
13
23
Whitney Houston
I Will Always Love You
60
54
106
40
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
61
RE
74
10
Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit
62
58
152
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
63
RE
7
33
Pascal Letoublon
Friendships
64
78
25
21
Nelly Furtado (feat Timbaland)
Promiscuous
65
67
161
1
Passenger
Let Her Go
66
NE
1
66
T.I. (feat Rihanna)
Live Your Life
67
56
165
5
AC/DC
You Shook Me All Night Long
68
100
2
68
Tom Odell
Another Love
69
RE
48
1
Kaleo
Way Down We Go
70
68
22
3
Lady Gaga
Always Remember Us This Way
71
82
15
10
Juice WRLD
Robbery
72
RE
3
38
Sarah Blasko
We Won't Run
73
65
96
8
Anne-Marie
2002
74
20
116
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
75
74
95
1
Tame Impala
The Less I Know The Better
76
RE
8
8
Traveling Wilburys
End Of The Line
77
90
116
6
Journey
Don't Stop Believin'
78
RE
7
32
Elton John
Candle In The Wind
79
69
32
28
MKTO
Classic
80
84
59
8
Gotye (feat Kimbra)
Somebody That I Used To Know
81
RE
47
15
Juice WRLD
All Girls Are The Same
82
RE
28
4
The Goo Goo Dolls
Iris
83
RE
11
9
The Weeknd (feat Daft Punk)
Starboy
84
50
98
1
George Ezra
Shotgun
85
RE
110
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
86
RE
3
4
The Weeknd (feat Daft Punk)
I Feel It Coming
87
88
115
1
Post Malone
I Fall Apart
88
96
93
6
Foster The People
Pumped Up Kicks
89
93
147
8
Whitney Houston
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
90
RE
6
31
Rusted Root
Send Me On My Way
91
98
29
3
Coldplay
Yellow
92
RE
80
9
Neil Diamond
Sweet Caroline
93
75
136
2
WALK THE MOON
Shut Up and Dance
94
RE
89
1
Lewis Capaldi
Bruises
95
RE
38
1
Jubël (feat NEIMY)
Dancing In The Moonlight
96
RE
29
19
Choirboys
Run To Paradise
97
RE
2
84
Ruelle
I Get To Love You
98
RE
67
1
Travis Scott
goosebumps
99
97
141
2
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (feat Ray Dalton)
Can't Hold Us
100
22
3
15
The Offspring
Gone Away
-
1
11
1
The Bugler
The Last Post
-
2
19
2
Redgum
I Was Only 19 (A Walk In The Light Green)
-
7
5
3
Lee Kernaghan
Spirit Of The Anzacs
-
8
1
8
Bay City Rollers
Bye Bye Baby
-
13
10
13
Savage Garden
Truly, Madly, Deeply
-
15
2
8
Augie March
One Crowded Hour
-
26
247
1
Christina Perri
A Thousand Years
-
33
13
1
Crowded House
Better Be Home Soon
-
35
14
4
Crowded House
Don't Dream It's Over
-
38
1
38
Amy Shark
All Loved Up
-
41
3
4
Band Of The Royal Regiment Of New Zealand Artillery
The Last Post
-
43
2
19
Band Of The Royal Regiment Of New Zealand Artillery
Ode
-
47
195
7
Metallica
Nothing Else Matters
-
48
113
4
John Farnham
You're The Voice
-
52
1
52
John Denver
Thank God I'm A Country Boy
-
55
97
4
Coldplay
Fix You
-
57
3
18
Tina Arena
Sorrento Moon (I Remember)
-
66
1
66
Lil Nas X (feat Billy Ray Cyrus)
Old Town Road (Remix)
-
70
45
1
Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers
Islands In The Stream
-
71
122
1
Cold Chisel
Flame Trees
-
72
1
72
Bay City Rollers
I Only Want To Be With You
-
73
2
67
Savage Garden
Affirmation
-
77
2
34
Band Of The Royal Regiment Of New Zealand Artillery
Regular readers of this chart might recognise a familiar pattern, or rather, forget about it until May rears its head in on an annual basis. For the 4th year in a row, this has spurred a mass purchase of Meghan Trainor's "Mom", a song I otherwise would not realise exists, but has gone right in at #1 for 3 of these 4 years. This might be unlucky for AURORA who is running out of time to roll down in the deep at #1. The Mother's Day fervor is a little diminished compared to last year however, as you can see from the diminished returns on Boyz II Men & Spice Girls. All of these artists have not appeared on the chart since Mother's Day last year, Adele's "Hello" is actually the same and I'm not sure if it's a coincidence. The less specifically branded Ed Sheeran does well with it though, as "Supermarket Flowers" spends its first time in the top 10, and even "Galway Girl" seemed to pick up some associated interest in nearly re-entering. Ruelle's re-entry from last week takes a big jump up to #14, just ahead of last week's only debut from T.I. taking a big jump. Richard Clapton has a big week, a month out from getting his highest ever charting album, he now has his first 3 entries on this chart. Pascal Letoublon's TikTok hit has been bouncing around for a while and now hits the top 25, and there's also a new peak for Betty Who's Donna Lewis cover. Country singer Josh Turner gets his first ever entry with "Your Man", which just missed out on debuting months ago. TikTok has also gotten behind Jasmine Thompson's cover of "You Are My Sunshine" while Nicki Minaj's fanbase apparently wanted "LLC" to go to #1 on US iTunes, which it did but also it splashed over here.
"Dance Monkey" hits 69 weeks on the chart, note the date on it. There's been a big clear out however, specifically at the top end with "Senorita" taking another big decline out of the chart, and not looking like returning, while "Beautiful People" and "Never Seen The Rain"'s demises were more to be expected. Regard has dropped 45 places in 2 weeks so his standing isn't looking too good right now either, while "hot girl bummer" is also at a new low but honestly it got off pretty lightly this week. A new Billie Eilish song tends to splash to her catalogue so "everything i wanted" is back, while we finally reach December 2019, and are close to reaching the new decade, but before that, we meet up with two Harry Styles tracks, which are actually a lot closer on Spotify than you might have thought.
iTunes songs: 55 Spotify songs: 45
1
RE
4
1
Meghan Trainor (feat Kelli Trainor)
Mom
2
2
4
2
AURORA
Runaway
3
17
116
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
4
1
33
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
5
5
130
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
6
3
11
1
BANNERS
Someone To You
7
13
18
7
Amy Shark
I Said Hi
8
6
10
3
Duncan Laurence
Arcade
9
42
6
9
Ed Sheeran
Supermarket Flowers
10
8
196
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
11
7
3
7
John Denver
Thank God I'm A Country Boy (Live At The Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA - August/September 1974)
12
4
48
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
13
12
5
12
Bruno Mars
Talking To The Moon
14
97
3
14
Ruelle
I Get To Love You
15
14
133
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
16
66
2
16
T.I. (feat Rihanna)
Live Your Life
17
22
26
10
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
18
20
67
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
19
24
24
5
Xavier Rudd
Follow The Sun
20
NE
1
20
Richard Clapton
Girls On The Avenue
21
32
252
1
John Legend
All Of Me
22
21
64
1
Sam Fischer
This City
23
39
8
4
Billie Eilish
bad guy
24
74
117
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
25
63
8
25
Pascal Letoublon
Friendships
26
25
37
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
27
RE
2
5
Boyz II Men
A Song For Mama
28
38
189
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
29
26
116
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
30
RE
156
1
Ed Sheeran
Photograph
31
31
38
23
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
32
RE
208
3
Metallica
Enter Sandman
33
27
104
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
34
33
102
1
Billie Eilish & Khalid
lovely
35
NE
1
35
Richard Clapton
Capricorn Dancer
36
29
263
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
37
RE
54
19
Bruno Mars
Count On Me
38
77
117
6
Journey
Don't Stop Believin'
39
50
8
6
Chantal Kreviazuk
Feels Like Home
40
46
115
4
Ed Sheeran
Shape Of You
41
RE
16
27
Tears For Fears
Everybody Wants To Rule The World
42
52
93
7
John Denver
Take Me Home, Country Roads
43
36
94
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
44
41
145
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
45
RE
248
1
Christina Perri
A Thousand Years
46
43
123
1
Hozier
Take Me To Church
47
NE
1
47
Josh Turner
Your Man
48
56
30
5
James Arthur
Train Wreck
49
95
39
1
Jubël (feat NEIMY)
Dancing In The Moonlight
50
RE
3
16
Spice Girls
Mama
51
53
63
5
Bruno Mars
Just The Way You Are
52
RE
137
9
Rachel Platten
Fight Song
53
RE
196
7
Metallica
Nothing Else Matters
54
91
30
3
Coldplay
Yellow
55
RE
80
8
INXS
Never Tear Us Apart
56
RE
4
56
Betty Who
I Love You Always Forever
57
64
26
21
Nelly Furtado (feat Timbaland)
Promiscuous
58
RE
29
11
The Beatles
Here Comes The Sun
59
60
107
40
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
60
15
239
1
Kenny Rogers
The Gambler
61
RE
3
61
Laura Branigan
Gloria
62
51
17
3
Boney M.
Rasputin
63
35
233
5
Oasis
Wonderwall
64
92
81
9
Neil Diamond
Sweet Caroline
65
28
10
26
Kings Of Leon
Sex On Fire
66
NE
1
66
Richard Clapton
Deep Water
67
62
153
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
68
NE
1
68
Jasmine Thompson
You Are My Sunshine
69
82
29
4
The Goo Goo Dolls
Iris
70
68
3
68
Tom Odell
Another Love
71
NE
1
71
Nicki Minaj
LLC
72
65
162
1
Passenger
Let Her Go
73
80
60
8
Gotye (feat Kimbra)
Somebody That I Used To Know
74
RE
50
16
Adele
Hello
75
RE
64
8
OneRepublic
Counting Stars
76
RE
253
1
Eminem
Lose Yourself
77
85
111
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
78
RE
38
10
Ed Sheeran
Castle On The Hill
79
RE
153
1
Avicii
Wake Me Up
80
58
8
14
Gym Class Heroes
Cupid's Chokehold / Breakfast In America
81
RE
188
1
Guns N' Roses
Sweet Child O' Mine
82
45
193
9
Bryan Adams
Summer Of '69
83
RE
4
75
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Home
84
73
97
8
Anne-Marie
2002
85
RE
12
4
Sarah McLachlan
Angel
86
RE
3
1
Daft Punk
One More Time
87
71
16
10
Juice WRLD
Robbery
88
19
3
19
The Go-Betweens
Streets Of Your Town
89
79
33
28
MKTO
Classic
90
RE
11
14
Bon Jovi
It's My Life
91
48
219
6
Cold Chisel
Khe Sanh
92
75
96
1
Tame Impala
The Less I Know The Better
93
98
68
1
Travis Scott
goosebumps
94
87
116
1
Post Malone
I Fall Apart
95
RE
12
6
Billie Eilish
when the party's over
96
94
90
1
Lewis Capaldi
Bruises
97
RE
211
1
Ed Sheeran
Thinking Out Loud
98
RE
124
2
Wiz Khalifa (feat Charlie Puth)
See You Again
99
89
148
8
Whitney Houston
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
100
RE
30
35
The Proclaimers
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
-
9
23
5
Elton John
Your Song
-
10
66
7
Elton John
Tiny Dancer
-
11
61
3
Elton John
Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long Long Time)
After 2 near misses, AURORA finally gets to the top spot for what's looking like being her only week at the top perhaps. It was nearly another miss too as TikTok brings force to Billy Currington's "We Are Tonight", giving him his first ever entry. Alan Jackson released a new album this week and strangely enough its lead off single "The Older I Get" was actually first put out in 2017 so it's comfortably eligible for this chart. They're both here to take the shine off of the much anticipated debut for Tones and I's "Dance Monkey", which you can now feel old in knowing is 2 years old. It has an erratic tendency to bounce around on the iTunes chart so it's a possibility that this will gift it a higher peak in the future, as it stands it's charting on its Spotify presence. It's not the only 2019 hit to debut either, as just a few weeks older is Blanco Brown's "The Git Up", which returned to the iTunes chart this week for the first time in 4 months. Another big hit from 2019 in "Old Town Road" (the remix thereof) returns to a new peak, as does the much older "Sultans Of Swing". This week's very ancient re-entry is Ice Cube's "You Can Do It", which was last seen on the chart 5 years ago. Bruno Mars exploits a slow week at the top to get what is likely the final new peak for "Talking To The Moon", which is already on the decline, while J. Cole will attempt to follow up on a big climb for "No Role Modelz" again next week, provided he's not crowded out by his own album.
Well we'll no longer see "Dance Monkey" on the Bubbling Under chart so we have a new #1, and as it turns out, we would have either way because the latest winner in the TikTok random hit sweepstakes is Surf Curse's "Freaks". It's currently stuck in the no man's land area of the Spotify chart but it's looking at making a big climb next week so it could get through. Also trying to do that next week is J. Cole's other big single from "2014 Forest Hills Drive", "Wet Dreamz", which actually has charted before in the Bubbling Under chart prior to me including Spotify chart, so it's a rare aged re-entry, but even as it's over 6 years old, it's too new to hit the top spot. Also lamentable is Ed Sheeran's "I Don't Care", which is now old enough to make the chart but is not high enough, though it is likely that it will score a new record for Weeks In on the Bubbling Under chart, which is currently a tie with "Dance Monkey" on 69. Billie Eilish disappears again from the chart while everyone else is mostly on the rebound. blackbear has only spent 1 of 4 days so far in the top 200 this week so he looks likely to drop out as J. Cole consumes 6% of the chart next week. In which case, it's likely that we'll see the Bubbling Under chart reach the 2020s.
iTunes songs: 48 Spotify songs: 52
1
2
5
1
AURORA
Runaway
2
NE
1
2
Billy Currington
We Are Tonight
3
4
34
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
4
NE
1
4
Alan Jackson
The Older I Get
5
5
131
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
6
RE
98
4
Coldplay
Fix You
7
8
11
3
Duncan Laurence
Arcade
8
10
197
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
9
6
12
1
BANNERS
Someone To You
10
15
134
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
11
13
6
11
Bruno Mars
Talking To The Moon
12
12
49
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
13
42
94
7
John Denver
Take Me Home, Country Roads
14
NE
1
14
Tones And I
Dance Monkey
15
62
18
3
Boney M.
Rasputin
16
31
39
16
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
17
18
68
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
18
3
117
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
19
17
27
10
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
20
22
65
1
Sam Fischer
This City
21
28
190
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
22
26
38
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
23
24
118
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
24
29
117
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
25
36
264
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
26
14
4
14
Ruelle
I Get To Love You
27
33
105
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
28
34
103
1
Billie Eilish & Khalid
lovely
29
53
197
7
Metallica
Nothing Else Matters
30
7
19
7
Amy Shark
I Said Hi
31
21
253
1
John Legend
All Of Me
32
23
9
4
Billie Eilish
bad guy
33
RE
231
2
Queen
We Will Rock You
34
54
31
3
Coldplay
Yellow
35
RE
195
2
Darius Rucker
Wagon Wheel
36
43
95
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
37
RE
193
4
Katy Perry
Roar
38
44
146
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
39
RE
102
8
Idina Menzel
Let It Go
40
40
116
4
Ed Sheeran
Shape Of You
41
RE
17
4
Guns N' Roses
November Rain
42
RE
215
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
43
RE
60
1
The Cranberries
Zombie
44
RE
168
6
Zac Brown Band
Chicken Fried
45
57
27
21
Nelly Furtado (feat Timbaland)
Promiscuous
46
48
31
5
James Arthur
Train Wreck
47
RE
32
1
Rag'N'Bone Man
Human
48
59
108
40
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
49
64
82
9
Neil Diamond
Sweet Caroline
50
46
124
1
Hozier
Take Me To Church
51
88
4
19
The Go-Betweens
Streets Of Your Town
52
65
11
26
Kings Of Leon
Sex On Fire
53
51
64
5
Bruno Mars
Just The Way You Are
54
49
40
1
Jubël (feat NEIMY)
Dancing In The Moonlight
55
69
30
4
The Goo Goo Dolls
Iris
56
RE
164
3
Taylor Swift
Shake It Off
57
37
55
19
Bruno Mars
Count On Me
58
32
209
3
Metallica
Enter Sandman
59
RE
2
59
Lil Nas X (feat Billy Ray Cyrus)
Old Town Road (Remix)
60
RE
2
60
Dire Straits
Sultans of Swing
61
NE
1
61
Blanco Brown
The Git Up
62
RE
178
1
Toto
Africa
63
67
154
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
64
70
4
64
Tom Odell
Another Love
65
63
234
5
Oasis
Wonderwall
66
RE
103
18
Eminem (feat Rihanna)
Love The Way You Lie
67
RE
32
23
Katy Perry
Firework
68
RE
227
1
Daryl Braithwaite
The Horses
69
81
189
1
Guns N' Roses
Sweet Child O' Mine
70
72
163
1
Passenger
Let Her Go
71
RE
275
1
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
72
93
69
1
Travis Scott
goosebumps
73
RE
97
3
Queen
We Are The Champions
74
77
112
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
75
RE
45
2
Shania Twain
Man! I Feel Like A Woman!
76
84
98
8
Anne-Marie
2002
77
RE
20
14
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Have You Ever Seen The Rain
78
82
194
9
Bryan Adams
Summer Of '69
79
79
154
1
Avicii
Wake Me Up
80
87
17
10
Juice WRLD
Robbery
81
89
34
28
MKTO
Classic
82
75
65
8
OneRepublic
Counting Stars
83
94
117
1
Post Malone
I Fall Apart
84
RE
48
42
Van Morrison
Brown Eyed Girl
85
98
125
2
Wiz Khalifa (feat Charlie Puth)
See You Again
86
16
3
16
T.I. (feat Rihanna)
Live Your Life
87
RE
137
2
WALK THE MOON
Shut Up and Dance
88
38
118
6
Journey
Don't Stop Believin'
89
RE
99
1
George Ezra
Shotgun
90
RE
115
1
Evanescence
Bring Me To Life
91
RE
31
14
The Righteous Brothers
Unchained Melody
92
96
91
1
Lewis Capaldi
Bruises
93
RE
43
31
4 Non Blondes
What's Up
94
91
220
6
Cold Chisel
Khe Sanh
95
RE
7
19
Ice Cube
You Can Do It
96
RE
94
6
Foster The People
Pumped Up Kicks
97
RE
10
11
Tina Turner
The Best
98
99
149
8
Whitney Houston
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
99
92
97
1
Tame Impala
The Less I Know The Better
100
RE
25
11
Stevie Wonder
Happy Birthday
-
1
4
1
Meghan Trainor (feat Kelli Trainor)
Mom
-
9
6
9
Ed Sheeran
Supermarket Flowers
-
11
3
7
John Denver
Thank God I'm A Country Boy (Live At The Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA - August/September 1974)
It turns out AURORA was fortunate to get to #1 last week because her time in the sun here is quite abruptly over, overtaken by the permanent streaming incumbent. As it so happens, this week's song to block Lewis for yet another week is "In The Air Tonight", a former #1. This week's chart was hugely interrupted by both J. Cole and Eurovision so we dip much longer than usual but still easily hit the 100 song cap. The top 10 is a lot of regular business, while Tones And I knocks on its door transferring over to iTunes power. J. Cole has also taken his low charting bubbler to quite high places now at #13. The rest of the action is near the bottom of the chart, with a new peak for Tom Odell and a bunch of oldies on the debuts. Perhaps it's a case of 'I can't believe that hadn't charted before, but it's the first time on the chart for "Suspicious Minds", "God Only Knows", and the original "Knockin' On Heaven's Door". Also mixed in with the debuts were last week's bubblers for Surf Curse & J. Cole.
Fret not however, we have yet another arrival on the Bubbling Under chart to replace those ones. Going way back in his career, Miguel is seeing traction for "Sure Thing", which instantly debuts at #1 and I suspect will be promoted next week. Despite a big injection of J. Cole this week, there's only one dropout from blackbear. "Ride It" and "I Don't Care" are going into dangerous territory, especially with an Olivia Rodrigo album about to hit next week. Being pushed into the chart though this week are Topic & Eminem, which as you might note, takes us into 2020, which shows that "I Don't Care"'s new record for weeks on this chart will be difficult to top.
We nearly had a historic moment this week with Chris Isaak potentially returning to #1. "Wicked Game" notably was #1 on the first chart I ever made. This is the highest he's ever gotten since then, re-entering at #2, perhaps one day he'll get out of The Black Lodge. In the meantime, "Someone To You" returns to #1 instead. Amidst the standard top 10 affair, Neil Young gets a big re-entry with "Harvest Moon", his first ever top 10. Recent debuts from Josh Turner & Alan Jackson are back, with Josh getting a new peak to boot. Vanessa Amorosi also has a big re-entry and new peak for "Absolutely Everybody". There's also a new peak for Bob Seger, but maybe the wildest new peak this week comes from Baker Boy, whose "Marryuna" once charted at #99, and is now back at #98, overtaking Demi Lovato's "Confident" (HP-97) as the lowest peaker with 2 weeks. Benny Mardones has the highest new entry, just slightly ahead of Miguel's "Sure Thing" making good on its Spotify debut. Miguel is not alone there though as in a surprise, Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber had a big week with "I Don't Care", meaning that it does make the chart, just after slightly snatching the all time record on the Bubbling Under chart at 70 weeks. 2006 Hottest 100 classic "Everlong (Acoustic)" gets in, as does REO Speedwagon's "Keep On Loving You", a song that has been on an ad for weeks now.
New found vacancies brings Masked Wolf to #1, who 2 weeks from now will be making his move to the main chart. A twist bonus debut comes from Olivia Rodrigo, who once again is doing so well with her new material that it's sending people back to her older stuff, namely the High School Musical: The Series: The Musical track that got her a record deal in the first place, "All I Want". In regular digging, 2020 non-Hottest 100 classic "death bed" makes its place, though it's not looking like lasting much longer with how it's been dipping down the chart lately. Regard has also dropped into the 190s with "Ride It", though perhaps he'll find some stability in the coming weeks.
It was close last week but not remotely this week as it's another week at the top for BANNERS. Things will get exceptionally tougher as the Thunderball of astronauts, Masked Wolf, is primed for chart domination. In the meantime, Starship have a big return, and John Butler Trio have two debuts courtesy of playing at the footy of some description. The top debut is perhaps not an obvious one, a cut from their latest album "Home" from 2018, "Wade In The Water". Lower down is the more traditional "Zebra", having previously limped into the chart with "Better Than" some years back. Tones and I climbs into the top 10 for the first time with "Dance Monkey", while Miguel & Surf Curse take their streaming hits a little bit higher. Imagine Dragons have a random return for "Whatever It Takes" that nets a new peak, while Blanco Brown also returns to new heights. It's a good week for mid-'90s samples of "Ike's Rap II", as Portishead's "Glory Box" and Tricky's "Hell Is Round The Corner" both net debuts. #1 hit bingo also continues thanks to Heart's "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You", while after unluckily dropping out last week, Anne-Marie returns with "2002" to get that 3 digit WI glory.
Masked Wolf takes his 2nd and last week at the top of the Bubbling Under chart. Regard continues to defy standards as "Ride It" remains in the ARIA top 100 but has fallen out of the Spotify top 200 (Pop Smoke's "Dior" is the opposite). blackbear also returns with a decent new peak in the process, but Olivia Rodrigo's return does prove to be short-lived. In her place, AJR take up the mantle with their fairly belated hit "Bang!". It's hard to imagine it lasting especially long with how it's going though. In moderately interesting but not chart affecting news, "Falling" has overtaken "Adore You" again in their scattered journeys.
Aha! Here I was thinking it was some link up with their sample that Alessia Cara missed out on reaping
13/06/2021 (Week 297)
I don't know much about rolling down in the deep but I do know that we have a new #1. As has been anticipated for most of this year, Masked Wolf's time to shine has arrived and he is in fact very ensconced at the top end of both contributing charts. That's not to say he's unbeatable, but it would take unusual circumstances to change things, and further more, he's taking the herald from Fleetwood Mac & Lewis Capaldi who have previously revelled as the default #1 of late. Of course "Astronaut In The Ocean" is in a downward slump, it'll take a while before he's at their level. We were halfway to such an unusual circumstance though as the top spot on iTunes recently was taken up by US singer Nightbirde, who has taken America's Got Talent by storm amidst also battling cancer. Her #1 placing track "It's OK (Live Maple House Sessions)" is not eligible for this chart yet but she has several other songs placing and of those, we have her 2019 track "Girl In A Bubble" which finds its way into the top 10 this week. Last week there was a random new peak for Imagine Dragons, which appears to have been a forewarning of what followed, a lot of Imagine Dragons re-entries and a very slight new peak this time for "Demons", which previously got to #15 almost 4 years ago, now at the much improved place of #14. Surf Curse have been very up and down lately but do climb a bit higher with "Freaks", while REO Speedwagon also return to a new peak as well. Garbage just released their 7th album, but here we take things back to their 3rd as "Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go)" becomes their first song to ever appear in any form on this chart. I often find the arrivals of new staples such as "Astronaut In The Ocean" interesting as it sets a new slightly higher bar for all those songs that just kinda hang around at the bottom accumulating weeks. It's apt in this case because last week's #100 from Journey has been pushed to theoretical #101 this week. These songs can at least breathe a sigh of relief for a little while though.
Naturally the Bubbling Under chart has a new #1 courtesy of Pop Smoke's "Dior", which looks reasonably likely to get through to the main chart, though its monthly cohort "July" has just this week shown some major setbacks, and what looked like a dead cert is now up in the air, you never really know with some of these. It's a pretty steady week in general with blackbear & Powfu still hovering around the danger zone. Harry Styles in particular had a good week with his two tracks recovering strongly. We have a new agent of chaos too, as replacing Masked Wolf is The Weeknd's "Save Your Tears", which of course was very high on the chart a couple of months ago, but has been replaced in all intents and purposes by a remix that I still have not listened to, which has reduced it to a decent standing but it's uncertain if it will ever return to being the definitive version of itself. Unlucky in this equation is Conan Gray's "Heather" released on the same day, which is very at risk of leaving the chart and never getting to appear at all.
iTunes songs: 55 Spotify songs: 45
1
NE
1
1
Masked Wolf
Astronaut In The Ocean
2
5
135
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
3
2
13
1
Starship
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
4
4
38
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
5
1
16
1
BANNERS
Someone To You
6
8
201
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
7
NE
1
7
Nightbirde
Girl In A Bubble
8
11
122
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
9
10
15
3
Duncan Laurence
Arcade
10
85
198
2
Darius Rucker
Wagon Wheel
11
12
138
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
12
7
9
1
AURORA
Runaway
13
19
31
10
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
14
RE
61
14
Imagine Dragons
Demons
15
32
186
1
Chris Stapleton
Tennessee Whiskey
16
22
72
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
17
9
5
9
Tones And I
Dance Monkey
18
13
53
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
19
14
10
11
Bruno Mars
Talking To The Moon
20
RE
6
11
The Veronicas
Untouched
21
25
8
14
Ruelle
I Get To Love You
22
21
43
13
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
23
26
268
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
24
55
194
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
25
RE
234
2
Queen
We Will Rock You
26
RE
218
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
27
RE
20
7
Amy Shark
I Said Hi
28
17
121
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
29
RE
3
17
Josh Turner
Your Man
30
29
69
1
Sam Fischer
This City
31
31
42
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
32
36
107
1
Billie Eilish & Khalid
lovely
33
RE
101
1
George Ezra
Shotgun
34
43
36
1
Chris Isaak
Wicked Game
35
37
109
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
36
24
8
13
Richard Marx
Right Here Waiting
37
RE
2
20
Richard Clapton
Girls On The Avenue
38
45
35
3
Coldplay
Yellow
39
63
96
7
John Denver
Take Me Home, Country Roads
40
20
5
2
Billy Currington
We Are Tonight
41
23
121
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
42
34
15
26
Kings Of Leon
Sex On Fire
43
RE
37
5
Lady A
Need You Now
44
60
3
44
Surf Curse
Freaks
45
RE
84
6
Steve Earle
Copperhead Road
46
RE
41
12
ABBA
Dancing Queen
47
RE
49
1
Kaleo
Way Down We Go
48
44
13
4
Billie Eilish
bad guy
49
52
99
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
50
48
150
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
51
59
49
1
Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers
Islands In The Stream
52
51
31
21
Nelly Furtado (feat Timbaland)
Promiscuous
53
RE
2
53
REO Speedwagon
Keep On Loving You
54
42
257
1
John Legend
All Of Me
55
49
16
4
Crowded House
Don't Dream It's Over
56
RE
36
9
Luke Combs
Beautiful Crazy
57
NE
1
57
Garbage
Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go)
58
75
279
1
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
59
40
3
40
Miguel
Sure Thing
60
70
238
5
Oasis
Wonderwall
61
RE
4
45
Lil Nas X (feat Billy Ray Cyrus)
Old Town Road (Remix)
62
67
112
40
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
63
RE
49
28
Shaggy (feat Rikrok)
It Wasn't Me
64
RE
13
5
Jess Glynne
Hold My Hand
65
64
128
1
Hozier
Take Me To Church
66
NE
1
66
Paramore
Misery Business
67
RE
24
3
Lady Gaga
Always Remember Us This Way
68
RE
3
7
Hanson
MMMBop
69
62
158
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
70
RE
63
2
Fleetwood Mac
The Chain
71
72
167
1
Passenger
Let Her Go
72
6
22
3
Boney M.
Rasputin
73
65
120
4
Ed Sheeran
Shape Of You
74
RE
84
9
Neil Diamond
Sweet Caroline
75
71
35
5
James Arthur
Train Wreck
76
68
116
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
77
86
69
8
OneRepublic
Counting Stars
78
78
34
4
The Goo Goo Dolls
Iris
79
87
78
10
Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit
80
RE
99
1
Tame Impala
The Less I Know The Better
81
69
68
5
Bruno Mars
Just The Way You Are
82
73
8
59
Tom Odell
Another Love
83
RE
41
21
Imagine Dragons
On Top Of The World
84
RE
256
1
Eminem
Lose Yourself
85
54
229
1
Daryl Braithwaite
The Horses
86
50
49
15
Juice WRLD
All Girls Are The Same
87
76
213
3
Metallica
Enter Sandman
88
RE
8
2
The Verve
Bitter Sweet Symphony
89
RE
4
4
The Weeknd (feat Daft Punk)
I Feel It Coming
90
97
198
9
Bryan Adams
Summer Of '69
91
RE
63
1
The Cranberries
Zombie
92
83
158
1
Avicii
Wake Me Up
93
RE
148
7
AC/DC
Highway To Hell
94
81
21
10
Juice WRLD
Robbery
95
RE
7
84
American Authors
Best Day Of My Life
96
92
53
56
NF
Let You Down
97
RE
33
11
Bruce Springsteen
Dancing In The Dark
98
RE
91
5
AC/DC
It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)
Keep rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin' rollin' down in the deep as Masked Wolf is #1 again. Alongside a cast of familiar faces in the top 5 is a new one. 2021 Eurovision Song Contest winners Måneskin have seen a gradual leap across their catalogue from listeners. Most recently it's brought success to their years old cover of "Beggin'", a song that was a hit over a decade ago when also covered by Madcon, though Australia missed it. It's making a big move on Spotify and should chart in the ARIA top 50 if ARIA allow it, but this position comes from a big showing on iTunes. Lower down in the top 10, Tones and I is back with a new peak of #6 for "Dance Monkey", which might be hard to surpass without a lucky sales boost. Speaking of long running 2019 #1 hits, Lil Nas X has a big jump to a new peak of #25 for the "Old Town Road" remix, previously peaking at #45. Also getting a new peak this week is "Love Shack", only a modest #68 but it's the first time it's made the top 80. On the light debut notes, we have surprisingly the first ever arrival for Duran Duran, who make it in with "Ordinary World". They mark their debut alongside Irish country singer Lisa McHugh, and also young singer Trinidad Cardona, whose "Dinero" is getting a big Spotify push that just narrowly got onto the chart this week. Certainly next week it'll be a bit higher. Also this week are two new 100 weekers in "Go Your Own Way" and "The Less I Know The Better".
For the Bubbling Under chart this week, it's another week of songs being yanked down the chart. AJR notably are headed down so fast that they may be gone next week (they're not in the top 200 on today's chart). Harry Styles also seems to revert back after last week's rebound. blackbear & Powfu are also knocked out of the chart this week, giving room for last week's noted Conan Gray, whose "Heather" is indeed very much on the brink of leaving the chart. There's another tie for release date after that, and curiously Tate McRae manages to win out ahead of DaBaby's "ROCKSTAR", though the two tracks are quite close so their order could swap.
iTunes songs: 58 Spotify songs: 42
1
1
2
1
Masked Wolf
Astronaut In The Ocean
2
5
17
1
BANNERS
Someone To You
3
NE
1
3
Måneskin
Beggin'
4
2
136
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
5
4
39
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
6
17
6
6
Tones And I
Dance Monkey
7
6
202
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
8
72
23
3
Boney M.
Rasputin
9
8
123
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
10
10
199
2
Darius Rucker
Wagon Wheel
11
11
139
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
12
41
122
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
13
18
54
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
14
27
21
7
Amy Shark
I Said Hi
15
9
16
3
Duncan Laurence
Arcade
16
24
195
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
17
31
43
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
18
3
14
1
Starship
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
19
16
73
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
20
58
280
1
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
21
RE
243
1
Kenny Rogers
The Gambler
22
13
32
10
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
23
23
269
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
24
RE
250
1
Christina Perri
A Thousand Years
25
61
5
25
Lil Nas X (feat Billy Ray Cyrus)
Old Town Road (Remix)
26
RE
25
5
Xavier Rudd
Follow The Sun
27
22
44
13
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
28
RE
7
9
Celine Dion
It's All Coming Back To Me Now
29
19
11
11
Bruno Mars
Talking To The Moon
30
RE
11
25
Pascal Letoublon
Friendships
31
12
10
1
AURORA
Runaway
32
39
97
7
John Denver
Take Me Home, Country Roads
33
30
70
1
Sam Fischer
This City
34
RE
166
3
Taylor Swift
Shake It Off
35
84
257
1
Eminem
Lose Yourself
36
RE
24
14
Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble
This Is Me
37
28
122
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
38
RE
10
37
Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here
39
79
79
10
Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit
40
35
110
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
41
RE
99
4
Coldplay
Fix You
42
52
32
21
Nelly Furtado (feat Timbaland)
Promiscuous
43
56
37
9
Luke Combs
Beautiful Crazy
44
44
4
44
Surf Curse
Freaks
45
21
9
14
Ruelle
I Get To Love You
46
49
100
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
47
50
151
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
48
42
16
26
Kings Of Leon
Sex On Fire
49
38
36
3
Coldplay
Yellow
50
RE
192
1
Guns N' Roses
Sweet Child O' Mine
51
32
108
1
Billie Eilish & Khalid
lovely
52
RE
17
6
Gorillaz (feat De La Soul)
Feel Good Inc.
53
67
25
3
Lady Gaga
Always Remember Us This Way
54
36
9
13
Richard Marx
Right Here Waiting
55
29
4
17
Josh Turner
Your Man
56
54
258
1
John Legend
All Of Me
57
NE
1
57
Duran Duran
Ordinary World
58
57
2
57
Garbage
Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go)
59
69
159
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
60
60
239
5
Oasis
Wonderwall
61
RE
194
4
Katy Perry
Roar
62
RE
39
1
Ellie Goulding
Love Me Like You Do
63
73
121
4
Ed Sheeran
Shape Of You
64
RE
37
14
Train
Drops Of Jupiter
65
77
70
8
OneRepublic
Counting Stars
66
26
219
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
67
71
168
1
Passenger
Let Her Go
68
RE
5
68
The B-52's
Love Shack
69
RE
34
16
Dragon
Rain
70
RE
13
25
Cyndi Lauper
Time After Time
71
RE
8
9
Ed Sheeran
Supermarket Flowers
72
90
199
9
Bryan Adams
Summer Of '69
73
RE
20
13
Dave Dobbyn & Herbs
Slice Of Heaven
74
78
35
4
The Goo Goo Dolls
Iris
75
51
50
1
Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers
Islands In The Stream
76
RE
7
22
Gerry & The Pacemakers
You'll Never Walk Alone
77
62
113
40
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
78
80
100
1
Tame Impala
The Less I Know The Better
79
RE
9
8
Traveling Wilburys
End Of The Line
80
RE
14
5
Bonnie Tyler
Total Eclipse Of The Heart
81
76
117
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
82
65
129
1
Hozier
Take Me To Church
83
48
14
4
Billie Eilish
bad guy
84
RE
122
6
Journey
Don't Stop Believin'
85
NE
1
85
Lisa McHugh
Hillbilly Girl
86
RE
56
19
Bruno Mars
Count On Me
87
59
4
40
Miguel
Sure Thing
88
RE
138
9
Rachel Platten
Fight Song
89
92
159
1
Avicii
Wake Me Up
90
RE
157
1
Ed Sheeran
Photograph
91
RE
223
6
Cold Chisel
Khe Sanh
92
25
235
2
Queen
We Will Rock You
93
88
9
2
The Verve
Bitter Sweet Symphony
94
75
36
5
James Arthur
Train Wreck
95
RE
2
46
Heart
All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You
96
RE
46
2
Shania Twain
Man! I Feel Like A Woman!
97
NE
1
97
Trinidad Cardona
Dinero
98
RE
214
1
Ed Sheeran
Thinking Out Loud
99
RE
8
25
Calum Scott & Leona Lewis
You Are The Reason
100
RE
2
10
Usher (feat Juicy J)
I Don't Mind
-
7
1
7
Nightbirde
Girl In A Bubble
-
14
61
14
Imagine Dragons
Demons
-
15
186
1
Chris Stapleton
Tennessee Whiskey
-
20
6
11
The Veronicas
Untouched
-
33
101
1
George Ezra
Shotgun
-
34
36
1
Chris Isaak
Wicked Game
-
37
2
20
Richard Clapton
Girls On The Avenue
-
40
5
2
Billy Currington
We Are Tonight
-
43
37
5
Lady A
Need You Now
-
45
84
6
Steve Earle
Copperhead Road
-
46
41
12
ABBA
Dancing Queen
-
47
49
1
Kaleo
Way Down We Go
-
53
2
53
REO Speedwagon
Keep On Loving You
-
55
16
4
Crowded House
Don't Dream It's Over
-
63
49
28
Shaggy (feat Rikrok)
It Wasn't Me
-
64
13
5
Jess Glynne
Hold My Hand
-
66
1
66
Paramore
Misery Business
-
68
3
7
Hanson
MMMBop
-
70
63
2
Fleetwood Mac
The Chain
-
74
84
9
Neil Diamond
Sweet Caroline
-
81
68
5
Bruno Mars
Just The Way You Are
-
82
8
59
Tom Odell
Another Love
-
83
41
21
Imagine Dragons
On Top Of The World
-
85
229
1
Daryl Braithwaite
The Horses
-
86
49
15
Juice WRLD
All Girls Are The Same
-
87
213
3
Metallica
Enter Sandman
-
89
4
4
The Weeknd (feat Daft Punk)
I Feel It Coming
-
91
63
1
The Cranberries
Zombie
-
93
148
7
AC/DC
Highway To Hell
-
94
21
10
Juice WRLD
Robbery
-
95
7
84
American Authors
Best Day Of My Life
-
96
53
56
NF
Let You Down
-
97
33
11
Bruce Springsteen
Dancing In The Dark
-
98
91
5
AC/DC
It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)
Remember ages ago when I postulated that Masked Wolf could potentially be #1 for ages? Well anyway this is his 3rd and possibly final week at #1. Måneskin's high debut might have been a curiosity last week, but now they're well entrenched in the top 10 on iTunes AND Spotify with their cover of "Beggin'". Such is their magnetic pull, that even Madcon's cover has also charted this week, having previously bubbled under a few years ago. There's also another surprise entrant in the top 10, as Pascal Letoublon's "Friendships" has spent ages hovering around the middle of the chart, but jumps up to #9 this week. The rest of the debuts this week are decidedly old school, with two #1 hits including one you might be surprised has never charted before. That being Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes' "Up Where We Belong", alas Joe Cocker passed away less than a year before this chart started. The other #1 hit is a few years further back, with Exile's fascinating "Kiss You All Over", and joining them from a Guardians soundtrack is Elvin Bishop. Trinidad Cardona takes the expected leap up more than half of the chart this week, while also getting new peaks are Blanco Brown & le epic rick roll. Coldplay & Darius Rucker miss out on milestone weeks for now, but in their stead, Bryan Adams logs 200 weeks for "Summer of '69".
I'm probably going to change the Bubbling Under chart slightly at the start of the next thread. This doesn't really affect anything important but I think as it becomes increasingly common to see songs manage to be old enough but not make the chart, I'll no longer list release dates for those, to distinguish them from the songs that are still *waiting* for their moment. Anyhow, debuting at #1 this week is Destiny's Child's US #1 hit "Bills, Bills, Bills", which is seeing some significant TikTok traction, and will probably climb high enough next week. Elsewhere on this chart, AJR indeed take a big dive out of the chart, not looking like coming back, but Powfu does manage to get back in.
iTunes songs: 56 Spotify songs: 44
1
1
3
1
Masked Wolf
Astronaut In The Ocean
2
3
2
2
Måneskin
Beggin'
3
2
18
1
BANNERS
Someone To You
4
18
15
1
Starship
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
5
5
40
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
6
4
137
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
7
7
203
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
8
16
196
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
9
30
12
9
Pascal Letoublon
Friendships
10
11
140
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
11
6
7
6
Tones And I
Dance Monkey
12
13
55
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
13
NE
1
13
Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
Up Where We Belong
14
17
44
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
15
RE
187
1
Chris Stapleton
Tennessee Whiskey
16
NE
1
16
Madcon
Beggin'
17
19
74
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
18
98
215
1
Ed Sheeran
Thinking Out Loud
19
22
33
10
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
20
21
244
1
Kenny Rogers
The Gambler
21
23
270
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
22
8
24
3
Boney M.
Rasputin
23
27
45
13
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
24
36
25
14
Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble
This Is Me
25
9
124
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
26
29
12
11
Bruno Mars
Talking To The Moon
27
15
17
3
Duncan Laurence
Arcade
28
NE
1
28
Exile
Kiss You All Over
29
97
2
29
Trinidad Cardona
Dinero
30
37
123
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
31
31
11
1
AURORA
Runaway
32
RE
230
1
Daryl Braithwaite
The Horses
33
12
123
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
34
RE
117
1
Evanescence
Bring Me To Life
35
33
71
1
Sam Fischer
This City
36
25
6
25
Lil Nas X (feat Billy Ray Cyrus)
Old Town Road (Remix)
37
RE
23
9
Calum Scott
You Are The Reason
38
40
111
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
39
54
10
13
Richard Marx
Right Here Waiting
40
47
152
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
41
42
33
21
Nelly Furtado (feat Timbaland)
Promiscuous
42
44
5
42
Surf Curse
Freaks
43
46
101
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
44
24
251
1
Christina Perri
A Thousand Years
45
20
281
1
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
46
66
220
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
47
56
259
1
John Legend
All Of Me
48
RE
3
48
Blanco Brown
The Git Up
49
49
37
3
Coldplay
Yellow
50
84
123
6
Journey
Don't Stop Believin'
51
59
160
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
52
RE
64
2
Fleetwood Mac
The Chain
53
51
109
1
Billie Eilish & Khalid
lovely
54
75
51
1
Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers
Islands In The Stream
55
RE
18
13
Backstreet Boys
Everybody (Backstreet's Back)
56
99
9
25
Calum Scott & Leona Lewis
You Are The Reason
57
RE
8
22
Bee Gees
Stayin' Alive
58
48
17
26
Kings Of Leon
Sex On Fire
59
RE
40
20
Ike & Tina Turner
Nutbush City Limits
60
RE
2
60
Rick Astley
Never Gonna Give You Up
61
63
122
4
Ed Sheeran
Shape Of You
62
65
71
8
OneRepublic
Counting Stars
63
60
240
5
Oasis
Wonderwall
64
67
169
1
Passenger
Let Her Go
65
RE
117
4
Imagine Dragons
Radioactive
66
92
236
2
Queen
We Will Rock You
67
81
118
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
68
RE
114
4
John Farnham
You're The Voice
69
RE
64
1
The Cranberries
Zombie
70
RE
99
3
Queen
We Are The Champions
71
RE
44
31
4 Non Blondes
What's Up
72
77
114
40
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
73
39
80
10
Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit
74
RE
85
9
Neil Diamond
Sweet Caroline
75
89
160
1
Avicii
Wake Me Up
76
RE
52
3
Andra Day
Rise Up
77
72
200
9
Bryan Adams
Summer Of '69
78
RE
2
62
Blake Shelton
God's Country
79
RE
67
7
Elton John
Tiny Dancer
80
RE
43
1
Jubël (feat NEIMY)
Dancing In The Moonlight
81
74
36
4
The Goo Goo Dolls
Iris
82
82
130
1
Hozier
Take Me To Church
83
RE
144
2
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (feat Ray Dalton)
Can't Hold Us
84
NE
1
84
Elvin Bishop
Fooled Around and Fell In Love
85
78
101
1
Tame Impala
The Less I Know The Better
86
83
15
4
Billie Eilish
bad guy
87
88
139
9
Rachel Platten
Fight Song
88
RE
134
1
Tracy Chapman
Fast Car
89
RE
141
2
WALK THE MOON
Shut Up and Dance
90
RE
102
1
George Ezra
Shotgun
91
RE
54
56
NF
Let You Down
92
RE
49
5
50 Cent
In Da Club
93
RE
69
5
Bruno Mars
Just The Way You Are
94
RE
167
5
AC/DC
You Shook Me All Night Long
95
RE
87
32
The Chainsmokers (feat Halsey)
Closer
96
RE
41
1
Men At Work
Down Under
97
RE
2
92
Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber
I Don't Care
98
RE
92
5
AC/DC
It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)
Welcome to the new age. We just had a big hit that just so happened to be a bit old so what if we have an even bigger hit that just so happens to be even older so that its entire reign can be documented on this chart? Solution: Måneskin climb to #1 with "Beggin'" which is #3 and rising on Spotify at present. Unlucky for Masked Wolf but he'll likely be rolling down in the top 10 for quite some time to come. Behind them is the first time charting for Joan Armatrading, who just released a new album. "Drop The Pilot" lands the highest for her of course, but she also gets further entries lower down. Next to the usual top 10 company is a big jump for Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" remix, now in the top 10 for the first time at #7. Also having a good week is Metallica who get a new peak for "The Unforgiven". Surf Curse also climb slightly, and Ed Sheeran has an up and down week with the iTunes boosts of last week being replaced by the Spotify boosts of this week, notably "I Don't Care" vaults up the chart. Speaking of #1 hits that were lucky to not get blocked by "Old Town Road", there's a surprise debut this week for Shawn Mendes' "Senorita", which only recently became eligible. For bingo players, this means that every #1 hit of 2019 has reached this chart. This is also true of every 2018 #1 hit, with the newest eligible #1 to not get here being "Look What You Made Me Do", which is one of several 2017 #1 hits that haven't gotten in. "Three Lions" is back to see how much Australia cares about the Euro cup compared to the World Cup. Destiny's Child get "Bills, Bills, Bills" over the line as anticipated last week, and the last debut is Jose Gonzalez's cover of "Heartbeats", listen to The Knife pls. "We Are The Champions" manages 100 weeks which is Queen's 4th song to reach this milestone, tying AC/DC's feat and engaging a race between "Another One Bites The Dust" and "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock N Roll)" which AC/DC have a handy lead in at the moment. Darius Rucker also makes it to 200 weeks.
It's a busy time on the Bubbling Under chart this week. In accordance with Sheeran-mania, "Beautiful People" has snuck back into the Spotify chart, though unfortunately not high enough to get to the main chart. Perhaps it wasn't helped by jumping in alongside new albums from Tyler, The Creator & Doja Cat which have certainly done a number on the rest of the chart as can be seen by the copious dropouts this week. Alongside all these first time dropouts, "Adore You" is much closer than ever before to dropping out, and the seemingly perennial "If The World Was Ending" had a colossal drop. Filling in the new gaps, as expected is "ROCKSTAR", but also Polo G's long lasting "Martin & Gina", and Jawsh 685's relatively not long lasting "Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)", which doesn't look like it's lasting much longer, though to its credit, it didn't drop much this week.
iTunes songs: 53 Spotify songs: 47
1
2
3
1
Måneskin
Beggin'
2
1
4
1
Masked Wolf
Astronaut In The Ocean
3
NE
1
3
Joan Armatrading
Drop The Pilot
4
3
19
1
BANNERS
Someone To You
5
6
138
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
6
5
41
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
7
36
7
7
Lil Nas X (feat Billy Ray Cyrus)
Old Town Road (Remix)
8
7
204
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
9
11
8
6
Tones And I
Dance Monkey
10
25
125
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
11
10
141
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
12
14
45
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
13
NE
1
13
Joan Armatrading
(I Love It When You) Call Me Names
14
NE
1
14
Joan Armatrading
Me Myself I
15
45
282
1
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
16
46
221
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
17
44
252
1
Christina Perri
A Thousand Years
18
21
271
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
19
12
56
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
20
RE
214
3
Metallica
Enter Sandman
21
RE
4
21
Metallica
The Unforgiven
22
17
75
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
23
22
25
3
Boney M.
Rasputin
24
19
34
10
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
25
RE
199
7
Metallica
Nothing Else Matters
26
33
124
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
27
9
13
9
Pascal Letoublon
Friendships
28
23
46
13
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
29
26
13
11
Bruno Mars
Talking To The Moon
30
61
123
4
Ed Sheeran
Shape Of You
31
15
188
1
Chris Stapleton
Tennessee Whiskey
32
30
124
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
33
99
12
24
Fleetwood Mac
Rhiannon
34
32
231
1
Daryl Braithwaite
The Horses
35
27
18
3
Duncan Laurence
Arcade
36
88
135
1
Tracy Chapman
Fast Car
37
38
112
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
38
8
197
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
39
42
6
39
Surf Curse
Freaks
40
90
103
1
George Ezra
Shotgun
41
RE
2
2
David Baddiel, Frank Skinner & The Lightning Seeds
Three Lions
42
29
3
29
Trinidad Cardona
Dinero
43
35
72
1
Sam Fischer
This City
44
RE
69
6
Justin Timberlake
CAN'T STOP THE FEELING!
45
43
102
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
46
RE
57
19
Bruno Mars
Count On Me
47
51
161
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
48
86
16
4
Billie Eilish
bad guy
49
RE
115
3
Queen
Don't Stop Me Now
50
41
34
21
Nelly Furtado (feat Timbaland)
Promiscuous
51
RE
30
11
The Beatles
Here Comes The Sun
52
RE
179
1
Toto
Africa
53
49
38
3
Coldplay
Yellow
54
39
11
13
Richard Marx
Right Here Waiting
55
18
216
1
Ed Sheeran
Thinking Out Loud
56
76
53
3
Andra Day
Rise Up
57
40
153
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
58
97
3
58
Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber
I Don't Care
59
RE
200
2
Darius Rucker
Wagon Wheel
60
47
260
1
John Legend
All Of Me
61
NE
1
61
Destiny's Child
Bills, Bills, Bills
62
16
2
16
Madcon
Beggin'
63
58
18
26
Kings Of Leon
Sex On Fire
64
63
241
5
Oasis
Wonderwall
65
62
72
8
OneRepublic
Counting Stars
66
53
110
1
Billie Eilish & Khalid
lovely
67
RE
195
4
Katy Perry
Roar
68
64
170
1
Passenger
Let Her Go
69
RE
104
18
Eminem (feat Rihanna)
Love The Way You Lie
70
67
119
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
71
66
237
2
Queen
We Will Rock You
72
68
115
4
John Farnham
You're The Voice
73
RE
14
9
GANGgajang
Sounds Of Then (This Is Australia)
74
72
115
40
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
75
NE
1
75
Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello
Senorita
76
RE
5
17
Josh Turner
Your Man
77
RE
3
10
Neil Young
Harvest Moon
78
73
81
10
Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit
79
RE
123
1
Cold Chisel
Flame Trees
80
75
161
1
Avicii
Wake Me Up
81
RE
224
6
Cold Chisel
Khe Sanh
82
77
201
9
Bryan Adams
Summer Of '69
83
83
145
2
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (feat Ray Dalton)
Can't Hold Us
84
50
124
6
Journey
Don't Stop Believin'
85
81
37
4
The Goo Goo Dolls
Iris
86
RE
167
3
Taylor Swift
Shake It Off
87
RE
151
8
Whitney Houston
I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)
88
89
142
2
WALK THE MOON
Shut Up and Dance
89
RE
56
1
Johnny Cash
Hurt
90
RE
71
32
Eminem (feat Nate Dogg)
'Till I Collapse
91
82
131
1
Hozier
Take Me To Church
92
69
65
1
The Cranberries
Zombie
93
70
100
3
Queen
We Are The Champions
94
RE
22
7
Amy Shark
I Said Hi
95
RE
38
28
MKTO
Classic
96
RE
72
4
Queen
Another One Bites The Dust
97
95
88
32
The Chainsmokers (feat Halsey)
Closer
98
RE
71
4
Jimmy Barnes
Working Class Man
99
NE
1
99
José González
Heartbeats
100
RE
101
8
Anne-Marie
2002
-
4
15
1
Starship
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
-
13
1
13
Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
Up Where We Belong
-
20
244
1
Kenny Rogers
The Gambler
-
24
25
14
Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble
This Is Me
-
28
1
28
Exile
Kiss You All Over
-
31
11
1
AURORA
Runaway
-
34
117
1
Evanescence
Bring Me To Life
-
37
23
9
Calum Scott
You Are The Reason
-
48
3
48
Blanco Brown
The Git Up
-
52
64
2
Fleetwood Mac
The Chain
-
54
51
1
Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers
Islands In The Stream
-
55
18
13
Backstreet Boys
Everybody (Backstreet's Back)
-
56
9
25
Calum Scott & Leona Lewis
You Are The Reason
-
57
8
22
Bee Gees
Stayin' Alive
-
59
40
20
Ike & Tina Turner
Nutbush City Limits
-
60
2
60
Rick Astley
Never Gonna Give You Up
-
65
117
4
Imagine Dragons
Radioactive
-
71
44
31
4 Non Blondes
What's Up
-
74
85
9
Neil Diamond
Sweet Caroline
-
78
2
62
Blake Shelton
God's Country
-
79
67
7
Elton John
Tiny Dancer
-
80
43
1
Jubël (feat NEIMY)
Dancing In The Moonlight
-
84
1
84
Elvin Bishop
Fooled Around and Fell In Love
-
85
101
1
Tame Impala
The Less I Know The Better
-
87
139
9
Rachel Platten
Fight Song
-
91
54
56
NF
Let You Down
-
92
49
5
50 Cent
In Da Club
-
93
69
5
Bruno Mars
Just The Way You Are
-
94
167
5
AC/DC
You Shook Me All Night Long
-
96
41
1
Men At Work
Down Under
-
98
92
5
AC/DC
It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)
Not much to report at the top except that "Beggin'" is even higher amidst some pretty monster sellers on the iTunes chart so even an unexpected interruption will be a hard task. I don't even have much of anything to remark on the top 10 except that "Mr. Brightside" is getting remarkably close to overtaking "Someone You Loved" which would usher in a new norm of sorts, and perhaps even postulate the possibility of The Killers ever getting to #1 on this chart, though they probably won't have a chance until at least 2022. Nirvana nearly got a new peak thanks to a cover on the Black Widow soundtrack, suffice to say this is "Smells Like Teen Spirit"'s best ever year on this chart. What does get a new peak in the top 20 though is interchangeable probably-a-soundtrack Sia song "Unstoppable", a big jump from its original debut a year ago. Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" also creeps a little higher than ever before, and Surf Curse are also still at it with "Freaks". Destiny's Child also round the new peaks out with "Bills, Bills, Bills" getting a little higher, though that's probably its death knell as this was a weaker week so it's probably actually heading out soon. There's also just the one debut this week and it's quite a lucky one with the bar being made more manageable (this is a lie actually, it was higher, but there are a lot less Tyler, The Creator songs on the Spotify chart this week), as Ed Sheeran strikes lucky with the just recently eligible "Beautiful People". Can't say for sure if it'll last again next week but it's not holding up too badly in week 3 of Sheeranaissance. Metallica hit 200 weeks with "Nothing Else Matters", making them only the 2nd artist after Queen to so do with multiple tracks. In case you were wondering, 17 tracks have made it to this milestone, and Disturbed are about to make it 18.
Pop Smoke returns to the top of the Bubbling Under chart, though he'll have at most only two more weeks there until he becomes eligible and assumably makes the cut. Noah Cyrus actually qualifies on the same week because of her irregular release date, though it seems like the month of July has not seemed to really help "July" much. It shouldn't be a surprise that nothing drops out this week, maybe the real surprise is that "Falling" is the only re-entry. Or though it's not visible on the chart, despite massive rebounds for nearly everything, "If The World Was Ending" actually declined strangely. It'll probably be back up next week though
iTunes songs: 50 Spotify songs: 50
1
1
4
1
Måneskin
Beggin'
2
2
5
1
Masked Wolf
Astronaut In The Ocean
3
5
139
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
4
6
42
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
5
8
205
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
6
4
20
1
BANNERS
Someone To You
7
RE
34
1
Rag'N'Bone Man
Human
8
26
125
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
9
19
57
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
10
9
9
6
Tones And I
Dance Monkey
11
11
142
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
12
12
46
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
13
78
82
10
Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit
14
RE
86
9
Neil Diamond
Sweet Caroline
15
18
272
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
16
41
3
2
David Baddiel, Frank Skinner & The Lightning Seeds
Nothing changes at the top except I will note that "Beggin'" is actually higher on iTunes than Spotify this week. Tones and I released her album this week and while "Dance Monkey" wasn't on it, that might actually have helped it here so it's not split up and there's more incentive to buy the single, so it gets a new peak this week. Possibly for the same reason, "Never Seen The Rain" is the highest debut, while it's worth noting that it literally only just became eligible this week. Madcon have also been dropping every week as the curiosity seemed to be wearing off except now their cover of "Beggin'" is also in the top 10. Surf Curse have been lingering around on the Spotify chart for weeks but now are gaining proper traction with "Freaks" which vaults into the top 20. Shawn Mendes also gets a new peak with the newly resilient "Senorita". It's also moderately worth noting that if it were as hard to make the chart 2 years ago as it is now, this would probably be Dan + Shay's first actual week on the chart with "Tequila". They're still a little touch & go about whether they can make it to another entry later this year.
Not much to note in change on the Bubbling Under chart this week. Powfu has once again returned to the chart at the expense of Jawsh 685 though it's also possible he might be genuinely out of the chart pretty soon. On that note, "Save Your Tears" and "Godzilla" have both taken notable drops, while Harry Styles' two tracks have once again swapped with "Adore You" now dangerously close to leaving the chart.
iTunes songs: 54 Spotify songs: 46
1
1
5
1
Måneskin
Beggin'
2
2
6
1
Masked Wolf
Astronaut In The Ocean
3
6
21
1
BANNERS
Someone To You
4
10
10
4
Tones And I
Dance Monkey
5
3
140
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
6
7
35
1
Rag'N'Bone Man
Human
7
4
43
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
8
5
206
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
9
84
4
9
Madcon
Beggin'
10
11
143
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
11
39
127
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
12
12
47
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
13
76
27
3
Boney M.
Rasputin
14
9
58
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
15
15
273
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
16
RE
245
1
Kenny Rogers
The Gambler
17
17
77
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
18
19
36
10
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
19
83
18
4
Billie Eilish
bad guy
20
26
8
20
Surf Curse
Freaks
21
8
126
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
22
RE
24
9
Calum Scott
You Are The Reason
23
NE
1
23
Tones And I
Never Seen The Rain
24
20
199
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
25
75
190
1
Chris Stapleton
Tennessee Whiskey
26
48
202
2
Darius Rucker
Wagon Wheel
27
22
48
13
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
28
RE
23
7
Amy Shark
I Said Hi
29
RE
25
8
Earth, Wind & Fire
September
30
24
15
11
Bruno Mars
Talking To The Moon
31
RE
12
13
Richard Marx
Right Here Waiting
32
27
125
4
Ed Sheeran
Shape Of You
33
97
216
3
Metallica
Enter Sandman
34
100
9
7
Lil Nas X (feat Billy Ray Cyrus)
Old Town Road (Remix)
35
33
114
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
36
45
67
1
The Cranberries
Zombie
37
32
126
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
38
RE
170
6
Zac Brown Band
Chicken Fried
39
38
74
1
Sam Fischer
This City
40
35
36
21
Nelly Furtado (feat Timbaland)
Promiscuous
41
RE
2
41
Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello
Senorita
42
40
40
3
Coldplay
Yellow
43
25
31
11
Coolio (feat L.V.)
Gangsta's Paradise
44
42
104
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
45
55
99
7
John Denver
Take Me Home, Country Roads
46
41
163
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
47
54
155
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
48
47
20
26
Kings Of Leon
Sex On Fire
49
51
262
1
John Legend
All Of Me
50
RE
136
1
Tracy Chapman
Fast Car
51
13
83
10
Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit
52
67
105
1
George Ezra
Shotgun
53
RE
73
8
Imagine Dragons
Thunder
54
34
20
3
Duncan Laurence
Arcade
55
RE
23
30
Luke Combs
When It Rains It Pours
56
62
112
1
Billie Eilish & Khalid
lovely
57
18
3
18
Sia
Unstoppable
58
49
243
5
Oasis
Wonderwall
59
21
11
14
Ruelle
I Get To Love You
60
RE
124
1
Cold Chisel
Flame Trees
61
57
218
1
Ed Sheeran
Thinking Out Loud
62
59
172
1
Passenger
Let Her Go
63
60
117
40
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
64
58
5
58
Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber
I Don't Care
65
64
74
8
OneRepublic
Counting Stars
66
90
91
2
The Black Eyed Peas
I Gotta Feeling
67
43
175
1
Mark Ronson (feat Bruno Mars)
Uptown Funk
68
RE
258
1
Eminem
Lose Yourself
69
72
163
1
Avicii
Wake Me Up
70
RE
16
1
Starship
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
71
78
39
4
The Goo Goo Dolls
Iris
72
66
203
9
Bryan Adams
Summer Of '69
73
RE
13
44
Dan + Shay
Tequila
74
RE
4
36
Brett Young
In Case You Didn't Know
75
80
133
1
Hozier
Take Me To Church
76
37
126
6
Journey
Don't Stop Believin'
77
RE
31
24
Rihanna (feat Mikky Ekko)
Stay
78
RE
118
4
Imagine Dragons
Radioactive
79
68
144
2
WALK THE MOON
Shut Up and Dance
80
RE
71
5
Flo Rida (feat T-Pain)
Low
81
99
223
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
82
RE
14
3
Keane
Somewhere Only We Know
83
23
15
23
Cyndi Lauper
Time After Time
84
52
3
52
Destiny's Child
Bills, Bills, Bills
85
RE
3
42
Vance Joy
We're Going Home
86
RE
26
5
Xavier Rudd
Follow The Sun
87
RE
3
33
Foreigner
I Want To Know What Love Is
88
RE
47
2
Shania Twain
Man! I Feel Like A Woman!
89
RE
3
53
REO Speedwagon
Keep On Loving You
90
86
103
1
Tame Impala
The Less I Know The Better
91
RE
27
11
Stevie Wonder
Happy Birthday
92
85
90
32
The Chainsmokers (feat Halsey)
Closer
93
RE
44
1
Jubël (feat NEIMY)
Dancing In The Moonlight
94
RE
119
1
Post Malone
I Fall Apart
95
89
98
20
Eminem
The Real Slim Shady
96
RE
225
6
Cold Chisel
Khe Sanh
97
RE
61
8
Gotye (feat Kimbra)
Somebody That I Used To Know
98
RE
102
8
Anne-Marie
2002
99
RE
168
3
Taylor Swift
Shake It Off
100
93
121
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
-
14
86
9
Neil Diamond
Sweet Caroline
-
16
3
2
David Baddiel, Frank Skinner & The Lightning Seeds
Unsurprisingly Maneskin are maintaining #1, and with Masked Wolf as their biggest competition, they're only increasing this lead. John Lennon re-enters to just barely keep "Dance Monkey" out of the top 3 again. Surprisingly "Lose Yourself" is in the top 10 for the first time in a little over a year. Surf Curse also keep climbing now up to #13 with the only other new peak being a seemingly belated rise for REO Speedwagon. New entries are also scarce. Nancy Sinatra lands her first duet (and it's not that one) on the chart. Australian duo Shouse are seeing new found popularity for their track "Love Tonight" on Spotify, and lastly there's Edwin McCain's big US hit that didn't reach our shores, "I'll Be". Also Disturbed hit 200 weeks, how disturbing.
Some interesting action on the Bubbling Under chart this week. Despite big arrivals from Pop Smoke & KSI all over the chart, there was still some space for songs to poke through. Namely a couple of songs that have frequently been appearing on daily charts but never lasting for a full week. So The Neighbourhood get a potential 2nd entry brewing with "Daddy Issues", as do The Lumineers with "Ophelia", which is low key becoming their most popular song. Amidst all this, "Adore You" takes a heavy hit and falls out of the chart, shockingly Powfu holds at #200 for a second week in a row. Conan Gray is also back with "Heather", to assure that Tate McRae only lasts on the chart via an increasingly large gap with "ROCKSTAR".
First some correction department stuff to deal with. Justin Wellington's version of "Iko Iko" has been on my radar for this chart for roughly a year but it's been so long without me realising that it passed its 2nd birthday a couple of months ago. With that in mind, it should have debuted early in June and re-entered last week. Thus this week it appears in the top 10 in its 3rd week and all the numbers are now off on this thread but accurate in my spreadsheet. Maneskin are still very comfortably leading the chart, but making a big entry is Ramin Djawadi, a name you might recognise from the score of Game Of Thrones, but in this instance, it's his cover of Kanye West's "Runaway" which is being used for some Olympics coverage and it scores a huge debut at #3, higher than the original has ever gotten, which also re-enters this week. This past week we lost Dusty Hill, ending the 7 decade spanning tenure of one of the world's longest unchanged band line ups in ZZ Top. The band had previously only spent a single week on the chart with "La Grange", which is their highest entry this week, but is joined by 3 more of their tracks in the top 20. Last week's debut for Shouse is the only other new peak this week, climbing a little further into the top 40 which is somewhat unlucky that it's been dwarfed by such a big iTunes week. A fun aside is that for the first time we have both "Freaks" in the chart and they're both next to each other. There's also an eclectic set of other debuts this week. Alicia Keys has had several chart entries though none with extensive longevity outside of "Empire State Of Mind", surprisingly this week is "No One"'s first turn. There's also a belated promotion for a former bubbler from Frankie Valli which may or may not be connected to the success of "Beggin'". After that is the two modern bubblers who were just promoted this week, Pop Smoke's "Dior" and Noah Cyrus's "July". "Dior" was strangely just added to the deluxe version of Pop Smoke's new album so maybe it'll climb or something. There's also perhaps been a bit of a changing of the guard on the streaming end, with "Go Your Own Way" and "This City" showing big declines, and "Youngblood" out of the top 50 for the first time excluding Christmas.
Much of the action this week is on the Bubbling Under chart, in part because of the two promotions but also this week it's Pop Smoke and Dave's turn to disrupt the chart, so "Daddy Issues", "Falling" and "death bed" are all out this week. "Ophelia" is off to a rocky start to its run too, while "10,000 Hours" takes a big decline and starts to look doubtful for a future entry. DaBaby & Polo G of course return, it remains to be seen if Australia start boycotting the former's music. Taking residence at the bottom of the chart is a timely return for The Kid LAROI's "GO", which has been absent from the Spotify chart for nearly 3 months but returns this week thanks to the re-re-release of "F*CK LOVE", which means it's probably headed straight back out. After that is Spacey Jane's "Booster Seat", which also might not have much left in it but we'll see, and naturally right by it is Glass Animals' "Heat Waves" which Australia refuses to ever move on from.
A lot of songs show on Spotify that they have no interest in ever leaving the chart but the alternative work around is that iTunes is further monopolising this chart to the point that there might not be room for some of those songs in the long run, falling out of the chart be damned. Either way, Maneskin have no probably maintaining the #1 spot on both metrics by a huge margin. Last week's not debut for Justin Wellington seems to have been picked up as a radio hit I guess and flies up to #3 this week, meaning it's likely to hold consistently on the chart. Sia's also inconsistent "Unstoppable" returns to great success at #5. These work out to be the only new peaks on the whole chart this week. We do have a mix of debuts though, led off with Plastic Bertrand whose name & song title I will never remember how to spell. Surprisingly Kanye West scores two debuts this week, perhaps suggesting that the longer he waits to drop "DONDA", the more he can rack up. But maybe most surprisingly, it's "Flashing Lights" leading the way, with "All Of The Lights" close behind, so maybe The Weeknd is to blame. Between these is a Taylor Swift cut in "Never Grow Up", which is from "Speak Now" and not "Red" despite recent news. Lastly we go back to the bingo card as Alex Lloyd gets his first ever entry with "Amazing". For those not keeping count, that leaves just "Asshole", "Buy Me A Pony", "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)", "Take Me Out", "Knights Of Cydonia" and as yet ineligible "Heat Waves" as the only Hottest 100 #1's not to chart yet. For further note, "Take Me Out" made the Bubbling Under chart, and "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)" certainly would have under the old rules on a recent week as it just missed the chart. Every one of them has appeared on the iTunes chart in my logs at one point, with "Knights Of Cydonia" comfortably the lowest, and it's only ever appeared once.
We have another new #1 on the Bubbling Under chart and it's an unlikely source. US indie rock stalwarts Dr. Dog are seeing isolated success on Spotify (I'm not sure where else it's charting apart from Australia & New Zealand) with their 2010 track "Where Did All The Time Go?", a song that was already nearly a decade old when it was originally released. There's a fairly decent chance that it will promote itself next week. The Lumineers on the other hand have been pushed out, presumably thanks to Billie Eilish taking another slice of the Spotify chart for the present week, so Post Malone is still stuck at #2 with only a few weeks before he makes his big main chart splash with "Circles". Also coming through this week is Tate McRae with a track from her EP she released at the start of last year, "that way". As for the danger zone, "Heather" is relatively close, while "GO" is definitely on its way out and was perhaps lucky to nab a second week. "Save Your Tears" is regularly making steady declines and might possibly be close to going out though a slow release week coming might weather it for now at least.
iTunes songs: 61 Spotify songs: 39
1
1
8
1
Måneskin
Beggin'
2
2
9
1
Masked Wolf
Astronaut In The Ocean
3
9
4
3
Justin Wellington (feat Small Jam)
Iko Iko (My Bestie)
4
6
24
1
BANNERS
Someone To You
5
RE
5
5
Sia
Unstoppable
6
4
143
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
7
71
193
1
Chris Stapleton
Tennessee Whiskey
8
5
13
4
Tones And I
Dance Monkey
9
11
209
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
10
44
256
1
Christina Perri
A Thousand Years
11
10
46
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
12
RE
16
3
Keane
Somewhere Only We Know
13
NE
1
13
Plastic Bertrand
Ca plane pour moi
14
14
61
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
15
RE
13
14
Ruelle
I Get To Love You
16
NE
1
16
Kanye West
Flashing Lights
17
36
226
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
18
NE
1
18
Rascal Flatts
I Won't Let Go
19
15
129
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
20
27
120
1
Evanescence
Bring Me To Life
21
19
146
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
22
RE
93
5
AC/DC
It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)
There's virtually no reason to care about its existence watching the charts but The Voice is back on TV again. This does matter here despite the fact that the timing is the worst it could possibly be for this chart. So we're dealing with boosting from the week before holding on for close to a week. You could readily believe that it was Lewis Capaldi week too, "Before You Go" was #1 on iTunes briefly, and most relevant here, "Bruises" vaults back up to #2, which actually reminds me that I'm pretty sure The Voice sent it to #1 on this chart a year ago. Also getting a big boost is Celine Dion's "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" at #5. Shouse continue to gradually rise up the chart, while Noah Cyrus also climbs up. J. Cole leads the debut pack digging so far back into his catalogue that the phrase 'featuring Amber Coffman & Cults' doesn't sound too weird. Alan Jackson gets a new entry with "Freight Train", while Dr. Dog & Dobie Gray get their first ever entries. Steve Lacy also rides high on Spotify with "Dark Red".
The running gag of "Circles" not hitting #1 has a new chapter, with only two more weeks to get a chance to get there. Taking up the reins this time is XXXTENTACION, whose "Everybody Dies In Their Nightmares", which has returned to the Spotify chart for the first time in years. Also performed on The Voice this week was "Falling", which comfortably gets back into the chart, it remains to be seen how long this boost can last, but a week later it's still holding strong.
iTunes songs: 54 Spotify songs: 46
1
1
9
1
Måneskin
Beggin'
2
RE
93
1
Lewis Capaldi
Bruises
3
2
10
1
Masked Wolf
Astronaut In The Ocean
4
3
5
3
Justin Wellington (feat Small Jam)
Iko Iko (My Bestie)
5
RE
9
5
Celine Dion
It's All Coming Back To Me Now
6
6
144
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
7
11
47
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
8
9
210
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
9
19
130
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
10
10
257
1
Christina Perri
A Thousand Years
11
21
147
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
12
RE
48
1
Keith Urban (feat Carrie Underwood)
The Fighter
13
23
12
13
Surf Curse
Freaks
14
14
62
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
15
24
40
10
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
16
27
277
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
17
62
116
1
Billie Eilish & Khalid
lovely
18
5
6
5
Sia
Unstoppable
19
29
4
19
Shouse
Love Tonight
20
30
51
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
21
32
81
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
22
35
52
13
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
23
38
204
7
Metallica
Nothing Else Matters
24
RE
260
1
Eminem
Lose Yourself
25
8
14
4
Tones And I
Dance Monkey
26
79
129
4
Ed Sheeran
Shape Of You
27
47
22
4
Billie Eilish
bad guy
28
RE
16
23
Cyndi Lauper
Time After Time
29
88
222
1
Ed Sheeran
Thinking Out Loud
30
20
121
1
Evanescence
Bring Me To Life
31
RE
RE
31
Ellie Goulding
Still Falling For You
32
50
131
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
33
42
24
3
Duncan Laurence
Arcade
34
15
14
14
Ruelle
I Get To Love You
35
NE
1
35
J. Cole (feat Amber Coffman & Cults)
She Knows
36
RE
145
2
WALK THE MOON
Shut Up and Dance
37
RE
59
19
Bruno Mars
Count On Me
38
RE
29
3
Boney M.
Rasputin
39
NE
1
39
Steve Lacy
Dark Red
40
49
24
26
Kings Of Leon
Sex On Fire
41
59
18
9
Pascal Letoublon
Friendships
42
NE
1
42
Alan Jackson
Freight Train
43
56
130
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
44
58
87
10
Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit
45
RE
50
9
Timmy Trumpet & Savage
Freaks
46
4
25
1
BANNERS
Someone To You
47
43
203
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
48
65
125
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
49
RE
100
4
Coldplay
Fix You
50
RE
35
33
The Chainsmokers & Coldplay
Something Just Like This
51
NE
1
51
Dr. Dog
Where'd All The Time Go?
52
RE
32
11
The Beatles
Here Comes The Sun
53
60
44
3
Coldplay
Yellow
54
RE
26
8
Earth, Wind & Fire
September
55
63
40
21
Nelly Furtado (feat Timbaland)
Promiscuous
56
7
194
1
Chris Stapleton
Tennessee Whiskey
57
68
159
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
58
66
167
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
59
RE
9
22
Bee Gees
Stayin' Alive
60
71
118
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
61
73
3
61
Noah Cyrus
July
62
RE
128
2
Wiz Khalifa (feat Charlie Puth)
See You Again
63
RE
42
1
Men At Work
Down Under
64
81
78
8
OneRepublic
Counting Stars
65
RE
32
3
Cher
If I Could Turn Back Time
66
84
266
1
John Legend
All Of Me
67
RE
17
1
Starship
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
68
54
3
51
Pop Smoke
Dior
69
RE
53
1
Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers
Islands In The Stream
70
77
108
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
71
33
56
3
Andra Day
Rise Up
72
64
19
11
Bruno Mars
Talking To The Moon
73
34
31
11
Stevie Wonder
Happy Birthday
74
RE
101
7
John Denver
Take Me Home, Country Roads
75
83
78
1
Sam Fischer
This City
76
86
121
40
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
77
RE
62
8
Gotye (feat Kimbra)
Somebody That I Used To Know
78
85
247
5
Oasis
Wonderwall
79
RE
13
4
London Grammar
Strong
80
44
220
3
Metallica
Enter Sandman
81
99
118
4
John Farnham
You're The Voice
82
89
176
1
Passenger
Let Her Go
83
RE
57
1
Linkin Park
In The End
84
90
167
1
Avicii
Wake Me Up
85
RE
37
1
Chris Isaak
Wicked Game
86
RE
18
31
Billy Joel
Piano Man
87
RE
30
20
Keith Urban
Somebody Like You
88
48
31
6
Kenny Loggins
Footloose
89
RE
75
1
Lizzo
Good As Hell
90
RE
101
2
Billie Eilish
ocean eyes
91
96
99
6
Foster The People
Pumped Up Kicks
92
RE
205
9
Bryan Adams
Summer Of '69
93
RE
149
2
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (feat Ray Dalton)
Can't Hold Us
94
NE
1
94
Dobie Gray
Drift Away
95
100
43
4
The Goo Goo Dolls
Iris
96
94
16
9
Khalid
Better
97
98
129
6
Journey
Don't Stop Believin'
98
55
104
8
Anne-Marie
2002
99
RE
226
6
Cold Chisel
Khe Sanh
100
RE
100
20
Eminem
The Real Slim Shady
-
12
16
3
Keane
Somewhere Only We Know
-
13
1
13
Plastic Bertrand
Ca plane pour moi
-
16
1
16
Kanye West
Flashing Lights
-
17
226
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
-
18
1
18
Rascal Flatts
I Won't Let Go
-
22
93
5
AC/DC
It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)
"Beggin'" has now been #1 for 8 consecutive weeks, which is the 2nd longest consecutive run ever behind Lizzo's "Truth Hurts" which managed 11 weeks in a row. Technically it had a challenge in that it wasn't leading all week. Once again The Voice took over the chart just after the previous chart was compiled, which saw Kacey Musgraves at the top of the chart with "Rainbow" from her most recent album. So on the chart dated for the day after her birthday, she scores her first ever entry at #2. Just behind her is another relatively fresh debut. Once upon a time Freya Ridings made the Bubbling Under chart and also made for a lot of mess for me due to messing up the release date. Now I know with certainty that "Castles" is eligible for the chart and debuts at #3. Elsewhere in Voice land, Rihanna soars up the chart with a new peak for "Stay", while in classic convenient judge cross promo, Rita Ora also gets a new peak for "Let You Love Me". Steve Lacy also vaults into the top 10 with "Dark Red" though it looks like he's peaked relatively quickly. Also on the Spotify side are slight climbs for Shouse & J. Cole. Re-entries for The Rolling Stones & Guy Sebastian also score new peaks. Speaking of Guy Sebastian, he also debuts on the chart with recently eligible "Choir". Lastly The Ting Tings get their first ever entry with "That's Not My Name".
It's a particularly interesting Bubbling Under chart this week. Though "Circles" is ready for the main chart two weeks from now, it's been pushed all the way down to #5 this week thanks to a plethora of entries. The oldest of which is Neon Trees' "Everybody Talks", which has been hovering in and out of the Spotify chart for a few weeks now but finally manages to finish the week in the top 200. It'll take a bit of work to make it to the main chart, which should be less of a problem for Sam Smith, as "Like I Can" smashed up the chart in the middle of the week and might even return to the ARIA Chart if it's allowed. The Lumineers also return to the chart after a brief disruption. Celeste has some belated first time success but with one of the earliest releases of her recent album. Lastly the very long roll out of Dua Lipa's album has seen attention brought to "Love Again", it's all up to the playlists to decide how it goes. In the midst of this is a sudden departure for "10,000 Hours" and a more expected leave for "Heather".
Minor correction: In the chaos of the Bubbling Under chart last week, I left out blackbear who also re-entered that week. As of this week, "hot girl bummer" is 2 years old.
Maneskin hold the #1 spot again with potential danger. Justin Wellington is indeed taking off on radio though there's a lot of dispute on which version to get behind. As I type this, the Digital Farm Animals version is highest on iTunes but when I made this chart, the eligible original was quite high, and climbs up to #2 this week. Of course, there's also a potential threat courtesy of The Voice every week which even sent Jessica Mauboy to #1 for a few hours last week. It's convenient timing for "Little Things" which reached the ARIA top 50 just over 2 years ago and makes it into here for the first time. It's her 3rd entry after "I Am Australian" and "We Got Love". Another Jess, Glynne, gets a new peak for "I'll Be There" and you might be forgiven for thinking "Like I Can" is The Voice's doing, but no it's TikTok and after a near miss last week, it shoots up to #12. Its momentum was halted this week by Kanye West so it might not be able to get any higher. Shouse continue their consistent steady climbs, probably for the last time though, and Ellie Goulding jumps around to a new high with "Still Falling For You". Last week Charlie Watts from The Rolling Stones passed away which vaulted their back catalogue high up on the chart. There were multiple version shenanigans which meant that at one point surprisingly, "Start Me Up" was their highest track. That honour instead goes to "Gimme Shelter" (though it should probably be "Paint It, Black") which gets a new peak in the top 20. Because it was quite early in the week, we get a rare case of a posthumous chart decline, as "She's A Rainbow" already had a good week last week. Annie Lennox has had two top 10 hits that both charted for a single week, now she has a 3rd entry with "No More "I Love You's"". There are also some debuts of 'not one of the obvious two' for two '90s bands. First there's James who previously made the Bubbling Under with "Sit Down", but make their debut with Hottest 100 hit "Getting Away With It (All Messed Up)", and Roachford with a song I've never heard of, "This Generation". Finishing up the debuts is OneRepublic, whose album campaign has run so long that "Rescue Me" is on their new album but eligible for this chart.
For the Bubbling Under chart, Celeste proves to be a one week wonder while Neon Trees are still hovering just a little too low but could return. This just pushes The Lumineers back to #1 who were actually starting to challenge the main chart but certainly won't with Kanye West & Drake impacting the next few charts. Same is true of XXXTENTACION, and also our latest debut, A-Wall with the actually ready and eligible "Loverboy". So Post Malone finishes his tenure on the chart at #4 ready to make the main chart with no issues next week. The danger zone is about to get a lot dangerous so it might be curtains at least for now for JP Saxe and Eminem. All Maroon 5 songs continue to seem destined to disappear from Spotify after roughly 2 years and after months of stagnation, "Memories" is starting to slip. "Streets" has also collapsed heavily in the past few weeks.
Maneskin make 10 straight weeks at #1. If they can do it again next week they'll have tied the record. There was somewhat close competition from Imagine Dragons this week and also Ruelle whose consistent charter vaults up to #3. On the other hand, Justin Wellington drops way down as the original version is being far outsold by the remakes at the moment. ABBA released new music for the first time in a long time and were actually #1 on iTunes at the time. For this chart, "Dancing Queen" soars to a new peak, as does "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!", while "The Winner Takes It All makes a debut. The main story of this week is Father's Day though, and surprisingly Weddings Parties Anything are nowhere to be found, but we get a new generation of selections. Owl City leads the pack followed by Tyler Wood, Keith Urban, John Legend & The Shires. Alan Jackson also moves into the top 10 with "Freight Train". Early in the year Solomon Burke had a run on the chart with "Cry To Me", now a remake by Kilotile (which itself has been remade) enters the top 20. Jack Johnson gets a new peak for "Better Together", while Randy Newman also climbs up. As has been prompted for a while, Post Malone's "Circles" debuts at #40, which might seem low but this is a rough week to appear on as the iTunes skew has pushed most regular charters quite a bit down this week. The highest song that's charting here through its Spotify position is "Dreams" which isn't even top 50 on there. The Temptations get a first time entry with "My Girl" and also surprisingly this week is the first time ever on the chart for Avril Lavigne. She charts with two songs even, "I'm With You" and "Complicated". Roachford made their debut last week and now this week "This Generation" remains on the chart and is joined by the more obvious "Only To Be With You" while "Lay Your Love On Me" narrowly missed the chart. A big boon for The Greatest Showman sees "Rewrite The Stars" on the chart for the first time, and we also have an unusual entry for Cheese People with their Russian language "Wake Up".
There's no changing of the guard at the top of the Bubbling Chart as The Lumineers seem destined to be stuck for quite a while yet. They might have trouble staying on the chart next week as Drake be coming. Same goes for XXXTENTACION & A-Wall. JP Saxe is off the chart properly and just in time for me to realise I've written the title incorrectly on the chart every week by mistake. The vacancy allows us to stretch until July 2020 allowing Joel Corry to get his 2nd Bubbling hit after "Sorry", though oddly enough it probably won't chart as high if it makes the main chart as "Sorry" got a lucky week at #11.
iTunes songs: 64 Spotify songs: 36
1
1
12
1
Måneskin
Beggin'
2
3
134
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
3
82
27
3
Ruelle
I Get To Love You
4
RE
42
4
ABBA
Dancing Queen
5
RE
222
3
Metallica
Enter Sandman
6
27
5
6
Ellie Goulding
Still Falling For You
7
25
28
1
BANNERS
Someone To You
8
4
13
1
Masked Wolf
Astronaut In The Ocean
9
44
3
9
Alan Jackson
Freight Train
10
NE
1
10
Owl City
Not All Heroes Wear Capes
11
NE
1
11
Tyler Wood
Dad
12
9
65
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
13
5
147
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
14
NE
1
14
Keith Urban
Song For Dad
15
73
269
1
John Legend
All Of Me
16
NE
1
16
The Shires
Daddy's Little Girl
17
7
50
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
18
NE
1
18
Kilotile
Cry To Me
19
12
2
12
Sam Smith
Like I Can
20
RE
102
7
John Denver
Take Me Home, Country Roads
21
8
213
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
22
29
133
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
23
21
17
4
Tones And I
Dance Monkey
24
RE
2
24
Jack Johnson
Better Together
25
RE
259
1
Christina Perri
A Thousand Years
26
10
53
1
Kaleo
Way Down We Go
27
RE
13
13
Queen
You're My Best Friend
28
RE
8
28
Randy Newman
You've Got A Friend In Me
29
13
4
10
Steve Lacy
Dark Red
30
95
34
11
The Beatles
Here Comes The Sun
31
RE
29
5
Xavier Rudd
Follow The Sun
32
14
150
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
33
RE
5
33
ABBA
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
34
16
7
16
Shouse
Love Tonight
35
RE
60
19
Bruno Mars
Count On Me
36
18
280
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
37
RE
34
4
Cat Stevens
Father and Son
38
37
2
37
Roachford
This Generation
39
34
206
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
40
NE
1
40
Post Malone
Circles
41
RE
159
1
Ed Sheeran
Photograph
42
RE
167
6
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Over The Rainbow
43
NE
1
43
The Temptations
My Girl
44
6
2
6
Jessica Mauboy
Little Things
45
31
55
13
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
46
NE
1
46
Avril Lavigne
I'm With You
47
20
15
13
Surf Curse
Freaks
48
NE
1
48
ZAYN (feat Sia)
Dusk Till Dawn
49
24
43
10
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
50
NE
1
50
Avril Lavigne
Complicated
51
30
54
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
52
RE
5
35
Julia Michaels
Issues
53
RE
2
53
Christina Aguilera
The Voice Within
54
RE
2
51
Loren Allred
Never Enough
55
26
84
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
56
RE
26
14
Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble
This Is Me
57
2
8
2
Justin Wellington (feat Small Jam)
Iko Iko (My Bestie)
58
NE
1
58
Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson
I Know Him So Well
59
38
90
10
Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit
60
RE
7
5
Sia
Unstoppable
61
45
4
32
J. Cole (feat Amber Coffman & Cults)
She Knows
62
RE
18
18
Billie Eilish
idontwannabeyouanymore
63
RE
2
16
Vanessa Carlton
A Thousand Miles
64
NE
1
64
Roachford
Only To Be With You
65
47
119
1
Billie Eilish & Khalid
lovely
66
33
96
1
Lewis Capaldi
Bruises
67
NE
1
67
ABBA
The Winner Takes It All
68
43
128
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
69
53
162
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
70
NE
1
70
Cheese People
Wake Up
71
57
170
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
72
RE
52
3
Icehouse
Great Southern Land
73
RE
9
28
Meghan Trainor
Better When I'm Dancin'
74
46
86
3
Hilltop Hoods
The Nosebleed Section
75
22
250
1
Kenny Rogers
The Gambler
76
56
27
26
Kings Of Leon
Sex On Fire
77
11
9
11
Jess Glynne
I'll Be There
78
59
43
21
Nelly Furtado (feat Timbaland)
Promiscuous
79
65
121
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
80
54
64
1
Phil Collins
In The Air Tonight
81
62
111
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
82
64
229
6
Cold Chisel
Khe Sanh
83
66
81
8
OneRepublic
Counting Stars
84
61
133
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
85
71
124
40
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
86
RE
2
45
Kanye West
All Of The Lights
87
RE
43
1
Men At Work
Down Under
88
86
152
2
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (feat Ray Dalton)
Can't Hold Us
89
NE
1
89
Zac Efron & Zendaya
Rewrite The Stars
90
RE
30
3
Boney M.
Rasputin
91
RE
62
3
Elton John
Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long Long Time)
Man it's a weird one. A record breaking chart for not the obvious reason, rather Maneskin have just tied Lizzo's record for consecutive weeks at #1, but this week has the least drop outs ever for what I can only pin down to the iTunes chart being kind of broken. It's obviously moved on because there are new releases and also the Father's Day stuff is gone, but otherwise the chart is so remarkably unchanged from last week that it's hard to take it very seriously. There's also a strange distribution of debuts and re-entries that seem to coalesce around those dropouts with a very long run of just songs from last week's chart. It's weird. Anyway Keane get a new peak this week with "Somewhere Only We Know", I think thanks to The Voice, which also I think gives us Five For Fighting which I'm surprised has never charted before. Less surprising is that it's the first time on the chart for Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit". The Voice also gets a new peak for R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts". Shenanigans of the chart mean that most of last week's debuts get new peaks whether or not they're supposed to. "Circles" by Post Malone is also kind of legitimate since it's actually from the Spotify chart although it's hard to say.
One thing that isn't affected by a weird iTunes chart is the Bubbling Under chart. Drake's new album dropped on top of the chart and took up more places than Kanye vacated so there are even more dropouts again that will possibly be reverted in the coming weeks. Next week SAINt JHN will be eligible for the main chart but surprisingly might not actually be high enough to make it any more. Leading the replacement debuts is Pop Smoke whose entire album is now able to make it but only "What You Know Bout Love" survives this week. Juice WRLD also has his album release from last year impacting, where "Wishing Well" recently left the chart but "Come & Go" is still running. A better chance at making an impact on the chart is 24kGoldn's "Mood" although a lot can happen in a year. Lastly we have "WAP".
iTunes songs: 61 Spotify songs: 39
1
1
13
1
Måneskin
Beggin'
2
RE
17
2
Keane
Somewhere Only We Know
3
2
135
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
4
8
14
1
Masked Wolf
Astronaut In The Ocean
5
NE
1
5
Jefferson Airplane
White Rabbit
6
7
29
1
BANNERS
Someone To You
7
13
148
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
8
19
3
8
Sam Smith
Like I Can
9
5
223
3
Metallica
Enter Sandman
10
NE
1
10
Five For Fighting
Superman (It's Not Easy)
11
12
66
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
12
RE
207
7
Metallica
Nothing Else Matters
13
23
18
4
Tones And I
Dance Monkey
14
RE
6
14
R.E.M.
Everybody Hurts
15
17
51
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
16
RE
205
2
Darius Rucker
Wagon Wheel
17
21
214
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
18
39
207
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
19
RE
196
1
Chris Stapleton
Tennessee Whiskey
20
80
65
1
Phil Collins
In The Air Tonight
21
29
5
10
Steve Lacy
Dark Red
22
RE
32
11
Coolio (feat L.V.)
Gangsta's Paradise
23
32
151
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
24
RE
89
9
Neil Diamond
Sweet Caroline
25
36
281
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
26
RE
28
8
Earth, Wind & Fire
September
27
40
2
27
Post Malone
Circles
28
75
251
1
Kenny Rogers
The Gambler
29
RE
75
8
Imagine Dragons
Thunder
30
45
56
13
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
31
9
4
9
Alan Jackson
Freight Train
32
46
2
32
Avril Lavigne
I'm With You
33
49
44
10
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
34
51
55
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
35
26
54
1
Kaleo
Way Down We Go
36
48
2
36
ZAYN (feat Sia)
Dusk Till Dawn
37
61
5
32
J. Cole (feat Amber Coffman & Cults)
She Knows
38
50
2
38
Avril Lavigne
Complicated
39
55
85
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
40
47
16
13
Surf Curse
Freaks
41
52
6
35
Julia Michaels
Issues
42
38
3
37
Roachford
This Generation
43
53
3
43
Christina Aguilera
The Voice Within
44
34
8
16
Shouse
Love Tonight
45
54
3
45
Loren Allred
Never Enough
46
22
134
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
47
56
27
14
Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble
This Is Me
48
57
9
2
Justin Wellington (feat Small Jam)
Iko Iko (My Bestie)
49
44
3
6
Jessica Mauboy
Little Things
50
3
28
3
Ruelle
I Get To Love You
51
59
91
10
Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit
52
58
2
52
Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson
I Know Him So Well
53
71
171
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
54
43
2
43
The Temptations
My Girl
55
60
8
5
Sia
Unstoppable
56
62
19
18
Billie Eilish
idontwannabeyouanymore
57
63
3
16
Vanessa Carlton
A Thousand Miles
58
69
163
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
59
65
120
1
Billie Eilish & Khalid
lovely
60
18
2
18
Kilotile
Cry To Me
61
4
43
4
ABBA
Dancing Queen
62
68
129
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
63
76
28
26
Kings Of Leon
Sex On Fire
64
64
2
64
Roachford
Only To Be With You
65
79
122
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
66
81
112
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
67
67
2
67
ABBA
The Winner Takes It All
68
33
6
33
ABBA
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
69
78
44
21
Nelly Furtado (feat Timbaland)
Promiscuous
70
70
2
70
Cheese People
Wake Up
71
72
53
3
Icehouse
Great Southern Land
72
73
10
28
Meghan Trainor
Better When I'm Dancin'
73
66
97
1
Lewis Capaldi
Bruises
74
6
6
6
Ellie Goulding
Still Falling For You
75
77
10
11
Jess Glynne
I'll Be There
76
RE
170
1
Avicii
Wake Me Up
77
74
87
3
Hilltop Hoods
The Nosebleed Section
78
83
82
8
OneRepublic
Counting Stars
79
85
125
40
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
80
82
230
6
Cold Chisel
Khe Sanh
81
86
3
45
Kanye West
All Of The Lights
82
87
44
1
Men At Work
Down Under
83
42
168
6
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Over The Rainbow
84
89
2
84
Zac Efron & Zendaya
Rewrite The Stars
85
15
270
1
John Legend
All Of Me
86
90
31
3
Boney M.
Rasputin
87
84
134
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
88
91
63
3
Elton John
Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long Long Time)
It's week 311 and the only thing that's going down is Lizzo's record for consecutive weeks at #1, as Maneskin have now made 12 weeks in a row at the top. Well actually a lot of stuff is down on the chart this week. They continue to have a pretty tidy lead so it'll take a big effort to stop them at the moment. Making the best attempt this week is Martin Solveig, who gets his first ever chart appearance with "Hello" thanks to its use on Ted Lasso. Not related is also the big arrival of Brooks & Dunn's "Neon Moon" which seems to have taken off on TikTok. Also the case in-between still for Sam Smith as "Like I Can" climbs to #3. We're also seeing a revert to a more typical week which means recent arrivals from Post Malone & J. Cole are able to get new peaks again. The only other new peak this week is the least ambitious possible, as "Xanadu" improves its #100 peak to a #99 peak. For debuts we have the first ever arrival for Mika as "Grace Kelly" debuts, the second ever arrival for "How Do I Live" as it's now LeAnn Rimes' version on the chart, and the birthday arrival of "Roses" by SAINt JHN, which admittedly seems to be losing a bit of steam now so it might not be quite the big hit here that it initially appeared.
Another week, another fresh arrival of some fairly old tracks on the Spotify chart. Leading the pack is one of Mac Miller's earliest releases "The Spins". Perhaps when "Faces" arrives on the platform soon he could chart some more. One of his collaborators on there ScHoolboy Q also arrives, this time with a song that had plenty of infamy upon arrival already though more in the US than Australia, as "Collard Greens" appears for the first time ever. This also means that it's possible Maroon 5 will one-down on Post Malone & SAINt JHN as "Memories" has turned two years old in the time it took me to get this chart posted, and so if it manages to debut next week, it'll have peaked even lower at #3 on this chart. It's been a relatively relaxed week and every entry here has climbed the chart this week, while Harry Styles' "Adore You" is the sole eligible track to manage to climb back into the chart.
iTunes songs: 52 Spotify songs: 48
1
1
14
1
Måneskin
Beggin'
2
NE
1
2
Martin Solveig & Dragonette
Hello
3
8
4
3
Sam Smith
Like I Can
4
NE
1
4
Brooks & Dunn
Neon Moon
5
7
149
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
6
11
67
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
7
46
135
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
8
4
15
1
Masked Wolf
Astronaut In The Ocean
9
RE
10
3
Goanna
Solid Rock
10
17
215
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
11
13
19
4
Tones And I
Dance Monkey
12
15
52
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
13
50
29
3
Ruelle
I Get To Love You
14
18
208
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
15
12
208
7
Metallica
Nothing Else Matters
16
3
136
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
17
19
197
1
Chris Stapleton
Tennessee Whiskey
18
23
152
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
19
21
6
10
Steve Lacy
Dark Red
20
25
282
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
21
27
3
21
Post Malone
Circles
22
9
224
3
Metallica
Enter Sandman
23
26
29
8
Earth, Wind & Fire
September
24
6
30
1
BANNERS
Someone To You
25
30
57
13
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
26
34
56
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
27
33
45
10
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
28
37
6
28
J. Cole (feat Amber Coffman & Cults)
She Knows
29
74
7
6
Ellie Goulding
Still Falling For You
30
22
33
11
Coolio (feat L.V.)
Gangsta's Paradise
31
RE
4
3
Kina Grannis
Can't Help Falling In Love
32
39
86
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
33
NE
1
33
Mika
Grace Kelly
34
44
9
16
Shouse
Love Tonight
35
RE
35
11
The Beatles
Here Comes The Sun
36
40
17
13
Surf Curse
Freaks
37
53
172
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
38
88
64
3
Elton John
Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long Long Time)
I start the new thread on the 2nd Sunday of October. Usually this means that the thread ends with the results of the AFL Grand Final but this time around the game actually was in September even with a one week gap. But anyway there's still another week to go after this one until I start the new thread. Anyway, for the second time, Birds of Tokyo played the half time show and for the second time, they played "Lanterns" at it. The first of these pre-dates this chart but also pre-dates "Lanterns" being eligible for this chart. It has however gone to #1 twice before on this chart due to other performances on TV. So they not only end Maneskin's reign at #1 but also take the #2 slot with the more recent but still eligible "Unbreakable". They also performed "Straight Lines" which returns to the chart with a new top 10 peak. "Straight Lines" also comes from the same Hottest 100 that Birds of Tokyo made their Hottest 100 debut. With less direct connection, there's a new peak for "I'd Go With You Anywhere", while "Anchor" makes its debut. Most of the top 10 this week is Grand Final related, including a debut for the oft-not seen in Grand Finals Melbourne, and their theme song. Such is the significant nature of their win that they even bring back the Fable Singers version, something that's not often seen in this Footy Fever Themes era. Western Bulldogs for instance charted on here with the Fable Singers version previously but now debut with the Footy Fever one. Mike Brady also gets a new peak for "Up There Cazaly". Greg Champion also is usually only seen on this chart at Christmas time, but now he gets a football related debut. Other debuts come from Brandi Carlile, Dan + Shay & Southern Sons which I can't attribute. But sneaking in this week is Maroon 5's just eligible "Memories" which seems to have lucked out on a slower iTunes week because it wouldn't have charted last week at the height it's at.
We've got some new vacancies on the Bubbling Under chart but not anything new to replace it because of recent chaos. "Collard Greens" appears to be short lived on the chart but Mac Miller's still hanging around. Freshly arriving is an early Billie Eilish track in "Bored", a soundtrack song hence why it has a capital letter in its title. This will certainly reach the main chart next week, it just started climbing in the middle of this tracking week which gets it a low start, but it's shot up very quickly. Also I've now fixed "Come & Go" to actually have the correct title.
iTunes songs: 48 Spotify songs: 52
1
67
37
1
Birds of Tokyo
Lanterns
2
NE
1
2
Birds of Tokyo
Unbreakable
3
1
15
1
Måneskin
Beggin'
4
RE
54
3
Icehouse
Great Southern Land
5
RE
2
2
Eskimo Joe
Black Fingernails, Red Wine
6
RE
2
6
Silverchair
Straight Lines
7
RE
45
1
Men At Work
Down Under
8
NE
1
8
Footy Fever Themes
Melbourne Demons Football Club
9
3
5
3
Sam Smith
Like I Can
10
5
150
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
11
15
209
7
Metallica
Nothing Else Matters
12
10
216
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
13
RE
6
13
Mike Brady
Up There Cazaly (35th Year Anniversary - 2014)
14
RE
57
3
Andra Day
Rise Up
15
8
16
1
Masked Wolf
Astronaut In The Ocean
16
12
53
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
17
79
230
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
18
RE
18
2
Keane
Somewhere Only We Know
19
7
136
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
20
4
2
4
Brooks & Dunn
Neon Moon
21
NE
1
21
Brandi Carlile
That Wasn't Me
22
20
283
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
23
18
153
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
24
6
68
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
25
22
225
3
Metallica
Enter Sandman
26
RE
3
26
Birds of Tokyo
I'd Go With You Anywhere
27
21
4
21
Post Malone
Circles
28
11
20
4
Tones And I
Dance Monkey
29
16
137
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
30
26
57
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
31
41
19
1
Starship
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
32
19
7
10
Steve Lacy
Dark Red
33
13
30
3
Ruelle
I Get To Love You
34
25
58
13
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
35
NE
1
35
Dan + Shay
Speechless
36
34
10
16
Shouse
Love Tonight
37
23
30
8
Earth, Wind & Fire
September
38
29
8
6
Ellie Goulding
Still Falling For You
39
RE
3
8
Icehouse
Electric Blue
40
RE
90
9
Neil Diamond
Sweet Caroline
41
37
173
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
42
27
46
10
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
43
RE
5
9
The Two Man Band
Up There Cazaly
44
28
7
28
J. Cole (feat Amber Coffman & Cults)
She Knows
45
44
93
10
Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit
46
32
87
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
47
NE
1
47
Birds of Tokyo
Anchor
48
39
124
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
49
36
18
13
Surf Curse
Freaks
50
55
232
6
Cold Chisel
Khe Sanh
51
RE
9
56
Taylor Swift
Wildest Dreams
52
51
114
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
53
42
165
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
54
48
46
21
Nelly Furtado (feat Timbaland)
Promiscuous
55
47
84
8
OneRepublic
Counting Stars
56
NE
1
56
Footy Fever Themes
Western Bulldogs Football Club
57
75
31
2
Powderfinger
My Happiness
58
58
172
1
Avicii
Wake Me Up
59
RE
10
2
Justin Wellington (feat Small Jam)
Iko Iko (My Bestie)
60
49
30
26
Kings Of Leon
Sex On Fire
61
NE
1
61
The Fable Singers
Melbourne: It's A Grand Old Flag (Melbourne Football Club Song)
62
24
31
1
BANNERS
Someone To You
63
62
127
40
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
64
RE
102
3
Queen
We Are The Champions
65
61
89
3
Hilltop Hoods
The Nosebleed Section
66
RE
6
21
Natalie Imbruglia
Torn
67
90
56
1
Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers
Islands In The Stream
68
56
35
11
Stevie Wonder
Happy Birthday
69
63
122
1
Billie Eilish & Khalid
lovely
70
NE
1
70
Southern Sons
Hold Me In Your Arms
71
59
131
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
72
60
69
7
Elton John
Tiny Dancer
73
65
151
2
WALK THE MOON
Shut Up and Dance
74
64
135
4
Ed Sheeran
Shape Of You
75
84
134
6
Journey
Don't Stop Believin'
76
71
2
71
SAINt JHN
Roses (IMANBEK Remix)
77
72
46
4
The Goo Goo Dolls
Iris
78
RE
4
51
Mike Brady
One Day In September
79
NE
1
79
Greg Champion
That's The Thing About Football
80
96
103
20
Eminem
The Real Slim Shady
81
50
173
3
Taylor Swift
Shake It Off
82
78
155
2
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (feat Ray Dalton)
Can't Hold Us
83
100
251
5
Oasis
Wonderwall
84
RE
261
1
Christina Perri
A Thousand Years
85
RE
41
10
Ed Sheeran
Castle On The Hill
86
74
272
1
John Legend
All Of Me
87
86
136
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
88
98
93
32
The Chainsmokers (feat Halsey)
Closer
89
93
208
9
Bryan Adams
Summer Of '69
90
80
108
8
Anne-Marie
2002
91
RE
285
1
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
92
83
13
7
Lil Nas X (feat Billy Ray Cyrus)
Old Town Road (Remix)
93
91
50
3
Coldplay
Yellow
94
RE
3
51
R.E.M.
Losing My Religion
95
82
84
1
Sam Fischer
This City
96
RE
102
6
Foster The People
Pumped Up Kicks
97
NE
1
97
Maroon 5
Memories
98
RE
3
60
Rick Astley
Never Gonna Give You Up
99
38
65
3
Elton John
Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long Long Time)
As we end another year of this chart, we return to the most regular occurrence for it, which is to say that Maneskin are back at #1. They had an especially strong week on iTunes so weren't in danger of being caught. Coming the closest is Kina Grannis who scores a slight new peak for "Can't Help Falling In Love", while we largely have the streaming giants returning to their posts after last week's interruption. I have to make an amendment on last week because despite knowing full well that it was ready to chart, I somehow didn't include CKay's current smash "love nwantiti (ah ah ah)" which was released in August 2019. It should have debuted at #19 last week but now rockets up to #4. In case you don't pay close attention to the Spotify chart, its current chart success is being aided by remixes, one of which is supplying a decent chunk of streams (which aren't combined on the Spotify chart so they don't affect this) but the original version is doing most of the work. It's not the only sort of old single making waves on Spotify this week either, as last week's Bubbling Under entry from Billie Eilish has come through with gusto as "Bored" lands in the top 20. It and the radio edit of "Happier Than Ever" are both closing in on a top 50 berth on the Spotify chart incidentally. Otherwise this is a week very light on debuts & new peaks. The only other one to mention is World Party's big '80s hit "Ship Of Fools", which I didn't realise is not an Australian song until this week. I can possibly attribute The Script's re-entries this week to the release of their Greatest Hits set, while MKTO are curiously seeing a big boost for "Classic" on both platforms. It's a particularly strong week on Spotify as weeks of big album disruptions have finally calmed down to let the oldies flourish. Perhaps because of this, we see a first time (apart from right after it first debuted) departure for "This City", which looks to be still dropping so it might not return.
Mac Miller still holds the #1 spot on Spotify but with only a slight jump up on the chart one might suspect he's about ready to leave the chart. He's not the most at danger however as there are actually 4 songs on the Bubbling Under chart that are in the bottom 10 slots of the Spotify chart. One is The Lumineers and the other three are our entries for this week. There's the possibly expected re-entries for Eminem & Harry Styles, while making their first time appearance is $uicideboy$ with "...And For Those I Love, Thanks For Sticking Around", which spent a couple of weeks on the chart mid last year and occasionally makes daily entries that aren't strong enough to sustain a full week. This week it seems it's gotten just enough traction to do just that so it arrives just a few months before its 2nd birthday. Despite a relatively relaxed week, "Streets" ends up a casualty.
iTunes songs: 48 Spotify songs: 52
1
3
16
1
Måneskin
Beggin'
2
RE
5
2
Kina Grannis
Can't Help Falling In Love
3
10
151
1
Fleetwood Mac
Dreams
4
19
2
4
CKay
love nwantiti (ah ah ah)
5
RE
7
5
Mariah Carey
Fantasy
6
34
31
3
Ruelle
I Get To Love You
7
9
6
3
Sam Smith
Like I Can
8
68
57
1
Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers
Islands In The Stream
9
12
217
2
The Killers
Mr. Brightside
10
15
17
1
Masked Wolf
Astronaut In The Ocean
11
11
210
7
Metallica
Nothing Else Matters
12
16
54
1
Lewis Capaldi
Someone You Loved
13
38
31
8
Earth, Wind & Fire
September
14
39
9
6
Ellie Goulding
Still Falling For You
15
RE
198
1
Chris Stapleton
Tennessee Whiskey
16
21
3
4
Brooks & Dunn
Neon Moon
17
NE
1
17
Billie Eilish
Bored
18
30
138
2
Imagine Dragons
Believer
19
1
38
1
Birds of Tokyo
Lanterns
20
25
69
2
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Shallow
21
23
284
1
Vance Joy
Riptide
22
RE
107
4
The Script (feat will.i.am)
Hall Of Fame
23
24
154
6
James Arthur
Say You Won't Let Go
24
85
262
1
Christina Perri
A Thousand Years
25
69
36
11
Stevie Wonder
Happy Birthday
26
22
2
22
Brandi Carlile
That Wasn't Me
27
RE
142
9
Rachel Platten
Fight Song
28
28
5
21
Post Malone
Circles
29
4
55
3
Icehouse
Great Southern Land
30
RE
39
1
Chris Isaak
Wicked Game
31
35
59
13
J. Cole
No Role Modelz
32
31
58
3
Post Malone & Swae Lee
Sunflower
33
20
137
2
Ed Sheeran
Perfect
34
29
21
4
Tones And I
Dance Monkey
35
RE
63
8
Gotye (feat Kimbra)
Somebody That I Used To Know
36
33
8
10
Steve Lacy
Dark Red
37
RE
41
28
MKTO
Classic
38
37
11
16
Shouse
Love Tonight
39
42
174
5
Miley Cyrus
Party In The U.S.A.
40
43
47
10
The Neighbourhood
Sweater Weather
41
46
94
10
Nirvana
Smells Like Teen Spirit
42
RE
19
27
Tears For Fears
Everybody Wants To Rule The World
43
47
88
3
Dean Lewis
Be Alright
44
RE
51
5
50 Cent
In Da Club
45
RE
25
9
Calum Scott
You Are The Reason
46
RE
7
2
The Script
Superheroes
47
45
8
28
J. Cole (feat Amber Coffman & Cults)
She Knows
48
51
233
6
Cold Chisel
Khe Sanh
49
49
125
1
5 Seconds Of Summer
Youngblood
50
56
85
8
OneRepublic
Counting Stars
51
54
166
1
Calum Scott
Dancing On My Own
52
58
32
2
Powderfinger
My Happiness
53
53
115
14
Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way
54
92
286
1
Queen
Bohemian Rhapsody
55
70
123
1
Billie Eilish & Khalid
lovely
56
RE
9
5
Sia
Unstoppable
57
50
19
13
Surf Curse
Freaks
58
55
47
21
Nelly Furtado (feat Timbaland)
Promiscuous
59
59
173
1
Avicii
Wake Me Up
60
64
128
40
Train
Hey, Soul Sister
61
63
32
1
BANNERS
Someone To You
62
61
31
26
Kings Of Leon
Sex On Fire
63
RE
11
2
The Verve
Bitter Sweet Symphony
64
RE
183
1
Toto
Africa
65
RE
11
3
Goanna
Solid Rock
66
52
10
52
Taylor Swift
Wildest Dreams
67
NE
1
67
World Party
Ship of Fools
68
60
11
2
Justin Wellington (feat Small Jam)
Iko Iko (My Bestie)
69
74
152
2
WALK THE MOON
Shut Up and Dance
70
RE
9
43
Killing Heidi
Weir
71
76
135
6
Journey
Don't Stop Believin'
72
77
3
71
SAINt JHN
Roses (IMANBEK Remix)
73
RE
6
13
Lady Gaga
Born This Way
74
RE
209
1
Disturbed
The Sound Of Silence
75
81
104
20
Eminem
The Real Slim Shady
76
RE
119
4
John Farnham
You're The Voice
77
84
252
5
Oasis
Wonderwall
78
RE
34
11
Coolio (feat L.V.)
Gangsta's Paradise
79
75
136
4
Ed Sheeran
Shape Of You
80
94
51
3
Coldplay
Yellow
81
RE
2
69
Macy Gray
I Try
82
82
174
3
Taylor Swift
Shake It Off
83
78
47
4
The Goo Goo Dolls
Iris
84
RE
11
11
Tina Turner
The Best
85
90
209
9
Bryan Adams
Summer Of '69
86
RE
31
19
Choirboys
Run To Paradise
87
83
156
2
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (feat Ray Dalton)
Can't Hold Us
88
RE
11
36
Juice Newton
Angel of the Morning
89
66
90
3
Hilltop Hoods
The Nosebleed Section
90
87
273
1
John Legend
All Of Me
91
88
137
1
Juice WRLD
Lucid Dreams
92
89
94
32
The Chainsmokers (feat Halsey)
Closer
93
RE
94
12
The White Stripes
Seven Nation Army
94
RE
60
4
Rage Against The Machine
Killing In The Name
95
72
132
15
XXXTENTACION
Jocelyn Flores
96
RE
69
1
The Cranberries
Zombie
97
RE
24
4
Billie Eilish
bad guy
98
97
103
6
Foster The People
Pumped Up Kicks
99
RE
21
3
The Cranberries
Dreams
100
91
109
8
Anne-Marie
2002
-
2
1
2
Birds of Tokyo
Unbreakable
-
5
2
2
Eskimo Joe
Black Fingernails, Red Wine
-
6
2
6
Silverchair
Straight Lines
-
7
45
1
Men At Work
Down Under
-
8
1
8
Footy Fever Themes
Melbourne Demons Football Club
-
13
6
13
Mike Brady
Up There Cazaly (35th Year Anniversary - 2014)
-
14
57
3
Andra Day
Rise Up
-
17
230
2
AC/DC
Thunderstruck
-
18
18
2
Keane
Somewhere Only We Know
-
26
225
3
Metallica
Enter Sandman
-
27
3
27
Birds of Tokyo
I'd Go With You Anywhere
-
32
19
1
Starship
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
-
36
1
36
Dan + Shay
Speechless
-
40
3
8
Icehouse
Electric Blue
-
41
90
9
Neil Diamond
Sweet Caroline
-
44
5
9
The Two Man Band
Up There Cazaly
-
48
1
48
Birds of Tokyo
Anchor
-
57
1
57
Footy Fever Themes
Western Bulldogs Football Club
-
62
1
62
The Fable Singers
Melbourne: It's A Grand Old Flag (Melbourne Football Club Song)
-
65
102
3
Queen
We Are The Champions
-
67
6
21
Natalie Imbruglia
Torn
-
71
1
71
Southern Sons
Hold Me In Your Arms
-
73
69
7
Elton John
Tiny Dancer
-
79
4
51
Mike Brady
One Day In September
-
80
1
80
Greg Champion
That's The Thing About Football
-
86
41
10
Ed Sheeran
Castle On The Hill
-
93
13
7
Lil Nas X (feat Billy Ray Cyrus)
Old Town Road (Remix)
-
95
3
51
R.E.M.
Losing My Religion
-
96
84
1
Sam Fischer
This City
-
98
1
98
Maroon 5
Memories
-
99
3
60
Rick Astley
Never Gonna Give You Up
-
100
65
3
Elton John
Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long Long Time)
Bubbling Under
1
1
3
1
Mac Miller
The Spins (13/08/2010)
2
2
9
1
The Lumineers
Ophelia (05/02/2016)
3
4
31
3
Dua Lipa
Don't Start Now (31/10/2019)
4
6
28
4
Harry Styles
Watermelon Sugar (16/11/2019)
5
7
27
5
Lewis Capaldi
Before You Go (19/11/2019)
6
8
25
6
The Weeknd
Blinding Lights (29/11/2019)
7
RE
12
7
Harry Styles
Adore You (06/12/2019)
8
9
19
8
Harry Styles
Falling (13/12/2019)
9
RE
17
9
Eminem (feat Juice WRLD)
Godzilla (17/01/2020)
10
NE
1
10
$uicideboy$
...And To Those I Love, Thanks For Sticking Around (14/02/2020)