Golden Von Jones is better known as 24KGOLDN, and his single "Mood" with Iann Dior is holding onto the top of the ARIA Singles Chart for a third consecutive week.
"Mood" is also spending its third week at No.1 in New Zealand and Canada, while it logs a fourth week in England and loses the top spot in Ireland after four weeks to the new Paul Woodford & Diplo track "Looking for Me". If 2020 chart-stats are to be potentially-followed, then "Mood" at three weeks at No.1 is only halfway through its six week overall run at the top here, as most of this year's No.1's have been at the summit six weeks like "WAP", "Savage Love", Rockstar" and "Roses", while "Blinding Lights" almost doubled the average by spending 11 weeks at No.1.
Half of the Top 10 is on hold this week, with former chart-topper "WAP" for Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion at No.2 and the Joel Corry and MNEK track "Head & Heart" holding its peak of No.3 for a fifth straight week. Other non-movers are "Holy" for Justin Timberlake at No.5 and the last is "Lemonade" for Internet Money with Gunna, Don Toliver and NAV which remains at its No.6 peak for a third week.
After scoring it's highest Top 20 placing last week, the 1977 Fleetwood Mac track "Dreams" this week jumps up ten places to land at a new peak of No.4, which becomes the first ever ARIA Chart Top 10 for the band in Australia (1983 to 2020), and only their second ever Top 10 berth in Australia, as "Tusk" in December of 1979 hit No.3. Plus "Dreams" becomes the "Rumours" albums first ever Top 10 placing, as the three other singles from the album were "Go Your Own Way" (HP-20, peaked April 1977, first single), "Don't Stop" (HP-30, peaked late October 1977, third single) and the last was "You Make Lovin' Fun" (HP-65, peaked late December 1977, fourth single), and overall this is the band's eleventh Top 20 entry of 21 Top 100 entries since their first in February of 1969, and the act have placed a chart entry in six of the last seven decades (late 60's, 70's, 80's, early 90's, 2010's and now 2020's).
The new No.1 single in America this week is the former chart-topper here for Jawsh 685 x Jason DeRulo in "Savage Love (Laxed-Siren Beat)" which here is down three places to No.7, with Jawsh 685 becoming the fourth New Zealand act to hit the top in America too, after Gale Garnett (1964), Kimbra (2011) with Gotye, and the last was Lorde (2013). Also falling three to No.10 is "Watermelon Wine" for Harry Styles, both songs now the longest charted Top 10 singles at 17 weeks apiece. The second track climbing into the Top 10 this week is last week's highest new entry for Pop Smoke and "What You Know About Love", which is up three spots to a new peak of No.8, becoming his second Top 10 entry in Australia after "Mood Swings" made it to No.5 in September, followed by a one place drop to No.9 for the Tate McRae entry "You Broke Me First".
UP: The Ritt Momney cover of "Put Your Records On" flies up seven places to land at a new peak of No.12, with the only other song rising within/into the Top 20 in the Keith Urban and Pink duet "One Too Many" (HP-6), back up two spots to No.19. Miley Cyrus sang "Midnight Sky" on the returned season of The Graham Norton Show last week and the song is back up one spot this week to No.22, while climbing back up two spots each are "Go Crazy" for Chris Brown and "Rain on Me" for Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande to No.29 and No.30 respectively. Dua Lipa's "Don't Start Now" is back up three places to No.34, landing just ahead of her new entry, while Sam Fisher and his track "This City" rebounds seven spots to No.38 after the ARIA Award nominations came out this past week. Lewis Capaldi climbs mostly with his album this week, while his two Top 50 entries also rise slightly in "Someone You Loved" (34 to No.32) and "Before You Go" (46 to No.43). Sam Smith moves back up eleven spots to No.48 with his newest chart entry in "Diamonds", and it could rise again next week after his promotional work this week.
DOWN: Two songs leave the Top 10 this week with Jason DeRulo down one spot to No.11 with "Take You Dancing" (HP-10, WI10-1) and falling four spots to No.13 is Topic with A7S and "Breaking Me" (HP-4x5, WI10-19), which is one of the eleven tracks tied at the 14th Longest Running Top 10 of all time in Australia. Former No.1 "Roses" for SAINt JHN falls down five places to No.17, while another chart topper in "Rockstar" for DaBaby and Roddy Ricch is only down one spot to No.18. All three Drake entries are down this week, starting with his sole solo entry "Laugh Now Cry Later" (18 to No.21) and his two guest appearances on "Popstar" with DJ Khaled (35 to No.37) and last week's entry "Mr. Right Now" with 21 Savage and Metro Boomin' which is down five spots to No.44. BTS decline only one spot with "Dynamite" to No.23 and the song is newly certified Gold (●) this week {the only new Top 50 cert.}. The next major drop (more than one place) is the Amy Shark track "Everybody Rise", down three to No.41, while the three BLACKpink entries to chart within last weeks Top 50 are all gone this week in "Lovesick Girls" (#27), "Bet You Wanna" (#42) and the returned track "Ice Cream" (#49).
NEW ENTRY: * #35 - Levitating by Dua Lipa / feat DaBaby / feat. Madonna & Missy Elliott (Warner UK) is a remixed version of the track from her "Future Nostalgia" album (TW-18), with the Madonna and Missy remix being available for a month now on her remixed version of her album, while she also just issued the rap version with DaBaby a week ago, all of which helps the track to become her twelfth Top 50 entry in Australia (nine as lead, three as a guest vocalist) and the fifth to chart from her current album after "Don't Start Now" (HP-2x10, TW-34), "Break My Heart" (HP-7), "Physical" (HP-9) and the title track of the album also made it to No.99 in April.
The 20th anniversary edition of the first Linkin Park album "Hybrid Theory" finally hits the No.1 spot in Australia this week, returning to the charts in the top spot, and surpassing the previous No.2 peak.
"Hybrid Theory (20th Anniversary Edition)" becomes the 895th No.1 Album in Australia (1965 to 2020), the 745th for ARIA (1983 to 2020), the 532nd album to debut at No.1 (since 1976), the 33rd No.1 album for 2020 and the 32nd for the record company Warner Brothers, while their second this year after Dua Lipa in April.
So after almost twenty years since the album first charted, "Hybrid Theory" finally reaches the No.1 spot in Australia, thanks to an expanded multi-disc reissue. The album first started charting here within the Top 50 at the start of 2001, having first hit the charts here from early December of 2000 (it was issued in October of 2000). It initially hit No.4 in late February of 2001, logging eleven weeks within the Top 10, then after dropping as low as No.99 after 51 weeks of charting it rebounded within eight weeks to be back within the Top 10, and then by week 60 of charting it made a three week non-consecutive stay at No.2, giving it another eleven weeks inside the Top 10. The album returned to No.2 in late July of 2017 after the death of the band's lead singer Chester Bennington, logging a single week within the Top 10 at that time (and a fourth overall week at No.2).
This new No.1 for the band is the third overall in Australia, having seen previous No.1 sets with "Minutes to Midnight" (1 week on May 28th, 2007) and then with "A Thousand Suns" for four weeks from September 20th, 2010, meaning that the band have now placed a No.1 album at the top here in the past three decades, 2000's, 2010's and now 2020's. Their tally of weeks at No.1 in Australia is now up to six in total (from 3 #1's), placing them at equal 108th on the list for 'Accumulated Weeks No.1; Albums (1965 - 2020)' alongside Bob Dylan, Green Day and Drake all with three No.1 albums and six overall weeks at the top here.
This is the first time that both the words 'Hybrid' and 'Theory' have appeared in a No.1 album title, and the first of many reissued albums for this year that has managed to hit the top spot, as the Powderfinger "Odyssey No.5" recently returned for its 20th anniversary at No.2. This new album also becomes the 317th No.1 album by an American Act (solo, duo, group, male or female) and the 13th U.S. act for 2020, and the set is also the 397th for a Group (local or overseas) and 16th overall group for this year at No.1 here.
Last week's No.1 entry for Queen and Adam Lambert with "Live Around the World" is down one spot to No.2 this week, after which the second and final Top 10 entry occurs for local rapper ChillinIt (Blake Turnell) and his third studio album called "Full Circle", which is also his second Top 10 entry and second for 2020, as his second set "The Octagon" debuted and peaked at No.2 back in early February of this year, while his first set "Women, Weed & Wordplay" managed a No.18 peak in November of 2019, a year after it's initial chart entry in Nov. of 2018.
Keith Urban's latest album "The Speed of Now Part 1" is back up three spots to No.4, while Pop Smoke's new Top 10 single helps his debut and posthumous album "Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon" to climb back up one to No.5. Last week's new entry for BLACKpink and "THE ALBUM" is down four places to No.6, with the other dropping set within the ten this week being "Tickets to My Downfall" for Machine Gun Kelly, halving its position from last week and falling five to No.10.
Juice WRLD rises back up five places from last week to land at No.7 this week with his posthumous former No.1 set "Legends Never Die" (13th T10 week), after which the longest running Top 10 album of the moment is the 44 week stayer for Harry Styles and his second set "Fine Line", which is back up two spots to No.8, followed by the only stable album within the Top 10 this week, the latest Taylor Swift set "folklore" which stays at No.9 for its twelfth week within the ten.
UP: With the Fleetwood Mac single "Dreams" becoming their second ever Top 10 singles chart berth in Australia this week, and the first Top 10 single from the album "Rumours", that set is back up six places to a No.11 this week, the albums highest placing since June of 2011. Luke Combs returns to the Top 20 with both of his albums rising this week, "What You See..." is back up six to No.16 and "This One's..." is up four to No.17, followed by rising albums for Dua Lipa and "Future Nostalgia" (20 to No.18, thanks to a new singles chart entry, plus her self-titled set is back up eleven to No.35), Lewis Capaldi (39 to No.20) and both Ed Sheeran albums rise, with "÷ (Divide)" back up four to No.19 and his collaborations set up four to No.28. Collections rising this week are for Elton John (24 to No.21), Maroon 5 (33 to No.25), Eminem (38 to No.29), INXS (41 to No.33, and rising from 7xPlatinum to now ♦ (Diamond) in sales, the second ever Australian act to achieve this feat after Powderfinger in September), Cold Chisel (55 to No.36, thanks in part to the Jimmy Barnes 'Working Class Boy' rescreening on TV this past week), Green Day (57 to No.42), Jason DeRulo (61 to No.48), Bon Jovi (59 to No.50) and the Fleetwood Mac "Greatest Hits" set returns to the Top 100 at No.45 this week thanks to their new Top 10 single. With the ARIA Award nominations out this past week, local acts rising after multiple noms are The Kid Laroi with "F*ck Love" (34 to No.26) and Lime Cordiale with "14 Steps to a Better You" (47 to No.32). Taylor Swift's two older entries also climb back up in "Lover" (36 to No.30) and "1989" (49 to No.43). Queen's biopic soundtrack for 'Bohemian Rhapsody' rises back up nine spots to No.31 on it's second year anniversary of entering the charts (104 weeks), with other rising soundtracks being for 'Hamilton' (45 to No.34), 'The Greatest Showman' (44 to No.37), and 'Julie & the Phantoms Season 1' (50 to No.38). The XXXTentacion set "?" is back up thirteen spots to No.39 and the last two Post Malone albums move back up in "Hollywood's Bleeding" (25 to No.23) and "Beerbong's & Bentley's" (48 to No.40). Also moving back into the Top 50 are "Astroworld" for Travis Scott (54 to No.44), the self-titled debut Harry Styles album (51 to No.46) and "Scorpion" for Drake (66 to No.49).
FURTHER NEW ENTRY: * #1 (LP#1.2) - Hybrid Theory (20th Anniversary Edition) by Linkin Park (Warner Brothers)
* #3 (LP#3) - Full Circle by ChillinIt (420 Family)
* #22 (LP#1) - Edna by Headie One (Relentless) is the debut album for the UK rapper and singer which landed at the top in his home country this week and features the two charted singles here "Only You Freestyle" with Drake (HP-51) and his current entry "Ain't it Different" with AJ Tracey and Stormzy which has peaked at No.16 and is sitting at No.20 on the singles chart this week.
Also... why is Levitating been listed with Madonna & Missy Elliott... It’s clear DaBaby version has made it popular enough to chart inside the Top 100. I understand they’ve all contributed... I will be ignoring this silly ness and will eventually purchase the DaBaby version should it stick around. 20 years from now it’s going to be one of those annoying charting moments 😂
Dreams is currently 43 years old; has a song that old ever been in the top 10 before?
Other cases I can think of aren't close:
Release
Latest in top 10
Age
Song
1967
1988
21
Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World
1965
1990
25
The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody
1975
1992
17
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
1982
2009
27
Michael Jackson - Thriller
1991
2009
18
Michael Jackson - Black Or White
1982
2009
27
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
1987
2009
22
Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror
1992
2012
20
Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
1984
2016
32
Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
2000
2017
17
Linkin Park - In The End
1984
2018
34
Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?
1994
2019
25
Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You
1984
2019
35
Wham! - Last Christmas
In terms of the top 20 though, Dreams is matched by Bohemian Rhapsody's 2018 charting, and surpassed by Andy Williams - It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year, which was 56 years old when it made #16 last year. (A close call is Frank Sinatra - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!, which reached #21 last year at age 69.) Last edited:
I think the reason Levitating is as is, is that the song never charted until the first remix came out (it should have, but I digress), Madonna & co. did enough to get it tracking, and this was recent enough that they never stopped tracking it. It allows this new remix to be haplessly tacked onto the 'original' which has already been renamed. It's possible ARIA will rename it again in the future but they also tweeted the debut like nothing was wrong so who knows
The Madonna and Missy Elliott version of "Levitating" reached the airplay Top 20, but as is often the case these days, airplay doesn't necessarily translate into streams/sales. The surprising DaBaby remix is clearly the one driving consumption (I say "surprising" because it seems completely bizarre that Dua Lipa would release another version of the track so soon, after making such a big deal over the release of the Madonna/Missy Elliott version). In terms of airplay, the remix has been more successful here than anywhere else other than Italy (I've heard it played on stations that haven't touched anything new by Madonna since 2009).
This Levitating mess reminds me of many other blips have happened.
Katy Perry E.T (which was the one selling), which had the Kanye feat chart separately than replace the original version. Same thing with Beyoncé’s Video Phone. The album version charting in the lower ends of the chart, then I assume calculated into the GaGa version.
I haven’t once heard the Levitating remix on the radio, only the album version. I hear Hallucinate often too on the radio, but I don’t think that has chatted at all, has it?
I can't be certain how accurate the metadata is, but if you can trust aircheck, literally all 3 versions of Levitate have charted separately on airplay. There might be regional/station divides though, I'd be surprised if the same station was playing all 3.
Auditioning a heap of new tracks from this list for my latest flac comp, "Heroes" from When Frames Collide sounded really promising, but seems to have deteriorated into a mushy loud rock mess toward the end. Three red strikes and they're out.
I ALWAYS read your contributions. They’re a highlight weekly. If there is something incorrect I’ve never wanted to say anything as errors happen and it takes quite some work to do what you do and I wouldn’t want to offend.
Billbeast - I hadn't heard "Levitating" on the radio at all until the Madonna/Missy Elliott version was released. Then I heard it on several different stations here in SE QLD. As Hijinx mentioned, all three have charted separately on the airplay charts. The original and the first remix both reached the Top 20 (and I suspect the DaBaby version will be there in the new chart).
Hijinx - the stations here in SE QLD have played all three. They started off with the Madonna/Missy Elliott version, then briefly played the original (I only heard it once on each station), and now they're playing the DaBaby version (I'm referring to Hit 90.9, Hot Tomato and 97.3FM).