As the tsunami of Christmas songs leaves the chart this week, the non-seasonal tracks flood back up the charts, with the entire Top 50 resurging to fill in the gaps, pushing Elton John & Dua Lipa's "Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)" back for a sixth overall week at No.1 in Australia.
"Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)" for Elton and Dua now becomes Elton's equal longest running No.1 single in Australia, tying with the six weeks achieved by his 1997 tribute track "Candle in the Wind '97"/'Something About the Way You Look Tonight", which had a continual six week run from the first week of October, while this current No.1 raises Elton's 'Longest Running Top 10 Single' status to 21 weeks within the Top 10.
The duet for Elton also retakes the No.1 spot in New Zealand for a sixth week and lands it's first ever week at the top in Canada, becoming his 20th chart-topping single in that country, while here "Cold Heart" is now one of the seven songs this decade to log six weeks at No.1. Elton John also racks up his fifteenth overall week at No.1 in Australia, moving him up the listing for 'Accumulated Weeks at No.1: Singles (1940 to 2022)' from 60th to equal 56th alongside his former duet partner George Michael ("Wrap Her Up" and "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me") who had also racked up 15 weeks from 5 #1's locally, while just ahead of them both is Guy Sebastian and Roy Orbison (15 weeks from 6 #1's).
Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber rebound four places to No.2 with "Stay", which is now spending it's half-year upon the chart (26 weeks), all of which has seen the song within the Top 6 since it's first entered in mid-July of 2021, while the song is now the equal eighth longest running Top 10 of all time in Australia, while the leader again increases it's tally of weeks this week to 49 weeks, the Glass Animals track "Heat Waves", which jumps back up this week five spots to No.4.
The new No.1 single in both Ireland and Germany this week is here back up four spots to No.3 here, the Gayle track "abcdeFU" (HP-2), which could take out the top spot here next week potentially, while former No.1 "Bad Habits" for Ed Sheeran and his No.2 entry "Shivers" both rebound back into the Top 10 this week, 'BH's' is up six to No.5 and 'Shivers' leaps nine spots to No.6, giving both tracks 27 and 16 weeks within the Top 10 respectively, with 'BH's' now the longest running Top 10 single for Ed Sheeran locally.
Adele's "Easy on Me" returns to the English No.1 spot for an eighth overall week at the top there (her longest ever #1 run in the UK), while here the song rebounds five spots to No.7 and lands it's overall eleventh week within the Top 10, with another T10 returning track being the Lil' Nas X entry "Industry Baby", which is up sixteen spots to land at No.9 and scoring a 21st week within the Top 10.
On December 20th, ACraze and Cherish managed to peak at No.9 with their redone collaboration for 'Do it To it", and with the ebbed tide of Xmas songs occurring this week, the song rebounds thirteen spots to land at a new peak of No.8, while the first NEW Top 10 single for 2022 occurs for the latest Lost Frequencies and Calum Scott track "Where Are You Now", which leaps up twenty spots to land at No.10, becoming both the second Top 10 entry for both acts in the process.
UP: There are nothing but upward climbing tracks within the Top 50 this week, with the lowest leap being a seventeen place climb back up to No.14 for Justin Bieber and "Ghost" (31 to No.14, HP-11), every other song moves back up 20+ places. Olivia's second No.1 track "Good 4 U" (33 to No.11) and "Enemy" for Imagine Dragons (39 to a new peak of No.15) are joined by other 20+ climbers like the 29 place leaps for "Levitating" by Dua Lipa (41 to No.12), "That's What I Want" for Lil' Nas X (45 to No.16) and "One Right Now" by Post Malone and The Weeknd (47 to No.18). The Weeknd just issued his new album "Dawn FM" on Friday, and this week he also climbs back up with "Save Your Tears'' (50 to No.19, one-year chart anniversary), "Blinding Lights'' (75 to No.21) and on the Swedish House Mafia track "Moth to a Flame'' (92 to No.42). Doja Cat claws her way back up with "Kiss Me More" (43 to No.13) with SZA, who also climbs back up with her latest entry "I Hate U'' (55 to No.31), while Doja is also rebounding with "Woman" (62 to No.28), with the NEIKED and Mae Muller entry "Better Days'' (HP-16x2) zooming backup fifty-one spots to land just behind it's former peak at No.17. Taylor Swift's "All To Well" is the last track from last week's Top 50 to climb, all of the other entries are either new or rebound from the lower fifty, and her redone song is back up twenty-five spots to No.24, with the next lowest rebound occuring for Maneskin's "Beggin'" (56 to No.29, up 27 spots). Aussie acts SHouse (77 to No.22) and Vance Joy (59 to No.25) rise back up the chart, while The Killers 2004 No.29 single "Mr. Brightside" lands a new peak on the chart this week, as the song leaps up sixty-six spots to land at No.23. Further Top 30 rebounds occur for "Montero" for Lil' Nas X (65 to No.26, his third and final Top 30 entry), "Dreams" for Fleetwood Mac (60 to No.27), while the Jolyon Petch dance cover rises forty-two spots to No.39, and finally the Coldplay and BTS entry "My Universe" is back up thirty-three spots to No.30. Leaping back up are also The Anxiety and "Meet Me at Our Spot" (64 to No.32), "Acapulco" by Jason DeRulo (79 to No.33), "I Am Woman" by Emmy Meli (69 to No.34), "Love Nwantiti" by CKay (74 to No.35), "Happier Than Ever" by Billie Eilish (66 to No.36) and "Friday" for Riton x Nightcrawlers which re-enters the Top 100 this week at No.40, followed by "Watermelon Sugar" by Harry Styles, back into the chart at No.41. The new Tiësto track "The Motto" featuring Ava Max was the only non-Xmas track to debut within the Top 100 last week, and this week it zooms up the chart fifty-one places to land at a new peak of No.37, becoming the fifth Top 50 entry for both acts, while his former Top 50 entry "The Business" rebounds back into the Top 100 at No.46. The ten-year anniversary remixes of the Havana Brown single "We Own the Night" jump up forty-six places to land at No.36. The song originally hit No.5 in June of 2011, and returned to the Top 100 on December 20th. Ed Sheeran's "Overpass Graffiti" leaps back up thirty-eight places to land at No.43, while the just confirmed second single from Adele's "30" album is "Oh My God", which gives her a second Top 50 entry this week by moving back up thirty-eight spots to No.45. The fourth and final Top 50 return (from outside of the Top 100) this week is the 24KGOLDN track "Mood", returning at No.47, while leaping back up are "Sunflower" for Post Malone (86 to No.49) and "Without You" by Kid Laroi (80 to No.50).
DOWN: There are no dropping tracks within the Top 50 this week, but we do see the exodus of 31 Top 50 Christmas singles, including six from the Top 10, "All I Want for Christmas is You" by Mariah Carey (leaves from #1 {HP-1x4, WI10-15a}, ninth week at the top in the U.S.A. this past week), "Last Christmas" by Wham! (LW-2, HP-2x2, WI10-26a), "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" for Michael Buble (LW/HP-3, WI10-4a), "Santa Tell Me" for Ariana Grande (HP/LW-5, WI10-2a), "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" by Brenda Lee (HP/LW-8, WI10-1) and "Merry Christmas" for Ed Sheeran and Elton John (HP/LW-10, WI10-1). Last week's Top 100 listing had 51 seasonal songs within the chart, surpassing the previous record of 39 Xmas tunes within the T100 in 2019, and thus a heap of songs return to the chart this week. Another of last week's chart feats I forgot to mention was for Kylie Minogue, whose cover of "Santa Baby" made it to No.44, making her the first artist to land a Top 50 single during the past/current five decades, as she first had her first three singles hit No.1 in 1987-1988 and then every decade since she has achieved a chart entry, now Kylie's next record is to land a Top 20 single in each decade (as she had no #1 or Top 10 singles during the 2010's).
NEW ENTRIES: * #22 - We Don't Talk About Bruno by Carolina Gaitan, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero and Stephanie Beatriz (Walt Disney) * #44 - Surface Pressure by Jessica Darrow (Walt Disney) are two tracks from the newly issued animated feature from Disney called 'Encanto', whose soundtrack was written by Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton) and is within the Top 10 albums this week at No.6.
* #48 - Down Under by Luude feat. Colin Hay (Lazy Eye/Sweat it Out) is a drum and bass remix of the 1981 Men at Work classic, of which Colin Hay was the lead singer, his vocals on this track newly re-recorded for the local producer Luude (born Christian Benson), who along with his cousin Timothy Benson form the duo Choomba. At this time forty years ago "Down Under" was the No.1 single in Australia (21st of Dec., 1981 to 25th of Jan., 1982), with this new entry being the fourth time that the song has charted locally, 1981 (#1), 1983 (#9, after the America's Cup win) and lastly in 2000 (#69 during the Sydney Olympics) {the song also had a 2006 entry at No.40 on the digital singles chart). The newly remixed track leaps from No.9 to No.2 in New Zealand this week, and debuts in both England (#32) and Ireland (#63).
Adele's fourth album "30" remains the No.1 Album in Australia for the first week of sales in 2022.
"30" also retains it's No.1 berth in New Zealand (also 7th week at #1) and The U.S.A. (6th week), and by staying for a seventh week here it becomes the longest continual run at No.1 for this decade, with the last album to stay this long at the top in Australia being the soundtrack for 'A Star is Born' for Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper (29th of Oct. to the 31st of Dec., 2018, 10 weeks) {there have been other albums which have spent more time at the top since then, but not in a continual run at No.1}.
Adele also notches up her 47th overall week at No.1 in Australia from her three chart topping albums, moving her to outright fourth on the listing for 'Accumulated Weeks at No.1: Albums (1965 to 2022)', moving away from her 46 week tie with Neil Diamond, with the next act on the list being John Farnham and his 52 overall weeks at the top of Australia's Album Charts. Last week I mentioned that Adele might be at the top until late February with no major threat to her reign being until Midnight Oil's new set, but The Weeknd dropped a new album on Friday called "Dawn FM", so that could be the new No.1 album next week.
The current English No.1 Album for Ed Sheeran (third overall week) "= (Equals)" is here back up one spot to No.2, followed by a two place rise to No.3 for the Olivia Rodrigo debut set "SOUR", while the Taylor Swift version of "Red" is a non-mover at No.4, making the top four albums all former or current No.1 Albums, after which is a four place rebound to No.5 for the Doja Cat album "Planet Her" (HP-2), which also makes it four out of five women within the Top 5 albums this week.
For the first time since February 2021 a new soundtrack has entered the Top 10 this week, as the 60th Disney animated feature 'Encanto' sees it's Lin-Manuel Miranda penned soundtrack leap up twenty-nine spots to land at No.6, becoming the first soundtrack (and from an animated title) since 'Bluey' hit No.1 for a week on February 1st, 2021, and prior to that the last film soundtrack (as Blue is a TV series) within the Top 10 was the "Slim & I" soundtrack (HP-8, Sept. 2020) featuring Slim Dusty songs. Just prior to that the first big hit for Lin-Mauel was 'Hamilton', which was his first Top 10 entry, last appearing within the Top 10 at No.7 on August 24th, 2020.
The new No.1 selling vinyl album this week is the re-packaged Radiohead set "KidA Mnesia", which leaps back into the Top 100 this week at No.7, the repack originally debuted at No.3 on November 15th, 2021, and this is now it's second week within the Top 10 and only third week within the Top 100. Also returning to the Top 10 this week, although a little less dramatically, are "Future Nostalgia" for Dua Lipa (13 to No.8, 56th week within the Top 10) and "Justice" for Justin Bieber (16 to No.10, half-year anniversary within the Top 10; 26 weeks, still his longest running Top 10 Album in Australia). In between those two climbers is a six place dive to No.9 for The Weeknd collection "The Highlights", which could rebound next week thanks to his new album being issued on Friday.
UP: Another new animated feature film sees it's soundtrack leap up this week, the 'Sing 2' set jumps up twelve places to land at a new peak of No.11, followed by a six place rebound to No.12 for the Kid Laroi collections "F**k Love" (LW-18). With three singles within the Top 30 this week, the debut set for Lil' Nas X and "Montero" jumps back up nineteen places to No.14, after which is an eleven place rise to No.15 for Ed Sheeran's "÷ (Divide)" set. Drake's "Certified Lover Boy'' leaps back up fourteen spots to No.18, while the latest Juice WRLD album "Fighting Demons" gains it's first upward chart move, rising back up five places to No.20. Luke Combs has his two albums back within the Top 30 this week, as his second album "What You See is What You Get" is back up six to No.24 and his first release "This One's for You'' rebounds ten spots to No.29. Collections are on the rise for Maroon 5 (41 to No.25), Eminem (39 to No.29), INXS (38 to No.32), Cold Chisel (46 to No.38), Pitbull (86 to No.44), Bon Jovi (59 to No.47) and Green Day (80 to No.50), all leaping back up thanks to the vacating seasonal albums. Taylor Swift has six albums within the Top 50 this week, four rising, one falling and one stable (#4), with her upward movers being "1989" (21 to No.19), "folklore" (36 to No.28), "Lover" (51 to No.37) and "Reputation" (57 to No.39). Pop Smoke's first release "Shoot for the Stars..." flies back up twenty spots to No.27, while the self-titled debut set for Dua Lipa blazes back-up thirty-four spots to land at No.33. Queen's biopic soundtrack leaps seventeen spots to No.35, while Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" set leaps thirty spots to No.40. Scoring it's one-year anniversary on the chart this week is the Morgan Wallen album "Dangerous: The Double Album" which rises this week twenty-three places to No.41, followed by a thirteen place rise to No.42 for the Rufus du Sol album "Surrender". Bruno Mars' "Doo-Wops and Hooligans" set is back up eleven to No.45, while Lewis Capaldi returns to the Top 50 with "Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent" for the first time since November 22nd, 2021 by moving back up twelve chart rungs to No.49.
DOWN: There are four albums leaving the Top 10 this week, with the album making the smallest drop being ABBA's "Voyage" (HP-1x1, WI10-8) album, which falls sixteen places to No.23, while after two weeks of sitting at No.10 the Nirvana album "Nevermind" (HP-2x2, WI10-18a) falls back down twenty-one places to No.31. The two other Top 10 dropouts were seasonal sets for Michael Buble and "Christmas" (LW-2, HP-1x15, WI10-65a, #1 in Canada this week) and Paul Kelly with his "Christmas Train" set (LW-8, HP-2, WI10-6), both likely dropping into the lower fifty or even out of the Top 100 all together. Billie Eilish has the only dropping album within the Top 20 as "Happier Than Ever" is down two spots to No.13, while she has the second and final Top 30 drop as her first album "When We All Fall Asleep..." declines six places to No.26. The only dropping set for Taylor Swift is her "evermore" album from December 2020, down seven to No.34, while The Arctic Monkeys album "AM" reduces it's position by twenty-four spots from No.12 to land down at No.36. The three falling albums in the 41 to 50 chart region are The Foo Fighters "Greatest Hits" (37 to No.43), "Between us" for Little Mix (42 to No.46) and Adele's "21" set (43 to No.48).
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The key thing is the tracking weeks, Mariah got to #1 almost entirely off the back of Friday+Saturday streams, so by the end of that week she was completely off the picture, I don't think she'd be in the top 1000 this week
(Merry Christmas [the Ed Sheeran song] probably has held on the best because it actually has kept on selling on iTunes) Last edited:
All Too Well (TV) is the only song outside the top 19 that was in the top 50 last week. I'd be willing to say that a rise of 25 places has never felt like such a drop!
I.E step up and collect your badge for correct predictions saying abba's 'Voyage' would drop a lot after christmas. It goes from 7 to 23. All those people buying it for christmas (which was also mentioned)
Like Lemmings off a cliff, they're the charting Christmas songs after New Years is done.
My fun table for today. These are the highest ranked songs that were not able to rise in the first chart of the year, after the Christmas exodus. And also a tally of Top 50 drop out songs in that chart.
lower entries updated, two new singles and two 80's tunes making their first ARIA appearance.
The 51 Top 100 Xmas singles from last week all fell out of the Top 100 this week (as too did the 6 T100 Xmas LPs), thus 51 singles either debuted (7) or re-entered (44), while further lower 50 older tunes to appear include... 57 - Dance Monkey 64 - Someone You Loved 65 - Perfect 67 - Party in the USA 70 - Go Your Own Way 72 - My Happiness 75 - Khe Sanh 82 - Wake Me Up 83 * Don't Stop Believin' 86 - I Gotta Feeling 88 - Youngblood 89 - Shape of You 90 - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) 92 - Africa 93 * Summer of '69 94 - The Nosebleed Section 95 - Promiscuous 97 - Wonderwall
Some things like Whitney, BEP's, Avicii and Miley could've also returned due to their sales falling during the NYE period.
No new albums debuted this week, but Kylie's "Disco" set returned at #52, while the new Weeknd album sees "Starboy" and "After Hours" rebound ahead of it's debut this coming week.
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