It's Harry's House, and we're just living nearby; but this week Harry Styles invited us into his house, and showed us the new work he's been doing, as he occupies both chart-summit's in Australia with "As it Was" and "Harry's House".
"As it Was" by Harry Styles is again the No.1 single in Australia, logging it's sixth accumulated week at the top in Australia, making it now the longest running No.1 song for 2022, surpassing the five weeks racked up by Elton & Dua plus Glass Animals. The song also retains the top spot in England and Ireland (both for an eighth week, both longest running #1's for the year), Canada (sixth week) and it regains the No.1 slot in New Zealand for a second overall stay there.
Plus his third studio album lands at No.1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, becoming his third chart-topping set (as a solo act) and his seventh overall (four as a part of One Direction), plus with Harry Styles occupying the #1 spot on both charts locally, it becomes the 139th time that the top of both chart's has been held by an act and it's parent album. It's also the first time that this has occurred in 2022, as the last time this happened was on November 29th and December 6th, 2021 when Adele's "30" and it's lead single "Easy on Me" held the top of both charts for two consecutive weeks.
"As it Was" also becomes the equal-fourth longest running No.1 song this decade, tied with six other songs that have logged or accumulated six weeks at the summit in Australia for the 2020's. The other chart feat that Harry Styles achieves this week, is that all thirteen tracks from his new album have landed within the Top 15 on the chart, something which has never happened before. The closest we've seen previously was when Taylor Swift landed 13 entries between #1 and #25 (16 within the Top 50) on August 3rd, 2020 from her "folklore" album, while the previous highest total of entries within the Top 15 was from Drake's "Certified Lover Boy" album on September 13th, 2021 when he landed eight inside the Top 15 (21 in total within the Top 60).
Harry's current No.1 was the first new #1 single for 2022 (on April 11th), and by Harry landing so many tracks up the high end of the chart, he washes away the remaining long-running Top 10 entries which have been hogging the top-section for a very long time. So with no act ever having had eight songs within the Top 10 at one time, Harry creates another new chart feat, as he lands at No.2 with "Late Night Talking" (also entering at No.2 in England, Ireland & NZ), followed by "Matilda" at No.3 (also #3 in New Zealand) and then "Music for a Sushi Restaurant" at No.4 (No.3 in England and Ireland, No.4 in NZ), giving Harry the entire Top 4 (in both Oz and NZ), beating the previous record holder here for The Voice first winner Karise Eden's late June 2012 chart feat of four of the Top 5 singles.
The only two songs to survive within the Top 10 this week are "First Class" for Jack Harlow, down two spots to No.5 (third week at No.1 in The U.S.A.), and Lizzo with "About Damn Time", which declines three spots to land at No.7. Harry's further Top 10 debuts make it the youngest singles chart for 2022, as only "As it Was" at eight weeks is the longest running Top 10 entry, while he also enters the ten with "Little Freak" (#6), "Daylight" (#8), "Grapejuice" (#9) and "Satellite" (#10), after which he has landed a further four songs outside of the Top 10.
UP: With Harry's new entries pushing down so many songs this week, the first song to climb outside of the Top 10 is the new entry from last week for Post Malone with Roddy Rich and "Cooped Up", which is up one spot to a new peak of No.26, while his new album is only two weeks away, so it could pull the song up the charts as his new set gets released. Only four further songs climb within the Top 50 this week; "Enemy" for Imagine Dragons is back up three to No.35 (their new LP comes out July 1st), "Good 4 U" by Olivia Rodrigo, up two to No.37, Harry Styles' "Watermelon Sugar" gets pulled back up seven spots to land at No.44, and the other big album's chart entry this week is for the new Flume album called "Palaces", which sees it's first issued single "Say Nothing" (HP-16, Feb 2022) rebound thirty places this week to land at No.49.
DOWN: Sweeping out the remnants of the long running Top 10 singles this week, with eight Top 10 dropouts, first of which is the Glass Animals track "Heat Waves" (HP-1x11, WI10-68, #1 longest running Top 10 entry), which leaves the Top 10 for only the second time by dropping down six places to No.16. "Big Energy" for Latto (HP-6x2, WI10-4) falls eight places to No.17, The Kid Laroi started his national tour on Thursday (the last day of the chart week), so expect him to rebound next week, but for this week he drops down with "Stay" alongside Justin Bieber (HP-1x17, WI10-45, newly 9x▲Platinum {four weeks after it went 8xP}, equal 2nd longest running Top 10 of all time; FIRST WEEK outside of the Top 10) down eight to No.18 and his latest single "Thousand Miles" (HP-4x2, WI10-4) plummets eleven spots to No.20. Kendrick Lamar blitzed the chart last week with his new albums' track's, thus he drops out of the Top 10 with "N95" (HP-3), "Die Hard" (HP-5) and "United in Grief" (HP-7), which drop to No.19, No.27 and into the lower fifty respectively, with those first two Top 10 dropouts being his only Top 50 entries this week. Last week's Top 10 dropouts all decline nine places apiece this week, with "Bad Habits" for Ed Sheeran, "Where Are You Now" by Lost Frequencies and Calum Scott, "Cold Heart" for Elton John and Dua Lipa, followed by "Shivers" by Ed Sheeran all down nine spots to No.21, No.22, No.23 and No.24 respectively. Further drops occur for the only Future Top 50 entry "Wait for U" (18 to No.25), Gayle's "abcdeFU" (23 to No.28), and down six to it's lowest position ever (within the Top 50) is Justin Bieber's "Ghost", dipping six to No.30. Lil' Nas X drops down with both his "Industry Baby" (26 to No.32) and "That's What I Want" (36 to No.41), SUPER-HI dip five to No.33 after "Following the Sun", while Adele's "Easy on Me" falls six places to No.40. Jack Harlow sees a fifteen place dive to No.46 for his "Dua Lipa" ode, with the last big drop occurring for newcomer Benson Boone's track "In the Stars", down ten places to No.50.
FURTHER NEW ENTRIES: * #2 - Late Night Talking by Harry Styles (Columbia) * #3 - Matilda by Harry Styles (Columbia) * #4 - Music for a Sushi Restaurant by Harry Styles (Columbia) * #6 - Little Freak by Harry Styles (Columbia) * #8 - Daylight by Harry Styles (Columbia) * #9 - Grapejuice by Harry Styles (Columbia) * #10 - Satellite by Harry Styles (Columbia) * #11 - Cinema by Harry Styles (Columbia) * #12 - Daydreaming by Harry Styles (Columbia) * #13 - Love of My Life by Harry Styles (Columbia) * #14 - Keep Driving by Harry Styles (Columbia) * #15 - Boyfriends by Harry Styles (Columbia) all join the chart alongside the new "Harry's House" album first release "As it Was", giving all thirteen tracks from the album entry to the chart. Harry's second set "Fine Line" saw ten of it's twelve tracks within the Top 100 on December 23rd, 2019, while his self-titled debut set entered at No.1 this past week five years ago (May 22nd, 2017), which had seen two singles from it already chart, while a third in "Kiwi" was it's last chart entry. So his previous 13 chart entries are now joined by thirteen more, giving him now his 14th to 26th Top 100 entries, plus his tally of Top 50 placement's rises to twenty in total. Last edited:
The third Harry Styles album "Harry's House" becomes his third successive No.1 Album in Australia this week, plus all thirteen tracks land within the Top 15 on the singles chart.
"Harry's House" (Columbia) becomes the 949th for Australia (1965 to 2022) and now the 800th for ARIA (1983 to 2022), the 584th to debut at the top, the 18th No.1 for 2022, and the 53rd for the record label Columbia (Adele was their last on Nov. 29th, 2021).
This is the third No.1 Album for Harry Styles after his self-titled first set hit the top five years and one week ago (May 22nd, 2017) for a single week (TW-9, up five for an eighth week within the Top 10 (#2 vinyl)), while his second set "Fine Line" rises back up three spots to No.4, logging it's 81st week within the Top 10 and is the No.4 selling vinyl album this week, while his new set also takes the top spot on the Australia Vinyl Albums Chart this week, giving him three national Top 10 albums and three within the Top 4 of the vinyl chart.
With "As it Was" by Harry Styles also occupying the top of the singles chart too, it becomes the 139th time that the top of both chart's has been held by an act and it's parent album (he also holds the top of both charts in England, Ireland and New Zealand). It's also the first time that this has occurred in 2022, as the last time this happened was on November 29th and December 6th, 2021 when Adele's "30" and it's lead single "Easy on Me" held the top of both charts for two consecutive weeks (and the first time for a Solo Male Artist since Justin Bieber on April 21st, 2021).
All thirteen tracks from Harry's new album have placed between No.1 and No.15 on the singles chart this week, a first for that chart, while his new No.1 Album gives him a new tally of five weeks at No.1 in Australia, plus the set also became his third here, only matched by all three of his albums hitting the top in Ireland (so far). This is also the second time that the word 'Harry' has appeared in a No.1 Album title (his first solo album was the last in May 2017), while it's the seventh for the word 'House', the last being the Tones and I's debut set "Welcome to the Madhouse" (1 week on July 26th, 2021).
The new No.1 Album also becomes the 169th by an English Act (solo male or female, duo or group) (fourth for 2022), and the 273rd by a Solo Male Artist (local or overseas) (eighth for 2022), while of the five weeks in May 2022, four have been for Solo Male Artists, Future (May 9th), Daniel Johns (May 16th) and Kendrick Lamar last week (May 23rd). Harry is also the first English Solo Male since Ed Sheeran to land his first three albums at No.1, while he is now the equal third English Solo Male act to have three No.1's in Australia after John Lennon, David Bowie and Michael Crawford, ahead of him are Ed Sheeran and Robbie Williams (five apiece) and tied in the lead are Elton John and Rod Stewart with seven each.
Last week's No.1 entry for Kendrick Lamar and "Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers" topped the chart in The U.S.A. and Canada this past week, while here it drops down one place to No.2, followed by the second and final new entry to the Top 10, coming in at No.3 is the third album for local artist Flume called "Palaces", coming one-week shy of six years since his second set "Skin" hit the top for a week (June 6th, 2016), while he first charted with his self-titled set on February 3rd, 2013, also hitting No.1 for one week. The native Australian bird infused electro-album also becomes Flume's fourth overall entry, as in late March of 2019 he made it to No.11 with his mixtape "Hi This is Flume".
As I mentioned above, the "Fine Line" album for Harry Styles is back up three to No.4 and his self-titled debut set rises five to No.9, while "SOUR" for Olivia Rodrigo dips one spot to No.5, with further Top 10 climbers being "The Highlights" by The Weeknd (9 to No.6) and "Planet Her" for Doja Cat (10 to No.8), while declining is last week's new entry for Florence + the Machine with "Dance Fever" (#3 vinyl), down five to No.8 and the latest Jack Harlow set "Come Home the Kids Miss You" drops seven places to land at No.10.
UP: Ed Sheeran just issued his "= (Equals)" albums' Tour Edition on Friday, with ten extra tracks, five of which have yet to chart (the other five are already issued duets), but for this week the set is back up one place to No.11, while he is also moving upwards with his "÷ (Divide)" album, rising five chart-rungs to No.18. The Kid Laroi kicked off his national tour on Thursday (May 26th), with the rapper/singer doing promo and press during the week to promote the shows, which has helped his "F**k Love" mixtapes to rise back up eight places to No.12. Four of the five Top 50 entries for Taylor Swift move back up, with "1989" up one to No.17, her "Reputation" rebounds thirteen spots to No.26 thanks to it's #19 vinyl chart placement, "Red (TsV)" is also up one spot to No.32 and "folklore" moves up five to No.35. Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" (#8 vinyl) rises back up four spots to No.20, both Billie Eilish albums rise a little, "Sleep" (22 to No.21) and "Happier" (25 to No.23); the same applies for Luke Combs with "What You See" (26 to No.25) and "This One's For You" (29 to No.27). On the May 2nd Top 100 ARIA report, the third EP and first chart entry for 2021's winner of 'The Voice' Bella Taylor-Smith called "Look Me in the Eyes" charted on digital sales only, landing at No.52, and now this week thanks to it's recent physical release, the set returns to the Top 100 at a new peak of No.36, logging it's second week within the Top 100. Rebounding back up the charts are "25" for Adele (50 to No.42), "Teenage Dreams" for Katy Perry (55 to No.44, which recently accumulated a total of 312 weeks within the Top 100, which equates to six years on the chart), "Starboy" by The Weeknd (52 to No.45, it's first time within the Top 50 since April 16th, 2018), the Coldplay live set "Live in Buenos Aires" (56 to No.49) and Pitbull's "Greatest Hits" (57 to No.50, which cracked ▲Platinum in sales two weeks ago).
DOWN: Daniel Johns and his second solo album "FutureNever" (HP-1, WI10-3) drops down six places to land at No.14, with the two other Top 10 dropouts falling into the lower chart regions, "Drinking from the Sun" for Hilltop Hoods (HP-1x2, WI10-10a, LW-5) and Mallrat's "Butterfly Blue" (LW-6). The Weeknd has two rising and two falling albums within the Top 50 this week, his two to drop are "Dawn FM" (#12 vinyl) down three to No.22 and "After Hours" dips one spot to No.31. Adele's "30" set tumbles down nine places to No.24, while the 'Encanto' soundtrack falls five to No.33, it's lowest chart position, as it initially debuted at No.29 in the first week of the year. Taylor's only falling album this week is her "Lover" set, down two places to No.38, which is the last album declining this week, while further Top 50 dropouts from last week's chart are the 'Eurovision 2022' collection (#11), The Black Keys (#35), Charli XCX (#38), The Smile (#41) and Future (#44).
NO FURTHER NEW ENTRIES. * #1 (LP#3) - Harry's House by Harry Styles (Columbia)
* #3 (LP#3) - Palaces by Flume (Future Classic) Last edited:
We're well overdue having someone in the media write a scathing article about the state of the ARIA charts. The last one I remember was a couple of Christmases back about all the old songs flooding the chart. What is it going to take to stop this madness?
Only really against my better judgement. It's largely an echo chamber that scares off any different opinion, incapable of any erudite thought. Whoops better hit the 'laugh' react at that guy who disagrees with me. It's just nothing but complaining though, the only time it isn't is when ARIA posts an old chart and then it's the same 'BACK WHEN MUSIC WAS GOOD' 9👍 shit.
Ed Sheeran just issued his 'Tour' edition of ='s on Friday, which has four previously uncharted tracks (5 if you include Peru), plus four of his recent team-up/remixes from ='s.
Then the following week it's the new Post Malone album, which has 12 previously (out of 14) uncharted songs (although has he lost his mojo?).
Then it goes major albums from: June 10: Vance Joy, Spacey Jane, George Ezra, Of Monsters & Men June 17: Alanis Morissette, Calum Scott, Joey Bada$$ June 24: Stray Kids, Chris Brown, Conan Gray, Dune Rats, Jack Johnson, Lupe Fiasco, Madonna (GH#3). July 1: Imagine Dragons July 8: Megadeth July 15: Lizzo, Noah Cyrus July 22: Jack White (2nd for 2022) July 29: nothing of note yet
Jinxie: It's quite possible you've got that wrong and it's 'back when music CHARTS were good' "shit" instead.
You can disregard the thoughts of people who aren't knowledgeable about the inner workings of the charts all you like but your opinion simply doesn't pass the 'pub test'. Most people would expect a singles chart to feature singles and that the floods of non-singles into the chart looks bad and is fundamentally wrong.
I mean just because something is an immediate, obvious thought doesn't mean it's rational. Most of the worst opinions about anything are formed by people who take their immediate gut reactions all the way to the bank. Like why does it really matter to joe public? No one's strapping them down and forcing them to listen to Harry Styles. It's just a time capsule that tells us 'wow, SO many people were listening to Harry Styles that week'.
I also just don't think people know what they really want. It's not like a lack of Harry Styles on the chart this week would have brought in much excitement and discourse about the inner machinations of the top 10. Possibly because social media makes out any form of enthusiasm to be something worth being mocked, or possibly because most of the people there have aged out of the demographic where they're capable of being enthusiastic about new music.
Like I've said it before, but if y'all just want a quick fix, it's not gonna do it for you. There'll be that hit of excitement initially but it'll just stagnate into a similar but slightly displaced equilibrium and then you just have everyone unhappy again except now with a more inaccurate chart. Really it's more important to go to the root of the problem and ask how did we get to the point where the most promoted current hits set such a low bar that this can happen. It's certainly not because sometimes there are a bunch of non-singles on the chart. Heck, in 2019 radio were content with having 5 Ed Sheeran songs on mid-high rotation at the same time.
Obviously it doesn't matter to YOU what the public thinks when you're the one with the deeply unpopular opinion, much like on Facebook. The most likely thing people are going to think when looking back at the current charts is how messed up they were and that they are glad the rules were eventually changed.
You really need to quit pushing the 'it's the older generation who has an issue with the charts' narrative. It's simply not true and alluding to the chart's numerous other issues, particularly in the Top 10, (all caused by streaming) as an excuse to bombard it with non-singles is ridiculous.
If ARIA gets rid of non-singles from the chart, it would hopefully be the first step towards fixing the charts and I know I'd appreciate it greatly. It would show that ARIA actually cares about their charts. Removing non-singles from a singles chart makes it more accurate - I've said before that the charts were never meant to measure the popularity of every song that's ever existed. That is beyond their scope and needs to be corrected.
Yeah but if we're using Australian music Facebook as our yardstick, then I also have the very unpopular opinion that trans rights are human rights and hip-hop isn't sub-human level music.
Where is the lie though? I'm not an ageist person at all (hell I get called a boomer pretty regularly for not being dismissive to older generations), and for all intents and purposes I'm aged out of the demographic as well. Nothing wrong with it, it's a natural process, but you don't have to turn into a bitter miser because of it.
The general public was actually the yardstick. You must be wading in some actual cesspools on Facebook - I'm guessing some niche group/s full of bogans where '70s and '80s pub rock (or rock in general) is the only "real music"? lol
I'm pretty sure there's plenty of young people who lament the state of the charts too - many of them still have some kind of memories of when the singles chart was actually a singles chart and only featured contemporary music. And I'm pretty sure I don't need to say it that I'm far from bitter about current music, I'm still loving it, as evidenced by my 2021 EOY list being one of my biggest historically...
Are there any pleasant groups out there? Problem is that most people joined 10-15 years ago so the jadedness sets in at some point. I don't know anyone younger than myself who uses it for any non-private purposes. I keep most of my thoughts on my private Twitter account where I don't have to fear being hounded or judged.
And honestly, more power to you for that, I hope I keep my enthusiasm for music as long as you have. I just wish general enthusiasm was more on display because people only seem to speak up when they're angry, or they prove unable to bring something up without pushing something down.
I'm a member of plenty of groups that aren't toxic and, ironically, a few of the nicest ones have either been for ages 30+ only or the topics tend to only attract an older crowd. I don't blame you for keeping your thoughts private - there's a lot of unempathetic, bigoted sociopaths with bad values out there.
Showing general enthusiasm requires time and effort - both of which I have limited supply of these days, so my focus has to be on the dire state of the charts. If the same situation was happening ten years ago, there would have been some kind of balance between praise and criticism for sure.
Funny thing is that I used to be pretty cynical myself. We all know there's years upon years of evidence in the backlogs of these threads. Nowadays though I find I have to go out of my way to express that sort of negative attitude (unless it's to bigots), so positivity has just become my default trait. I'll often say people should read Umineko in a facetious way because it's twice as long as Lord of the Rings + The Hobbit combined and nobody's got time for that, but also because I think it's genuinely a powerful piece of fiction about (among many other things) the power of empathy. And hey, I managed to get off the anti-depression meds around the same time so it's been a pretty tangible shift for me.
I'm largely off the internet for two days not having checked the ARIA website until this evening (o be honest it never entered my mind that the charts were out) It was to be expected. Of the artists bullion mentions with albums coming out vance joy seems the more likely to go #1. we won't see an avalance of album tracks in the coming weeks. Imagine dragons will have quite a few
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