Taylor Swift occupies the #1 singles spot this week as she sees The Fate of Ophelia and eleven more songs land from #1 to #12.
The Fate of Ophelia (Republic) becomes the 1152nd #1 Single in Australia (1940 to 2025), the 587th for ARIA (1983 to 2025), the 148th to debut at #1 (the last was APT. on October 28th, 2024, 50 weeks ago), only the seventh new #1 song for the year (8th in total), the first American artist at the top since Alex Warren departed 12-13 weeks ago (July 21st), plus now the 23rd chart-topper for Republic Records, which takes over another Republic track from the KPop Demon Hunters.
It's the first time at #1 for both the words 'Fate' and 'Ophelia', while it's now the 64th with 'of', the last being BIRDS OF A FEATHER for Billie Eilish (2 weeks from August 19th, 2024). The new #1 song also becomes the 13th chart-topper for Taylor Swift in Australia, the only modern artist to have racked up so many #1 songs, surpassing the 11 achieved by Madonna, overall she is outright third on the listing for 'Most #1 Singles in Australia: 1940 to 2025', behind Elvis Presley, Perry Como and Joe Loss (14 apiece), while ahead of them are The Beatles (26 #1's) and Bing Crosby (27 #1's). Plus she also claims the 'Female Artist with the Most #1 Singles', fourth highest tally of '#1's for an American Singer', fourth highest tally of 'Weeks at #1: Singles 2020's' at 16 weeks from her 7 #1's this decade, behind Alex Warren (17 weeks), The Kid LAROI (18 weeks) and Justin Bieber (20 weeks).
The Fate of Ophelia also becomes the 744th #1 Song by an American Artist (solo male or female, duo or group), while Taylor also racks up her 29th overall week at #1 (from her now 14 chart-topping songs since 2009), placing her outright 22nd on the list for 'Accumulated Weeks at #1' Singles (1940 to 2025)', now just ahead of Olivia Newton-John (28 weeks from 5 #1's), while she sits behind The Black Eyed Peas (30 weeks from 8 #1's), Kylie Minogue (31 weeks from 10 #1's), Ed Sheeran (32 weeks from 6 #1's) and Eminem (32 weeks from 9 #1's).
Taylor also climbs another unique chart-tally listing for 'Most Consecutive Years of #1 Songs', as this is now her sixth straight year of making it to #1 (without a break) as she has achieved a top-singles-billing in every year for this decade, making it now six years in a row, tying her in equal fourth place alongside Nat 'King' Cole (1950 to 1955) who also achieved a #1 over a six-year period, only four acts are above them in Elvis (1959 to 1965) and The Andrews Sisters (1944 to 1950) at seven years apiece, while The Beatles did eight years in a row (1963 to 1970) and the highest was a ten-year continual run of #1's for Bing Crosby (1943 to 1952), all pre-ARIA. Similarly Taylor also joins the list for '#1 Songs for Continual Decades' at three decades of #1 songs (from 2009 to 2025, that's a #1 in the 2000's, 4 #1's in the 2010's and now her eighth this decade).
With both Taylor's Ophelia and her parent album The Life of a Showgirl taking out both #1 spots this week, we see a 149th overall duopoly, and a third for 2025 on the charts this week, after Kendrick Lamar in February and the KPop Demon Hunters for six weeks from early August to late September. Taylor has now had duopolies nine times in her chart career, with only The Beatles 14 dual occupations in the 1960's the highest amount, Taylor is the only solo artist (either male or female) to have this many dupolies. Her first was on December 1st, 2014 for Blank Space and 1989 for a single week, after which she also did it on August 3rd and December 21st in 2020 (both for a single stay), Nov. 22nd, 2021 (one week), from October 31st, 2022 (five weeks), then November 6th, 2023, February 26th, 2024, and lastly on April 29th, 2024 all for two weeks apiece, giving her a total of sixteen weeks of dual occupation of both #1 slots.
Overseas The Fate of Ophelia also takes out the #1 slots in England (fifth here), Ireland (her fourth), New Zealand (eighth), Germany (first ever), The Netherlands, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden along with Iceland (#3), Finland (#5), and Italy (#6) so far, plus with the launch of the album and lead single in cinemas this past week it took out the U.S. box-office #1 slot last week too, raking in over $34 million. The new entry at #1 here also becomes her 54th Top 10 placement, but with Taylor debuting within the rest of the Top 10 this week that tally rises to 63 in total now, with the remainder of the ten being (and her two just outside)... #2 - Opalite (NZ #2, UK #2, IRE #2, GER #3, Dutch #5, Iceland #6, Lithuania #9, Norway #3, Sweden #4, Finland #11). #3 - Elizabeth Taylor (NZ #3, UK #3, IRE #3, GER #4, Dutch #7). #4 - Father Figure (contains an interpolation of the George Michael song of the same name; NZ #4, GER #5, Iceland, Norway both #9, Sweden #5) {lands one place higher than the original did; HP #5 at the end of March 1988} #5 - Wood (NZ #6, Sweden #11, Norway #21, Lithuania #36, Finland #38, Italy #75). #6 - The Life of a Showgirl alongside Sabrina Carpenter {her 7th Top 10 placement in Oz} (NZ #7, GER #9, Sweden #6, Norway #15, Lithuania #32, Finland #40, Italy #73). #7 - CANCELLED! (NZ #8, GER #7). #8 - Actually Romantic (NZ, Sweden both #9, GER #10, Iceland #12, Norway #23, Lithuania #27, Finland #35, Italy #67). #9 - Wi$h Li$t (NZ #11, Sweden #13, Iceland #14, Norway #18, Lithuania #31, Finland #34). #10 - Eldest Daughter (NZ #10, GER #8). #11 - Ruin the Friendship (NZ and Sweden both #12, Norway #25, Lithuania #40, Finland #42). #12 - Honey (NZ #14). Taylor has previous achieved this multiple-high-entry feat on two previous occasions, October 31st, 2022 for her Midnights album (13 of the Top 14 debuts, apart from the #7 slot), and on April 29th, 2024 for The Tortured Poets Department (entire Top 10 singles along with 34 within the Top 100, of those 31 were debuts).
The RISE... is only seen by two tracks within the Top 50 this week, both of whom move up for very different reasons. First is Teddy Swims who prior to his Australian tour opened the NRL Grand Final last weekend for the Broncos (Brisbane, winners) and Giants (Melbourne), playing a four-song medley of his songs Bad Dreams, The Door and Lose Control, plus in-between the last two he did a rendition of AC/DC's TNT. Thus this week his only eligible single Bad Dreams (HP-23, peaked May 19th, 2025) rises back up seven places to land at #45 on it's 52nd accumulated week within the Top 100, while he also lands two spots within the On Replay Singles chart, the #1 slot for Lose Control and #4 position for The Door. Expect more rises for Teddy as he is touring here until the end of October (29th in Perth), starting in Sydney this coming week on the 14th.
Olivia Dean has the only NEW PEAK within the Top 50 this week, as one her lower fifty entries from last week called Baby Steps is up eleven places to walk into the #46 slot, while Olivia also holds three further spots within the fifty this week, all of them declining this week as Man I Need (HP-2x4, WI10-5) falls twelve spots to #14 and Nice to Each Other (HP-10, WI10-1) tumbles down fourteen places to #24, while she also grabs the smallest drop within the fifty this week too as So Easy (to Fall in Love) is only down two places to #29.
...and The FALL: All the remainder of last week's Top 10 singles are yanked away from their ten-crib and cast into the Top 20 this week, with ten-week running #1 song Golden for HUNTR/X being the first of fifteen tracks to fall twelve places this week, as the song falls to #13, while it hasn't been knocked off the overseas #1 slots in Singapore (12th week), The U.S.A. (8th week), Austria, Iceland (both 7th week), Canada (5th week), Luxembourg (returns for a 3rd week), Switzerland (2nd week), while it loses the #1 spot in Hong Kong (after five weeks, TW #3) and Malaysia (after 10 weeks). All of these songs decline twelve-spots apiece... Man I Need - Olivia Dean (2 to #14, HP 4x2, WI10-5) Ordinary by Alex Warren (3 to #15, HP 1x17, WI10-29) (#1 in Belgium for a 15th week) No Broke Boys - Disco Lines feat. Tinashes (4 to #16, HP-3x2, WI10-15; #1 Dance Single) Your Idol - Saja Boys (8 to #20, HP-4x2, WI10-13) back to friends - sombr (9 to #21, HP-3x3, WI10-18) DAISIES - Justin Bieber (13 to #25) Takedown - HUNTR/X (19 to #31) Beautiful Things - Benson Boone (20 to #32, first time out of the Top 30, lowest position ever) Tears - Sabrina Carpenter (21 to #33) Sugar on My Tongue - Tyler, the Creator (24 to #36) BIRDS OF A FEATHER - Billie Eilish (28 to #40) Gabriela - KATSEYE (29 to #41) Die With a Smile - Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars (30 to #42) THE DAYS - NOTION Remix - Chrystal (36 to #48)
Apart from the single eleven-place rise into the Top 50 this week, there are also six eleven-place drops occurring too: TIT FOR TAT - Tate McRae (6 to #17, HP-6, WI10-1) #3 entry on both The U.S.A. and Canada this past week. 12 to 12 - sombr (7 to #18, HP-6x2, WI10-3) How it's Done - HUNTR/X (11 to #22) What it Sounds Like - HUNTR/X (12 to #23) A Bar Song (Tipsy) - Shaboozey (26 to #37), cracked 78 weeks within the Top 100, one-and-a-half years charted. APT. - Rosé & Bruno Mars (32 to #43)
Three songs drop ten or nine places this week... WHERE IS MY HUSBAND? - RAYE (16 to #26) Victory Lap - Fred Again.. with Skepta & PlaqueBoyMax (25 to #35) Sports Car - Tate McRae (down nine to #44)
The bigger drops seen within the chart this week are... 13 places each: Undressed - sombr (14 to #27) Love Me Not - Ravyn Lenae (15 to #28, #1 Hip Hop/R&B Single) Free from KPop Demon Hunters (17 to #30)
14 places each for: Soda Pop - Saja Boys (5 to #19, HP-4x2, WI10-12) Nice to Each Other - Olivia Dean (10 to #24, HP-10, WI10-1)
a 15 place fall: I Had Some Help for Post Malone and Morgan Wallen (34 to #49)
16 spots decline: When Did You Get Hot? - Sabrina Carpenter (18 to #34) Manchild - Sabrina Carpenter (22 to #38) Just Keep Watching - Tate McRae (23 to #39) TAKEDOWN - TWICE (31 to #47)
and the biggest of all drops within the Top 50 this week: That's So True for Gracie Abrams (down 17 spots to #50).
NO FURTHER NEW ENTRIES.
(with a new chart feat this week, I thought I'd mix up my reporting style, thus no Top 20, 30, 40 or 50 regions, normal services will possibly resume next week!!).
The twelfth studio album for Taylor Swift called The Life of a Showgirl blasts into the #1 spot in Australia, becoming her 14th chart-topping album here.
The Life of a Showgirl (Republic) becomes the 1034th #1 Album in Australia (1965 to 2025), the 885th for ARIA (1983 to 2025), the 662nd to debut in the top spot, the 20th #1 Album in 2025 (25th in total with returned LP's included) the fifth in 2025 for the Republic Record label and their 32nd in total (since their first in Sept. 2015), while also taking out the #1 Vinyl Sales slot.
While this may be Taylor Swift's twelfth studio album, it also her fourteenth #1 set, as ten of her mainstream studio releases have hit the top and four of her 'Taylor's Versions' have claimed #1 berths, which means at 14 #1 Albums here she is now equal second on the listing for 'Most #1 Albums (1965 to 2025)' alongside The Beatles (10 during their 1960's career, four compilations afterwards), while ahead of both on 16 in total is Jimmy Barnes (as a solo act, 22 in total with six coming from Cold Chisel). Taylor is also stuck behind The Beatles on another listing too, 'Accumulated Weeks at #1: Albums (1965 to 2025)' as her overall tally of weeks at #1 climbs to 69 weeks (from those 14 #1's), still a long way off from the 126 weeks racked up by the fab-four (if we take The Beatles ARIA #1 info it's only 11 weeks for them, meaning Taylor is ahead in the ARIA-period) .
On a similar listing for 'Accumulated Weeks at #1: Albums; 2020's', Taylor Swift now has 53 weeks at the top during this decade (6 weeks in 2020, 4 in 2021, 7 in 2022, 17 in 2023, 18 in 2024 and 1 week in 2025 so far). The Life of a Showgirl becomes the 369th #1 Album by an American Artist (solo Male or Female, duo or Group), the 182nd by a Solo Female Artist (local or overseas), while it the twelfth times at the top for an album with the word 'Life' in its title, and the first for a 'Showgirl', while a former #1 Album had a similar title in The Life of Riley for Drapht (1 week on Nov. 4th, 2004).
The Life of a Showgirl and it's lead single The Fate of Ophelia both debut in the top spot on both the album and singles chart this week, with all twelve of the LP's track taking the entire Top 12 on the singles chart, surpassing her previous feats from October 31st, 2022 from her Midnights album (13 of the Top 14 debuts, apart from the #7 slot), and on April 29th, 2024 for The Tortured Poets Department (entire Top 10 singles along with 34 within the Top 100, of those 31 were debuts). Her dual occupation this week becomes her ninth such occurrence in Australia (The Beatles are the only act to have done this more, 14 times) and 149th time in total (since the first in 1965). She has also achieved this duopoly overseas this week too in England, Ireland, New Zealand, Germany and The Netherlands, along with her new set coming in at #1 in Scotland, Austria, Belgium, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden (so far).
Two albums remain on hold within the Top 10 this week, with the KPop Demon Hunters and their long-running former #1 soundtrack remaining at #2 (returns to #1 in The U.S.A. for a second stay, holds in Canada for a fifth week, vinyl for this is issued next Friday Oct. 17th) and then Sabrina Carpenter's Man's Best Friend holds at #4 (No.10 Vinyl), while her older set Short N' Sweet is up two places to #8. The third solo female artist within the Top 5 this week is last week's #1 entry for Olivia Dean and The Art of Loving, which dips two places this week to #3.
The highest new Aussie album this week sees the debut set for The Rions called Everything Every Single Day, starting its chart life this week at #5 (No.2 Vinyl) and the #1 Australian Artists Album spot too, while this is now their second Albums chart entry after their second EP called Happiness in a Place it Shouldn't Be debuted and peaked at #35 (No.6 Vinyl) on October 7th, 2024.
Three further albums rise two places each within the Top 10, as Alex Warren's You'll Be Alright, Kid (physically issued Oct. 24th) along with I Barely Know Her for sombr and So Close to What for Tate McRae climb to #6, #7 and #9 respectively. The third and final Top 10 debut occurs at #10 for Irish DJ and producer Evan Campbell under his moniker KETTAMA with his debut album Archangel (No.3 Vinyl), while none of the 10 EP's he issued between 2018 and 2023 charted here, his new set also lands overseas in Ireland and Scotland (both #6), England (#43), The Netherlands (#31) and Belgium (#37), while it's #1 on both the Irish Independent Albums and UK Dance Album charts.
TOP 20: With a new Taylor Swift album crowned this week, her two other currently eligible charting albums rise up within and into the Top 20 this week, with her almost one-and-a-half years old entry The Tortured Poets Department up four places to #14 (No.13 Vinyl, 77 weeks charted) and 1989 (TsV) jumps six spots to land at #18, while that set will divert to the On Replay chart soon as it's at 102 weeks within the Top 100. Talking of the On Replay chart Taylor also rises on that specialist chart with folklore (5 to #4), Reputation (#6 hold), Lover (10 to #8), Midnights (22 to #10), 1989 (#25 on hold) and a return for Red (TsV) (#41).
Rising up nine places to #11 is BRAT for Charli XCX, with the two other rising entries here being a one-place move to #12 for the #1 Country Album by Morgan Wallen and I'm the Problem, while Tate McRae is up three to #20 with her older set Think Later, plus the only non-mover here sees Gracie Abrams' The Secret of Us remain at #17.
The first of four Top 10 dropouts this week sees last week's #6 entry for Doja Cat and Vie only fall ten places this week to #16 (HP-6, WI10-1, #1 Hip Hop/R&B Album), with single place dips seen by Ed Sheeran and Play (to #13) and Billie Eilish with HIT ME HARD & SOFT (to #15), while Justin Bieber's SWAG (I & II) moves down three places to #19.
TOP 30: This past week saw the NRL Grand Final played (Sunday 5th of October), with Teddy Swims opening the match with a four-song medley, three of his own and an AC/DC cover. And with his second national tour starting this week in Sydney (14th), his second album I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2) leaps up thirty-nine places this week to land at #26, while he also sees his Part 1 zoom up twenty-nine spots from #36 to #7 within the On Replay chart, where he also holds the #1 On Replay Singles spot too with Lose Control.
Further climbers here see Lady Gaga's MAYHEM rise five to #23, followed by Royel Otis' hickey (up six to #24), Ariana Grande's eternal sunshine (up two to #25) and the album on-hold here is at #29 for Sleep Token's Even in Arcadia.
Strays Kids lose six chart-rungs with their KARMA set to #21, while a single place dip occurs for Ocean Alley and their Love Balloon set to #22, with the two other declining entries here being Breach for Twenty-One Pilots (down two to #28) and last week's new entry for Geese and Getting Killed (down eight to #30, No.12 Vinyl).
TOP 40: Seven rises, one drop, one new entry and one re-entry here this week. Thanks to a No.5 Vinyl slot this week, the April 2024 issued album for local singer Morgan Evans called Live at the Sydney Opera House returns to the chart at a new peak of #35, having only ever charted once before on April 22nd, 2024 at #86. The only dropping album here sees last week's new entry for The Living End and I Only Trust Rock N' Roll (HP-5, WI10-1), fall thirty-two places to #37.
The biggest rise into the Top 40 this week sees the Addison Rae semi-self-titled set Addison leap back up fourteen places to lay at #40, with smaller rises seen by Sex Hysteria for Jessie Murph (up five to #38), three places rises for Lola Young and I'm Only F**king Myself (to #34), GNX for Kendrick Lamar (to #36) and F-1 Trillion for Post Malone (to #39), with single-place moves for A Matter of Time for Laufey (up to #31, No.16 Vinyl, #1 Jazz/Blues Album) and AM I THE DRAMA? for Cardi B (up to #33 in its third chart week).
TOP 50: Seven rises and three falls here, with the double-digit rises seen by Beautifully Broken by Jelly Roll (up fourteen places to #43) and Bad Bunny with DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS (jumps twenty places to #44), while two further lower-fifty rises occur for Charm by Clairo (52 to #46) and The First Time (Expanded) for The Kid LAROI (56 to #47). Also moving back up are PartyNextDoor and Drake with $ome $exy $ongs 4 U (up two to #42), P-POP CULTURE for Karan Aujla x Ikky (up five to #45) and The Hilltop Hoods rebound one spot to #48 with Fall from the Light.
Lorde dips one to #41 with Virgin, Tyler, the Creator and DON'T TAP THE GLASS is down four to #49 and The Weeknd dips two to #50 with Hurry Up Tomorrow. The two other Top 10 dropouts from last week are The Moon (The Dark Side) for Bliss N' Eso from #3 and the Brad Cox Endemic Intelligence in Multiple Dimensions set (from #7).
FURTHER NEW ENTRIES: * #1 (LP#12) - The Life of a Showgirl - Taylor Swift (Republic)
* #5 (LP#1) - Everything Every Single Day - The Rions (Community Music)
* #27 (14th) - The Tree of Wisdom - The Tree of Wisdom with The Wiggles (ABC Kids) also lands at No.11 on the Vinyl Chart for the Australian kids-act, with this the fourteenth side-character album (6 for Dorothy, four for Emma, two for Lachy and a Jimmy Barnes duet set among them), while The Wiggles last chart entry was Wiggle Up, Giddy Up (HP-40, March 17th, 2025). Dominic Field plays The Tree of Wisdom character, nephew of original Blue Wiggle Anthony Field and son to the groups managing director Paul Field.
* #32 (LP#1) - SOULSTAR - BOY SODA (Warner Australia) No.6 on the Vinyl Chart for the local electronic hip-hop artist from Terrigal (Central Coast), New South Wales, born Brae Luafalealo. This debut studio album becomes their first chart entry after previously issuing a EP called The Distance Between Thinking and Feeling (April 2022) and a mixtape YC-Tape Vol.1 (Dec. 2022), while recently picking up an ARIA Award nomination for this years upcoming ceremony for the track Lil' Obsession in the 'Best Soul/R&B Release'. Last edited:
New Albums coming this week from: * Khalid * MANSIONAIR * BIA * Mobb Deep * Noah Cyrus (Dlx) * Amber Mark * Baker Boy * Calum Scott * NoSo * English Teacher * Jacob Collier * Brian Eno * Madi Diaz * Flock of Dimes * Jay Som * LANY * Perturbator * Richard Ashcroft * Testament * The Autumn Defence * Amy Sheppard * The Orb * The Antlers * Yellowcard * HAAi * Blawan * Rhett Miller * Bernie Leadon * The Besnard Lakes * Black Eyes * Harvey Sutherland * Jerskin Fendrix * John 5 * Nemo * Princess Nokia * The Wytches * Youth Group * The 046
The Fate of Ophelia is Taylor Swift's 54th top 10 single, and the other 9 make 63 + the 3 Taylor's versions of Blank Space, Style and Mine. Her biggest charting rivals Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber have only had 28. Her dominance is ridiculous.... She's also the #1 charting act (1974-2025) officially overtaking Ed Sheeren. Justin Bieber is third.
Hey, so I had a rough night (not pertaining to charts, actually was quite cordial for once), let's not escalate this and make me have to start moderating posts
Errrr, why are you insulting me Savage grant? Just because you don't agree with me and are probably concerned with this week's chart doesn't give you the right to insult me.
I am on a forum and have got the right to be here. I've got the right to express my happiness in regards to Taylor Swift occupying the Top 12.
I really hope that moderators can take actions because insulting other members like this truly is not acceptable on a forum. It should be a safe place, not a toxic one where you can be insulted if you have "the nerve" to express an opinion. Last edited:
IE: That's pretty rich coming from you. Crying wolf now after you made such a personal attack on me in these very forums in the early years of streaming that I left the site for a few years. Of course, your posts were deleted at the time so stay on your high horse if you choose - some of us members still remember what you said.
I have a policy to not bear long-term grudges. I don't see myself as the same person I was however many years ago so I try to grant others the same liberty, lest it turn into a sparring match that only feels justified because everyone thinks they weren't the one to cast the first stone. There's nothing productive about it and it just comes across as trying to silence through intimidation.
So I'll ask again to cut it out because this looks ridiculous to me.
Also @The Swert, I've never seen ARIA suggest anything on the matter. There's a note on the recent FAQ that says it was considered internally, but they determined it 'did not provide a proper reflection of consumption for that week'.
@ Hijinx; You’re a moderator of conversation. You’re not here to in-still something that’s a policy to you into another. You mention that there’s nothing productive about it and it just comes across as intimidation and trying to silence through intimidation. Yet you stated that it looks ridiculous to yourself and you then elude to that either member could have potentially cast the first stone and that you’ve grown as a person but your highlighting of others. You’re drawing from your background knowledge, reading and being present on this site as a moderator but you’re not moderating the underlying fundamental issue.
I clearly recall that fishing tactics by certain members and exclusion tactics have been utilised on this site previously. These tactics placed multiple people in a negative head space where people questioned themselves and their overall mental health. Some withdrew from the site permanently. Some withdrew and then returned and others stayed but reframed from posting.
As a moderator you need to take into consideration past and present information and overall impact on the site but most importantly the impact on the site members.
You cannot take sides…
If we moderate the above section what can you see?
Then apply the importance of past, present and future impact.
I'm not trying to take sides here. I'm threading these things very carefully because I'm very aware of how it comes across. Everyone's probably well aware of my opinion on how I think the ARIA Chart should work and I'm not here to preach it right now. I'm doing what I can to mediate this because it feels untenable at present. I apologise if it feels like I'm injecting too much of my own personal policy, it's the only one I've got.
No one should be receiving degrading attacks here. We're all adults, and we can all do better.
When you speak of past instances, I'd be glad to hear them. I'm familiar with many examples on this website and I don't think it does us all any good to weaponise it for advantage in winning an argument. I'd like to think that no one is intentionally malicious and a lot of the time, it's borne of a misunderstanding. I think the best way forward is to hash these things out. If I feel someone has wronged or disrespected me, I tend to sent a private message to them to clarify what's going on, and it generally tends to work out well.
I can offer the same thing. If anyone still has some underlying issue with something I've said or done in the past, my memos are always open. I know I've said a lot of things I don't agree with in the past, and I'm not trying to hide it. It's all just experiences we can learn and grow from.
I appreciate the quick response Hijinx. Thank you for sharing what was on your mind.
Let’s break this down.
Great to read you’re not taking sides.
I don’t think we’re all going to agree on how the chart is calculated, what’s included, not included, the rules etc etc.
It can be a frustration to read another’s perspective on the ARIA Chart especially if it doesn’t align with our own views.
What’s occurred this week is polarising to some and amazing to others. When ARIA updated rules recently it was polarising to some and amazing to others.
It’s alright to express your opinions and views. Where the line becomes blurred is to not respect someone else’s views and to cause friction when it’s clear the views and opinions don’t match your own.
It’s always a difficult pill to swallow when someone rain’s on your parade. What’s occurred on the chart this week will be one for the books that’s for sure and instantly we had some comments. Unfortunately the placement of Innocent Eyes comment and the text is to bait or cause a negative reaction by doing the opposite deliberately to cause friction.
…it did, it’s something that has occurred before. Not a singular event but has been over many years. Hence the savagegrant’s reaction.
Innocent Eyes you have a place here. Savagegrant you have a place here.
It’s not acceptable to attempt to get a rise out of one another or anyone else for that matter.
It’s alright to disagree but let’s try to discuss it together and then return to the Chart the next week to see what unfolds.
If I haven’t clarified enough, apologies. I’ve gone through my own trials and tribulations here and would like to think still being here all these years later I’ve learnt a thing or too from everyone including myself.
You are over interpreting. My comment wasn't intended to cause friction. I was just expressing my feelings and just commented on this week's chart. That's all and it doesn't justify the insult.
Won't be replying anymore and any further to this.
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