Taylor Swift holds for a second week with The Fate of Ophelia, plus she also has eight of the Top 10 positions this week too.
The Fate of Ophelia gives Taylor a thirtieth overall week at #1 in Australia with her 13th chart-topper, now becoming her third consecutive #1 song to log two weeks at the top after Fortnight (April 29th and May 6th, 2024), Cruel Summer (Feb 26th and March 4th, 2024) and Is it Over Now (TsV) (Nov. 6th & 13th, 2023). Taylor also rises on the listing for 'Accumulated Weeks at #1: Singles (1940 to 2025)' to 21st, now just above The Black Eyed Peas tally (30 weeks from 8 #1's) and one week away from overtaking Kylie Minogue's total (31 weeks from 10 #1's).
Taylor maintains her duopoly on the charts here with her album The Life of a Showgirl also holding its top-spot, while overall this is Taylor's 17th dual occupation of the #1 spot from her nine such achievements. The Ophelia track also becomes the 20th such song in chart history to hold the top spot in the seven main chart locations I use, Australia, England, Ireland, New Zealand, Germany and newly at the top in The U.S.A. and Canada, a first since Flowers for Miley Cyrus in January of 2023. This week the song also holds again in The Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, plus it took the #1 slot this past week in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Luxembourg, Portugal, Singapore, Spain and Switzerland, along with Top 10 entries in Hong Kong, Iceland, Slovakia (all #2), Croatia, Malaysia (both #3), France (#4), Finland, Hungary, Taiwan (each #5), South Africa (#6) and Poland (#8).
Last week Taylor saw her entire album debut within the Top 12, something which is repeated this week in both The U.S.A. and Canada, while she maintains seven further Top 10 placements this week too, two of which peak hold*, plus further overseas positions... Opalite: OZ #2*, NZ 2 to #4, USA #2, CA #2, GER #3* UK 2 to #4, IRE 2 to #3, NER 5 to #10, AUS #2, BEL #5, CROA #9, CZE #9, DEN #3, FIN #9, HONG #8, HUNG #21, ICE #4, LUX #4, MALAY #5, NOR #3, POL #14, PORT #2, SING #3, SLOV #14, S.AFR #19, SPAIN #13, SWED #4, SWIZ #2, TAIW #12.
Elizabeth Taylor: OZ 3 to #5, NZ 3 to #5, USA #3, CA #3, GER 4 to #5, UK 3 to #6, IRE 3 to #5, NER 7 to #26, AUS #3, BEL #6, CROA #11, CZE #7, DEN #4, FIN #10, HONG #11, HUNG #18, ICE #5, LUX #3, MALAY #7, NOR #4, POL #13, PORT #3, SING #4, SLOV #12, S.AFR #20, SPAIN #17, SWED #3, SWIZ #3, TAIW #13.
Father Figure: OZ 4 to #6, NZ 4 to #6, USA #4, CA #4, GER 5 to #9, AUS #4, BEL #15, CROA #16, CZE #15, DEN #6, FIN #16, HONG #14, ICE #8, LUX #6, MALAY #11, NOR #7, POL #21, PORT #6, SING #5, SLOV #25, SPAIN #22, SWED #5, SWIZ #5, TAIW #22.
The Life of a Showgirl: OZ 6 to #7, NZ 7 to #8, USA #8, CA #6, AUS #7, BEL #24, DEN #13, HONG #18, ICE #18, LUX #10, MALAY #18, NOR #12, PORT #13, SING #7, SWED #7, SWIZ #9.
Wood: OZ 5 to #8, NZ 6 to #9, USA #5, CA #5, AUS #9, DEN #12, HONG #24, ICE #22, LUX #12, NOR #15, PORT #12, SING #9, SWED #12, SWIZ #11.
Wi$h Li$t: OZ #9*, NZ 11 to #10^, USA #6, CA #10, AUS #10, DEN #18, HONG #20, ICE #21, LUX #11, MALAY #13, NOR #14, PORT #9, SING #6, SPAIN #24, SWED #13, SWIZ #10.
Actually Romantic: OZ 8 to #10, NZ 9 to #11, USA #7, CA #8, GER 10 to #21, AUS #8, BEL #25, DEN #15, ICE #17, LUX #9, NOR #16, PORT #10, SING #12, SWED #11, SWIZ #11.
Two of the fallen from last week's evacuated Top 10 return with ten-place jumps this week, with the former Top 2 songs for four weeks (Sept. 15th to Oct. 6th) in Golden for HUNTR/X and Man I Need for Olivia Dean jumping to #3 (WI10-15) and #4 (WI10-6) respectively. Golden returns to #1 overseas in Hong Kong (for 6th week) and Malaysia (for 11th week, the longest anywhere in the world, surpassing the ten weeks in Australia).
TOP 20: Taylor Swift has four songs which decline into and within the Top 20 this week too: CANCELLED: OZ 7 to #13, NZ 8 to #13, USA #10, CA #7, GER 9 to #17, AUS #5, BEL #19, CROA #23, CZE #19, DEN #11, FIN #21, HONG #22, ICE #20, LUX #7, MALAY #24, NOR #11, POL #24, PORT #7, SING #10, SWED #10, SWIZ #8.
Ruin the Friendship: OZ 11 to #14, NZ 12 to #15, USA #11, CA #11, AUS #12, DEN #16, ICE #23, LUX #13, NOR #18, PORT #14, SING #11, SWED #14, SWIZ #13.
Eldest Daughter: OZ 10 to #15, NZ 10 to #17, USA #9, CA #9, GER 8 to #20, AUS #6, BEL #20, CZE #24, DEN #10, HONG #19, ICE #14, LUX #8, MALAY #14, NOR #13, PORT #11, SING #8, SWED #9, SWIZ #7.
Honey: OZ 12 to #17, NZ 14 to #19, USA #12, CA #12, AUS #14, DEN #21, LUX #15, PORT #17, SING #13, SWED #17, SWIZ #14. ^ = new peak (AUS = Austria)
The three new sales certifications occur within the Top 20 this week, with four-place rebounds for both Ordinary by Alex Warren (newly 5x▲Platinum, last cert. Sept. 8th) and No Broke Boys for Disco Lines with Tinashes (up to 2x▲Platinum, last cert. Aug. 25th, #1 Dance Single again) to #11 and #12 respectively, while 12 to 12 for sombr is up two places to #16 and now ▲Platinum (previously Gold on Sept. 22nd), plus he also sees a one-spot rise to #20 with back to friends. The three-week old entry for Tate McRae and TIT FOR TAT dips two places to #19, while The Saja Boys and their Soda Pop track rebounds one spot to #18...
TOP 30: ...while they move down one place to #21 with their other entry Your Idol, while two further songs from the soundtrack also see declines here, What it Sounds Like and How it's Done for HUNTR/X fall to #26 and #28 respectively. Ravyn Lenae again has the #1 Hip Hop/R&B Single with Love Me Now, down one place to #29, while on hold here are Justin Bieber's DAISIES at #25 and the third and final sombr entry, Undressed at #27.
Apart from the three peak-holds within the Top 10, the three actual NEW PEAKS within the Top 50 this week all go to Olivia Dean, with her first occurring for her track So Easy (to Fall in Love) up seven places to land at a new chart height of #22, while her nineteen week old track Nice to Each Other is right behind it and moves back up one place to #23. The two other rising entries here are RAYE with WHERE IS MY HUSBAND? (up two to #24) and Fred Again with Skepta on Victory Lap (up five to #30), with another new track from him issued on Friday (Oct. 17th) called the floor.
TOP 40: Tate McRae's F1 The Movie track Just Keep Watching is up four places to #35 this week (possibly thanks to the DVD coming out on Oct. 8th), with the only other rise here seen by the Shaboozey track A Bar Song (Tipsy) (up one to #36), with that track cracking 78 weeks last week, this week his lower charting entry Good News (HP-63) could crack 26 weeks within the Top 100 (if it's still charting). Two songs remain stable here; Beautiful Things for Benson Boone (#32) and BIRDS OF A FEATHER for Billie Eilish (#40).
Two further KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack songs drop down and into the Top 40 too, Free (down one to #31) and Takedown for HUNTR/X (dips two to #33), with Tyler, the Creator and his track Sugar on My Tongue falling (down one to #37), while Sabrina Carpenter has three songs which drop here, Tears (33 to #34), When Did You Get Hot? (34 to #38) and Manchild (38 to #39).
TOP 50: The two further Olivia Dean NEW PEAKS sees her into-Top 50 rise from last week Baby Steps walk up this week five places to #41, while this week's climb from the lower-fifty track for her sees Let Alone the One You Love up four spots to land at a new chart height of #49. The only two further climbs here are single-spot moves for Sports Car by Tate McRae (to #43) and I Had Some Help for Post Malone and Morgan Wallen (to #48).
Down one-place each are Gabriela for KATSEYE (to #42) and current tourist Teddy Swims with Bad Dreams (to #46, he teams with David Guetta plus Tones and I for a new track called Gone Gone Gone), two places for Die With a Smile for Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, followed by the other Bruno duet with Rosé and APT. to #44 and #45 respectively, while the three-place fall goes to the final KPop Demon Hunters entry, the TWICE rendition of TAKEDOWN (to #50).
NEW ENTRY: * #47 - EYES CLOSED - JISOO with ZAYN (Warner) is the second entry for the BLACKpink member who first charted with her song Flower (HP-33, April 10th, 2023), while all of the girls from the band have now seen duets charting for their solo careers in this past year, JISOO now with former One Direction member ZAYN, while Rosé had a major success with Bruno Mars (#1 across the 2024-25 summer), LISA teamed with Doja Cat and RAYE (Born Again HP-48, Feb. 2025), while JENNIE teamed with both Doechii (ExtraL, HP-64) and Dua Lipa (Handlebars, HP-63), both of them peaking on March 17th, 2025. The new JISOO track has so far landed highest in her home country of South Korea (#15), while also debuting in England (#37) and Ireland (#67). This new entry also becomes the tenth Top 50 placement for ZAYN too, seven as lead, three now as a guest artist (Snakehips in 2016 and Shaed in 2019 were the previous two). Last edited:
Taylor Swift remains at #1 with her latest release The Life of a Showgirl, also claiming the #1 spot in multiple countries too.
The Life of a Showgirl also remains the No.1 Vinyl Album for a second week, and increases her overall tally of 'Weeks at #1: Albums (1965 to 2025)' to now 70 accumulated weeks, 54 of which have occurred in this decade, while the set remains at the top in England, Ireland, New Zealand and debuted at #1 this past week in The U.S.A. and Canada, making it the 41st time that all five Album #1's have matched (the last time was with Eminem's The Death of Slim Shady in July of 2024). The new Taylor set also remains at the top in The Netherlands and drops down to #2 in Germany, while she retains eight of the Top 10 singles in Australia and saw her repeat her feat from last week with all twelve tracks from the album debuting within the Top 12 in both The U.S.A. and Canada.
Taylor Swift also maintains her duopoly of our charts as her track The Fate of Ophelia holds for a second week as the top selling single, becoming the 17th overall week that Taylor has held down the #1 spots on both charts. The Showgirl set is also the first of seven stable entries within the Top 10 this week, as the soundtrack to the Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters remains at #2, scoring a Gold (●) in sales this week after 17 weeks of charting, both within the Top 100 and Top 10, plus the album saw a Vinyl release on Friday, so it might remain this high next week, both acts might have to see off a #1 threat from the new Tame Impala album Deadbeat though.
The five further non-movers here are Olivia Dean with The Art of Loving at #3, the two Sabrina Carpenter Top 10 placements for her latest release Man's Best Friend at #4 (No.4 Vinyl) and Short N' Sweet at #8 (No.20 Vinyl). Alex Warren remains at #6 with You'll Be Alright, Kid and sombr's I Barely Know Her holds at #7, while the only declining entry here is a one-place dip to #10 for Tate McRae and So Close to What.
Last week saw two new entries to the Top 10 at #5 and #10, with both of those albums for The Rions (#5) and KETTAMA (#10) departing the Top 50 this week. Replacing the #5 spot this week is the seventh studio album for local singer-songwriter Pete Murray called Longing (No.3 Vinyl, #1 Australian Artists Album), becoming his sixth Top 10 entry and ninth overall entry (6 studio, 1 redone set, 1 best of, 1EP, all reached the Top 30), while he recently hit the Vinyl Sales chart with his Acoustic Roots Vol.1 set (peaked at No.10 on July 28th, 2025). The second Top 10 entry sees the third EP for local female singer Lyric (Hatezic) called The Art of Falling First debuting at #9, becoming her first chart entry, since issuing her first material in 2021, plus the second title within the Top 10 with The Art of within its title (Olivia Dean is the other one at #3).
TOP 20: Taylor Swift has two declining albums within the Top 20, both down two places each, with The Tortured Poets Department to #16 (No.18 Vinyl) which cracks 78 weeks (one-and-a-half years charted), with 1989 (TsV) moving to #20, with only two more weeks of it's Top 100 life remaining at 103 weeks charted, while she has four albums lodged within the On Replay Albums chart this week too.
One-place moves are seen for I'm the Problem for Morgan Wallen (up to #11, #1 Country Album), BRAT for Charli XCX (down to #12), HIT ME HARD & SOFT for Billie Eilish (up to #14) and Think Later for Tate McRae (rising to #19). Further two-spot moves are seen by Play for Ed Sheeran and Vie for Doja Cat and, down to #15 and #18 respectively, while Gracie Arbams holds for a third week in a row at #17 with The Secret of Us.
TOP 30: Teddy Swims kicked off his second national tour this past week in Sydney and his second set I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2) remains on hold at #26, with his Part 1 at #12 on the On Replay chart, plus he holds the #1 and #4 positions within the On Replay Singles Chart too.
Four albums here rise two places each, SWAG (I & II) for Justin Bieber, hickey by Royel Otis, eternal sunshine for Ariana Grande and Even in Arcadia for Sleep Token to #21, #22, #23 and #27 respectively, while albums dropping here are MAYHEM for Lady Gaga (dips one to #24), Love Balloon by Ocean Alley (down three to #25) and a seven place slide to #28 for Stray Kids' KARMA.
TOP 40: Thanks to a Clear Vinyl reissue for the recent Madonna remix collection Veronica Electronica the set returns at a NEW PEAK of #33 this week, having previously come in at #36 on August 4th, 2025 (that week also No.3 Vinyl as the Silver disc edition). ROLE MODEL see an eleven place rebound to #40 with Kansas Anymore (HP-39), while also rising here are Sex Hysteria for Jessie Murph (up four to #34), GNX by Kendrick Lamar (up one to #35) and Addison by Addison Rae (also rising four to #36).
Declines here are for Breach by Twenty One Pilots (drops nine to #37), A Matter of Time for Laufey (falls seven to #38, #1 Jazz/Blues Album, No.19 Vinyl) and Lola Young with I'm Only F**king Myself (down five to #39).
TOP 50: The tenth and final non-mover within the Top 50 this week sees the PartyNextDoor and Drake set $ome $exy $ongs 4 U holding at #42, while Benson Boone rises from the lower fifty with his American Heart set, up nine places to #44, with the only other climbing set being a three place rise to #46 for DON'T TAP THE GLASS for Tyler, the Creator.
Down two places each are rappers Post Malone with F-1 Trillion (to #41) and The Kid LAROI with The First Time (to #49), with a single-place dip to #47 for Clairo's Charm set. Two albums fall seven places, Virgin for Lorde (to #48) and Jelly Roll with Beautifully Broken (to #50), while the biggest declining album within the Top 50 this week is a ten-place fall to #43 for the Cardi B four week old entry AM I THE DRAMA?
FURTHER NEW ENTRIES: * #5 (LP#7) - Longing - Pete Murray (Community Music)
* #9 (EP#3) - The Art of Falling First (EP) - Lyric (Lyric)
* #13 (LP#2) - DJANDJAY - Baker Boy (Island Australia) is the local artists second album entry, arriving four years after his debut set Gela (HP-3, Oct. 25th, 2021), with the new release also taking the #1 Hip Hop/R&B Album, #1 Australian Hip Hop/R&B Album and No.16 Vinyl Sales slots this week too.
* #29 (LP#3) - Avenoir - Calum Scott (Capitol) is the third album and entry here for the English singer-songwriter, with his two previous sets being Only Human (LP#1, HP-5, March 19th, 2018) and Bridges (LP#2, HP-12, June 27th, 2022), with this new title also charting overseas in Scotland (#14), England (#31), Germany (#33) and Austria (#37) so far.
* #30 (LP#11) - Shimmer - Jon Stevens (Circle Music) is the eleventh solo album, his fourth to chart (and third Top 50 placement), plus the new album also lands at No.5 on the Vinyl Sales Chart too. The former NZ pop star (he scored his first #1 single there in late 1979) who later became the lead singer of Noiseworks, scoring four Top 10 Albums and five overall Top 50 entries with them, one of which went to #1, while he also appeared on another #1 Album in the Australian Cast Recording of Jesus Christ Superstar in 1992.
* #31 (LP#1) - Melt - Not for Radio (Atlantic) is the debut release from The Marias frontwoman María Zardoya under her Not for Radio moniker, with the band also charting with their own material at the moment, the song No One Noticed (HP-54x2 on Sept. 29th and Oct. 6th) plus their Submarine album (HP-77, Sept. 22nd).
* #32 (LP#14) - Para Bellum - Testament (Nuclear Blast) becomes the third consecutive entry here for the San Francisco thrash-metal act after their last two releases Titans of Creation (LP#13, HP-30, April 2020) and Brotherhood of the Snake (LP#12, HP-24, Nov. 2016). The new set also lands overseas in Austria (#8), Germany (#10), Scotland (#11), England (#12 on their Sales Chart), Belgium (#26), Finland (#27), Japan (#29) and The Netherlands (#39).
* #45 (LP#1) - Born to Be Country - Amy Sheppard (Empire of Song/MGM) is the debut studio album for the member of Sheppard, plus it also becomes her second Albums chart entry as her debut EP Nothing But Wild hit #16 (Sept. 26th, 2022), with her last appearance alongside her bandmates being on Zora (HP-8, July 1st, 2024), while her new set also takes out the #1 spot on the Australian Country Artists Albums Chart too.
New Albums coming this week from: * Tame Impala * Andrew Swift * Chris Young * Coroner * The Last Dinner Party * bbno$ * WILSN * Bryant Barnes * Miles Kane * Militarie Gun * Silvana Estrada * Soulwax * Animal Collective (20th Ann + Live) * All Time Low * Ashnikko * Chrissie Hynde * Of Monsters and Men * Ruel * Gucci Mane * Ty Dolla $ign * Henry Wagons & Queenie * The Apartments * Boz Scaggs * Sabaton * Sam Ryder * Suzie True * Skullcrusher * Sudan Archives * Bar Italia * Biohazard * Casey Dienel * C.Y.M. * Good Luck * The Lemonheads * Paz Lenchantin * Polica * Rick Wakeman * Robin Zander * Steve Martin & Alison Brown * Tombs * Nemzzz
After 10 consecutive weeks of the New Music Singles chart providing no extra info that can't be gleamed from the top 50, the shattering of the Honmoon now has it providing quite a bit!
On singles, a Kid Cudi song I've never heard of ("Maui Wowie") debuts at #15 - it's from his 2008 mixtape, which was released commercially in 2022. Every Breath You Take and You Should Probably Leave (Chris Stapleton) debut - they were 2 of the highest missing songs from the Spotify chart! I'm glad someone is paying some level of attention. Thinking Out Loud also debuts.
On Australian singles, The Kid LAROI's "NIGHTS LIKE THIS" debuts at #9... but as far as I can tell, that song did not exist until 10 November 2023. It should not be debuting for another 5 weeks. I presume ARIA have the wrong date in their system, but it's a shame that they don't verify it. I thought they might have mixed up his songs, but I believe he released songs on 20 October, 27 October and 3 November 2023, but not 6 October (what it should be for this week).
Dom Dolla's "Saving Up" was released on 6 October 2023, and correctly debuts, at #46. It was #12 on the non-replay Australian singles chart last week ("NIGHTS LIKE THIS" was #4). Those 2 songs become the first 2023 songs to have appeared on the On Replay Australian singles chart. CYRIL's "Stumblin' In" should follow in a few weeks. Joji's "SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK" also debuts, at #40; I wonder whether it's had a resurgence or wasn't being tracked. I don't know whether "Glimpse Of Us" is being tracked, but its current Spotify plays (worldwide) are ~81% that of "SLOW DANCING IN THE DARK", so I presume it probably wouldn't be charting. Last edited:
Oh good catch on "NIGHTS LIKE THIS", didn't even occur to me. Joji is likely a consequence of his new single popping up on Tuesday, was actually thinking that it's so unusual to see a late-week release appear on the Australian chart, but that's the consequence of the bar being lowered so much.
Re NIGHTS LIKE THIS. Kinda of reminds me of June 2010 when Kelly Clarkson All I Ever Wanted LP entered the catalogue chart despite being barely 1 year and 4 months old lol
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I'm glad someone is paying some level of attention. Thinking Out Loud also debuts.