A visit to our shores and a live performance at this week's ARIA Awards, and Olivia Dean secures her first #1 single and second local chart-topper with Man I Need.
Man I Need (Capitol UK) becomes the 1153rd #1 Single in Australia (1940 to 2025), the 588th for ARIA (1983 to 2025), the eighth new #1 single for 2025 (ninth in total) and the 63rd for the Capitol Record label (since their first in 1946, 16th during the ARIA-era), with their last #1 locally being exactly eight months ago, March 24th, 2025 for a one-week stay by Doechii's Anxiety track.
Olivia Dean presented an Award and sang Man I Need at the ARIA Awards on Wednesday night, having already done a heap of promo's and appearances prior to the event, it has broken her eight-week #2 stay and propelled her song to the top locally for the first time, while the track achieves an eighth overall week at the top in New Zealand (plus her LP is their #1 too), while seven of the eleven NEW PEAKS within the Top 50 this week are all attributed to Olivia Dean tracks too.
Man I Need is the eighth song with the word Man within its title at #1 (the last two were both Beatles #1's in Baby You're a Rich Man {b-side of All You Need is Love, 5 weeks from July 29th, 1967; one of the five Need tracks at #1 too} and Nowhere Man [2 weeks from April 30th, 1966}), while I excluded Do the Bartman for The Simpsons because it's a blended Man word. Need now appears for a fifth time too, with the last March 2004's All I Need is You for Guy Sebastian (one week stay). The track also becomes the 29th #1 Single for a Solo Female English singer (Lola Young on Feb. 3rd with Messy was the last), Olivia Dean is now the 133rd English Act (whether solo male or female, duo or group), while this is also the 221st by an English Act too.
Olivia (the name) has now made four separate appearances at #1 too, with Olivia Newton-John (Oct. 1971, Nov. 1974, June 1978, Nov. 1981, June 1991), Olivia Rodrigo (Jan. 2021, May 2021, July 2023) and Olivia O'Brien as a guest on the Gnash track I Hate U, I Love U (April 2016).
Man I Need and it's rise of one spot to #1 here is also charting overseas in New Zealand (#1 for an eighth week), The Netherlands (#2 peak hold), Denmark (#2 hold, HP-1), The U.S.A. (5 to #4*), England (4 to #5, HP-1), Sweden (#4 hold, HP-3), Canada, Iceland (both 6 to #5*), Belgium (#5 hold, HP-4), Ireland (7 to #6, HP-1), Norway (5 to #6, HP-3), Austria (16 to #11, HP-8), Luxembourg (#8 peak hold), Germany (#12 peak hold), Switzerland (13 to #12, HP-5), Singapore (18 to #13*), South Africa (12 to #13, HP-9) and a massive drop in Portugal (10 to #25, HP-10).
Olivia Dean also has three of the four NEW PEAKS within the Top 10 this week too, with her second being another song which breaks out a multiple-week hold (#7 for three weeks), as So Easy (to Fall in Love) rises two places to a new chart height of #5 (overseas: NZ 4 to #2*) while her former #10 peaking track (Oct. 6th) Nice to Each Other, is this week up three places to #9 and a second week within the Top 10 too (NZ 9 to #8, HP-7). Plus Olivia also has two more Top 10 berths on another chart, the On Replay listing shows her tracks The Hardest Part (#8 up six spots) and Dive (#9, up four spots) also scoring NEW PEAKS on that chart, plus she sees a new entry at #47 on that chart with OK Love You Bye.
After six weeks of dominating both charts the Taylor Swift duopoly has come to an end (for now maybe), as The Fate of Ophelia and it's parent album The Life of a Showgirl drop to #2 (singles) and #3 (Albums) respectively, while Taylor also sees a two place drop to #8 for Opalite and her overall Top 50 tally this week reduces to six entries, while she is surpassed this week by seven placements for Olivia Dean within the Top 50. Ophelia does remain the #1 song overseas in Ireland, Germany and Norway (all 7th week) The U.S.A., Canada, Austria, Belgium and Switzerland (each 6th week), England, The Netherlands (both for a 5th week), Czech Republic (4th week), Sweden (returns for a 4th week) and Luxembourg (returns for 3rd week), along with Iceland, Singapore (both #2 hold), New Zealand (2 to #3), Malaysia (#3 hold), Denmark, Slovakia (both 4 to #3), Italy (#7 hold), Finland (11 to #7, HP-5), Portugal (3 to #8), France (7 to #8), Poland (11 to #9, HP-8), Hong Kong (11 to #12), Hungary (#13 hold) Taiwan (15 to #18) and South Africa (23 to #21).
Holding for a sixth week at #3 is the Golden track for HUNTR/X, which is followed by the second of three stable Top 10 entries this week in the Alex Warren track Ordinary. Golden is again the top seller overseas in Singapore (16th week) and Iceland (12th week), holds at #2 in England, Ireland, Germany, Canada, The U.S.A., Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Norway, Switzerland and Taiwan, #3 in Hong Kong, #5 in Slovakia, #7 in Denmark, #17 in Finland, #20 in Indonesia, moving up in Poland (10 to #8, HP-6) and South Africa (18 to #17), dips a little in Luxembourg (1 to #2 after five weeks at #1), Sweden (1 to #2 after 11 weeks at #1), Malaysia (1 to #2 after 15 weeks at #1), The Netherlands, New Zealand (both 3 to #4), Italy (3 to #5), Hungary (9 to #10), dropping harder in Portugal (4 to #11) and Spain (3 to #18) after a massive LP-dump from Rosalía on both charts this past week.
The #1 Dance Single again this week is the Disco Lines and Tinashe collab No Broke Boys, down one spot to #6, which is followed by the new #1 entry on the Hip/Hop/R&B Singles Chart and the fourth and final NEW PEAK within the Top 10 this week, RAYE with WHERE IS MY HUSBAND?, which possibly rises due to the new David Guetta dance mix issued last week, while the song PEAK-HOLDS in England, Ireland (#3), and rises to new heights in Germany (7 to #3), The Netherlands (5 to #3), Austria (10 to #6), Switzerland (11 to #6), Sweden (8 to #6), New Zealand, Luxembourg (both 10 to #7), Norway (9 to #7), Denmark (12 to #10), Iceland (19 to #10), Czech Republic (21 to #17), Portugal (24 to #20), Canada (34 to #28), The U.S.A. (65 to #58), Slovakia (#22 entry) and Singapore (#24 debut). (* = new peak)
The third and final non-mover in the Top 10 is also the first of three Top 20 and stable entries for December tourist sombr, as his 12 to 12 track remains at #10 and grabs an eighth week within the Top 10 (also matching the position his Album fell too this week as well), after which...
TOP 20: ...he again sits back-to-back with himself as back to friends remains on hold at #11, while Undressed is at #16, both of those Top 20 entries remain in those positions for a third straight week too, while the third and final non-mover here is Love Me Not for Ravyn Lenae at #17.
A NEW PEAK occurs at #13 with a twelve place surge for the Olivia Dean track A Couple Minutes, which in its fourth week within the Top 50 (and 7th in the T100; NZ #6 hold), becomes her fourth of seven NEW PEAKS within the fifty this week. Also rising here are DAISIES for Justin Bieber (up one to #14), Beautiful Things for Benson Boone (up four to #15) and Victory Lap for Fred Again.. (up two to #20), the first of two Top 50 entries for him this week.
Soda Pop for Saja Boys moves up one spot to #12, while their other Top 20 entry is Your Idol, which is down one place to #19, while the third of six Top 50 entries for Taylor Swift sees her Elizabeth Taylor ode move down four places to #18.
TOP 30: Each section this week has a NEW PEAK for Olivia Dean within it, and here we see Baby Steps walking up five places to land at #26 (NZ #17 hold), while a second NEW PEAK occurs here for the #1 Australian (performed) Single again this week in the Tame Impala track Dracula, up six spots to land at #28, with overseas entries in England (#24 hold), Ireland (down one to #16), The Netherlands (down one to #26), The U.S.A. (30 to #38), Canada (39 to #44) and New Zealand (#40 debut).
Not only do Tame Impala rise six spots, but two other animal-infused tracks/acts see rises too, BIRDS OF A FEATHER for Billie Eilish (up six to #23) and Gabriela for KATSEYE (up five to #30, HP-27), with smaller rises seen by TIT FOR TAT and Just Keep Watching for Tate McRae (up one spot each to #22 and #25 respectively, T4T might rise next week now that it's featured on the deluxe edition of So Close to What???), and Manchild for Sabrina Carpenter (up one to #29).
Two further KPop Demon Hunter tracks reside in the Top 30 with What is Sounds Like and How it's Done both by HUNTR/X falling three places each to #24 and #27 respectively, while the third and final decline here is a one-spot dip to #21 for A Bar Song (Tipsy) by Shaboozey.
TOP 40: Olivia Dean's NEW PEAK in the Top 40 sees her former #49 peaking track (Oct. 20th) Let Alone the One You Love leap fifteen places this week to land at #36 (NZ 18 to #15), while it's followed by a thirteen place rebound to #37 for THE DAYS - NOTION Remix for Chrystal, with the second NEW PEAK here being a one-place rise to #40 for the Kehlani track Folded.
Five songs move five-place each within the Top 40 this week, with three of them rising back up for Die With a Smile for Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars, That's So True (#1 this time in 2024) for Gracie Abrams and I Had Some Help for Post Malone and Morgan Wallen to #31, #34 and #39 respectively.
Taylor Swift's three declines here are her fourth, fifth and sixth Top 50 entries for the week, with two of them falling five places in Father Figure (#32) and The Life of a Showgirl (to #33), while a six place drop occurs for Wi$h Li$t (to #38), with Sabrina Carpenter down two places to #35 with her Tears track...
TOP 50: ...she also sees a five place decline to #48 for her song When Did You Get Hot?, while her track House Tour (HP-20) is newly Gold (●) in sales, after which are three further falling entries here foe two more KPop Demon Hunters tracks in Free (down four to #41) and Takedown (falls five to #43) along with APT. for Rosé and Bruno Mars (down two to #42).
Two NEW PEAKS occur here, with last week's #54 debut for the Fred Again.. with Sammy Virji and Reggie track Talk of the Town rising seven places to land at #47, while the seventh and final Olivia Dean Top 50 entry this week is a duet on the Sam Fender track Rein Me In, which gallops up twenty-one places to land at #50, having now racked up nine weeks within the Top 100 after starting it's chart-life on September 22nd, becoming also the first T50 entry for Sam Fender too, with the track currently charting also in England (8 to #7, HP-6) and Ireland (16 to #10, HP-8).
Two further tracks rise up seven places each from the lower fifty, Good Luck, Babe! for Chappell Roan and Bad Dreams for recent tourist Teddy Swims to #46 and #49 respectively, while above them are the two final rising entries here; Messy for Lola Young (up four to #44) and Sports Car for Tate McRae (up two to #45).
The only Top 10 dropout this week leaves the Top 50 (and possibly the entire chart) after debuting at #8 last week the HAVEN. track I Run has been removed from streaming services due to a potential copyright infringement, thus the song becomes one of five tracks this century to land a Top 10 debut and disappear the following week. Francesca in August of 2002 (#3), Karise Eden (#3) and Darren Percival (#8) both 'The Voice' contestants in late June of 2012, while the last was The Beatles track Now and Then (HP-6, Nov. 13th, 2023) {thanks to 392414 for posting this info on-line too}. Of course we've also had Xmas titles disappear from the Top 10 the week after their interest dissipates, but none of those were one-week-wonders.
The sixth studio album and entry for 5 Seconds of Summer is called EVERYONE'S A STAR! and it debuts in the top spot locally to create a new chart record.
EVERYONE'S A STAR! (Republic) becomes the 1035th #1 Album in Australia (1965 to 2025), the 886th for ARIA (1983 to 2025), the 663rd to debut in the #1 spot, the 21st (new) and 26th in total (for the 5 returned titles) for 2025, the 33rd #1 Album for Republic Records and their sixth this year and a 21st overall week at the top in 2025. It also lands at No.2 on the Vinyl Chart and #1 on the Australian Artists Chart too.
No GROUP has seen their first six studio albums all go to #1, let alone all DEBUT in the #1 spot, and that feat has been achieved this week for the 4-piece 5SOS act, with this now their sixth consecutive #1 Album and #1 Album entry, starting with their self-titled set (July 7th, 2014), then Sounds Good Feels Good (Nov. 2nd, 2015), Youngblood (June 25th, 2018), C A L M (April 6th, 2020, went Gold (●) in sales on Nov. 3rd, 2025) and 5SOS5 (Oct. 3rd, 2022), all of which logged a single week at #1, with the first four on Capitol Records, their fifth with BMG (now they're with Republic). While Jimmy Barnes did see all seven of his first solo albums all reach #1, the first one Bodyswerve actually climbed into the #1 spot in it's third chart-week, while each one afterwards debuted in the top spot (six in total), meaning 5SOS supercede his chart-feat by securing six-from-six #1's and entries, they just have to surpass his other record of seven #1's in a row.
For this decade 5SOS have now accumulated three #1 (and 3 weeks in total; same as Kylie Monogue, equal 14th for this decade), while overall their six weeks from their six #1's places them 80th on the listing for 'Accumulated Weeks at #1: Albums (1965 to 2025), just ahead of Kanye West (6 weeks from 5 #1's), while their sixth #1 makes them equal tenth on the list for 'Most #1 Albums (1965 to 2025)' alongside other local acts like AC/DC, Cold Chisel and Midnight Oil along with Michael Jackson. EVERYONE'S A STAR! also becomes the sixth #1 Album this year for an Australian act, with The Hilltop Hoods the last at the top (August 11th), while this is the 298th #1 for an Australian Act and the 439th for a Group (local or overseas). Also two members from the band have achieved solo #1 Albums too for Calum Hood (23 weeks ago on June 23rd, 2025) and Luke Hemmings (August 23rd, 2021), plus the other two members also saw entries for their solo efforts, Michael Clifford (#10 on August 4th, 2025) and Ashton Irwin (#37 in early November of 2020)
This is the ninth #1 Album with the word 'Star' in its title (that also includes Stars), while it's the first time for the word 'Everyone's' (or even Everyone), plus their new album also lands in the top spot in Scotland (5th #1), England, The Netherlands (both 4th #1), Austria (3rd #1) along with Belgium (#4), Germany, New Zealand (both #5), Ireland (#8) and Italy (#32). The album might not fall too hard next week, as a 'Fully Evolved' edition with four extra tracks was issued on Friday, plus a 17th hidden Cool Dad track too.
During the week the documentary 'Working Class Man' for Jimmy Barnes was screened on TV (along with the Michael Gudinski doco EGO), while last Friday his second studio album For the Working Class Man saw a 40th Anniversary Edition issued on CD and multi-coloured Vinyl, which has all helped to bring his late 1985 issued set back into the chart at #2 (No.1 Vinyl, #1 On Replay Chart Albums, #1 On Replay Australian Albums Chart). The original 12 tracks are again on this re-issue (nothing extra), which started it's chart-life on December 16th, 1985 debuting in the #1 slot (which at the time was only the 15th such album to do this), knocking off Brothers in Arms, and holding for a seven-week stay (before Dire Straits overtook again), with 31 weeks in the Top 10, 53 weeks within the Top 50 and 71 weeks in the Top 100 (up until late April of 1987), re-entering in November 1987 (one week, just before his third set Freight Train Hearts was due to chart) and again in March of 1988 (two final weeks), giving the set this week a 75th week in the Top 100. The last time a repackaged Barnes-set returned to the chart was Soul Deep 30 which debuted in the #1 spot on June 27th, 2022, in between then he issued Defiant (#1 on June 16th, 2025) and returned with his band Cold Chisel to the top on August 26th, 2024 with 50 Years - The Best of.
So after a six-week stretch across both charts, Taylor Swift relinquishes her crowns this week as her album The Life of a Showgirl drops down two places to land at #3 (No.5 Vinyl), after having now racked up an overall 74 weeks at #1 (58 for this decade), the set declining in England (also 1 to #3), Ireland (2 to #3), Germany (3 to #4), holding steady in The U.S.A., Canada (#1 for a sixth week in both), New Zealand (#2) and The Netherlands (#3).
Three albums hold steady within the Top 10 this week, with ARIA Awards performer and presenter Olivia Dean at #4 (No.10 Vinyl) with The Art of Loving, which sees six new peaks within the Top 50 from the album (a seventh on a Sam Fender duet) including the new #1 single Man I Need, along with Top 10 NEW PEAKS for So Easy (to Fall in Love) and Nice to Each Other. The set remains the top seller again in New Zealand and Ireland (fourth week), along with England (#2), The Netherlands (4 to #2), The U.S.A. (7 to #5), Canada (5 to #4) and Germany (30 to #27).
The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack drops two spots to #5, followed by a third week at #6 for Sabrina Carpenter's Man's Best Friend (No.6 Vinyl), while her other set is the third and final non-mover here with Short N' Sweet remaining at #8 (No.16 Vinyl). In-between those two SC'sets is a four place rebound to #7 for Tate McRae's So Close to What (WI10-25a), which saw a Deluxe edition issued on Friday with five extra tracks including her most recent release TIT FOR TAT (TW #22), so it could rise again next week too. Down two places to #9 is Alex Warren's You'll Be Alright, Kid, while sombr halves his position from last week and falls five spots to #10 with I Barely Know Her, the only Top 10 artist who matches on both charts this week, as his track 12 to 12 is also at #10, while we are only a few weeks away from his national tour here.
TOP 20: Three Albums here rise a single spot each, I'm the Problem for Morgan Wallen (#1 Country Album), HIT ME HARD & SOFT for Billie Eilish (No.17 Vinyl) and Play for Ed Sheeran (which could leap next week thanks to his new Netflix special dropping on Friday) to #11, #12 and #18 respectively, while Taylor Swift rises three spots to land at #20 with The Tortured Poets Department.
On hold here are CHROMAKOPIA for Tyler, the Creator at #14 (No.8 Vinyl, #1 Hip Hop/R&B Album) and The Secret of Us for Gracie Arbams at #16, while two of the three Top 10 dropouts for this week land in the Top 20, Lily Allen's West End Girl (HP-6, WI10-3) drops only three places to #13, while last week's highest entry for the Paul Kelly Seventy set (HP-2, WI10-1) falls fifteen places this week to land at #17.
TOP 30: Jessie Murph sees her Sex Hysteria set jump up eleven places this week to #24 thanks to a new Deluxe edition of that album (8 extra tracks), while the Wicked soundtrack takes a ten place flight to #30 thanks to the sequel opening in cinemas on Thursday, while it should be joined next week by the Friday issued second soundtrack of Wicked: For Good.
Two smaller rises are for Charli XCX and BRAT (up one to #21, her new single Chains of Love debuted in England {#26} and Ireland {#38} this weekend) and Addison for Addison Rae (up two to #28). Tame Impala only drop five spots this week to #23 with Deadbeat, while Lady Gaga sees a two place dip to #26 with MAYHEM (only two more weeks until her tour here), while Ariana Grande is down three to #29 with eternal sunshine, just ahead of the Wicked set. Last week's entry for Rosalía dropped twelve places to #27, while the album debuted most of its tracks into the Portugal and Spain singles chart this past week.
TOP 40: Sam Fender sees his People Watching album jump back up twelve places this week to #33, while he also landed his first Top 50 single with Rein Me In (alongside Olivia Dean) at #50, plus he issued a new track on Friday called I'm Always on Stage. With the other big rise here going to RüFüS DU SOL and Inhale / Exhale up eight places to #39 thanks to their current national tour (plus an ARIA Award nomination).
Post Malone's F-1 Trillion is the third and final rising album here, up six places this week to #40, with the biggest fall into the forty being Florence + The Machine with Everybody Scream wailing down fourteen places to land at #34, while single place falls occur for SWAG I + II for Justin Bieber and GNX for Kendrick Lamar dipping to #37 and #38 respectively, hickey for Royal Otis (down three to #31), Kansas Anymore for ROLE MODEL (drops four to #32) and Even in Arcadia for Sleep Token (falls six to #35).
TOP 50: With four new Australian Albums entering this week, the tally within the Top 50 is ten Aussie acts, with the tenth and lowest placed being Ocean Alley with Love Balloon, up three places to #41, with the four other climbers here being A Matter of Time for Laufey (up five to #43), PND's and Drake's $ome $exy $ongs 4 U (up one to #48) and returning from the lower fifty are Vie for Doja Cat (up eight to #44) and Charm for Clairo (up nine to #45).
Now that Jelly Roll's tour is over his set Beautifully Broken declines three this week to #42, with Stray Kids down five to #46 with KARMA (their new EP Do it dropped on Friday) and Son of Spergy for Daniel Caesar (falls seven to #49), while Dave sees a thirteen place fall to #47 for The Boy Who Played the Harp, but with a Yellow Vinyl release of that set on Friday it could rebound next week.
The third and final Top 10 dropout from last week was the Teen Jesus & The Jean Teasers second release GLORY departing from #9, along with other new entries from James Blundell (#25), Stella Donnelly (#31), Cosmic Psychos (#32) and Paul McCartney & Wings (#33).
FURTHER NEW ENTRIES: * #1 (LP#6) - EVERYONE'S A STAR! - 5 Seconds of Summer (Republic)
* #2 (LP#2) - For the Working Class Man (40th Anniversary Edition) - Jimmy Barnes (Mushroom)
* #15 (GH#2) - The Dollop & The Wallop: The Best of - You Am I (Sony Australia) (No.3 Vinyl) debuts the week the band were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame, closing out the ARIA Awards with a live performance from them. This is a 28 track set of their best songs, also issued on a two Vinyl coloured set, with their previous collection The Cream & The Crock making it to #12 upon entry in September of 2003.
* #19 (LP#3) - Finally Over it - Summer Walker (LVRN/Interscope) is the third album for the American singer, who previous charted with Over it (LP#1, HP-17, Oct. 14th, 2019) and Still Over it (LP#2, HP-18, Nov. 15th, 2021), and now her third set lands again one place lower than the previous entry, but the third in the 'Over it' series also saw an expanded version issued on Friday called Finally Over it: The Afterparty Edition which has three extra tracks. Overseas, the album lands in England (#13), New Zealand (#16), The Netherlands (#20) and Belgium (#63).
* #25 (LP#1) - Give Me All Your Love - DON WEST (Mandatory Music) (No.7 Vinyl) is the debut album for the Sydney soul musician, which takes out #1 spot on the Jazz/Blues Album chart this week, while he will be touring throughout December (5th to the 19th) around the country in support of his album before heading to New Zealand in February and Europe in June, while most recently he made his TV debut on Spicks & Specks on Myf's team.
* #36 (LP#2) - All That We Know - Mini Skirt (Bad Vibrations) is the second release and first entry for the four-piece band from Northern NSW whose first release Casino came out in 2020, prior to which they issued two EP's in 7 (2018) and Taste (2016).
* #50 (EP#3) - Voyeur (EP) - Alessi Rose (Capitol) is the third EP and now first chart entry here for the English singer-songwriter, which initially came out in late July, as an 8-track EP, now it's been expanded to eleven tracks and makes it's chart debut,
New Albums coming this week from: * Stray Kids (EP) * The Beatles (GH#4) * De La Soul * Tate McRae (dlx) * 5SOS (expanded) * Chance Pena (dlx) * NiziU * Bloodbound * Danko Jones * Sub Focus * Spotlights * Lea Sen (unplugged) * Dijon (phys) * Ella Eyre * Jason Aldean (GH) * Pet Shop Boys (rmxs) * Prince (Ann. Ed.) * Fine Young Cannibals (GH Ann. Ed.) * Bloc Party (Ann. Ed.) * Glitterer * The Smith Street Band * Spock's Beard * BigXthaPlug * Wicked: for Good (Soundtrack)
Olivia Dean enters the top 10 of the On Replay singles chart with both The Hardest Part and Dive (along with Ok Love You Bye re-entering at #47). Wonderwall falls back to #20 (it has gone 34-5-5-20 in the last 4 weeks). All I Want For Christmas Is You debuts at #31... it begins (cue the seagulls). The previous 2 years, I think ARIA only re-commenced tracking it in early December (last year it re-entered at #7 on the chart dated 9 December, while climbing #44 to #9 on Spotify); I'm glad it isn't delayed this year. You Shook Me All Night Long and Highway To Hell, which are of course permanent residents of the Australian singles On Replay chart, are pulled into the main version for the first time.
Thunderstruck climbs to #1 on the Australian version, after Don't Dream It's Over had been #1 for all 11 weeks so far. In addition to You Shook Me All Night Long, Highway To Hell and Back In Black being in the top 12, T.N.T. climbs to #23, It's A Long Way To The Top climbs to #33, and song number 7 surfaces, with Hells Bells debuting at #37! Shoot To Thrill is currently doing 89% as much on global Spotify plays, so I wonder if it's close (if it's being tracked, which could be less likely on the basis that Hells Bells was a #7 hit as a... B-side credited as a double A-side, but Shoot To Thrill wasn't a single). Working Class Man also debuts at #35; I see that Jimmy Barnes had a documentary, of that name, air on TV this week, and the song reached #17 on iTunes on Tuesday.
CYRIL's "Stumblin' In", which turns 2 years old this week, also debuts at #27 on the Australian version. This is the week that The Kid LAROI's "NIGHTS LIKE THIS", which was moved to On Replay 5 weeks too early, should've debuted. I wonder whether it lost any weeks in the singles top 100... maybe one?
Week
08/09
15/09
22/09
29/09
06/10
13/10
20/10
27/10
03/11
10/11
17/11
24/11
Spotify
151
137
127
119
120
119
123
116
139
147
142
TBA
ARIA Singles
-
-
-
93
95
-
On Replay AU
9
7
8
10
11
13
"Austin (Boots Stop Workin')" by Dasha turns 2 years old next week, so it may appear on the main On Replay chart if it's still doing well enough. I feel like Sia's "Snowman" should be due to pop up on the Australian one soon. With "Stumblin' In" transferred, I believe the oldest song on the regular Australian singles chart is now Royel Otis' "Linger" (released May 2024, or April if you were to go by the date of SiriusXM's YouTube upload), so I expect "Stumblin' In" and "NIGHTS LIKE THIS" will remain the newest songs on the On Replay Australian singles chart for a good while. "Oldest song on the regular Australian singles chart" being excluding Working Class Man, which actually re-enters at #8 there, I'm guessing because a 40th-anniversary "ballad version" of it was released last week and that allows it to be counted as new. (Along with the album having a 40th-anniversary reissue, but I don't think that would affect the song's status, and the "ballad version" isn't on it.) That perhaps answers my question of what would happen if Havana Brown's "We Run The Night" remix (that, charting as the original, reached #37 in 2022) had come out now.
The Kid LAROI's "THE FIRST TIME" album, which turns 2 this week, debuts at #6 on the Australian albums On Replay chart. Last edited:
I believe these are the only previous top 10 hits to have spent only 1 week in the top 100:
Date
HP
Title
Artist
26/08/2002
3
Way Of The World
Francesca
25/06/2012
3
I Was Your Girl (The Voice Performance)
Karise Eden
25/06/2012
8
Damage Down (The Voice Performance)
Darren Percival
13/11/2023
6
Now And Then
The Beatles
(Note that Karise was affected by Complete My Album deductions in her 2nd week; the song charted 23-34-38-40-64 on iTunes that week.)
I'm a bit surprised there are no streaming-based entries on that list (The Beatles had a significant sales contribution; they were #21 on the ARIA streaming chart that week), but I suppose it's hard for streaming to fall that much week-to-week, even for the least-lasting top 10 hits like Drake's "Papi's Home" and Kendrick Lamar's "United In Grief". I think the highest streaming-based one would be "Better Than Revenge (Taylor's Version)" (#14).
Edit: if it interests anyone else to know, I have just learnt that the Francesca single in fact titled itself "The Way Of The World", as someone (NationOfZealots) recently uploaded to Discogs the cover of it, which I've never seen before: https://www.discogs.com/release/26773937-Francesca-The-Way-Of-The-World (I've added it to the song's page on this site - thanks NOZ, if you happen to see this.) Last edited:
I feel like it should be noted for historic purposes also that "I Run" stopped being available on DSPs around Thursday last week, and so likely generated roughly 0 streaming points for the week. This is running a week after the song was disallowed on the Billboard chart and removed from the UK Chart (it had debuted at #56 2 weeks ago). Feel like it'd be easy to take a quick glance and assume it's been removed from this chart in the same way.
And no, I don't know how much of the song (if any) is AI generated and neither do you, so don't make any assumptions based on hearsay there either.
thanks 392414, i got hold of Francesca's "The Way of the World EP" through a Delta Goodrem fan who wanted some autographs for his collection, he being from Adelaide (the only city where it was available for sale seemingly) was able to purchase a copy for me in-kind from The Muses on Rundle Mall (closed in 2011), the copy i have has 2 stickers on the case: a for sale "THE MUSES $29.99" and a slightly larger "THE MUSES $21.95" store branded hype sticker, this was many weeks after noticing on CD purchasing trips that it was not available in Sydney plus i dont recall stores being able to locate it on their databases for import when i asked, further making sense as it was technically an indie release
Well done managing to obtain a copy! It surprises me how it's so rare that only 1 person on Discogs (you) has it in their collection - more rare than most low-charting singles, I think. I wonder if there are many copies sitting around in secondhand shops in Adelaide or it's just vanished.
Thanks for the link @392. As someone who is in adelaide and was at the time that single came out i've no memory of it. I certainly never saw the performance. I don't know how the wonderful sarch gets their info but there's also info in that thread for the chart run for nirvana's 'about a girl'
Long ago in the 90's i was subbed to Sarch's newsletter (or whatever you like to call it) but aside from discovering one of his posts form 1999 on google groups i know nothing of what happened. The info he must have or had would be invaluable
'Tis possible IE. Has a lot of information generally not known. To know the Franchesca position for one and the chart run for 'About a girl'. I only knew back in june the track did a total of 4 weeks but of course only two i'd have known at the time. Definitely has or had inside information. I would imagine the stuff in the newsletter Sarch got from subbing to the ARIA report. Doesn't explain the rest though
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