Olivia Dean holds onto the #1 Singles spot for a second week with her Man I Need track.
The Man I Need song also gains a ninth overall week at the top in New Zealand this week (she's #1 on both of their charts, plus has five Top 10 singles there too), and maintains a Top 10 berth in Denmark, The Netherlands (#2), England, The U.S.A. and Canada (all #4), Ireland, Belgium, Iceland and Sweden (each #5), Switzerland (#6), Norway (#7) and Luxembourg (#8), rising in Singapore (13 to #11*), jumping in Portugal (25 to #15, HP-10), holding in South Africa (#13) and dropping down in Germany (12 to #19) and Austria (11 to #19).
Five of the seven NEW PEAKS within the Top 50 belong to Olivia Dean this week (it was 7 out of 11 last week for her), with her two other Top 10 entries seeing single place rises to new chart heights this week for both So Easy (to Fall in Love) up to #4 (O/Seas: NZ #2 hold, UK 4 to #3*, IRE 5 to #3*, Dutch 9 to #8*, USA 29 to #18*, CAN 21 to #15*) along with Nice to Each Other moving to #8 (O/Seas: IRE 7 to #4*, NZ #8 hold, Dutch 33 to #26, USA 91 to #82*, CAN 63 to #60*). Olivia also sees NEW PEAKS within the On Replay Singles chart for The Hardest Part (8 to #3), Dive (9 to #4) and OK Love You Bye (47 to #21).
Only the top three songs are on hold this week, with six songs single-place-swapping and one new entry to the ten. Taylor Swift remains at #2 with her recent six-week running #1 song The Fate of Ophelia, plus she also swaps one-place with Olivia and dips to #9 with her Opalite song. Ophelia is #1 overseas again in Ireland, Germany, Norway (all 8th week), The U.S.A., Canada, Austria, Belgium and Switzerland (all 7th week), England, The Netherlands (each 6th week) and Sweden (5th week), holds in Singapore (#2), New Zealand, Denmark, Malaysia (all #3), Hong Kong (#12), Hungary (#13), up slightly in France (8 to #7), Finland (7 to #6, HP-5), Italy (7 to #6*), Poland (9 to #7*), Portugal (8 to #3), South Africa (21 to #15) and Spain (#25 return), falls in Luxembourg (1 to #3 after 3 broken weeks), Iceland (2 to #4), harder though in Czech Republic (1 to #13 after 4 weeks), Slovakia (3 to #9) and Taiwan (18 to #19).
HUNTR/X and the KPop Demon Hunters song Golden remain at #3 for a seventh consecutive week, the only song from the soundtrack to not decline this week, as the set sees two songs from the compile depart the Top 50 this week, bringing the films entries to five (from nine at the height of the phenomenon). It also is still charting well overseas too in Singapore (17th week at #1) The U.S.A., Canada, Malaysia, Norway, Switzerland and Taiwan (all #2 hold), Hong Kong (#3 hold), New Zealand, France, The Netherlands (each #4 hold), Italy (#5 hold), Poland (#8 hold), Finland (#17 hold), rebounding in Portugal (11 to #6) and Spain (18 to #14), down in Iceland (1 to #2 after 12 weeks), Sweden (2 to #3), England (2 to #6), Ireland (2 to #9), Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg (each 2 to #4), Austria (2 to #5), Denmark (7 to #12), Hungary (10 to #12), Slovakia (5 to #14), South Africa (17 to #18), Czech Republic (2 to #20) and Indonesia (20 to #22). A lot of the major drops this week occur because overseas charts are starting to show Xmas titles rising up their charts (that won't be happening here this year, as most of the seasonal-singles are starting to pop up within the On Replay chart; Mariah #10, Wham! #22 and Brenda Lee #49).
Alex Warren's Ordinary swaps places with Olivia's So Easy to dip one spot to #5, followed by the third and final swap-over; WHERE IS MY HUSBAND for Raye moves up one place to a NEW PEAK of #6 (#1 Hip Hop/R&B Single), also seeing high placements in England, Ireland, (both 3 to #2*), The Netherlands (#3 hold), Austria (6 to #4*), Switzerland (6 to #5*), NZ, Luxembourg, Norway (each 7 to #6*), Belgium (9 to #7*), Iceland (#10 peak hold), Sweden (#6 peak hold), rising in Poland (20 to #13*), Canada (28 to #16*), The U.S.A. (58 to #47*), Portugal (#20 return*), Singapore (24 to #15*) and dipping in Germany (3 to #5). Raye is swapping with No Broke Boys for Disco Lines with Tinashe down to #7 (#1 Dance Single).
Issuing a new mixtape EP last Friday called Do it was the K-Pop boy-band Stray Kids, with the title track from the five-song release debuting at #10 to become their first ever Top 10 and Top 50 single in Australia, plus their fifth Top 100 berth, having previously charted with Chk Chk Boom (HP-85, July 29th, 2024), LaLaLaLa (HP-64, Nov. 20th, 2023), S-Class (HP-67, June 12th, 2023) and their first entry Maniac (HP-79, March 28th, 2022), all of which charted for a single week, with the new track also debuting in The UK #35, Germany #42, Netherlands #49, Lithuania (#57), South Korea (#79) and Japan (#83). (* = new peak).
TOP 20: A sombr track is the only Top 10 dropout this week, with 12 to 12 (HP-6x2, WI10-8) dipping one spot to #11, while he also sees small declines for both back to friends (11 to #12) and Undressed (down two to #18), with his first Australian show starting next Thursday (4th of December), so he could rebound in the next few weeks.
Tate McRae issued a Deluxe edition of her album now shown as SO CLOSE TO WHAT??? (TW #6), with six extra tracks, three of which debut within the Top 50 this week, with the first of the five new tracks being TIT FOR TAT (HP-6 upon entry Oct. 6th) which rebounds this week up nine places to land back within the Top 20 at #13 (the song's second highest chart position too).
Olivia Dean has only one declining track this week, as A Couple Minutes (NZ 6 to #7, US 72 to #55*, CAN 62 to #48*) dips four spots to #17 after peaking at #13 last week, while she gains a fifth Top 20 berth this week as her Baby Steps track continues to march up the charts, this week rising six places to a NEW PEAK of #20 (NZ 17 to #14*, CAN 81 to #76*), it's third highest jump in it's nine weeks within the Top 100.
The final three of the seven declining entries here are Soda Pop for Saja Boys (down two to #14) and single place dips for both Justin Bieber's DAISIES and Benson Boone's Beautiful Things to #15 and #16 respectively.
TOP 30: Olivia Dean has the first of three rising entries here, but the only one scoring a NEW PEAK as her track Let Alone the One You Love jumps eleven places to land at #25 (NZ 15 to #10*, UK #21 entry, US #97 debut, CAN 98 to #73*). Lady Gaga will play her first show here next Friday in Melbourne, but for this week her duet with Bruno Mars and Die With a Smile is up three places to #28, followed by a single place move to #29 for KATSEYE with Gabriela (HP-27).
Two KPop Demon Hunters entries fall here; Your Idol for Saja Boys (19 to #26) and What it Sounds Like for HUNTR/X (24 to #27), with single-spot falls seen by A Bar Song (Tipsy) for Shaboozey (#22), BIRDS OF A FEATHER for Billie Eilish (#24) and Manchild by Sabrina Carpenter (#30). Love Me Not for Ravyn Lenae falls back down four places to #21 and Fred Again.. is back down to one Top 50 entry again this week with his Victory Lap dipping three to #23 and his entry from last week Talk of the Town leaving the fifty this week.
TOP 40: Tate McRae has three entries here, one a debut, one a leaper in her Sports Car track motoring up nine places to #36 (Deluxe Edition jump), while she also sees a seven place fall to #32 for Just Keep Watching (not on the new version of the LP), which cracks half-a-year (26 weeks) charted.
There were three non-movers in the Top 10, and there are three more within the rest of the fifty, two of which occur here; That's So True for Gracie Abrams at #34 and I Had Some Help for Post Malone and Morgan Wallen at #39. UK rapper EsDeeKid (identity unknown) sees his first ever Top 50 action this week as his four-week old Top 100 entry Phantom (feat. Rico Ace) breaks out of the lower fifty zone and jumps up twelve places this week to score a NEW PEAK of #40, also scoring new chart heights in England (#12), Ireland (#17), New Zealand (#39 debut) and Canada (96 to #75*), with two more of his tracks also seeing action with 4 Raws (LW #83, UK #27*, Ireland #31*, Canada #83 debut) and Century (UK #10*, Ireland #11*).
Tame Impala remain #1 on the Australian Artists Singles chart this week with Dracula, which nationally is down five places to #33, THE DAYS - NOTION Remix for Chrystal is back down one place to #38. HUNTR/X see an eight place fall to #35 with How it's Done, with the first of three double-digit-declines for Taylor Swift this week being for her Elziabeth Taylor track, which falls nineteen spots to #37, which is her largest fall this week, as both...
TOP 50: ...her tracks The Life Of a Showgirl (with Sabrina Carpenter) and Father Figure fall to #48 and #49 respectively, while her track Wi$h Li$t leaves the Top 50 from #38 last week. Sabrina also sees an eight place shedding for her Tears track to #43, while Kehlani's #40 peak last week for Folded sees it this week fall five to #45, with the final drop here going to Lola Young with Messy, which is down six spots to #50 and cracks one year on the charts (52 weeks).
The seventh and final NEW PEAK within the fifty this week is the duet for Sam Fender and Olivia Dean in Rein Me In, which jumps nine spots to land at #41 (UK 7 to #5*, IRE 10 to #12), while Olivia also sees a ten place rebound to #47 for Lady Lady (HP-41, NZ 31 to #30). The third and final rising entry here goes to Teddy Swims' Bad Dreams up five to #45, while the sixth and final stable entry this week is at #42 for the Rosé and Bruno Mars collab APT.
NEW ENTRIES: * #10 - Do it - Stray Kids (JYP Entertainment)
* #19 - NOBODY'S GIRL - Tate McRae (RCA) * #31 - ANYTHING BUT LOVE - Tate McRae (RCA) * #46 - TRYING ON SHOES - Tate McRae (RCA) are all taken from the Deluxe Edition of third studio album now shown as SO CLOSE TO WHAT???, along with the previously issued TIT FOR TAT (TW #13) the two further extra tracks are HORSESHOE (Tk 4) and Siren Sounds (Tk 20 wasn't on the initial release, charted at #86 on March 10th). Tate's Top 50 tally now rises to 21 entries in total (19 as lead, two as guest vocalist) and these are also the 13th, 14th and 15th Top 100 entries from the album (nine songs all debuted on March 3rd from the album).
The #1 movie in the country also scores the top-selling Album in Australia, as Wicked: For Good debuts at #1 this week.
Wicked: For Good (Republic) becomes the 1036th #1 Album in Australia (1965 to 2025), the 887th for ARIA (1983 to 2025), the 664th to debut in the top spot, the 34th chart-topper for Republic Records, their seventh in 2025, and for the past 21 weeks Republic have held the top spot for 18 of those weeks (starting July 14th).
The follow-up film to Wicked made over $8 million at the Australian box office last week upon opening, with Wicked: For Good now the fifth #1 soundtrack this decade and second for this year, while overall this is now the 58th movie cast recording/soundtrack to make it to the top of the Australian Albums Chart (since 1965), plus the set also lands the No.1 Vinyl Sales Chart slot along with overseas entries in The Netherlands (#1), Belgium (#3), New Zealand (#5), Germany, Austria (both #6), Iceland (#25), Sweden and Italy (both #28), while it took out the #1 spots on the 'Compilation Charts' in England and Ireland.
Wicked: For Good becomes the second #1 Album with the word 'Wicked' in its title, the other was Pray for the Wicked by Panic! at the Disco (April 7th, 2008), while it's the fourth for a 'Good' appearance (5SOS's Sounds Good Feels Good was the last on Nov. 2nd, 2015), while also the 20th title to feature the word 'For'. The original Wicked soundtrack made it to #3 for two weeks, this time last year (Dec. 2nd upon entry, and again on Dec. 23rd), conjuring eight weeks within the Top 10, while that set halves its position this week and rebounds fifteen places to land at #15 (it's also back in the Top 3 movies on Netflix too thanks to people re-watching the film before seeing the follow-up).
Olivia Dean's recent visit to our shores sees her second album The Art of Loving rise two places this week to land back at #2, while the set after nine week of charting is newly Gold (●) in sales too, plus the set remains as the top seller in New Zealand and Ireland for a fifth week and securing five Top 20 singles locally, three within the Top 10 (along with her Messy album returning to a NEW PEAK of #35 within the On Replay Albums Chart), after which is the first of five stable Top 10 entries, Taylor Swift with The Life of a Showgirl (also No.3 Vinyl), which scores a seventh straight week at #1 in The U.S.A. and Canada this week, along with New Zealand (#2), England and The Netherlands (both #3), Germany (#4) and Ireland (3 to #5). Taylor could regain the #1 spot in a few weeks too, as her new five-part documentary series The End of an Era starts with two episodes on December 12th, followed by two more a week later (Dec. 19th) and the fifth and final part drops on December 26th.
The second and final Top 10 debut this week is the first album for local act SoSo called So Much for Second Chances which debuts at #4 for the Illawarra (southeast NSW town) four-piece, while the set also takes out the #1 Australian Artists Album Chart and debuts at No.2 on the Vinyl Sales chart too.
The four remaining non-movers within the Top 10 this week consist of the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack at #4, You'll Be Alright, Kid for Alex Warren at #9, next-week-tourist sombr with I Barely Know Her at #10, and Sabrina Carpenter is back-to-back with herself at #8 for a third straight week with Short N' Sweet (No.17 Vinyl) and down one to #7 with Man's Best Friend (No.5 Vinyl). Sabrina's Man-friend set swaps places with Tate McRae's third album by rising one spot to #6, scoring a half-year (26 weeks) within the Top 10 and the set sees six new tracks on the deluxe edition as SO CLOSE TO WHAT???, with three of those new tracks debuting within the Top 50 singles this week and boosting the sets first pre-expansion-song TIT FOR TAT back up to #13.
TOP 20: With the Wicked soundtrack leaping fifteen places to land at #15, the other big move here sees last week's #1 entry for 5 Seconds of Summer and EVERYONE'S A STAR (WI10-1) plummet this week down seventeen spots to #18 (last LP fell 1 to #12 in 2022), while the set also saw entries this past week in The U.S.A. (#6) and Canada (#93).
Apart from the three new entries here, there are five albums which all move one place each, the two rising are HIT ME HARD & SOFT for Billie Eilish (No.13 Vinyl) and CHROMAKOPIA for Tyler, the Creator (No.6 Vinyl, #1 Hip Hop/R&B Album) to #11 and #13 respectively. Dipping one place each are Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem (to #12, #1 Country Album), The Secret of Us for Gracie Arbams (to #17) and Play for Ed Sheeran (to #19), who saw his One Shot doco on Netflix drop in the past week, very interestingly shot and quite an undertaking for Ed, see it if you get a chance.
TOP 30: With Stray Kids scoring their first Top 50 and Top 10 single this week from their new five-track EP called Do it (the title track enters at #10), their most recent release KARMA rebound twenty places this week to land at #26. The only other rising set here is another next-week tourist in Lady Gaga who is up two to #24 with her MAYHEM set, while at #29 Ariana Grande's eternal sunshine remains on hold at #29, while she also her vocals on the #15 and #1 albums this week too as her character Glinda from Wicked.
Down one spot each are Taylor's Tortured Poets Department (to #21, No.18 Vinyl) and Sex Hysteria for Jessie Murph (to #25), with Deadbeat for Tame Impala down four to #27, Think Later by Tate McRae drops six to #28, with higher declines seen by West End Girl for Lily Allen (down ten to #23) and BRAT for Charli XCX (falls nine to #30).
TOP 40: Two albums here move sixteen places each, the rising-16 goes to Dave's five week old release The Boy Who Played the Harp, jumping back to #31 thanks to a No.9 debut on the Vinyl Sales Chart, while down-16 is the Paul Kelly set Seventy to #33. The two other rising sets here are a one-place move to #36 for JB's SWAG I + II and a five place rebound to #39 for the Doja Cat Vie set.
Sam Fender's duet with Olivia Dean and Rein Me in scores a new singles-chart peak at #41 this week, while his album People Watching is only down one place to #34, Kendrick's GNX dips two to #40 with his tour here starting on the 3rd of December, along with some festival shows (7th and 13th). Sleep Token dip three to #38 with Even in Arcadia, Royel Otis moves down four to #35 with their hickey set, whole ROLE MODEL sees a five place slip to #37 with Kansas Anymore.
TOP 50: Eight of the nine entries here are all dropping down, with the only move upwards seen by the multiple ARIA Award winning act Amyl & The Sniffers who last week returned to the chart at #51 with their set Cartoon Darkness ('Album of the Year', 'Best Group', 'Best Rock Album', 'Best Cover Art', plus support act on the recent AC/DC national tour), which is up to #49 this week.
Rüfüs Du Sol just finished their national tour too, with their current release Inhale / Exhale the smallest dropping album here, down five places to #44, with two seven-place falls seen by F-1 Trillion for Post Malone and Love Balloon for Ocean Alley to #47 and #48 respectively, while a third recent visitor-to-our-shores in Jelly Roll takes an eight place fall to #50 with Beautifully Broken.
Four albums fall harder here, with a twelve place slide to #46 for the Florence + The Machine latest set Everybody Scream, Rosalia's LUX drops down fourteen to #41, Addison by Addison Rae takes a fifteen place slide down to #43, while last week's #19 entry for Summer Walker and Finally Over it plummets twenty-three spots this week to #42 (U.S.A. #2, Canada #12 debut this past week). The second and final Top 10 dropout from last week is the #2 return for Jimmy Barnes' For the Working Class Man set (No.19 Vinyl, 1 to #31 On Replay LP's Chart, holds the #1 spot On Replay Oz Acts LP Chart) which leaves the Top 50, as too does entries for You Am I (#15), DON WEST (#25) and Mini Skirt (#36).
FURTHER NEW ENTRIES: * #1 (S/T) - Wicked: For Good - Soundtrack (Republic)
* #4 (LP#1) - So Much for Second Chances - SoSo (SoSo)
* #14 (LP#7) - Once I Was Wild - The Smith Street Band (Pool House Records) (also No.4 Vinyl), is the seventh studio album and ninth overall entry (6 studio, 3 live) for the Melbourne rock band, who also charted this week in history with Life After Football (LP#6, HP-35/No.6 Vinyl, Dec 4th, 2022) and the tenth anniversary edition of their debut set No One Gets Lost Anymore (LP#1, HP-41, Dec. 13th, 2021), prior to which they charted with Unplugged in Wombat State Forest (Live#3, HP-11, March 15th, 2021).
* #16 (EP#1) - Afterglow (EP) - Morning 'Til Midnight (Chugg Music) (also No.8 Vinyl) is the debut release for the four-piece US-OZ boy-band which saw an initial release on October 8th and now this week it makes its first chart appearance.
* #20 (comp) - Anthology 4 - The Beatles (Calderstone/Apple Corps.) * #32 (comp) - Anthology Collection - The Beatles (Calderstone/Apple Corps.) both chart the week that their nine-part docu-series also drops, with the original Beatles Anthology series being a six-part set (in England, three feature-length episodes in The U.S.A.), now expanded to nine episodes, and added to on Disney+ (I've watched the first four episodes so far). The first three Anthology sets charted in the 1990's, Anthology 1 (two weeks at #1 from late Nov. 1995), Anthology 2 (HP-2, late March 1996) and Anthology 3 (HP-3, early Nov. 1996). Seventeen tracks appear on the Anthology 4 set, including their last three singles being remastered, Free as a Bird, Real Love and Now and Then, while the full set of all four Anthology releases are packaged together in an eight disc, 191 track collection box set.
* #22 (LP#2) - Dear Friend - SWIM (SWIM) (plus No.7 Vinyl) is the second album and now highest entry for the Australian DJ and producer born Hamish Lefevre in Melbourne, now London based. His new album lands at #1 on the Australian Dance Albums Chart this week, his second #1 locally, as his debut set In Circles (April 22nd, 2024) debuted at the top of the Vinyl Chart the week it entered at #64 nationally.
* #45 (LP#1) - Blink (and you'll miss is) - Lennon Wells (Lennon Wells) is the debut release and entry for the group named after their lead singer's second and surname, Ben Lennon Wells, with the Tasmanian five-piece band having previously issued their first work Beast on My Back in December 2021. Last edited:
New LPs coming this week from: * Ed Sheeran (dlx) * The Saints * Jessie J * These New South Whales * Teddy Swims (complete phys.) * Madonna (1994 expanded) * Equilibrium * MAVI * Kevin Purdy * Nerdlinger * LAZER DIM 700 * Kraftklub * Corpus Delicti * So Fresh Best of 2025
Olivia Dean is up to #3 and #4 on the On Replay singles chart with The Hardest Part and Dive, in addition to Ok Love You Bye climbing to #21. She has no further entries, which I believe is correct, as I believe the other 10 of her 13 songs currently in the Spotify top 200 are all from this year (that's 9 songs from her album, and her Sam Fender collab). Her #14 and #15 songs on current global Spotify plays are the remaining 2 non-intro tracks from the album, then #16 is a 2020 single (Echo), #17 is a 2025 soundtrack single (It Isn't Perfect But It Might Be), and #18 is a 2023 song (Ladies Room). (The intro is #24.)
Lush Life by Zara Larsson debuts at #16 on the On Replay singles chart! It re-entered the Spotify weekly chart at #124 last week, not high enough to know whether it should've made the On Replay chart, but I just assumed it probably wouldn't be being tracked. It's certainly not a song I'd have predicted to get back into the charts. On the absolute opposite end of the spectrum of predictability, Last Christmas by Wham! enters at #22 (Mariah climbs from #31 to #10); Brenda Lee also surfaces at #49. In between, Drops Of Jupiter and That's What I Like (Bruno Mars) also debut. Somehow, That's What I Like is as high as #15 on the global Spotify chart right now. My favourite song of his, It Will Rain, is #31 there - I hope it pops up here.
I'm impressed that Innerbloom is as high as #12 on the Australian singles On Replay chart. I think it only ever spent 4 weeks in the regular Australian singles top 20 (1 week each in Nov 2015, Dec 2015, Mar 2016 and Dec 2022), peaking at #12, meaning that on an all-inclusive Australian singles chart, it might be almost at an all-time high.
I was right last week! Sia's "Snowman" debuts at #29 on the Australian singles On Replay chart. On Christmas week last year, the Australian singles top 20 had Snowman #1, How To Make Gravy #2, Santa's Coming For Us #4, and no other Christmas songs. I wonder what else will show up this year. I've been assuming not much, both because there aren't many popular Australian Christmas songs, and because the more random ones that have happened to get Spotify traction (e.g. David Campbell's 2018 recording of "It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year" made the Spotify weekly top 150 in each of 2020-2022, as did Samantha Jade's 2018 recording of "Santa Baby" in 2020) would perhaps be unlikely to be tracked. I also tend to feel like Christmas song streams are quite concentrated on the 50 or 100 or 200 biggest ones without a huge long-tail, but that's just my perception without data to back it up. Something random will probably appear.
AC/DC songs 6 and 7 switch order, with Hells Bells climbing to #36 while It's A Long Way To The Top falls to #41. Working Class Man only falls 3 spots, which surprises me as I thought its debut last week was more of a 1-week boost; maybe it was actually previously missing. Also, "Austin (Boots Stop Workin')" by Dasha, which turns 2 this week, does not debut on the regular On Replay singles chart; it was #73 on the singles chart last week. Is it too low, or do ARIA have the wrong date? I'm not sure yet.
Jimmy Barnes' reissue, which was #2 on the regular albums chart last week, seems to have disappeared from there. On the Australian albums chart, it's #7 between Tame Impala and Paul Kelly, but they are #27 and #33 on the regular albums chart with no Jimmy Barnes in between. I thought that seemed wrong, because (a) although the rules say that an album needs to be top 30 to be allowed back, I thought it's then allowed to chart for 10 weeks no matter how high it is, and (b) 2 weeks ago, Bernard Fanning's reissue was allowed to fall from #7 to #43. However, I see that Jimmy Barnes' album actually charted in the albums top 100 as 'recently' as 1 January 2018, whereas Bernard Fanning's album had last charted on 2 April 2007. Thus, I'm guessing Bernard Fanning correctly met the re-entry criteria (requiring not having charted in the last 10 years), but Jimmy Barnes was a... manual exception? Or there are separate sets of criteria, where new reissues are always allowed to be top 30, but only the ones that haven't charted in the last 10 years can keep charting below #30?
Jimmy Barnes falls to #31 on the On Replay albums chart, showing that #31 is right around where the regular and On Replay albums charts are even. The -40° point, I want to call it. Michael Bublé's "Christmas" enters at #34 there, and Fred again..'s "USB" debuts at #36. That was, I believe, a collection of his non-album songs that he began in 2023(?), and kept re-releasing with more additions - a quick search brings up editions with 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17 and 18 tracks. I say "was" because, after all that, no editions of it are even present on Spotify right now. These are the tracklists of those editions, and the songs' global Spotify playcounts:
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Title
Artist
Plays
1
1
Victory Lap
Fred again.., Skepta, PlaqueBoyMax
132,218,421
14
1
2
2
flex fm (freddit)
Joy Orbison, Lil Yachty, Future, Playboi Carti
13,082,981
2
3
3
places to be - MESSIE remix
Fred again.., Anderson .Paak, CHIKA, MESSIE
3,394,953
1
1
3
4
4
ItsNotREEAALLLLLLLL
Fred again.., Duoteque, Orion Sun
11,523,883
2
2
4
5
5
BerwynGesaffNeighbours
Fred again.., BERWYN
21,089,287
5
6
6
places to be - CLIPZ remix
Fred again.., Anderson .Paak, CHIKA, CLIPZ
1,900,057
1
3
3
6
7
7
stayinit
Fred again.., Lil Yachty, Overmono
48,039,128
1
2
4
4
7
8
8
leavemealone
Fred again.., Baby Keem
265,478,651
1
2
3
5
5
8
9
9
Baby again..
Fred again.., Skrillex, Four Tet
117,186,683
2
3
4
6
6
9
10
10
Rumble
Skrillex, Fred again.., Flowdan
188,474,183
3
4
5
7
7
10
11
11
Turn On The Lights again.. (feat. Future)
Fred again.., Swedish House Mafia, Future
260,353,042
4
5
6
8
8
11
12
12
Jungle
Fred again..
219,232,513
5
6
7
9
9
12
13
13
Admit It (u dont want 2)
Fred again.., I. JORDAN
17,267,302
6
7
8
10
10
13
14
14
Lights Out
Fred again.., Romy, HAAi
41,325,571
15
Victory Lap Five
Fred again.., Skepta, PlaqueBoyMax, Denzel Curry, Hanumankind, That Mexican OT, D Double E, LYNY
30,953,074
10
11
11
14
15
16
leavemealone - Nia Archives Remix
Fred again.., Baby Keem, Nia Archives
10,228,810
7
8
9
12
12
15
16
17
Jungle - Rico Nasty Remix
Fred again.., Rico Nasty
17,000,018
8
9
11
13
13
16
17
18
Lights Out (feat. Fred again..) - HAAi Remix
Romy, HAAi, Fred again..
8,294,057
OK, but it also had a vinyl release (13 tracks, column 4), from which it debuted at #4 on the albums chart in June 2024 (falling to #58 the following week). It had been sitting on the dance albums chart until 1 September 2025, the last week before the new rules began, so ARIA must have a pre-September 2023 release date for it, which may be true for the first edition, but definitely not the 2nd one, since it added "leavemealone", which was released in December 2023. But which edition's tracklist are they using? And did it have a spike in consumption this week, or did they perhaps just add the later tracklists this week? Many questions.
INXS's "The Very Best" debuts at #30 on the Australian albums On Replay chart, presumably from a sales boost of some sort.
I just realised that We Are The People (by Empire Of The Sun) has disappeared from the Australian singles On Replay chart. It was #9 last week (chart run: 10-8-8-7-9-7-7-8-7-11-9-9) and now it's nowhere in the top 50. Obviously an error, but a strange one. I doubt they'd fix this week's charts, but hopefully it returns next week?
I made a comparison of this week's On Replay singles chart and Spotify weekly chart, if anyone's interested. "Prev" means the song has previously been on the On Replay singles chart, and "AU" means it's in the Australian version (and, well, We Are The People has managed to make itself "Prev AU").
Kendrick Lamar, SZA - All The Stars (with SZA) - From "Black Panther: The Album"
Prev
148
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
11
59
AC/DC - Thunderstruck
Prev
149
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
19
61
Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
-
151
Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock
15
62
Vance Joy - Riptide
-
152
Dasha - Austin (Boots Stop Workin')
21
66
Olivia Dean - Ok Love You Bye
Prev
153
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
7
69
Teddy Swims - The Door
Prev
154
Ed Sheeran - Photograph
24
71
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue
AU 9
155
INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
23
74
Gorillaz, De La Soul - Feel Good Inc.
Prev
157
Lady Gaga, Colby O'Donis - Just Dance
30
75
The Neighbourhood - Sweater Weather
-
158
Nickelback - How You Remind Me
31
76
Nelly Furtado, Timbaland - Promiscuous
Prev
159
Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten
20
77
Metallica - Enter Sandman - Remastered 2021
Prev
163
Luke Combs - Where the Wild Things Are
44
78
Bruno Mars - That's What I Like
-
164
Florence + The Machine - Dog Days Are Over
26
82
Noah Kahan - Stick Season
Prev
165
The Fray - How to Save a Life
32
85
Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere - 2017 Remaster
-
166
Rihanna, Mikky Ekko - Stay
22
94
Wham! - Last Christmas
Prev
167
Hozier - Take Me to Church
29
95
Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream
-
168
Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger - Remastered
36
97
Train - Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)
AU 13
169
The Kid LAROI - NIGHTS LIKE THIS
33
98
Coldplay - Yellow
Prev
170
Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
38
99
Tame Impala - The Less I Know The Better
-
174
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
27
101
OneRepublic - Counting Stars
-
175
Radiohead - Let Down
-
103
Radiohead - Creep
-
176
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
43
104
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop
-
179
Nirvana - Come As You Are
42
105
The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition
-
180
Rihanna - Don't Stop The Music
47
106
Chris Stapleton - You Should Probably Leave
-
181
Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Ray Dalton - Can't Hold Us (feat. Ray Dalton)
25
107
Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved
Prev
182
Evanescence - Bring Me To Life
-
108
Drake, Wizkid, Kyla - One Dance
-
183
The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony - Remastered 2016
34
109
Oasis - Wonderwall - Remastered
-
187
The Killers - Somebody Told Me
Prev
111
Djo - End of Beginning
Prev
189
Ed Sheeran - Shape of You
28
112
Tate McRae - greedy
Prev
190
Pitbull, Ne-Yo - Time of Our Lives
-
115
Timbaland, Keri Hilson, D.O.E. - The Way I Are
Prev
191
Morgan Wallen - Last Night
-
118
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
-
196
Lady Gaga - Poker Face
-
119
Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
-
198
Eminem - Without Me
39
120
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
-
199
Bryan Adams - Summer Of '69
Prev
121
Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
35
-
The Weeknd - Save Your Tears
46
123
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain
40
-
Ed Sheeran - Perfect
I'm pleased to be able to say that no songs in the top 100 are currently missing! From the 5 highest ones that haven't charted, I'm pretty sure Creep and Teenage Dirtbag are missing, but the other 3, especially Sultans Of Swing, haven't necessarily been high enough to be certain. (I thought The Way I Are might be slightly under-represented by the Spotify charts, but I just realised that the radio edit is combined into it.) These are their Spotify chart positions over the last 13 weeks, for reference:
Creep
91
96
115
111
112
123
126
126
111
101
92
101
103
One Dance
-
-
-
149
126
144
156
135
127
139
132
108
108
The Way I Are
-
-
-
194
188
170
150
112
107
126
118
111
115
Sultans Of Swing
175
182
192
168
176
160
172
170
164
200
166
142
118
Teenage Dirtbag
-
144
108
99
88
91
89
89
83
82
84
115
119
I just noticed that Down Under (Men At Work) poked into the Spotify top 200 in September. It's hard to know what may be missing from the Australian singles On Replay chart because it goes miles below the top 200, but as I mentioned on the first week, Down Under is the one song I'm pretty confident is missing; still, I was awaiting Spotify's year-end charts (it was #9 on the most-played Australian songs in Australia in 2024) to confirm that it hadn't suddenly taken a massive decline. Well, now I have my confirmation
"Austin (Boots Stop Workin')" by Dasha falls from #73 to #82 on the singles chart, despite having become 2 years old this week (it was released on 17 November 2023). So, evidently ARIA do have an incorrect date for it. What date do they have? I guess we'll find out - or maybe we won't, if it will have fallen out of the chart by then. If I had to guess, they might have the release date of the parent EP (album?), which was 16 February 2024, or it might've been registered as a new release the week it debuted on the chart, which was 18 March 2024.
Actually, I just realised I could look at the New Music chart for a clue (wow, I think this is the first time I've found a use for that chart). It charted there for the first 2 weeks that it was on the singles chart. So if 25 March 2024 was its 16th week of existence in ARIA's view, that corresponds to a release date of 1 December 2023, i.e. 2 weeks late. Where that date came from, I don't know. Perhaps we can say it cancels out The Kid LAROI's "NIGHTS LIKE THIS" being 5 weeks early
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