A new year begins the same way the previous sun-cycle ended, a fairly stable Top 50 chart with a few anomalies, with Olivia Dean's Man I Need scoring a seventh straight week as the #1 song.
Man I Need is now the equal eighth longest running #1 in Australia for this decade, tying with Dave and Central Cee with Sprinter (2023) and the seven accumulated weeks for Mariah's All I Want... track from the first half of this decade. Plus the song joins fifty other tracks (since the 1940's, 29th during the ARIA-era) to become the fifteenth equal-longest running #1 song of all time, plus it now equals the seven weeks accrued by Unholy for Sam Smith and Kim Petras, a fellow Capitol artist. Olivia's fourth week of duopolies with the #1 Single and #1 Album makes her the first British artist to hold the top for this long since Ed Sheeran between March and April of 2017 with Shape of You and ÷ (divide) for a five week run (it eventually did seven weeks, after a one-week break on April 17th, 2017).
The Olivia Man-track also manages to regain the #1 spot in New Zealand, scoring a 13th overall stay as their #1 single (still their longest #1 song by a female artist too), with the song rebounding back into the Top 10 overseas in The Netherlands (#2), England (#6), Germany (#7) and Ireland (#8). You can now see all of the overseas info in the new table I have constructed at the bottom of this section, showing the songs from our current Top 50 and how they are placed on overseas charts, just remember that the U.S.A. and Canada chart are newly issued on Monday (our time), so their information is always slightly behind, as they are still retaining their Xmas titles, while most other countries have seen a quick exit this week of those seasonal tunes.
There are fourteen stable entries within the Top 50 this week, with half (seven) of them within the Top 10, as the entire Top 3 on both charts match again for a fourth straight week, Taylor Swift's The Fate of Ophelia is also scoring a seventh straight week at #2 (#1 rebound in Germany and The Netherlands), an unprecedented twelfth week at #3 for Golden by HUNTR/X (26th week within the Top 10//half-a-year) and a fifth stay at #4 for Alex Warren's Ordinary.
Swapping places are Disco Lines with Tinashe and No Broke Boys (#1 Dance Single), up two places to #5 (also half-a-year within the Top 10 at 26 weeks), as Olivia Dean declines a couple of spots to #7 with So Easy (to Fall in Love), and maintains the #9 position with Nice to Each Other. The two final non-movers sees England new #1 song WHERE IS MY HUSBAND for RAYE at #6 (#1 Hip Hop/R&B Single) and 12 to 12 for sombr at #8, both holding their spots for a third successive week, plus recent tourist sombr also returns to the Top 10 at #10 with back to friends (up one spot, WI10 now 20), which...
TOP 20: ...swaps places with the HVN. track I Run, dipping one spot to land at #11 after four weeks within the Top 10 (HP 9x2). The three stable entries here are Taylor's Opalite at #12 for a fourth straight week, Beautiful Things for Benson Boone at #13 and BIRDS OF A FEATHER for Billie Eilish at #20, while the two other declining entries here are CHANEL for Tyla (down three to #18) and A Couple Minutes by Olivia Dean (falls five to #19).
Returning to the charts at #14 is the Djo track End of Beginning, with the track last charting nationally on February 24th, 2025 (after he played shows at the Laneway Festival), while it most recently entered the On Replay chart (Sept. 22nd at #50 for one week, then from December 8th it has charted 13 - 9 - 15 - 50 - 3), with the song rebounding to #3 within the On Replay Singles chart this week. As you can see on the overseas-table below the song has also returned to quite a few charts too, Top 10 in England and Ireland. I don't know whether the return has anything to do with the final episodes of Stranger Things dropping over the past weeks (Djo is Joe Keery who plays Steve Harrington on the show), as Kate Bush has returned to the On Replay chart with Running Up That Hill at #49 (also Top 20 in the UK and Ireland).
Three songs make upwards moves here too, with Love Me Not for Ravyn Lenae up two to #15, A Bar Song (Tipsy) for Shaboozey (up three to #16) and DAISIES for Justin Bieber (up one to #17)...
TOP 30: ...with three of the four rising titles in this section all doing so with a double-digit jump, as APT. for Rosé and Bruno Mars is up ten to #22, while Sabrina Carpenter has two with Manchild (up eleven to #24) and Espresso (up sixteen to #27), while Gracie Abrams' That's So True is the fourth and final rising entry here, up three to #23.
The sole non-mover here is at #30, I Had Some Help for Post Malone and Morgan Wallen is stable for a third straight week, while a two-place dip is seen by Die with a Smile for Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars (to #29), three place drops go to Victory Lap by Fred Again.. and Soda Pop by Saja Boys to #25 and #26 respectively, a four-place fall to #28 for Tate McRae's TIT FOR TAT and dropping five places to #21 is sombr with Undressed.
TOP 40: Of the four rising tracks here, one is the only NEW PEAK within the Top 50 this week, as Kehlani breaks out of her 41-50 section restraints and jumps up six places to a new chart height of #38 with Folded, while also climbing out of the lower section is Tame Impala's Dracula (#1 Australian Artists Single) up four to #37, with the two other risers here being THE DAYS - NOTION Remix for Crystal (up two to #31) and Gabriela by KATSEYE (up three to #34), which also racks up half-a-year/26 weeks charting too.
EsDeeKid continues his ebb-and-flow on the singles chart (meaning he is up one week, down the next, up the week after, etc.), as all three of his entries from last week decline, with his two remaining Top 50 titles this week being Phantom (down eleven to #32) and 4 Raws (down eight to #36), while Olivia Dean also sees two eight-place drops for Baby Steps (to #33) and Let Alone the One You Love (to #39), while Olivia's duet with Sam Fender on Rein Me In is down four places to land at #40, and lastly Messy for Lola Young dips one spot to #35.
TOP 50: Benson Boone is only a couple of weeks away from his Beautiful Things track transferring to the On Replay Singles chart (TW 102 weeks), so his track Mystical Magical is returning to the Top 50 this week by rising eleven places to land at #48 (last within the T50 on October 6th), while also emerging from the lower-50 is the HUNTR/X track How it's Done (up one spot tp #50), joining two other tracks from the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack within this section, What it Sounds Like (down four to #42) and Your Idol (drops five to #45).
The two other rising entries here see Chappell Roan's Good Luck, Babe! up one to #41 and Sports Car for Tate McRae (up four to #44), while she also has one of the three non-movers here as Just Keep Watching remains at #49, with the two others being Bad Dreams for Teddy Swims at #46 and Too Sweet by Hozier at #47 for a third week, plus the third and final four-place drop here goes to Gigi Perez's Sailor Song down to #43.
NO NEW ENTRIES this week.
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Titles
Artists
Australia
New Zeal
England
Ireland
Germany
Netherl
U.S.A.
Canada
Man I Need
Olivia Dean
1
1
6
8
7
2
36
33
The Fate of Ophelia
Taylor Swift
2
4
2
2
1
1
28
19
Golden (from 'KPop Demon Hunters')
Huntr/x, Rei Ami, KPop Demon Hunters Cast
3
5
8
11
2
4
25
-
Ordinary
Alex Warren
4
3
13
16
5
9
-
-
No Broke Boys
Disco Lines feat. Tinashe
5
6
26
20
4
17
-
-
WHERE IS MY HUSBAND?
RAYE
6
7
1
4
3
3
56
53
So Easy (to Fall in Love)
Olivia Dean
7
2
4
7
-
11
57
55
12 to 12
sombr
8
13
28
25
20
15
83
-
Nice to Each Other
Olivia Dean
9
9
-
-
-
81
-
82
back to friends
sombr
10
12
34
38
30
52
52
-
I Run
HVN. feat. Kaitlin Aragon (A)
11
10
10
28
51
21
-
66
Opalite
Taylor Swift
12
17
11
13
29
-
54
51
Beautiful Things
Benson Boone
13
5 OnR
51
-
57
77
-
-
End of Beginning
Djo
14
12 OnR
7
9
14
47
-
-
Love Me Not
Ravyn Lenae
15
14
43
-
33
55
-
-
A Bar Song (Tipsy)
Shaboozey
15
13 OnR
-
-
-
-
-
-
DAISIES
Justin Bieber
17
18
90
-
-
98
-
-
CHANEL
Tyla
18
16
15
33
34
24
82
57
A Couple Minutes
Olivia Dean
19
8
20
-
-
-
68
70
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Billie Eilish
20
19 OnR
88
-
71
92
-
-
Undressed
sombr
21
33
60
-
53
42
-
-
APT.
Rosé feat. Bruno Mars
22
21
66
-
13
68
-
-
That's So True
Gracie Abrams
23
37
76
-
78
-
-
-
Manchild
Sabrina Carpenter
24
29
36
47
81
-
-
-
Victory Lap
Fred Again.. feat. Skepta & PlaqueBoyMax
25
26
-
-
-
-
-
-
Soda Pop (from 'KPop Demon Hunters')
Saja Boys.
26
22
-
-
-
-
-
-
Espresso
Sabrina Carpenter
27
34 OnR
-
-
49
-
-
-
TIT FOR TAT
Tate McRae
28
-
25
21
-
-
58
54
Die with a Smile
Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars
29
23
-
-
83
70
-
-
THE DAYS - NOTION Remix
Chrystal
31
20
-
-
-
-
-
-
Phantom
EsDeeKid & Rico Ace
32
30
14
15
-
-
81
62
Baby Steps
Olivia Dean
33
19
-
-
-
-
-
-
Gabriela
KATSEYE
34
34
-
-
-
-
63
-
Messy
Lola Young
35
27
53
-
45
87
-
-
4 Raws
EsDeeKid
36
35
23
26
-
-
64
59
Dracula
Tame Impala
37
-
41
44
-
57
84
83
Folded
Kehlani
38
11
27
-
-
-
51
-
Let Alone the One You Love
Olivia Dean
39
15
-
-
-
-
-
-
Rein Me in
Sam Fender feat. Olivia Dean
40
36
5
3
-
-
-
-
What it Sounds Like (from 'KPop Demon Hunters')
Huntr/x, KPop Demon Hunters Cast
42
-
19
50
-
-
-
-
Sailor Song
Gigi Perez
43
38
100
-
-
-
-
-
Bad Dreams
Teddy Swims
46
32
-
-
-
88
-
-
How it's Done (from 'KPop Demon Hunters')
Huntr/x, KPop Demon Hunters Cast
50
-
18
-
-
-
-
-
Raindance
Dave / Tems
-
25
3
6
15
14
-
-
Lush Life
Zara Larsson
1 OnR
3 OnR
9
10
8
6
-
-
Die on This Hill
SIENNA SPIRO
-
40
12
17
-
27
100
81
Running Up That Hill
Kate Bush
49 OnR
-
16
18
54
-
-
-
Century
EsDeeKid
out
-
17
23
-
-
-
80
OnR = On Replay Chart entry
USA & Canada issue new charts on Mondays
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titles not displayed (like #30) are not charting overseas at the moment
Olivia Dean continues her run at #1 on both charts, seeing her album The Art of Loving score a fifth overall week as the top selling Album in Australia.
The Art of Loving (also No.9 Vinyl) re-takes the UK #1 spot a third week and she also regains her duopoly in New Zealand (10th week, plus The Netherlands), while locally this is her fourth week of dual occupation of the #1 spots, making her the longest running British Female artist to hold the top spot on both charts since Adele's first run at the top, a seven-week stay from June 27th, 2011 for Someone Like You and 21 (Adele did hold the top spots again in November 2015, but that was only for two weeks), while I've mentioned in the singles section the last overall British act to hold this long to the top of both charts.
Seven of the Top 10 singles remain on hold, while there are six non-movers in the LP10, and all of them are in a row, plus we also have a fourth week of the Top 3 acts matching on both charts too. It's a fourth straight week at #2 for Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl (No.2 Vinyl, #1 in The U.S.A. for an 11th week, Germany #1 return), followed by a fifth straight week at #3 for the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, then the two Sabrina Carpenter albums here, Man's Best Friend at #4 (No.5 Vinyl) and Short N' Sweet at #5, with Tate McRae holding at #6 with SO CLOSE TO WHAT???.
Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department moves up two places this week to #7 (No.6 Vinyl), with only five spots separating her two Top 10 entries this week, their closest placement in the 13 weeks that they've both been charting, with the remainder of the Top 10 seeing Pink Floyd score a third week in the ten with Wish You Were Here 50 (down one to #8, No.3 Vinyl), Billie Eilish dips on spot to #9 with HIT ME HARD & SOFT (No.8 Vinyl) and the #1 Hip Hop/R&B Album and No.1 Vinyl title this week goes to Tyler, the Creator and his CHROMAKOPIA set, which dips two places to #10.
TOP 20: The six rising albums here sees a one-place move for the highest charted Australian act in Tame Impala's Deadbeat (to #18), two-spot climbs go to both Alex Warren and You'll Be Alright, Kid and Gracie Arbams' The Secret of Us to #11 and #12 (No.20 Vinyl) respectively, with three sets rising three-spots each; I'm the Problem for Morgan Wallen (to #13, #1 Country Album), BRAT for Charli XCX (to #15) and regaining her first (solo) Top 20 berth since mid-May of 2025 is Ariana Grande's eternal sunshine.
Ariana's other Top 20 appearance is on the soundtrack for Wicked: For Good, which is the biggest fall within this chart region, down six places to #17, with the three further declines here seen by recent tourists sombr with I Barely Know Her (down two to #14) and Lady Gaga's MAYHEM (dips one to #16), while upcoming visitor here Ed Sheeran's Play falls three to #20.
TOP 30: Of the seven climbing albums here, the top and bottom of the thirty see ten-place jumps, with Stray Kids' KARMA up to #21 and The Weeknd's Hurry Up Tomorrow landing at #30, with Jessie Murph and her Sex Hysteria climbing eight places to #27. Smaller rises are seen by Sam Fender's People Watching (up one to #26), Addison (up two to #24), 5SOS's STAR set (up two to #28) and the hickey from Royel Otis (up three to #29).
Small drops occur for Olivia Rodrigo and Live from Glastonbury and Even in Arcadia for Sleep Token (both down two places each to #22 (No.11 Vinyl) and No.23 respectively), while GNX for Kendrick Lamar is only down one spot to #25.
TOP 40: Apart from the Top 6 albums being on hold this week, the next non-movers outside of the Top 10 see two sets holding here; A Matter of Time for Laufey (#1 Jazz/Blues Album) and Fall from the Light for The Hilltop Hoods at #37 and #39 respectively, while there are only two falling titles here for I Love My Computer for Ninajirachi (down eight to #36) and Clairo's Charm (drops seven to #40).
Double-digit climbs back into the Top 40 this week come from F-1 Trillion by Post Malone (up eleven to #34), From Zero for Linkin Park (up fourteen to #35) and $ome $exy $ongs 4 U by Drake and PartyNextDoor (jumps twelve spots to #38), while smaller climbs go to Justin Bieber and SWAG I + II (up one to #33) and Kansas Anymore for ROLE MODEL (up five to #31).
TOP 50: For the first time since June of 2025 the Calvin Harris collection 96 Months regains a Top 50 berth by climbing sixteen spots this week to land at #45, with three further albums rising from last week's lower fifty; West End Girl for Lily Allen (54 to #47), Vie for Doja Cat (56 to #49) and almost repeating his singles chart rise is Benson Boone's American Heart (up twelve to #50).
Lorde's Virgin is the ninth and final non-mover within the Top 50 this week at #42, with two local-act titles rising two-places each, Love Balloon by Ocean Alley (to #44) and If That Makes Sense by Spacey Jane (to #46). After flying back in last week the Geese set Getting Killed drops out of the Top 30 and plummets eighteen places this week to the #43 wetlands, while Cold Chisel are down thirteen places to #41 with 50 Years - The Best of, while lastly Florence + the Machine's Everybody Scream is down five places to #48.
NEW ENTRY: * #32 (LP#6) - THY WILL BE DONE - $uicideboy$ (G59 Records) is the first new entry for 2026, with the sixth album for the New Orleans punk-rap duo also becoming their sixth Top 50 entry, plus this is the follow-up to their fifth set THY KINGDOM COME (HP-21 on August 11th, 2025) which was sitting at #100 last week after racking up eleven weeks within the Top 100, while this new set has so far only charted in New Zealand (#10 upon entry). Last edited:
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All 43 Christmas songs exit the On Replay singles chart, unsurprisingly. On the daily Spotify chart, Mariah Carey fell 1-20-188-out, Wham! fell 2-17-172-out, and Brenda Lee fell 3-33-out. One could say that Mariah has the perfect song to replace herself with, in her "Auld Lang Syne (The New Year's Anthem)", but sadly it has never made the Spotify top 200 in any country.
Last week, Zara Larsson's "Lush Life" became the highest non-Christmas song, and this week it climbs to #1 (chart run: 16-19-21-13-27-1). Who'd have had that on their bingo card a few months ago?! It's the 4th song to have reached #1 on this chart, after "Iris" (4 non-consecutive weeks), "Lose Control" (9 weeks) and "All I Want For Christmas Is You" (4 weeks). "Dreams" takes the #2 spot this week, and "End Of Beginning" climbs to #3. As you've probably seen from the posts above, "End Of Beginning" also re-enters the regular singles chart at #14. I don't know why. It doesn't align with the "re-entry conditions" that say a song must have been absent from the chart for at least 10 years, so I assume ARIA just decided to grant a manual exception for it. You could say that it was unlucky to be ineligible because it's not yet 2 years since it became a hit, but you could also say the same about "Lush Life" from the opposite end, as it last charted 9.4 years ago, not too far off the 10-year mark. More strangely, "End Of Beginning" also appears on the New Music chart - as if they re-registered it with a new date, but in that case, wouldn't it disappear from the On Replay chart? It should be impossible for a song to be simultaneously more than 2 years old and less than 4 months old. It's perhaps interesting to note that if it's #14 on the singles chart, then "Dreams" would be at least #15 on a comprehensive chart, its highest position since 2020.
Among all the re-entries to the On Replay chart, "Every Breath You Take" gets a big new peak of #8 (its previous peak was #16), as does "Africa" at #26 (previously just 1 week at #46). 5 songs debut:
27. Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World 37. Drake feat. Wizkid & Kyla - One Dance 40. Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing 43. Dasha - Austin (Boots Stop Workin') 49. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
I had thought that "One Dance" might not be being tracked; good to know that it is. "Running Up That Hill" has had a resurgence in the past month, seemingly from being featured in a new season of "Stranger Things"; before that, it hadn't been in the weekly Spotify top 200 since February 2023. And, 5 weeks after it turned 2 years old and 4 weeks after it got transferred to On Replay status, "Austin (Boots Stop Workin')" now makes an appearance. It was released 3 days after Laufey's "Winter Wonderland", so it's now the newest song to have made this chart.
On the Australian version, "Don't Dream It's Over" returns to #1. I thought "Snowman" might manage to hold on within the top 50 - it didn't, but "How To Make Gravy" did! It produces a chart run of 40-29-2-45. CYRIL's "Stumblin' In" was one of the many New Year's Eve re-entries on the Spotify chart, and it reaches a new peak of #14 here. Many of the circa-'80s classics score new peaks this week too - "Great Southern Land" climbs to #33 after 14 weeks of charting no higher than #45. "The Horses" makes a debut at #46.
"We Are The People", which is still missing, actually reaches a new peak of #88 on the weekly Spotify chart this week. "Down Under", which is always missing, is also #101 there, the highest it's ever been outside of Australia Day weeks. (I would also like to note that I just noticed a song called "Livin' On Borrowed Time" in the iTunes top 20 and thought I might have found a possible reason for "Solid Rock" re-entering last week, but the song appears to be entirely unrelated )
Chartifacts updated for the week (internet issues were the reason for the delayed postings), plus I have a new feature to include each week, what do you think?
I think it might be worth consideration to include the non-charting songs in some way, because those rare instances of a uniquely in Australia hit are sometimes the most interesting thing to discern.
It will be a very good day when Beautiful Things gets banished to the OR chart Even better when Espresso gets the same treatment but that won't be for a few months. EOY should be this week if all goes to plan. TS #1 on both charts probably.
@I.E what with ARIA moving the Kid Laroi track to the On Replay chart early and now this i think there's at least one person at ARIA who doesn't know their own rules. Whenever Tara goes on holiday everything goes to pot is my theory. The oil that keeps the machine running efficiently.
I don't mind them playing a little loose with it. A 10 year layover is far too strict and this gets us the best of both worlds, where we acknowledge these viral moments but don't let them linger indefinitely. Song might actually get a new peak soon too. The Killers likely would have gotten a new peak this week too actually.
Of course I wonder if we're gonna see a new layer of different label strategies (since Zara Larsson has a strong case but is just inside the cut off). A bit unfair too for The Police given they're doing incredibly right now but aren't allowed because they've lingered below the top 50 for a while now, even though the song hasn't actually made the top 50 in over 40 years.
I'd actually be surprised if they're consistent about letting everything in that has done the time.
Every Breath You Take hasn't been on the singles chart since 1983. It presumably should have been in the top 100 for much of 2025, but I don't think it was being tracked until it belatedly debuted on the On Replay chart on 20 October 2025.
I think it depends on interpretation of the rules, something we haven't really had any chance to examine since they came in. It does say
'Special provision allowing older titles to re-enter ARIA Main Charts to reflect major viral moments or syncs for older tracks'
'Upon label request and sufficient activity for a Top 30 or higher placement'
Doesn't track with the 10 years rule but maybe that's never been mandatory and implies it's just easier to be allowed in if that's the case. Admittedly this example makes it hard to see it ever coming to play, but maybe it's more in line with perennials that don't necessarily have a viral moment but stay within range. Fair to say it's never been well explained and we'll have to just see how it plays out.
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