The second Australian artist to score a No.1 song during 2018 is singer/songwriter Dean Lewis whose latest track “Be Alright” moves up one place to occupy the top spot on the ARIA Singles Chart this week.
“Be Alright” becomes the 1077th No.1 Song in Australia (1940 to 2018) and the 512th for ARIA (1983 to 2018), plus the 13th for the Island Record Label, and their first in almost eight years, as the last No.1 for that label was “Dynamite” by Taio Crus (30th Aug, 2010 for 4 weeks).
The last new Aussie act to hit No.1 here was Flume back in February of 2016 with “Never Be Like You” (he was the last solo Male Aussie act too) and overall Dean Lewis becomes the 40th Solo Australian Male artist to make it to the top of his own countries’ charts since the first in 1951 (Les Welch) and overall he is the 106th Aussie Performer (solo, duo or group) to have a chart-topping single on home soil.
The new No.1 is also the 165th song performed by an Aussie act, while the only other local act to hit the top this year was 5 Seconds of Summer with “Youngblood” ( 8 weeks from 28th of May, TW-3) and Dean has been sitting at the top of the digital sales chart for the past two weeks and remains their again this week (he is again #2 on the streaming chart). This is only the second song with ‘Alright’ in its title to hit No.1 in Australia, the other was back in March of 1994 for East 17 and “It’s Alright” (7 weeks), and this is the 21st ‘Be’ to land at the top here.
Last week the entire top six songs held their positions, and this week all of those six songs are again within the Top 6, just a few have swapped around, as “In My Feelings” (5th week at #1 in New Zealand, America and Canada) is down one spot to No.2 and also swapping are “Eastside” (new peak) by Benny Blanco with Halsey and Khalid and “Girls Like You” for Maroon 5 with Cardi B to No.4 and No.5 respectively. On hold are “Youngblood” for 5SOS at No.3 and for a third straight week at No.6 (6-6-6) is “No Brainer” for DJ Khaled with Justin Bieber, Quavo and Chance the Rapper which scores the only new certification within the Top 100 and is now Gold (●) in sales.
The first ever Top 10 single in Australia for Panic! at the Disco occurs this week as “High Hopes” halves its position from last week and jumps up seven spots to land at a new peak of No.7, with the bands previous highest charted single being their first entry here “I Write Sins not Tragedies” (HP-12, peaked August 2006), while right behind them at No.8 and also landing a new peak is Jonas Blue with “Rise”. The third and final Australian act within the Top 10 is Conrad Sewell who is down one spot to No.9 with “Healing Hands” and Travis Scott manages a second week within the Top 10 with last weeks debut “Sicko Mode” featuring Drake, down three places to No.10 this week.
UP:
* George Ezra blasts up sixteen places to shoot a hole in the chart at No.11 with his current eight week running Irish No.1 in “Shotgun”, which also returns for third week at the top in England.
* Post Malone is back up with “Better Now” (13 to 12), on the Tiesto track “Jackie Chan” (16 to 14) on hold at No.54 with “Rockstar” and is back up one with “I Fall Apart” (59 to 58).
* Kygo and Imagine Dragons jump back up four places to a new peak of No.18 with “Born to Be Yours”, while The Dragons also rise with “Thunder” (82 to 76) and “Believer” (90 to 82).
* The recent Top 10 for Anne-Marie and “2002” is back up to No.20, while her newer track alongside David Guetta and “Don’t Leave Me Alone” leaps twenty places to a new peak of No.43.
* The only climbing Khalid track this week is “Ocean” with Martin Garrix (23 to 21), but his older track “Young, Dumb & Broke” is newly certified 6x▲Platinum and leaves the chart this week, while the new Martin Garrix track with Bonn and “High on Life” climbs sixteen places to No.59.
* The Rubens with Sarah leap up seven spots to a new peak of No.25 with “Never Ever”.
* Calvin Harris just issued a new track on Friday called “Promises” with Sam Smith, and his recent Top 10 hit “One Kiss” with Dua Lipa is back up three to No.28, while Dua climbs with “IDGAF” (76 to 74).
* The Zedd and Elley Duhe teaming “Happy Now” is up three spots to a new peak of No.30.
* Last weeks second entry for Bazzi and “Beautiful” jumps eighteen places to new peak of No.34.
* Bebe Rexha continues her two places-a-week climb with “I’m a Mess”, up to No.42 this week.
* Billie Eilish scores her second Top 50 hit in Australia as “You Should See Me in a Crown” leaps up twenty places to score a new chart height of No.43, while she also climbs with “Ocean Eyes” (83 to 77, HP-58).
* After five weeks of continual climbing the Loud Luxury track “Body” cracks the Top 50 and climbs seven spots to a new peak of No.48.
* Ed Sheeran continues to bob-in-and-out of the Top 50 with “Shape of You”, its back up one spot to No.50 and regains the ‘Longest Charted Single’ crown at 84 weeks within the Top 100.
* Camila Cabello scores a one-year run on the charts with “Havana”, which is back up three to No.71 this week.
DOWN:
* The only song leaving the Top 10 this week is “Stargazing” (HP-10, WI10-1) for Travis Scott which after debuting at No.10 last week drops down twenty-two spots to No.32, while he also falls with his other entry from last week in “Butterfly Effect” (46 to 78), but he does enter with four more songs.
* The 6ix9nine track with Nicki Minaj and Murda Beatz in “Fefe” is down four spots to No.15.
* The new Ariana Grande album was issued on Friday and her first two singles from the new set are both down five places each this week in “God is a Woman” (12 to 17) and “No Tears Left to Cry” (40 to 45), while her teaming with Troye Sivan and “Dance to This” falls fifteen spots to No.93.
* Falling Drake tracks this week are “Nice for What” (34 to 36), “God’s Plan” (36 to 39), “Nonstop” (41 to 44), “Don’t Matter to Me” (47 to 61) and on the BlocBoy JB track “Look Alive” (87 to 91).
* Two of the three XXXTentacion tracks are down this week in “Jocelyn Flores” (48 to 51) and “Changes” (56 to 63).
* Shawn Mendes is down to two songs within the Top 100, both of which fall this week for “In My Blood” (58 to 65) and “Nervous” (65 to 73).
* There’s an eleven place fall to No.72 for the latest Chainsmokers track “Side Effects”.
* Ella Mai is down nine spots to No.81 with her former Top 50 entry “Boo’d Up”.
* Kyle with Kehlani fall nineteen places to No.83 with “PlayinWitMe”.
* With a new Guetta track rising his older entry with Sia and “Flames” fades nineteen spots to No.85.
* The track leaving the Top 100 from the highest position is “Summertime Magic” for Childish Gambino (#69), while his older entry and former No.1 “This is America” is down ten spots to No.95.
* The Weeknd is also down ten places to No.98 with “Call out My Name”.
NEW ENTRIES:
* #57 – Barbie Dreams by Nicki Minaj
* #60 – Majesty by Nicki Minaj feat. Eminem & Labrinth are both taken from the fourth studio album for the hip-hop artist entitled “Queen”, and follows on from the former entries from the album in “Barbie Tings” (HP-41), “Chun-Li” (HP-54, re-entry this week at No.84) and “Bed” (HP-17, TW-43 to 40) and the new entries become her 51st and 52nd Top 100 chart entries in Australia.
* #67 – Wake Up by Travis Scott feat The Weeknd
* #87 – Stop Trying to Be God by Travis Scott
* #97 – Yosemite by Travis Scott
* #99 – Carousel by Travis Scott are all taken from his album “Astroworld” which was No.1 last week in Australia (TW-2) and they bring his tally of chart entries this week to seven within the Top 100 and giving him now his overall nine chart entry in Australia.
* #79 – Underwater by Rufus Du Sol is the second track to be lifted from the forthcoming third album for the Australian electronic act entitled “Solace” (no date known as yet), and follows on from “No Place” which hit No.41 back in early June and this is now their eleventh Top 100 entry. The band were at No.1 this week five years ago with “Atlas” (19-Aug, 2013).
* #80 – All Loved Up by Amy Shark is the second entry to chart from her recent No.1 debut album “Love Monster” (TW-10) following on from “I Said Hi” (HP-6, TW-31) and overall this is her fourth Top 100 entry.
* #89 – Thunderclouds by LSD is the third single issued from the collaboration between Labrinth, Sia & Diplo and it now becomes their second chart entry and also their highest charted, as their second release “Audio” made it to No.91, while their debut song “Genius” missed charting.
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Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
