Drake sees his track “God’s Plan” hold for an eighth straight week as the No.1 song on the ARIA Singles Chart.
The song is again at the top in New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, America (8th wk also) and England (9th wk), while I must make a correction to last weeks figures I presented, as “One Dance” actually spent seven weeks at the top in 2016 (I said it had logged six weeks), so now “God’s Plan” becomes his longest running No.1 in Australia, while it takes his tally of weeks at the top here to now fifteen weeks placing him outright seventh on the list for ‘Accumulated Weeks at No.1: Singles, 2010’s’, one week shy of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ sixteen weeks from their four chart-toppers here.
Holding at No.2 for a fourth week is Post Malone with Ty Dolla $ign and “Psycho”, whilst Ed Sheeran’s “Perfect” (the last song to spend eight weeks at No.1 too) remains at No.3 logging its 25th week within the Top 10 to become the longest running Top 10 single ever in Australia, beating the 24 weeks racked up “Fernando” by ABBA (1976), “November Rain” for Guns N’ Roses (1992/93) “Breathe” by The Prodigy (1996/97) and his own from last year and “Shape of You” (2017, TW-19), while Ed finished up his national tour in Brisbane this past week, performing “Perfect” as duet with his tour support act Missy Higgins.
The No.1 digital track this week rises one place to a national placing of No.4 in “These Days” for Rudimental, Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen, while it swaps places with “All the Stars” for Kendrick Lamar and SZA, down one to No.5. The Marshmello and Anne-Marie duet “Friends” rises two places to a new peak of No.6, while holding at their No.7 peak for a second week are Zedd and Grey with Maren Morris on their track “Friends”. Dua Lipa drops down two spots to No.8 with “IDGAF”, the track helping her album to score its first week within the Top 10 albums, while the song “Sad!” by rapper XXXTentacion jumps up thirteen spots to land at No.9, his first Top 10 placing here (helped by his album debuting at No.3 too), while down one spot to No.10 is “Meant to Be” for Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line which is newly certified ▲Platinum in sales.
UP:
* The ‘Love, Simon’ soundtrack comes in at No.82 this week, and the film opens in the country next week (31st March), while the lead single from the album in “Love Lies” for Khalid and Normani is up three spots to a new peak of No.11 and scores its first certification, now Gold (●).
* Ed Sheeran rises small amounts with his chart entries for “Shape of You” (20 to 19), “Galway Girl” (49 to 43), “Thinking Out Loud” (64 to 59, again the ‘Longest Charted Single’ at 158 wks), “Happier” (65 to 62) and “The A Team” (91 to 89).
* BlocBoy and Drake climb four places to a new peak of No.25 with “Look Alive”.
* Troye Sivan rises back up five spots to No.31 with “My My My!”.
* After two weeks at No.37 the Hailee Steinfeld and BloodPop song “Capital Letters” rises one place to a new chart height of No.36.
* Both Calum Scott tracks rise back up a little this week with “You Are the Reason” (40 to 38) and “Dancing on My Own” (81 to 76).
* The Noah Kahan and Julia Michaels collaboration “Hurt Somebody” jumps up fourteen places to land at a new peak within the Top 50 at No.46.
* The new entry at No.3 for the second XXXTentacion album “?” helps the albums previous entry “Changes” (No.87, 12th of March, fell out last week) to return at a new peak of No.48 giving him two songs within the Top 50 this week.
* Last weeks entry for Bad Wolves and their hard-rock-ballad cover of “Zombie” zooms up forty-two spots to land at No.51 thanks in a big part by it jumping to No.2 on the digital sales chart this week.
* The Offset, Metro Boomin’ & 21 Savage three week old entry “Ric Flair Drop” is up one spot to a new peak of No.60.
* N*E*R*D re-enter at No.63 with their former No.48 peaking track “Lemon”.
* New Zealand singer Robinson entered at #100 last week with her song “Nothing to Regret”, which is up thirty-two places this week to a new peak of No.68.
* While another of last weeks debuts in “Church” for Alison Wonderland rises one spot to No.88.
DOWN:
* Falling out of the Top 10 for a second time is “River” for Eminem and Ed Sheeran (HP-2, WI10-12a), which falls down three spots this week to No.13.
* Post Malone sees his track “I Fall Apart” drop down five to No.16, while his “Rockstar” is stable at No.23 and “Congratulations” is down two to No.72.
* After two weeks at No.19, it’s back to No.20 for a third time for “Say Something” by Justin Timberlake with Chris Stapleton.
* Two soundtrack songs dropping out of the Top 20 are “For You” by Liam Payne & Rita Ora from ‘Fifty Shades Freed’ and “This is Me” for Keala Settle & the Greatest Showman Ensemble, both down four to No.21 and No.22 respectively, with the three further songs from ‘The Greatest Showman’ set also fall in “Rewrite the Stars” for Zac Efrom & Zendaya (55 to 70), “The Greatest Show” (78 to 84) for the Cast Ensemble, and the Kesha version of “This is Me” leaves the Top 100 (#98).
* NF drops five places to No.29 with “Let You Down”.
* With one Marshmello track rising, his three older entries drop slightly, with “Wolves” alongside Selena Gomez and “Silence” with Khalid down three places apiece to No.34 and No.35 respectively, while “Everyday” with Logic drops back down two to No.40 after peaking at No.38 last week.
* G-Eazy with Halsey are down four to No.37 with “Him & I”, while his track “No Limit” with Cardi B and A$AP Rocky leaves the Top 100 from #97 and is newly ▲Platinum in sales.
* Sheppard drop five spots to No.49 with their “Coming Home” track.
* The three Imagine Dragons entries are all in the lower fifty now, with “Thunder” descending five to No.53 and “Whatever it Takes” is down twelve to No.74 and “Believer” drops eight places to No.90.
* With a new David Guetta track entering, his older entry with Afrojack and Charli XCX in “Dirty Sexy Money” drops down eleven spots to No.57.
* Camelphat and Elderbrook are down eight spots to No.61 with their “Cola” track.
* The two older Macklemore entries are both down this week, with “Good Old Days” dropping twelve to No.63 and “Glorious” is down six to No.85.
* After his recent tour here Lauv is back down fifteen places to No.65 with “I Like Me Better”.
* The Lorde remix for “Homemade Dynamite” with Khalid, SZA and Post Malone drops eight spots to No.66.
* The Tyron Hapi and Mimoza track “Anyway” slides sixteen places to No.75.
* SZA and her track “The Weekend” drops down thirteen places to No.77, newly ▲Platinum.
* 5 Seconds of Summer slip down again with “Want You Back”, dropping twelve to No.78.
* There’s a ten place slide to No.81 for “King’s Dead” for Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Future and James Blake.
* Zayn and Sia are down ten places to No.86 with “Dusk Till Dawn”, with Sia releasing her fifth David Guetta collaboration in “Flames” on Friday.
* Also down ten places to No.87 are Gang of Youths with “Let Me Down Easy”.
* “Katchi” for Ofenbach with Nick Waterhouse slides down seventeen places to No.91.
* Vance Joy drop fifteen places to No.100 with their older entry “Lay it On Me”.
* Last weeks Eurovision entry for Australia in Jessica Mauboy with “We Got Love” leaves the chart from No.47, but will be back within the chart by the end of April for the mid-May Eurovision Song Contest in Portugal.
NEW ENTRIES:
* #18 – Freaky Friday by Lil’ Dicky feat. Chris Brown is the first entry for US rapper and comedian David Andrew Burd who goes by the stagename of Lil’ Dicky, who released his first album back in July of 2015 entitled “Professional Rapper”, with this new collaboration with Chris Brown also featuring DJ Khalid, Ed Sheeran and Kendall Jenner within the track, which also comes in at No.10 in New Zealand, No.16 in England and No.30 in Ireland (so far) this week.
* #50 – Everybody Hates Me by The Chainsmokers is the third release from their recent three track EP “Sick Boy… You Owe Me”, with “Sick Boy” (HP-37) dropping nine to No.86 this week and “You Owe Me” (HP-73) leaving the chart from No.92 after four weeks of charting, with this becoming the duos twelfth Top 100 entry in Australia.
* #52 – Remind Me to Forget by Kygo feat Miguel is the eleventh entry for the Norwegian DJ and producer who last charted at No.94 with his current albums title track “Kids in Love”, which this new track is taken from, with this also being the fifth entry here for the US rapper Miguel.
* #56 – Delicate by Taylor Swift is the 44th Top 100 entry here for the US singer and the sixth chart entry from her current album “Reputation” (TW-13), with the clip for this song racking up 26 million views since its release last week, with her last entry “End Game” with Ed Sheeran (HP-36) falling out last week.
* #93 – Like I Do by David Guetta, Martin Garrix & Brooks is the 41st entry in Australia for the French DJ and producer who just issued a new Sia duet “Flames” on Friday, and this is his second entry this year alongside David Garrix as they made it to No.58 with “So Far Away” at the start of the year, while David is also charting with “Dirty Sexy Money” (HP-18) at No.57 this week.
* #97 – Done for Me by Charlie Puth feat Kehlani is the third single released from his forthcoming second album “Voicenotes” (due May 11th) after the recent No.17 hit “How Long” and “Attention” (HP-10, 2017), with this his seventh entry here overall, while the third entry for Kehlani.
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