It’s Drake and his “God’s Plan” at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart for a seventh straight week, becoming his longest running No.1 in Australia.
Drake previously spent six broken week at the top with “One Dance” between early May and early July of 2016, and now with his seven week running “God’s Plan” (#1 streamed, #6 digital) it brings his tally of weeks to thirteen at the top here, placing him equal ninth alongside Adele (3 #1’s) on the list for ‘Accumulated Weeks at No.1: Singles; 2010’s, plus the song is again at the top in America, Canada, England, Ireland and New Zealand.
Post Malone is stuck at No.2 for a third straight week with “Psycho”, which is now his only song within the Top 10, plus the track is newly certified Gold (●) in sales, while current tourist here Ed Sheeran and his track “Perfect” is back up three places to No.3, plus its spends its 24th week within the Top 10, with it’s run now equalling the ‘Longest Top 10′ run alongside last years “Shape of You” as well as “Breathe” by The Prodigy (1996/97), “November Rain” by Guns N’ Roses (1992/93) and “Fernando” by ABBA (1976). So its likely to stay for another week thanks to his massive tour, so next week it should become the longest running Top 10 song in Australia.
Down a place each are “All the Stars” by Kendrick Lamar with SZA and “These Days” for Rudimental with Jess Glynne & Macklemore to No.4 and No.5 respectively, while back up a spot to its former peak of No.6 is current Bruno Mars support act Dua Lipa and “IDGAF”, which is now ▲Platinum. Rising one place to a new peak and also both landing a Gold (●) certification are “The Middle” by Zedd and Grey with Maren Morris and “Friends” by Marshmelo and Anne-Marie to No.7 and No.8 respectively. Down four places to No.9 are Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line with “Meant to Be” and rising back up one spot to No.10 and returning to the ten for a twelfth week within is “River” for Eminem and Ed Sheeran.
UP:
* With the release on Friday of the ‘Love, Simon’ soundtrack expect the Khalid and Normani duet “Love Lies” to rise next week, but for now it’s up two places to a new peak of No.14.
* Another current tourist in Bruno Mars sees his “Finesse” track with Cardi B back up two to No.16.
* The Justin Timberlake and Chris Stapleton duet “Say Something” previously spent two weeks at No.20, now it’s logging its second stay at it’s current peak of No19.
* Ed Sheeran sees rises for his track “Shape of You” (25 to 20, newly 11x▲Platinum), “Castle on the Hill” (54 to 41, now 6x▲Platinum), “Galway Girl” (62 to 49), ‘Longest Charting Single’ at 157 weeks is once again “Thinking Out Loud” (78 to 64 and now 11x▲Platinum too), “Happier” (82 to 65), “Supermarket Flowers” (75 to 68), “Dive” (98 to 72), “Photograph” (97 to 80, 5x▲Platinum now) and returning at No.91 is “The A Team”, giving him eleven songs within the Top 100 (ten solo, one duet with Eminem).
* Last weeks entry for XXXTentacion for “Sad!” is up eleven places to a new peak of No.22.
* BlocBoy with Drake climb into the Top 30 with “Look Alive”, rising six to a new peak of No.29.
* Dua Lipa’s current tour alongside Bruno Mars also helps her older single “New Rules” to rise back up three spots to No.35, the song now 3x▲Platinum in sales.
* The debut last week for the Logic & Marshmello track “Everyday” leaps up twenty-three places to land at a new chart height of No.38, giving Marsh’ four songs within the Top 40, with Logic returning at No.88 with last weeks dropout “44 More” (HP-85) plus he lands a Top 10 albums chart debut this week too.
* After two weeks at No.56 the Glades track “Do Right” is up five spots to a new peak of No.51.
* Noah Kahan and Julia Michaels blast up twenty-four spots to land at No.60 with “Hurt Somebody”.
* The Offset and Metro Boomin’ debut from last week in “Ric Flair Drip” rises five spots to No.61 and is newly certified Gold (●) after two weeks on the chart.
* Cashmere Cat continues its slow rise with “Miss You”, up one more place to No.63.
* After a massive tumble last week (32 to 90) the Delta Goodrem track “Think About You” rises back up seventeen places to No.73.
* After the Logic and Ed Sheeran re-entry, the third and final song back inside the Top 100 is Kylie Minogue’s “Dancing” at No.99, while her follow-up “Stop Me From Falling” debuts at No.32 on the digital chart and misses out on the Top 100 for now.
DOWN:
* The only song leaving the Top 10 this week is the Post Malone song “I Fall Apart” (HP-2×2, WI10-19), which is down one spot to No.11, while his other big drop of the week is his 54 week charting first entry “Congratulations”, down seven to No.70.
* The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar song from the ‘Black Panther’ film and soundtrack in “Pray for Me” is down one spot to No.13 and newly certified Gold (●) in sales, while another track from the film in “King’s Dead” for Jay Rock, Kendrick, Future and James Blake is down six to No.71.
* The first of four “Greatest Showman” songs within the Top 100 and “This is Me” for the show cast is down three spots to No.18, while “Rewrite the Stars” for Zac Efron and Zendaya falls eleven spots to No.55, “The Greatest Show” for the cast drops eight to No.78 and the Kesha version of “This is Me” falls seven places to No.98.
* After peaking at No.24 last week the Migos track “Stir Fry” is back down four to No.28.
* Three of the four Marshmello tracks are within the 30-40 chart section, as his new song with Logic enters the Top 40, his two older entries in “Wolves” with Selena Gomez (30 to 31) and “Silence” with Khalid (28 to 32) move downwards.
* Hailee Steinfeld with Alesso drop five places to No.39 with “Let Me Go”, while her new entry “Capital Letters” is on hold at its peak of No.37.
* Scoring a ▲Platinum sales cert is “Cola” for Camelphat and Edlerbook, which drops five to No.53.
* 5 Seconds of Summer fall again this week with “Want You Back”, down fourteen places to No.66.
* Tumbling sixteen spots to No.67 are Maroon 5 with SZA and “What Lovers Do”.
* After climbing back to No.67 last week the Keith Urban track “Parallel Line” is back down sixteen places to No.83.
* Vance Joy’s older track “Lay it on Me” drops twelve places to No.85.
* The Chainsmokers see all three of their songs drop this week with “Sick Boy” down fifteen to No.87, “You Owe Me” falls four to No.92 and “Something Just Like This” is down two to No.95.
* The Meghan Trainor entry from last week and “No Excuses” plummets thirty-six spots to No.96.
NEW ENTRIES:
* #47 – We Got Love by Jessica Mauboy is the 2018 Eurovision entry for Australia, with Jess having previously performed on the Eurovision stage as a guest performer in 2014 with “Sea of Flags”, and to check out other entries for this year click this link from an article I wrote earlier in the week.
* #89 – Church by Alison Wonderland is the second released track and first entry from her April 6th due second album “Awake”, and this becomes the Sydney artists third singles chart entry here.
* #93 – Zombie by Bad Wolves was meant to feature the vocals of The Cranberries lead singer Dolores O’Riordan, but she passed away just before doing the vocals, so the American metal band issued the song with proceeds going to her family, and this is their first chart entry here and is taken from their forthcoming debut album “Disobey” (due in either April of May).
* #100 – Nothing to Regret by Robinson is the first chart entry for the New Zealand female singer from Nelson with this being the 21 year old’s third single release after “Don’t You Forget About Me” and “Crave You”, with this new song currently sitting at No.6 on the N.Z. artists chart.
Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
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