DJ Khaled with the ensemble of Justin Bieber, plus the three rappers Quavo, Chance the Rapper and Lil’ Wayne all debut in the No.1 position on the ARIA Singles Chart with a track entitled “I’m the One”, a first for four of the five acts performing the song.
“I’m the One” (#1 digital, #3 streamed) becomes the 1062nd No.1 Single in Australia (1940 to 2017), the 1003rd weekly No.1 (Jan 1949 to 2017) and the 497th for ARIA (July 1983 to 2017), plus the 115th to debut in the top spot, and the 41st on the Epic record label since their first in January 1980 with the Michael Jackson track “Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough” (21st Jan 1980 for 3 wks), and their first since late June 2015’s “Like I’m Gonna Miss You” for Meghan Trainor and John Legend (4 wks).
That former Meghan & John No.1 is also the last time that the word ‘I’m’ appeared in a No.1 song title, now this becomes the 15th such appearance, and its the 12th time a ‘One’ has appeared in a chart-topping song too. This becomes the 683rd No.1 by an American Act (solo, group or duo), and the 24th for a Canadian, and as I mentioned at the start that this is the first No.1 for four of the five acts on this new track, plus the first Top 50 appearance for DJ Khaled, who has charted four songs in the past year, “For Free” (HP-70, feat Drake), “Holy Key” (HP-99, feat Big Sean, Kendrick Lamar & Betty Wright), “Do You Mind” (HP-65, feat Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown, August Alsina, Jeremih, Future and Rick Ross) and “Shining” (HP-93 feat Beyonce and Jay-Z). This is also the fourth time that an act with a “DJ” in their name has reached the top in Australia too, with the first being DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince and “Boom! Shake the Room” (1 week on 16th Jan 1994), followed by DJ Otzi and his cover of “Hey! Baby” (4 weeks from 15th April 2002) and the last was the Major Lazer, Mø and DJ Snake track “Lean On” (1 week on 6th April 2015).
For Lil’ Wayne this becomes his eighth Top 10 appearance and also his first No.1. He previously got as high as No.2 on the Jay Sean track “Down” (peaked late Nov 2009), and Chance the Rapper is now scoring his second Top 10 appearance after peaking at No.3 on the Snakehips first entry “All My Friends” (HP-3, peaked late Jan 2016), whilst for Justin Bieber this is his twelfth Top 10 entry and now his fourth No.1 single in Australia after “What Do You Mean?” (4 weeks from 7th Sept 2015), “Love Yourself” (7 weeks from 14th Dec 2015) and then “Cold Water” (Major Lazer feat JB, 2 weeks from 1st August 2016), and this is his third of those four No.1’s to debut in the top position too. Justin has now racked up 14 weeks at No.1. which moves him from equal 62nd to now equal 56th on the list for ‘Accumulated Weeks at No.1: 1940 to 2017; Singles’ alongside the fourteen weeks notched up by Delta Goodrem (from 9 #1’s), Four Aces (4 #1’s), Guy Mitchell and Teresa Brewer (from 3 #1’s) and John Travolta (from 2 #1’s). Justin also moves up on the list for ‘Most No.1’s: 1940 to 2017, along with Bryan Adams, Petula Clark, John Farnham, Michael Jackson, Johnny O’Keefe, Rod Stewart, Johnnie Ray, Flo Rida, Taylor Swift and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. Also, JB is now equal fifth on the list for ‘Most Weeks at No.1: Singles; 2010’s’ along with Katy Perry and Flo Rida at 14 weeks for this decade (so far).
So after fifteen accumulated weeks at No.1, “Shape of You” by Ed Sheeran drops to No.2 for a second time, still now the longest running chart-topper since the charts went weekly in January of 1949, and Ed has a second Top 5 single this week as “Galway Girl” drops down two places to No.4. In between those two Ed tracks is the stable No.3 track “Humble.” for Kendrick Lamar (#1 streamed again this week), and after peaking at No.4 last week the Clean Bandit and Zara Larsson song “Symphony” drops back one spot to No.5.
Last weeks highest new entry in “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back” by Shawn Mendes is up two places this week to a new peak of No.6, followed by three tracks which move down the Top 10 this week, first is The Chainsmokers and Coldplay pairing in “Something Just Like This” (5 to 7, newly 2x▲Platinum in sales), then another teaming in Zedd and Alessia Cara with “Stay” (7 to 8) and finally the debut Harry Style track “Sign of the Times” (6 to 9). The second entry to the Top 10 this week is another Justin Bieber infused track, this one by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee with the JB remixed version of their entry from three weeks ago “Despacito”, which jumps up sixteen places to land at No.10, becoming both Luis’ and Daddy’s first Top 10 entry and now Justin’s thirteenth entry, the song climbing to No.1 in Ireland this week too.
UP:
* The new No.1 single in the USA is the Bruno Mars track “That’s What I Like”, which here is back up one spot to No.11 thanks to a new remix by Alan Walker being released.
* Dean Lewis climbed four places last week, and this week his “Waves” track is up three spots to a new peak of No.14.
* Holding at its peak of No.23 for the second week is the lead track from the FF8 soundtrack for G-Eazy and Kehlani entitled “Good Life”.
* Bliss N’ Eso benefit from their third No.1 album this week, as the sets third release “Moments” featuring Gavin James jumps up twelve places to a new peak of No.25, becoming the bands highest charted single in Australia, beating the No.26 placing for “My Life” (peaked mid-Feb, 2014) and it becomes only their second Top 30 entry.
* The Kaleo track “Way Down We Go” jumps up ten spots to a new chart height of No.30.
* After a single place climb last week, the Kyle track “iSpy” is up two places to No.33 this week.
* Cheat Codes rise again this week with their Demi Lovato sang track “No Promises”, up five spots to a new peak of No.36.
* The Charlie Puth debut from last week “Attention” jumps up twenty-three spots to land at No.41.
* Post Malone continue to rise with their first entry “Congratulations”, up two to No.60.
* After spending the past four weeks falling from its entry spot of No.61, this week the Chris Brown track “Privacy” is back up thirteen places to No.85.
* The only returning track this week is at #100 for JP Cooper and his “September Song” which peaked at No.99 for a single week within the Top 100 back in the last week of January 2017.
DOWN:
* The two songs leaving the Top 10 this week are “Green Light” (HP-4×2, WI10-8) for Lorde, down four to No.13, and “The Cure” (HP-10, WI10-1) for Lady Gaga, dropping five to No.15.
* Down four places each are “Issues” for Julie Michaels from 14 to No.18, “All Time Low” by Jon Bellion from 20 to No.24 (newly 2x▲Platinum), and “Now or Never” by Halsey from 24 to No.28 this week.
* The Future track “Mask off” is on hold at No.22 and went Gold last week, well this week his other Top 50 entry in “Selfish” is down two to No.48 and now newly Gold (●) in sales too.
* The three recent entries for Kendrick Lamar all drop this week, with “DNA” down eight to No.27, “Loyalty” with Rihanna drops sixteen places to No.44 and his “Love” drops thirteen to No.49.
* Falling ten places is the Amy Shark first entry “Adore”, dropping to No.37, and her No.53 peak last week for her second entry “Weekends” is only down two places this week to No.55.
* Little Mix drop seven places to No.39 with “Touch”.
* The Chainsmokers drop down eleven places to No.40 with “Paris”, whilst “The One” falls eight spots to No.90.
* With a new entry for Katy Perry this week, her former No.4 single “Chained to the Rhythm” falls eight places to No.46.
* Falling out of the Top 50, down eight to No.54 are The Weeknd and Daft Punk with “I Feel it Coming”, with their other collaboration in “Starboy” down one to No.57.
* After his post-Logie Awards performance surge, the Andy Grammer track “Fresh Eyes” falls back down nineteen places to No.58 this week.
* Spending its one-year anniversary on the chart is Justin Timberlake’s “Trolls” theme song “Can’t Stop the Feeling!”, which is down five to No.59.
* Frenship and Emily Warreen fall thirteen places to No.65 with their song “Capsize”.
* The Stargate collaboration with Pink and Sia entitled “Waterfall” drops eight to No.66.
* Alessia Cara’s version of the ‘Moana’ theme “How Far I’ll Go” is down six to No.69 and her “Scars to Your Beautiful” song is down nine to No.80, whilst the Auili’ Cravalho version of the theme is down nine to No.94.
* Paramore release their new album next week, and the lead single from the album “Hard Times” is this week down nineteen places to No.80.
* The Train track “Play That Song” is down seventeen spots to No.83.
* Flume now has the longest charted song within the Top 100 at 68 weeks for “Never Be Like You”, which is down two spots to No.85, now that Ed Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud” has left the chart this week.
* Tash Sultana drops hard after last weeks debut of “Murder to the Mind”, dropping twenty-seven spots to No.86.
* Ed Sheeran’s big dropping track for this week is “Supermarket Flowers”, which droops thirteen chart petals to No.87.
* Last weeks Top 50 debut for Lana Del Rey and The Weeknd with “Lust for Life” tumbles this week, down 52 places to No.96.
NEW ENTRIES:
* #29 – First Time by Kygo feat Ellie Goulding is the second song from the forthcoming second Kygo album (no date or title known as yet), after the recent No.4 single “It Ain’t Me” with Selena Gomez (TW-12) and it becomes his third Top 50 entry and ninth Top 100 entry and the fifteenth (eleven as lead, four as guest vocalist) for Ellie, and her first for 2017.
* #35 – Bon Appetit by Katy Perry feat Migos is the second single lifted from the forthcoming fifth album allegedly titled “Witness”, and follows on from the recent No.4 track “Chained to the Rhythm” (TW-46) and becomes her twenty-third Top 100 entry (twenty as lead vocalist, three as guest artist).
* #56 – Quit by Cashmere Cat feat Ariana Grande is taken from the debut album for Magnus August Høiberg, the Norwegian DJ scoring his second chart entry under his Cashmere Cat moniker, after “Trust Nobody” with Selena Gomez and Tory Lanez made it to No.46 in mid-November of 2016 and this is now the 22nd Top 100 entry Ariana and her second current entry as she is also on the current Calvin Harris track “Heatstroke” (TW-31).
* #61 – Thunder by Imagine Dragons is another second entry from a forthcoming album, and follows from “Believer” which his No.33 back in mid-February and is sitting at No.73 this week.
* #70 – Tennessee Whiskey by Chris Stapleton is taken from his debut album “Traveller” (HP-47, Nov 2015, TW-52 return) and by entering this week it becomes his first ARIA Singles Chart entry and could be charting due to the just released Stan Walker & Parson James version released on Friday, plus Chris has a new album “From a Room: Volume 1” also released on Friday (5th May).
* #78 – Sweet Creature by Harry Styles is yet again the second single from a forthcoming album, but that self-titled album for Harry is out as of next week, and this follows up the current No.9 chart entry “Sign of the Times” which debuted at No.1 three weeks ago.
* #91 – Most Girls by Hailee Steinfeld is not a cover of the 2000 Pink single of the same name, and is the first taste from the soon to be released the second album for Hailee, becoming her fifth Top 100 entry (four as lead, one as the guest artist).
* #97 – Young and Menace by Fall Out Boy is the lead single from the mid-September due the seventh album for FOB entitled “Mania”, and is the fifteenth Top 100 entry for the band and first since 2015.
Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
