Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper hold the top of both charts this week, with their duet “Shallow” atop the ARIA Singles Chart for a second week, plus the song also holds at No.1 in both England (2nd wk) and Ireland (4th wk) and begins in New Zealand (1st wk).
While this is the fourth time in 2018 that the same act and album have held the top of both charts, this is the first time this year that it has been done for a second successive week, the last time a song and its parent album held for two or more weeks was from the 13th of March, 2017 with Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” (TW-63) and his third album “÷ (Divide)” (TW-10), which did so for seven broken weeks until the first week of May.
“Shallow” jumps from 14 to No.1 on the streaming sales chart and holds for a third week at the top of the digital chart, while the hold at the national summit also lifts Lady Gaga’s tally of weeks at No.1 during this decade to three weeks, placing her equal 26th on the list for ‘Accumulated Weeks at No.1: 20101’s; Singles’ alongside Calvin Harris, Major Lazer and MØ who have all had three weeks at the top from two No.1’s this decade. Also this is the first time since last December where a duet has topped the Australian Singles chart, the last one was “Perfect” for Ed Sheeran and Beyonce (from 11th of Dec, 2017) {I didn’t include “Psycho” for Post Malone feat Ty Dolla $ign as that was a guest appearance and not a duet).
The entire top four songs are on hold this week, with former No.1 “Shotgun” by George Ezra at No.2 and newly certified 3x▲Platinum in sales, Marshmello and Bastille with “Happier” are stable at No.3 for a third straight week and the No.1 streamed track for the past seven weeks and No.3 this week on that chart is “Eastside” for Benny Blanco with Halsey and Khalid at No.4. Climbing three spots to a new peak of No.5 and backing herself on the charts is Halsey and her new track “Without Me”, while Benny’s other featured artist in Khalid is also within the Top 10 again this week with “Better”, which is down three places to No.9.
Dean Lewis is down one spot to No.6 with his former chart topping song “Be Alright”, while last weeks second highest entry in “Sunflower” by Post Malone with Swae Lee jumps up six spots to land at a new peak of No.7, becoming the second Top 10 for Swae (he was on the French Montana song “Unforgettable” which peaked at No.7 in Sept. of 2017) and the sixth Top 10 placing for Post Malone. Loud Luxury are back up one place to No.8 with “Body” while the Calvin Harris and Sam Smith song “Promises” is down three spots to No.10.
UP:
* The entries last week for Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper from the soundtrack to their film ‘A Star is Born’ all climb this week with “Always Remember us This Way” (18 to 12), “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” (32 to 15) which gives them three songs within the Top 20, “Maybe it’s Time” (64 to 58) and “Is That Alright?” (97 to 96), plus there is also a new entry from the album too (see below).
* Rebounding this week ten spots to No.24 is the Little Mix and Nicki Minaj track “Woman Like Me” (HP-23).
* Five of the six Top 100 entries for Post Malone rise this week, with the aforementioned “Sunflower” jumping into the Top 10 he is also up with “Better Now” (31 to 28), “Rockstar” (65 to 54), “I Fall Apart” (67 to 56) and “Psycho” (78 to 70).
* With Charli XCX in the country touring with Taylor Swift at the moment her latest single with Troye Sivan and “1999” jumps up seventeen places this week to a new peak of No.29.
* Juice WRLD rises back up four places to No.40 with “Lucid Dreams”.
* Ava Max breaks into the Top 50 with her first entry “Sweet but Psycho”, up sixteen places to a new peak of No.45.
* Conrad Sewell sees his new track “Changing” debut in the lower fifty this week, while his former No.7 single “Healing Hands” is back up two spots to No.46 and now 2x▲Platinum in sales.
* Shawn Mendes’ “Lost in Japan” rebounds eighteen spots to No.57.
* After a small climb last week the Sheck Wes track “Mo Bamba” jumps up this week sixteen spots to No.71.
* Last weeks debuts for Zara Larsson and “Ruin My Life” rises thirteen places to a new peak of No.72.
* With ‘The Greatest Showman’ soundtrack rising back into the Top 10 thanks to it’s forthcoming repackaged edition (out Nov 16th) the sets initial single “This is Me” for Keala Settle is back up seven places to No.89.
* The two returning tracks this week are “I Like Me Better” for Lauv at No.99 and the 1976 Queen classic “Bohemian Rhapsody” at No.92 thanks to the just opened Queen biopic of the same name. This is the fifth entry for the original version, having initially debuted in mid January of 1976 and reaching No.1 by the end of March for two weeks, it returned to the chart in mid January of 1992 re-peaking at No.5 by the end of February thanks to two events, being featured in the ‘Wayne’s World’ film and the passing of Queen’s lead singer Freddie Mercury, while it also returned again twice in 2008 for two single weeks’ appearances in August (#93) and November (#96).
DOWN:
* Last weeks highest entry for Billie Eilish and “When the Party’s Over” (HP-10, WI10-1) is the only Top 10 dropout this week, down one spot to No.11.
* The current US (6th wk) and Canadian (returns for 9th wk) No.1 song is “Girls Like You” for Maroon 5 and Cardi B, which here is down four spots to No.20, while she also debuts with a new song and drops down with “I Like it” (58 to 62).
* Panic! At the Disco slide down seven spots to No.22 with their first Top 10 single here “High Hopes”.
* Jonas Blue falls six places to No.25 with “Rise”.
* Tom Walker is also down six spots to No.30 with his first entry here “Leave a Light on”.
* With a new entry for XXXT this week his teaming with fellow fallen rapper Lil’ Peep and “Falling Down” drops nine spots to No.32, while his stable with “Sad!” (No.52) and drops slightly with “Jocelyn Flores” (76 to 79).
* Kian managed a peak of No.28 last week with his first entry “Waiting”, which this week drops down five spots to No.33.
* Khalid’s debut from last week with the title track from his new EP “Suncity” is down four places to No.34, while he also drops with “Ocean” with Martin Garrix (37 to 42, now 2x▲Platinum), “Lovely” with Billie Eilish (stable at No.53), “Love Lies” with Normani (62 to 69, now 4x▲Platinum) and leaves with “Saturday Night” (#84, 1 week on the chart).
* Bazzi falls eight spots to No.35 with “Beautiful”.
* After two weeks at a peak of No.25 the Eminem track “Venom” falls this week eighteen spots to No.43 while he is also down with “Lucky You” (41 to 48) and “Killshot” (45 to 55).
* Peking Duk drops nine spots to No.47 with their almost half-year-old (25 weeks) track “Fire/Reprisal”.
* Drake is down with “In My Feelings” (36 to 39), on the Bad Bunny track “MIA” (40 to 49), on the French Montana song “No Stylist” (69 to 76), “God’s Plan” (72 to 77), “Nonstop” (stable at No.80) and “Nice for What” (89 to 93).
* The only falling Post Malone track entry this week is on the Tiesto track “Jackie Chan” (42 to 50).
* Ariana Grande declines eight places to No.59 with “Breathin” while she is also down with “No Tears Left to Cry” (74 to 83) and leaves with “God is a Woman” (#98).
* Ed Sheeran holds the ‘Longest Charted Single’ crown again with “Shape of You”, down three spots to No.66 in its 95th week within the Top 100.
* DJ Khaled with Justin Bieber, Quavo and Chance the Rapper drop eleven spots to No.67 with “No Brainer”.
* A$AP Rocky with Skepta fall thirteen spots to No.68 with “Praise the Lord (Da Shine)”.
* There’s a twenty-two place drop to No.72 for the Jess Glynne song “I’ll Be There”.
* Zedd and Elley Duhe plummet twenty spots to No.74 with “Happy Now”.
* Ella Mia’s “Trip” falls back down twelve spots to No.78 this week.
* Dropping sixteen spots to No.87 is the Imagine Dragons song “Natural” .
* David Guetta alongside Jason DeRulo and Nicki Minaj with “Goodbye” drops twenty spots to No.90.
* Future and Juice WRLD’s collaboration in “Fine China” declines thirteen spots from its debut last week to No.98.
* The Alesso track “Remedy” with Conor Maynard falls eighteen places to land at the end of the chart at #100.
NEW ENTRIES:
* #14 – Arms Around You by XXXTentacion x Lil’ Pump, Swae Lee and Maluma is a remixed version of the 2017 “?” track by the fallen rapper XXXTentacion featuring Colombian singer Maluma (the original version had Rio Santana) and was remixed by Skrillex and put together by Lil’ Pump who got permission to remix this track from XXXT’s mother after his passing.
* #26 – A Million Dreams (from ‘The Greatest Showman: Re imagined’) by Pink is her version of the song from the soundtrack for ‘The Greatest Showman’ which has a ‘Re imagined’ edition due for release on the 16th of November with the soundtracks songs also being covered by Panic! At the Disco, Years & Years with Jess Glynne, Kelly Clarkson, Kesha and Missy Elliott, James Arthur and Anne-Marie, Craig David and Pentatonix. This now becomes the 40th Top 50 and 39th Top 30 entry in Australia for Pink too.
* #61 – Waste it on Me by Steve Aoki feat BTS is the fourth entry here for Steve Aoki who has teamed with three members of the Korean boy band BTS in Jungkook, Jimin and RM to be their first fully English sung song and overall the BTS bands sixth entry, while it’s also the second pairing of the two acts who hit No.50 last December with “MIC Drop”.
* #65 – Money by Cardi B. is the first new material from the female rapper and is set to come from a forthcoming second studio album, while overall this is her twelfth Top 100 entry in Australia and her fourth within the chart this week.
* #85 – Happy Now by Kygo feat Sandro Cavazza is the thirteenth entry here for the Norwegian DJ and producer and his second in a row NOT featured on his current album “Kids in Love”, with that other track being this weeks No.51 song with Imagine Dragons and “Born to Be Yours” (HP-18).
* #91 – Changing by Conrad Sewell becomes the sixth Top 100 entry here for the local singer/songwriter who is sitting within the Top 50 this week with his recent No.7 single “Healing Hands”.
* #95 – Look What I Found (from ‘A Star is Born’) by Lady Gaga joins the five other songs within the Top 100 at the moment from the current No.1 movie and soundtrack “A Star is Born’.
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Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
