The longest running foreign language No.1 song in Australian chart history maintains its pole position this week, as “Despacito” by Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee with Justin Bieber hangs onto the top of the ARIA Singles Chart for an eleventh straight week and is now 4x▲Platinum in sales.
“Despacito” becomes now the third longest running No.1 this decade and this century, as the first No.1 of this year in Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” is in the lead at 15 weeks, followed by a two-way tie in second position (for this century) in “Happy” by Pharrell Williams (2014) and Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” (2002, the longest No.1 for the first decade of this century), and then comes “Despacito”. The current chart-topping song also ties the weeks at No.1 (11 wks) with three other songs, Bryan Adams’ “(Everything I Do) I Do it for You” (1991), “Wannabe” by The Spice Girls (1996/7) and “Mull of Kintyre” by Wings (1978, pre-ARIA). As Justin Bieber is still the act with the most weeks at No.1 this decade his tally of weeks only increases his lead (26 weeks from five No.1’s), he also moves up the list for ‘Most Weeks at No.1: 1940-2017’ to equal 21st alongside two 1940’s chart-topping acts, band-leader Sammy Kane (8 #1’s) and minstrel Al Jolson (2 #1’s), and if he stays for one more week he will be outright at 27 weeks, his next target is 28 weeks achieved by Olivia Newton-John (5 #1’s) and 30 weeks racked up by Eminem (8 #1’s).
Last week Imagine Dragons scored their highest charting single in Australia as “Thunder” climbed to No.4, well this week they outdo their position from last week by climbing two places to land at a new peak of No.2 this week, plus the track is now certified ▲Platinum in sales. Also up two spots to a new chart height of No.3 is the Calvin Harris track “Feels” with Pharrell Williams and Katy Perry, becoming Calvin’s sixth Top 3 single, the seventh for Katy, and the fourth for Pharrell. So with two tracks climbing two places, we also have two songs dropping two spots (the 2 to 5 positions from last weeks just swap around basically); Liam Payne’s “Strip That Down” and “Wild Thoughts” for DJ Khaled with Rihanna and Bryson Tiller (now ▲Platinum) are down to No.4 and No.5 respectively.
Three songs are on hold within the top 10 this week, with the No.1 spot already covered, the next on-hold-track is at No.6, “Slow Hands” by Niall Horan, whilst Shawn Mendes’ “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back” is stable at No.9 and newly 2x▲Platinum in sales. Macklemore lands his sixth Top 10 single in Australia (first as a solo act though) as his new song “Glorious” jumps up eight spots to land at No.7, also becoming guest vocalist Skylar Grey’s fourth Top 10 appearance too, and that is followed by “Mama” for Jonas Blue and William Singe, down one spot to No.8 this week.
Returning to the charts this week are fifteen older (and one new) Linkin Park single’s after the passing of their lead singer Chester Bennington late last week (July 20th). The band’s second Top 10 single “In the End” (HP-4, peaked Feb 2002, newly Gold (●)) returns to the chart at No.10 for seventh broken week within the ten. Next up their January 2004 No.10 hit “Numb” returns at No.18 (it spent 13 weeks within the Top 20 between Nov 2003 and late January of 2004). The band’s recent “One More Light” album produced the single “Heavy” (HP-33, March 2017) with Kiiara, which is back in at No.39, followed one place lower at No.40 with “What I’ve Done” (HP-13, peaked upon debut in May 2007) and then two more entries jump back into the Top 50; “Numb / Encore” with Jay-Z (HP-3, Jan 2005) at No.48 and “One Step Closer” (HP-4, March 2001, the band’s first entry & Top 10 here) at No.49. In the lower fifty there are returns for “Shadow of the Day” (HP-15, Feb 2008) at No.59, “Somewhere I Belong” (HP-13, April 2003) at No.62, “Leave Out All the Rest” (HP-24, Aug 2008) at No.68, “Crawling (HP-33, June 2001) at No.70, “Breaking the Habit” (HP-23, July 2004) at No.71, “Bleed it Out” (HP-24, Sept & Oct 2007) at No.73, and then further down are “Faint” (HP-25, July 2003) at No.87, “New Divide” (HP-3, July 2009) at No.90 and finally “Papercut” (HP-87, Sept 2001) at No.91.
UP:
* French Montana could score his first solo Top 10 in Australia as “Unforgettable” is up three places to a new peak of No.11.
* Rita Ora returns to her former peak of No.12 with “Your Song”, back up one spot this week.
* Sam Hunt climbs two spots to a new peak of No.15 with “Body Like a Back Road”.
* After falling out of the Top 20 last week (#19 debut two weeks ago), Kesha is back up six spots to a new peak of No.16 with “Praying”.
* Hailee Steinfeld is back up one spot to No.23 with “Most Girls”, which is now Gold (●) in sales.
* Demi Lovato jumps up seven places to No.28 with her new entry “Sorry, Not Sorry”.
* Peking Duk and AlunaGeorge stay for a second week at their No.37 peak for “Fake Magic”.
* The Dua Lipa track “New Rules” which debuted in the lower end of the Top 100 last week, is this week up a massive thirty-seven places to land at No.46, becoming her fourth Top 50 entry.
* After his tour here finished late last week (plus a Splendour in the Grass spot too), the Rag’N’Bone Man single “Human” benefits from this and is up eight places to No.67.
* The only non-Linkin Park return this week is “Who Dat Boy” (HP-92) for Tyler, the Creator at No.95, helped back into the chart by his new album “Flower Boy” landing a Top 10 debut this week.
DOWN:
* Two songs leave the Top 10 this week, the first is “Attention” by Charlie Puth (HP-10×3, WI10-3) down three spots to No.13 and leaving the ten first the time is the former No.1 “I’m the One” by DJ Khaled featuring Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper and Lil’ Wayne (HP-1×2, WI10-12), which drops six places to No.14.
* Justin’s third Top 20 entry in “2U” by David Guetta featuring JB drops down seven places to No.19.
* Jessica Mauboy leapt to No.11 last week after heavy promotion for her new single “Fallin'” (newly Gold (●)), which this week falls back down ten spots to No.21.
* Selena Gomez’s “bad Liar” falls out of the Top 20 for the first time in its ten weeks on the chart, down six to No.24 and now certified ▲Platinum in sales, and her Kygo track “It Ain’t Me” is down nine spots to No.52 and now 3x▲Platinum
* The Chainsmokers pick up three new certs this week, first is “Something Just Like This” with Coldplay, down two to No.27 and now 4x▲Platinum in sales, followed by their former No.1 “Closer”, down nine to No.74 and now 11x▲Platinum in sales, plus its celebrating ONE YEAR on the chart too (52 weeks), and finally dropping out is “Paris”, which is now 3x▲Platinum in sales.
* Post Malone is still hovering in the top end of the 31-40 chart region, as his “Congratulations” track is down one to No.33 and now ▲Platinum.
* Last weeks debut for Selena Gomez in “Fetish” is down fiftteen places to No.38 this week.
* Zedd has two tracks in the chart this week, as “Stay” with Alessia Cara is down seven to No.43 and newly crowned 3x▲Platinum in sales, whilst his Liam Payne infused track “Get Low” is down four places to No.56.
* After peaking at No.40 last week, Camila Cabello falls back down five places to No.45 with “Crying in the Club”, which is newly certified Gold (●).
* Halsey falls down nine spots to No.47 with “Now or Never”.
* Khalid drops ten places to No.51 with “Location”, which is now ▲Platinum after five weeks on the chart and a peak of No.41 (it debuted on Gold sales too).
* Falling ten places to No.54 is Drake and his track “Signs”, whilst his “Passionfruit” droops twenty-one spots to No.79.
* Imagine Dragons score their second ▲Platinum cert for the week, as “Believer” is down four to No.55 and newly certified.
* Katy Perry falls fifteen places to No.60 with “Swish Swish”, followed at No.61 by the Lady Gaga track “The Cure”, down fourteen places.
* Harry Styles’ “Sign of the Times” is down eight spots to No.63 and now 2x▲Platinum, which is also the new cert for the Lorde track “Green Light”, which is down fourteen places to No.64.
* Bruno Mars’ “That’s What I Like” is down eleven spots to No.65, whilst his David Guetta remixed “Versace on the Floor” drops thirteen to No.75.
* Ed Sheeran is down nine to No.69 with his “Perfect” song, whilst “Happier” is down ten to No.78, but he loses the crown for ‘Longest Charted within the Top 100’ (but not overall longest charted) as “Thinking Out Loud” leaves the Top 100 after 136 weeks.
* Julia Michaels drops fifteen places to No.76 with her track “Isssues”.
* James Arthur’s two Top 100 entries this week both drop, his appearance on the Rudimental track “Sun Comes Up” moving down eight to No.72 and his former No.1 “Say You Won’t Let Go” dropping eleven places to No.77.
* Kaleo drop seventeen places to No.80 with their first entry “Way Down We Go”.
* The new ‘Longest Charted song within the Top 100’ goes to Justin Timberlake’s Trolls theme song “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” at 64 weeks, which is down twelve places this week to No.81 and newly certified 7x▲Platinum in sales.
* The Logic track “1-800-273-8255” drops twenty-three places to No.82.
* Down sixteen places to No.83 is the Kendrick Lamar single “DNA”, followed by the Kyle track “iSpy”, down twelve to No.84.
* MØ with “Nights with You” and Kygo with Ellie Goulding and “First Time” both drop fifteen places apiece to No.89 and No.92 respectively.
* Calvin Harris is also at the bottom three of the Top 100 this week too, as his track “Rollin'” slides down twenty-eight spots to No.98.
* Finally all these big drops this week are due to the influx of Linkin Park tracks, and the final tumbling track for this week is “I Feel it Coming” for The Weeknd and Daft Punk, down nineteen to No.99, whilst his “Starboy” is down nine to No.88.
Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
