Post Malone and 21 Savage stay atop the ARIA Singles Chart for a third straight week with their stream-heavy track “Rockstar”, becoming the third longest running No.1 for the year, plus it picks up a Gold (●) in sales too.
This year we have had nine No.1 singles, two of which were extremely long-running chart-toppers in “Shape of You” by Ed Sheeran (15 weeks) and “Despacito” for Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber (13 weeks), but six of the other seven have stayed at the top for a single or two weeks until this week when “Rockstar” notched up its third week at the top, which also breaks a streak of two-week-running No.1’s from Pink, Taylor Swift and Sam Smith. Also “Rockstar” finally lands a Top 10 berth on the digital sales chart, rising from 25 to No.6, whilst its still the #1 streamed track this week.
Last April (2016) Camila Cabello was a part of the group Fifth Harmony who had a No.3 hit with “Work from Home” for three weeks, well this week her solo effort “Havana” jumps up eight spots to land at a new peak of No.2 for the song and for her chart career, the song sitting at No.3 on both the digital and streaming charts this week. And Camila’s jump pushes “Glorious” by Macklemore and Skylar Grey back down one spot to No.3, whilst the new No.1 selling digital track is the official new single from Ed Sheeran in “Perfect”, which bullets fifteen places to land at a new peak of No.4, having originally debuted and peaked at No.6 over 30 weeks ago (back in early March).
Sam Smith’s “Too Good at Goodbyes” and Zayn with Sia on “Dusk Till Dawn” are on hold at No.5 and No.6 respectively, whilst dropping four places to No.7 is Dua Lipa and her “New Rules”. Khalid only has one song in the Top 10 this week, last weeks entrant “Young, Dumb & Broke” is up one spot to a new peak of No.8, whilst two more songs climb into the Top 10 this week with “Feel it Still” by Portugal.The Man up six places to a new peak of No.9 (and their first Top 10 here now), and Macklemore with Kesha scores a second Top 10 this week as “Good Old Days” is also up six places, to land a new chart height of No.10, becoming his seventh Top 10 in Australia and her tenth, whilst her ninth Top 10 hit in “Praying” is back up four spots to No.24 too.
UP:
* The new Pink album was released on Friday, and a week of pre-publicity pushes the albums first release in “What About Us” back up five places to No.12, with the title track “Beautiful Trauma” is only down three spots to No.30 after entering last week plus she also has a new entry at No.44 to give her three Top 50 entries this week.
* Two of the four Justin Bieber entries this week are back up, with “Friends” rising two places to No.16 and now certified ▲Platinum in sales, and “Despacito” is back up one to No.25.
* Maroon 5 with SZA rise four places to land at No.17 with “What Lovers Do”, becoming the bands thirteenth Top 20 entry in Australia.
* Khalid on the Marshmello track “Silence” is up one spot to a new peak of No.21 and his guest appearance on the Lorde track “Homemade Dynamite” jumps up seven spots to No.32.
* With Post Malone at the top, his entry from last week “I Fall Apart” leaps up thirty spots this week to land at No.26, whilst his old track “Congratualtions” is back up five to No.39 and 2x▲Platinum in sales now.
* Nially Horan’s third entry “Too Much to Ask” makes its first upward move by climbing five places to No.31.
* All four of Hailee Steinfeld’s chart entries have now cracked the Top 40, with her latest “Let Me Go” with Alesso this week moving up seven places to land at a new peak of No.34.
* After slowly climbing the lower fifty, Halsey’s latest “Bad at Love” zooms this week thirty-two places to land at No.42, becoming her fourth Top 50 entry in Australia.
* The current US No.1 single in “Bodak Yellow” for Cardi B is up four places to No.48 for its first week within the Top 50 after eight week in the Top 100 so far.
* Last week the “Stargazing” EP for Kygo fell from 74 to #100, and now this week it rebounds thirty-seven spots to score a new peak of No.63.
* Jason DeRulo is in the country this week, and his latest single “If I’m Lucky” (HP-59) is back up eight spots to No.69.
* Kita Alexander scores her highest charted single so far as last weeks entry “Hotel” is up sixteen places to a new chart height of No.73.
* CNCO and Little Mix with “Reggaeton Lento (Remix)” is up nine to No.84 this week.
* Ed Sheeran claims the ‘Longest Charted Single’ record again this week, as “Thinking Out Loud” is back up three places to No.93 in its 145th week within the Top 100, this coming week will be its three year anniversary since first hitting No.1 in Australia.
* Two songs return to the chart this week, “Call on Me” for Starley at No.97 and Angus & Julia Stone with their “Chateau” at No.99.
DOWN:
* Three songs leave the Top 10 this week, with “1-800-273-8255” (HP-5, WI10-4) for Logic, Alessia Cara and Khalid down four to No.11, with the song still at No.2 on the streaming chart. After a massive fourteen weeks inside the Top 10 the Imagine Dragons track “Thunder” (HP-2×3, WI10-14) drops five to No.15, and with one Macklemore song going into the Top 10, last weeks re-entry for “Same Love” (HP-1×4, WI10-10a) at No.4 drops back down fifty-six places to No.60 this week, whilst his “Can’t Hold us” return from last week drops back down seventeen spots to No.86.
* After blasting to No.11 last week, the track “Mi Gente” for J Balvin, Willy William and now Beyonce is back down a couple of spots to No.13 and newly certified ▲Platinum in sales.
* Taylor Swift drops down five spots to No.19 with “Look What You Made me Do”, whilst there’s a massive fourteen place drop for her other entry “…Ready for it?” to No.51 this week.
* Both of the Top 100 entries for Demi Lovato drop seven places each this week, with “Sorry, Not Sorry” down to No.20 and “No Promises” with Cheat Codes declining to No.87.
* Vance Joy picks up a ▲Platinum cert for their track “Lay it On Me”, down four to No.28.
* The Skrillex remix of “Humble.” by Kendrick Lamar falls back down six to No.36.
* One Hailee track rises, her older song “Most Girls” drops back down twelve to No.59.
* Morgan Evans is back down eleven places in his eleventh week on the charts to No.72 with “Kiss Somebody”.
* Miley Cyrus’ rise last week is over, as “Malibu” drops back down thirteen places to No.75 and her albums title track “Younger Now” leaves the Top 100 again.
* Sigala and Ella Eyre pick up a Gold (●) sales cert for their track “Came Here for Love” (HP-53), which drops down three places this week to No.78.
* Last weeks re-entries for both Tom Petty and The Killers leave the chart this week, expect for one song by both acts, with Tom’s “Free Fallin'” down twenty-six spots to No.85 and The Killers with “The Man” dropping down thirty places to No.95, with the highest drop-out for the week being “Mr. Brightside” by The Killers from No.48.
NEW ENTRIES:
* #44 – Whatever You Want by Pink is the third track to chart from her just issed seventh studio album entitled “Beautiful Trauma”, with the title track charting last week at sitting at No.30 this week, whilst lead single “What About Us” spent two weeks at No.1 back in August and is back up to No.12 this week.
* #45 – Pray by Sam Smith is the second single issued from the November 3rd due second album for the British singer entitled “The Thrill of it All”, with first entry “Too Good at Goodbyes” having recently spent two weeks at No.1 and is sitting at No.5 this week, this now becoming his fourteenth Top 100 entry in Australia, and he performed both songs live on the US “Saturday Night Live” last weekend.
* #47 – How Long by Charlie Puth is set to release his second album “Voicenotes” in January of 2018, and this new entry is the second track lifted from that forthcoming album, with first entry “Attention” (HP-10) on hold at No.43 this week, with this becoming his sixth Top 50 entry now, all previous entries have reached the Top 10 too.
* #77 – Mystik by Tash Sultana is the second release in 2017 for the local singer/songwriter after “Murder to the Mind” a couple of months ago hit No.59, with both track due on her April 2018 debut album, plus she picked up four ARIA Award nominations this past week too.
* #83 – Help Me Out by Maroon 5 feat Julia Michaels is taken from the now November 3rd due sixth album for the band entitled “Red Pill Blues”, and is the fourth track lifted from the album so far after “Don’t Wanna Know” (HP-6), “Cold” (HP-27) and the current Top 20 entry “What Lovers Do” (TW-17).
* #91 – Gucci Gang by Lil’ Pump is featured on his debut self-titled mixtape which also has songs by Rick Ross, Gucci Mane and 2 Chainz and this is his first chart entry in Australia too.
Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
