Meghan Trainor has the number one song in Australia.
After leaping into the Top 10 last week, 20 year old US singer Meghan Trainor climbs two places to take out the new No.1 ARIA Singles Chart pinnacle this week with her debut single “All About the Bass”, the track picking up Gold (●) in sales after only three weeks on the chart.
The track becomes the 1022nd No.1 single in Australia (1940 to 2014) and the 457th for ARIA (1983 to 2014), plus the 39th chart-topper for the Epic label, the most recent being “Say Something” for A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera back in February, and now the second for this decade, in fact that’s also the last time that a US Female Solo artist was at No.1, and the last new US Solo Female singer prior to that was Kelly Clarkson with “Mr. Know it All” in October 2011, plus she also becomes the 667th American artist to reach No.1 in Australia, whilst she’s also the first Meghan (or even Megan) as a solo singer to reach the top here.
“All About the Bass” is the 23rd song with the word ‘All’ in its title, plus the thirteenth to start with ‘All’; the last one being “All of Me” by John Legend back in December 2013, plus the ninth ‘About’ within the title, whilst it’s the first time for ‘Bass’ in a No.1 song title here. Australia is the first country to place this song at No.1, and its jumped from 14 to No.3 in New Zealand as of Friday’s chart and in the US this week it leapt in its fourth week within the Top 100 from 28 to No.8, with it also sitting within the Top 20 in Canada.
After two weeks at No.1, Paloma Faith drops back to No.2 with “Only Love Can Hurt Like This”, which picks up a ▲Platinum sales certification this week, whilst also cracking ▲Platinum are G.R.L. with “Ugly Heart”, which due to Meghan’s leap to the top, is also pushed down a spot this week to No.3. The top four singles are all by female acts this week, with the trio of Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj leaping up eighteen places to a new peak of No.4 with “Bang Bang”. The song becomes Jessie’s fifth Top 10 single, Ariana’s third consecutive visit to the ten, and Nicki’s seventh; with her last appearance being back in late December 2012 on the Justin Bieber track “Beauty & the Beat” (HP-9), plus see below for her debut and tally of entries within the fifty this week.
George Ezra continues to climb with “Budapest”, the song up four places to a new peak of No.5 this week, and picking up a Gold (●) sales certification, whilst Sam Smith is back up another two places this week to No.6 with “Stay with Me”, his album also in the same position of No.6. The Madden Brothers drop two places to No.7 this week with their former No.1 single “We Are Done”, and Ella Henderson is down one to No.8 with “Ghost” (now ▲Platinum), with the Top 10 rounded out by Will.i.am and Cody Wise dropping five spots to No.9 with “It’s My Birthday” and Gabrielle Aplin is down four to No.10 with “Please Don’t Say You Love Me”.
NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: After debuting at No.41 last week, French deep-house duo Klingande leap up thirty places to a new peak of No.11 with “Jubel”, and 5 Seconds of Summer continue to climb, this week their “Amnesia” (HP-7) is up five spots to No.14, and leaping into the Top 20 after debuting at No.58 last week is brother-trio AJR with “I’m Ready”, bulleting forty-two places to No.16. A song that entered a place lower than AJR last week at No.59 was “Prayer in C” by Lilly Wood & the Prick, which this week leaps up thirty-four spots to No.25, and Katy Perry’s new track “This is How We Do” is up twenty-seven places to No.27, and after peaking at No.37 at the end of June, Maroon 5’s “Maps” is back up thirty-seven places to a new peak of No.30 this week. “Mess is Mine” for Vance Joy is up to a new peak of No.33, and returning to the Top 50 at No.50 is Sara Barielles with “Brave”, back up twenty-three spots this week.
DOWN DOWN: The only song dropping out of the Top 10 this week is “Break Free” for Ariana Grande (who replaces it as a part of the ‘Bang Bang’ trio) with Zedd, down three to No.13, and Justice Crew are down to No.19 with “Que Sera” (now 4x▲Platinum), with Sheppard falling five to No.20 with “Geronimo”. Leaving the Top 20, down four to No.22 are Nico & Vinz with “Am I Wrong”, whilst last weeks highest new entry of “Happy Little Pill” by Troye Sivan tumbles nineteen places to No.35 this week. “Happy” for Pharrell Williams and Usher with Nicki Minaj on “She Came to Give it to You” are both down seven places to No.40 and No.42 respectively, with Nicki’s other charting song “Pills N’ Potions” also down seven spots to No.45. The Script debuted at No.25 last week with “Superheroes”, which this week tumbles twenty-three places to No.48 and falling out from last weeks Top 50 are “Blackout” for Bonnie Anderson (40 to 52), “Don’t Stop” for 5 Seconds of Summer (45 to 56), “Wiggle” by Jason DeRulo (50 to 63), “Bend Ova” for Lil Jon & Tyga (48 to 68), “As Long As I Got You” by Lily Allen (45 to 72) and falling hard this week is Cheryl Cole with “Crazy Stupid Love” (51 to 90).
Nicki Minaj lands her fourth Top 50 appearance this week by debuting at No.39 with the highest new entry of the week “Anaconda”, which is the second single to be released from her forthcoming third album “The Pink Print” (due later in 2014), with the first track being “Pills N’ Potions” (TW-45), whilst she is also charting alongside Jessie J and Ariana Grande on “Bang Bang” (TW-4) and the latest Usher track “She Came to Give it to You” (TW-42), plus this become Nicki’s twenty-fourth ARIA Singles Chart entry (solo and guest vocals combined). The other Top 50 entry this week is the debut entry for Itch, known as ‘England’s punk rock poet’, his song “Another Man” featuring vocalist Megan Joy comes in at No.43, with his debut album “The Deep End” due in October.
Lower 50: Milky Chance leap back up twenty places to their former peak of No.51 with “Flashed Junk Mind” (peaked mid-July), with The Hilltop Hoods back up thirty-two places to No.57 with “Pyramid Building”. Vance Joy is back up seven to No.59 with “Riptide” and Jason DeRulo with Tyga leap up thirty-eight places to a new peak of No.61 with “Bubblegum”. The only new certification in the lower fifty is “MMM Yeah” for Austin Mahone and Pitbull (now Gold ●) at No.70, with The Kite String Tangle up nineteen spots to a new peak of No.77 with “Arcadia”. Returning tracks this week include Lorde with her version of “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” (HP-53) at No.78, Timmy Trumpet with “Freaks” (HP-67) at No.83, The Dixie Chicks with “Not Ready to Make Nice” (HP-18) at No.98 and finally back in at No.99 is “This Girl” (HP-58) for Stafford Brothers with Eva Simons and T.I.
Sam Smith lands his fifth chart entry this week at No.58 with the third track released from his debut album “In the Lonely Hour” (TW-6) entitled “I’m Not the Only One”, the clip features Glee actress Dianna Agron (Quinn), and he is also currently Top 10 with “Stay with Me” and the albums first entry “Money on Mind” peaked at No.51 back in early May.
Angus & Julia Stone take out the new No.1 albums spot on the ARIA Albums chart this week, and the third entry to chart from their new self-titled album is in at No.64 entitled “Get Home”, whilst the first single from the set to chart “Heart Beats Slow” (HP-37) drops to No.96 this week and the second entry “A Heartbreak” (HP-68) drops out of the Top 100, with this new entry becoming the duo’s sixth Top 100 entry.
The fifth Maroon 5 album is entitled “V” (five in Roman numerals) and is due in the first week of September, and with the first single from the album “Maps” back up to a new peak of No.30 this week, the second track lifted from the new album debuts at No.71 entitled “It Was Always You”. Coming in at No.76 are Slipknot with “The Negative One” a one-off single from the band, and first since the 2010 death of the bands bassist Paul Gray, and it becomes the groups fifth ARIA Singles chart entry. The final new entry at No.81 is from local singer Meg Mac with her first entry “Roll Up Your Sleeves”.
Written, Compiled and Researched by Gavin Ryan.
