Pharrell Williams is atop the ARIA Singles Chart for an eleventh week with his Oscar nominated track “Happy”, which is also spending a twelfth week a the top of the New Zealand charts, plus the song is now the longest running No.1 for this decade.
“Happy” is now also the second longest running No.1 for the century, as its now one week behind the twelve weeks that Eminem notched up for “Lose Yourself” (2002), and “Happy” is one of four tracks in Australian chart history to rack-up eleven weeks at the top, with the other being “Wannabe” by The Spice Girls (1996), “(Everything I Do) I Do it for You” by Bryan Adams (1991) and “Mull of Kintyre” for Wings (1978).
Pharrell also racks up his twentieth accumulated week at No.1 in Australia from his three chart-topping appearances (Daft Punk/Robin Thicke are the others) and he is now tied with Rihanna at twenty weeks for ‘The Most Accumulated Weeks at No.1: Decade 2010’s’, although she has done it with five No.1’s, and Pharrell moves up to equal 31st on the list of ‘Accumulated Weeks at No.1 1940-2014’ alongside fifties singer Eddie Fisher who racked up his twenty weeks with seven No.1 songs (if he stays atop for another week he will tie with Bryan Adams).
For a fourth week, “Rather Be” by Clean Bandit is at No.2, although by the end of the week it had taken over the top spot on several digital retailers, so it could move up next week, whilst holding for a second week at No.3 is “Shot Me Down” by David Guetta and Skylar Grey, and the top four are all on hold this week, with “Brave” by Sara Bareilles staying put as well.
Coldplay move up a place to a new peak of No.5 with “Magic”, becoming the bands fourth Top 5 hit and first since “Paradise” (HP-3) in 2011. After dipping back down last week, 5 Seconds of Summer rise back up three places to No.6 with “She Looks So Perfect” (HP-3), helped also by their just announced national tour for early May, whilst down a place to No.9 is Kim Cesarion with “Undressed”.
There are three songs that climb into the Top 10 this week, firstly The Chainsmokers with “#SELFIE”, which bullets up twenty-three places to No.7, whilst also gaining their first Top 10 behind them, up seven to No.8 is Gabrielle Aplin with her debut single “The Power of Love”, taking only four week to reach the Top 10, with the original by Frankie Goes to Hollywood taking five weeks to crack the ten, although it jumped in higher, going 19 to 6 (the week of 21-Jan-1985) {the five weeks does not include the two weeks chart freeze between 1984-85}. Finally, up a couple of places to a new peak of No.10 is Aloe Blacc with “The Man”, which becomes his first solo Top 10 entry (he peaked at No.11 with his first single “I Need a Dollar” in September 2011) and his second Top 10 entry overall, as he was the guest vocalist on the Avicii track “Wake Me Up” (HP-1×7, peaked July 2013). It’s also the first time that the lyrics from “Your Song” by Elton John has made a Top 10 appearance in Australia too, as Elton’s original peaked at No.11 for three weeks from late March 1971 (although it did reach No.10 on the Go-Set charts during the same period). Aloe not only picks up a Top 10 placing, but the track is also now certified ▲ Platinum in sales.
NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: After a small climb last week (26 to 24), Pitbull and G.R.L. blast up twelve places to No.12 this week with “Wild Wild Love”, with local dance act Peking Duk jumping up seven places to a new peak of No.13 with “High”. Jessica Mauboy entered last week at No.21 with her latest single “Never Be the Same”, and thanks to its use in Channel 7’s ‘Revenge’ promos, the song climbs five places to a new chart height of No.16. Neon Jungle are back up to their former peak of No.19 with “Braveheart” and the next climber is way down in the mid-thirties, with the new Cedric Gervis remix of Miley’s “Adore You” helping it back up to No.34 this week. After the past four weeks floundering in the mid-70’s, seventeen year old Zendaya leaps up thirty-nine places to No.37 with her debut single “Replay”, whilst John Martin is up nine places to a new peak of No.47 with “Anywhere for You” (sorry for last weeks identity mix up with John too {thx SG1}).
DOWN DOWN: After debuting at No.5 last week, Taylor Henderson drops down six places to No.11 with “When You Were Mine” and the only other No.1 single for 2014, “Say Something” for A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera drops down seven places to No.14 after eight weeks within the Top 10, and after one week back within the ten, “Free” by Rudimental is back down to No.15 after a now accumulated eleven weeks within the ten. “Swing” for Joel Fletcher and Savage is down five to No.18, but is now certified 3x▲ Platinum in sales, whilst after leaping into the Top 20 last week, “Stupid Love” for Jason DeRulo (17 to 20) and “Fancy” by Iggy Azalea (19 to 28) are back down this week. Cash Cash plummet thirteen places this week to No.24 with “Take Me Home”, but down only three places to No.30 is Eminem with “Headlights” (now Gold ● in sales). “Rude” for Magic drops five places to No.33 (now 4x▲ Platinum) with Nathaniel still dropping, down four to No.35 with “You’re Beautiful”. Also dropping down are Shakira & Rihanna with “Can’t Remember to Forget You” (35 to 48), “Human” by Christina Perri (39 to 54), Unconditionally for Katy Perry (49 to 61) and after returning last week, “Midnight Memories” for One Direction falls hard this week (45 to 95).
Duke Dumont lands his second ARIA Singles chart entry, and his highest charting song, plus the highest new entry this week with his new track “I Got You” featuring Jax Jones as guest vocalist. The song debuted at No.1 in Ireland this past week and has climbed to No.16 in Belgium so far, whilst his previous entry here was the No.40 song “Need U” with A*M*E* (peaked June 2013).
Entering at No.21 is Calvin Harris with “Summer”, which becomes his seventeenth ARIA Top 100 Singles chart entry and his fourteenth Top 40 entry, and it is the second track from his forthcoming fourth album (not title or date yet), with the first track being “Under Control” with Alesso (HP-17, peaked Oct 2013). Another dance act debuts at No.27, DVBBS (Dubbs) feat Borgeous and (current tourist) Tinie Tempah with the current UK No.1 single, “Tsunami (Jump)”. The non-Jump version was originally an instrumental until Tinie added his lyrics, with the original going to No.1 in The Netherlands and Belgium in late 2013.
Local singer/songwriter Sia returns solo to the ARIA Singles chart at No.39 with her first new material in over three-and-a-half years, “Chandelier”, which becomes her fifteenth Top 100 entry overall, and her first lead single since “I Go to Sleep” (HP-32, Nov 2010) and “Bring Night” (HP-99, also Nov 2010), whilst her last overall entry was on the Eminem track “Beautiful Pain” (HP-59, Nov 2013).
Little Mix scores their seventh chart entry by debuting at No.45 with the cover of the Cameo (HP-6, peaked March 1987) track “Word Up!”, which was also done by Korn (HP-28, November 2004). And the final Top 50 entry of the week comes in at No.49, the title track from the debut full-length album (new TW #5) for Skrillex entitled “Recess”, which becomes his sixth chart entry and fourth Top 50 hit, with his last chart entry being “Make it Bun Dem” (HP-27, peaked late May 2012).
Lower 50: Jumping up twenty-four places to a new peak of No.62 are Fitz & The Tantrums with “The Walker” (aka Ellen’s TV commercial song for The Oscars), whilst after three weeks in the higher end of the Top 90, DJ Snake and Lil’ Jon leap up fourteen places to a new chart height of No.67 with “Turn Down for What”. Three weeks ago Thundamentals and Thom Crawford debuted at No.78 with “Something I Said”, which last week dropped back to No.92, but this week it rebounds and lands a new peak of No.77. Also scoring a new peak is DJ Cassidy with Robin Thicke and Jessie J with “Calling All Hearts”, up a couple of places to No.87, with the two re-entries for the week being Kylie Minogue with “Into the Blue” (HP-46) at No.88 thanks to the No.1 debut for her album “Kiss Me Once”, and back in at No.96 is Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel with “For the First Time in Forever” (HP-62).
Local hip-hop act Horrorshow land their first ARIA Singles Chart entry by debuting at No.65 with their new “Nice Guys Finish Last (EP)” featuring Seth Sentry and Drapht as guest acts. UK band Glass Animals also make their first chart splash with the track “Gooey” at No.69 and another British act Example is new at No.74 with Kids Again, which becomes his sixth chart entry, and first since October 2012’s “Say Nothing” (HP-54).
Landing their second Top 100 Singles chart entry are Sticky Fingers with “Gold Snafu”, new at No.90, with their previous entry being “Caress Your Soul” (HP-80, Sept 2012). New at No.92 is Nancy Sinatra with her version of “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)”, which has been covered and sampled by David Guetta on his new track which is sitting at No.3 this week, and is best known for being used in the ‘Kill Bill’ films. The song originally reached No.11 in 1965 as performed by Cher, with Nancy’s version not charting at the time in Australia. This also becomes Nancy’s twenty-first singles chart entry, and second for this century as The Audio Bullys sampled her in their song “Shot You Down” (HP-17, peaked Aug 2005)
Cody Simpson is new at No.97 with his new song “Surfboard”, which is now his fifth Top 100 chart entry and one place lower at No.98 are US country rockers Blackjack Billy with their debut EP “Get Some”, whilst also making his first appearance on the ARIA Singles chart is Iceland’s Asgeir with his track “King and Cross”, taken from this weeks No.18 debuting album “In the Silence”.
Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
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