ARIA singles top ten/Chart Review: 7th January 2019: Christmas songs disappear as there's a new number one

So this week feels more transitional, we lost the Christmas songs replaced by drips and drops of whatever happened to drop out in previous weeks and in amidst all of that, we have a new number one.

That new number one is as I predicted last week that being. "Sunflower" by Post Malone feat. Swae Lee, it's Post Malone's third number one in Australia and Swae-Lee's first. Interesting, Post has yet to go number one on a song by himself (the closest he got was in 2017 with "I Fall Apart" reaching number 2 in January last year, blocked by Ed Sheeran's "Perfect") and it's not the last we'll hear of Post Malone in this top ten either.

Ava Max is our new number two with "Sweet But Psycho" jumping one place and is looking the main threat to the new number one at the moment

 All this leaves "Thank U, Next" by Ariana Grande in an awkward spot as its sales and streaming drop off until Ariana releases this new album of hers.

"Shotgun" by George Ezra continues to be wildly popular as it jumped two places to number four..

The new US number one "Without Me"  by Halsey also jumped two places to number five. Mercifully I don't expect this song to go number one in Australia.

We have a new entry at number six...a song so blissfully stupid but yet pulls off a decent melody and beat, "Wow" by Post Malone at number six.

"Shallow" by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper won big at the Golden Globes and continues to hang around in the top ten jumping two places to number seven.

Mark Ronson and Miley Cyrus are back in the top ten with "Nothing Breaks like a Heart" up three places to number eight.

"Eastside" by Benny Blanco feat. Halsey and Khalid also continued to be a top ten mainstay by jumping from 13 to number 9.

Finally "Sicko Mode" by Travis Scott rounds up the top ten by jumping two places to number ten.

Gains

I'm going to rattle through the biggest gainers because there were plenty this week with all the Christmas songs gone, the biggest of those was "Ruin My Life" by Zara Larsson ( a song that is utterly forgettable) jumped back up from 50 to 34.

"Promises" by Calvin Harris and Sam Smith broke back into the top 20 jumping ten places from 27 to 17. "1999" by Charli XCX and Troye Sivan finally broke into the the top twenty by jumping ten places to number 18.

Unfortunately the exit of the Christmas songs meant the bro country stylings of Morgan Evans went up nine places to 27.

"Rise" by Jack and Jack also went up nine spots to 30.

Re-entries

Rightio, there's plenty of these this week beginning at number 32 with "Close to Me" by Ellie Goulding feat. Diplo and Swae Lee back at 32.

"Saturday Nights" by Khalid returns at 37 bringing with it "Lost in Japan" by Shawn Mendes.

Not welcome but back anyway is "Mo Bamba" by Sheck Wes at 40, I cannot believe people like nonsense that is out of tune....GET IT OUT OF THE CHARTS!'.

Also back are left overs from last year including "God's Plan" by Drake at 41 "In My Feelings" by Drake at 48, "2002" by Anne-Marie at 42, "I Like it" by Cardi B feat. Bad Bunny and J Balvin at number 44, "Lucid Dreams" by Juice WRLD (he features on a remix of Halsey's "Without Me"....sigh), "This Feeling" by The Chainsmokers feat. Kelsea Ballerini at 47 and "I Love It' by Kanye West and Lil Pump. Most of these songs I had hoped to leave behind in 2018.

Finally and more strangely are two 2017 left overs that I don't think willl stay around but you never know with "Rockstar by Post Malone feat. 21 Savage at 45 and "Shape Of You" by Ed Sheeran at 49.


Losers

The only major loser was Ariana Grande's "Imagine" which fell six places to 28.


Drop Outs

Not really much to say here other than that ALL the drop outs were Christmas songs.


New Entries

Just the one new entry that I've already mentioned, "Wow" by Post Malone at number six.

Have a feeling "Sunflower" will spend a second week at number one but we'll find out when the chart updates on Saturday at 5pm AEDT

ARIA SIngles top ten: December 31st 2018: Christmas songs invade the top ten

So this is going to be a shortened edition of the usual chart review as most of the chart was invaded by Christmas songs - thanks streaming...not and it meant a new number one.

So yeah, streaming pretty much got "All I Want for Christmas is You" by Mariah Carey to number one. I am expecting it and the two other Christmas songs in the top ten to be gone next week.

What takes over at number one is an open question though, the favourite is likely to be "Sunflower" by Post Malone feat. Swae Lee which spent another week at number two. It is doing well on streamin and looking very likely to take over number one.\\

Ava Max is also a contender for number one as "Sweet But Psycho" stayed at number three this week.

"Thank U, Next" by Ariana Grande might have dropped to number four but there's still a chance of it returning to number one especially with rumours of an album dropping soon.

Bulleting from 18 to 5 is Wham's "Last Christmas" but I don't tbink it will stick around however it forced down "Shotgun" by George Ezra one place to number six and Halsey's "Without Me" down three to number seven,

Band Aid 30 was the biggest gainer of the week up to number 8 from 37.

"Shallow" by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper slipped two places to nunmber 9 and "Happier" by Marshmello and Bastille dropped one place to number ten.

Full top ten/chart review back next week. Fully expect the new Post Malone song to debut in the top ten this week given streaming numbers. The chart updates at 5pm on Saturdcay

Top ten worst hit songs of 2018

We’ve reached the end of 2018 which means it’s time to sort out the crap from the great so let’s begin with handing the crap what they deserve…the top ten worst hit songs of 2018, now unlike last year where I had five dishonourable mentions, I won’t be doing that this year with the reason being most people move on and mostly forget the terrible stuff, heck I haven’t thought about the majority of my worst hits of 2017 list apart from the top 3.

Now for the most part I didn’t mind a lot of the songs that became hits this year on the ARIA charts however many disturbing trends showed up this year including the music industry reducing itself to grave robbery to ensure hits on the chart, some incredible laziness across rap and hip hop and pop songs that exacerbated a lot of pop music’s issues…all of which will be discussed here.

Here’s a reminder of the rules.

1.       
      Must have made ARIA’s end of year list.

2.      
         For a song to make this list, the song must have elements that are deeply annoying or even infuriating to land on this list. Being dull or overplayed on the radio is not enough to piss me off.

3.     
      No XXXtentacion or 6ix9ine will appear here because it’s just a given that both would appear here otherwise, yes, both made some pretty awful music but it’s not worth giving XXXtentacion’s music any attention given it’s now purely the music going down the path of grave robbery plus both are going to make everyone’s worst lists – after all “FEFE” by 6ix9ine and Nicki Minaj is a partial birth abortion masquerading as a song but these lists can get boring if we all put the same songs on them.

4.       
      This is my opinion only. My opinion shouldn’t stop you from enjoying the songs I write about here today.

Let’s get the show on the road with making something obvious, this song is crap. C-R-A-P, am I making myself cleafr

10. “Friends” by Marshmello and Anne Marie

We’re starting this list with a song that I admit to somewhat liking on first listen but after repeated listens soured on me quickly because I realized that this song was talking down to me as though I am some dumbarse who is expected to take this bottom feeding nonsense without questioning it. Anne-Marie has had enough of a guy trying to force a romantic relationship that she doesn’t want, and she lets him know by giving us all a lesson on how to spell the word ‘friends’. Geezus christ.

The song just comes across as incredibly juvenile and given it’s possible that the guy just isn’t over her yet it’s not the most mature way to tell him that she isn’t interested and only wants to friends. I nearly scream GROW UP at the radio when this song comes on, it’s that juvenile and petty, it’s ridiculous.

So while Anne-Marie and Marshmello were giving out spelling lessons, we were dealing with Post Malone’s brand of trap music.

9. “Psycho” by Post Malone feat. Ty Dolla $ign

It feels like there has been an influx of songs this year using the word “Psycho’ and unfortunately, we’re here to discuss a song that is pretty god damn awful. Post Malone’s whining vocals over a beat that doesn’t change or do anything apart from drone on and on. The lyrics are just about the usual things in trap music like cars, girls, his immense wealth and a ridiculous list of brand names that it would be considered farcical if he wasn’t getting paid for the endorsements during his songs and oh there’s a reference to domestic violence where Ty Dolla $ign mentions hitting a woman who wants to have his children…just charming.

This song was a NUMBER ONE hit for some ungodly reason.

So moving on from this mess of a song, we run straight into somebody who was ubiquitous in 2018, as if it wasn’t predictable, hello Drake.

8. “In My Feelings” by Drake

Ugh, in a year that featured entirely way too much bad Drake at number one than what is healthy with “God’s plan” being a nothing of a song, “I’m Upset” being terrible (it missed the list because I forgot about it until now) and “Nice for What” being saved by that Lauryn Hill sample , this was a sign that Drake had run out of ideas and boy, it showed here on this fragment of a song which features terrible production and only became a hit because of some ridiculous dance meme that was popular for a couple of weeks before sputtering out and this song collapsed like the dead weight it is and I want a long break from anything Drake related although with a Drake-Migos mixtape and another Drake album both apparently coming next year, I don’t hold hope that that break is coming any time soon.

You might remember that I mentioned Post Malone earlier, well in 2018, he became big enough to see wannabes arrive on the charts with the first being this painful imposter.

7. “Lucid Dreams” by Juice WRLD

I know people were more pissed off by “All Girls Are the Same” (quite rightly) for being an absolute turd of a song but this one was the one that became a hit for some unknown reason because this song is just a pure disgusting blame it on the woman bitchfest, JuiceWRLD complains that he can’t change the world he is with so he is going to have to replace her and also seems keen on not letting the girl move on with her life because he comes across like an obsessed stalker like manic.

His obsessive stalker type behaviour is over a beat that makes Post Malone’s music sound like what Britney Spears was singing in the late 90s. Ugh.

2018 was the year of pop artists going country and of the two, one of those songs got extremely popular for no good reason.

6. “The Middle” by Zedd feat. Maren Morris and Grey

I adore Maren Morris which makes it painful for me to put her on this list but I can’t lie, this song drove me up the wall with its mediocre production that it may as well have been a “Stay” rip off (I didn’t like Zedd’s “Stay” feat. Alessia Cara either by the way) with the ticking clock noise that permeates that song like it does this one. Also the lyrics don’t really even tell a story where Morris wants this guy to meet her in the middle but for some reason the guy wants no part of it, maybe in this case, it might be better for Morris to leave the guy the hell alone.

Speaking of alone…. There was a song doing it solo and doing it badly too.

5.“Solo” by Clean Bandit feat. Demi Lovato

I feel terrible putting Demi Lovato as she really isn’t the reason why this song is an awful slice of EDM pop, its actually the most juvenile song about sex that was released this year with it’s incredibly annoying “whoop whoop whoop1” to cover up swear words in the chorus underlining the issues that have been around in pop music for the last couple of years, not to mention the fact Demi has to sing through a ton of annoying chipmunk like sound effects that make the song. The entire production is extremely juvenile. Clean Bandit, you are so much better than this song.

For the mess of noise this song was, at least it didn’t suffer from laziness unlike….

4. “No Brainer” by DJ Khaled feat. Justin Bieber, Chance the Rapper and Quavo

Believe me, this isn’t the last example of laziness that we’ll get to but in 2018, DJ Khaled got to the point of self parody when he decided to go down the path of lazily reproducing “I’m the One” for 2018 by bringing back Justin Bieber, Chance the Rapper and Quavo, the only one missing from “I’m the One” part 1 is Lil Wayne because Lil Wayne completely lost the plot on part 1. Bieber may well be the best part in handling the hook but that’s not saying much when he delivers a completely unenthusiastic effort, Quavo drops a verse that can be heard on most Migos tracks on Culture II while Chance the Rapper delivers a verse that isn’t at all interesting, this song just reeks of non effort and laziness.

So after all that, what could possibly be worse?

3. “In My Mind” by Dynoro feat. Gigi D’Agostino

Oh god, I would love to know who the hell thought this drippy miserable song which features Gigi D’Agostino repetitively singing the same things repeatedly over this absolutely horrible beat beat that is impossible to dance to or even remotely groove to. Seriously, this song makes me question what happened to the fun in music because it’s not there in this song that’s for sure. Hopefully songs like this don’t chart in 2019 and what’s in my mind and in my head ain’t this song.

My number two pick won’t surprise anyone…well it shouldn’t as it will be on plenty of people’s worst hits lists…for good reason.

2. “Meant to Be” by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line

First question, what’s is the point of accrediting Bebe Rexha as the lead artist on this faux-country pop song (anyone who says its country should be handed the last Kacey Musgraves album so they can find out what real country music is) especially Florida Georgia Line sing on most of the song leaving Bebe Rexha to just one verse and chorus. Enough can be said about Bebe Rexha’s pathetic little girlish  sounding voice complaining that she has had enough of guys not treating her right placing her at the cross roads with the duo Florida Georgia Line, she’s giving them the signal to back off and leave her alone but Florida Georgiia Line want her to give into them, it’s just icky from a content standpoint when the Me Too movement is around…yeah,…yuck.

So that leaves just one song and I must say I changed my mind a zillion times over it but when I listened to this song again and yeah it had to land at the top of this list for good reason.

1       1. “I Love It” by Lil Pump and Kanye West

If you looked up the word ‘lazy’ in the dictionary this song would be the musical definition of the word, a song with half assed production involving trap and lyrics that alternate from being stupid to outright gross. Kanye’s verse is the most basic rap verse I have heard, it’s almost like he is trying hard to lower himself to Lil Pump’s level and as for Lil Pump, he handles the hook which basically insults the young woman and her boyfriend and repeating the line “I love It”

None of this song is remotely funny and it shows that Kanye really did do his best to lose any respect he did have. This song and a couple of others on this lit is music for those who appreciate music that appeases the lowest common denominator, it’s a whole new level of lazy garbage that I thought at least Kanye wasn’t capable of.

Let’s hope for better next year.

ARIA Singles Top Ten/ Chart Review: 24th December:Ariana holds number 1 as challengers rise.

So this week was a bit of chaos especially with Christmas music and a whole slew of returns and new entries to the chart, it felt a bit crazy but none the less, let's start where we always do and that is with the top ten and no surprise that it's a sixth week at the top for "Thank U, Next" by Ariana Grande but I am not certain that she will get a seventh week at number one especially as she has been overtaken on streaming and the song has fallen back on sales.

The first of those challengers appears to be "Sunflower" by Post Malone feat. Swae Lee has the song jumped four places to number 2 this week on the back of strong streaming and with sales starting to back it up, there are signs that this could be a challenger for number one.

Also emerging as a strong challenger is Ava Max's European smash "Sweet but Psycho" which jumped two places to number 3.

What aren't challengers are "Without Me" by Halsey which dropped two places to number four and "Shotgun" by George Ezra which also fell two places to number 5.

"Nothing Breaks Like A Heart" by Mark Ronson feat. Miley Cyrus continues to climb, this week it's up two places to number six.

Former number one "Shallow" by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper slipped three places to number four as it gradually falls away.

Unfortunately "Sicko Mode" by Travis Scott feat. Drake is up one to number eight because anhything involving Drake has to be a thing apparently.

In much better news, the mediocre "Happier" by Marshmello and Bastille slipped two places to number 9 while "All I want for Christmas is You" by Mariah Carey rose 5 places to number 10.

Gains

Christmas meant big gains for Wham's "Last Christmas" which jumped to 18 from 34. Kian's "Waiting" jumped 5 places to 30 bit apart from those there wasn't much in the gains department.

Re-Entries

Three re-entries this week with the highest of those being "Do They Know It's Christmas" by Band Aid 80 at number 37.

"Close to Me" by Ellie Goulding feat. Diplo and Swae Lee returns at 49 and strangely enough "I Said Hi" by Amy Shark at 50.

Losers

The biggest loser was unfortunately "Leave A Light on" by Tom Walker which had its lights turned off and sent tumbling down to 48 from 36.

"Arms around You" by XXXtentacion feat. Lil Pump, Maluma and Swae Lee fell eight places to 33...Good.

Also good that "Zeze" by Kodak Black feat. Travis Scott and Offset fell to 28 from 22.

Sadly "Bohemaian Rhapsody" by Queen also took a hit down to 34 from 27.

Drop outs

Not that unhappy about the drop outs although said to see both "Come out and Play" by Billie Eilish and "Always Remember Us This way" by Lady Gaga gone but when they are taking the underwhelming "Woman Like Me" by Little Mix feat. Nicki Minaj and outright awful like "Bad" by XXXtentacion, "Mama" by 6ix9ine feat. Nicki Minaj and Kanye West and "In my Feelings" by Drake...I ain't complaining.

New entries

The biggest new arrival this week was of course Ariana Grande's "Imagine" at 15 and because it's Christmas, Ariana's pretty cheesy "Santa Tell Me" enters at 40 (should be gone next week) while "Saturday Nights" by Khalid is the final new entry at 41.

So it remains to be seen if "Thank u Next" can get a 7th week at number one or not but the challengers are coming, we'll find who gets the final number one for 2018 on Saturday.

ARIA Singles top ten \ Chart Review: 17th December: NBLAH reaches top ten

So this week was a pretty quiet one in terms of new entries but we got one hell of a busy week here somehow.

Just no movement right at the very top where "Thank U, Next" by Ariana Grande spends it's 5th week at number one, I still believe that this song will finish the year at number one in Australia,


Halsey's "Without Me" remains at number two for another week but I am not certain of this song's prospects of knocking "Thank U, Next" from number one, it still has good streaming but it doesn't seem enough to challenge "Thank U, Next" right now and digital sales appear to be dropping off.

A song that continues to hang around is former number one "Shotgun" by George Ezra at number three, the song has completely fallen away on streaming so it's probably no chance of returning to number one.

Another former number one lies at number four that being "Shallow" by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper but it's not a threat for number one.

The song that is looming as a challenger for number one is "Sweet But Psycho" by Ava Max which jumped three places to number 5, it's presence on streaming and on digital sales is continuing to build rather impressively, heck, it pushed "Sunflower" by Post Malone and Swae Lee down one place to number six and "Happier" by Marshmello and Bastille down to number 7.

We have a new arrival to the top ten with "Nothing Breaks Like A Heart" by Mark Ronson and Miley Cyrus up nine places to number eight which I am absolutely delighted about as the song is just fantastic.

It pushed "Sicko Mode" by Travis Scott down two places to number 7 and "Eastside" by Benny Blanco feat. Halsey and Khalid down two places to number ten.

Gainers

Former number seven "High Hopes" by Panic! At The Disco was the biggest gainer of the week leaping back up to 24 from 37. (Don't mind that song quite honestly).

The Hilltop Hoods look set to have a big hit with "Leave Me Lonely" up twelve places to number 26.

"Last Christmas" by Wham also gained hard this week up from 47 to 34 which isn't surprising considering Christmas is around the corner.

"Going Bad" by Meek Mill feat. Drake jumped up to 33 from 42 because people can't seem to get enough of Drake right now.

Strangely enough "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran is up 6 places to 46...this song has been on the chart for pretty much the entire year!

"Leave A Light on" by Tom Walker returns to the top 40 at 36 from 41 and "This Feeling" by The Chainsmokers and Kelsea Ballerini refuses to go away by elevating from 44 to 37.

Re-Entries

XXXtentacion's album release saw the return of the single "Bad" at number 35 but apart from that there really isn't any XXXtentacion to talk about...thank goodness.

Also back for some reason is "Lost in Japan" by Shawn Mendes at 38.

Finally for no discernible reason "In My Feelings" by Drake is back at number 49. (Australia, really?)

Losers

It wasn't a good week for 6ix9ine with "Mama" feat. both Nicki Minaj and Drake being the biggest loser down from 22 to 50...good.

Also down hard is "Come Out and Play" by Billie Eilish which fell off it's debut at 28 to slide down to 45.

"Woman Like Me" by Little Mix feat. Nicki Minaj crash landed at 47 down from 33.

"Waiting" by KIan slithered down six places to 30.

Drop Outs

It was relatively good news on the drop out side of things with 6ix9ine's "Kika" feat. Tory Lanez dropping out taking with it "Taki Taki" by DJ Snake feat. Ozuna, Selena Gomez and Cardi B.

Also gone is "Close to Me" by Ellie Goulding feat. Diplo and Swae Lee which is the better of the three songs that left the chart this week.

So with no new entries this week that wraps up this week's chart review. The chart for the week starting 24th December will be released on Saturday at 5pm.

Have a Merry Christmas everyone.

ARIA Singles Chart top ten/chart review: 10th December 2018: 6ix9ine shows up as Ronson/Cyrus debut in top 20

Oh folks, this week was a rough one, sure, we traded out some crap but wow, some absolute junk also debuted on the chart, there's a story or two in terms of what arrived on the charts and what got jumps up the chart but we'll get to that in a minute but first the top ten...

Well, really...there's no change at number one with "Thank U, Next" by Ariana Grande holding firm, it looks to have lock on number one for another few weeks barring a complete collapse, this song should see out the year at number one.

Halsey's "Without Me" is the new number two this week after jumping two places, I don't expect this song to go number one witb there being songs rising below it making out to be more convincing challengers for top spot.

What aren't challengers are "Shotgun" by George Ezra at number three and "Shallow" by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper which dropped two places to number four as the hype for "A Stat is born fades away.

Arriving in the top 5 is "Sunflower" by Post Malone and Swae Lee which rose one place to number five (I am desperately trying to convince myself the song isn't good)

It swapped with "Happier" by Marshmello and Bastille which dropped number 6.

Then we have our biggest gain for the week with the worst song from Travis Scott's album "ASTROWORLD", "Sicko Mode" jumping 7 places because I guess we just have to copy America trends, right?

Ava Max's 'Sweet But Psycho" adds Australia to it's list of countries where it's hit the top ten as it jumped five places to number 8.

Two songs I either like or don't mind round out the top ten with "Eastside" by Benny Blanco feat. Halsey and Khalid down two to number 7 and "Let You Love Me" down two to number 10.

Gains

So apart from the big gains for Travis Scott and Ava Max to reach the top ten, there wasn't much that gained big. There was a four place gain for "Waiting" by Kian which has reached number 24 and "Ruin My Life" by Zara Larsson is up four to 36 (a song I still can't get to liking) and in the other piece of good news for Australian music, Hilltop Hoods new song "Leave Me Lonely" jumped up to 38 from 42 (I think this song has a solid chance of being a hit)

Re- Entries

Of course it's that time of year when Christmas music starts to reach the charts because of streaming which means "All I want for Christmas is You"  by Mariah Carey is back at number 14 and "Last Christmas" by Wham is back at number 49.

Losses

It was a blood bath this week with "Always Remember Us this Way" by Lady Gaga dropping from 21 to 39 because the movie hype is fading and people are moving on but that doesn't explain why "High Hopes" by Panic! At the Disco lost hope down to 37 or "This Feeling" by The Chainsmokers and Kelsea Ballerini dropped from 31 to 44 (in the latter's case, the song is crap so maybe understandable)

"A Million Dreams" by Pink slipped ten to 48.


Drop Outs

I'm sad to see "I'll Never Love again" by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper gone as well as "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen.

Not really bothered that "Happy Now" by Kygo feat. Sandro Cavazza and "There's No Way" by Lauv and Julia Michaels are also gone. Didn't really care for either song.

However I am happy to see utter crap like "Falling Down" by Lil Peep and XXXtentacion, "Bad" by XXXtentaction (probably will be back next week with the album having been released) and "In My zFeelings" by Drake gone.


New Entries

Let's begin with the good stuff that debuted, the excellent "Nothing Breaks like a Heart" by Mark Ronson feat. Miley Cyrus enters at 17 to be the biggest debut of the week, I expect this song to be huge in 2019.

"Close to Me" by Ellie Goulding feat. Diplo and Swae Lee enters at number 50.

6ix9ine somehow had two songs land on the chart wth "Mama" feat. Nicki Minaj and Kanye Wrest entering at number 22 and "Kika" feat. Tory Lanez at number 30.

Meek Mill's song with Drake "Going Bad" enters the chart at  number 42.

So this week turned out surprisingly busy, am still expecting a quieter time over the next few weeks as the charts slow down for Christmas but we'll see. I'll be interested to see if "Sweet But Psycho" can can break into the top five and indeed whether or not "Nothing Breaks Like a Heart" can jump into the top ten. We'll find out on Saturday at 5pm

ARIA Singles top ten/ Chart review: 3rd December: Rita Ora enters top ten, big move up for Sheck Wes

The charts are starting to slow down for the Christmas/New Year period and this week seemed to continue that slow down with just three new entries and omly a couple of changes to the top ten and somehow I wish there was some big changes because the top ten feels pretty stagnant apart from one song that entered the top ten

However there was no change at the top with another week at number one for "Thank U, Next" by Ariana Grande and with the song doing well all over the place, I don't see it being challenged unless a certain new song released on Friday can get the numbers to challenge it...

"Shallow" by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper spends another week at number two but it's challenge for number one looks done with "A Star is Born" hype slowly starting to fade.

"Shotgun" by George Ezra rode a week of hype surrounding his performance at ARIA Awards to return to number 3, it jumped past Halsey's "Without Me" which dropped back to number four.

"Happier" by Marshmello and Bastille, "Sunflower" by Post Malone and Swae Lee and "Eastside" by Benny Blanco feat. Halsey and Khalid all remain at 5, 6 and 7 respectively.

We have a new arrival to the top ten and it's one I predicted with "Let You Love Me' by Rita Ora jumping four places to number 8. Guess that ARIA Awards performance paid off for her but hey it's the best of the songs that she has released from Phoenix as singles so I'll take it.

"Be Alright" by Dean Lewis remains at number nine while "Body" by Loud Luxury feat. Brando drops two to number ten.

Gainers

The biggest gainer this week came from "Mo Bamba" by Sheck Wes because people love trap artists singing out of tune as that jumped ten places to 29.

"Sweet But Psycho" by Ava Max looks like it may well break into the top ten soon as it jumped nine places to number 13. This song reminds me more of Lady Gaga's early career than it probably should..

Lukas Graham continue to have a sleeper hit with "Love Someone" up nine places to 22.

Morgan Evans "Day Drunk" jumped back into the top 40 up eight places to 35.


Losers

The losers are hard to explain but lets start off with the fact that there was an eleven place drop for "This Feeling" by The Chainsmokers feat. Kelsea Ballerini to 31. Maybe people have finally worked out it was a pale imitation of an already awful song.


Pink's "A Million Dreams" continues its yoyo existence also dropping eleven places to 38.

Really also not complaining that "Bad" by XXXtentacion dropped 9 places to 47 after just 3 weeks on the chart (3 weeks too many for grave robbing trash) while his song with Lil Peep "Falling Down" slipped four places to 48. (My god there's some absolute garbage down the lower end of the chart this week)

Sadly, "I'll Never Love Again" by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper fell eight places to 43. Would rather this song be a hit over some of the crap above it!

"Woman Like Me" by Little Mix feat. Nicki Minaj lost its gains from the release of 'lm5" so that is down four places to 30.

Drop outs

Disappointed to see Silk City and Dua Lipa's collaboration "Electricity" drop out. Really would have liked that song to have become a hit.

"Somebody to Love" by Queen also dropped out because hype for "Bohemanian Rhapsody" movie is fading.

The one song of the three that dropped out that will probably make year end "Ocean" by Martin Garrix and Khalid which peaked at number 12.

New Entries


So the highest new entry comes from the rather highly popular at the moment, Billie Eilish with "Come Out and Play" at number 23 (even though it's not her best song, check out 'Bellyache")

Australian rap legends Hilltop Hoods snag another chart entry with "Leave Me Lonely" at number 42

Finally "Happy Now" by Kygo feat. Sandro Cavazza enters at number 50/


That wraps up the week and given Friday saw the release of the new collaboration between Mark Ronson and Miley Cyrus (get used to it, you are going to be hearing this song everywhere, it's got the potential to be as big as "Uptown Funk" given the chord the song is striking with a lot of people) and possibly Meek Mill's collaboration with Drake off his album "Championships" may enter too. We'll find out on Saturday when ARIA releases the chart for the week of 10th December