ARIA Singles Chart Top 50. May 12th.

 We finally got some change to our top ten this week! Just a shame that this week also brought one of the worst songs to debut on the chart in recent memory but we'll get to that because let's get to the top ten where of course for yet another week "Ordinary" by Alex Warren remains at number one and really at this point, it's so strong on sales and streaming and while that is the case, I don't see anything getting near it. 

However there is a new number two this week with "Undressed" by Sombr climbing nine places as it also has strong streaming, it's just a question of if it's sales can catch up to it's streaming. It did help push "That's So True" by Gracie Abrams back one to number three and "Pink Pony Club" by Chappell Roan to number four.

"Love Me Not"  by Ravyn Lenae climbed up seven places to number five and seems to have some decent momentum behind it which I am absolutely delighted about. I still like this song a lot. 

All that was enough to  see "APT" by Rose and Bruno Mars slide two places to number six while "Birds of a Feather" by Billie Eilish held steady at number seven. 

Finally looking to be on the way out of the top ten is "Die With a Smile' by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars which stumbled two places to numnber eight while former number one "Messy" by Lola Young fell back one place to number nine.

"Beautiful Things" by Benson Boone continues to cling to the top ten like a poo on a string refusing to fall into the toilet but it did fall five places to number ten.

Gains

Sombr's gains continued outside the top ten as "Back to Friends" climbed seven places to number twelve. 

Gracie Abrams tour of Australia sees continued gains for "I Love You, I'm Sorry", this time up fifteen places to eighteen.

Alex Warren's "Carry You Home" climbed eight places to twenty four which makes sense as people are looking to hear other songs from the artist currently at number one. 

I don't really have an explanation for why "Stargazing" by Myles Smith is up twenty places to twenty nine or "Too Sweet"by Hozier is up sixteen to thirty two.

Losers

It would seem the public are finally done with Dasha's "Austin" so that's down eight to number 50. 

Tate McRae's "Revolving Door" collapsed ten spots to forty. I am surprised this has stuck around this long considering how uninterested people have been in 2025 music. 

"Sorry I'm here for Someone Else" by Benson Boone slumped seven to forty one while "Abracadabra" by Lady Gaga also slid ten places to thirty eight. "Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls fell nine to thirty three.

Finally and most unsurprisingly, "What Was That?" by Lorde tumbled twelve spots to twenty one. 

New Entries

One new entry this week...shame it's...

31. "Blue Strips" by Jessie Murph

I was dreading this song turning up on the chart having heard what a few critics have had to say about it and yeah, let me add this blog to those critics because this song absolutely blows blue strips and blue whatever else...that's how miuch this song absolutely sucks, Jessie Murph sounds nasal as hell and that multi tracking tacked to her vocals isn't improving her "singing" in this revenge fantasy where she's wanting to get  back at somebody and the instrumentation cannot sell any of it convincingly. This is one of the worst songs of the year to chart thus far. Please do not let this crap become a hit.

Yeah obvious worst of the week here. There's so much better music that could  be charting instead of this like Tyne-James Organ's "One Way Ticket"

All 4 1994. 8th May. Mmm I'll Stand and Stay By You

So things have slowed down ever so slightly...seriously...half of the top ten didn't move at all this week while we did get our regularly scheduled slew of new entries however before we get to our new debuts, lets talk about that aforementioned top ten where for a second week "The Sign" by Ace of Base remains at number and it just doesn't look like being toppled right now. 

It held up over "Breathe Again" by Toni Braxton which held strong at number two as did "The Power of Love" by Celine Dion at number three, "Without You" by Mariah Carey and "Streets of Philadelphia" by Bruce Springsteen at number five.

Where the changes do kick is at number six because "Right in the Night" by Jam & Spoon feat. Plavka climbed ten places to reach the top ten, this song definitely has some good momentum behind it and that hook only helps its caused. 

Happy to see "The Most Beautiful Girl in The World" by The Symbol up five to nuimber seven. The song is still absolutely excellent and I am thrilled to see it here. 

All of this saw "Dum Da Dum" by Melodie MC down one spot to number eight however weirdly Madonna's badly produced "I'll Remember" is up two to number nine.

"It's Alright" by East 17 rounds out the top ten down four places to number ten. It's fading naturally now...thank goodness. 

Losers

On that note, let's go through these losers because we do have a few this week, let's start with M People's "One Night in Heaven" which looks like a complete non starter down seven to forty seven while former top five hit "Slave to the Music" by Twenty 4 Seven feat. Stay-C and Nance tumbled six places to forty six. 

Down eight to forty five is "Feelin' Alright" by EYC while "Said I Loved You...But I Lied" by Michael Bolton slipped seven to thirty five and "Cornflake Girl" by Tori Amos stumbled six places to twenty seven (this song has hung around longer than I thought it would).

Beck's "Loser lived up to it's name this week by sliding seven places to twenty while "Whatta Man" by Salt 'N' Pepa fell five to fourteen and "Sing Hallelujah" by Dr. Alban down five to thirteen.

Gains

Not too much  in the way of major gains this week but some of the other debutants from last week got gains like "I Believe" by Marcella Detroit climbed nine places to thirty three and of course the horrible "Doop" by Doop jumped from twenty three to seventeen because of course it did. 

Unfortunately there was a decent six place gain to twenty five for "I'm Ready" by Tevin Campbell 

Re - Entries

Sexing The Cherry is back on the singles chart with "Stepping On Remix" back at number forty eight 

New Entries

50. "Stay" by Eternal

So this is a song that was originally recorded in 1990 by American singer Glenn Jones before British trio Eternal decided to record the song in 1993 and you know what? I do like this, the harmonies really kick this track a level higher, its  sounds just like a great song to just vibe to and these ladies certainly have some kick ass confidence. I dig it, definitely check this one out!

49. "Satisfy The Groove" by Culture Shock

Culture Shock are an Australian dance trio whose first studio album was released in 1993 with this song being released a single and I will say this group remind me a lot of a combination of Euphoria and a bunch of other acts who have gone the dance rap sound, this song isn't terrible but when Melodie MC and others have done this sound better, I won't be coming back to it. 

39. "U R The Best Thing" by D:Ream

So we've already got a follow up to "Things Can Only Get Better" and I'll be honest here, I am not liking this one as much as I liked the previous song and it's hard to pinpoint why, maybe it's just the lack of organic swell in this song that made "Things Can |Only Get Better" so positive and infectious or it's quite possibly sounding like most of the other eurodance junk out there...next!

38. "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" by Crash Test Dummies

Okay, so we're dealing here with a Canadian rock band and is the lead single from their second album "God Shuffled His Feet", it's a song about three different children who have some kind of physical "abnormality", a boy who was in a car accident missing school for an extended period of time and when he returned his hair was white instead of black, a girl refused to changed clothes in front of her classmates because of birthmarks on her body while the third child is a boy whose parents demand he come straight home from school. Now I think thiat while the intent of the song is to be applauded, that hook is annoying as all hell and dear god could someone teach the lead vocallist to sing with some fucking passion instead of sounding like he is having dental surgery...this isn't good...skip it!

31. "I'll Stand by You" by The Pretenders.

Our last two new entries are carry overs from the 80s with one of those being British rock band The Pretenders who had one of my favourite hits of 1980 with "Brass in Pocket" so cue my surprise with this song being a ballad about standing by someone going through a dark time in their lives regardless of whatever is happening and not letting anyone else or anything else get to them. It is pretty powerful and resonant especially when the choir kicks in on the last part of the song. It's a good song, hope it sticks around. 

26. "Less Than A Feeling" by Hoodoo Gurus

Finally wrapping up the week with the new one from Hoodoo Gurus with this song coming from the album "Crank" and again it's that vocal production that stops me from liking this song more than I do, the lead vocals just feel too buried in the mix that it makes it hard to understand what's being said which is a shame because I do like a lot else around the song especially the guitars and drums which give this song a really damn solid groove to work off. Oh well...it happens.

However it's not the worst of the week that dubious honour is going to "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" by Crash Test Dummies, just no.

Best of the week is harder, I think "Stay" by Eternal just nudges out "I'll Stand by You" by The Pretenders but it's really damn close.

ARIA Singles Top 50 Chart Review: May 5th What Party Was That 4 You?

Look, I am not saying the charts are stagnant but fuck they are stagnant and pretty boring right now. Just one new song in our top ten and a lot of older songs moving up instead of down which is frustrating that the 2024 holdovers are especially lasting this long into 2025 however lets get straight into the top ten where for yet another week we have "Ordinary" by Alex Warren at number and look, this is an exceedingly stable number one, it's riock solid on sales and streaming to the point that I don't see what might be going to knock it off the top spot any time soon.

That's especially the case with "That's So True" by Gracie Abrams rebounding one spot back to number two thanks to damn streaming that won't die yet however it was enough to push "Pink Pony Club" by Chappell Roan down one to number three, now I do think this song has peaked now with it's streaming fading away gradually. 

The same can be said "APT" by Rose and Bruno Mars down one to number four, "Beautiful Things" by Benson Boone down one to number five and "Die With A Smile" by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars down one to number six. 

"Birds of a Feather" by Billie Eilish rebounded one spot to number seven this week thanks to decent streaming, the same applies for "Messy" by Lola Young ip one to number eight.

We've got a new entry to our top ten this week with "What Was That" by Lorde at number nine thanks mostly to streaming and same sales. We'll talk about this one later.

Rounding up our top ten is "Nokia" by Drake slipping one spot to number ten and I can't say I am not unhappy about that. 

Gains

Benson Boone's "Sorry I'm Here for Someone Else" jumped eight places to thirty four because that seems to have some legs on streaming now...lovely...not.

Gracie Abrams "I Love You, I'm Sorry" climbed fourteen spots to thirty three in the biggest gain of the week. 

Sombr saw gains for both his songs with "Back to Friends up five places to nineteen and "Undressed" up three to eleven...both could see the top ten in a few weeks.

The same applies for "Love Me Not" by Ravyn Lenae which jumped eight places to twelve.

Re- Entries

Just one re-entry with "Like Jennie" by Jennie back forty six somehow. 

Losers

Not too many major losers this week although we did see a seven place loss for "Mr Brightside" by The Killers down to forty seven and a nine place drop for "Ain't No Love in Oklahoma" by Luke Combs to forty three. 

"Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac tumbled seven spots to thirty five while "Abracadabra" by Lady Gaga slumped seven to twenty eight.

Drop Outs.

We lost three long running songs...all three have also dropped out before and returned as well so we'll wait and see with "Riptide" by Vance Joy, "Stick Season" by Noah Kahan and "Where the Wild Things Are" by Luke Combs all leaving again.

New Entries

Just the two new entries this week with...

36. "Party 4 U" by Charli XCX

Well this is weird as hell mostly because this song was originally released at the height of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 from Charli XCX's fourth album "How I'm Feeling Now" and honestly I actually like this a lot more than anything from her most recent album "Brat", it actually reminds of the sound that Addison Rae has unsuccessfully tried to copy in her recent releases only Charli did it in 2020 with much more interesting effect, it's a song where Charli is throwing this party for this guy or girl and hoping that they'll reciprocate some of that party energy back to her and yeah it does have some of that nervous energy about it. 

I like this. Definitely chuck it out if this sort of slowed down dance hyperpop is your thing.

9. "What Was That" by Lorde.

So I was kind of keen to see what Lorde would come up with on  her return after what feels like an extremely long time although we did get "Solar Power" in 2021 and yeah this song might on the surface feel like a return to form for Lorde especially with certain song structures that give this a through line to "Green Light" but "Green Light" felt more propulsive than this song which seems to ride on the hook more often than not. It's not a bad song but Lorde has certainly done better on Melodrama.

That wraps the week, I am going to give best of the week to Charli XCX for "Party 4 U". No worst of the week mostly because "What Was That?" is not terrible. 

All 4 1994: 1st May. Whoomp! I'll Remember Beautiful Girl and Johnny Man

 Well...this week is pure chaos, we have a new number one and EIGHT new entries to talk about this week which include Madonna but let's not ramble on anything further and get stuck into our top ten because like I said we do have a new number one and it's one that's been in the stars for awhile because "The Sign" by Ace of Base steamrolled it's way to number one courtesy of enormous sales and looks to be settling into a lengthy stay at number one. 

Right behind "The Sign" is "Breathe Again" by Toni Braxton which jumped four places to number two because it had nearly as good a sales week as "The Sign". 

This pushed former number one "The Power of Love" by Celine Dion back to number three mostly because this song's sales couldn't go with the two songs above it. 

Remaining at four and five respectively is :"Without You" by Mariah Catrey and "Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen which both had just enough sales to hang on where they are. 

"It's Alright" by East 17 slumped three places to number six, it's on it's way out naturally however "Dum Da Dum" by Melodie MC remained steady at number seven.  Rebounding one spot to number eight is "Sing Hallelujah" by Dr Alban. 

"Whatta Man" by Salt 'n' Pepa feat En Vogue skidded down one spot to number nine while remaining at number ten is "Things Can Only Get Better" by D:Ream. 

Losers

So because we do have A LOT of new entries this week, it is to be expected a lot of songs lost ground this week beginning with "Dry County" by Bon Jovi which collapsed eight twelve places to forty eight. 

"What's My Name?" by Snoop Doggy Dogg tumbled nine places to forty seven this week, it should make the year end safely. 

Former top ten hit "Asshole" by Denis Leary continued its path out down from thirty three to forty six. Pearl Jam's "Daughter" slipped fro thirty seven to forty four. 

"Feelin' Alright" by EYC fell down six places to thirty secen while "Slave to the Music" by Twenty 4 Seven feat. Stay-C and Nance stumbled nine places to thirty six. Beverly's version of "The Power of Love" slid ten places to thirty five. "Hush Sweet Lover" by KD Lang got hushed six spots to thirty four.

"Anything" by Culture Beat slipped seven places to twenty nine while "Said I Love You...But I Lied" by Michael Bolton fell nine spots to twenty eight. "Let Me Show You" by K-Klass tumbled eight places twenty six. 

"Return to Innocence" by Enigma slid from sixteen to twenty two, ?Can We Talk?" by Tevin Campbell collapsed six places to twenty. 

Gains

So quite surprisingly we do have a couple of decent sized gains with "Right in the Night" by Jam & Spoon feat Plavka climbing to sixteen, I'd bank on seeing this song in the top ten soon, folks.

"Feel Like Making Love": by Pauline Henry jumped from twenty three to seventeen while "Is It Love" by Twenty 4 Seven feat. Stay-C and Nance climbed seven places to twenty five.

Pearl Jam's "Animal" jumped ten places to thirty two off it's debut last week, also up ten off it's debut is "Easy" by Hunters & Collectors to thirty eight. 

New Entries

Eight new entries this week, beginning with...

50. "Take It To The Top" by Peter Andre

New Peter Andre song and I really hope this one is better than the last effort I reviewed from him. Well no, because this sounds like Andre trying to rip off Bobby Brown's late 80s shtick that worked only Andre does not have the vocal presence or the ability to sell it in a manner that is anywhere near covincing. say what you want about Bobby Brown, he at least had the charisma to sell "My Prerogative", this just sounds like an 80s left over that would be better left forgotten...next!

49. "Danny Man" by Jimeoin

So this is a song from Irish comedian Jimeoin and yeah, this sure is an Irish song at heart in the instrumentation with the flute and that interpolation of "Danny Boy" on the hook. What does wind up hilarious is Jimeoin's hilarious attempts at rapping but he does manage to stay on beat and sound like he is having fun with it. Look, it smacks of novelty song but it's definitely one of the better novelty songs I've heard, check it out if you want a laugh. 

45. "Rocks" by Primal Scream

We now move to another part of the UK, this time Scotland courtesy of band Primal Scream with this song from their fourth studio album called "Give Out But Don't Give Up" and what I will say is that that hook is ridiculously catchy with more than enough stomp clap energy in rock format to go around. It's definitely a cheerier sound in the alt rock format and an antidote to those done with more the grungey sound that has been coming from bands like Nirvana and others. Nice song. 

42. "I Believe" by Marcella Detroit

So one of the co-writers of Eric Clapton's 1977 hit "Lay Down Sally" and was a member of Shakespears Sister who had a hit in 1992 called "Stay" has stepped into the solo realm again with the lead single from her second album "Jewel" and yeah, this song sounds like radio friendly alternative pop with Detroit singing about how giving love will give it back to the person giving the love. Its bit of a cornball love song but Detroit's vocal performance is powerful enough to make you think she believes what she is selling...not bad I guess even if the production is giving 1990s nappies ad. 

41. "Whoomp (There It Is)" by Tag Team

So from Marcella Detroit, we dive into the world of what sounds like sports hype anthems or dubious ass anthems where the only thing that the hook has is the chanting of "Whoomp...there is it is!". The rap verses are so quick and add so little that this song feels eight to ninety percent hook but at least it's better then...

23. "Doop" by Doop

And our bad Eurodance song of the week feat. a chopped and sped up version of a Charleston based big band song over a house backing track and by god it's as annoying as all hell to sit through especially with those vocals that sound like like she's having a fucking coronary over that beat or they recorded a chicken laying an egg for it. Yeah this song is trash and isn't worth justifying.,,,next.

12. "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" by The Symbol

Brand new music from...Prince...or as he is now calling himself The Symbol and I got to be honest, I think this is the most I have genuinely liked a Prince love song, because it does sound like he believe she's the most beautiful girl he has ever seen and I do like the guitar flourish under the song along with the piano that punctuates the chorus. It's just a dreamy pop song that doesn't require for The Symbol to exude a load of charisma to be believeable...I'll take this. 

11. "I'll Remember" by Madonna

So I am going to say it, Madonna's run in the nineties so far has been shaky at best in terms of quality...sure "Vogue" was awesome but honestly duds like "Justify My Love" and "This Used to Be My Playground"....come on Madge, you can do so much better than both of those but with "I'll Remember" being for the film "With Honors", I had to hope this would be better than her recent output and yeah...it is but I just wish Madonna's voice was not buried by the choppy production on the verses, she sounds so muffled, it's worrying but then the production gets better on the hook and she sounds clearer,..I don't know, the hook is nice and that's all I'm prepapred to say about this song

Kind of a long and unexpectedly rough week here but best and worst do fall out reasonably easy. Worst is going to "Doop" by Doop for being an actual fucking headache of a song. Peter Andre and Tag Team can consider themselves lucky.

"The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" by The Symbol runs away with the best of the week.

ARIA Top 50 Singles Chart Review: 28th April

 So we have a quiet week in prospect here, one that has absolutely no new entries and some beyond frustrating shifts in our top ten, I got to say Australia, you guys love to cling to songs longer than ever now but let's start with the top ten where for yet another week "Ordinary" by Alex Warren hangs onto the number one spot, it's got sales and streaming margins to hold up ahead of "Pink Pony Club" by Chappell Roan which finally pushed it's way up to number two to become Chappell's highest ever charting single.

It pushed "APT" by Rose and Bruno Mars down to number three as it is losing steam big time on streaming, expect some larger falls for this in the weeks ahead if streaming continues to fall off.

Streaming is to blame for the continued rebound of fucking "Beautiful Things" by Benson Boone, why are we continuing to entertain this shitstain of a song in the top ten? Regardless, it's up two to number four because people still haven't moved on from this..

"Die With A Smile" by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars slipped one to number five as it's slowly but finally appearing to look unsteady, same could be said of "That's So True" by Gracie Abrams down one to number six. 

"Messy" by Lola Young rebounded one spot to number seven because it got a little sales boost this week likewise did "Birds of a Feather" by Billie Eilish at number eight. 

Both did enough to push past "Nokia" by Drake down two spots to number nine while back in the top ten this week is "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" by Shaboozey which returned to the top ten at number ten up two spots mostly because people still aren't letting go of songs like this one. 

Gains

Now to the big moves outside the top ten with two of them coming for Sombr with "Undressed" up eleven places to fourteen and "Back to Friends" up eight places to twenty four.

"Love Me Not" by Ravyn Lenae broke into the top twenty at number twenty while Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" rebounded up seven to number twenty eight. 

"Revolving Door" by Tate McRae also up eight to thirty two because we don't know how to make the good Tate McRae songs hits, she had better on that damn album.

On the theme of old songs rising "Something in the Orange" by Zach Bryan jumped eight places to thirty five while the never ending chart run of "Riptide" by Vance Joy continues as it jumped eight to thirty six, "Mr Brightside" by The Killers rebounded eight to forty.

Our lone new entry from last week also climbed eight places this week off it's debut that being "Sorry I'm Here for Someone Else" by Benson Boone up to forty two.

Re-Entries

Three returns with "Where the Wild Things Are" by Luke Combs back at number forty nine while "Stick Season" by Noah Kahan re-emerged at forty eight and "Pink Skies" by Zach Bryan skap back in at number forty five.

Losers

The only major loser this week is Ed Sheeran's "Azizam" which lost all it's streaming traction to plummet to thirty places to fifty. Ouch. 

Also saw "Timeless" by The Weeknd and Playboi Carti down eight to forty one while "Taste" by Sabrina Carpenter also hit an eight place skid to hit twent eight. 

Drop Outs

As for our drop outs this week, I am a little disappointed that we lost "Twilight Zone" by Ariana Grande but when both "Busy Woman" by Sabrina Carpenter and "Dark Thoughts" by Lil Tecca are gone too, I guess I can't complain too hard. 

So with there being no new entries to talk about that wraps up this week, we'll likely see the new single from Lorde debut alongside goodness knows what espercially if we do get that album bomb from Morgan Wallen in a few weeks. 

All 4 1994. 24th April. Easy Gin and Juice Sleeping in My Animal Car

Wham bam thank you mam, we have a new number one and it's one that I saw coming last week with Celine Dion's cover of Jennifer Rush's 1985 hit "The Power of Love" taking top spot and in the end it wasn't really even a contest as it had a clear sales lead. It's a move I am happy about as it's still a damn great song. 

Right behind it is something I should have seen coming given that it's an obvious hit in waiting. "The Sign" up five to number two as it gathers strength on sales, it also moved past former number one "It's Alright" by East 17 which slipped two places to numnber three. 

"The Sign" did manage to push back "Without You" by Mariah Carey to number four and "Streets of Philadelphia" by Bruce Springsteen down one to number five, 

Rising three places to number six is "Breathe Again" by Toni Braxton while "Dum Da Dum" by Melodie MC fell two to number seven. 

"Whatta Man"  by Salt 'N' Pepa feat. En Vogue fell two to number eight while "Sing Hallelujah" by Dr Alban looks like it might be having it's time in the top ten ended early as it slides down one to number nine.

Finally remaining at number ten is "Things Can Only Get Better" by D:Ream.

Losers

So the losers include "Hey Mr D.J." by Zhane down ten to number fifty while the sappy "Now and Forever" by Richard Marx fell six to forty four. while "Stay (Faraway, So Close)" by U2 slipped from thirty nine to forty three.

"Feelin' Alright" by EYC tumbled eight to thirty one.

Gains

"Return to Innocence" by Enigma somehow got a decent boost from twenty four to sixteen this week. I just do not get the appeal of that song at all. 

"Right in the Night (Fall In Love with the Music)" by Jam & Spoon (feat Plavka) is making its way up the charts off it's debut last week, it's up from thirty one to twenty four. 

The Screaming Jets got a "Helping Hand" from the public this week as their latest single rose nine places to twenty six. 

Also up nine this week is 'Hush Sweet Lover" by K.D Lang which climbed to twenty eight, also "Groove Thang" by Zhane got a nine place gain to thirty four which is good news. 

New Entries

Four new songs this week beginning with...

49. "Gin & Juice by Snoop Doggy Dogg.

With "What's My Name" being a medium sized hit for Snoop, we got a brand new song from him and I think this one is better? Yeah, it's a chill west coast vibe that just sits absolutely perfectly as Snoop Doggy Dogg absolutely coasts over this beat rapping about how despite all the drama going on, he is putting it all aside just to have a good time even if it appears that there might be some consequences around the corner. Great little song. Worth checking out.

48. "Easy" by Hunters & Collectors

Brand new Hunters & Collectors song from their album "Demon Flower" and I have got to say this is not one of their better singles, why is Mark Seymour sounding so drowned out in the mix to the point I can barely understand anything he is singing and it's a shame because the rock production sounds absolutely awesome but I cannot stand that vocal production. Next!

42. "Animal" by Pearl Jam

So "Daughter" still absolutely bangs and I am hoping that this third single from "Vs" absolutely bangs as well, well it kind of does...Eddie Vedder's vocals aren't as prominent here and it sounds like the instrumental is swallowing him up in the mix but for this sort of song, I guess it makes sense because this is one angry song where some have interpreted it as being anger at the media or those committing gang rapes, either way this is a pretty good song but not great.

21. "Sleeping in My Car" by Roxette

So by now, you all know I have a love of Roxette, "The Look" is my favourite hit song of 1989 and "Joyride" is one of my favourite songs ever and honestly "Sleeping In My Car" doesn't stray too far from the Roxette formula of catchy songs with great instrumentals and this is actually catchy as hell. 

Yeah, I'll give it best of the week but it was close. "Gin & Juice" by Snoop Doggy Dogg is solid as hell too. 

Worst of the week isn't a contest, it's going to "Easy" by Hunters & Collectors. 

ARIA Singles Chart top 50. 21st April.

 So this week felt slow as hell not just because we only have one new entry but because it felt slower like the charts are just grinding to a slow crawl akin to holiday traffic in gridlock especially as some older songs are making some seriously frustrating gains however before we get to all that. let's go through the top ten where for yet another week, it's "Ordinary" by Alex Warren at number one, while it's not number one on sales,

It held up ahead of "APT" by Rose and Bruno Mars which is slowly fading on streaming and looks no chance of re-taking number one, it's probably more under threat from "Piml Pony Club" by Chappell Roan which spent the week being consistent in all areas to climb one spot to number three. 

Lady Gaga's Australian tour announcement saw "Die With A Smile" rebound five to nuimber four while 'That's So True" by Gracie Abrams slipped one to five thanks to weakness on streaming.

Whar's also rebounding much to my disgust is "Beautiful Things" by Benson Boone which climbed two places to number six. Please do NOT let this shit become another fucking "Heatwaves", Australia, I am warning you. 

"Nokia" by Drake slipped two to seven mostly because sales slipped and streaming isn't quite holding it up as much as I had expected.

Also down two to number eight is "Messy" by Lola Young and "Birds of a Feather" by Billie Eilish to number nine. 

Wrapping up the top ten, we have "Luther" by Kendrick Lamar and SZA up two to number ten. 

Gains

:Outside of the top ten, there was a ten place gain to twenty for "Azizam" by Ed Sheeran, this song has hit written all over it. 

"The Door" by Teddy Swims rebounded six places to twenty six while Sombr's "Back to Friends" rose seven to thirty two. 

Older songs also had good sized gains which is frustrating to a degree with "Too Sweet" by Hozier up nine to thirty eight and "Austin" by Dasha up eight to thirty seven.

Re Entries

Just the one return this week with "Abracadabra" by Lady Gaga back in the top fifty after Gaga's Australian tour announcement at twenty eight. 

Losers

The biggest loser this week was unsurprisingly "Twilight Zone" by Ariana Grande which just utterly collapsed twenty five places to forty six while "Dark Thoughts" by Lil Tecca slipped fourteen places to forty seven. 

Drop Outs.

Just the two drop outs with long running hit "Pink Skies" by Zach Bryan and a debutant from last week "Caramel" by Sleep Token exiting the chart.

New Entries

Just the one new entry this week with...

50. "Sorry I'm Here for Someone Else" by Benson Boone

Look, I don't have a lot of time for Benson Boone's whiny gen z music and "Beautiful Things" remains an absolute abomination to this day and I cannot understand why that song is still taking up space in the top ten despite the song still being a caterwauling disaster and "Slow It Down" is also terrible however I will say that this song is slightly better in that Boone doesn't go down the path of obnoxiously caterwauling and this song does have a  nice melody and bassline to it even if Boone still sounds like a smug douche. Ehh, take it or leave.

No best or worst of the week.