This week served up a colossal fall out from the predictable fact that most of the Macklemore and The Killers songs fell out of the chart, it was just matter of what was going to replace them and wow the chart went a little mental.
We lost not only "Same Love" by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis featuring Mary Lambert which dropped out of the top 50 altogether because the controversy over that died but also "1-800-273-8255" by Logic featuring Alessia Cara and Khalid which dropped from 7 to 11 and "Thunder" by Imagine Dragons which finally dropped out of the top 10 after peaking at number 2 earlier this year.
So what replaced all that inside the top 10? Let's find out.
Of course, there's no change at number 1 with "rockstar" by Post Malone and 21 Savage number 1 for a third week. (It's not the worst song but I am not quite seeing it's appeal).
At number 2 is Camila Cabello with 'Havana" which climbed up six spots to be Cabello's most successful song in Australia to date and outchart 5th Harmony's most successful song in Australia "Work From Home" which peaked at number 3 last year. "Havana" is a halfway decent song, happy to see it in the top 5.
Macklemore and Skylar Gray dropped back to number 3 with "Glorious"
Ed Sheeran has a broken arm after being hit by a car in London while on his bike meanwhile "Perfect" is this week's biggest gainer, it rose from 19 to number 4.
The next two songs "Too Good at Goodbyes" by Sam Smith and "Dusk til Dawn" by Zayn and Sia remain at five and six respectively.
Dua Lipa's "New Rules" bore the brunt of the fall out this week with that song dropping from 3 to 7 this week.
Khalid is an early favourite to snare a Grammy nomination for best new artist which is not surprising considering "Young, Dumb and Broke" continues to climb the chart, it sits at number 8 this week.
Portugal. The Man continue their shock success with "Feel It Still" rising from 15 to number 9. It's predicted it will reach number 6 in the US this week.
Rounding up the top 10 is "Good old days" by Macklemore and Kesha which climbed 6 places to number 10.
So as I mentioned before Ed Sheeran's "Perfect" is the biggest gainer this week but next week I am expecting Pink's "What About Us" to return to the top 10 with the "Beautiful Trauma" album drop, it regained much of it's lost ground to jump from 17 to 12. "What Lovers Do" by Maroon 5 and SZA jumped to 17 from 21 last week. "Too Mjuch to Ask" by Niall Horan to 31 and "Homemade Dynamite" by Lorde, Khalid, SZA and Pos Malone to 32.
The biggest loser this week was Demi Lovato's "Sorry Not sorry" which slipped from 13 to 20, "Humble" by Kendrick Lamar slipped from 30 to 36, "Lay It On Me" by Vance Joy went back to 28 from 24.
As for the new entries, they are interesting, the success of "rockstar" has seen the arrival of "I Fall Apart" by Post Malone at 26 as the chart's highest new entry. Halsey's "Bad at Love" enters at number 42, another Pink album track "Whatever You Want" lands at 44, "Pray' by Sam Smith enters at 45, Charlie Puth's decent "How Long" arrives at number 47 and the last of the new entries in the top 50 is current US number one "Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)" by Cardi B at 48.
New entries to the top 100 include "Mystik" by Tash Sultana at 77 (check that song out, it is brilliant), "Help Me Out" by Maroon 5 and Julia Michaels at 83 and "Gucci Gang" by Lil Pump at 91.
As for the drop outs, apart from the Macklemore and The Killers songs, "...Ready for it?" by Taylor Swift (apparently a new single on the way soon), significantly "Slow Hands" by Niall Horan (done enough to make the year end top 100 so not that worried), "Most Girls" by Hailee Steinfeld and "2U" by David Guetta and Justin Bieber.
Whew, we should get a bit of a comedown week so expecting a fourth week at number one for "rockstar" or can "Havana" challenge it? We'll see on Saturday when ARIA reveal the charts.
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