So little happened this week that I was wondering if I should even bother with this this week but then I saw we had interesting things happen lower down the chart including the arrival of a fantastic song by an Australian band on the chart.
The one song to leave the top 10 was "What Lovers Do" by Maroon 5 and SZA (good, not a fan of it at all. It's not the worst Maroon 5 song by any stretch but still it's not good)
For a second week "Perfect" and it's various remixes by Ed Sheeran featuring Beyonce and Andrea Boccelli remains at number one and right now I think it's pretty much a lock to hold number one over the Christmas/New Year period.
Former chart toppers "Havana" by Camila Cabello remains at number 2 and "Rockstar" by Post Malone and 21 Savage (although I note that "Rockstar" recently got a Spanish remix which features Nicky Jam).
"I Fall Apart" by Post Malone stays at number 4 while "Silence" by Marshmello and Khalid spends another week at number 5
"Meant to be" by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line jumped two places to number six. There's real potential for this song to bust open the top 5 here which while the song isn't all that good, it'd be nice because that top 5 has felt stagnant lately.
"Let You Down" by NF remains at number 7 for a second week,
"Wolves" by Marshmello and Selena Gomez pretty much swapped with "Meant to be" by falling two places to number 8.
"Young, Dumb and Broke" by Khalid remains at number 9.
Returning to the top 10 with four place climb is "Feel It Still" by Portugal, The Man at number 10.
The biggest gainer this week was "Him & I" by G-Eazy and Halsey which jumped from 37 to 25...quite why I don't know.
In good Australian music news, Pnau had a jump of ten places to number 21 with "Go Bang" meanwhile former number 1 "Shape Of You" continues to climb back up the chart, it's at number 22. Big Shaq's "Man Not Hot" jumped from 33 to 28 while for some unexplained reason "Humble" by Kendrick Lamar leaped from 46 to 37 (it's a good song but really?).
A lot of songs took falls this week with "Mi Gente" by J. Balvin and Willy William slipping from 40 to 49 (Good, the sooner that song is gone the better). Songs like "Glorious" by Macklemore and Skylar Grey at 27, "I Like Me Better" by Lauv at 26, the "Homemade Dynamite" remix by Lorde, Khalid, SZA and Post Malone at 30 all took 4 place drops.
As for the drop outs, bit disappointed to be losing "Walk on Water" by Eminem feat. Beyonce and "Lay It On Me" by Vance Joy but I guess if they are taking "Bad at Love" by Halsey with them, it kind makes it okay...I guess.
So what replaced them? The highest new entry to the top 50 this week was the piano ballad "You are the reason" by Calum Scott at number 36 and in news I mentioned at the beginning of this blog, Aussie band Sheppard have another hit on the ARIA chart with "Coming Home" at number 43 (seriously Austrtalia, stream or buy or watch the video, we need this to do well).
Outside of the top 50? Well...Camila Cabello's new single "Never Be the Same" arrived at number 52 while Morgan Evans song about marriage "I Do" entered at 72.
The news wasn't as good on the re-entries because the lone re-entry to the top 50 was Taylor Swift's "...Ready for It?" most probably due to a remix of the song with BloodPop.
Re-entries outside of the top 50 were "Last Christmas" by Wham at 55 (unsurprisingly) and "Chameleon" by Pnau at 95.
Now I am going leave you with a hit pick from the United States Billboard Hot 100, it only entered the chart there last week but this song deserves your attention. Former American Idol winner Scotty McCreery has released a new single called "Five More Minutes" and it is absolutely stunning, we need to make this song a hit in Australia, please? If we can make the absolute worst of country music (Hi Sam Hunt) a hit, we can also make one of best country songs hit too.
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