Things pretty much returned to their normal state following the Christmas/New Years break with the Christmas songs basically falling out of the chart, the race was on to replace them so every went up pretty much with a few exceptions.
One song did drop out of the top 10 and out of the chart all together, that song was "All I want for Christmas is You" by Mariah Carey from number 6.
It's fifth week at number one for "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran and its associated remixes with Beyonce and Andrea Boccelli and really things are starting to look a bit uncertain with a few big songs that seem destined for the top ten.
"Havana" by Camila Cabello feat. Young Thug remains steady at number 2 but it seems unlikely now that this song will return to number one.
Eminem has announced he will be dropping a new single from "Revival" called "Chloraseptic Remix" featuring Phresher and 2Chainz but in the meantime his collab with Ed Sheeran "River" remains at number 3.
A song that refuses to go away is "I Fall Apart" by Post Malone which climbed one place to number 4.
"Silence" by Marshmello feat. Khalid regained lost ground to return to the top 5 at number 5.
Post Malone's former chart topper "Rockstar" looks to be finally heading toward the top ten exit after dropping two places to number 6.
Faux country pop song "Meant to be" by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line is blowing up big on Australian iTunes right now so expect that to make a big move toward the top 5.
Going against everything I said last week about these two songs, they are both up one place, NF's "Let You Down" at number 8 and "Wolves" Marshmellow and Selena Gomez at number nine
Up three places to return to the top 10 was "Feel it Still" by Portugal, the Man.
It all honestly feels very precarious so we could see a few new songs (I'll talk about Justin Timberlake's new song during New Music Friday which is back for 2018) in the top ten next week.
The greatest gain on the chart this week is 2017's biggest selling song of 2017 in Australia according to ARIA, "Shape Of You" climbed 10 spots to break back into the top 20 at number 19.
Now given there was a lot of songs that gained this week, I am only going to mention the big gainers which include PNAU's "Go Bang" which went from 19 to 13 and be the biggest Australian song on the chart, "I Miss You" by Clean Bandit and Julia Michaels jumped from 31 to 25, "Humble" by Kendrick Lamar climbed from 40 to 33 even "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee and the remix with Justin Bieber climbed from 42 to 36!.
The greatest loser this week was Pink's "What About Us" which dropped from 39 to 46 but other than that there were no significant losers.
Three songs did re-enter the chart this week, the best of those being "Lay It On Me" by Vance Joy at number 44, "Stargazing" by Kygo feat. Justin Jesso and (unfortunately) "Mi Gente" by J Balvin and Willy William (that song is just bad news, I still don't see it's appeal)
Re-entries in the top 100: "Uptown Funk" by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars at number 87 (quite remarkable considering that song is a 2015 smash), "Never be Like You" by Flume feat. Kai at number 90 and the excellent "That's What I Like" by Bruno Mars at number 96
As for new entries to the top 50: "This is Me" by Keala Settle and The Greatest Showman ensemble arrived in the top 50 at number 34 and "Cola" by Camelphat and Elderbook arrived at number 48 (that song has been huge in Europe so not a surprise to see it here)
As for new songs in the top 100? Well The Greatest Showman looks like it's having a significant impact with "Rewrite the Stars" by Zac Efron feat Zendaya entering at 59 and "The Greatest Show" by Hugh Jackman, Keala Settle, Zac Efron, Zendaya and The Greatest Showman ensemble at number 68. Tyron Hapi feat. Mimoza rounds out the new entries at 89 with "Anyway"
The drop outs...I have already mentioned that "All I want for Christmas" by Mariah Carey is gone, so to is Wham's "Last Christmas (Not a surprise with the Christmas season over), "You are the Reason" by Calum Scott and two songs that re-entered last week "Believer" by Imagine Dragons and "Galway Girl" by Ed Sheeran.
So we've got a week with Justin Timberlake, Bruno Mars teaming up with Cardi B and the new soundtrack song from the 50 Shades of Grey sound track by Liam Payne and Rita Ora. I will tell you what I think of them on New Music Friday and also hopefully soon my best hit songs of 2017.
Will we see a big change on the ARIA charts? We'll find out on Saturday!
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