ARIA Top 10/Chart Review: 5th March. Post Malone racks up another hit

So this week was a pretty normal one by the standard of the ARIA chart, sure we got a new entry debuting rather high in the top ten and some movement up and down the chart but nothing greatly unusual. 

Of course we start with the top ten and there's no change at the top with "God's Plan" by Drake at number one for a fifth week and I don't see anything knocking it off at the moment

Then we get to the new entry at number 2, "Psycho" by Post Malone feat. Ty Dolla $ign. Post Malone's third top 10 hit in Australia and Ty Dolla $ign's 2nd (he was on the horrid Fifth Harmony song "Work from Home" in 2016). 

The arrival of "Psycho" pushed "All The Stars" by Kendrick Lamar and SZA back to number 3 and "These Days" by Rudimental, Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen back to number 4.

"Meant to Be" by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line slipped one back to number 5.

A song that is actually climbing the chart though is Dua Lipa's "IDGAF" which climbed one place to number 6 and with Dua in Australia at the moment, I suspect that this song might well be propelled into the top 5 which I wouldn't mind at all because it's a good song.

Post Malone's other top ten hit "I Fall Apart" finally fell out of the top 5 to number 7 while "River" by Eminem feat. Ed Sheeran fell two places to number 8. 

"Pray for Me" by The Weekend and Kendrick Lamar pushed further into the top 10 jumping one place to number 9.

"Perfect" by Ed Sheeran fell two places to number 10 and looks likely to be gone from the top ten soon. Good.

Gains

The arrival of Vance Joy's "Nation of Two" album saw "We're Going Home" jump from 31 to 16 (just a pity the album is getting critically panned and sadly I kind have to agree...it's not a good album at all) in what was the biggest move of the week.

"Friends" by Marshmello and Anne Marie jumped from 22 to 13. "Love Lies" by Khalid and Normani went to 19 from 29. 

Possibly because Ed Sheeran is in Australia, "Shape Of You" continues to hang around, it jumped 4 places to 34. It has now spent 60 weeks on the Australian chart. LONGEVITY, MAN!

"Capital Letters" by Hailee Steinfeld and Bloodpop also jumped off the back of it's debut last week, it went to 39.

Re- Entries

There was one re-entry to the top 50 with Vance Joy's "Lay It On Me" returning off the back of the release of the new album. 

As for the top 100? Well, "Supermarket Flowers" by Ed Sheeran returned at 77 because it looks like being Ed's new single from "Divide"

Losses

Biggest loser of the week was "Silence" by Marshmello and Khalid which fell 10 places to 27, Others that are losing ground include "Havana" by Camila Cabello feat. Sex formerly known as Young Thug fell to 26, "Go Bang" by Pnau" 23 and "Let Me Go" by Hailee Steinfeld feat. Alesso and Watt which fell to 33.

What was surprising was the sudden big drop to 18 for "Finesse by Bruno Mars feat. Cardi B. 

Also falling are "What Lovers Do" by Maroon 5 feat. SZA from 33 to 40, "Young, Dumb and Broke" by Khalid to 44 from 36 and "Thunder" by Imagine Dragons from 39 to 46.

Drop Outs

The drop outs are a little surprising this week and when I say surprising I mean "Think About You" by Delta Goodrem is gone after just one week, the song isn't all that bad so am rather surprised it didn't stick around.

Of the others to go the only significant one is "Good Old days" by Macklemore and Kesha which peaked at number 8 and remained on the chart for 22 weeks. It's the only song that could potentially make the year end list of this lot of drop outs

The Chainsmokers "Sick Boy" exits after 5 weeks on the charts after really being a complete non starter of the song.

The final drop out is "Numb" by Hayden James and Graace which exited after 4 weeks. 

New Entries

There were two other new entries to the top 50 besides "Psycho", both being pretty damn awful. "Want You Back" by 5 Seconds of Summer arrives at 32 and "Look Alive" by BlocBoy JB and Drake at number 36.

Outside the top 50? The highest of the new entries is Logic's "44 More" at number 85, Maroon 5's sterile "Wait" arrives at number 91 (I hope to god that it doesn't become a hit) and Imagine Dragons reasonably good "Next to Me" at 96.

So that wraps up the ARIA Singles chart review for this week and my god I am not looking forward to next week's chart, the arrivals of both Meghan Trainor and DJ Khaled's new songs, you will find out what I think of both"No Excuses" and "Top Off" in New Music Friday Review.