So the weeks post an album bomb are usually the most interesting ones, how much of the album bomb sticks around and falls out and what rushes in replace what departs from the chart and the results were interesting to say the least and we got a new entry debuting in the top ten but we'll get to that in a second
After a two week break with Ariana Grande and Post Malone each spending a week at the top, Drake returns for another week at number one with "Nice For What?". The last couple of weeks have seen some real instability on the charts, hopefully that continues!
Post Malone does sit at number two but it's with "Better Now", the only Post Malone song to gain ground post the album bomb with a 2 spot gain.
Ariana Grande continues to sit at number 3 with "No Tears Left to Cry", it is a chance of returning to the top of charts though.
Current British number one "One Kiss" by Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa climbed one spot to number 5 (Going on current trends it will go very close to number 1).
"Psycho" by Post Malone and Ty Dolla $ign fell 4 places last week to number 5. Predictable really following the album bomb. Hard to tell now if people will just focus on "Better Now" or if this will rebound (I hope it doesn't)
The terrific "Love Lies" by Khalid and Normani continues to hang around spending a second week at number 6.
Now we get to the highest new entry of the week at number 7 with the US number one this week "This Is America" by Childish Gambino (looks likely to be a long term US number one too), this could well be a major player for number one on the Australian charts give or take a few weeks.
The worst song inside the top ten at the moment remains stinking it up at number 8 "Freaky Friday" by Lil Dicky and Chris Brown. Come on, Australia, I want this song gone.
At number nine, we got a minor miracle with an Australian song breaking into the top ten and being the biggest gain this week with 5 Seconds of Summer's "Youngblood" jumping from 24 to 9 which is great because it's a million times better than "Want You Back"
Round out the top ten is The Weeknd's "Call Out My Name" which had a 3 place drop to number 10.
Gains
I have already mentioned our biggest gain being in the top ten so beyond that...well...there's good news for Amy Shark with "I Said Hi" jumping from 28 to 13!.
Another song that I really love in "Remind Me to Forget" by Kygo and Miguel climbed from 33 to 21, unfortunately it brought along the not so good "2002" by Anne-Marie which jumped from 35 to 24.
"Nothing to Regret" by Robinson jumped ten places to 28, "1950" by King Princess jumped from 47 to 35. More good news really as I like both songs.
I can't say that about "Look Alive" by BlocBoy JB and Drake which jumped from 50 to 42 but they all can't be good.
Re-Entries
As you can imagine there were several re-entries with "OTW" by Khalid feat, Ty Dolla $ign and 6Lack at number 39
"This Is Me" by Keala Settle and the Greatest Showman Ensemble returned at 45 and Ed Sheeran's "Shape Of You" returned for what's likely to be it's 69th and final week in top 50 at number 48.
Losers
So let's deal with all the Post Malone songs that fell hard first, the biggest loser of the week was "Rich & Sad" which fell to 44 from 21, "Spoil My Night" with Swae Lee to 40 from 19, "Over Now" to 50 from 27, "Ball For Me" with Nicki Minaj down to 30 from 14, "Stay" fell from 30 to 43, "Paranoid" dropped from 10 to 26 and finally former chart topper "Rockstar" with 21 Savage fell from 12 to 17.
Kendrick Lamar also saw "All the Stars" with SZA drop from 18 to 23 and Zayn's "Let Me" continues to be a non-starter slipping to 47 (I guess people really aren't keen on that cringy opening line.
Drop Outs
The only two non Post Malone songs to drop out were "KOD" by J Cole and the only real significant drop out "River" by Eminem and Ed Sheeran which spent 20 weeks on the chart.
The Post Malone songs to go were "Same Bitches" with G-Eazy and YG, "Zack and Codeine", "Takin' Shots", "Otherside", "Blame it on Me" and "92 Explorer"
New Entries
So apart from Childish Gambino debuting inside the top ten what else arrived, well most of it's good news because apart from Sia and David Guetta's overproduced "Flames" which broke into the top 20 at number 19, most of the new entries are pretty solid to excellent.
Shawn Mendes entered at 27 with his collaboration with Khalid "Youth" (Shawn deserves better chartm he has released three good songs and the Australian public isn't rewarding him, SHAME!)
Speaking of Khalid, he appears with Billie Eilish with "Lovely" debuting at 32,
Finally, Troye Sivan's "Bloom" blooms for the first time at 34.
So with an array of new singles due to enter the chart this week including the new one from Selena Gomez, the chart is going to have another week of instability ahead.
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