This week had a whole pile of instability largely triggered due to the death of US rapper XXXtentacion and most of the rest of Kanye West's album 'ye" falling off the chart and with Drake dropping his album on Friday, the instability is likely to continue.
However this instability didn't affect top spot with 5 Seconds of Summer's "Youngblood" remaining at number one for a 5th week due to of course the album drop and the song being pretty strong right across the board.
It's closest competition is Canadian number one "Girls Like You" by Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B at number 2 and really, it's a not a surprise considering it's still doing well right across the board but on an album release week for 5SOS, it was never going to match "Youngblood"
However what it did do was push "Better Now" by Post Malone back to number 3, largely because still doesn't have an official music video and it looks as though Post is going to push "Ball for Me" with Nicki Minaj as a single.
Anne-Marie continues her surprisingly successful 2018 with "2002" shooting up 4 places into the top 5 at number 4.
Ariana Grande jumps two places back to number 5 with "No Tears Left to Cry" but I'd suggest that that climb would be on the back of weaknesses of other songs given "Back to You" by Selena Gomez surprisingly dropped two places to number 6 and "One Kiss" by Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa also fell two to number 7.
Look, it will be gone next week (I hope) but XXXtentacion's death meant that "Sad!" re-entered the top ten at number 8.
Unfortunately Amy Shark's "I Said Hi" fell 3 places to number 9...that said this song will get a boost when Shark's album "Love Monster" is released on July 13.
Rounding out the top ten is "Love Lies" by Khalid and Normani after a respectable run in the top ten.
Gains
Probably not surprising given they were given a big promotional boost by playing at the NRL's State of Origin game 1, Peking Duk's "Reprisal" jumped 15 places to jump into the top 20 at number 20.
"Solo" by Clean Bandit and Demi Lovato rose 5 places to 12, it looks likely to be the song to break into the top ten when XXXtentacion exits. (sigh).
"Lucid Dreams" by Juice WRLD jumped 6 places to 14 becaue we need a Post Malone impersonator doing well right now.
"I Wanna Know" by NOTD and Bea Miller rose to 36 off the debut last week
Re-entries
So what else re-entered apart from "Sad!", the other XXXtentacion song was "Changes" at 34.
Calum Scott has the other two of this week's returns with "You are the Reason" at 37 and "Dancing On My Own" at 49,
Losers
With the large amount of new entries, there had to be some big losers and none were bigger than "Youth" by Shawn Mendes and Khalid collapsing to 45 from 29, it was not a good week for Shawn because "In My Blood" also collapsed ten places to 32.
Childish Gambino is on his way to Australia soon but "This is America" headed down ten places to 22,
Noah Kahan's "Hurt Somebody" with Julia Michaels slipped to 25 from 14.
"Friends" by Marshmello and Anne-Marie fell from 28 to 42 and the awful "Meant to Be" by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line is also on the way out having slipped from 39 to 47 (GOOD!) but both these two songs will make the year end list anyway...unfortunately.
Drop Outs.
Let's deal with what will likely end up making the year end list so that's "Freaky Friday" by Lil Dicky and Chris Brown, "These Days" by Rudimental feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen and "IDGAF" by Dua Lipa, all will probably make the year end list which is good for me as I do like both "These Days" and "IDGAF"
Also gone but unlikely to make year end list is "Yikes" by Kanye West, "Nothing to Regret" by Robinson and "Playinwitme" by Kyle and Kehlani.
Debuts last week gone are "Saturday Sun" by Vance Joy, "Fourth Dimension" by Kids See Ghosts and Louis Prima and "I'll Be There' by Jess Glynne.
New Entries
We got a lot of new entries the highest debut went to "Bed" by Nicki Minaj feat. Ariana Grande at 17. Martin Garrix new single with Khalid "Ocean" debuts at 23.
The lesser of the two Kygo songs on the chart, "Born to Be Yours" with Imagine Dragons arrived at 33. (It's okay but its a reason to remember why "Remind Me to Forget" with Miguel is a zillion times better)
"Dance to This" by Troye Sivan and Ariana Grande debuts at 39. I'll explain more soon but I really hope we see the back of this song sooner than later.
Entering at number 41 is the best song of the new arrivals, "Healing Hands" by Conrad Sewell.
Finally..."Jackie Chan" by Tiesto feat, Dzeko, Preme and Post Malone arrives at 44.
So that was the week and well, we might get a relatively quiet chart this Saturday when the charrs are revealed, I hope so given Drake is likely coming to cause a complete chart meltdown soon.
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