So this week was weird mainly due to the Kanye album bomb falling back, we got a couple of new songs and a couple of songs that I really hope DO NOT gain more traction than they have already got but we'll get to all that.
Let's begin with our top ten where for a fourth week, "Youngblood" by 5 Seconds of Summer remains at number one and as I said last week, I don't see what is knocking it off given its incredibly dominant on streaming (it's got a massive streaming lead on Spotify).
At least it's keeping "Better Now" by Post Malone at number 2 for yet another week and it's going to overtake "Youngblood" any time soon.
The ever sterile and pandering "Girls Like You" by Maroon 5 and Cardi B climbed 2 places to number 3 yet again largely because they crammed the video with so many big names like Camila Cabello and others, Cardi B remains the best thing about this song and even she isn't on her A-game.
In welcome news, Selena Gomez broke into the top 5 at number 4 with "Back To You" jumping 3 places which is good news because I really still like it a lot.
The song that continues to grow on me drops two places to number 5 is "One Kiss" by Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa (Yes, I am over my angst at Calvin Harris dumping his funk era too early).
Amy Shark remains stuck at number 6 with "I Said Hi" while Ariana Grande lost her gains from last week to drop 3 places to number 7 with "No Tears Left to Cry". Grande has a new single called "The Light is Coming" feat. Nicki Minaj due out tomorrow.
Anne Marie's dated "2002" re-enters the top 10 at number 8 having jumped 3 spots.
Khalid and Normani's "Love Lies" drops one place to number 9, it's leaving the top 10 gracefully and yeah, it should make the year end list which I am intensely grateful for!
Now we get to the big story of the week with Kanye West breaking into the top 10 with "All Mine" at number 10.
Gains
It was mostly pretty ordinary to awful news on this front as most of the songs that gained ground aren't good.
The biggest gainer of the week was A.$.A.P Rocky's "Praise the Lord (Da Shine)" feat. Skepta which climbed from 47 to 34.
"Nevermind" by Dennis Lloyd broke into the top 20 jumping 5 places to 19 as did Post Malone impersonator Juice WRLD with "Lucid Dreams" jumping 7 places to 20.
However the worst news of the week is the inanely annoying and juvenile "Solo' by Clean Bandit and Demi Lovato jumped 11 places to 17, this song is almost a certainty to make my top ten worst songs of the year if it makes the ARIA year end list.
Noah Kahan is having his first big hit with "Hurt Somebody" jumping 5 places to 14.
Ed Sheeran's "Perfect" continues hang around and is fact the song that has stuck around longest on the top 50 jumping from 32 to 27
Drake jumped 10 places to 38 with "I'm Upset"...a song I didn't notice had gained a large amount of slots because it's a garbage song and Drake is capable of much better.
Re Entries
One song re-entered the chart this week that being "Somebody" by The Chainsmokers and Drew Love at number 50
Losers
Let's go through all the Kanye West Losers first with "Ghost Town" down to 30 from 22 and "Yikes" being the biggest faller of the week down to 33 from 18
The Weeknd slipped from 15 to 21 with "Call Out My Name" while Ed Sheeran's "Happier" slipped from 26 to 40.
The only other major loser being "IDGAF" by Dua Lipa slipping from 44 to 49 but it is on the way out and seems destined for the year end list anyway.
Drop Outs
Only two significant drop outs of the six that did drop out with 2017's biggest song "Shape of You" by Ed Sheeran dropping out after a mammoth 73 weeks on the ARIA chart and Kendrick Lamar and SZA's "All the Stars' falling out after 22 weeks.
The rest are Kanye songs from the album bomb with "Wouldn't Leave", Violent Crimes", "Thought about Killing You" and "No Mistakes" all gone.
New Entries
Peking Duk's "Reprisal" is the highest new entry of the week at number 35 (always nice to see an Australian act have the highest new entry of the week)
NOTD and Bea Miller finally enter the top 50 with "I Wanna Know" at number 44.
While Kanye's collaboration with Kid Cudi only netted one entry on the chart with Kids See Ghosts collab with Louis Prima "4th Dimension" entering at 46
Vance Joy enters the chart with the latest single from his album "Saturday Sun" at number 48.
Finally a song that I have been waiting to see arrive on the ARIA singles top 50 is Jess Glynne's "I'll Be There" which has gone number one in the UK but looks set to lose it to "Solo" (unfortunately). "I'll Be There" arrived at number 48 - would really love to see this become a hit as it's a great song.
Seems "Youngblood" has a hold on number one especially now that the 5 Seconds of Summer album has dropped and there maybe some potential for an album bomb from 5SOS but we could see some movement inside the top 5 with "Back to You" gaining plenty of traction but we'll see what happens when ARIA releases the chart for the week starting 25th June on Saturday at 5pm.
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