So this week feels more transitional, we lost the Christmas songs replaced by drips and drops of whatever happened to drop out in previous weeks and in amidst all of that, we have a new number one.
That new number one is as I predicted last week that being. "Sunflower" by Post Malone feat. Swae Lee, it's Post Malone's third number one in Australia and Swae-Lee's first. Interesting, Post has yet to go number one on a song by himself (the closest he got was in 2017 with "I Fall Apart" reaching number 2 in January last year, blocked by Ed Sheeran's "Perfect") and it's not the last we'll hear of Post Malone in this top ten either.
Ava Max is our new number two with "Sweet But Psycho" jumping one place and is looking the main threat to the new number one at the moment
All this leaves "Thank U, Next" by Ariana Grande in an awkward spot as its sales and streaming drop off until Ariana releases this new album of hers.
"Shotgun" by George Ezra continues to be wildly popular as it jumped two places to number four..
The new US number one "Without Me" by Halsey also jumped two places to number five. Mercifully I don't expect this song to go number one in Australia.
We have a new entry at number six...a song so blissfully stupid but yet pulls off a decent melody and beat, "Wow" by Post Malone at number six.
"Shallow" by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper won big at the Golden Globes and continues to hang around in the top ten jumping two places to number seven.
Mark Ronson and Miley Cyrus are back in the top ten with "Nothing Breaks like a Heart" up three places to number eight.
"Eastside" by Benny Blanco feat. Halsey and Khalid also continued to be a top ten mainstay by jumping from 13 to number 9.
Finally "Sicko Mode" by Travis Scott rounds up the top ten by jumping two places to number ten.
Gains
I'm going to rattle through the biggest gainers because there were plenty this week with all the Christmas songs gone, the biggest of those was "Ruin My Life" by Zara Larsson ( a song that is utterly forgettable) jumped back up from 50 to 34.
"Promises" by Calvin Harris and Sam Smith broke back into the top 20 jumping ten places from 27 to 17. "1999" by Charli XCX and Troye Sivan finally broke into the the top twenty by jumping ten places to number 18.
Unfortunately the exit of the Christmas songs meant the bro country stylings of Morgan Evans went up nine places to 27.
"Rise" by Jack and Jack also went up nine spots to 30.
Re-entries
Rightio, there's plenty of these this week beginning at number 32 with "Close to Me" by Ellie Goulding feat. Diplo and Swae Lee back at 32.
"Saturday Nights" by Khalid returns at 37 bringing with it "Lost in Japan" by Shawn Mendes.
Not welcome but back anyway is "Mo Bamba" by Sheck Wes at 40, I cannot believe people like nonsense that is out of tune....GET IT OUT OF THE CHARTS!'.
Also back are left overs from last year including "God's Plan" by Drake at 41 "In My Feelings" by Drake at 48, "2002" by Anne-Marie at 42, "I Like it" by Cardi B feat. Bad Bunny and J Balvin at number 44, "Lucid Dreams" by Juice WRLD (he features on a remix of Halsey's "Without Me"....sigh), "This Feeling" by The Chainsmokers feat. Kelsea Ballerini at 47 and "I Love It' by Kanye West and Lil Pump. Most of these songs I had hoped to leave behind in 2018.
Finally and more strangely are two 2017 left overs that I don't think willl stay around but you never know with "Rockstar by Post Malone feat. 21 Savage at 45 and "Shape Of You" by Ed Sheeran at 49.
Losers
The only major loser was Ariana Grande's "Imagine" which fell six places to 28.
Drop Outs
Not really much to say here other than that ALL the drop outs were Christmas songs.
New Entries
Just the one new entry that I've already mentioned, "Wow" by Post Malone at number six.
Have a feeling "Sunflower" will spend a second week at number one but we'll find out when the chart updates on Saturday at 5pm AEDT
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