Well it was coming, this is the week, the latest single from the new Ariana Grande album 'Thank U. Next" hit the charts and surprise, surprise, it's in straight at number 1 and when you add another song arriving in the top ten along with other songs debuting further down the chart, it was a busy week.
So let's get to that top ten and yes, like I mentioned Ariana Geande has her third Australian number one with "7 Rings" largely all due to the fact that she and her management have managed to come up with a release strategy that make every release seem like a massive event and with streaming numbers and the upcoming album drop, I expect this song to be number one for awhile despite the fact it is pretty damn awful (Ariana sounds terrible over trap music) and considered to be the worst song of her career.
The arrival of "7 Rings" pushed the better of the trap leaning songs, "Sunflower" by Post Malone and Swae Lee back to number two. It's still pretty strong but its getting blown away on streaming by "7 Rings"
It also pushed "Sweet but Psycho" by Ava Max to number 3, (her new single is due out in February by the way), Halsey's "Without Me" back to number 4, "Wow" by Post Malone back to number 5 and Ariana Grande's "Thank U, Next' back to number 6.
Mercifully the rest of the top ten looks better than most of the first half with "Nothing Breaks Like A Heart" by Mark Ronson and Miley Cyrus riding strong digital sales to rebound to number 7. "Shotgun" by George Ezra continues on it's way out gracefully down two places to number eight while "Eastside" by Benny Blanco feat. Halsey and Khalid is also down two places to number 9.
Finally a much welcome arrival to the top ten is "Dancing With a Stranger" by Sam Smith and Normani which climbed nine places to number ten...so happy about this one as it's an excellent song.
Gains
However despite the strong gain for "Dancing With a Stranger", it wasn't the biggest new arrival last week gaining traction with "Giant" by Calvin Harris feat. Rag 'n' Bone Man up 19 places to 28.
The only other major gain was for "3 Nights" by Dominic fike which jumped from 42 to 38....lovely, as that song is unadulterated garbage.
Re-Entry
What isn't garbage though is the one re-entry to the ARIA top 50 with "Before I Go" by Guy Sebastian back at 48. Now Australia, let's make it a HIT.
Losers
No surprise the biggest loser this week was "Imagine" by Ariana Grande which fell ten places to 49, it is only a promotional single and will probably rebound whenthe album is released.
"Perfect" by Ed Sheeran finally appears to be on the way out after 80 weeks on the chart after it fell from 41 to 47 (thank goodness). Anne Marie's '2002" dropped six places to 50.
It was also good to see utter crap like "Mo Bamba" by Sheck Wes dropped four places to 44. and awful bro country like "Day Drunk" by Morgan Evans dropped from 34 to 41, "In My mind" by Dynoro fell six places to 30 and "Love Someone" by Lukas Graham fell to 29 from 23.
Sadly, the hype from the film fading means Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" is down from 37 to 45.
Also on the sad side of things, Billie Eilish's "When the Party is over" slid from 26 to 31
Drop Outs
Not a lot to complain about here because of the 5 drop outs, four are utter crap.with 2017 crap like "Rockstar" by Post Malone and 21 Savage gone along with "I Fall Apart" also by Post Malone gone taking with it "Arms Around You" by XXXTentacion feat. Lil Pump, Maluma and Swae Lee and "This Feeling" by The Chainsmokers feat. Kelsea Ballerini,
The only song that was any good that left was "Lovely" by Billie Eilish and Khalid
New Entries
Apart from "7 Rings" by Ariana Grande entering at number one. "7 Minutes" by Dean Lewis ws the second biggest debut of the week at number 16.
5 Secomds of Summer's "Lie to Me" enters at 42 and "Hope by The Chainsmokers feat. Winona Oak arrives at 43.
I have no idea what to expect next week given there's usually some big gains following the Hoptttest 100. Pretty confident the number one from that countdown should enter the chart along with the new song for Dua Lipa but we'll find out on Saturday at 5pm AEDT.
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