I normally hate album bombs, they just mess the chart up in the worst way but honestly, I think the album bomb that struck this week courtesy of Billie Eilish's number one album "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go" made things interesting, cleared some deadwood and was rather historic because Eilish broke Ed Sheeran's record for the most songs inside the top ten, Sheeran's record was five songs when Divide had its own album bomb in 2017, Eilish smashed it with six songs reaching the top ten so let's get to that top ten.
"Bad Guy" by Billie Eilish is the new number one mostly courtesy of some massive streaming during the week. It's Eilish's first number one in Australia and probably won't be her last. If anything this confirms she is here to stay.
"Sucker" by the Jonas Brothers never a stood a chance of holding onto number one as it got blown back to number two.
Streaming was also a big factor for "Bury a Friend" by Billie Eilish leaping up from 13 to number 3 (which is good news as it will likely make my year end list).
"Wow" by Post Malone got pushed back two places to number four this week.
"Wish You Were Gay" by Billie Eilish jumped from 21 last week to number five this week courtesy of the album bomb.
The 2nd of the Post Malone songs "Sunflower" feat. Swae Lee dropped three places to number six.
Biggest gain of the week belongs to Billie Eilish with former top ten single "When the Party's Over" just racing from number 40 to number 7 because like other previous singles from Eilish, it benefitted from the album release.
"All Good Girls Go to Hell" by Billie Eilish debuts at number eighyt this week.
"3 Nights" by Dominic Fike drops 4 places to number nine after hitting number 5 last week, I expect this song to rebound when these Billie Eilish songs fade away next week.
Finally another Billie Eilish album track "Xanny" wraps up the top ten at number ten.
Gains
We are short in the gains department this week but for what gains we did get they are sizeable with Lil Nas X's US number 1 "Old Town Road" jumping from 47 to 18. Now this song will likely break into the top ten next week as it is doing very well on streaming and on digital sales plus it's got a remix with Billy Ray Cyrus of all people.
Then there's the big gain for "Someone You Loved" by Lewis Capaldi which went up 20 places from 46 to 26.
Re-Entry
The one return is "You Should See Me in a Crown" by Billie Eilish is back at number 16 because of the album release.
Losers.
So I am only going to cover the really BIG losses because A LOT of songs lost ground this week. with the biggest loss coming for "Giant" by Calvin Harris feat. Rag 'N' Bone man which stumbled big time down the beanstalk to 37 from 19.
"Sicko Mode" by Travis Scott feat. Drake slipped from 25 to 39 in a piece of good news while in some bad news, "Waiting" by Kian got a huge hit down to 36 from 24. J Cole's "Middle Child" slipped from 28 to 41.
Khalid's "My Bad" took a swipe down 12 to 30 while Halsey's "Without Me" slumped to 28 from 16. and "Eastside" by Benny Blanco feat. Khalid and Halsey dropped from 20 to 31
Dean Lewis pair of hits "Be Alright' slipped from 17 to 34 and "7 Minutes" from 10 to 25 as the momentum behind his album release stalls out
Even the album bomb took Pink's "Walk Me Home' down to 22 from 11.
Finally a song that will definitely make the year end, "Sweet But Psycho" slipped from 14 to 27.
Drop Outs
So let's go through all these drop outs, while I am sad to see "Leave Me Lonely" by Hilltop Hoods and 'Nothing Breaks Like A Heart" by Mark Ronson and Miley Cyrus gone. Both will most likely make year end list.
A 2018 pass off "Better Now" by Post Malone is also gone...Its one I don't expect to see back, same with "Confidence" by Ocean Alley (I'm amazed that song lasted as long as it did) and Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen.
The rest of these are mostly non starters that could be back next week like "Swervin" by A Boogie wit Da Hoodie and 6ix9ine, "Going Bad" by Meek Mill, "Please Me" by Bruno Mars and Cardi B and "11 Minutes" by Yungblud feat. Halsey and Travis Barker.
The only drop out I am puzzled by is "Lovely" by Khalid and Billie Eilish, would have thought name association would have been enough to keep that song on the chart but oh well.
New Entries
The majority of the nine new entries to the chart come from the Billie Eilish "When We All Fall Asleep Where do we go" album bomb with "Bad Guy" at number 1, "All Good Girls Go to Hell" at number 8" and "Xanny" at number 10, "My Strange Addiction" is in at number 12, "I Love You" breaks in to the top 20 at number 20, "Ilomilo" at number 23, "Listen Before I Go" at number 29 and "8" at number 35.
Finally, the only non Billie Eilish new entry comes from Australian band Birds of Tokyo with "Good Lord" arriving at number 48.
Wow. What a week. I am not expecting an album bomb from Khalid but I have no idea if Eilish can hang on to number one or whether "Old Town Road" can surpass everything else in its path to take number one. We'll see on Saturday at 5pm
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