Thursday, 16 May 2019

ARIA singles top ten/chart review; 13th May: Shawn Mendes pondering not having you debuts at four

This week was turbulent to say the least and that't not even accounting for what may come next week when Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber's collaboration likely takes the number one spot however the turbulence this week wasn't at number one where "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X remains at the top for a fourth week.

Billie Eilish returned to number two on the back of consistent streaming with "Bad Guy" so much so it pushed "ME!" by Taylor Swift and Brendon Urie back to number three and like I said last week, I don't see "ME!" going to number one given the release schedule,

Then we hit the first of two new entries to debut inside the top ten, the first at number four from Canadian singer/song writer Shawn Mendes with "If I Can't Have You", now I expect this song to stick around in the top ten given it's consistent streaming

It resulted in the pushing back of "3 Nights" by Dominic Fike back one place to number five as a result. This song may just start to fall away soon.

Then we hit our second new arrival to the chart and the top ten, "Homicide" by Logic feat. Eminem at number six, unlike the Shawn Mendes song, I don't expect thisS to stay around in the top ten, Logic doesn't have that kind of traction in Australia...not yet anyway.

Much to my surprise "Sucker" by the Jonas Brothers jumped back up one place to number seven most likely because "Sunflower" by Post Malone and Swae Lee took a major hit to fall two places to number eight.

"SOS" by Avicii and Aloe Blacc remains steady at number nine while "Talk" by Khalid and Disclosure fell 5 places to number 10. Ow.

Gains

Not a lot of big gains this week, when the biggest is Billie Eilish's "My Strange Addiction" (Honestly songs from that album have stuck around pretty impressively well larely. She's got some staying power) up six places to 39 then it was a slow week overall.

Re-Entries

So for some unexplainable reason, "Better Now" by Post Malone is back at 46 because Post is currently on tour in Australia and apparently did a shoey but there's no discernible reason music quality wise that "Better Now" is back inside the top 50...it's not that good.

Losers

Unsurprisingly the week's biggest loser The Game of Thrones song "Power Is Power" by SZA featuring the Weeknd and Travis Scott down 13 to 43 but as for the rest of the chart, well there were a lot of small drops and things but nothing substantial apart from "Swervin'" by A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie and 6ix9ine tumbled six places to 50, the sooner this crap is gone the better.

Drop Outs

The drop outs are a strange mishmash of album songs, 2018 hits and a song that may well make the year end list.

Lets start with the album tracks that are gone like "All the Good Girls Go to Hell" by Billie Eilisish and "Hurts 2B Human" by Pink.

Then there's 2018 number one hits that left like "Youngblood" by 5 Seconds of Summer and "Shotgun" by George Ezra so the Australian public did act upon my wish last week.

Finally the other song to leave was "Middle Child" by J Cole and let's be honest here, I don't think anyone really cared it was on the chart in the first place.

New Entries

So apart from "If I Can't have You" by Shawn Mendes at number four and "Homicide" by Logic feat. Eminem at number six, we got the UK number one "Vossi Bop" by Stormzy debuting at 42 and Lizzo having a break out year with 2017 song "Treuth Hurts" debuting at 42.

I don't expect three of the four new arrivals to stick around but it certainly would be interesting if they did.

Anyway that wraps up the week and the chart braces for the impact of "I don't Care" by Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber, it's actually not really had a big runaway margins on streaming as some would believe this week but we'll find out on Saturday at 5pm AEST if Bieber and Sheeran have taken number one from Lil Nas X (there's a part of me that hopes they haven't just quietly)






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