So on the surface of things, the chart looks pretty good but when I looked beyond the top ten this week and saw the slew of absolute dirge rising or new this week, I was left with a bad feeling, it got ugly this week but as I said let's start with the top ten which isn't so bad.
"Dance Monkey" by Tones and I spends a second week at number one and really with the moster streaming sales, I don't expect this song to lose number one any time soon, it fended off former number one "Senorita" by Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello which regained one place to number 2 with solid streaming and sales.
This pushed the likely biggest song of the year "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X back to number three as streaming continues to die for this song so once the digital sales follow suit, this will be gone sooner rather than later.
Then we have the biggest new entry of the week that being "Boyfriend" by Ariana Grande and Social House at number four. Now I can't help but feel as thugh there's a little bit of Ariana exhaustion creeping in here...yeah it still had good sales and streaming but I think Ariana and her management might be a little disappointed.
"Beautiful People' by Ed Sheeran and Khalid continued to remain steady at number 5 as "Bad Guy" by Billie Eilish dropped to number 6 (there's a new Billie Eilish single from "When We All Fall Asleep, where do we go" on the way)
"Goodbyes" by Post Malone and Young Thug dropped one place to number seven. Post Malone confirmed last week that his third album would be dropping in September and the second single called "Circles from that album would drop this week (Check out the teaser for that song too).
The second of the Ed Sheeran songs "I Don't Care" feat. Justin Bieber dropped one place to number eight while "The Git Up" by Blanco Brown rose 1 place to number nine.
"Piece of Your Heart" by Meduza and Goodboys round out this week's top ten having dropped two places to number ten.
Gains
So the gains this week start off pretty good with the biggest being "Never Seen the Rain" by Tones and I rising from 32 to 24 this week, "Higher Love" by Kygo and Whitney Houston up seven places to 21 and "Shallow" by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper rebounding back up to 39.
Jessica Mauboy's "Little Things" jumped up seven places to 33.
But the good news is interupted because up six places to 14 is "No Guidance" by Chris Brow and Drake..who the hell wants that song while the atrocious "One Thing Right" by Marshmello feat. Kane Brown is up three places to 15.
Losers
Despite it being her best song of the "Lover" era so far "The Archer by Taylor Swift fell hard off it's debut last week dropping from 19 to 45. Not surprising though as it's not an official single from the album and isn't going to be getting a video.
Also dropping hard was "Don't Check on Me" by Chris Brown and Justin Bieber which dropped from 36 to 49 which is good news.
Not good news was the sudden fall of "Woke up Late" by Drax Project and Hailee Steinfeld which fell from 38 to 47 this week but even more surprisingly was that "Antisocial" by Ed Sheeran feat. Travis Scott dropped ten places to 31.
Drop Outs
The drop outs aren't worth worrying about with "Mother's Daughter" by Miley Cyrus, "Don't Give Up On Me" by Andy Grammer and "The London" by Young Thug feat. J Cole and Travis Scott all gone with only "The London" possibly making the year end list and most likely my worst hits of the year list.
New Entries
There were two other new entries alongside Ariana Grande and Social House this week with the first being the pretty unfortunately bad "F*** I'm Lonely" by Lauv and Anne-Marie at number 37 and the other new entry being Bazzi's pretty solid "I.F.L,Y" which enters at number 48 to wrap up the week.
I don't see anything challenging "Dance Monkey" for the number one spot but as usual the chart updates at 5pm AEST on Saturday.
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