So yet again another pretty quiet week apart from the new entries most of which I doubt will stick around and were mostly low enough to not really have much impact except for one song which we'll get to in our top ten where for a seventeenth week, "Dance Monkey" by Tones and I stays at number one and yet again I have no idea what the hell is going to top it unless Adele finally comes the hell out of nowhere in the last few weeks of 2019.
"Dance Monkey" did enough on streaming and sales to ensure that "Everything I Wanted" by Billie Eilish debuted at number two but I don't see this sticking around as it's leaking on streaming and sales, Billie's song unfortunately tend to debut high but don't stay high.
I also don't see "Roxanne" by Arizona Zevas back to number three getting close to number one because while streaming is excellent, sales are atrocious and there's only so much time that streaming will hang around especially when the next idiotic trap song comes along.
Billie Eilish's arrival also pushed "Memories" by Maroon 5 back two places to number four, thank you so much, Billie!. Probably means this song will not make a play for number one now.
In fact most of the rest of the top ten were also pushed back by "Everything I Wanted" with "Ride It" by Regard dropping two places to number five and "Circles" by Post Malone back two to number six,
Lizzo's "Good As Hell" clung on to number seven while Dua Lipa dropped two places to number eight with "Don't Start Now" but I expect this song to get an ARIA awards performance based boost this week.
Selena Gomez is in the firing line over her American Music Awards performance as the mediocre "Lose You to Love Me" dropped one place to number 9.
Finally, Tones and I's second song in the top ten "Never Seen the Rain" remains stuck at number ten mostly because streaming is letting it down.
Gains
The biggest gain of the week belongs to Taylor Swift's "Lover" rose from 43 to 13 thanks to the Shawn Mendes remix but beyond that? "Lights Up" by Harry Styles moved up from 31 to 27 mostly because of something in our new entries that we'll get to.
Losers
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Kanye West had a bad week as "Follow God" was the biggest loser of the week as it tumbled hard to 31, he has unfortunately made his love song to controversial American fast food chain Chick-Fil-A the next single and the video is pretty terrible.
What is also unfortunate is that "Motivation" by Normani is down to 41...this song just hasn't taken off the way it should have and I am not sure why. Lil Nas X's "Panini" fell to 48.
Drop Outs
Look I am not really complaining too much here especially when we've lost shitty TikTok crap "Ran$om" by Lil Tecca (will make the year end list sadly), the horrendous "Look at Her Now" by Selena Gomez which may as well have been made on TikTok and Diplo's continued failure at ripping off country with "Lonely" feat. the Jonas Brothers ( who have spent 2019 being mediocre to awful)
Really only said to see "Trigger" by Major Lazer featuring Khalid and :"Choir" by Guy Seastian gone but with the latter's song of the year win at the ARIAs, I expect to see it's return next week.
New Entries
So apart from "Everything I wanted" by Billie Eilish at number two, we got Harry Styles promo single "Watermelon Sugar" at number 38.
Controversial Western Sydney Youtube rap group OneFour land "In the Beginning at number 39.
Lauv returns with LANY in tow for the underwhelming "Mean It" which debuts at 42 and finally Martin Garrix has collaborated with Dean Lewis for "Used to Love" debuting at 46.
So that's the week, I am not sure what to expect with boosts for artists who performed at the ARIAs, we'll have to wait and see. The chart updates at 5pm on Saturday
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