ARIA Singles Chart Top Ten/ Chart Review: 9th March

So this week is an odd one mostly because there was changes to the top ten this week (one of them being disappointing in the extreme) except for our top four starting with our number one "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd which is still dominant on streaming and on sales, I can see this staying at number one for another few weeks yet as Dua Lipa's "Don't Start Now" which remained at number two but while it was gaining ground on streaming, it has started bleeding on sales.

"Intentions' by Justin Bieber and Quavo continues to make a pest of itself by remaining at number three because it's got strength on streaming and sales...Ewww. The sooner this falls off the better, people really wanted Bieber singing about intending to treat his wife like his property as hit?

"Dance Monkey" by Tones and I remains at number four because of still incredibly good sales but streaming is bleeding so expect this to take a hit next week which opens the way for "You Should Be Sad" by Halsey the first of our movers in the top ten up one place to number five to make a move up but sales aren't strong and while streaming is still good...I don't see it going much further.

Whatever the case it went past The Box by Roddy Ricch which slipped one place to number six as this song is only really doing anything on streaming and once streaming starts to bleed...

We now have the biggest debut of the week courtesy of Lady Gaga's lead single from her upcoming a;bum "Chromatica" called "Stupid Love" in at number seven and look I don't expect this to hang around as streaming is already dropping off as is sales.

At number eight is the biggest gainer of the week...Doja Cat's "Say So" which reached the top ten on massive streaming and sales. Why? People apparently prefer this to a much better song in a similar vein..."Physical" by Dua Lipa (Dua should have two songs in the top ten right now). "Physical" has a much better groove compared to this garbage....ugh.

Post Malone's "Circles" dropped one place to number nine, this song is fading gracefully after its extended run in the top ten.

Finally Harry Styles completes the top ten at number ten with "Adore You'  down one place from last week.

Gains

We had numerous gains this week outside of the big gain by "Say So" by Doja Cat at number eight.
A performance at Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras saw "Physical" by Dua Lipa rise eleven places to 16 (this song is showing signs of being a real sales monster, let's hope the streaming picks up)

Surfaces "Sunday Best" rides traction on streaming to go up ten to 20 and is probably the absolute worst of our gains, in better news "To Die For" by Sam Smith went up eight to 25, "Roses" by Saint JHN jumped from 39 to 30 (I expect this song to be big and in the top ten soon) and "Blueberry Faygo" by Lil Mosey rose from 42 to 34 this week (a song that I actually don't mind)

Losers

There were three big losers were "After Hours" by The Weeknd which plunged from 11 to 37, "No Time to Die" by Billie Eilish which dropped from 10 to 28 and "Yummy" by Justin Bieber from 14 to 31. (If the two Justin Bieber songs on the chart could both just suddenly collapse that would be great for my sanity)

Drop Outs

No real surprises in our drop outs with the much welcome news that "Rare" by Selena Gomez is gone taking with it Ali Gatie's pious song "What If I Told You That I Love You", "Forever" by Justin Bieber feat. Post Malone and Clever and "Turn Me On" by Riton feat. Oliver Heldens and Vula.

Unfortunately for the BTS army while "Map of the Soul: 7" did remain at number one on the ARIA album chart, the single "On" fell out of the top 50.

New Entries.

So what else did we get apart from the top ten arrival of "Stupid Love" by Lady Gaga, we got a mish mash of songs that will likely stick around and songs that will likely not last.

The one song I suspect will stick around is "Death Bed" by Powfu feat. Beabadoobee at number at number 32, this song is popular on streaming right now.

As for the rest that I don't expect to stick around: well, "The Other side"  by SZA and Justin Timberlake from that new Trolls movie is in at 43 while "Moral of the Story" by Ashe arrives at 46 and finally, "City of Angels" by 24kGOLDEN arrives at number 50.

So that wraps up the week, expect new entries from Demi Lovato (I wish that song was good), Katy Perry and maybe even...the Dixie Chicks but we'll what happens when the updated chart is released on Saturday at 5pm AEDT