It's weeks like this one that make me grateful that we aren't like the United States where these days album bombs are the new normal on the Hot 100 week after week, this week they got a Lil Uzi Vert album bomb where EIGHTEEN new songs landed on the Hot 100 in the US this week while we in Australia? We only got one new Lil Uzi Vert song but we'll get to that.
Meanwhile in times of uncertainty and strife, the only thing that seems certain is "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd remaining at number one thanks to it's strangle hold on streaming right now, it's got a comfortable margin over "Don't Start Now" by Dua Lipa which spends another week at number two due to flagging sales.
The same can be said for "Intentions" by Justin Bieber feat. Quavo which while streaming is strong, sales aren't great.
Surprisingly "You Should Be Sad" by Halsey is up one place to number four and yeah it's still doing well on sales but those streaming numbers need to improve.
Doja Cat's "Say So" rides streaming and sales momentum to move up three places to number five...unfortunately.
"The Box" by Roddy Ricch continues to do well on streaming but just can't leverage that streaming into sales here so it remains at number six.
Now the rise of "You Should Be Sad" by Halsey to four can probably be explained by the three place fall for "Dance Monkey" to number seven as it's streaming and sales are bleeding.
"Adore You" by Harry Styles rises two places to number eight off the back of a surge on streaming and some solid sales which is good because the song is emerging as one of my favourites of the year much to my surprise.
Post Malone's "Circles" remains at number nine as sales and streaming haven't fallen off completely while rounding out the top ten is "Before You Go" by Lewis Capaldi because...I don't know why...let's just hope it disappears from the top ten next week.
Gains
The biggest gain of the week came from Saint JHN's "Roses" which went up from 30 to number 12, I fully expect this to be top ten next week while "Death Bed" by Powfu and Beabadoobee rose from 32 to 17.
Pleasingly "Sugar" by Brockhampton staged a miraculous recovery from 36 as it surged up to 19 off the back of a remix with Dua Lipa.
"City of Angels" by 24KGOLDEN rose 11 places to 39.
Losses
Despite it being a fairly quiet week for new entries we had some big losers right across the board with Billie Eilish's "No Time to Die" the biggest plunging from 28 to 42 while "Everything I Wanted" dropped ten places to 33.
While "Life Is Good" by Future and Drake dropped eleven places to 29, the same fall was had for "Roxanne" by Arizona Zervas which slipped to 24 (people have forgotten that song exists)
A puzzling fall came for "Lose Control" by Meduza feat. Becky Hill and Goodboys which fell from 14 to 22.
Finally if you are wondering where "Stupid Love" by Lady Gaga is, it fell from number 7 to 13 this week. Got a feeling that the song won't stick around.
Drop Outs
Two fairly significant drop outs this week as they are both former chart toppers, those being "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X and "Sunflower" by Post Malone feat Swae Lee, Both after having incredible 49 and 71 week runs in top 50 respectively.
New Entries
TikTok is pushing BENEE's 'Supalonely" so as a result it's the highest new entry this week at 11 while the only other new entry comes from Lil Uzi Vert with "Baby Pluto in at 48.
A faitly quiet week, expecting new entries from Tones and I and others. The chart will update 5pm AEDT on Saturday.
I am working on top ten best and worst hit songs lists of the decade lists, its taking a lot of time and energy to do so because believe it or not there are several years that I didn't have top tens for. Also on the way is a likely top ten best hit songs list for 1974.
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