ARIA Singles Top Ten/ Chart Review: 27th April.

If ever there was a week to think that the charts are starting stagnate due to the pandemic than this week was the week because in a way the chart really did slow down A LOT, we  only have a couple of songs new on the chart and yet another change at number one so let's get straight to the top ten where "Roses (Imanbeck remix)" by Saint Jhn returned to number one after a very strong streaming week, it really is a case of margins though because right behind is "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd at number two because while it rules the sales, its losing ground on streaming to "Roses".

"Toosie Slide" by Drake remains at number three and unless those sales pick up, it's just not at the races right now, I expect this song to lose steam soon which would leave it open to "Don't Start Now" by Dua Lipa at number four except it has started to bleed on sales and streaming and will likely be heading down.

Unfortunately this means "Death Bed" by Powfu feat. Beabadoobee is in the best position to take advantage as it continues to have a strong streaming and sales presence to remain at number five this week. "Death Bed" has gotten kind of annoying for me" in a bad way. 

It also remains the case for "Intentions" by Justin Bieber feat. Quavo, a song that just doesn't know how to god damn die yet with streaming and sales both reasonably decent which no is not a good thing because the song SUCKS.

Then we have "Break My Heart" by Dua Lipa at number seven as it had a good week on streaming and sales. Just needs some consistency, it pushed past "Say So" by Doja Cat which fell to number eight and "Supalonely" by BENEE feat. Gus Dapperton at nine, both "Say So" and "Supalonely" are losing ground on sales and streaming, stronger songs will push them out of the top ten.

The same could be said for "Dance Monkey" by Tones and I which returned to the top ten at number ten somehow because it had better sales than the other songs around it.

Gains

We didn't have many big gains this week with the biggest being "If The World Was Ending" by JP Saxe feat. Julia Michaels which rose from 34 to 29 this week. Ew...

Losers

The biggest loser this week is 'Believe It" by PARTYNEXTDOOR feat. Rihanna which fell ten pllaces to 47, I like to believe its because the song utterly wastes Rihanna. It could have been a smash given how long the public have waited to hear anything from her.

"To Die For" by Sam Smith fell six places to 48 (We have more Sam Smith to talk about in the new entries)

"Memories" by Maroon 5 is finally on the way out as it fell nine places to 38 while 'In Your Eyes" by The Weeknd has something in it's eyes as it fell to 32 from 26.

Drop outs

"Everything I Wanted" by Billie Eilish leaves but not before securing its place on the 2020 year end list which may not be the case for "The Less I Know the Better" by Tame Impala.

"Rover" by S1mba feat DTG also made its exit off it's debut last week.

New Entries

So we have an interesting cluster of new entries here with the best of them being "Rockstar" by DaBaby feat. Roddy Ricch entering at number 24, it was the only DaBaby debut this week from by all accounts a pretty poor album entitled "Blame It On Baby"

I mentioned there'd be more Sam Smith, well, they have a new song at 25 called "I'm Ready" feat. Demi Lovato. The song is fine enough i guess, there's potential to get sick of the song pretty quickly but that's just in my opinion.

Finally Australian singer-songwriter Sam Fischer has his first ARIA top 50 hit with "This City" in at number 43, this song has radio traction, I expect this song to get even bigger in the weeks ahead.

So that wraps up a pretty slow week, "Roses" looks like it might just have number one on lock next week but we'll see what happens, expecting new entries for a Travis Scott/ Kid Cudi collaboration and a posthumous JuiceWRLD song but all that will occur when the chart updates on Saturday at 5pm.