ARIA Singles top ten/Chart Review: 20th July. Juice WRLD's "Legends Never Die" bombs the singles chart as Guy Sebastian stands in the top ten

So we got our first major album bomb of 2020 from sadly deceased American rapper Juice WRLD who managed to get eight new songs and one returning entry from his album "Legends Never Die" to hit the ARIA Top 50 and some of that was felt in the top ten just not at the top where "Savage Love" by Jawsh 685 and Jason DeRulo spends a third week at number one because it's got streaming and sales over "Rockstar" by DaBaby feat. Roddy Ricch as its sales plummeted hard this week and it's only hanging onto number two because of streaming.

"Roses" by Saint JHN is stuck at number three but I can see this song taking a tumble soon as its bleeding on streaming and on sales.

Topic's "Breaking Me" feat. A7S remains at number four and "Watermelon Sugar" by Harry Styles remains at number five both looking pretty good on both sales and streaming so they could both surpass "Roses"

We now come to the first of two new debuts inside the top ten with "Come & Go" by Juice WRLD and Marshmello at number six, this song looks like it might have the streaming traction to be a hit. Just a shame it's not that good.

Down one place to seven is The Weeknd's "Blinding Lights", it's fading naturally as the likely biggest hit song of 2020 in Australia. It's shaping as the song to beat for the number one spot on the year end list, probably going to be a decade defining song.

The better of the two new Juice WRLD songs in the top ten lies at number eight with "Life's A Mess" featuring Halsey. I really like this, Halsey sells this so god damn well.

Down two places to number nine is "Rain On Me" by Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande. Probably would have only dropped to eight if not for the Juice WRLD album bomb but regardless this song's momentum has really stalled.

Finally up a ridiculous 25 places to number 10 is Guy Sebastian's "Standing With You" hitting number ten and is the biggest gainer this week. No telling if this is a sustainable top ten hit but it has traction on sales and is gaining on streaming so we'll have to see. What is telling is that it could have jumped even higher if not for Juice WRLD

Gains

So already talked about the biggest gain of the week that being "Standing With You" by Guy Sebastian but "Everybody Rise" by Amy Shark lived up to it's name by rising eleven places to 38 off it's debut on the chart last week.

Re Entries

One return this week with "Righteous" by Juice WRLD back at number 25.

Losers

Over half the chart chart lost big this week thanks to the Juice WRLD album bomb so let's start with 2019 songs that should have left the chart already like "Dance Monkey" by Tones and I which dropped ten places to 19 and "Circles" by Post Malone which walked down to 41 from 34 last week.

Then there are the former top ten hits that took a plunge like the biggest loser of the week, "Savage" by Megan Thee Stallion which hit 28 from 14, "Supalonely" by BENEE feat. Gus Dapperton fell seven to 18. "Intentions" by Justin Bieber featuring Quavo skidded down eight to 26 (that song is poop in an otherwise pretty good year for music), "Death Bed" by Powfu feat. Beabadoobee (this song has gotten annoying for me over time) fell twelve places to 27, "Say So" by Doja Cat dropped to 37 down ten places from last week. "Toosie Slide" by Drake did a twelve place cha cha slide down to 35 and finally "Adore You" by Harry Styles fell ten places to 49.

Then there are songs that were rising that got stopped in their tracks like "This City" by Sam Fischer which fell eleven to 32, "Ily" by Surf Mesa feat Emilee had swiped left and down eight to 36 while "Look into my Eyes" by Brando stopped making eye contact with the public as it went down ten to 34.

Most of this will rebound next week as the Juice WRLD songs leave on masse but we'll see what happens.

Drop Outs

There are a while slew of songs that dropped out, significantly for year end list reasons, "Ride It" by Regard, "Live in Life" by The Rubens and maybe "In Your Eyes" by The Weeknd all took their exits.

"Wash Us in the Blood" by Kanye West and Travis Scott also left but this one might return if Kanye does drop that new album on Friday...I don't think he should be releasing anything on Friday given the apparent mindset he is in...he needs help. 

Pop Smoke saw both his US hit "Dior" and "For the Night" exit taking "How You Like That" by Blackpink, "Ur So F****** Cool" by Tones and I and "If the World Was Ending" by JP Saxe and Julia Michaels with it.

New Entries

All the new entries this week are songs from Juice WRLD"s "Legends Never Die" posthumous album, I already mentioned "Come & Go" with Marshmello at number six and "Life's A Mess" with Halsey at number eight, from there we have the Dr L*ke produced :Wishing Well" in at 14, "Hate the OtherSide" feat. Marshmello, Polo G and The Kid Laroi at 15, "Conversations" begins and probably ends at 19, "Titanic" rises at 40, "Bad Energy" hits at 42 and finally "Blood on My Jeans" at 45.

Well that finally wraps up a looonnng week on the chart, next week is going to be the fall out from all of this and....DJ Khaled and Drake dropped two new songs that will likely chart...neither of them being any good...lovely...not. Also might see Kygo's remake of a classic 80s hit from Tina Turner as well which is actually probably one of he better new songs from last week's new music on Friday, we'll find out at 5pm AEST on Saturday.