ARIA Singles Top Ten/Chart Review: 14th December. Holiday Heat Waves and Blinding Lights Without You

 So this week is a weird one but one that's ultimately not going to matter all that much given the Taylor Swift album bomb that's coming next week and the onslaught of Christmas music the following week (I am hoping that because Christmas falls on a Friday...the chart won't be that heavily deluged the following week but we'll see and all of this doesn't exactly help somebody trying to write her year end best hit songs of 2020 list either!

Anyway let's get stuck into the top ten where the top three did not change with "Mood" by 24K Goldn and Iann Dior spending a ninth week at number one and it's looking pretty solid for a tenth week right now, it stayed ahead of "positions" by Ariana Grande which held firm because streaming is doing okay for it and that's all it's got right now. "Head & Heart" by Joel Corry and MNEK remains steady at number three, it and "positions" look the most vulnerable to the onslaught of Taylor Swift coming so we'll have to see.

Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" makes it's first appearance in the top ten rising twelve places to number four...I am not sure the path to number one is as clar cut for it this year but we'll see what happens. 

The big surprise of the week was that "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd is back in the top ten rising nine places to number five, now this could be due to at least two factors, one being the remix with Rosalia, the other being the song is likely on a lot of people's year end playlists on Spotify and Apple Music meaning people are revisiting the song, the latter also a factor in a few of our other gains further down the chart but we'll get to those.

All of that pushed "Levitating" by Dua Lipa feat. DaBaby down one to number six as this song's streaming is starting to show signs of wavering, the same goes for "So Done' by The Kid Laroi which slipped one spot to number seven, it's streaming was enough to keep in the top ten, it's just going to be a question of how much of it's momentum will have stalled thanks to Taylor.

Billie Eilish's "Therefore I Am" fell four four places to number eight as streaming and sales continue to soften for this song almost to the point where I am surprised this is still in the top ten.

The highest debut of the three songs to enter the chart this week goes to The Kid Laroi with "Without You" at number nine, it got there mostly through absurdly strong streaming especially on Spotify.

Finally what looks to be on the way out is Tate McRae's "You Broke Me First" which tumbled two places to number ten...thank goodness.

Gains

So we can pretty much group the gains into categories this week so let's start with the Christmas music that gained big, I've already talked about "All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey rising twelve places to number four but the biggest gain of the week belonged to Wham's "Last Christmas" which climbed from 40 to 24 this week! Michael Buble's "It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas" climbed from 41 to 28.

Then there's the big hit songs like the already mentioned "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd that got boosts thanks to people streaming their favourite hits from the past year on Spotify and Apple Music. "Roses" by Saint Jhn up eight places to 22 "Rockstar" by DaBaby feat. Roddy Ricch up from 31 to 27, "Dance Monkey" by Tones and I up five to 31 (I like "Dance Monkey" but come on Australia, time to move on, it's been on the chart for 79 weeks now!), "Don't Start Now" by Dua Lipa' up ten places to 37.

In cases of continued momentum for "Fly Away" by Tones and I up from 19 to 12 and "Whoopty" by CJ up from 21 to 13. "Whoopty" somehow has streaming which is not a good sign at all.

Re Entries

Three re entries with Ariana Grande's pretty silly "Santa Tell Me" back at 32 because tis the season while "Before You Go" by Lewis Capaldi returns at 46 and "Circles' by Post Malone at 47...both will be gone next week when Taylor Swift's album bomb blows through next week.

Losers 

The biggest fall of the week belongs to Jubel and Neimy's cover of "Dancing in The Moonlight" which crashed 15 places to 50 this week. Ouch!

"Midnight Sky" by Miley Cyrus fell from number 7 to 15 while "Prisoner' feat. Dua Lipa dropped to 20 from 13 as hype from the album release dies. In more pleasing news "Put Your Records On" by Ritt Momney plunged 11 places to 36 and Justin Bieber's "Lonely" with Benny Blanco also dropped eleven spots to 39 (this song is kind of forgettable which is an upgrade from outright trash for Bieber)

Speaking of forgettable, the mediocre "One Too Many" by Keith Urban and Pink slipped eight places to 34. "For the Night" by Pop Smoke slid from 34 to 41, "My Ex'st Best Friend" by Machine Gun Kelly and Blackbear plunged from 42 to 49 and "Savage Love" by Jawsh 685 feat. Jason DeRulo fell from 27 to 33.

Drop Outs.

No surprising drop outs this week with the big two being "Come & Go" by Juice WRLD and Marshmello and "Laugh Now, Cry Later" by Drake feat. Lil Durk (that will be back when Drake releases "Certified Lover Boy" sometime next year)

Also gone are Harry Style's late album single "Golden", "POV" by Ariana Grande because it's not going to be a single, "Always Do" by The Kid Laroi and most unsurprising of all "Light A Candle" by Jam Mountain Music because that is a charity single that isn't designed to have chart longevity.

New Entries

Just two other new entries alongside "Without You" by The Kid Laroi at number nine with "Holiday" by Lil Nas X finally on the chart at 44 (I hope this becomes a hit) and most surprisingly "Heat Waves" by Glass Animals at 45...I wouldn't be surprised if Tik Tok had something to do with that charting but it's one of the better songs from that last awful Glass Animals album.

Next week...yeah....Taylor Swift album bomb for the second time this year, I am not convinced the "Evermore" album bomb is going to be as big as "Folklore" was but hey it's Taylor so we'll see when the chart updates at 5pm AEDST on Saturday.