ARIA Singles Top Ten/Chart Review: 21st December. Taylor's Evermore wreaks havoc and gives Taylor another number one single

 So this week is really the last week of the year that the charts matter all that much especially with the onslaught of Christmas music next week and this week wasn't helped by a second Taylor Swift album bomb that just wreaked havoc and likely ended the run of some songs early but we'll get to all of that because the first sign of the album bomb lies at number one with "Willow" by Taylor Swift riding decent sales and good streaming to number one, it was just enough to push nine week number one "Mood" by 24KGoldn and Iann Dior back to number as it started to bleed on streaming.

A contender for number one is The Kid Laroi's "Without You" which jumped six places to number three, this thing has got streaming and could very well take the number one when the Christmas songs leave as its got streaming especially on Spotify and is climbing on Apple Music.

All of that pushed "Head & Heart" by MNEK & Joel Corry down one spot to number four as its starts to lose ground on streaming and surprisingly "All I Want for Christmas Is You' by Mariah Carey also fell one place to number five.

The big loser out of all of the shuffling is 'positions" by Ariana Grande as the song plunged four places to number six, it's still got some streaming but that's not going to prop it up forever.

"Levitating" by Dua Lipa feat. DaBaby slipped one place to number seven as it doesn't quite have the wind in its sales on streaming anymore, the same goes for the rest of our top ten with "So Done" by The Kid Laroi down one to number eight, "Blinding Lights" by The Weekend slipped four places to number nine while "Therefore I Am" by Billie Eilish clings to the top ten down two places to number ten.

Gains.

As you might expect the gains were limited this week but there was the expected gain for "Last Christmas" by Wham up nine spots to 15, this will go top ten next week. 

Re Entries

The one re entry is from Jam Mountain Music with "Light a Candle" back at 23

Losses

This is where Taylor caused almost HALF the chart to either fall or drop out so let's deal with the big losers first: "Don't Start Now" by Dua Lipa losing all it's gains last week to drop from 37 to 50,  "One too Many" by Keith Urban feat. Pink collapsed from 34 to 48,  "Put Your Records On" by Ritt Momney suffered a cut to it's gramophone cord as it fell ten places to 46,  "Dance Monkey" by Tones and I fell ten to 41 as did "Breaking Me" by Topic feat. A7S to 40, "Savage Love" suffered a pretty mild fall comparatively to those below as it dropped six places to 39 for Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo, "Rockstar" by DaBaby feat. Roddy Ricch dropped eleven places to 38.

"Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac slipped eleven to 36,  "Roses" by Saint Jhn got clobbered down from 22 to 35 as did "Watermelon Sugar" as it plunged from 21 to 34, "Prisoner" by Miley Cyrus feat. Dua Lipa slipped from 20 to 32, "Take You Dancing" by Jason DeRulo slipped from 23 to 30, "Monster" by Shawn Mendes feat. Justin Bieber fell from 11 to 27 (the biggest loser of any song this week and not a good week for Shawn Mendes), "Midnight Sky" by Miley Cyrus plunged ten places to 25.

Drop Outs

A total of thirteen songs dropped out and boy, there's some big ones here: "Wonder" by Shawn Mendes, "Someone You Loved" and "Before You Go" by Lewis Capaldi (in the former's case, it's about fucking time...hope it doesn't return),  "Lonely" by Justin Bieber & Benny Blanco,  "Send it!" by Hooligan Hefs, "For the Night" by Pop Smoke, "Some Say" by Nea, "Paradise" by Meduza feat. Dermot Kennedy, "Holiday" by Lil Nas X,  . "Circles" by Post Malone, "What's Poppin'" by Jack Harlow (even despite the album release), "My Ex's Best Friend" by MGK feat. Blackbear and "Dancing in the Moonlight" by Jubel feat. Neimy.

Hard to know what will return until the Christmas music disappears, there's a few here I hope don't return but we'll see.

New Entries

Every single one of the twelve new entries is from Taylor Swift so I am just going to list them here apart from "Willow" which debuted at number one.

12. Champagne Problems

16. No Body, No Crime (feat. Haim)

21. Gold Rush

24. 'Tis The Damn Season

33. Tolerate It

37. Happiness

42. Coney Island

43. Ivy

45. Evermore feat. Bon Iver

47. Dorothea

49. Long Story Short

So that wraps up the week. As usual I will post the ARIA singles top ten but not do a few chart rundown as normal because with the Christmas songs it is just pointless and we do have a new Ed Sheeran song reportedly coming tomorrow afternoon...a Monday release for a new Ed Sheeran song is a bit oddball. ARIA will update the chart at 5pm AEDT on Saturday. 

Coming up on the blog:

• The final weeks of "2000 Sound" on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve

• The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2000 on December 29th
• The Top Ten Best Hit Songs of 2000 on New Years Eve
• The Top Ten Worst Hit Songs of 2020 on  January 12th
• The Top Ten Best Hit Songs of 2020 parts 1 and 2 coming soon
• Good 1992 Vibrations starts on 11th January (so it doesn't clash with Top ten worst of 2020)