ARIA Singles Top Ten/Chart review: 22nd March. Quiet week On The Ground

Sigh...this week was fairly quiet but a significant one too given that this was the first time that ARIA have announced their charts on a Friday (I still think the reasoning is fairly asinine...is it really that significant to be the first country every week to announce the top 50 most popular songs in the country every week? Really?) but I also welcome a quiet week given we're likely to be hit by a Justin Bieber album bomb next week.

Regardless of what day the chart is being announced nothing changed at the very top where "Heat Waves" by Glass Animals spent a fourth week at number one, it's got streaming on lock right now and sales are fine enough.

Streaming was enough to see "Without You" by The Kid Laroi return to number two this week, its just not bridging the margins to "Heat Waves" at all but it did push "Drivers License" by Olivia Rodrigo back to number three this week as it's streaming and sales start to waver. 

That leaves a gap for "The Business" by Tiesto which remained at number four but it's doing better on sales than "Drivers License" and if it can get a boost on streaming than it may just climb higher.

Rising one spot to number five unfortunately is "Goosebumps" by HVME and Travis Scott mostly thanks to streaming of course.

Getting a two place gain is Pink and Willow Sage Hart's "Cover Me in Sunshine" to number six mostly thanks to being an absolute giant sales and the sort of consistent streaming that has seen this become entrenched in the top ten. Nice to see.

It pushed past "Calling My Phone" by Lil Tjay and 6lack which tumbled two spots to number seven as streaming has kind of fallen off hard for this song...its weird that the hype only lasted a week for this.

Then we have a new arrival to the top ten coming from Masked Wolf with "Astronaut in the Ocean" up three to number eight this week. This could climb higher thanks to streaming. 

The Weeknd's "Save Your Tears" remains at number nine mostly because streaming is not competitive with the songs above it and sales aren't enough anymore

Also new to the top ten this week is "Leave the Door Open" by Bruno Mars, Anderson Paak and Silk Sonic which got a three place boost to number ten. Great news! Let's hope it keeps climbing.

Gains

The gains are a bit all over the shop here..."Streets" by Doja Cat rose ten to number 12 while "Hold On" by Justin Bieber rose six places to 13 (this will go top ten next week with the album release), "Heartbreak Anniversary" by Giveon up nine spots to 16. All of these are fine gains....the songs are all decent to pretty good.

However not so thrilled about the pretty generic "Friday" by Riton and Nightcrawlers feat. Mufasa and Hyperman also up ten to 19. Also AJR's "Bang" up four places to 46...WHY?

However the weirdest gain for the week was the something of an eleven place rebound for "Watermelon Sugar" by Harry Styles to 36. Possibly off the back of the Grammys but who knows?

Losses

Unsurprisingly the biggest losses came for Drake songs that debuted last week although if I am Drake, I'd be a little concerned with "What's Next" collapsing sixteen places to 23 while "Wants & Needs" feat. Lil Baby got handed a fifteen place drop to 30...ouch!

Drop Outs

There's one significant drop out here with former record breaking chart topper "Dance Monkey" by Tones and I dropping out of the top 50 after 92 weeks on the chart!

The other drop out was "Lemon Pepper Freestyle" by Drake feat. Rick Ross.

New Entries

Two new entries this week...starting with...

39. "Telepatia" by Kali Uchis

So Kali Uchis has finally broken onto the ARIA Singles top 50 after some sporadic success in her native United States with this song getting a boost courtesy of Tik Tok (of course it did) and well I think I like the production here more than anything else, it's smooth and sultry fitting in with the lyrics sung in Spanish by Uchis about a long distance relationship except I'm not sure why I just can't connect this sort of song ompletely for some reason that I am not getting. It's not bad though. Check it out if you are curious.

31. "On the Ground" by Rose

So Blackpink's Rose is stepping out on her own with "On the Ground" being one of two new songs she released and well...this is actually better produced than what she is accustomed to with Blackpink which kind of makes sense considering Jon Bellion is one of the writers and producers on the track, the song itself reminds me of Avril Lavigne to a degree as "On the Ground" sees Rose reflect on being apart of a major K pop group and realizing that what is really important in life lies within herself. I like this more than I should check it out.

So yeah, "On the Ground" by Rose gets best of the week. No worst of the week as "Telepatia" is not bad at all. Next week...maybe a Justin Bieber album bomb, we'll find out when the chart updates at 5pm on Friday.