We have got ourselves a cooldown week here, sure the top ten is pretty busy and there's still the usual flurry of movement up and down the chart but there were only two new entries this week so I'll take this week like this when I can so let's dive straight into the top ten where for a second week "Achy Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus, look, this unfortunately seems to be locked in for a long stint at number one, it's romping it in sales.
Although taking advantage of having strength in sales over the songs around is "The Best Things in Life Are Free" by Luther Vandross and Janet Jackson which climbed five places to number two which ensured it pushed it's way past "Life is a Highway" by Tom Cochrane down one spot to number three and "Amigos para Siempre (Friends For Life)" by Jose Carreras and Sarah Brightman which slipped one place to number four.
Recovering one spot after it's surprise collapse last week is "Humpin' Around" by Bobby Brown to number five. However the movement in the top five was bad for Snap's "Rhythm is a Dancer" which just got pushed down two to number six.
"November Rain" by Guns 'n' Roses dried up down two places to number seven, it's coming under pressure from our latest arrival to the top ten that being 'Love is in the Air" by John Paul Young up three places to number eight thanks to the hype from the "Strictly Ballroom" movie...sigh...
The other song to remain steady at number nine is "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix A Lot...I am not certain about this song's future in the top ten. Finally "Sesame's Treet" by Smart Es slipped two places to number ten...good/
Gains
Well there's good news in the gains this week as "The Day You Went Away" by Wendy Matthews rose six places to number eleven! This definitely has the momentum to be a top ten hit which is awesome.
Not so great is "Love How You Love Me" by Teen Queen rising from 35 to 14! We really don't need to be doing this, Australia.
Also not impressed that Riff's "White Men can't Jump" climbed fourteen to 16 however I am fine with "Ain't no Doubt" by Jimmy Nail climbing from 33 to 18 this week (it's a dorky song that just works for me...I don't know why)
Girlfriend's "Without You" broke into the top twenty up four to number 20 however I am also thrilled that "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" by Patty Smyth and Don Henley climbing from 44 off it's debut to 29...I'll take that!
Same goes for "Digging in the Dirt" by Peter Gabriel which climbed six spots to 33 but can we not also let "Neighbor" by Ugly Kid Joe be a thing? It climbed ten spots to 35...why?
Re Entries
Just the one return with "Heaven Knows" by Rick Price back at number 47.
Losers.
Most of our big losers seem to be in the bottom half of the chart with "Who Is It" by Michael Jackson down eleven to 45 (this song has never really caught on which is kind of disappointing because it's probably one of Michael's better songs)
Unsurprisingly "Hey Hey We're the Broncos" by Ipswich Connection slumped from 28 to 44 this week. Novelty songs haven't young around too well this year so far.
"Too Funky" by George Michael slipped from 41 to 36 while "This Used to be My Playground" by Madonna plunged from 31 to 37 this week.
"Boy in the Moon" by Margaret Urlich slipped from 22 to 27 (surprised ARIA even remembered to put this song on the chart...that's how forgettable it is). Richard Marx suffered an eight place slip with "Take This Heart" to 26.
"It's Not Over" bv The Rockmelons feat. Deni Hines fell from 16 to 22.
New Entries
Two new entries, let's begin with,..
50. "Keep it Comin' (Dance til You Can't Dance No More)" by C & C Music Factory feat. Q Unique and Deborah Cooper.
Okay so it's time for another run in with C & C Music Factory, this time they've brought Puerto Rican Ameican rapper Q Unique and American singer and back up singer Deborah Cooper along for the vocals. Q Unique provides the hype and pretty strong verse so maybe this song won't be a completely annoying headache even if the production does sound like previous C & C Music Factory songs. I think the only element that doesn't quite work here is Deborah Cooper on the hook, she doesn't quite bring the same energy to it as Q Unique does which kind of makes her hook easy to ignore to a degree. Not too bad...I kind of expected worse.
40. "End of the Road" by Boyz II Men
And here we have a song that was written by Babyface for the soundtrack of the movie Boomerang and performed a quartet calling themselves Boyz II Men, it's a pretty standard pop r'n'b ballad with plenty of piano and guitar forming the instrumentation of the song, it's fine on that front but the issue I have here is the lyrics, they are pretty darn clingy especially as it's noted this relationship between the writer and this girl has come to an end and she has quite clearly moved on and most likely met somebody else yet the writer wants her to come back and is refusing to except the relationship has reached the end which is kind of infuriatingly clingy and really almost kind of ugly. I don't hate this but this still isn't good.
So yeah, much to my surprise, Boyz II Men take the worst of the week here for "End of the Road while "Keep It Comin' (Dance Til You Can't Dance No More)" by C & C Music Factory feat. Q Unique and Deborah Cooper takes the best of the week...it's not perfect but this week, it's better than it's competition.
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