Welcome back for another year of chart insanity and this week to a degree does feel like it especially with all the Christmas music gone and everything that came in to fill in space for this week only and with The Weeknd likely to get an album bomb next week, I am not placing too much stock in this week.
Let's begin with the top ten where for another week "Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)" by Elton John and Dua Lipa keeps hold of the number one spot for a sixth week but it's not exactly dominant on either streaming or sales, let's just say it's vulnerable should The Weeknd manage to blow in and dominate streaming with his new album.
The same goes for "Stay" by The Kid Laroi featuring Justin Bieber at number two where it's doing decently on streaming but sales kept it at number two this week.
"abcdefu" by Gayle would be a contender but it's streaming feels like it might well be stalling at the worst possible time...and I am kind of okay with that, this song has only gotten worse for me over the Christmas/ New Year period.
"Heat Waves" by Glass Animals is at number four thanks to a third wind on streaming. Seriously, aren't people sick of this song yet?
Then there's "Bad Habits" at number five and "Shivers" at number six both for Ed Sheeran. I kind of expect "Bad Habits" to slowly fall away pretty soon.
"Easy On Me" by Adele hangs on to number seven then there's "Do It to It" by Acraze up to number eight because for some reason, we need a shitty remix of a bad song from the 2000s.
"Industry Baby" by Lil Nas X feat Jack Harlow remains at number nine while climbing into the top ten for it's first week is "Where Are You Now" by Lost Frequencies feat. Calum Scott...the less said about that one the better.
Gains
We've got a lot of them this week...mostly songs just filling gaps left by Christmas music so let's begin with "Good 4 U" by Olivia Rodrigo ip 22 spots to number 11, "Levitating" by Dua Lipa lived up to it's name as it is levitated 29 spots to number 12, "Kiss Me More" by Doja Cat feat. SZA got kissed up 30 places to 13, "Ghost" by Justin Bieber up 17 to 14, "Enemy" by Imagine Dragons feat. JID up 24 to 15, and "That's What I Want" by Lil Nas X up 29 to 16
Then there's "One Right Now" by Post Malone and The Weeknd rising 29 to 18, "Save Your Tears" by The Weeknd up 31 to 19, "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)" by Taylor Swift climbing 25 to 24.
Re Entries
Alright, there's TWENTY SEVEN songs that returned this week so I am going to start from the bottom and work my way through them all.
"Without You" by The Kid Laroi feat. Miley Cyrus returned at 50, "Sunflower" by Post Malone and Swae Lee made a surprise and unexplained return at 49, "Mood" by 24kGoldn and Iann Dior is back at 47, "The Business" by Tiesto got back to business on the chart at 46, "Oh My God" by Adele is back at 45 (seems like this song is going to be the next single from '30'), "Overpass Graffiti" by Ed Sheeran graffitied itself back on to the chart at 43, "Moth to a Flame" by Swedish House Mafia and The Weeknd at 42, "Watermelon Sugar" by Harry Styles at 41 and "Friday" by Riton and Nightcrawlers feat. Mufasa and Hyperman at 40,
Then there's "Dreams" by Jolyon Petch dreaming it's return at 39, the other big surprise return of the perpetual annoyance that is Havana Brown's "We Run the Night" at 38, Billie Eilish is back at 36 with '"Happier Than Ever", "love nwantiti (ah ah ah)" by Ckay back at 35, "I Am Woman" by Emmy Meli jumps back in at 34, "Acapulco" by Jason Derulo flies back in at 33, "Meet Me At Our Spot" by The Anxiety meets it's chart spot at 32, "I Hate U' by SZA returns at 31 and "My Universe" by Coldplay feat. BTS at number 30.
We're not done yet because "Beggin'" by Maneskin is back at 29, "Woman" by Doja Cat at 28, "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac at 27, "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)" at 26, "Missing Piece" by Vance Joy at 25, "Mr Btightside" by The Killers at 23 (You know, you can make "West Hills" a hit any time you like...), "Love Tonight" by Shouse at 22, "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd at 21 and finally "Better Days" by NEIKED and Mae Muller feat. Polo G at 17.
Losers
There are none...
Drop outs
It was basically a mass exodus of Christmas music this week including over half of last week's top ten and is an argument as to why ARIA should consider putting the singles chart on hiatus over the holiday period..
New Entries
Four new entries this week beginning with...
48. "Down Under" by Luude (feat. Colin Hay.
So this comes from Australian electronic producer called Luude and it's a cover of Men At Work's early 80s hit and bonafide Australian classic "Down Under" and well...this just isn't good...at all. It pitches out the window the entire melody of the original except for a fragment of flute (that melody is what makes the song fantastic) replacing them with darker electronic sounds and it just doesn't work especially when you are going to pitch down Colin Hay's voice and fill the chorus with unnecessary electronic effects...this is pretty terrible...NEXT...
44. "Surface Pressure" by Jessica Darrow
This is the first of two songs from the Disney musical "Encanto" to appear new on the chart and well this one comes from Cuban American actress Jessica Darrow who plays Luisa and according to reports Luisa is said to possess superhuman powers which means she gets called on a lot to help out which she finds the constant need for her help by others to be stressful and dehumanising which is may not look like on the surface but under it, Luisa is struggling with the weight of others expectations but in spite of all this she isn't going to stop helping people but this really does feel like a self empowerment song where the actual music can't match the lyrical sentiments...this could have been better.
37. "The Motto" by Tiesto and Ava Max
So of course, "The Business" was huge last year and off the back of that Tiesto follows it up with a new song bringing Ava Max on board and I mean really this feels like "The Business Part 3" only slightly less miserable and Ava Max has all her personality which makes her interesting as a pop singer sucked out of her by the production which feels only slightly less miserable than "The Business" in terms of its sound and the song lyrically just does nothing for me... not feeling this at all.
20. "We Don't Talk About Bruno" by The Cast of Encanto
We're relying on the second song from Encanto, this time a song about the titular character of the song, Bruno who has by this stage of the movie been cast out of the family and everyone is under orders to not talk about him because of the bad things that he has been predicting to happen and do end up happening....the song has catchy enough hook but it does feel kind of messy and weird...it's not bad but it's not really my thing.
However in a rough week, "We Don't Talk About Bruno" is the best of the week here, as for the worst, yeah that falls out easily too. because that's going to the mess that is the cover of "Down Under" by Luude feat. Colin Hay.
Next week, likely to be dominated by The Weeknd but we'll find out when the chart updates at 5pm on Friday.
Song of the Australian Summer
Song of the Summer competition is underway for the summer of 2021 to 22. Now to explain how this works, it's limited to songs that hit inside the top ten and gain an inverse number of points according to their chart position so number one gets ten points, number two gets nine points etc every week. Now leading that competition is "Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)" by Elton John feat. Dua Lipa. The competition runs until the last chart week of February.
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