Not going to lie, I am getting pretty frustrated with the charts in 2025 and that frustration is only made worse by the fact that a Playboi Carti album bomb is likely all but assured on the horizon but also the fact the charts have been so slow and really just tired.
What? You want proof? Look at our number one this week where "APT" by Rose and Bruno Mars retained the number one spot for a fourteenth non consecutive week.
There was an album boost for "Die With A Smile" by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars up five to number rwo even though you can argue that this song doesn't fit at all on "Mayhem"
"That's So True" by Gracie Abrams continues to refuse to go away as it is up one spot to number three while "Messy" by Lola Young slipped one spot to number four. Kendrick Lamar and SZA's "Luther fell three places to number five.
"Pink Pony Club" by Chappell Roan keeps dancing at number six while "Birds of a Feather" by Billie Eilish fell two to number seven and "Sports Car" by Tate McRae climbed one to number eight.
We have a new entry at number nine with "Anxiety" by Doechii debuting at number nine, it's the solo version of the song that was released witih Sleepy Hallow and debuted last week, more on the quality of the song later.
Finally "Beautiful Things" by Benson continues to be the worst song in the top ten right now and refuses to go away as it should have done months ago clinging on at number ten.
Gains
So let's go through some of the big gains this week with "Ordinary" by Alex Warren looking like it's going to be his big breakthrough hit up thirteen places to fourteen next week. I fully expect this song to be top ten post the Playboi Carti album bomb.
Lady Gaga saw some album impact with "Abracadabra" up ten to twenty one
Losers
The big loser this week was "Die Trying" bty PartyNextDoor and Drake feat. Yebba down nine places to forty nine while "Too Sweet" by Hozier is falling away naturally down eight to forty three.
"Ain't No Love in Oklahoma" by Luke Combs slipped eight to forty as the traction he gained from his recent Australian tour has really died off.
Finally "Riptide" by Vance Joy finally appears to be about to exit the top 50 again as it lost seven places to fifty.
Re Entries
Two songs re entered this week with "Austin" by Dasha back at number forty seven and "Carry You Home" by Alex Warren back at number thirty (Not really surprising that the latter would gain some traction considering how often radio stations are playing this song)
Drop Outs
This week saw the exits of both "Chihiro" by Billie Eilish and "Where the Wild Things Are" by Luke Combs, two good to great songs that have had decently good chart runs unlike "Somedays" by Sonny Fodera, D.O.D and Jazzy which also exited...a good song that deserved better
New Entries
Two new entries this week, beginning with...
35. "Like Jennie" by JENNIE
Bit surprised we got album impact from JENNIE of Blackpink instead of anything from Lady Gaga but none the less we got this from Jennie's album and I'm unfortunately not as much of a fan of this as I like to be. It's clear that Jennie was inspired by Charli XCX in terms of how the song's sound seems to chase the sound Charli XCX used for "Brat" obly the sound here is less appealing and when Jennie's vocals aren't appealing to me...yeah I'm going to skip this.
9. "Anxiety' by Doechii
So we finally get the solo form of "Anxiety" and I think the solo form of this song might be better just in terms of Doechii's performance, you can absolutely tell this wad meant to be a solo jaunt at first and she sounds smoother in her flow and vocal delivery than she did in the versiion with Sleepy Hallow. Yeah that sample of "Somebody I Used to Know" by Gotye and Kimbra remains prominent but I wouldn't mind if this become a hit.
Yeah it's best of the week this week. JENNIE gets worst of the week by default for "Like Jennie"
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