Pretty Fly (For 1999) 22nd August. Friend, You Are Not My Passenger

 Little bit of a slower week this week but I'll take a slower week so let's dive into the top ten where for yet another week, it's "Last Kiss" by Pearl Jam at number one, it's pretty much a solid lock to stay at the top next week too. 

Meanwhile "Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!" by The Vengaboys rebounded one spot to number two but it's coming under pressure from "If Ya Gettin' Down" by Five which climbed three spots to number three because I guess a bunch of people are wiggy wiggy that Five are apparently getting jiggy...ew.

Anyway "When You Say Nothing At All" by Ronan Keating rose two to number four although that's probably because "If You Had My Love" by Jennifer Lopez which slipped three to number five. 

Britney Spears saw a one place slide to number six for "Sometimes", it's now got "Sweet Like Chocolate" by Shanks & Bigfoot which climbed two slots to number seven and "Silence" by Delerium feat. Sarah McLachlan which moved up three to number eight. 

Former number one "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None the Richer slipped two spots to number nine. 

Smash Mouth jumped into the top ten up four spots to number ten with "All Star"

Losers

So we start with "Look at Me" by Geri Halliwell sliding out of the top fifty down ten slots to forty six, we have to be due a new single from her soon. 

Monifah's "Bad Girl" dipped twelve to forty while "When I Grow Up" by Garbage fell off it's debut to fall seven to twenty nine.

Ultra's "Say It Once" fell out of the top ten down nine to nineteen. 

Gains

The gains are a bit on the messy side this week, we do have "American Woman" by Lenny Kravitz rising from twenty three to sixreen and somehow "Baby Did A Bad Bad thing" by Chris Isaak is the biggest riser of the week climbing from it's return of thirty five to eighteen.

"2 Times" by Ann Lee rose twelve slots to thirty one while "Saltwater" by Chicane feat. Maire Brennan regained some ground rising from forty two to thirty five.

Re-Entries

One return this week with "Happiness" by Regurgitator back at number forty four

New Entries

Two new entries this week, beginning with....

49. "You Are Not My Friend" by Frenzal Rhomb

Both new entries are from Australian rock bands and we're starting off with this relationship break up that's gotten nasty from punk rockers Frenzal Rhomb and this is one I really do not get the instrumental appeal of, for a song where he is resentful and angry because this ex friend rooted against the narrator's successful career but I'm sorry this song for as mad as the lyrics are just isn't going hard enough in the instrumentation to sell the anger and resentment that's clearly on display here. This song could be so much better...next!

32. "Passenger" by Powderfinger

Now this is more like it. Powderfinger back with a new single and the first thing I noticed is how there's genuine tension in the vocal delivery on the verses and how the song actually builds into a damn great hook delivered with conviction by frontman Bernard Fanning. It's a song all about escaping the 9 to 5 grind and everyday routines for something different and exciting that's completely out of the rat race. Damn great song, check this out!

Yeah, easy best of the week for "Passenger" by Powderfinger. Worst of the week goes to "You Are Not My Friend" by Frenzal Rhomb.  

ARIA Top 50 Singles Chart Review. 17th August The one where Best of the Week is not one of the new entries

Lets dive into this week because not that much changed especially in the top ten. "Choosin' Texas" by Ella Langley continues to rule the chart at number one. It's still a strong sales and streaming leader...nothing is getting near it. 

That includes "Rein Me In" by Sam Fender and Olivia Dean which jumped two places to retake number two thanks mostly to a decent week on sales. "Man I Need" by Olivia Dean held firm at number three.

Continuing to hang around like a venereal disease that refuses to go away, "Ordinnary" by Alex Warren up three to number four because Australians apparently don't realize new music exists. 

Slipping three to five is Ariana Grande's "Hate That I Made You Love Me", more on Ariana later. "Stupid Song" by Olivia Rodrigo held firm at number six. "Earrings" by Malcolm Todd rrebounded two slots to return to it's peak of number seven. 

 There's a new arrival to the top ten...sadly...it's "Boston" by Stella Lefty which climbed three to number eight. The less said the better. "The Cure" by Olivia Rodrigo rebounded one spot to number nine.

All off this is because "Petal" by Ariana Grande slumped five spots to number ten. 

Losers

So there's not much to talk about in the way of losers this week with the biggest unsurprisingly being "Dai Dai" by Shakira and Burna Boy down twenty five slots to thirty eight. 

Other than that most songs regained position thanks to the recedation of the Ariana Grande album bomb

Drop Outs

So the drop outs are just every single album track from Ariana Grande's "Petal"...

Gains

So I don't think it's worth going through every song that rose this week so I am going to do double digit gains and the songs that hit new peaks this week. 

The one double digit gain is "Love Me Not" by Ravyn Lenae up ten to fifteen.

Now onto the new peaks this week with Sienna Spiro seeing traction for "Material Lover" to go up neight to forty one and "Great Expectations" up eleven to thirty four.

Whiskey Myers "Broken Window Serenade" climbed eight to thirty six wbile "Bloodstream" by Alyssa Grace rose one to hit seventeen. and 

Finally Temper City's "Self Aware" jumped three to reach number twelve. 

Re-Entries

With the exit of all the Ariana Grande songs, we have eight songs returning this week and we begin with the unfortunate return of "Die On This Hill" by Sienna Spiro at fifty...seriously this song is rancid...get it off the charts. 

Also back is "Undressed" by Sombr at forty nine, "A Couple Minutes" by Olivia Dean at forty eight, "Been by Now" by Morgan Wallen at forty seven, "Sailor Song" by Gigi Perez (have to think this song is getting close to being moved to the on replay chart) at forty six, "Orbiter" by Noah Kahan at forty five, "Stateside" by Pink Pantheress and Zara Larsson at forty four and finally "Midnight Sun" by Zara Larsson at forty three.

New Entries

Two new entries this week, beginning with....

25. "oh yeah?" by Steve Lacy

Hey Steve Lacy finally turns back up on the chart with a song from his new album that seems to have some momentum on the charts which means I can hope all the Steve Lacy wannabes like Malcolm Todd can go away and while I like this a good deal more than "Earrings", this just feels flat and meandering from Steve Lacy, not helped by the background vocals. I'd skip this,

12. "Loser" by Tame Impala

God damn it. We did not have to go back to "Deadbeat" to grab another Tame Impala song to make a hit because this is complete buns too. Kevin Parker's voice is buried in the mix and production that doesn't evolve or do much over the run time of the song and it doesn't even move out of first gear. Completely underwhelming.

Completely underwhelming describes the week here. Best of the week is going to "Things Take Time" bv Gang of Youths...a song that deserves to be on the charts if we're all about supporting Australian music in this country. Worst of the week is "Loser" by Tame Impala...can't stand how that song sounds

Pretty Fly (for 1999). 15th August. I Won't Get Down as She's High On Love

 So let's dive into this week starting with the top ten because nothing changed with our top three. "Last Kiss" by Pearl Jam remains at number one ahead of "If You Had My Love" by Jennifer Lopez at number two and "Boom Boom Boom Boom" by Vengaboys at number three.

Five's new song "If Ya Gettin' Down" enters at number four. More about the quality or the lack there of letter but it did havw the impact of pushing "Sometimes" by Britney Spears back to number five.

The rise of "When You Say Nothing At All" by Ronan Keating continues as it umped one spot to number six that said it likely benefited from the two spot slide for "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None the Richer to number seven.

Also sliding two slots was "Man! I Feel LIke A Woman!" by Shania Twain to number eight while "Sweet Like Chocolate" by Shanks & Bigfoot remains at number nine.

Finishing up our top ten for this week is "Say It Once" by Ultra which slipped two to number ten.

Losers

Turns out the public have had enough of Soul Searcher's "I Can't Get Enough" which is down ten slots to forty nine. They are also flying away from Lenny Kravitz with "Fly Away" down six to forty eight. 

"Saltwater" by Chicane feat. Maire Brennan slumped from thirty six to forty two while "Get Ready" by Ma$e feat. Blackstreet stumbled from thirty five to forty one. 

I am very happy the two NKOTB alumni solo songs fell this week with Jordan Knight's "Give It To You" down seven to forty and "Stay the Same" by Joey McIntyre down seven to thirty eight.

The tribute to ABBA "Tbank ABBA For the Music" by Steps (more on them in the new entries), Cleopatra, Tina Cousins, B*Witched and Billie slipped ten to thirty nine as it heads toward the chart exit.

"Why Don't You Get a Job?" by The Offspring slid nine to tthirty seven while "Look at Me" by Geri Halliwell fell six to thirty six. "These Are the Times" by Dru Hill fell ten to thirty three (why is this song still on the chart? It's garbage)/.

Gains

Our gains are a mixed blessing indeed this week with "Shimmer" by Fuel riding its way up from twenty three to sixteen, "Have A Look" by Vanessa Amorosi rising from twenty one to seventeen and "Weir" by Killing Heidi having the biggest gain of the week rising twelve to twenty six. 

However we also saw "I Don't Want to Wait" by Paula Cole up from thirty four tto twenty nine and "The Hardest Thing" by 98 Degrees up six to thirty one...sigh...can we not make either song a hit please?

Re-Entries

So bit of a weird one this week with Chris Isaak's "Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing" returning to the chart at number thirty five. It originally debuted on the chart in October 1995 peaking at number thirty three in November of that year although apparently the reason this song is back is because of a remix. It's just weird as I really do not care for this song at all. 

New Entries

Five new entries this week beginning with...

50. "I Won't Let You Down" by Kate Cebrano

So we're starting this week with Kate Ceberano's cover of English group Ph.d's 1982 hit and she's turned this song into a spacey sounding pop rock song where I have to ask who did the vocal production on this because Kate doesn't sound that good here, her voice sounds almost buried by the noise that's trying and failing to add more weight and layers to a song that kind of doesn't need it given the subject matter where the narrator is begging for a second chance from their beloved and vowing that they won't let their darling down again. I think I'll pass on this one.

44. "She's So High" by Tal Bachman

- Okay so this week's chart debutant is a Canadian singer songwriter Tal Bachman whose father happened to be in 70s band Bachman Turner Overdrive. Bachman described this song as having taken inspiration from Sheryl Crow's "If It Makes You Happy" and is apparently about the time Bachman tried to get the hottest girl in his school to date his stepbrother but wound up in complete awe of her himself. Just a shame that the thing that bothers me about this song is Bachman himself where he sounds like he is having a wrench tightened on his balls on the hook, its actually tough to listen to.

Throw in the random reference to Joan of Arc who burned at the stake and it's a strange ass thing to be in awe of this girl yet compare her to a woman who burned at the stake...come on, we can do better. Next!

30. "Love's Got a Hold of My Heart" by Steps

So I liked "Heartbeat" from Steps so I was curious what they would offer with this latest single and wow, this feels very much like it was set for a musical theatre stage especially with the way Claire and Faye's are embracing the vocal gymnastics here and even if I am not a fan of the whispered adlibs Lisa provides (tad creepy) but it doesn't take away from the song overall especially as the song builds into that incredibly dramatic chorus that does give off a woman flinging her forearm to her head and gasping "Love has this brutal hold on my heart!" It's a cute Pete Waterman co produced song...check it out.

22. "When I Grow Up" by Garbage

Always fun to have a new Garbage song on the chart and this one is no exception, it comes from their album "Version 2.0" and well this may as well be an alt rock anthem for those people out there who feel misunderstood by the rest of society but are seeking to gain control of their life and live it on their terms ignoring the judgements of others who try to do to the contrary, Shirley Manson is also very adept at selling this message because my god does she command the attention on this song, she's got this tone that makes this song work, she's the one in control of her...nobody else. This is definitely worth a listen...good song, shame I can't say the same for...

4. "If Ya Gettin' Down" by Five

I mean...if we're going to give Five the highest charting new song of the week, it couldn't have been for something that's better than a brag anthem where every line of the hook ends in the word 'baby' all before J raps about refreshing your mind that boys are bring the funk back to town, well I'd say they were bringing the funk back if it weren't for the god damn piercing whistle on the hook, the amateurish brag rapping from J smf ABS (who opens his verse wtth "wiggy wiggy, I'm getting jiggy". Seriously? Who on earth is impressed by the rhyming here? Also telling us he only has 12 seconds left on his verse, nobody asked, dude.)  

The most I can praise here is the bass groove which actually unlike the rest of this mess has an appeal and under anything that's better that god awful rapping and that piercing whistle that would drive cars into dirches, there'd be some appeal but no, this song can get in the fucking bin.

Yeah, easy worst of the week for "If Ya Gettin' Down" by Five, I never want to hear that song again. Best of the week is going to Garbage for "When I Grow Up", it's just got more connectivity for me than "Love's Got a Hold on My Heart" by Steps/

ARIA Top 50 Singles Chart Review 10th August. The One Where I Try To Go As Easy As Possible

 So we got the Ariana Grande album bomb and while I doon't really have a lot to say about the album, I will get to what I have to say about it later so let's dive into the top ten where of course "Choosin' Texas" by Ella Langley continues to rein supreme at number one for another week, it's got streaming and sales on lock at this point and nothing is getting near it.

Not even the album boost for "Hate That I Made You Love Me" by Ariana Grande up four slots to number two, would expect to see this fall back next week however it did push "Man I Need" by Olivia Dean back one to number three and "Rein Me In" by Sam Fender and Olivia back to number four.

The album bomb from Ariana Grande ensured that the album title track and new single "Petal" entered at number five, more on this song later, it did knock "Stupid Song" by Olivia Rodrigo back to number six and "Ordinary" by Alex Warren down three to number seven.

Holding steady at number eight much to my surprise is "Animal" by Katseye, I am okay with it, just surprised. "Earrings" by Malcolm Todd fell two slots to number nine and "The Cure" by Olivia Rodrigo slipped back one to round out the top ten at number ten. 

Losers

So this album bomb didn't force the large scale double digit drops for so many songs this week so I am going to focus on those double digit drops starting with "Noble" by F3miii which slipped fifteen to fifty.

"The One That Got Away" by Katy Perry slipped ten slots to forty six, it was also a ten place drop for "White Keys" by Dominic Fike to forty two. 

"Where is My Husband" by Raye slumped eleven to thirty three and "12 to 12" by Sombr trundled down ten to thirty one. 

"Drop Dead" by Olivia Rodrigo dropped thirteen to twenty nine.

Drop Outs

So because of the album bomb we have a slew of songs dropping out that will in likelihood all be back next week so let's rip through these beginning with "Been By Now" by Morgan Wallen, "Orbiter" by Noah Kahan, "Stateside" by Pink Pantheress feat. Zara Larsson, "Midnight Sun" by Zara Larsson, "I Just Might" by Bruno Mars, "Kingdom of Fear" by Cameron Whitcomb, "Undressed" by Sombr, "Bed on Fire" by G Flip, "Freaked Out" by Fat Papi and prodshushy, "Sailor Song" by Gigi Perez and finally the last of the Olivia Rodrigo album tracks "Honeybee"

Gains

Just the one maor gain this week with it unfortunately being "Bloodstream" by Alyssa Gace which rose eleven slots to eighteen...yay...not

New Entries

So we did get an Ariana Grande album bomb for "Petal" this week so let's go through the debuts that weren't top ten or best or worst of the week. "Nowhere, nobody" at forty eight, 'Warning Signs (interlude)" at forty seven", "never get over me" enters at forty,"freak" at thirty nine "big feelings" at thirty five, "like i do" at twenty two, "stay" at twenty, "all well" at nineteen and "kiss me" at twelve.

All that makes things easier because we now only have two songs to talk about and they are both Ariana Grande songs, beginning with....

43. "Bad Things (Bunny Hop)" by Ariana Grande

So "Petal" as an album is...fine...it's not good but it's not terrible either, if anything is emblematic of an artist making what amounts to be one of the artist's most creatively tired albums to date, I can't imagine Ariana is exactly getting much rest between Wicked and her current tour for her previous album, it kind of reminds me a lot of "The Life of A Showgirl" by Taylor Swift in that both are tired albums from artists who probably should have taken a break post tour/post filming before even writing said albums. 

As for this song, it's one of the better tracks on the album although it's really because it plays close to "Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd in it's sound and even if Ariana's vocals sound tired and bored, I can tolerate this. Good song. At least, it's better than...

5. "Petal" by Ariana Grande.

I knew this was going to be bad when somebody mentioned that it sounded like "7 Rings", a song that I still hate to this very day, and yeah this does remind me of "7 Rings" with that drippy synth line and production that can barely hold itself together and Ariana sounding frail as all hell in the mix. 

I hope time away helps Ariana to get better and time erases this song. 

It's easy worst of the week. "Bad Things (Bunny Hop)" gets best of the week. Keeping the reviews short and sharp this week, really felt uncomfortable even talking about Ariana right now especially with how horrible the discourse around her has been. 

Next week...huh...the fall out and what could be a quiet week. Stay tuned for the next episode of "Pretty Fly (For 1999)" as well!

Pretty Fly (For 1999) 8th August 2 Times in the Wild West.

Alright so we have a bit of a quieter week this week, not complaining as things are for once a bit crazy on the 2026 ARIA singles chart this week with the Ariana Grande album bomb but we still have a full top 50 to look at here so let's dive into the top ten where the top two remain the same as last week with "Last Kiss" by Pearl Jam remaining at the number one spot for a second week ahead of "If You Had My Love" by Jennifer Lopez remaining at number two.

Rising two spots to number three is "Boom Boom Boom Boom!" by The Vengaboys because of course it took advantages of the weaknesses of "Sometimes" by Britney Spears which slipped one spot to number four and "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None the Richer which fell back to number five. 

Shania Twain's "Man! I Feel Like A Woman!" remained at number six this week while "Whien You Say Nothing at All" by Ronan Keating continued it's rise up two to number seven, it did push past "Say It Once" by Ultra down one to number eight, 

"Sweet Like Chocolate" by Shanks & Bigfoot climbed four slots into the top ten at number nine which is pretty sweet for this song while finally "Beautiful Stranger" by Madonna is starting to develop growing pains down four to number ten.

Losers

We did see some big losers this week with "What It's Like" by Everlast down seven to fifty,. "The Animal Song" by Savage Garden dropping from forty two to forty nine and "Honey to the Bee" by Billie Piper hitting the skids down from thirty five to forty eight...ouch!

TLC's "No Scrubs" dived eight to forty one while Geri Halliwell's "Look At Me" slumped seven to thirty and "Why Don't You Get a Job?" by The Offspring slumped from twenty to twenty eight. 

Gains

Not too many major gains this week with "Weir" by Killing Heidi up six slots to thirty eight but the big gain of the week belonged to "All Star" by Smash Mouth as it smashed it's way up from thirty one to seventeen. I am happy about both these songs gaining.

However can we please stop it with the gains for "Stay the Same" by Joey McIntyre, it's up from thirty nine to thirty one this week. Please stop. 

Re-Entries

Two re-entries this week with "Ana's Song (Open Fire)" by Silverchair back at number forty three and weirdly enough Orgy's cover of "Blue Monday" came back at forty five.

New Entries

Just two new entries this week beginning with///

40. "2 Times" by Ann Lee

1999 feels like the year of the chart debutant because we have another one this week in the form of English singer Ann Lee, this being her lead single and well, I am not really digging this at all mostly because Lee's vocals just do not have  any kind of presence or power to them that make me want to go back to this song again. For a dance/electronic song to sound this small scale and kind of twee sounding right down to the high pitched do dos. Not a song I really want sticking around...next!

11. "Wi;d Wild West" by Will Smith feat. Dru Hill & Kool Mo Dee

So we finally got a new single from Will Smith following on from the success of "Miami" earlier in 1999 with this song created for a steampunk film of the same name that Smith starring in and indeed the song is all about Smith's character in the movie Jim West and how he is such a tough stern agent that he cannot be messed with and the song actually samples Stevie Wonder's 1976 hit "I Wiish" rather prominently and you know what? I had an insane amount of fun with this song, Will Smith slides straight into character effortlessly...this is good fun...check it out.

Obviously best of the week goes to "Wild Wild West". Worst of the week going to "2 Times" by Ann Lee because I really cannot stand that song. 

ARIA Top 50 Singles Chart Review. 3rd August. The One Where Forgettable Is the Word

 So this week is a stagnant sludge pool, the top ten barely moved at all apart from the new entry with some questionable quality that entered in the lowe half of the top ten that forced some change but anyway let's dive into it because for yet another week, it's "Choosin' Texas" by Ella Langley at number one and again, it's still dominant on sales and streaming that nothing is getting close to it. 

"Man I Need" by Olivia Dean remains at number two because it's on the downswing on streaming, "Rein Me In" by Sam Fender glued to number three, "Ordinary" by Alex Warren at number four, "Stupid Song" by Olivia Rodrigo at number five, "Hate that I Made You Love Me" by Ariana Grande and "Earrings" by Malcolm Todd remained all remained in the same positions as last week.

The new entry at number eight this week is "Animal" by Katseye, we'll get to the dubious quality of this song later but it's here because of some tremendous streaming so much so it pushed "The Cure" by Olivia Rodrigo back to number ninne. 

Finally into the top ten is "Dai Dai" by Shakira and Burna Boy at number ten, I don't expect this song to last in the top ten.

Losers

"Freaked Out' by Fat Papi and Prodshushy slipped seven spots off its debut to forty nine. 

A whole slew of songs slipped six spots this week including "Kingdom of Fear" by Cameron Whitcomb to forty six, "Honeybee" by Olivia Rodrigo to forty (this is likely the next single that Olivia recorded a video for IMO), "I Knew It/ I Knew You" by Taylor Swift dropped to twenty eight and "Daisies" by Justin Bieber to twenty four

Drop Outs

Four songs dropped out this week with three of them being Gracie Abrams songs in "Hit the Wall", "Good Reason" and "Look At My Life". 

The only other drop out is unfortunately "My Body Isn't Ready" by Sombr, would have liked to have seen this stick around and become a hit. 

Gains

So I am not wild about "Great Expectation" by Sienna Spiro being the biggest gainer of the week up nine to thirty nine bit "Material Lover" did go up six to forty one.

Heck, I am also happy that "Broken Window Serenade" by Whiskey Myers climbed six to forty four.

Re Entries

Two returns this week with "Undressed" by Sombr back at forty seven while "I Just Might" by Bruno Mars returns at forty five

New Entries

Two new entries this week beginning with...

33. "Been By Now" by Morgan Wallen

It;'s probably well worth noting before going any further that I do  not expect either of this week's new entries to stick around much beyond this week and given this Morgan Wallen song debuted low, I do wonder if Australian audiences have moved on from him or maybe its because this song is pretty damn forgettablesludge that doesn't even bother to try to be a country song, it's a pop song and one that doesn't even flatter Morgan Wallen's vocals which sound rougher than they should over the muddy as hell mix. 

As for the content, it's yet aoother sour as hell break up song except the relationship appears to be stuck in some limbo where Wallen realizes that if this girl had of wanted to be with him, they'd be together by now, it just comes across as whiny and when the production is not all interesting...yeah, I'd hope this doesn't stick around.

8. "Animal" by Katseye.

Oh god...I was hoping for something other than Katseye being the other new entry this week, this group's music is just banal noise to me half the time especially this year where they released god damn "Internet Girl" which sounded like Onision's leftovers where he moved on from bananas to zucchini howver much to my surprise, "Animal" is actually fine? It's an Ed Sheeran penned song that I guess he felt weird about recording given the content of the song being what it is and the fact that he is a married father of two, a song about being an animal in the bedroom probably wouldn't go down well given how the general republic reacted to "Shape of You" in 2017 so he handed this song to Katseye.

It turned out to be a good decision for both Katseye and Sheeran, Katseye are definitely more suited to conventional pop music rather than their brand of somewhat chaotic k-pop that doesn't flatter the girls voices whatsoever,,,now Katseye still doesn't know how to harmonise properly but this is a decent improvement on their past efforts, check this out.

"Animal" by Katseye gets best of the week while "Been By Now" by Morgan Wallen gets worst of the week because that song is just forgettable and honestly worthless.

Next week...Ariana Grande album bomb and the discourse surrounding Ariana.

Pretty Fly (For 1999). 1st August. I Don't Want Saltwater In a Wait Weir

 No stuffing around this week, let's jump right into it because we do have a new number one...shame it's "Last Kiss" by Pearl Jam...yeah, I still do not like this song, it feels nothing like what Pearl Jam are capable of but it had a great sales week to dethrone "If You Had My Love" by Jennifer Lopez. "If You Had My Love" slipped bac to number two,.

"Sometimes" by Britney Spears also slipped back to number three as a result and "Kiss Me" by Sixpence None The Richer back to number four. 

Rising four slots to number five is "Boom Boom Boom Boom!" by Vengaboys while "Man! I Feel Like A Woman" by Shania Twain rebounded one to number six.

All this pushed "Say It Once" by Ultra back two slots to number seven likewise for Madonna's "Beautiful Stranger" which also slipped two to number eight.

Much to my surprise rising five of it's debut last week is "When You Say Nothing At All" by Ronan Keating! Must be 'Notting Hill" being popular causing that.

Finally "Get Set" by Taxiride fell two to number ten. Hoping it can hang around in the top ten a lot longer. 

Losers.

"Dear Mama" by 2Pac slipped nine spots to forty six this week while former number one "No Scrubs" by TLC slumped from sixteen to thirty three. 

Gains

The gains this week are on the pretty awful front and they are both from New Kids on the Block alumni with Jordan Knight's "Give It to You" up nine to thirty six while "Stay The Same" by Joey McIntyre rose eleven to thirty nine. Ugh.

Re-Entries

Just one return this week courtesy of "Shimmer" by Shawn Mullins at forty seven.

New Entries

Four new entries this week beginning with...

50. "Happiness" by Regurgitator

The ead single for Regurgitator's third album "....art" and honestly given how much a single like "Polyester Girl" was fucking amazing I was curious to see what this Australian group had up their sleeves for this album and this is a pretty interesting track mostly due to it sounding very indie rock with that guitar and while I do wish the vocals were a bit louder in the mix, I do think this somewhat fits with what the song is going for because the content is all about finding small superficial distractions as coping mechanisms in a world that is increasingly more demanding and the news cycle seems to be getting worse...which yeah feels way too real. 

44. "Weir" by Killing Heidi

The Australian theme continues because we have the debut single from rock band Killing Heidi, it's the lead single for the band's debut album "Reflector" and wow, this song doesn't doesn't waste it's time getting going as the band's frontwoman Ella Hooper croons her way through the verses but absolutely lets rip on the chorus and she sounds incredible. The song appears to be about friendship, growing up and spending time wth those friends on a waterway like the town reservoir or weir. Sweet song, hope this becomes a hit.

34. "I Don't Want to Wait" by Paula Cole

So here have the theme song for the hit TV show Dawsons Creek coming from American singer-songwriter and well I am not really feeling this song, Cole has a nice sounding voice but this instrumental is not doing much for me at all here, I do wish it did something more than just chug along because otherwise it's a pretty standard singer/songwriter cut where Cole sings about not letting history infect the future but live a full and present life in the current times. It's fine enough but I am going to forget this pretty quickly even with it being a TV show theme.

32. "Saltwater" by Chicane feat. Maire Brennan

Ending off the week with an electronic trance track from English producer Chicane who brought Irish singer Maire Brennan onto this song and...this is pretty good. Chicane restrains himself enough on the production to allow Brennan's vocals the space to grow and swell as the song needs, she sounds absolutely incredible. As for the content, well it's more a song that just feels the ocean and it's vibe rather than having any sort of coherent message with lyrics but for electronic/trance songs, this is pretty good. Check it out.

That wraps the week and I dispensing with Worst of the Week for this week as none of these songs really deserve it. Best of the week in a close race is going to "Weir" by Killing Heidi.