Fair too say that this is late because I was dreading having to parse my way through this week's chart which at the moment is anything less than good, seriously... you'll see what I mean.
At number one for yet another week is "God's Plan" by Drake even though the video is absolutely wonderful, I fail to remember anything Drake said in the actual song. I assume
Post Malone and Ty Dolla $ign remain at number 2 with the underwhelming "Psycho" (I expect this song to fall hard soon)
"All the Stars" by Kendrick Lamar and SZA remains stuck at number 3 as does "These Days" by Rudimental, Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen at number 4 and "Meant to be" by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line at number 5
Ed Sheeran on tour in Australia gave a number of Sheeran's songs from "Divide" boosts including "Perfect" which jumped four places to number 6.
That pushed "IDGAF" by Dua Lipa down to number 7.
Now we reach the first of two new entries to the top 10 "The Middle" by Zedd at number 7, Maren Morris and Gray's first top ten hit in Australia. Makes sense given that it's really "Stay. Part 2"
At nine is the second of the new arrivals to the top 10, "Friends" by Marshmello and Anne Marie...a song that has become increasingly juvenile...but it climbed 5 places to reach it's new peak this week.
A song headed out of the top 10 is "I Fall Apart" by Post Malone which fell 3 spots to number 10.
Gainers
The biggest gainer of the week was somehow "Shape of You" by Ed Sheeran which climbed 11 places to 25 and has now been on the chart 61 weeks however the song should start to fade away now that Ed Sheeran has left the country. "Divide" also returns to number one on the album chart.
Apart from that there was no real major gainers this week apart from the two songs that broke into the top ten.
Returns
Two returns to the top 50 was "Good Ol' Days" by Macklemore and Kesha at 49 and Calum Scott's "You Are the Reason" at number 40.
Outside of the top 50: it was pretty much the Ed Sheeran show with "Happier" at 82, "Dive" at 98 and even "Photograph" returned at 97. Calum Scott's 'Dancing On My Own" returned at 77.
Losers
The biggest loser of the week was "Rewrite the Stars" by Zac Efron and Zendaya which fell from 37 to 44. "We're Going Home" by Vance Joy dropped from 16 to 20. Both because the hype is fading away.
Other than that, there wasn't any real big losers.
Drop Outs
Three drop outs this week with "Want You Back" by 5 Seconds of Summer, "What Lovers Do" by Maroon 5 and SZA and "Lay It On Me" by Vance Joy all dropping out. Not fussed on any of those leaving really. "Want You Back" is terrible, "What Lovers Do" and "Lay It On Me" have had their time on the chart.
New Entries
One new entry to the top 50 which was (unfortunately) "SAD!" by XXXentacion at number 33.
Outside of the top 50, Meghan Trainor's new single "No Excuses" entered at 60 (wonder how much probability there is of it making the top 50), "Everyday" by Logic and Marshmello at 61, "Ric Flair Drip" by Metro Boomin' and Offset at 66, "Changes" by XXXentacion at 87, "Need You" by Flight Facilities feat. Nika at 96 and "Stranger Things" by Joyner Lucas and Chris Brown at 100.
Let's hope the chart improves because this week sucked like the proverbial butthole.
Friday, 16 March 2018
Monday, 12 March 2018
New Music Friday: Meghan Trainor is back
Look, let's just get stuck into this week's New Music Friday Review without going through a whole preamble cause I got to be honest, it was a tough week for new music last week which saw the returns of Meghan Trainor and DJ Khaled, Khaled bringing along three big name stars in the world of hip hop and R 'n' B along for the ride so I suspect I might well either be pleasantly surprised or getting on board the conga line of suck.
This song was an oasis in a desert of crap and any wonder it's so good when Mark Lizzotte was one of the co-writers on 'Golden Age" but firstly to explain who Fergus James is, he is an 18 year old from Sydney who is currently getting plenty of attention courtesy of Triple J's Unearthed and cites Vance Joy as one of his influences.
Well I'll say this for Fergus, this song is better than a large majority of Vance Joy's last album, "Golden Age" on piano, synths and percussion but it's done really well and has this absolutely anthemic chorus. This should be a hit but knowing how Australia has kind of rejected music by Aussie artists in recent years I don't hold out much hope
Rating: 9/10
Look, I really don't have much to say about this song except that it is fantastic and that Jack River needs a lot more mainstream recognition. Please give this woman a chance.
Rating: 8/10
Best of the week: In a terrible week for new music, "Golden Age" by Fergus James gets the best
Worst of the week: "Top Off" by DJ Khaled featuring Jay Z, Beyonce and Future
Next New Music Friday Review:
Jessica Mauboy's song that she will be taking to Lisbon for Eurovision
Song: No Excuses
Artist: Meghan Trainor
So the woman, who many put at the top of their worst hit songs of 2016 lists for "Me Too" and quite rightly so that song was insufferable each and every way you looked at it, is back with a brand new single called "No Excuses" and I have to say the song is growing on me in terms of the instrumentation, it's definitely got that instrumental appeal about it but the lyrics are the problem with this song as per usual with a Meghan Trainor song which are nauseatingly repetitive especially into the chorus until Meghan sings "Your mama raised you better than that, huh!" and the verses really don't tell a story of how this guy is 'disrespecting' her and the "huh!" noise is not at all flattering.
So really it's an instrumental improvement overall.
Rating: 5/10. I'm sticking with Aretha when I want a 'respect anthem'
Song: Top Off
Artists: DJ Khaled, Future, Jay Z, Beyonce
Oh boy, I wasn't at all looking forward to writing about this song because it the simple and purest language, I can effectively say this is the WORST song DJ Khaled has ever released. Future sounds like he was having an off day so phoned it in while Beyonce strangely tries rap comes off sounding worse for the effort, Jay Z maybe fares the best but when the most interesting take aways from this song are Beyonce calling out Tiffany Haddish and Kim Kardashian and joining Jay Z in calling for the release of Meek Mill from jail in amidst bragging over their immense wealth, it's really not much of a song at all.
Rating: 2/10
Song: Golden Age
Artist: Fergus James
This song was an oasis in a desert of crap and any wonder it's so good when Mark Lizzotte was one of the co-writers on 'Golden Age" but firstly to explain who Fergus James is, he is an 18 year old from Sydney who is currently getting plenty of attention courtesy of Triple J's Unearthed and cites Vance Joy as one of his influences.
Well I'll say this for Fergus, this song is better than a large majority of Vance Joy's last album, "Golden Age" on piano, synths and percussion but it's done really well and has this absolutely anthemic chorus. This should be a hit but knowing how Australia has kind of rejected music by Aussie artists in recent years I don't hold out much hope
Rating: 9/10
Song: Ballroom
Artist: Jack River
Look, I really don't have much to say about this song except that it is fantastic and that Jack River needs a lot more mainstream recognition. Please give this woman a chance.
Rating: 8/10
Best of the week: In a terrible week for new music, "Golden Age" by Fergus James gets the best
Worst of the week: "Top Off" by DJ Khaled featuring Jay Z, Beyonce and Future
Next New Music Friday Review:
Jessica Mauboy's song that she will be taking to Lisbon for Eurovision
Tuesday, 6 March 2018
ARIA Top 10/Chart Review: 5th March. Post Malone racks up another hit
So this week was a pretty normal one by the standard of the ARIA chart, sure we got a new entry debuting rather high in the top ten and some movement up and down the chart but nothing greatly unusual.
Of course we start with the top ten and there's no change at the top with "God's Plan" by Drake at number one for a fifth week and I don't see anything knocking it off at the moment
Then we get to the new entry at number 2, "Psycho" by Post Malone feat. Ty Dolla $ign. Post Malone's third top 10 hit in Australia and Ty Dolla $ign's 2nd (he was on the horrid Fifth Harmony song "Work from Home" in 2016).
The arrival of "Psycho" pushed "All The Stars" by Kendrick Lamar and SZA back to number 3 and "These Days" by Rudimental, Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen back to number 4.
"Meant to Be" by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line slipped one back to number 5.
A song that is actually climbing the chart though is Dua Lipa's "IDGAF" which climbed one place to number 6 and with Dua in Australia at the moment, I suspect that this song might well be propelled into the top 5 which I wouldn't mind at all because it's a good song.
Post Malone's other top ten hit "I Fall Apart" finally fell out of the top 5 to number 7 while "River" by Eminem feat. Ed Sheeran fell two places to number 8.
"Pray for Me" by The Weekend and Kendrick Lamar pushed further into the top 10 jumping one place to number 9.
"Perfect" by Ed Sheeran fell two places to number 10 and looks likely to be gone from the top ten soon. Good.
Gains
The arrival of Vance Joy's "Nation of Two" album saw "We're Going Home" jump from 31 to 16 (just a pity the album is getting critically panned and sadly I kind have to agree...it's not a good album at all) in what was the biggest move of the week.
"Friends" by Marshmello and Anne Marie jumped from 22 to 13. "Love Lies" by Khalid and Normani went to 19 from 29.
Possibly because Ed Sheeran is in Australia, "Shape Of You" continues to hang around, it jumped 4 places to 34. It has now spent 60 weeks on the Australian chart. LONGEVITY, MAN!
"Capital Letters" by Hailee Steinfeld and Bloodpop also jumped off the back of it's debut last week, it went to 39.
Re- Entries
There was one re-entry to the top 50 with Vance Joy's "Lay It On Me" returning off the back of the release of the new album.
As for the top 100? Well, "Supermarket Flowers" by Ed Sheeran returned at 77 because it looks like being Ed's new single from "Divide"
Losses
Biggest loser of the week was "Silence" by Marshmello and Khalid which fell 10 places to 27, Others that are losing ground include "Havana" by Camila Cabello feat. Sex formerly known as Young Thug fell to 26, "Go Bang" by Pnau" 23 and "Let Me Go" by Hailee Steinfeld feat. Alesso and Watt which fell to 33.
What was surprising was the sudden big drop to 18 for "Finesse by Bruno Mars feat. Cardi B.
Also falling are "What Lovers Do" by Maroon 5 feat. SZA from 33 to 40, "Young, Dumb and Broke" by Khalid to 44 from 36 and "Thunder" by Imagine Dragons from 39 to 46.
Drop Outs
The drop outs are a little surprising this week and when I say surprising I mean "Think About You" by Delta Goodrem is gone after just one week, the song isn't all that bad so am rather surprised it didn't stick around.
Of the others to go the only significant one is "Good Old days" by Macklemore and Kesha which peaked at number 8 and remained on the chart for 22 weeks. It's the only song that could potentially make the year end list of this lot of drop outs
The Chainsmokers "Sick Boy" exits after 5 weeks on the charts after really being a complete non starter of the song.
The final drop out is "Numb" by Hayden James and Graace which exited after 4 weeks.
New Entries
There were two other new entries to the top 50 besides "Psycho", both being pretty damn awful. "Want You Back" by 5 Seconds of Summer arrives at 32 and "Look Alive" by BlocBoy JB and Drake at number 36.
Outside the top 50? The highest of the new entries is Logic's "44 More" at number 85, Maroon 5's sterile "Wait" arrives at number 91 (I hope to god that it doesn't become a hit) and Imagine Dragons reasonably good "Next to Me" at 96.
So that wraps up the ARIA Singles chart review for this week and my god I am not looking forward to next week's chart, the arrivals of both Meghan Trainor and DJ Khaled's new songs, you will find out what I think of both"No Excuses" and "Top Off" in New Music Friday Review.
Saturday, 3 March 2018
New Music Friday: 23rd February: 5SOS become The New Chainsmokers, Janelle Monae kicks butt
So this week was strange...there was plenty of quality though! Just we got plenty of crap as well. 5 Seconds of Summer are back with a change of direction, Janelle Monae returns and Post Malone teams up with Ty Dollar $ign for "Psycho"
Song: Want You Back
Artists: 5 Seconds of Summer
It's been awhile between releases for 5 Seconds of Summer with "Want You Back" being the lead off single from their as yet untitled third album and they've elected to go down more of a pop route instead of sticking to their pop/punk roots which in a sense is fine because pop/punk isn't where the money is plus if you saw the playlist they put together citing their influences for their new album (yikes) then I suspect you would realize that this change has been coming.
So what did we get with "Want You Back"? A quite unremarkable song bearing a mix of all the hallmarks of The Chainsmokers at their self aggrandising worst and Maroon 5 at their most sterile which is is odd for a song about unrequited love and how he is struggling to get over this girl who he has made clear he wants back with the all basic as hell lyrics. I suspect even 5 Seconds of Summer fans were disappointed that this load of nonsense is the lead off single.
Rating; 4/10
Title: Psycho
Artists: Post Malone,Ty Dolla $ign
Post Malone had a fantastic 2017 which came as a shock to many people, he had his first major hit with "Rockstar" and with the streaming numbers that "Psycho" is accruing, this looks like doing better than "Rockstar"...just a pity that in terms of quality "Psycho" isn't all that good, the same now extremely done to death by the numbers trap beat with your standard luxury rap bring about women, cars and jewellery that has been done to death since 2014. Pass
Rating: 4.5/10
Song: Make Me Feel
Artist: Janelle Monae
So much like CHVRCHES, I have pretty much slept on Janelle Monae and it turns out I slept on something pretty special because "Make Me Feel" is a groove infected R 'n' B funk song that harks back to the 80s and Janelle is just owning it. Makes it all the more special that late Prince assisted in the writing of this song because you can hear the Prince influence all over this song. I love it and I hope it becomes a smash hit.
Rating: 9/10
Song: White Flag
Artist: Bishop Briggs
Another artist who I wish I'd listened to before I came across "White Flag" is Bishop Briggs because this song is a dark anthemic rock song with verses that build into this absolutely crushing chorus. This song comes from her forthcoming album 'Church of Scars" and after listening to this song, I am kind of keen on hearing that album cause this song kicks arse.
Rating: 8/10
Song: Next to Me
Artist: Imagine Dragons
So I really didn't like either single from Evolve, "Believer" wore my patience in record time and "Thunder" wound up pretty high on my worst songs of 2017 list as it turns out "Next To Me" isn't on the standard edition of Evolve and it's no wonder because this song is substantially better than a lot of that album but it is a slow burn sort of song and I can imagine that not everyone is going to love it instantly.
Rating: 7/10
Best of the Week: "Make Me Feel" by Janelle Monae.
Worst: "Want You Back" by 5 Seconds of Summer
Coming up in the next edition of New Music Friday Review
Oh lordy, Meghan Trainor is back with "No Excuses", DJ Khaled also returns teaming with Jay Z, Beyonce and Future for "Top Off"
Song: Want You Back
Artists: 5 Seconds of Summer
It's been awhile between releases for 5 Seconds of Summer with "Want You Back" being the lead off single from their as yet untitled third album and they've elected to go down more of a pop route instead of sticking to their pop/punk roots which in a sense is fine because pop/punk isn't where the money is plus if you saw the playlist they put together citing their influences for their new album (yikes) then I suspect you would realize that this change has been coming.
So what did we get with "Want You Back"? A quite unremarkable song bearing a mix of all the hallmarks of The Chainsmokers at their self aggrandising worst and Maroon 5 at their most sterile which is is odd for a song about unrequited love and how he is struggling to get over this girl who he has made clear he wants back with the all basic as hell lyrics. I suspect even 5 Seconds of Summer fans were disappointed that this load of nonsense is the lead off single.
Rating; 4/10
Title: Psycho
Artists: Post Malone,Ty Dolla $ign
Post Malone had a fantastic 2017 which came as a shock to many people, he had his first major hit with "Rockstar" and with the streaming numbers that "Psycho" is accruing, this looks like doing better than "Rockstar"...just a pity that in terms of quality "Psycho" isn't all that good, the same now extremely done to death by the numbers trap beat with your standard luxury rap bring about women, cars and jewellery that has been done to death since 2014. Pass
Rating: 4.5/10
Song: Make Me Feel
Artist: Janelle Monae
So much like CHVRCHES, I have pretty much slept on Janelle Monae and it turns out I slept on something pretty special because "Make Me Feel" is a groove infected R 'n' B funk song that harks back to the 80s and Janelle is just owning it. Makes it all the more special that late Prince assisted in the writing of this song because you can hear the Prince influence all over this song. I love it and I hope it becomes a smash hit.
Rating: 9/10
Song: White Flag
Artist: Bishop Briggs
Another artist who I wish I'd listened to before I came across "White Flag" is Bishop Briggs because this song is a dark anthemic rock song with verses that build into this absolutely crushing chorus. This song comes from her forthcoming album 'Church of Scars" and after listening to this song, I am kind of keen on hearing that album cause this song kicks arse.
Rating: 8/10
Song: Next to Me
Artist: Imagine Dragons
So I really didn't like either single from Evolve, "Believer" wore my patience in record time and "Thunder" wound up pretty high on my worst songs of 2017 list as it turns out "Next To Me" isn't on the standard edition of Evolve and it's no wonder because this song is substantially better than a lot of that album but it is a slow burn sort of song and I can imagine that not everyone is going to love it instantly.
Rating: 7/10
Best of the Week: "Make Me Feel" by Janelle Monae.
Worst: "Want You Back" by 5 Seconds of Summer
Coming up in the next edition of New Music Friday Review
Oh lordy, Meghan Trainor is back with "No Excuses", DJ Khaled also returns teaming with Jay Z, Beyonce and Future for "Top Off"
Tuesday, 27 February 2018
ARIA Singles Chart top ten/ Chart Review; February 26
This week was weird to say the least, the songs that I thought would challenge didn't and the songs that had momentum last week continued that momentum this week and there's no finer example of that then our top ten so let's get stuck into that.
Right now, Drake looks pretty much to be a lock on number one long term with "God's Plan", it's a fourth week at the top and really with songs below it fighting each other, I don't see what knocks it off.
Continuing it's momentum from last week is Kendrick Lamar and SZA's "All The Stars" which climbed from 5 to 2 this week.
This forced "These Days" by Rudimental feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen back to number 3. Needs to pick up on streaming. Seriously.
"Meant to Be" by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line remains at number 4,
Post Malone is doing huge business with his new single 'Psycho" but "I Fall Apart fell two places to number 5.
"River" by Eminem feat. Ed Sheeran got a boost back up to number 6 while "IDGAF" by Dua Lipa continues to smash it's way up the chart jumping two places to number 7.
"Perfect" and various remixes by Ed Sheeran feat. Beyonce or Andrea Boccelli fell two places to number 8.
"Finesse" by Bruno Mars feat. Cardi B slipped to number 9, This song has really had no consistent momentum whatsoever,
Rounding out the top ten at number 10 is "Pray for Me" by The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar.
Gains
Biggest gainer of the week was "We're Going Home" by Vance Joy which rose from 44 to 31 which is great news and seems set to continue that momentum following the album release this week.
Not great news is the continued rise for "The Middle" by Zedd featuring Maren Morris and Grey which went up to 16 frim 27,
"Friends" by Marshmello and Anne-Marie climbed 10 places to 22, Migos also did a ten place climb from 40 to 30 with "Stir Fry". Bazzi went up 5 to 12 with "Mine"
Losers
Khalid had the biggest loser of the week with "Young, Dumb and Broke" falling from 28 to 36. "Re-Write The Stars" by Zac Efron and Zendaya dropped to 34, "Anywhere" by Rita Ora to 42, Most of the losers are those that were already losing ground anyway really.
Drop Outs
No real surprises here with "Homemade Dynamite (remix)" by Lorde, Khalid, SZA and Post Malone gone, it took with it "You are the Reason" by Calum Scott and "How Long" by Charlie uth,
New Entries
Three songs arrived fresh to the chart with the best of them being the collaboration between Khalid and Fifth Harmony's Normani called "Love Lies: at 29, it's brought with it "Think About You" by Delta Goodrem at 32 and "Capital Letters" by Hailee Steinfeld and Bloodpop (another song from the 50 Shades Freed soundtrack) at number 43
As for outside the top 50, the best of them is "Look Alive" by BlocBoy JB feat Drake at 51 (I expect this to arrive in the top 50 next week), "You Owe Me" by The Chainsmokers entered at 82 and "Hurt Somebody" by Noah Kahan and Julia Michaels arrived at number 95,
So will something challenge "God's Plan" soon? Seems like it's set for a long run at number one unless Post Malone and Ty Dollar $ign can do something about it.
See you all soon for New Music Friday Review.
Right now, Drake looks pretty much to be a lock on number one long term with "God's Plan", it's a fourth week at the top and really with songs below it fighting each other, I don't see what knocks it off.
Continuing it's momentum from last week is Kendrick Lamar and SZA's "All The Stars" which climbed from 5 to 2 this week.
This forced "These Days" by Rudimental feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen back to number 3. Needs to pick up on streaming. Seriously.
"Meant to Be" by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line remains at number 4,
Post Malone is doing huge business with his new single 'Psycho" but "I Fall Apart fell two places to number 5.
"River" by Eminem feat. Ed Sheeran got a boost back up to number 6 while "IDGAF" by Dua Lipa continues to smash it's way up the chart jumping two places to number 7.
"Perfect" and various remixes by Ed Sheeran feat. Beyonce or Andrea Boccelli fell two places to number 8.
"Finesse" by Bruno Mars feat. Cardi B slipped to number 9, This song has really had no consistent momentum whatsoever,
Rounding out the top ten at number 10 is "Pray for Me" by The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar.
Gains
Biggest gainer of the week was "We're Going Home" by Vance Joy which rose from 44 to 31 which is great news and seems set to continue that momentum following the album release this week.
Not great news is the continued rise for "The Middle" by Zedd featuring Maren Morris and Grey which went up to 16 frim 27,
"Friends" by Marshmello and Anne-Marie climbed 10 places to 22, Migos also did a ten place climb from 40 to 30 with "Stir Fry". Bazzi went up 5 to 12 with "Mine"
Losers
Khalid had the biggest loser of the week with "Young, Dumb and Broke" falling from 28 to 36. "Re-Write The Stars" by Zac Efron and Zendaya dropped to 34, "Anywhere" by Rita Ora to 42, Most of the losers are those that were already losing ground anyway really.
Drop Outs
No real surprises here with "Homemade Dynamite (remix)" by Lorde, Khalid, SZA and Post Malone gone, it took with it "You are the Reason" by Calum Scott and "How Long" by Charlie uth,
New Entries
Three songs arrived fresh to the chart with the best of them being the collaboration between Khalid and Fifth Harmony's Normani called "Love Lies: at 29, it's brought with it "Think About You" by Delta Goodrem at 32 and "Capital Letters" by Hailee Steinfeld and Bloodpop (another song from the 50 Shades Freed soundtrack) at number 43
As for outside the top 50, the best of them is "Look Alive" by BlocBoy JB feat Drake at 51 (I expect this to arrive in the top 50 next week), "You Owe Me" by The Chainsmokers entered at 82 and "Hurt Somebody" by Noah Kahan and Julia Michaels arrived at number 95,
So will something challenge "God's Plan" soon? Seems like it's set for a long run at number one unless Post Malone and Ty Dollar $ign can do something about it.
See you all soon for New Music Friday Review.
Friday, 23 February 2018
New Music Friday Review 16th February: Delta's Back
New Music Friday last week was weird because we really got a couple of big releases but beyond that it was pretty quiet, what we did get was new Delta Goodrem, Khalid teaming up with Normani from 5th Harmony and a new single from Lauv.
Let's begin with the return of Delta Goodrem though, shall we?
Song: Think About You
Artist: Delta Goodrem.
Delta Goodrem is back and she's getting her sexy on, oh yep, make no mistake "Think About You" is RAUNCHY so much so the song has attracted some overseas attention to the point of going viral. As for the song itself, well its definitely a step or more in a new direction for Delta, the lyrics about thinking about a guy being naked when looking at him definitely make this song fit for the 50 Shades soundtrack but hey, I don't mind the song lyrically.
The only thing I would say I am not crazy about the production, another song that sacrifices melody for beats which kind of kills the song a little for me, I still like it as a Delta fan though.
Rating: 7/10
Song: Love Lies
Artists: Khalid, Normani
One of the break out stars of 2017, Khalid collaborating with the best singer from 5th Harmony, Normani, for a song from the soundtrack of a new film called "Love, Simon" the sound track of said film is being curated by Jack Antonoff who played a major role in the creation of Lorde's "Melodrama (my favourite album of 2017) so I was interested in whatever Khalid and Normani were going to offer up with 'Love Lies"
"Love Lies" could well be one of my favourite songs of the year, I am not kidding, I love the gentle guitar at the beginning and Khalid and Normani have an engaging chemistry that oozes all over this track. Normani just delivers on her vocals, this song should be a bonafide hit in Australia given how many hits we've already given Khalid, this deserves to be huge.
Rating: 9/10
Song: Church
Artist: Alison Wonderland
Alison Wonderland is another artist I keep saying I am going to get into but I never do so I snatched up the opportunity to give her a chance with "Church" and really, this is a good pop song that won't get the attention it deserves. "Church" is an electronic pop song that just snaps in all the good places. Nice work!
Rating: 8/10
Song: Getting Over You
Artist: Lauv
So Lauv is desperately trying to follow up the success of "I Like Me Better" and I got to say I am not overly convinced. Lauv doesn't have the strongest singing voice and reminds me in a painful way of Charlie Puth in the chorus of "Attention"...not got the intensity the song requires which is a pity because the production is awesome in that it sounds similar to that of songs on Taylor Swift's album '1989'
Rating; 4/10
Other songs to check out:
"Volcanic Love" by The Aces
"Vincent" by Ellie Goulding (it's a cover of Don McLean's song and it is lovely)
"Heart to Break" by Kim Petras
"In the Air" by DMAs (Sounds like an extension of Crowded House's "Together Alone" album in some ways)
Best of the Week: "Love Lies" by Khalid and Normani
Worst of the week: "Getting over You" by Lauv (it's really not that bad of a song)
Next week: 5 Seconds of Summer with "Want You Back", Post Malone teams up with Ty Dollar $ign for "Psycho" and Imagine Dragons with a song that wasn't on "Evolve" originally.
The only thing I would say I am not crazy about the production, another song that sacrifices melody for beats which kind of kills the song a little for me, I still like it as a Delta fan though.
Rating: 7/10
Song: Love Lies
Artists: Khalid, Normani
One of the break out stars of 2017, Khalid collaborating with the best singer from 5th Harmony, Normani, for a song from the soundtrack of a new film called "Love, Simon" the sound track of said film is being curated by Jack Antonoff who played a major role in the creation of Lorde's "Melodrama (my favourite album of 2017) so I was interested in whatever Khalid and Normani were going to offer up with 'Love Lies"
"Love Lies" could well be one of my favourite songs of the year, I am not kidding, I love the gentle guitar at the beginning and Khalid and Normani have an engaging chemistry that oozes all over this track. Normani just delivers on her vocals, this song should be a bonafide hit in Australia given how many hits we've already given Khalid, this deserves to be huge.
Rating: 9/10
Song: Church
Artist: Alison Wonderland
Alison Wonderland is another artist I keep saying I am going to get into but I never do so I snatched up the opportunity to give her a chance with "Church" and really, this is a good pop song that won't get the attention it deserves. "Church" is an electronic pop song that just snaps in all the good places. Nice work!
Rating: 8/10
Song: Getting Over You
Artist: Lauv
So Lauv is desperately trying to follow up the success of "I Like Me Better" and I got to say I am not overly convinced. Lauv doesn't have the strongest singing voice and reminds me in a painful way of Charlie Puth in the chorus of "Attention"...not got the intensity the song requires which is a pity because the production is awesome in that it sounds similar to that of songs on Taylor Swift's album '1989'
Rating; 4/10
Other songs to check out:
"Volcanic Love" by The Aces
"Vincent" by Ellie Goulding (it's a cover of Don McLean's song and it is lovely)
"Heart to Break" by Kim Petras
"In the Air" by DMAs (Sounds like an extension of Crowded House's "Together Alone" album in some ways)
Best of the Week: "Love Lies" by Khalid and Normani
Worst of the week: "Getting over You" by Lauv (it's really not that bad of a song)
Next week: 5 Seconds of Summer with "Want You Back", Post Malone teams up with Ty Dollar $ign for "Psycho" and Imagine Dragons with a song that wasn't on "Evolve" originally.
Tuesday, 20 February 2018
ARIA Top Ten/Chart Review: February 19th plus Overseas SMASH HITS
So this week is the fall out of last week and wow, what we got was...interesting to say the least and with what looks to be coming to the chart next week, we could be staring at another shake up shortly.
"Let You Down" by NF and "Silence" by Marshmello and Khalid both left the top ten after extremely respectable runs. "Let You Down" went to 11 and "Silence" to 14.
Now to the top 10 and for a third week "God's Plan" by Drake sits at number one and given the video has just come out plus the excellent streaming and with sales coming on board, I doubt we'll see this leaving number one even with one likely challenger next week.
Rudimental feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen did as predicted and rose 2 places to number 2. This has potential to be a long term number 2 but I'd certainly wish it was the long term number one over any Drake song.
Post Malone stays where he is at number 3 with "I Fall Apart"
A song I am finding increasingly annoying is "Meant To Be" by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line which regained one place to number 4.
The Black Panther soundtrack made it's impression in the top ten witb "All the Stars" by Kendrick Lamar and SZA jumping from 19 to 5. Not unsurprising and I do like the song even with thr production issues I have with the song.
Former chart topper "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran fell four places to number 6. Good.
Speaking of Ed Sheeran, "River" by Eminem feat. Sheeran stayed at number 7.
"Finesse" by Bruno Mars feat. Cardi B fell two places to number 8 because can't have good things in the top 5 right now.
Well actually there is one good thing below it and that is the second arrival to the top 10 that being "IDGAF" by Dua Lipa which rose 2 to number 9. It's no shock that I love this song and am delighted to see it in the top 10.
Finally rounding out the top 10 is Camila Cabello's nauseating failed Kate Bush impersonation of a song "Never Be The Same" which fell two to number 10.
Gains
I'll go through some of the huge gains the biggest being for "For You" by Liam Payne and Rita Ora which rose from 45 to 18 because the 50 Shades Freed soundtrack was released, also from the Black Panther soundtrack "Pray for Me" by The Weekend and Kendrick Lamar rose from 18 to 12 and 'Stay Part 2' otherwise known as "The Middle" by Zedd feat. Maren Morris and Grey somehow got traction and jumped from 50 to 27 (it's picked up some radio unfortunately..it's NOT A GOOD SONG). Bazzi's "Mine" rose from 33 to 17.
Re-Emtries
"You Are the Reason" by Calum Scott returned at number 49 but that was because there was a remix of the song done with Leona Lewis.
Losers
The biggest loser was of course "Humble" by Kenrick Lamar which fell from 32 to 19 as the Hottest 100 hype fades away, What was disappointing was the Australian songs falling away like "Chateau" by Angus and Julia Stone which dropped to 33 and "Coming Home" by Sheppard to 34. Others look to be on their way out like "Havana" by Camila Cabello and Young Thug fell to 20, "Feel it Still" by Portugal, The Man to 21, "Dirty Sexy Money" by David Guetta, Afrojack, Charli XCX and French Montana to 42 and "Good Old Days" by Macklemore and Kesha to 45.
Drop Outs
Three drop outs this week and I am not complaining about ANY of these leaving, tghe desaturated pop of "End Game" by Taylor Swift featuring Future and Ed Sheeran is gone, the complete and utter mess that is "Filthy by Justin Timberlake and "The Greatest Show" by Hugh Jackman, Keala Settle, Zac Efron and Zendaya is also gone. Not bothered that we lost all three of those songs.
New arrivals.
The highest of the two new entries this week is Marshmello's collaboration with Anne-Marie called "Friends" which entered at 32 (It's a decent song, check it out) and at number 40 arrived Migos with "Stirfry" because Australia realized they hadn't given a hit to a bunch of overexposed rappers.
Outside of the top 50, the Black Panther soundtrack saw "King's Dead" by Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Future and James Blake enter at number 66 and "Futon Couch" by Missy Higgins at number 100 (so disappointing. GET BEHIND MISSY, AUSTRALIA, THE SONG IS EXCELLENT)
So that completes the look at the ARIA Chart for this week but because I am in the mood, I thought I'd throw in some songs that are charting or have charted overseas but for whatever reason haven't become hits here yet.
Overseas SMASH HITS
It peaked at number 3 in Austria and at number 5 in Germany...
"Rooftop" by Nico Santos
This peaked at number 2 in Norway, am surprised Ina Wroldsen has not caught on here.
"Strongest" by Ina Wroldsen
A song that's starting to blow up big around Europe, its at number 2 in Switzerland is this one from Tom Walker.
"Leave a Light on" by Tom Walker
Finally a song that is predicted to debut on the US Hot 100 this week but has already been a huge hit in Europe, spent 2 weeks at the top in France.
"No Roots" by Alice Merton
"Let You Down" by NF and "Silence" by Marshmello and Khalid both left the top ten after extremely respectable runs. "Let You Down" went to 11 and "Silence" to 14.
Now to the top 10 and for a third week "God's Plan" by Drake sits at number one and given the video has just come out plus the excellent streaming and with sales coming on board, I doubt we'll see this leaving number one even with one likely challenger next week.
Rudimental feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen did as predicted and rose 2 places to number 2. This has potential to be a long term number 2 but I'd certainly wish it was the long term number one over any Drake song.
Post Malone stays where he is at number 3 with "I Fall Apart"
A song I am finding increasingly annoying is "Meant To Be" by Bebe Rexha and Florida Georgia Line which regained one place to number 4.
The Black Panther soundtrack made it's impression in the top ten witb "All the Stars" by Kendrick Lamar and SZA jumping from 19 to 5. Not unsurprising and I do like the song even with thr production issues I have with the song.
Former chart topper "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran fell four places to number 6. Good.
Speaking of Ed Sheeran, "River" by Eminem feat. Sheeran stayed at number 7.
"Finesse" by Bruno Mars feat. Cardi B fell two places to number 8 because can't have good things in the top 5 right now.
Well actually there is one good thing below it and that is the second arrival to the top 10 that being "IDGAF" by Dua Lipa which rose 2 to number 9. It's no shock that I love this song and am delighted to see it in the top 10.
Finally rounding out the top 10 is Camila Cabello's nauseating failed Kate Bush impersonation of a song "Never Be The Same" which fell two to number 10.
Gains
I'll go through some of the huge gains the biggest being for "For You" by Liam Payne and Rita Ora which rose from 45 to 18 because the 50 Shades Freed soundtrack was released, also from the Black Panther soundtrack "Pray for Me" by The Weekend and Kendrick Lamar rose from 18 to 12 and 'Stay Part 2' otherwise known as "The Middle" by Zedd feat. Maren Morris and Grey somehow got traction and jumped from 50 to 27 (it's picked up some radio unfortunately..it's NOT A GOOD SONG). Bazzi's "Mine" rose from 33 to 17.
Re-Emtries
"You Are the Reason" by Calum Scott returned at number 49 but that was because there was a remix of the song done with Leona Lewis.
Losers
The biggest loser was of course "Humble" by Kenrick Lamar which fell from 32 to 19 as the Hottest 100 hype fades away, What was disappointing was the Australian songs falling away like "Chateau" by Angus and Julia Stone which dropped to 33 and "Coming Home" by Sheppard to 34. Others look to be on their way out like "Havana" by Camila Cabello and Young Thug fell to 20, "Feel it Still" by Portugal, The Man to 21, "Dirty Sexy Money" by David Guetta, Afrojack, Charli XCX and French Montana to 42 and "Good Old Days" by Macklemore and Kesha to 45.
Drop Outs
Three drop outs this week and I am not complaining about ANY of these leaving, tghe desaturated pop of "End Game" by Taylor Swift featuring Future and Ed Sheeran is gone, the complete and utter mess that is "Filthy by Justin Timberlake and "The Greatest Show" by Hugh Jackman, Keala Settle, Zac Efron and Zendaya is also gone. Not bothered that we lost all three of those songs.
New arrivals.
The highest of the two new entries this week is Marshmello's collaboration with Anne-Marie called "Friends" which entered at 32 (It's a decent song, check it out) and at number 40 arrived Migos with "Stirfry" because Australia realized they hadn't given a hit to a bunch of overexposed rappers.
Outside of the top 50, the Black Panther soundtrack saw "King's Dead" by Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Future and James Blake enter at number 66 and "Futon Couch" by Missy Higgins at number 100 (so disappointing. GET BEHIND MISSY, AUSTRALIA, THE SONG IS EXCELLENT)
So that completes the look at the ARIA Chart for this week but because I am in the mood, I thought I'd throw in some songs that are charting or have charted overseas but for whatever reason haven't become hits here yet.
Overseas SMASH HITS
It peaked at number 3 in Austria and at number 5 in Germany...
"Rooftop" by Nico Santos
This peaked at number 2 in Norway, am surprised Ina Wroldsen has not caught on here.
"Strongest" by Ina Wroldsen
A song that's starting to blow up big around Europe, its at number 2 in Switzerland is this one from Tom Walker.
"Leave a Light on" by Tom Walker
Finally a song that is predicted to debut on the US Hot 100 this week but has already been a huge hit in Europe, spent 2 weeks at the top in France.
"No Roots" by Alice Merton
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