ARIA Singles Top Ten/ Chart Review: 7th December. The Running of the Christmas Music Begins

So this week is a pretty easy one to get through...mostly because this week signified the onslaught of Christmas music hitting the ARIA top 50 beginning and one really bad sign for the charts going forward.

Anyway let's get to the top ten where, for now, Christmas music doesn't impact at all. "Mood" by 24kGoldn feat. Iann Dior spends an eighth week at number one. All it's got is streaming right now as sales have fallen off but there's no challenge coming for it within the top ten right now.

"Positions" by Ariana Grande held onto number two again thanks to streaming while "Head & Heart" by Joel Corry and MNEK climbed one place to number three as it still has some sales and decent streamining.

"Therefore I Am" by Billie Eilish looks to be in danger of free falling down the chart, sales have died and streaming is starting to show signs of bleeding early. Not good.

"Levitating" by Dua Lipa and DaBaby remains at number five but it looks to have peaked now as streaming is starting to shrink and while sales might prop this up a little longer....

"So Done" by The Kid Laroi rebounded two places to number six because for some reason this thing has traction on streaming right now...lovely...

Breaking into the top ten is "Midnight Sky" by Miley Cyrus which thanks to the release of the album saw "Midnight Sky" climb six places to number seven. Good. Happy it's now safe on the year end list.

"You Broke Me First" by Tate McRae" climbed one place to number eight swapping with "Monster" by Shawn Mendes and Justin Bieber who slipped to number nine however I do expect "Monster" to rebound thanks to the rather messy album that was released on Friday by Mendes.

Finally in the most pleasing bit of news in the top ten, "Holy" by Justin Bieber feat. Chance The Rapper fell four places to number ten.

Gains

"Blinding Lights" by The Weeknd rebounded six places to 14 as people check out their Spotify Wrapped top 100 songs playlist and revisit the songs they loved in 2020.

However that isn't the gain that bothered me this week, the worrisome gain is for "Whoopty" by CJ which jumped from 32 to 21 and given it's got streaming momentum, this could become a top ten hit. Australia, we're better than this, stop!

Meanwhile "34+35" by Ariana Grande rose from 22 to 18,  "Fly Away" by Tones and I climbed from 24 to 19

Re Entries

The big story of the week is right here because all three returns this week are Christmas songs with Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" back at 14 and likely in the top five next week...you watch.

"Last Christmas" by Wham at 40 and "It's Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas" by Michael Buble back at 41.

Losses

The biggest loser this week was "Lonely" by Justin Bieber and Benny Blanco which fell nine places to 28...this looks like it might have a year end spot shored up so we'll see. Meaniwhile "Laugh Now, Cry Later" by Drake feat. Lil Durk plunged six to 49, "Come & Go" by Juice WRLD and Marshmello down 5 to 46, "pov" by Ariana Grande dropped from 35 to 43 because Ariana isn't making the song a single.

Drop Outs 

The drop outs aren't surprising "Mood Swings" by Pop Smoke being the biggest and most likely safe on the year end list, also gone after longer than expect runs are "Ain't It Different" by Headie One feat AJ Tracey and Stormzy and "Forever After All" while unsurprisingly "Life Goes On" by BTS also left the charts (bit of a shame tbh...the song isn't bad)

New Entries

Just the one new entry with a charity song called "Light a Candle" by Mountain Jam Music at 32 being the lone new entry...the song aims to raise money to help support children in Australia who are victims of abuse/neglect.

Next week: What impact comes off the release of that Shawn Mendes album (the album is apparently a bit of a mess) and the likely continued rise of Christmas music...the year is finally beginning to slow down. 

Year end lists aren't far away, The worst and best lists for 2000 are due out after Christmas, the worst and best lists for 2020 will be likely out in January at least after ARIA release their year end list.

2000 Sound: 3rd December. Don't Tell Me Baha Men Let the Dogs Out AGAIN at number one

 Ughh...I'm not going to mince words...this week kind of sucked...the new entries are not good at all and even worse..."Who Let The Dogs Out" by the Baha Men remains at number one because people think it's a good joke apparently but it held off "Graduation (Friends Forever)" by Vitamin C rising one spot to number two.

Wheatus slipped back to number three this week with 'Teenage Dirtbag" as it's sales softened this week but it remained ahead of "He Don't Love you" by Human Nature which climbed one place to number four on continued strong sales. Spiller's 'Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)" fell back one place to number five in the face of the stronger competition above it.

"Don't You Worry" by Madasun remains at number six and "Holler" by the Spice Girls sticks at number seven.

The highest new entry of the week belongs to Madonna with the second single from "Music" called "Don't Tell Me" which is in at number eight. This song is only slightly better than "Music"...

Jennifer Lopez keeps steady at number nine with "Let's Get Loud" while "She Bangs" by Ricky Martin bangs down two places to number ten.

Gains

"Independent Women Part 1" by Destiny's Child rose six places to number 12 mostly thanks to the hype from the Charlies Angels movie. 

Most pleasingly "Black Coffee" by All Saints rebounded from 32 to 20 this week which is great news! The Offspring gained nine places with "Original Prankster" to 21. 

Re-Entries

The one return comes from You Am I with "Damage" back at 48

Losers

Craig David's "Fill Me In" dropped ten places to 44 while unfortunately "When You're Gone" by Matchbox Twenty collapsed from 22 to 39. 

"Beautiful Day" by U2 was rained on down eight places to 27.

New Entries

So apart from Madonna's "Don't Tell Me" at number eight, we have Britney Spears latest single called "Stronger" at number 29...it's serviceable at best.

Darude's "Feel The Beat" is dancing in at number 31 while Bon Jovi's appreciation for getting a hit this year called "Thank You For Loving Me" arrives at number 34.

American singer/songwriter Debelah Morgan has notched her first ARIA charting single with "Dance With Me" in at 48.

UK girl group Giel Thing are in at umber 50 with the follow up to "Last One Standing" called "Girls on Top"...

ARIA Singles Top Ten/Chart Review: 30th November. Monster hit Mood in Seventh Week Heaven

 Well this week was always going to be a busy one but it was busy in a way I didn't expect, I thought we'd get an album bomb from BTS but that didn't happen instead we got a pretty wild collection of five new arrivals with one in the top ten and with Christmas music coming to make the charts irrelevant for the next month or so (seen the Australia Spotify top 50 lately?), this could be one of the last weeks of the year that the chart is unaffected by Christmas songs

Anyway for a seventh week, "Mood" by 24kGoldn feat. Iann Dior remains at number one, its mostly thanks to the kind consistent streaming that songs below it would kill for right now, that streaming kept it ahead of "Positions" by Ariana Grande which remained at number in spite of decent streaming, it's just not doing the sort of numbers to stop "Mood".

The same goes for both "Therefore I Am" by Billie Eilish and "Head & Heart" by Joel Corry feat. MNEK  which remained at numbers three and four respectively in spite of solid streaming and in the case of the latter has sales.

What does have solid sales and streaming is "Levitating" by Dua Lipa feat. DaBaby climbing three places to hit number five, this song probably needs better streaming and sales for it to climb however it knocked "Holy" by Justin Bieber feat. Chance the Rapper back one place to number six...this song is starting to suffer on sales and on streaming.

Speaking of Bieber, he is the featured guest on the new entry at number seven from Shawn Mendes called "Monster"...it's the highest new entry of the five this week. "Monster" is the new single from Shawn Mendes forthcoming new album "Wonder" which is out on Friday.

All this meant "So Done" by The Kid Laroi got pushed back two places to number eight likewise for "You Broke Me First" by Tate McRae to number nine as both start to suffer on streaming. 

Finally "What You Know Bout Love" by Pop Smoke dropped back one place to number ten.

Gains

"Dynamite" by BTS jumped eight places to 16 following the release of "Be" ( the impact of that mini album was kind of muted in Australia with only "Dynamite" gaining" and just one new entry from it), "Whoopty" by CJ rose from 41 to 32.

Losers

Most of the big losers were past hits like "For the Night" by Pop Smoke which was the biggest loser of the week down eight places to 33 and "Breaking Me" by Topic feat. A7S down six to 28/Also losses for songs I am shocked have stuck around this long like  "Ain't it Different" by Headie One feat. AJ Tracey and Stormzy down seven places to 47  and "Forever After All" by Luke Combs dropped from 42 to 49 while "Lonely" by Justin Bieber and Benny Blanco fell five places to 19.

Drop Outs

The five drop outs are mostly ones I am not complaining about. "Before You Go" by Lewis Capaldi, "Go Crazy" by Young Thug and Chris Brown, "My City" by OneFour Feat. The Kid Laroi, "Train Wreck" by James Arthur and "Diamonds" by Sam Smith.

Okay,., I am disappointed that people don't seem ready to make "Diamonds" a hit especially as it is Sam Smith's best song since "Dancing With a Stranger" feat. Normani.

new Entries 

So there were four other new entries besides "Monster" by Shawn Mendes and Justin Bieber this week with the first of those being the second single from Miley Cyrus new album "Plastic Hearts" called "Prisoner", featuring Dua Lipa in at number 14.

The only new entry for BTS inside the top 50 is the single called "Life Goes On", I'll be curious to see if this one sticks around especially as "Dynamite" has hung around a lot longer than I thought it would.

Hooligan Hefs hit the singles chart at number 40 with "Send It!" while Meduza has teamed up with singer/songwriter Dermot Kennedy for "Paradise" at number 48.

Nrxt week will likely see gains for both Miley Cyrus songs on the chart thanks to the release of the album and the yearly invasion of Christmas music begins but we'll have to see when the chart updates on Saturday at 5pm AEDT.

 

2000 Sound: 26th November. Dogs barking at the top as Destinys Child declare women are independent

 This week...oh boy...let's just dive straight into it with the top ten where we have a brand new number one with "Who Let the Dogs Out" by the Baha Men...it got there because somehow this got sales traction enough to take the number one...sigh...this is another of those.."WHY? Just why, Australia?.

it pushed "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus back to number two but its still play to take number one, it had a good week on sales, it just got outdone by the sales surge for "Who Let The Dogs Out".

"Friends Forever (Graduation) by Vitamin C climbed one place to number three as schools across Australia opt to use this for their graduating year twelve students. I'm kind of sick of this song.

Spiller's "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)" tumbled two places to number four as the sales fell away, it's under threat from Human Nature's "He Don't Love You" which somehow rose seven places to number five...I know it had a lot of hype from appearing on Neighbours but really?

Madasun's "Don't You Worry" jumped two places to number six. Nice to see this song sticking around...I still like it a lot. 

All of this meant the rest of our top ten took steps backward or remained steady, starting with "Holler" by Spice Girls which slipped two places to number seven, "She Bangs" by Ricky Martin which stumbled two places to number eight, remaining at number nine is "Let's Get Loud" by Jennifer Lopez and finally "Gotta Tell You" by Samantha Mumba plunged three places to number ten.

Gains

"Lady (Hear Me Tonight)" by Modjo climbed eleven places to 14 because as I keep saying this song is going to be a top ten hit,there's an appeal to it that just works for it.

Matchbox Twenty jumped from 34 to 22 with "If You're Gone" (a song I actually really like so am glad to see this become a hit),

Also happy that "Gravity" by The Superjesus climbed nine places to number 35. Good to see!

Re-Entries

Paul Kelly's "Roll On Summer" EP is back at number 40 while Anuj will be glad that the Australian public still remember him with "Remember Me" back at number 46

Losers

Alright, we had a lot of losers this week so let's start with "Give Me Just One Night (Una Noche)" by 98 Degrees slipped from 42 to 50.

Madison Avenue plunged from 37 to 44 with "Everything You Need" while "We'll be One" by Nikki Webster and Sing 2001 Choir slipped ten places to 43. 

Billie Piper's "Something Deep Inside" fell from 35 to 41 this week...this song just doesn't quite have the same energy as "Day & Night" so not surprising.

Not a great week for the Aussies continued with Savage Garden down seven places to 37 with "Chained to You" while "On A Night Like This" 

" I Want Candy" by Aaron Carter slipped nine places to 36 because who the hell wants this?

"Fill Me In" by Craig David got the shimmies down from 26 to 33 while unfortunately "Black Coffee" by All Saints slipped from 23 to 32...damn.

"B-Boys & Flygirls" by Bomfunk MCs fell from 17 to 24.

New Entries

The highest debuting new entry of the week belongs to Craig David with "7 Days" in at number 16. Not better than "Fill Me In" but ehh...its fine.

Destiny's Child's 'Charlie's Angels' song "Independent Women Part 1" debuts at number 18. 

Finally because we apparently we needed it...Limp Bizkit are back with a new song called "My Generation at number 49....ewww.

ARIA Singles Top Ten/ Chart Review: 23rd November. Whoopty! Mood retains number one.

 A fairly standard week here which I will take given next week is likely going to have a lot of chaos and disruption around it thanks to BTS and collabs by Miley Cyrus with Dua Lipa and Shawn Mendes with Justin Bieber coming but let's get right to it starting with our top ten where "Mood" by 24kGoldn feat. Iann Dior rules at number one for a sixth week thanks mostly to just purely consistent streaming because it's not dominant on any platform right now.

The song that spent the week mostly dominant on streaming was "positions" by Ariana Grande, I was sure this was going to return to number one but it effectively doesn't really have the sales to match or surpass "Mood". 

There's a new entry at number three this week courtesy of Billie Eilish with "Therefore I Am". Good sales and streaming but not enough to topple either "Mood" or "positions" but it did push "Head & Heart" by Joel Corry feat. MNEK back to number four. It feels like "Head & Heart" has been trying to launch a run at number one for the last few weeks with it taking a lead on Apple Music for a couple of days last week.

"Holy" by Justin Bieber feat. Chance The Rapper slipped back one place to number five, its a monster on sales still and it's streaming is holding up a little better than those behind it.

Rising one place to number six is "So Done" by The Kid Laroi because yeah we need a pretty god damn awful song in the top ten for some bizarre reason.

Speaking of rubbish rising that would explain why "You Broke Me First" by Tate McRae also climbed one place to number seven. Like "So Done", this song still has some streaming so we've not seen the last of this song in the top tenn.

In good news, "Levitating" by Dua Lipa feat. DaBaby gained two places to number eight and it's got traction on streaming and on sales so we'll have to see what happens. Hopefully we can get four Dua Lipa songs from "Future Nostalgia" on the Australian year end chart.

All this was because "What You Know about Love" by Pop Smoke which fell back four places to number nine as this song is only hanging on via streaming that doesn't quite ready to die yet, the same goes for "Lemonade" by Internet Money and Gunna feat. BAV and Don Toliver which also fell four places to number ten as streaming slowed up.

Gains

The gains this week aren't exactly bundles of good news here.Okay, I'll give a pass to Ariana Grande's "POV" which rebounded from 47 to 29 ( I do not get why "34+35" is the single when its clear that "POV" is the song that Ariana fans love from "positions") as I do like that song but the other two major gains are questionable at best.."Lasting Lover" by Sigala and James Arthur rose 16 places to 30, "My City" by OneFour feat. The Kid Laroi jumped from 48 to 35 (OneFour released an EP which explains the rebound of this song).

Re-Entries

There is one return this week courtesy of James Arthur's "Train Wreck" back at number 50...lovely...

Losers

There's more bad news in our losers with  "Forever After All" by Luke Combs took an eleven place hit to 42, and "Diamonds" by Sam Smith down ten to 44.

Drop Outs

Two of the four drop outs are likely assured of places on the year end list with "Rain on Me": by Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande and "This Ciry" by Sam Fischer both gone. 

Ariana Grande's "Motive" feat Doja Cat is also gone taking with it 'Tragic" by The Kid Laroi.

New Entries

There are two other new entries aside from "Therefore I Am" by Billie Eilish with Tones and I's "Fly Away" in at 21 and American rapper CJ's pretty terrible "Whoopty" arriving at 41.

So that wraps up this week...next week is going to be pretty damn wild this BTS and the two collabs I mentioned so we'll have to see what happens and how all tha shakes up the chart at 5pm AEDT on Saturday

2000 Sound: 19th November. Who Let the Baha Men Out? Why Are Gwyneth Paltrow and Huey Lewis Cruisin?

 Well ain't this an interesting development? We have yet another brand new number one this week and a brand new entry in the top five so let's get stuck into it with the top ten where the new number one is the first for this American rock band....that's right....it's Wheatus with "Teenage Dirtbag" and it got there through extremely strong sales. 

Ir handily outsold "Groovejet (If this Ain't Love)" by Spiller which slipped back to number two, whether or not it can return to number one is an open question. 

A new entry in at number comes from a group hailing from the Bahamas called the Baha Men, the song is called "Who Let the Dogs Out"...the song is every bit as annoying as the title sounds.

The biggest mover of the week within the top ten comes from Vitamin C with "Friends Forever (Graduation)" rising six places to number four, this is a player for number one if any of the songs above it start showing weakness.

"Holler" by Spice Girls regains one place to number five because people don't realize that this song is not actually a very Spice Girls song. 

All of this meant the rest of the top ten either got pushed back or remained steady with "She Bangs" by Ricky Martin down two places to number six,  "Gotta Tell You" by Samantha Mumba down four to number seven and "Don't You Worry" by Madasun down one to number eight. Jennifer Lopez remained steady at number nine while Pink's 'Most Girls" finally looks to be on the way out down two spots to number ten.

Gains

"Original Prankster" by The Offspring went up six places to 29 while "Chain of Fools" by Jimmy Barnes went up five spots to 15.

Losers

Wow, we had a lot of big losers this week so we'll go in chart order so down nine places to 14 is "Shape of My Heart" by the Backstreet Boys.

 "Kids" by Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue tripped over lego to slide eight places to 22.

Craig David's got more gaps as "Fill Me In" blanked out eleven places to 26. Nikki Webster & Sing 2001 Choir's song for Sydney Olympics "We'll Be One" fell from 26 to 33 this week.

"If You're Gone" by Matchbox Twenty fell from 27 to 34 this week...bit of a shame as I really like that song. The same goes for "Absolutely (Story of  a Girl)" by Nine Days which slipped eleven places to 49.

The rest of the falls are songs that have been hits fading away naturally like U2's "Beautiful Day" got clouded over six places to 18, "Everything You Need" by Madison Avenue fell eight places to 37, m Madonna's "Music' plunged from 24 to 38 as people finally realize the song is fucking awful.

Finally Ronan Keating's "Life is a Rollercoaster" fell eleven places to 45.

New Entries

So outside of "Who Let The Dogs Out" by the Baha Men debuting at number three, what else debuted? Well at number 12 is the new single from Human Nature called "He Don't Love You", a pretty brash, kind of catty number from Human Nature which is unusual for them.

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has teamed up with 80s star Huey Lewis for a cover of the Smokey Robinson song "Cruisin'" which is in a 28...the cover is not good AT ALL.

Westlife's new single "My Love" sails in at number 36 while The Corrs are looking to follow up the success of "Breathless" with "Irresistible as it debuts at number 39

ARIA Singles Top Ten/Chart Review: November 16th: The Kid Laroi rides into the top ten.

 So this week was a cool down week and it somewhat played out exactly the way I thought it would a few weeks ago, we have a returning number one and a few easily explained shifts up and down the chart so let's get stuck into it where as I said we have a returning number one in the form of "Mood" by 24k Goldn feat. Iann Dior, it's the song's fifth week at number one and honestly it's an open question as to whether it will get a sixth week at the top because right behind it is last week's number one "positions" by Ariana Grande, it's still got some traction on streaming but I am not certain that it can make a play to return to number one given the new releases coming to the chart next week....oof.

I would say "Head & Heart" by Joel Corry and MNEK is in perfect position to snatch the top spot as it is doing better on digital sales than both songs above it but again with the new releases especially one that's probably going to debut at least top five

That's not the case for "Holy" by Justin Bieber feat Chance The Rapper remaining at number four, its steady on sales but it's not making up ground on the songs ahead of it.

The late Pop Smoke has his first top five hit with "What You Know Bout Love" rising two places to number five thanks to good streaming in the most part because it doesn't have sales traction, it moved past "Lemonade" by Internet Money feat. Gunna, NAV and Don Toliver down one to number six as streaming slowly starts to fade for this song.

We have the first of two new arrivals to the top ten at number seven with "So Done" by The Kid Laroi which off the back of streaming gains and an EP release rose nine places to give The Kid Laroi his first Australian top ten hit...wish the song was actually good though...just saying;

"You Broke Me First" by Tate McRae remains steady at number eight. Kind of annoyed this song is hanging around now but it's safe from "WAP" by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion as it fell away naturally down three to number nine, likely gone from top ten next week.

Finally rising one place to join the top ten for the first time is "Levitating" by Dua Lipa feat. DaBaby at number ten. This song will likely make the year end which I am fine with because the original version of this song is one of my favourite songs from "Future Nostalgia"

Gains

The biggest gain of the week belonged to Miley Cyrus with "Midnight Sky" rising from 25 to 12 mostly thanks to the insanely good mash up of it with the song that inspires the melody namely 'Edge of Seventeen" by Stevie Nicks...you can argue the mash up is actually pretty damn great to be honest.

There were a lot of gains this week as the Ariana Grande album bomb receded so I am just going to go through a few of the other big gains like for the long running 2019 hits that won't go away like "Someone You Loved" by Lewis Capaldi up six places to 32 and "Dance Monkey" by Tones and I up from 43 to 36,

"Rain on Me" by Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande jumped from 44 to 38 while "This City" by Sam Fischer rose seven places to 40. 

"What's Poppin'" by Jack Harlow rose from 49 to 43,

Re-Entries

Lewis Capaldi is back at number 50 with "Before You Go" but surprisingly that was it.

Losers

Ariana Grande album tracks form the majority of our big losers with "Motive" feat. Doja Cat demotivating down from 19 to 45, "Pov" POQed down from 39 to 47 (this song has some groundswell behind so wouldn't be surprised to see it rise while "34+35" slipped out of the top 10 to 18. 

The one non Ariana loser was "My City" by Onefour feat. The Kid Laroi which slipped twenty places to number 48.

Drop Outs

The drop outs are all Ariana Grande album tracks with "Off The table" feat. The Weeknd, "Safety Net" feat. Ty Dolla $ign, "Just Like Magic" and "Shut Up" all gone and probably won't be back.

New Entries

Three new entries with two of them being from The Kid Laroi thanks to the EP with "Always Do" at 37 and "Tragic" at 41 while "Lasting Lover" by Sigala and James Arthur turns up at 46 (a song I actually don't mind).

Next week is huge, Billie Eilish's new song debuts likely top five at this point rather than number one, Tones and I flies in with her latest single and Onefour will likely get a song on the chart as well. Not sure about whether or not Lil Nas X will chart as "Holiday" doesn't seem to have any kind of streaming whatsoever right now but we'll find out on Saturday at 5pm AEDT when ARIA update the chart.