Local singer songwriter Dean Lewis holds for a third week at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart with “Be Alright” thanks to a week of heavy promotion by him.
As I mentioned last week that exactly six years ago at this time of year Guy Sebastian’s track “Battle Scars” was logging its third (of six) week at the top, which was the last time an Australian Solo Male Artist held the top spot locally for more than one week. And after one week of occupying both the tops of the digital and streaming charts last week, this week his song is just the leader on the digital sales chart.
The new No.1 streamed track in this country is also the No.1 song in New Zealand (2nd wk), England and Ireland (1st week at the top), and here it holds for a second week at No.2, “Eastside” for Benny Blanco with Halsey and Khalid, while moving back up one spot to No.3 are recent tourists here 5 Seconds of Summer and their former No.1 song “Youngblood”, logging its seventeenth week within the Top 10 (equal eighth longest run ever within the Top 10), plus the song is now 4x▲Platinum in sales now too.
Maroon 5 with Cardi B and “Girls Like You” is also back up one spot to No.4, and logging its 13th week within the Top 10, becoming M5’s second longest running Top 10 single in Australia, their longest was also a No.2 peaking track in “Moves Like Jagger” in 2011 with Christina Aguilera, which stayed within the ten for 19 weeks. Those two rises are due to the Drake and his former No.1 track “In My Feelings” dropping down two spots this week to No.5, while it holds for seventh week at the top in America and Canada.
As Benny Blanco went to the top in England and Ireland it knocked off the long running No.1’s there in “Shotgun” for George Ezra, which this week here is up three spots to a new peak of No.6, dislodging the four week running No.6 peaking track “No Brainer” for DJ Khaled with Justin Bieber, which is down one spot to No.7. Three weeks ago Panic! At the Disco peaked at No.7 with “High Hopes”, which this week rebounds two places to rise back up to No.8, and returning to the Top 10 for a third week within the ten is Jonas Blue with “Rise”, up two spots to No.9 and now ▲Platinum in sales, while last weeks returning-to-the-ten track “God is a Woman” by Ariana Grande drops back down three places to No.10.
UP:
* Last weeks non-Ariana high entry for Calvin Harris and Sam Smith with “Promises” jumps up sixteen places this week to a new peak of No.14.
* Bazzi sees his second chart entry now become his second Top 20 hit as “Beautiful” rises four spots to a new peak of No.18 and it also scores its first certification and is now Gold (●) in sales.
* The Rubens are up three places to a new chart height of No.21 with “Never Ever”.
* The new Marshmello track with Bastille leaps up twenty-three spots to land at No.25, while last weeks dropout “Silence” with Khalid returns at No.91, with Khalid himself back in at No.97 with “Young, Dumb & Broke”.
* The latest track for Zedd with Elley Duhe and “Happy Now” is up four places to a new peak of No.27, while his older entry “The Middle” with Grey and Maren Morris is back up five places to No.67.
* Loud Luxury zoom up seven spots to a new peak of No.33 with “Body”.
* Ed Sheeran rises back to four entries within the Top 100 this week, all moving back up in “Perfect” (44 to 38), “Shape of You” (53 to 51), “Happier” (76 to 62) and returning at #100 is “Castle on the Hill”.
* With a new David Guetta collab track debuting this week his four week old entry in “Don’t Leave Me Alone” (HP-43) is back up seven spots to No.48, while last weeks exiting track with Sia and “Flames” returns this week at No.95.
* Four of the five Post Malone entries this week are back up in “Jackie Chan” (16 to 15), “Psycho” (51 to 49), “Rockstar” (60 to 56) and “I Fall Apart” (66 to 59).
* Triple J’s Unearthered: High winner Kian leaps up twenty-four places to a new peak of No.54 with his first entry “Waiting”.
* Dean Lewis sees his debut entry “Waves” (HP-12) leap up twenty-five spots this week to No.55 thanks to a week of promotion for his latest No.1 single.
* The track “Changes” for XXXTentacion is back up ten spots to No.65.
* The newer Imagine Dragons track “Natural” (HP-55) returns to the chart at No.69, while they also climb back up with “Thunder” (91 to 80) and “Believer” (99 to 84).
* Lauv jumps back up sixteen places to No.71 with “I Like Me Better”.
* The latest track for Amy Shark and “All Loved Up” jumps up twelve places to a new peak of No.72.
* Kendrick Lamar’s “Humble” rebounds eleven spots to No.74.
* Camila Cabello’s “Havana” is also back up eleven places to No.75 and now 9x▲Platinum.
* The Chainsmokers rise back up sixteen places to No.81 with “Side Effects”, while their former No.1 from this time two years ago and “Closer” (4th of 9 wks now in 2016) returns at No.93.
* Martin Garrix with Bonn are back up eleven places to No.83 with “High on Life”.
* Dua Lipa’s “IDGAF” rises back up four to No.85, plus she also returns at No.90 with “New Rules”.
* Ruel rebounds twelve places to No.86 with “Younger”.
* Further returning tracks are “Nervous” by Shawn Mendes (#92), “Say You Won’t Let Go” for James Arthur (#94, reclaims the ‘Longest Charted Single’ crown at 89 weeks), followed by “What About us” for Pink (#98) and “Call Out My Name” for The Weeknd (#99).
DOWN:
* The only track leaving the Top 10 is last weeks highest debut in “Breathin” by Ariana Grande (HP-8, WI10-1), which is down three places to No.11, while after last weeks having all fifteen tracks from her new album within the Top 100, she is down to five this week, as she slips down with “No Tears Left to Cry” (21 to 31), and two of last weeks debuts “Everytime” (36 to 60) and “Sweetener” (43 to 70).
* The only falling track this week for Post Malone is “Better Now”, down four to No.22.
* “Fefe” for 6ix9ine with Nicki Minaj and Murda Beatz is down five spots to No.24, while Nicki is also down with “Bed” (59 to 68, with Ariana Grande {her sixth and final entry}), and holds at No.96 with “Majesty”.
* With a new Calvin Harris track leaping up his older entry “One Kiss” with Dua Lipa is down four spots to No.37 and newly certified 3x▲Platinum in sales.
* A$AP Rocky and his track “Praise the Lord (Da Shine)” is down four to No.41 and now ▲Platinum.
* There’s a five place drop to No.43 for “Hurt Somebody” by Noah Kahan and Julia Michaels.
* The second and final entry for Travis Scott in “Stargazing” which is down eight places to No.57.
* The LSD track “Thunderclouds” drops back down eight spots to No.77 after peaking at No.69 last week.
* The highest dropout this week is last week returning track for the recently passed Aretha Franklin and “Repsect” (#50), while her three other entries also leave the Top 100 this week in “I Say a Little Prayer” (#62), “A Natural Woman” (#70) and “Think” (#100).
NEW ENTRIES:
* #35 – Idol by BTS is the fourth Top 100 and now third Top 50 entry here for the Korean seven-man group, and this song is taken from their new Top 10 album “Love Yourself: Answer”, plus by debuting at No.35 it beats the No.36 entry of their late May entry “Fake Love” (HP-36) to become their highest charted single so far in Australia.
* #50 – Goodbye by Jason DeRulo x David Guetta feat Nicki Minaj and Willy William is taken from the late September due seventh album for David Guetta entitled “7”, which will also feature his two other current chart entries in “Don’t Leave Me Alone” (TW-48) and “Flames” (TW-95), plus his older chart entries “2U” with Justin Bieber (HP-2, 2017) and “Like I Do” with Martin Garrix (HP-73, early 2018).
* #73 – Leave a Light on by Tom Walker was first released overseas in early October of 2017, and has so far hit No.1 in France, No.2 in Austria and Belgium, No.3 in Switzerland and cracked the Top 10 in Italy, The Netherlands, Germany and his native United Kingdom (he is from Scotland), and this track is taken from his debut album “What a Time to Be Alive” which comes out at the end of October this year.
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Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
