ARIA Singles top ten/ Chart Review: 4th March.
crowdiegal Well, it's a rather historic week for the ARIA singles chart as we have a new/old nnumber one and when I say old, this song was number one smash in November last year. Yep. "Shallow" by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper returned to the number one spot following a big win at the Oscars which resulted in "Shallow" hitting the top spot on digital sales plus an increase in streaming to ensure it hit top spot on the singles chart.Of course, there's still a chance that "7 Rings" by Ariana Grande, which dropped to number two this week, will return to number one but have you seen the the slowing streaming for this song? Also with digital sales slowing, there's definite signs of weakness thank god.
Of course, there's an open question of whether Ariana's 2nd song inside the top five "Break up with your girlfriend, I'm Bored" can challenge having dropped to number three but it's also bleeding streaming numbers but digital sales is holding up a little better than "7 Rings" so therefore may well have a chance of passing it.
Then we have Post Malone's "Sunflower" with Swae Lee which slipped back a spot to number four and honestly this may not be out of the equation for a return to number one with the streaming starting to side for both Ariana's songs.
Post Malone's second song "Wow" dropped one place to number 5.
In good news, the fantastic "Dancing With a Stranger" jumped two places to reach it's best slot of number six so far in it's chart run seven weeks in.
Billie Eilish's "Bury A Friend" drops two places to number seven. Frankly I am surprised the song lasted in the top ten this long!
Khalid and Disclosure are up one place to number eight with "Talk"
Ava Max has a new single dropping tomorrow but in the mean time "Sweet But Psycho" is down two places to number nine.
Finally "Without Me" by Halsey remains rooted to the number ten place. The sooner that's gone the better...quite frankly.
Gains
Some gains this week outside the top ten with "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen also using the Oscars buzz to go from 46 to 37 and there's more of that Oscars talk to come later.
The Hilltop Hoods "Leave Me Lonely" benefitted from the release of their number one album 'The Great Expanse" to go up eight places to number 11 while "Who Do You Love?" by The Chainsmokers and 5 Seconds of Summer go up 5 places to 13.
"11 Minutes" by Yungblud feat Halsey and Travis Barker drove up 7 places to 23.
Finally "Nights Like This" by Kehlani and Ty Dolla $ign recovered 7 places to number 43
Re-Entries
So in further Oscars related returns, "Always Remember Us This Way" by Lady Gaga from the "A Star is Born" sound track was the biggest and welcome returner at 39 but did it have to bring with it the drippy "In My Mind" by Dynoro at 48 and the awful "Girls Like You" by Maroon 5 and Cardi B at 49 with it? Christ.
Losers
As expected the big loser was Ariana Grande's "Bloodline" which slipped to 45 from 31 as the album bomb continues to fade away.
Maybe the most surprising loss of the week was the sudden fall to 31 of "Please Me" by Cardi B and Bruno Mars, I thought given the star power on that song, it would have had some chance to be a hit?
"Waiting' by Kian fell from 16 to 21 and "Thank U, Next" by Ariana Grande from 11 to 16.
Finally people appear to be finally tiring of "Sicko Mode" by Travis Scott feat. Drake which slipped from 12 to 17. Good.
Drop outs
I really don't have an issue with the drop outs as four of the five are Ariana Grande album tracks with "Imagine", "Needy", "Nasa" and "Bad Idea" all gone.
So is "1999" by Charli XCX and Troye Sivan which is a pity considering that song is actually pretty damn good.
New Entries
The new entries are headlined by Pink's return with her lead single "Walk Me Home" from forthcoming album "Hurts 2 B Human" debuting at number 12. I have a feeling this song may well be a top ten hit for Pink if she can get those streaming numbers up.
The other new entry is the new single from "The Great Expanse" called "Exit Sign" by Hilltop Hoods feat. Illy and Ecca Vandal at number 44. Now this song has some traction on iTunes. and considering it's one of the best tracks from that album I'd love to see it become a hit.
So that wraps up the week. With Jonas Brothers probably going to debut top ten and Pink likely headed to the top ten, we're in for one of hell of an interesting week. Along with likely debuts for the new Benny Blanco collab with Selena Gomez, J Balvin and Tainy and hopefully the new Ellie Goulding song. We'll find out whether "Shallow" can hang on to number one when the chart is released on Saturday at 5pm.