Aus Chart Top 10 Remains Stagnant As Glass Animals Continue To Dominate

For a fourth week in a row, the same songs remain within the Top 10, with Heat Waves for Glass Animals logging a ninth overall stay in the #1 spot on the ARIA Singles Chart. 

Heat Waves is holding for a third week in 2022 locally, plus a second week at the top in the USA and remains at #2 in Canada, while here for this year it is now the equal consecutive running #1 song, tying its three-2022 weeks alongside Cold Heart's three weeks from January 10 and Stay's three week return from January 31 (Cold Heart has amassed the most weeks at #1 for this year at five in total, but for now I am talking about three consecutive weeks in a row).

The Glass Animals' track is now 9 x Platinum and has also amassed nine overall weeks at the top in Australia (six in 2021, three now in 2022), moving it up to equal thirteenth on the listing for most weeks at #1 (1940 to 2022) alongside 26 other songs which have logged nine weeks at #1 here, while the track is still the fourth longest-running #1 for this decade, behind Stay (17 weeks), Blinding Lights and Mood (11 weeks apiece) and Cold Heart (10 weeks). 

Six of the Top 10 tracks this week remain stable, with the Top 4 all on hold again, Stay for The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber is at #2 (WI10-36, fifth longest of all time), after which the Elton John and Dua Lipa mashup Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) is at #3 (WI10-31, equal sixth longest), newly 4x Platinum in sales, and again at #1 in Canada (11th week) and it retakes the top spot in New Zealand for a seventh overall week (last at the top there on January 10). This past week, Ed Sheeran announced a national tour of Australia for March of 2023, and he again has two singles within the Top 10 this week, with Bad Habits (WI10-37, fourth longest of all time) and Shivers (WI10-26, equal tenth longest), neither moving from last week's #4 and #7 respectively. 

Returning to its former peak of #5 is the Lost Frequencies and Calum Scott entry Where Are You Now, having previously sat this high on February 7 and 21, while the track swaps places with Gayle's abcdeFU', down one spot this week to #6. The sixth and final stable entry to the ten is the Encanto track We Don't Talk About Bruno', staying put at #8, while the song picks up its first sales certification of Platinum. Since February 28 there have been no new entries or departures from the Top 10, and also the two Lil' Nas X entries have been sitting at either #9 or #10, and this week they swap places again, with That's What I Want back up one place to #9 and down one to #10 is his 28 weeks running Top 10 entry (equal eighth longest) "Industry Baby. 

UP

The current British and Irish #1 song is by UK rapper and singer DAVE called Starlight, logging a second week at the top in both locales, while here the track becomes his first ever Top 20 placement as the single ascends twenty-four chart-rungs to land at a new peak of #11, after which are the two stable Top 20 entries in Down Under for Luude and Colin Hay at #12 (NZ #2, UK #6, Ireland new peak of #13) and Ghost (HP-11) for Justin Bieber at #13, which is newly certified 2x Platinum in sales, and is also now the longest running Top 20 entry (without making it into the Top 10) at 21 weeks, surpassing the previous record of 20 weeks by Friday for Riton x Nightcrawlers in 2021. 

Last week's entry for Camila Cabello and Ed Sheeran with Bam Bam is up one spot to a new peak of #18, while a new Top 100 entry from last week from 1991 by Nirvana and Something In The Way leaps up thirty-two places this week to land at a new chart height of #22, the band's first Top 50 singles chart appearance since 1994, and it's back on the charts thanks to the song being used in the new DC film The Batman, plus the track is newly Gold in sales. 

The Nirvana surge is followed by three more Top 30 peaks, Following The Sun for SUPER-Hi feat. Neeka, up four to #23, and returning to its former peak of #24 for a third time is the Tiësto and Ava Max entry The Motto (previous peak weeks: Feb 28, March 7), while the Elley Duhé track Middle Of The Night rises two spots to a new peak of #29. Em Behold also has a two place move, to a new chart height of #31 with Numb Little Bug, with the next significant move ten places lower at #41 as Dreams for Fleetwood Mac moves back up, while jumping back into the Top 50, up fourteen spots, is the Shouse entry Love Tonight to #47. 

DOWN

With a fourth week of no Top 10 dropouts occurring this week, the first drop outside of the T10 is Adele's Easy On Me, down three to #14, with the only other three-place-drop within the Top 20 being Boyfriend for Dove Cameron to #20. Down a single place each and scoring new certs are Save Your Tears for The Weeknd (14 to #15, 6 x Platinum) and Enemy for Imagine Dragons (16 to #17, Platinum in sales). 

Doja Cat is down one spot to #25 with Kiss Me More, stable at #28 with Woman and drops five to #34 as a guest on the Tyga track Freaky Deaky. Frank Ocean's Lost dips three spots to #26 and jumps from 3xP to now 5 x Platinum in sales, while the second (and now final) Encanto Top 50 entry Surface Pressure falls eight places to #30 and is also the second new certification from the film this week, as the song achieves Gold in sales. 

Jack Harlow's Nail Tech drops six spots to #32, with five place declines for Fingers Crossed by Lauren Spencer-Smith and Light Switch for Charlie Puth to #35 and #39 respectively. Last week's zooming entry for Labrinth and Zendaya from the Euphoria soundtrack called I'm Tired tumbles back down seventeen places this week to land at #38. 

Vance Joy's Missing Piece drops four spots to #45, Eminem's Without You dips two to #48 and rises in sales certification from 9P to now 11 x Platinum, while his fellow Top 100 entry Lose Yourself goes from 14P to now 16 x Platinum in sales. The final major Top 50 drop occurs for Jnr. Choi and To The Moon, which descends eleven spots to #50, while last week's entry at #40 of pushin' P. for Gunna and Future leaves the Top 50 this week. 

NEW ENTRY

#27 - Sweetest Pie by Megan Thee Stallion and Dua Lipa (1501 Certified/300 Entertainment) is the only Top 50 entry this week, and is the lead single from the forthcoming second album (no date or title known as yet) for the US rapper Megan, becoming her sixth Top 50 appearance in Australia, and her first since Thot Sh*t made it to #38 in July of 2021. For Dua Lipa this is her 17th Top 50 entry, and one of three she currently has within the Top 30, Cold Heart with Elton John at #3 and Levitating at #19. Sweetest Pie has also debuted this week in The Netherlands (#5), Ireland (#14), England (#31), New Zealand (#33), Canada (#36) and Sweden (#59) so far.

*ARIA Chart info is based on sales for the week from the 11th to the 17th of March, 2022.

Written, Compiled and Researched by Gavin Ryan