Taylor Swift Reigns Supreme With 15 New Chart Entries

After a week away from the top spot, Dave and Central Cee regain the chart-race lead with Sprinter back at #1. It also regains the top-spot in New Zealand and Ireland, and logs a sixth straight week at the top in England. Locally, the track logs its fifth overall week at #1, and swaps places with last week’s #1 entry Olivia Rodrigo’s Vampire, which dips one place to #2. The track has also debuted at the top spot in both the US and Canada. 

During the past week, I was asked whether Olivia Rodrigo was the first act to score three #1 singles from her first two albums – and moreso, whether anybody else has done it with those tracks debuting in the top spot. I managed to find one act who had previously achieved this chart feat, Guy Sebastian, who saw his first two singles from his 2003 debut album, Just As I Am, both enter at #1 (Angels Brought Me Here in December of 2003, then All I Need Is You in February of 2004), then Out With My Baby (in October 2004) from his second album, Beautiful Life – so Olivia Rodrigo is the first solo female artist to achieve this feat in Australia.

Delta Goodrem saw her first six singles all go to #1, but her first, Born To Try, entered at #3 before climbing to #1 two weeks later; her second single debuted at the top, then her next six entered at #2 before rising up, so that's a different kind of feat-to-beat. 

Morgan Wallen is back up one spot to #3 with Last Night, and after 13 weeks at #1 in the US, it’s been replaced this week with Rodrigo’s latest hit. Wallen also swaps places with Cruel Summer by Taylor Swift, down one spot to #4, after which is the highest of 15 new Top 50 entries from Ms. Swift’s redone Speak Now (Taylor's Version) album; the album itself debuts at #1 locally this week. Swift has 20 entries in the Top 50 Singles Chart, plus 21 new Top 100 debuts for a total of 32 entries.

The only song from Speak Now (Taylor's Version) that has a video clip attached to it – I Can See You (Taylor's Version – From The Vault) – debuts at #5, with the clip directed by Taylor herself and re-teaming her with some of her former co-stars, Taylor Lautner, Presley Cash and Joey King, who are literally trying to break her out of a vault. The song also enters its first week in Ireland and New Zealand at #4, and England at #6. The two further Top Ten entries for Swift are Enchanted (Taylor's Version) at #7 (the original version peaked at #27 just last week), while Mine (Taylor's Version) enters at #10, one place lower than the original version, which debuted and peaked on August 16, 2010 (HP-9). All in all, Swift has a total of four Top Ten entries this week. 

The three remaining Top Ten songs for this week sees a one place dip to #6 for Luke Combs' rendition of Fast Car, while the two non-movers are Flowers by Miley Cyrus – marking its 26th week in the Top Ten – and Daylight by David Kushner, charting at #8 and #9 respectively. 

TOP 20

NEW PEAKS: The only two new peaks in the Top 50 this week both occur within the Top 20, as The Idol (starring The Weeknd and Lily Rose Depp) has now finished its run on HBO and the soundtrack is out, and The Weeknd’s song with Carti Boi and Madonna, Popular jumps up six places to land at a new peak of #13. Last week's new entry for Gunna, FukUMean, zooms up 24 places to score a new chart height of #15, making the song now his highest charting solo entry (beating the #19 peak of Pushin' P).

With such a huge influx of Taylor Swift tracks this week, every other song from last week drops down, including the older Swift entries that have been engulfing the chart for the past three weeks. Her Top Ten dropouts for this week consist of Anti-Hero (down six places to #12, HP-1x6, WI10-30) and Karma (down seven spots to #16, HP-2, WI10-5). Also down is Cupid by FIFTY FIFTY (HP-2x4, WI10-12), down eight places to #18, and Kill Bill by SZA, down seven spots to #20. 

TOP 30

The Weeknd replaces himself in the Top 20 this week, with Popular rising to its new peak. It's a six-place drop to #21 for Die For You by The Weeknd and Ariana Grande, and another six (to #23) for Harry Styles' As it Was. The latter is notable as it leaves the Top 20 for the third time in it's 67-week chart run. With an upcoming tour in November, the Post Malone track Chemical has the equal-smallest decline this week, only down two spots to #24.

After that is a seven-place slide to #25 for Something In The Orange by Zach Bryan, which has now reached its one-year Top 100 anniversary (52 weeks). Boy's A Liar (pt.2) by PinkPantheress and Ice Spice tumbles down 12 spots to #28, and OneRepublic’s I Ain't Worried drops down nine spots to #29 (its lowest chart position since it hit #30 last June).

TOP 40

Taylor Swift has five songs within this chart region this week, three of them new entries, while the other two are the biggest falling songs within the Top 50 this week, as Style drops down twenty spots from it's return position last week of #11 to #31 this week and Blank Space falls back down twenty-four spots to land at #36. 

The other minimal-drop of two places for this week is Dua Lipa's Dance The Night (from Barbie) dipping two places to #40, with the film opening in cinemas this coming week, while there's only a five place dip to #35 for Miracle by Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding. Further double-digit-drops occur for Lewis Capaldi and Someone You Loved (21 to #34) and fourteen place slides for both All My Life by Lil' Durk and J. Cole (23 to #37) and Until I Found You by Stephen Sanchez and Em Beihold (25 to #39). 

TOP 50

Apart from the three new entries to this section of the chart, everything falls ten or more places this week, so let's start with the ten-place declines; Heat Waves by Glass Animals (36 to #46, lowest chart position since it climbed into the Top 50 for the first time on Dec. 14th, 2020 #45) and Escapism. by RAYE and 070 Shake (37 to #47). Down thirteen places each are Riptide by Vance Joy (28 to #41), Creepin' by Metro Boomin, The Weeknd and 21 Savage (31 to #44) and Sunflower for Post Malone (32 to #45). 

The other Barbie soundtrack entry is Barbie World for Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice and Aqua, which drops down eighteen places to land at #42, with the final drop seeing Kylie Minogue's Padam Padam down fourteen places to #49, while the song is sitting at #10 in both England (LW-12) and Ireland (LW-7; a new peak) this week. 

FURTHER NEW ENTRIES:

• #5 – I Can See You (Taylor's Version – From The Vault) – Taylor Swift (Republic)

• #7 – Enchanted (Taylor's Version) – Taylor Swift (Republic) (original HP-27, peaked July 10, 2023)

• #10 – Mine (Taylor's Version) – Taylor Swift (Republic) (original HP-9, August 16, 2010) 

• #11 – Back to December (Taylor's Version) – Taylor Swift (Republic) (original HP-26, October 25, 2010)

• #14 – Better Than Revenge (Taylor's Version) – Taylor Swift (Republic)

• #17 – Sparks Fly (Taylor's Version) – Taylor Swift (Republic) (original HP-97, November 8, 2010)

• #22 – Speak Now (Taylor's Version) – Taylor Swift (Republic) (original HP-20, October 18, 2010)

• #26 – Dear John (Taylor's Version) – Taylor Swift (Republic)

• #30 – Mean (Taylor's Version) – Taylor Swift (Republic) (original HP-45, November 1, 2010)

• #32 – The Story of Us (Taylor's Version) – Taylor Swift (Republic) (original HP-65, June 20, 2011)

• #33 – Castles Crumbling (Taylor's Version – From The Vault) – Taylor Swift featuring Hayley Williams (Republic)

• #38 – Electric Touch (Taylor's Version – From The Vault) – Taylor Swift featuring Fall Out Boy (Republic)

• #43 – When Emma Falls In Love (Taylor's Version – from The Vault) – Taylor Swift (Republic)

• #48 – Haunted (Taylor's Version) – Taylor Swift (Republic)

• #50 – Foolish One (Taylor's Version – From The Vault) – Taylor Swift (Republic)

All 15 of the above are all new entries from Swift’s rerecorded Speak Now album which lands at #1 on the ARIA Albums Chart this week, as well as #1 in England, Ireland, Scotland, New Zealand and The Netherlands (so far). It's also our #1 Country and Vinyl album this week. The 13 lower fifty entries for Swift consist of seven more tracks from her Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) and six older singles. 

The tracks retaining a Top 100 berth this week include Cardigan (29 spots to #63), Shake It Off (33 to #65), Lover (26 to #69), Don't Blame Me (34 to #77), Lavender Haze (40 to #95) and Love Story (Taylor's Version) (49 to #99). The further new entries for her album are Long Live (#53), Timeless (From The Vault) (#56), Never Grow Up (#59), Last Kiss (#60), Innocent (#75), and Ours (#85; original HP-91, November 8, 2010). 

#27 is another new entry, Super Shy by NewJeans. It’s the lead single from the South Korean girl group’s second EP, Get Up, which is out next Friday (July 21). The new single also enters at #27 in their homeland and slightly higher in New Zealand (#25), plus they score another entry at #98 with their self-titled track NewJeans. Overall, these mark their third and fourth Top 100 entries, after previously charting with OMG (HP-43, peaked February 20, 2023) and Ditto (HP-54, peaked January 16). 

NEW CERTIFICATIONS:

Money Trees – Kendrick Lamar featuring Jay Rock ▲5 (first cert.)

HUMBLE. – Kendrick Lamar ▲11 (was 8P)

KEY:
HP = Highest Position
LW = Last Week
WI10 - Weeks in Top 10

ARIA Chart info is based on sales for the week from the 7th to the 13th of July 2023