Will Harry Styles Finally Give Aus Its First New #1 Of 2022?

Glass Animals' Heat Waves track spends its fifth week at No.1 during 2022, becoming the third track this decade to accumulate eleven weeks at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart. 

Heat Waves also ties the 2022 record for 'Most Weeks at No.1', as its fifth consecutive week at the top becomes the equal longest stay at No.1 alongside Cold Heart for Elton John and Dua Lipa, but as that track notched up five weeks from two separate runs, Heat Waves becomes the longest continual run at the top for this year, while its eleventh overall week at the top (6 weeks in 2021, 5 in 2022), becomes one of seven songs to rack up 11 weeks at the singles-summit, with the two others from this decade being Mood for 24KGOLD and Blinding Lights for The Weeknd, with the others being singles from Wings (1978), Bryan Adams (1991), Spice Girls (1996) and Drake (2018). 

Speaking of The Spice Girls, their breakout hit Wannabe from 1996/97 held the top spot for seven weeks in the U.S.A., and this week Heat Waves racks up its fourth week at No.1 in the U.S., becoming the first song for a British Group to hold the top spot for four or more weeks since Wannabe in 1997, while the Glass Animals song is again at No.1 in Switzerland (also 4th week), and takes out it's first week at No.1 in Canada, after a massive 64 week climb to the top of their charts. The song is also at No.2 in New Zealand and Germany and also takes the #1 'World Singles Chart' top spot for the first time. 

As it's now the first week of April, and still no new No.1 single at the top, this year will go down in chart history for the 'Most Late #1 Single Of The Year', as the previous record holder of March 3rd in 2003 has now well and truly been surpassed, but with Harry Styles releasing a new single on Friday called As It Was, it could be the first new chart-topping single for 2022. But for now, the top four songs are all current or former No.1 singles, and all four are also some of the longest-running Top 10 singles of all time. 

Eight of the Top 10 singles are on hold this week, with the leader of the 'Longest Running Top 10 Singles' at 61 weeks (and climbing) is for Heat Waves, followed by the fourth longest at No.2 Bad Habits (39 wks) by Ed Sheeran, then fifth longest Stay (38 wks) for The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber at No.3 (which has now held for two times as long as JB's previous longest running T10 entry; What Do You Mean? {2015/16, 19 weeks}), and then sixth longest Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) (33 wks) for Elton John and Dua Lipa at No.4, which is at No.1 in New Zealand for a ninth overall week. 

The two moving tracks within the Top 10 this week are at No.5 and No.6, which swap places, with Lost Frequencies and Calum Scott with Where Are You Now back up one spot to it's former peak of No.5 for a fourth overall week (previous weeks at #5 were March 21st, Feb 21st and 7th), while Ed Sheeran's second Top 10 entry is Shivers which drops down one spot to No.6 and logs it's 28th week within the Top 10 making it now the equal ninth longest running Top 10 in Australia. 

The four remaining non-movers within the Top 10 are Gayle with abcdeFU at No.7, the current English and Irish No.1 single for a fourth week in Starlight for Dave remains at its peak of No.8 for a second week here, followed by Oscar winner for Best Animated Feature Encanto and its lead single We Don't Talk About Bruno at No.9 and Lil' Nas X holds at No.10 with That's What I Want.

UP

When Justin Bieber's Ghost re-appeared on the charts in mid-October of 2021, it took only five weeks to climb to a peak of No.11, and now this week in its 27th Top 100 week it regains that peak of No.11 for a second time (up one spot), while the track hits a new peak of No.5 in both Canada and the U.S.A. this week, with the only other single place climber within the Top 20 being Luude and Colin Hay with the DnB remix of Down Under, back up to No.13, while the song is again at No.3 in New Zealand, down one to No.7 in England, No.9 in Austria and sitting at No.16 in Ireland. One of the four non-movers within the Top 20 this week is Bam Bam for Camila Cabello and Ed Sheeran, spending a second week at its peak of No.16.

The first track to climb more than one place this week is all the way down at No.25, as the Elley Duhe entry Middle Of The Night rises two places to a new peak of No.25, followed by last week's new entry for Brothers and Joel Fletcher with Let's Trot which actually gallops up fourteen places to enter barrier No.26 this week, while a new Top 40 entry for Tate McRae sees her eight week old entry She's All I Wanna Be (HP-19) rise back up four spots to No.27. 

After the passing last week of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, the last song he ever performed has returned to the chart at No.28, the single Everlong, which debuted and peaked at No.45 on August 31st, 1997, thus by coming back in at No.28 it lands a new peak in the process, while the band's Greatest Hits set has shot back up to No.4 this week, plus the song has also returned to the charts in New Zealand (#31) and Ireland (#70) so far. 

The Killers' Mr. Brightside continues to chart, back up two spots this week to No.33, while making their first Top 50 appearance is female rapper from Atlanta, Georgia called Latto and her breakout single Big Energy, which blasts up thirty places this week to land at No.35 (it's fourth week within the Top 100), with the song having peaked within the Top 20 in America (#11), Canada (#17) and New Zealand (#19), while she just issued her second album 777 (on March 25th). And thanks to his first No.1 Album this week Machine Gun Kelly's latest single Maybe holds at its entry position and peak of No.38 for a second week. 

Four more climbing tracks in the lower section of the Top 50 are Light Switch for Charlie Puth (41 to No.40), Happier Than Ever by Billie Eilish (45 to No.43), Perfect for Ed Sheeran (47 to No.46, 259th week within the T100), and poking its head into the Top 50 for the first time in its 49 weeks within the Top 100 is the J. Cole's 2015 track No Role Modelz, which is up six spots to a new peak of No.50. The song first entered the Top 100 on February 15th, 2021 and hit an early peak of No.66 on May 24th, 2021, selling enough throughout the year to become the 89th biggest selling track for 2021. The track re-cemented it's Top 100 position on February 7th of this year when it returned to the chart and now nine weeks later it's into the Top 50 for the first time, while the track is up to a new peak of No.32 in New Zealand this week. 

DOWN

No singles leave the Top 10 this week, and there are only single place drops within the Top 20 for Industry Baby, Easy On Me and Levitating at No.12, No.14 and No.19 respectively, with the first non-single-place drop being for the ACraze and Cherish remix of Do It To It, which is only down two spots to No.21. 

Dove Cameron's Boyfriend and Doja Cat's Woman both drop five place each to No.30 and No.31 respectively, with Doja also dropping with Kiss Me More (down one to No.24) and alongside Tyga on Freaky Deaky, which falls seven places to No.41. 

Double-digit falls occur for the new Megan Thee Stallion and Dua Lipa collaboration Sweetest Pie, which crumbles twelve places to No.36, while the Nirvana entry Something In The Way also drops twelve, to land at No.42. Flume's rebound last week for Say Nothing is this week back down fifteen spots to No.44, Jack Harlow's Nail Tech dissolves twelve spots to No.49 and the Encanto second Top 50 entry Surface Pressure falls eight to No.47. 

NEW ENTRIES

* #18 - Tom's Diner by AnnenMayKantereit & Giant Rooks (Vertigo Berlin) is a cover of the Suzanne Vega single which she wrote in 1982 and appeared on her second album in 1987 Solitude Standing, now covered by two German acts in AnnenMayKantereit (the three names of its members) and German indie rock band Giant Rooks, with both acts vocal improvisation of the track making it a recent TikTok viral hit. The song was never originally a hit for Suzanne in 1987, but it did get a remix in 1990 by British duo DNA and hit No.8 here in November of that year. 

* #39 - Chaotic by Tate McRae (RCA) becomes the fifth Top 100 and third Top 50 entry for the female Canadian artist who is set to release her debut album I Used to Think I Could Fly on May 27th, of which this new entry is the third single issued after feel like s**t (HP-54, 22-Nov-2021) and her other current charting single She's All I Wanna Be (HP-19, TW-27).

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HP = Highest Position

LW = Last Week

WI10 = Weeks in Top 10 

*ARIA Chart info is based on sales for the week from the 25th to the 30th of March, 2022.

Written, Compiled and Researched by Gavin Ryan.