Kate Bush's 'Running Up That Hill' Is Officially The Top Song Globally

It's a fifth week atop the ARIA Singles summit for Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) as the Stranger Things S4-infused track becomes the #1 song on the planet this week. 

Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) also remains for a fifth week at #1 in Ireland, while the song is now ranked at top of the 'Global Chart', which Billboard compiles, the track overtaking Harry Style's As It Was track to take the lead, with Mr. Styles' former #1 rising back up to #2 in Australia (from the current #1 Album), while that song remains at #1 in the US (9th week) and regains the top spot in Canada (11th overall week). 

Another thing that Kate and Harry achieve this week is to now have the same amount of 'Accumulated Weeks at #1: Singles (1940 to 2022)' as they've both notched up eight weeks at #1 in Australia with two chart-topping singles, albeit Kate's was achieved over a 44-year gap/period, Harry's was done within five years (2017 to 2022), with both acts now sitting at equal 73rd (up from =77th for Kate last week) on the aforementioned listing alongside Boney M, Dawn, Dr. Hook. The Mixtures, Silverchair, The Village People and Jennifer Warnes. 

Swapping places with Harry is the third of six #1 singles within the Top 10, and the current NZ. #1 song Glimpse Of Us for Joji (5th NZ.W@#1), down a solo spot to #3, after which are three frozen Top 10 entries. Holding at its peak of #4 for a second week is the Doja Cat ELVIS soundtrack entry Vegas, followed by Lizzo's About Damn Time at #5, with her new album Special issued on Friday (so it could boost the single up again next week), while the continued leader on the listing for 'Most Weeks with the Top 10' at 75 weeks is Heat Waves for Glass Animals at #6. 

Scoring their fourth Top 10 single in almost nine years are OneRepublic with their Top Gun: Maverick single I Ain't Worried, which flies up four spots to land at #7, becoming their first entry within the ten since Something I Need spent three weeks at #6 in Sept-Oct of 2013, with their two other Top 10 placements being their Timbaland teaming Apologize (HP-1, Dec 2007) and Counting Stars (HP-2, July 2013) which was sitting at #92 on last weeks ARIA Top 100 Chart.

Jack Harlow's First Class dips one spot to #8, while the sixth and final #1 Top 10 entry is Stay for The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber, a non-mover at #9, with the song now cracking 52 weeks (one year) within the Top 10, still the second longest of all time, while th'Kid also scores the highest new entry of the week as a guest on the Fivio Foreign track Paris To Tokyo at #26. Climbing back up three spots to land a third week within the Top 10 at #10 is Post Malone and Doja Cat with I Like You (A Happier Song), making Doja Cat the only artist with TWO Top 10 entries this week too. Also the opposite occurs for Post's album 12 Carat Toothache', which is down three spots to #13. 

UP

Three single places rises and one jump into the Top 20 occurs this week, with Ed's Bad Habits and Shivers both back up one spot to #14 and #16 respectively, while his Camila Cabello duet Bam Bam is also up a single spot to #32 and newly certified ▲Platinum in Sales (it went Gold on June 6th). Elton and Dua's Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) is the third single-spot-climber, up to #13, while Dua's Levitating is doing just that, stable at #27. 

Last week's new entry for Metallica's Master Of Puppets sees the song rise five spots to land within the Top 20 at #19, while the same-titled parent album is the #12 selling vinyl this week. Two places lower at #21 is the next new peaking track, up one spot to #21 is Sunroof for Nicky Youre and dazy, while The Weeknd's Save Your Tears jumps back up five places to #23 and his former 11-week running #1 song from 2019/20 Blinding Lights remains a non-mover at #43.

The Killers track Mr. Brightside moves back into the Top 30 by rising three spots to #29, with the song potentially charting all the way through the year thanks to their pending Nov-Dec 2022 national tour. Post Malone has a second rising track this week as his Roddy Ricch duet Cooped Up is back up a couple of chart rungs to #33, with Jax Jones and MNEK moving up one spot to a new peak of #40 with Where Did You Go?.

J. Cole's long-and-low-running entry No Role Modelz (WI100-64, HP-44) returns to the Top 50 by moving back up four spots to #47, while a new entry to the Top 50 which leaps up twenty-eight places to land at a new peak of #44 is the R3HAB and Amy Shark cover Sway My Way, which was originally a #10 hit in October 1998 for NZ artist Bic Runga just under the title Sway.

DOWN

Two songs leave the Top 10 this week, Jimmy Cooks for Drake and 21 Savage (HP4, WI10-3) down three spots to #11, while Beyonce's Break My Soul (HP-9, WI10-2) falls down five spots to #15, with the song possibly rebounding in early August after her new album Renaissance is issued. Kid LAROI has a second non-mover this week at #12 with Thousand Miles, with small single-place drops within the Top 20 for both Big Energy for Latto to #17 and Late Night Talking for Harry Styles to #20, which saw a new video clip issued on Friday.

Charlie Puth and Jung Kook of BTS dropped down four places to #24 after two weeks within the Top 20, with Drake scoring two more falling tracks in Massive (23 to #28) and Sticky (40 to #49). After a new-album-entry surge last week the Imagine Dragons track Enemy drops back down six spots to #31, as does Lady Gaga's Hold My Hand, declining six to #35, followed by a three-place dip to #37 for Olivia Rodrigo's Good 4 U. 

Following The Sun for SUPER-HI with Neeka drops four spots to #41, followed by the week's biggest fall within the Top 50, a twelve-place decline to #42 for Luke Combs' The Kind Of Love We Make. Ed Sheeran and Lil' Baby's 2Step has a three-step drop to #45, while a surge to #15 in New Zealand for the Benson Boone track In The Stars is moving the opposite direction in Australia, as the song falls to #48 locally.

NEW ENTRIES

* #26 - Paris To Tokyo by Fivio Foreign and The Kid Laroi (RichFish/Columbia) is the first Top 50 appearance for the American rapper, who issued his debut album in April of this year called B.I.B.L.E., which this single is not featured on, but will be issued on his forthcoming second album. Fivio (Maxie Lee Ryles III) Foreign has appeared on five previous Top 100 entries, all as a guest performance, with his highest placed being on the Kanye West track City Of Gods (HP-66, Feb. 28th, 2022). 

* #34 - Betty (Get Money) by Yung Gravy (Republic) is the stage name of Matthew Raymond Hauri from Minnesota, America, who has looped the Rick Astley 1987 #1 Single Never Gonna Give You Up (seven weeks from Nov. 30th, 1987) throughout this new entry, his first to chart entry in Australia. He has always used older known tracks within his loops, including Maxine Nightingale Right Back Where We Started From for his Gravy Train track and Mr. Sandman by The Chordettes for his debut single Mr Clean in 2016. According to ARIA's website, this song was sitting at #161 last week, so that's a 127 place jump up the chart this week. 

* #36 - Bad Habit by Steve Lacy (L-M Records/RCA) is the lead single from Steve's second album Gemini Rights which was issued on Friday (July 15th), and it becomes his first Top 50 entry and second Top 100 placement, as his 2017 track Dark Red made it to #69 upon entry on August 30th, 2021. According to ARIA's website, this song was sitting at #307 last week, so that's a massive 271 place jump up the chart this week.

NEW CERTIFICATION:

Bam Bam by Camila Cabello & Ed Sheeran ▲

HP = Highest Position

LW = Last Week

WI10 - Weeks in Top 10

*ARIA Chart info is based on sales for the week from the 8th to the 14th of July, 2022.

Written, Compiled and Researched by Gavin Ryan.