Kate Bush Reclaims #1 In Aus As 'Stranger Things' Finale Airs

Kate Bush returns to the ARIA Singles summit this week with Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God), for a third accumulated stay at #1 in Australia.

By regaining the top spot on the singles chart this week Bush now has had two three-week running #1 singles in Australia, as she ties with her only other national #1 song Wuthering Heights which stayed for three consecutive weeks at the top from May 22nd, 1978, while her tally of overall weeks at #1 locally has now increased to six weeks, placing her now equal 79th on the list for 'Accumulated Weeks at #1: Singles (1940 to 2022)', alongside other six-weeks-from-two-#1s acts like Sherbet, Col Joye, Anastacia and Boyz II Men.

Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God) regains the top spot thanks in part to the soundtrack for Stranger Things season four entering at #45 on the albums chart this week, while the second half of the show's season four was also screened this past week. The song remains for a third week at the top in England and Ireland, while it logs at #2 in New Zealand and Switzerland, #3 in Sweden, #4 in Germany (again) and it drops down in both Canada (to #7) and the US (to #9).

Last week I mentioned that this is the first time since 2010 (and second time overall) that a Warner-issued single has taken over at the top from another Warner song, and now this week the return of Kate Bush to # has given Warner their first-ever reclaim of a chart-topping song, and their first-ever three-in-a-row summit-sitters, as last week's Joji #1 song Glimpse Of Us swaps places with Bush's 'run' to drop back down to #2 after a single week at the top, but the song does remain at #1 in New Zealand for a second week.

And of the eight #1 songs for 2022, this is now the sixth single this year to go back to the top spot, while Elton John and Dua Lipa's Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) went back to the top on two separate occasions. One of those recent returnees is stable at #3 this week, with Harry Styles' As It Was on hold, just as his Harry's House set is also a non-mover at #3 on the albums charts too.

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Back up one spot to #4 is the Lizzo track About Damn Time (she did Carpool Karaoke this past week), while the Doja Cat track Vegas from the ELVIS soundtrack jumps up three places to a new peak of #5, giving Doja her fourth Top 5 single in Australia (one as a guest, three as lead), while the song is also boosted by the movie now being in cinemas and the soundtrack to the film debuts at #22 this week.

The second of three stable tracks within the Top 10 is at #6, as Jack Harlow's First Class remains still, while the new debuting #1 single this past week in both his homeland of Canada and the US for Drake and 21 Savage with Jimmy Cooks (not 'Crooks' like I had it last week, sorry 'bout that!), which here is down three places to #7 after such a higher debut last week.

Glass Animals' Heat Waves dips back down one spot to #8, its fourth week in that position in the past five weeks, while the song is racking up its 73rd week within the Top 10 (Longest of all time), the second-placed longevity track is stable at #10 this week, logging its 50th week within the Top 10 (and 51st week on the chart), is Stay for The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber.

In between those two long-stayers is last week's Beyonce debut, which jumps from #32 to land at a new peak of #9, as her new single Break My Soul rises up twenty-three places. The song which samples Show Me Love by Robin S (HP-78, late Feb. 1994, Steve Angello remix HP-73, June 2009), with this jumpin' (jumpin') track for Beyonce now becoming her fourteenth Top 10 single in Australia (11 as lead, three as guest) and her first Top 10 placement since her duet with Eminem Walk On Water debuted and peaked at #10 on November 20th, 2017, while the song has also jumped into the Top 10 in England (21 to #4) and Ireland (18 to #2) this weekend.

UP

Two of the four Ed Sheeran Top 50 entries rise back up this week, his two Top 20 singles, with the #1 song from this time last year Bad Habits up four to #13 and its successor Shivers moves back up three to #16. Elton John and Dua Lipa's Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) is also back up four chart-rungs to #14, while moving up one spot to land at a new peak of #20 is the OneRepublic Top Gun 2 track I Ain't Worried, becoming the bands sixth Top 20 single in Australia (7th if you include Far East Movement's teaming with Ryan Tedder in 2011).

Luke Combs sees his third studio album Growin' Up land at #2 this week, while the album's latest single The Kind of Love We Make moves up to a new peak of #22, after which there's a six-place jump to a new chart height of #25 for the Nicky Youre and dazy track Sunroof and a four-place reclimb to #26 for Dua Lipa's Levitating track.

Imagine Dragons just issued their new album on Friday, and their current singles chart entry Enemy is back up three spots to#31, followed by rises for The Killers' Mr. Brightside' (38 to #33) and Olivia's Good 4 U (37 to #34). Adele's Easy On Me rebounds six spots to #41, Gayle's abcdeFU moves back up slightly, two spots to #42, while the latest Top 100 entry for Jax Jones with MNEK called Where Did You Go? breaks into the Top 50 this week by rising ten places to land at a new peak of #43, helped by the recent performance of the song with John Newman on vocals at the Party At The Palace. The final climber of the week is a return to the Top 50 for The Weeknd's Blinding Lights track, rising back up seven spots to #45.

DOWN

The only song to leave the Top 10 this week is The Kid LAROI's Thousand Miles (HP-4x2, WI10-8), which is down only two spots to #11, followed by last week's Top-10-dropout for Post Malone and I Like You (A Happier Song), which dips one spot to #12, while Post's bigger drop occurs for his Roddy Rich duet Cooped Up, which falls down eight places to #32.

Harry Styles is reduced to four Top 50 entries this week, as he declines with Late Night Talking (14 to #18) and to a larger degree with Music For A Sushi Restaurant (29 to #38) and Matilda (27 to #39). Drake's other entries from last week to drop down are Massive (12 to #21) and Sticky (15 to #27), while his teaming with Future on the single Wait For U is down three spots to #23 and newly certified as Gold (●) in sales (the only T50 cert this week).

Falling four places apiece are Tate McRae's She's All I Wanna Be and Bam Bam for Camila Cabello and Ed Sheeran to #29 and #30 respectively, while Ed's four and final Top 50 single is his teaming with Lil' Baby for 2Step, which drops down six spots to #46. The last two significant dropping tracks belong to Willow with Wait A Minute!, down seven to #48 and the latest Sleepy Hallow entry Die Young', which falls eight places to land at #50.

NEW ENTRY

* #19 - Left and Right by Charlie Puth and Jung Kook (of BTS) (Atlantic) is the third issued track from the forthcoming third album for Charlie Puth simply named Charlie (no date known as yet), as by entering at #19 is surpasses the #20 peak of his new albums first issued song Light Switch (HP-20, Feb 7th, 2022), while the single issued in-between was called That's Hilarious (mid-April 2022), and this new entry now becomes his ninth Top 100 entry in Australia (8 as lead, 1 as guest).