Joji Ends Nearly 60-Year Drought On Aussie Chart

As we hit the halfway mark of the chart year, the eighth #1 single for 2022 occurs as Joji's Glimpse Of Us climbs to the top of the ARIA Singles Chart.

Glimpse of Us (88rising/Warner Music) is the 1114th #1 single in Australia (1940 to 2022), the 549th for ARIA (1983 to 2022), the eighth #1 for 2022, the second for a Japanese artist (first for ARIA) and the 17th for the Warner label (first for 88rising) and their second consecutive #1 since their first in 1963, as Kate Bush is also (now) a Warner act, the last time that two acts from that label went back-to-back was in February of 2010 when Replay by Iyaz (two weeks from 8th of Feb) was taken over at the summit by In My Head for Jason DeRulo (two weeks from 22nd of Feb). 

Glimpse Of Us also climbs to the top in New Zealand, Malaysia and Singapore this week, while it leaps to #2 in Ireland and The Philippines, it's at #3 in Vietnam and Indonesia and jumps into the Top 10 in Norway (#5, LW-27) and debuts within the T10 in both Canada (#6) and the US (#10). It's the first time that the word 'glimpse' has appeared in a #1 single title, while it's the sixth with 'us' and the 62nd 'of', with the first #1 song in Australia also containing an 'of' South Of The Border (Down Mexico Way) (January 1940). This could (almost) be called Joji's second #1 single, with his first being the promotion of the then-unknown Harlem Shuffle song in 2013, which became the 1000th #1 single in Australia for Baauer (February 25th, 2013).

As Joji is half-Australian (father's side) and half Japanese (mother's side), he becomes the 42nd solo Australian male artist to hit the top (first since The Kid LAROI), the 109th Australian Act (solo male or female, duo or group), while his song becomes the 169th by an Australian act to hit the top locally, and the second for 2022 after Stay for LAROI and Justin Bieber regained the #1 spot on January 31st. On the Japanese side of the artist, he is now only the second ever artist from that country to hit #1 in Australia, the other was in the pre-ARIA era as Kyu Sakamoto's Sukiyaki spent two weeks at the top from July 13th, 1963, thus Joji has broken a nearly 60-year drought from that country at #1 in Australia.

Of the eight #1 singles occurring during 2022, this is now only the third issued during this year to hit the top locally as the first four were 2021 or 2020 issued songs, while the song that Joji replaces was from 1985, as Kate Bush and her reinvigorated Running Up That Hill is down one spot to #2 this week, while the song remains at #1 for a second week in both England and Ireland, and it sits at #2 in Canada and Switzerland, #3 in Sweden and France, plus #4 in Germany and the US; on hold in both locations.

The top three singles are all current or ex-#1 songs, with As It Was by Harry Styles dipping one place to #3 this week, while it holds at the top in both the US (7th week) and Canada (10th week), and while his current tour started in Scotland, England and Ireland this past week, thus his album has topped those three Album charts this week. 

Drake issued a surprise album last Friday called Honestly, Nevermind, which debuts at #2 this week, while the album has pushed three tracks from it into the Top 15 this week, the highest of which comes in at #4, Jimmy Crooks featuring 21 Savage (the only guest featured track on the entire album). By coming in at #4 this now becomes Drake's 24th Top 10 entry and also the second for 21 Savage (he guested on the Post Malone #1 single from 2017's Rockstar). Drake last appeared in the Top 10 in mid-September of 2021 when his Certified Lover Boy dumped five songs from the album within the ten. 

After a third appearance at its peak of #3 the Lizzo track About Damn Time drops back down two spots to #5, followed by a single place dip to #6 for Jack Harlow's First Class track. After three weeks of sitting at #8, Glass Animals' Heat Waves is back up one spot to #7, plus logging its 72nd week within the Top 10 and the track is newly certified 11x▲Platinum in sales.

The chart week ended at midnight on June 23rd, the day that the Baz Luhrmann biopic ELVIS opened in cinemas around Australia, and the lead single from the forthcoming soundtrack is Doja Cat with Vegas, which shimmies up four places to land at a new peak of #8, also becoming her sixth Top 10 song in Australia (four as lead, two as guest artist), while she also replaces herself within the Top 10 as her guest appearance on the Post Malone track I Like You (A Happier Song) (HP-7, WI10-2) drops down to #11 this week. There are tracks from the film due to chart soon from Eminem (The King and I), lead actor Austin Butler (T.R.O.U.B.L.E.), Swae Lee and Diplo (Tupelo Shuffle) and Maneskin (If I Can Dream). 

Australian acts top-and-tail the Top 10 this week as The Kid LAROI holds the last two positions within the ten, with his latest single Thousand Miles followed by his Justin Bieber duet Stay, both down three places each to #9 and #10 respectively, while Stay is also now 10x▲Platinum, one month after it's last certification (May 30th), plus his 17 week running former #1 song is also logging its 49th week within the Top 10, still the outright second longest of all time, with this week's #7 for Glass Animals still maintaining the longest ever run at 72 weeks. 

UP

The third issued single from the Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack in the OneRepublic track I Ain't Worried flies up nine places this week to #21, while the album's lead single for Lady Gaga and Hold My Hand is on hold at its peak of #35 for a second week, while Danger Zone for Kenny Loggins managed a new peak last week of #72.

Ten places lower is the next climbing single of the week, and it's also up nine places, landing at #31 is Sunroof for Nicky Youre and dazy, while Ed Sheeran's 2Step track with Lil' Baby jumps three places to land within the Top 40 at a new chart height of #40. The last two songs to climb back up this week within the Top 50 are Woman for Doja Cat, clawing its way up eight places to #43, while J. Cole's long-running No Role Modelz is back up three spots to #45, one place lower than its May 9th peak of #44.

DOWN

Leaving the Top 10 this week is the aforementioned Post Malone and Doja Cat single I Like You, down two to #11, while Harry Styles is reduced to only one Top 10 entry this week as Late Night Talking (HP-2, WI10-4) falls four spots to #14, plus the song is newly Gold (●) in sales, while the fourth and final Top 50 certification for this week goes to Elton John and Dua Lipa's Cold Heart (PNAU Remix), which is now 6x▲Platinum, and is down five places to #18. Either side of that Cold Heart are the two Ed Sheeran Top 20 entries in Shivers (16 to #19) and Bad Habits which is down three spots to #17 and scoring its one-year chart anniversary this week (52 wks), plus his Camila Cabello duet Bam Bam falls five places to land at #26. 

Post Malone sees his only other Top 50 entry this week Cooped Up with Roddy Rich drop down six places to #24, while Harry Styles is down to only five Top 50 entries, as he also declines with Matilda (22 to #27), Music For A Sushi Restaurant (24 to #29) and plummeting fourteen places to #46 is Daylight. 

SUPER-HI's Following The Sun dips five spots to #33, followed by a nine-place slide to #34 for the Imagine Dragons track Enemy, while they issued a new track on Friday (June 24th) called Sharks. Also releasing a new song this weekend is Lil Nas X who teams with YoungBoy Never Broke on a track named Late To Da Party, while his current dropping tracks are for both Industry Baby (29 to #37) and That's What I Want (36 to #39). 

Willow's Wait A Minute falls ten places to #41 (her newly issued song is called ˂maybe˃ it's my fault, Gayle's abcdeFU is almost FU'ed with the Top 50, as it tumbles down seven spots to #44, Vance Joy's jump to #41 last week with Clarity is back down six this week to #47, Adele's Easy On Me drops down ten spots to land at #48, while last week's #17 entry for BTS and Yet To Come leaves the Top 50 this week. 

FURTHER NEW ENTRIES

* # 4 - Jimmy Crooks by Drake feat. 21 Savage (OVO Sound/Republic)

* #12 - Massive by Drake (OVO Sound/Republic)

* #15 - Sticky by Drake (OVO Sound/Republic) are three of the fourteen tracks from the new Drake suprise album issued late last week called Honestly, Nevermind, which has landed at #2 on the ARIA Albums Chart this week, while his last couple of albums have dumped all of their tracks upon the chart first week, the same has not (yet) occurred for this new album of his.

* #23 - The Kind of Love Me Make by Luke Combs (Columbia) is the second track lifted from the just-issued (June 24th) third studio album for the country artists called Growin' Up, with the album's first release being Doin' This which debuted and peaked at #91 on November 22nd, 2021, while this high entry for Luke becomes his third Top 50 single in Australia after Beer Never Broke My Heart (HP-44, June 2019) and his highest-charted (so far) Forever After All (HP-14, Nov. 2020).

* #32 - Break My Soul by Beyonce (Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia) is the lead single from her forthcoming July 29th seventh studio album Renaissance, Beyonce's first new material since 2016 and her first solo entry since her live-action Lion King soundtrack song Black Parade (HP-76, June 29th, 2020), while this dance track is her 31st Top 50 appearance (26 as lead, 5 as guest, excluding Destiny's Child entries).