About Damn Time: Aus Chart Shakeup Expected Following Male-dominated #1s

Harry Styles notches up a third accumulated week at #1 in Australia with his Harry's House lead single As It Was.

The single became the fifth #1 for 2022 (and the first new) on April 11th, and of the six overall chart-topping singles for 2022, this track last week became the fifth song to return to the top of the ARIA Singles Chart during this calendar year. As It Was racks up its second sales certification this week, as it hits ▲Platinum in sales, two weeks after it achieved Gold (April 25th), while Styles' track is also holding at #1 in England, Ireland (both fifth week), the US and Canada (both third week).

Jack Harlow issued his new album Come Home The Kids Miss You on Friday, which could make his former #1 First Class return to the top next week (maybe), as it remains at #2 again this week, while it logs a fourth week at the top in New Zealand. But with new tracks from Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift (just issued) and Lizzo (debuting), the male-dominated #1s this year could be in for a femme-led revival in the next few weeks (Mariah and Dua did top the charts this year, but with former #1s)?

The entire top five singles are on hold this week, with Glass Animals' Heat Waves (WI10-66, still the longest of all time) at #3, last week's highest new entry for Thousand Miles by The Kid LAROI (US.TW #15 debut) holds at its entry peak of #4, while he follows it with his Stay track alongside Justin Bieber at #5 (WI10-43, 3rd longest of all time), with the song newly certified as 8x▲Platinum, plus The Kid LAROI also picked up the APRA Award for 'Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year' this past week, plus his national tour starts soon.

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Last week Latto saw her track Big Energy enter the Top 10 at #10, and now this week it leaps up four places to score a new peak of #6, while the song holds at #4 in the US, its only other Top 10 berth. Latto's leap pushes down the rest of last week's Top 10 singles by one place apiece, with the two Ed Sheeran tracks Bad Habits (WI10-44, second longest) and Shivers (WI10-33, seventh longest) dipping to #7 and #10 respectively, while Lost Frequencies and Calum Scott's Where Are You Now and Elton John with Dua Lipa's mash-up for Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) (WI10-38, sixth longest) move to #8 and #9 respectively.

UP

With Mother's Day this weekend in Australia, it has seen a rise in Adele sales, plus this past week her Live In London special was screened on TV here, which helps her former #1 song Easy On Me to leap back up five places to #16, the only climbing track within the Top 20 this week.

Two tracks that leap up into the Top 30 are the 2015 Willow track Wait A Minute, jumping twelve spots to a new peak of #.25, followed by the three week old entry for Lauren Spencer-Smith and Flowers, which perks up fifteen chart-rungs to land at #26, also a new peak position.

The last two climbers also score new peaks this week too, as last week's lower fifty entry for LA singer Leah Kate called 10 Things I Hate About You jumps up twenty-seven places to land within the Top 40 at #38, her first chart entry, while the other 2015-climber is the J. Cole track No Role Modelz, which moves back up three spots to land at a new chart height of #44.

DOWN

No songs depart the Top 10 this week, with two Lil Nas X titles moving down within the Top 20, Industry Baby (12 to #14) and That's What I Want (17 to #20), plus Montero (Call Me By Your Name) is newly 5x▲Platinum. Gayle and Camila Cabello with Ed Sheeran remain at #11 and #13 respectively, while DAVE's Starlight track falls four places to land at #18.

After two weeks at a peak of #18, the SUPER-HI and Neeka track Following The Sun falls three spots to #21, while Olivia Rodrigo's Good 4 U falls four spots to its second-lowest position of #24 (it dropped as low as #33 on January 3rd). Falling five places apiece are Enemy for Imagine Dragons, Watermelon Sugar by Harry Styles and the Down Under remix by Luude and Colin Hay to #27, #30 and #31 respectively.

Doja Cat just issued a new track on Friday from the ELVIS soundtrack called Vegas (which samples Big Mama Thorton's version of Hound Dog), and this week she falls down with Kiss Me More, dipping nine to #33, and Woman, down only two spots to #34. Dean Lewis falls seven to #36 with his latest track Hurtless, while the cover of Tom's Diner for AnnenMayKantereit and Giant Rocks falls down twelve spots to #40 (Sofi Tukker sampled Tom's Diner on a new track from their Wet Tennis album this past week too).

Lower Top 50 drops also occur for Billie Eilish and Happier Than Ever (36 to #41), the new Shawn Mendes entry When You're Gone (33 to #43), Dreams by Fleetwood Mac (39 to #45), In My Head for Lil' TJay (40 to #48) and the biggest fall of the week (within the T50) is a sixteen place slide to #47 for the Encanto track We Don't Talk About Bruno.

NEW ENTRIES

* #12 - About Damn Time by Lizzo (Nice Life/Atlantic) is the lead single from Lizzo's July 15th due fourth studio album named Special, with her last chart entry Rumors debuting and peaking at #16 in late August of 2021, while all up this is her fourth Top 20 single after Truth Hurts (HP-15) and her only previous Top 10 entry Good As Hell (HP-6), both from 2019.

* #15 - Wait for U by Future feat. Drake and Terms (Epic) is the lead single from the US rapper's new album I Never Liked You, which becomes his first #1 album in both Australia and New Zealand this week, while this song becomes his 18th Top 100 and 12th Top 50 entry locally, while it's also his fifth collaboration with Drake after Jumpman (HP-47, late April 2016), Life Is Good (HP-11, Jan 2020), and then two tracks from Drake's Certified Lover Boy set Way 2 Sexy (HP-7) and N 2 Deep (HP-19, both Sept. 13th, 2021).

* #28 - Honest by Justin Bieber feat. Don Toliver (Def Jam) is the lead single from a forthcoming new album for the Canadian act, who is also currently within the Top 50 at #5 as a guest on The Kid LAROI track Stay and his record holder for 'Longest Running Top 20 entry {without hitting the Top 10}' in Ghost, which is down two spots to #17 this week and logging its 28th week within the twenty.

* #35 - In the Stars by Benson Boone (Night Street/Warner) is the first Top 50 and second Top 100 entry for the 19-year-old American singer-songwriter, who first charted last year with his debut single Ghost Town (HP-67, 22nd of November, 2021). His new single has already cracked the Top 10 in Norway (#4), Sweden (#8) and Ireland (#10).

* #49 - That That by Psy feat. Suga & BTS (P NATION/Dreamus) is a triple-Korean track from the new Psy album called Psy 9th, alongside BTS and Korean producer Suga, with the video already racking up 106M views in its first seven days (as of Saturday), plus the new entry becomes the third Top 50 entry for Psy after his 2012 #1 single Gangnam Style and it's April 2013 follow-up Gentleman (HP-15).