Sam Smith & Kim Petras Hold #1 For Second Week With 'Unholy'

Sam Smith and Kim Petras hold for a second week at #1 in Australia with their Unholy alliance.

The duet between the UK singer and German performer also remains atop the English, Irish and New Zealand charts for a second week, plus it debuted at #1 in Canada this past week and entered at #3 in the U.S.A., with the track also atop the charts in Greece, Hungary, Lithuania and Slovakia. And with Sam Smith now racking up his fourth overall week at #1 in Australia (2 weeks for Unholy and two weeks from his 2017 #1 song Too Good at Goodbyes), he now lands within the Top 100 on the listing for 'Accumulated Weeks at #1: Singles (1940 to 2022)' at equal 83rd alongside other acts like Christina Aguilera, David Bowie, Skyhooks, Huey Lewis, Shakin' Stevens and Tina Turner who've all had four weeks from two #1 songs in the past.

Seven of the Top 10 tracks are non-movers this week, with the entire top six songs from last week stable, as the recent #1 song I'm Good (Blue) for David Guetta and Bebe Rexha, remains at #2, followed by OneRepublic's I Ain't Worried at #3, Super Freaky Girl by Nicki Minaj at #4, B.O.T.A. (Baddest of All Time) by Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal remain at #5 and logging a third week at #6 is Harry Styles' As it Was.

Styles' track lost its hold on the top spot in the U.S.A. this past week to the recently announced (and sold out) November 2022 tour for Steve Lacy; as his track, Bad Habits took over the top spot in America, here the song is back up two places to #7, while he also lands a new entry at #85 with Static and returns to chart at #98 with his August 2022 #69 single Dark Red.

Glass Animals dip one place to #8 with Heat Waves, now logging its 87th week within the Top 10, which is still the longest run of all time in Australia, while also down one place to #9 is the new #2 single in New Zealand this week, Chris Brown with Under the Influence, while the final non-mover within the Top 10 is sitting at #10; Sunroof for Nicky Youre and dazy.

Lizzo takes a two-step climb to a new peak of #11 with her latest single, 2 Be Loved (Am I Ready), while her former #3 song About Damn Time is stable at #14 this week, after which current tourist to our shores Central Cee has a three-place rise to #12 with Doja, which also cracked the NZ Top 10 for the first time this week (11 to #7). Two other Top 20 climbing and peaking tracks are Cuff It by Beyoncé and Afraid to Feel by LF System to 16 and #19, respectively, with it being LF System's first appearance within the Top 20.

Last week saw Ed Sheeran without a Top 20 entry in Australia. Now thanks to his new song Celestial debuting at #57 this week, his older entries see a rise, with his highest placed entry being Shivers (23 to #20), followed by Bad Habits (26 to #21), while his record-breaking Longest Ever Charted Single for Perfect rebounds seven spots to #65 in its 286th week within the Top 100 (that's over five-and-a-half years).

Luke Combs again has his three albums within the Top 10 this week, and his latest single, The Kind of Love We Make (HP-21), is back up to #23, followed by further small rises for SNAP by Rosa Linn (28 to #26), Late Night Talking by Harry Styles (29 to #28) and Forget Me by Lewis Capaldi (32 to #30).

Returning to its former peak of #31 for the third time (Sept 19th & 26th were the last two times) by rising three spots this week is the Zach Bryan track Something In The Orange, while Armani White's BILLIE EILISH moves up two places to land at a new chart height of #33. Omar Apollo's Evergreen (You Don't Deserve Me At All) leaps ten spots this week to land at #37. At the same time, it has jumped to #12 in NZ this week, while Dua Lipa's Levitating remix is back up one spot to #41 and celebrating its two-year chart anniversary (19 Oct 2020 was its debut week), having never dropped below #42 (19 Sept and last week 3 Oct) during its 104-week chart run.

Two five-week-old Top 100 entries climb into the Top 50 this week for the first time. Up fifteen places to land at #45 is James Hype with Miggy Dela Rosa and their ode to the fine machines that are Ferrari, with the track last week seeing a thirty place jump (90 to #60), with this song now being his first ever Top 100 and Top 50 entry. The latest Dean Lewis track, How Do I Say Goodbye, is up ten places to land at #49, the song taken from his November 4th due second album, The Hardest Love, while this new entry becomes his ninth Top 50 placement locally, and the track has landed so far within the Top 10 in Norway (#7) and is charting well in Denmark (#13), Sweden (#21) The Netherlands (#29), Ireland and Switzerland (both #30) and jumps from 87 to #72 in the UK Singles Chart this week.

DOWN

No songs leave the Top 10 this week, with the Top 20 again seeing two Elton John entries, both dipping this week, with Hold Me Closer down three spots to #15 and Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) down a single place to #18. Doja, the song climbed to #12, just ahead of Doja Cat's appearance on the Post Malone track I Like You (A Happier Song), which declined two spots to land at #13, after which the next dropping track is a three-place slip to #24 for last week's new entry for Lil' Nas X and his League of Legends track Star Walkin'.

Remaining stable within the Top 30 are Vegas for Doja Cat at #25 and First Class for Jack Harlow at #27, which is racking up its half-year (26 weeks) chart anniversary. Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) tumbles down nine spots to #29, while the three-week-old entry for BlackPink for Shut Down is the biggest drop within the Top 50 this week, falling seventeen spots to #35, while their Pink Venom track is the second biggest drop within the Top 100, down twenty-five places to land at #66.

With her tour now over in Australia, the Billie Eilish track Happier Than Ever falls six places this week to #36, followed by a seven-place slide to #38 for Joji's Glimpse Of Us, and Justin Bieber's Ghost leaves the Top 40 for the first time since it returned to the chart just under a year ago (18 Oct 2021), as it falls five places to land at #43, followed by a four place decline to #44 for Beyoncé's Break My Soul, which achieves▲Platinum in sales.

RETURNING SINGLE

* #22 - Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio feat. L.V. (MCA) returns to the chart this week after the rapper, singer and actor's passing (28 Sept) at 59 from a possible cardiac arrest. This song was his third chart entry in Australia, and his biggest single, taken from the Michelle Pfeiffer-led film Dangerous Minds. The song debuted on 8 Oct 1995 (27 years ago this weekend), initially coming in at #5 and being the highest entry for the week, while in its second sales week, it fell to #16 after a surge in demand for the song had seen it sold out in most retailers for that second chart week. In its third chart week, the song leapt from #16 to #1 (22 Oct 1995), where it stayed for the next 13 weeks (consecutively), holding until 14 Jan 1996 and becoming the #1 selling single in Australia for 1995.

The song logged 23 weeks within the Top 100 (17 of which were within the Top 10) and sold enough to be certified 3x▲Platinum in sales. Its 13-week run at the top was only surpassed in 2017 by Ed Sheeran's Shape of You (15 weeks), while Gangsta's Paradise is still the equal ninth longest-running #1 song in Australia of all time up against Hey Jude by The Beatles (1968), and more recent songs Despacito (2017) and Old Town Road (2019), while Gangsta's Paradise has also returned to the charts around the world in New Zealand (#15), Ireland (#29), England (#55), Hungary (#17), Greece (#22) and Belgium (#50).