No End In Sight To Taylor Swift's Aus Chart Reign As 'Midnights' Continues To Dominate

It's a third week atop the Australian Singles Chart for Taylor Swift's Anti-Hero track, while she also retains her dual single and album occupation.

The track also gains a third week at #1 in England and Ireland, while a second week in her native U.S.A. and its border neighbour Canada, while it loses the top slot in New Zealand after two weeks (NZ #3). Locally the song's third week atop the ARIA Singles Chart takes her tally for this decade to now six weeks (from 4 #1s) and her overall tally to now 19 weeks from nine chart-topping singles, moving her to now equal 36th on the listing for 'Accumulated Weeks at #1: Singles (1940 to 2022)' alongside P!nk (19 weeks from 9 #1s) and just ahead of Katy Perry (19 weeks from 3 #1s), while if she holds again next week she will tie with Elton John's 20 racked up weeks. Plus with a third dual occupation of both the single and album charts, Taylor sees the longest dual run at the top of both charts since May 31st, 2021 when Olivia Rodrigo held for five straight weeks with Good 4 U and its parent album SOUR (until June 28th).

Regaining the top spot in New Zealand this week is the Sam Smith and Kim Petras track Unholy, which here is sitting at #2 for a second week, while also on hold is another former #1 song in I'm Good (Blue) for David Guetta and Bebe Rexha, which remains at #4 again, while Taylor has a second (and final) Top 10 entry this week as Lavender Haze drops down four places to #7, while four of her previous Top 10 entries drop into the Top 20 this week. The two climbing tracks within the Top 10 are Miss You for Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz (HP-4), back up seven places to land a second overall week within the Top 10 at #6, while OneRepublic rise back up two places to #8 with I Ain't Worried.

Four songs from the new collaboration album between Drake and 21 Savage have placed within the Top 10 this week, all taken from their new set Her Loss (new at #2). Coming in at #3 is Rich Flex, which contains interpolations from Megan Thee Stallion and Savage, 24's by T.I. and samples of I Want You, Girl by Sugar and Nora's Transformation by Charles Bernstein, while that track landed at #2 in NZ and #3 in both England and Ireland. The pair team up with Travis Scott for the #5 entry Pussy & Millions (only NZ #5), while lower within the Top 10 are Circo Loco enters at #9 (England and Ireland #7) which samples Daft Punk's One More Time and at #10 is Major Distribution (England and Ireland #5, NZ #4), featuring a sample of East Village by Elijah Fox. These four new entries to the Top 10 gives Drake now his 25th to 28th Top 10 placements, and for 21 Savage they're now his third to sixth Top 10 entries, plus as a pair it's now their fifth Top 10 placement, as on June 27th of this year a track from Drake's Honestly, Nevermind called Jimmy Cooks debuted and peaked at #4 (TW-53) for the pair, while they have also charted together with Mr. Right Now (HP-39, October 2020) and Knife Talks (HP-13, September 2021), giving the pair seven Top 50 entries overall.

UP

The Steve Lacy tour of Australia kicks off in Melbourne on November 22nd, and this week his former #3 song Bad Habit is back up four places to #11, followed by a seven-place jump to a new peak of #12 for the latest Meghan Trainor single Made You Look (also lands within the Top 10 in New Zealand [#6], England [#8] and Ireland [#9]). Half of the Top 20 rises this week (the other half declines), with further rebounds for B.O.T.A. for Eliza Rose (16 to #14), As It Was by Harry Styles (18 to #15, newly 5x▲Platinum in sales) and Beyoncé's Cuff it is back within the twenty at #20.

What looked like a continual decline for Glass Animals' Heat Waves is over, as the song is back up three places to #23, and with the new Dean Lewis album landing within the Top 5 this week he sees his latest single How Do I Say Goodbye (HP-25) only move back two spots to #29, while overseas the song cracks the Irish Top 20 for the first time (23 to #17) and hits a new peak in The Netherlands (5 to #3), while it declines a little in England (23 to #24) Canada (58 to #60), Norway (6 to #8).

Landing its half-year (26 weeks) within the Top 100 is the Tom Odell track Another Love which holds at #35 this week, while another new Top 5 Albums Chart debut this week for a local act helps his older entry to rebound this week, Joji's former #1 song Glimpse Of Us jumps back up twenty-two places to land at #37, one place ahead of his new entry at #38. With Dua Lipa touring the country at the moment her long-running Top 50 entry Levitating rises back up eight places to #41 this week, while her teaming with Elton John on Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) is back up three spots to #33.

DOWN

Five songs leave the Top 10 this week, four of them belonging to Taylor Swift as the Drake and 21 Savage influx pushes her album tracks down, starting with Midnight Rain (HP-5, WI10-2) down seven places to #13, then Bejewelled (HP-7, WI10-2) and Maroon (HP-4, WI10-2) both drop nine places each to #16 and #17 respectively, while Snow On The Beach (HP-3, WI10-2) with Lana Del Rey drops ten places to #19, plus she also drops harshly with You're on Your Own, Kid (11 to #18), Karma (12 to #21), plus Vigilante Shit (14 to #30), Question...? (17 to #31), Mastermind (23 to #36), a twenty-one place fall to #46 for Labyrinth and a twenty place slump to #49 for Sweet Nothing, meaning all thirteen tracks from her current #1 Midnights album have remained within the Top 50 this week.

Rihanna's entry last week at #5 with Lift Me Up falls down nineteen places to #24, with a new track of her's Born Again being issued on Friday from the just opened Black Panther: Wakanda Forever movie and its parent soundtrack, so the song might rebound next week now that movie is screening locally. The other Top 20 entry from last week for SZA and Shirt is down five places this week to #25.

Post Malone and Doja Cat's I Like You (A Happier Song) is down six places to #39, while his Sunflower track has finally left the Top 100 this week after 209 weeks of charting (it debuted Oct. 29th, 2018, having left the chart for two weeks in Sept. of 2021). Elton's other charting duet with Britney Spears and Hold Me Closer drops nine places to #43, Rosa Linn's SNAP falls eight to #45, while Lizzo and her About Damn Time track declines eight to #47.

FURTHER NEW ENTRY

* #3 - Rich Flex by Drake & 21 Savage (OVO Sound/Republic)

* #5 - Pussy & Millions by Drake & 21 Savage (OVO Sound/Republic)

* #9 - Circo Loco by Drake & 21 Savage (OVO Sound/Republic)

* #10 - Major Distribution by Drake & 21 Savage (OVO Sound/Republic)

* #38 - Die for You by Joji (88rising/Warner) is taken from his third studio album Smithereens, which lands at #.3 this week, while the album's previously issued #1 single Glimpse Of Us has rebounded to #37, while this new entry has also debuted in England (#39), Ireland (#34), New Zealand (#32) and Glimpse has returned in England (#34), Ireland (#28) and NZ (#31).