It’s Official: Harry Styles Is By Far One Direction’s Most Successful Member In Aus

Harry Styles claims a fourth week at #1 in Australia with As It Was, with his new album Harry's House due next Friday the 20th of May. 

As It Was also logs a fourth week at the top in Canada, while it holds for a sixth week in both England and Ireland and was replaced at the top in America by Future. And by holding for a fourth week at the top here, the song becomes the second longest-running #1 for 2022, stuck behind the five weeks racked up by Cold Heart (Jan 3 wks/Feb 2 wks) and Heat Waves (Mar-April 5 straight weeks) during this year. Plus Harry's current #1 has also accumulated more weeks at #1 than any other One Direction or solo-member-effort put together, as 1D only ever had one chart-topping song in Australia, Drag Me Down (1 week on August 10th, 2015); and apart from Harry's debut solo single Sign Of The Times (1 week on 17th of April, 2017) the only other 1D'er to hit the top was Zayn with Pillowtalk (1 week on 8th of February, 2016).

Jack Harlow is sitting at #2 on both charts this week, as his former #1 single First Class remains on hold at #2, while his second album Come Home The Kids Miss You debuts at #2 this week over on the albums chart, plus two further Top 20 debuts, a Top 40 rebound and potentially four more songs from his new album have landed within the Top 100 this week, giving him nine in total (8 from his new album and a guest appearance on a Lil Nas X track). Both Jack entries (single & album) are at #1 in New Zealand this week, with his album entering at the top and his single holding the top-berth for a fifth straight week. 

Hello, Lizzo! Her new entry from last week About Damn Time is this week up nine places to land at a new peak of #3, instantly becoming her highest-charted single in Australia, surpassing the #6 peak of her only other Top 10 entry Good As Hell (HP-6, peaked Nov. 2019), and in doing so it gives the Top 3 its youngest and freshest top three songs this year, as the oldest song within the top three is the six week old Harry Styles entry, and also this week half of the Top 10 is only ten weeks old (or young). 

From the youngest to the oldest, the Glass Animals long-running Heat Waves is down one spot to #4 this week, racking up its 67th week within the Top 10 and 91st week inside the Top 100. Lizzo's rise pushes down a couple of The Kid LAROI tracks this week, as his three-week-old entry Thousand Miles dips one spot to #5 after two weeks at its entry peak of #4, while his 44-week old entry Stay with Justin Bieber drops two places to #7 (WI10-44, third longest), its lowest ever chart position, as it dipped as low as #6 on the January 3rd chart before rebounding back the next week into the Top 3, where it stayed until the first week of April. 

Wedged in-between the two The Kid LAROI tracks is the Latto track Big Energy, which holds at its peak of #6 for a second week, while I heard the track in two different media sources this week, firstly as the closing credits to the recent Sandra Bullock/Channing Tatum film The Lost City, plus in the season one finale of the CW superhero series Naomi. 

Swapping places at #8 and #9 are two duets/collaborations; firstly Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) for Elton John and Dua Lipa is back up one spot to #8, logging its 39th week within the Top 10 (sixth longest) and down one place to #9 are Lost Frequencies with Calum Scott and Where Are You Now. Ed Sheeran is down to only one Top 10 entry this week, as Bad Habits falls three places to land at #10, notching up its 45th week within the Top 10, keeping it as the second-longest of all time in Australia (if it falls out next week and The Kid LAROI's Stay keeps within the T10, it could surpass Bad Habits in the next two weeks as the second-longest Top 10 entry locally). 

UP

Last week's new entry for Future with Drake and Tems called Wait For U is up three spots to a new peak of #12, while the song has debuted at #1 in America this past week (along with his album), with the only other climbing track within the Top 20 being JB's Ghost, back up one to #16. 

Leah Kate saw a twenty-seven place jump last week to #38 with her face-slapping 10 Things I Hate About You track, and this week she continues her upward trajectory by leaping sixteen spots to land at a new peak of #22, after which the next climbing track is another of last week's new entries, for Benson Boone called In The Stars, which is up one spot to a new chart height of #34, after which Dean Lewis' Hurtless also moves back up one place, landing at #35. 

The last two climbers for the week sees the Jack Harlow first single from his latest album called Nail Tech (HP-22) rebound back up twenty-nine places to #38 thanks to his new album's high entry, while the love theme from the 1998 film City Of Angels called Iris by Goo Goo Dolls (HP-1x5, August 1998) sees a six-place rise back up the chart to land at #45 this week. Over the Easter weekend, the song returned to the Top 100 (along with a heap of other older songs from Cold Chisel, Nirvana and Avicii) and now five weeks later it's back within the Top 50 for the first time since January of 1999.

DOWN

There is one Top 10 dropout this week, Ed Sheeran with Shivers (HP-2, WI10-33, seventh-longest of all time), which drops down one spot to #11. After a couple of weeks of sitting at #11 the Gayle track abcdeFU drops three places to #14, while another former #11 sitter in Bam Bam for Camila Cabello and Ed Sheeran falls five spots to #18, followed by last week's rebound for Adele and Easy On Me, back down three to #19. 

Dropping seven places apiece are Starlight for DAVE and That's What I Want by Lil Nas X to #25 and #27 respectively. Olivia Rodrigo notches up one-year within the Top 50 with her second #1 single Good 4 U, which drops four places to #28, followed by a six-place slide to #29 for Tate McRae's She's All I Wanna Be, with the song newly Gold (●) in sales, after which Enemy for Imagine Dragons falls three spots to #30 on its half-year (26 weeks) anniversary. 

After jumping to #26 last week, the second entry for Lauren Spencer-Smith Flowers drops back down seven spots to #33, with further seven-drops occurring for Watermelon Sugar by Harry Styles (30 to #37) and Mr. Brightside by The Killers (32 to #39), followed by a nine place slide to #40 for the Luude and Colin Hay remix of Down Under. 

Doja Cat drops eight places apiece with both Kiss Me More and Woman to #41 and #42 respectively, while last week's new Justin Bieber entry Honest tumbles down eighteen places this week to land at #46. Two further seven-place slips occur for the Tom's Diner remix and Frank Ocean's Lost to #47 and #49 respectively, while the Tiësto and Ava Max entry The Motto plummets thirteen spots to land down at #50. 

NEW ENTRIES

* #13 - Dua Lipa by Jack Harlow (Generation Now/Atlantic)

* #17 - Churchill Downs by Jack Harlow feat. Drake (Generation Now/Atlantic) are both from Jack's second studio album Come Home The Kids Miss You which has landed at #2 on the albums chart this week, while further potential new entries from the album could be the tracks Side Piece, I'd Do Anything To Make You Smile, Young Harleezy and the Pharrell featured track Movie Star. Jack is also sitting at #2 and #38 with the album's first two singles, First Class and Nail Tech respectively. 

* #23 - This Love (Taylor's Version) by Taylor Swift (Republic) is a re-recorded track from the forthcoming redone 1989 album (no date known as yet), the original version came out in October of 2014, while this new version has a more indie-pop feel to it. 

* #31 - The Heart Part 5 by Kendrick Lamar (Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope) is a promo single ahead of his just issued new album (Friday 13th of May) called Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, with the song a follow-up to The Heart Part 4 from 2017 where Kendrick offers social commentary on African-American culture and institutionalised discrimination. Kendrick's last Top 50 appearance was on the Baby Keem entry Family Ties (HP-44, Sept. 2021) and his last solo entry was with his Black Panther entry All The Stars (HP-2, peaked late February 2018). 

* #36 - Hold My Hand (from 'Top Gun: Maverick') by Lady Gaga (Paramount/Interscope) is the first track issued from the new Tom Cruise sequel to 1986's Top Gun called Top Gun: Maverick, with Lady Gaga also composing the score to the film alongside Hans Zimmer and '80s soundtrack maestro Harold Faltermeyer, plus the new album will feature only three songs, one from the original album; Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins, along with the just-released new OneRepublic song called I Ain't Worried.

 HP = Highest Position

LW = Last Week

WI10 - Weeks in Top 10

*ARIA Chart info is based on sales for the week from the 6th to the 12th of May, 2022.

Written, Compiled and Researched by Gavin Ryan.