'Anti-Hero' Now Taylor Swift's Longest-running #1 In Australia

Taylor Swift sits astride both ARIA Singles and Album Charts for a fourth consecutive week, as her Anti-Hero holds the singles' summit. 

Anti-Hero and its fourth week at #1 now become Taylor's longest-running chart-topping single in Australia, surpassing the three weeks racked up by Shake it Off (Sept 2014), Blank Space (Nov-Dec 2014) and Bad Blood (Jun 2015), while the song also retains its top-slot in England, Ireland (both fourth week) and The U.S.A. (third week), plus Taylor has a second Top 10 entry this week as her Lavender Haze diminishes two spots to land at #9.

Taylor has also now accrued 20 overall weeks at #1 in Australia from her nine chart-topping singles, moving her up the listing for 'Accumulated Weeks at #1: Singles (1940 to 2022)' to sit at #33 (up from #36th) just ahead of Eddie Fisher (20 weeks from 7 #1s), Elton John (20 weeks from 5 #1s) and Billy Ray Cyrus (20 weeks from 2 #1s). And with Swift reigning both charts again this week with her Midnights set atop the ARIA Albums Chart, it's a fourth week holding both charts, while overall this is her eighth simultaneous week at the top of both charts, making her the equal fifth placed act on the 'Most Dual #1s' listing, surpassing the seven weeks racked up by both Eminem and Whitney Houston, tying with Bryan Adams, Savage Garden, John Farnham and Split Enz, and sitting behind The Beatles 32 weeks, ABBA with 25 weeks, Adele with 11 weeks and Ed Sheeran's 9 weeks. Plus the tie at the top for Taylor also surpasses the previous three weeks from May-June and August earlier this year by Harry Styles to become the longest-running dual #1s for 2022.

The top four songs are all on hold this week, with the current New Zealand #1 single Unholy (NZ 6th week) and also David Guetta with Bebe Rexha's I'm Good (Blue) stable here at #2 and #4 respectively, while in-between is last week's highest new entry of Rich Flex for Drake and 21 Savage, which has debuted at #2 in The U.S.A. and at the top in Canada (Drake's home country), with all 16 tracks from their album Her Loss landing between #2 and #27 in America (15 within the Top 19) and between #1 and #32 (14 within the Top 17) in Canada, while Rich Flex only fell slightly in England (3 to #6), Ireland (3 to #5) and New Zealand (2 to #3), while 'flex' is the only track of the four Top 10 entries from last week to survive for a second week within the Top 10 locally. 

Former #4 single Miss You (peaked Oct. 24th) for Oliver Tree and Robin Schulz is up one spot to #5, followed by a two-place rise to #6 for OneRepublic's I Ain't Worried (possibly thanks to Top Gun: Maverick now available on streaming services). Three songs rise into the Top 10 this week, two of them returning while making her first Top 10 placement in almost six-and-a-half years is Meghan Trainor with Made You Look, as her last Top 10 was with Me Too, which climbed to a peak of #4 in late June of 2016, while overall this becomes her eighth Top 10 and Top 50 entry (meaning all of her songs to enter the Top 50 have climbed into the Top 10), plus the song has climbed to #4 in England, Ireland and New Zealand and lands a new peak in The U.S.A. (63 to #61). 

Steve Lacy's tour has pulled his former #3 song Bad Habit back up three spots to land at #8 (WI10-15), while Harry Styles takes out the crown for 'Longest Running Top 10 Entry' this week for As It Was, which rises back up five places to land at #10, logging its 30th week within the Top 10, becoming the ninth-longest running Top 10 of all time in Australia.

UP

With a slide down the charts for both Taylor and Drake entries, it means a heap of older tracks have shot back up the chart, with Beyoncé and Cuff it jumping eight spots to #12, potentially heading back into the Top 10 by climbing back up ten spots to #13 is Heat Waves by Glass Animals. With the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever film opening in the past week in cinemas, the lead single from the soundtrack for Rihanna and Lift Me Up jumps back up nine places to #15, followed by a six-place rise back up to #16 for Under The Influence by Chris Brown. 

Both Lizzo entries rise back up, with her latest single 2 Be Loved (Am I Ready) jumping nine spots to #18, while her older entry About Damn Time is up three to #44. Zach Bryan's Something In The Orange fell out of the Top 20 four weeks ago, and now this week it leaps back up thirteen places to land at #19, followed by an eight-place rebound to #20 for the Nicky Youre and dazy track Sunroof, who issued a new track on Friday called Eyes on You. 

The Dua Lipa tour of Australia pulls her Elton John collaboration Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) back up twelve places this week to sit at #21, while her Levitating remix jumps eleven spots to berth at #30, giving her two songs within the Top 30 this week. The current Dean Lewis national tour (it finishes on Dec. 6th in Newcastle) helps his latest single How Do I Say Goodbye to jump this week to a new peak of #22, while the song remains stable at its #3 peak in The Netherlands and #24 in England (HP-23), rises to a new peak in Ireland (17 to #16) and Germany (30 to #24), dips in Canada (60 to #67), while his album entered at #60 in Canada too. 

Four weeks ago Tom Odell peaked at #23 with his track Another Love, with the song this week rebounding eight places to land at #27; Lewis Capaldi's Forget Me and SNAP for Rosa Linn both jump back up nine places to #33 and #36 respectively, while also climbing back up within the Top 40 are Afraid To Feel for LF System (40 to #34) and Shivers for Ed Sheeran (44 to #37), while his Bad Habits also climb back up five spots to #43. 

Luke Combs' The Kind Of Love We Make leaps up nine spots to land at #42, plus the track is newly ▲Platinum in sales (the only T50 cert this week), while four songs climb back up and into the Top 50 this week, Sweater Weather for The Neighbourhood (52 to #46), Bones for Imagine Dragons (51 to #48, thanks to new remixes), Jimmy Cooks for Drake & 21 Savage (53 to #49) and with their national tour less than four weeks away, The Killers' Mr. Brightside track is back up four places to sit at #50 this week. 

DOWN

Taylor Swift is reduced from thirteen to ten tracks within the Top 50 this week, two of which are within the Top 10, while she dips only one place each with Midnight Rain and Bejewelled to #14 and #17 respectively, she then drops with Maroon (17 to #23), You're on Your Own, Kid (18 to #24) and Karma (21 to #29), followed by a ten place slump for both Snow On The Beach (19 to #29) and Vigilante Shit (30 to #40), while she takes a fourteen place slide to #45 with Question...? and leaves the Top 50 with Mastermind (LW-37), Labyrinth (LW-46) and Sweet Nothing (LW-49). 

Drake sees three of his four Top 10 entries all depart the ten this week, plus he also lands the only Top 50 debut for the week, with dropping tracks being Circo Loco (9 to #26), Pussy & Millions (5 to #32) and Major Distribution (10 to #41). The only other major drop for this week is a ten-place slip to #35 for the new SZA track Shirt, while last week's two Top 40 entries for Joji and Glimpse Of Us (LW-37) and Die For You (LW-38) both depart the Top 50 this week. 

NEW ENTRY

* #39 - On BS by Drake and 21 Savage (OVO Sound/Republic) is one of two songs issued as chart-eligible tracks locally from the pair's new collaborative effort Her Loss (TW-4) this past week, the other being Spin 'Bout You (TW.USA #5; TW.CA#9), while On BS debuted at #8 last week in New Zealand and fell to #40 this week, the song also entered at #4 in both the U.S.A. and Canada this past week.

NEW CERTIFICATIONS

The Kind Of Love We Make by Luke Combs ▲

Big City Life by Luude feat. Mattafix ●

Down Under by Luude feat. Colin Hay ▲2 (was Gold)

HP = Highest Position

LW = Last Week

WI10 - Weeks in Top 10

*ARIA Chart info is based on sales for the week from the 11th to the 17th of November 2022.

Written, Compiled and Researched by Gavin Ryan.