BLACKpink Make History In Aus With New Single 'Pink Venom'

For only the second time in Australian Chart history, an act from South Korea has topped the local singles chart, as BLACKpink debuts at #1 with Pink Venom, its only worldwide top slot.

Pink Venom (YG Entertainment/Interscope) becomes the 1115th #1 Single in Australia (1940 to 2022), the 550th for ARIA (1983 to 2022), the ninth #1 for 2022 and now the first for their record label YG Entertainment, and the first all-female group at the top since The Pussycat Dolls scored their second and final #1 with Jai Ho on April 27th and May 4th, 2009 (The Veronicas also hit #1 twice in the 2010s {2014 & 2016} but I class them as a duo and not a group [which is three or more members]). This new track is taken from their September 16th due second studio album Born Pink.

It's been almost ten years since the first South Korean act was at #1 in Australia, as Psy started a six-week run from October 1st, 2012 with Gangnam Style, while in-between then and now K-Pop has exploded around the world, with leaders BTS recently teaming up with Psy and also going on hiatus after a decade of working. And with Pink Venom debuting at #1 it becomes the third song to enter at the top spot this year, plus BLACKpink also become the second Asian act to hit the top during 2022 as Joji did so for a week on June 27th with Glimpse Of Us, while the group also land their second ever Top 10 entry in Australia, as their teaming with Lady Gaga on Sour Candy debuted and peaked at #8 on June 8th, 2020, while overall this is their eighth Top 50 entry (6 as lead, 2 as guest act).

BLACKpink debut with a huge YouTube figure of 90.4 million in the first 24 hours (a new record), while as of writing it's up to 210m, and the song might only last one week at the top, as Elton John and Britney Spears issued a new track on Friday in Hold Me Closer, her first release in six years, plus if it does debut at the top it'll be a first for Elton to land back-to-back #1's in Australia (but we'll see next week). This is the fourth time that the word 'Pink' has appeared in a #1 songs title, with the last being Lily The Pink for The Scaffold (2 weeks from Feb 8th, 1969), and the first for the word 'Venom', plus the group are now the 16th Female Group to hit the top locally and the first for over 13 years, with this new #1 for a Female Group at the top being the seventh this century after Bardot, Destiny's Child (both 2000), Las Ketchup (2002), t.A.T.u. (2003) and Pussycat Dolls (2005 & 2009).

The new #1 single in both New Zealand and debuting at the top in the US is Nicki Minaj's Super Freaky Girl, which here rises two spots from its #4 entry last week to land at a new peak of #, becoming Nicki's equal highest-charted single, as she climbed to #2 for five weeks between late March and the end of April 2012 with Starships, which took four weeks to hit that peak, while this new track has done so within two weeks of release.

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The high new entry and Nicki's climb pushes down last week returned #1 song As It Was for Harry Styles, which drops back down two places to #3, its previous equal lowest position, as the song has laid within the Top 3 for its entire 21-week chart run. Rebounding back to its former peak of #4 for a second stay is the OneRepublic track I Ain't Worried, while after two weeks of sitting at #3 the Steve Lacy track Bad Habit falls back down two places to #5.

The biggest drop within the Top 10 this week is the Kate Bush track Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God), which falls four places to #6, its first week outside of the Top 2 since it first returned thirteen weeks ago, making this week it's lowest chart placement in its current incarnation. Further declines occur for Heat Waves for Glass Animals (81st WI10) down two places to #7 and About Damn Time for Lizzo, which dips a place to #8.

Last week I noted that Sunroof for Nicky Youre and dazy had only achieved a Top 10 berth in two countries, the US and Canada, now this week the song rises two places to land at #9 in Australia, plus it also scores Top 10 entries in Belgium (#10) and Singapore (#9) this week, while the song lands a new peak of #2 in Canada this week. Holding for a fourth week in the #10 spot is the Post Malone and Doja Cat teaming I Like You (A Happier Song).

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Will the new Elton and Britney teaming I mentioned earlier move Elton's previous #1 from its five-week hold at #14, as his Dua Lipa duet Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) is again sitting at #14 for a fifth time, followed by further non-movers in Stay for The Kid LAROI and JB plus First Class for Jack Harlow at #15 and #16 respectively.

The Chris Brown 2019 returned track Under The Influence has jumped to #6 in both New Zealand and South Africa this week, while here it's up two places to a new peak of #17. Harry Styles' Late Night Talking is back up one spot to #22 and newly certified ▲Platinum, while three further new peaks within the Top 30 occur for Sway My Way by R3HAB and Amy Shark (26 to #25), Love Lost for Mac Miller and The Temper Trap (34 to #28) and the eighth week running UK #1 single Afraid To Feel for LF System has leapt 23 places to land at #26.

Yung Gravy's Betty (Get Money) doesn't move from its #30 position for a third straight week, while rebounding back up seven places to a new peak of #32 is the Tom Odell track Another Love. The Marshmello and Khalid teaming on Numb is up two spots to a new chart height of #38, while the 1998 Goo Goo Dolls track Iris rebounds sixteen spots to land at #43 this week.

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The two songs leaving the Top 10 this week are Doja (HP-3, WI10-4) for Central Cee and Glimpse Of Us (HP-1x1, WI10-10) for Joji, both dropping three places apiece to #11 and #12 respectively. Break My Soul for Beyonce drops back down five places to #18, while Ed's two Top 20 entries both slip down this week after holding stable for the past three weeks, for Shivers (18 to #19) and Bad Habits (17 to #20).

After peaking at #20 last week the Rosa Linn track SNAP dips three spots this week to #23, followed by slight declines for Jimmy Cooks for Drake and 21 Savage (21 to #24) and Thousand Miles for The Kid LAROI (25 to #27). The Killers' Mr. Brightside slides down six places to #33, while for this week the DJ Khaled and Drake entry Staying Alive has dropped twelve chart-rungs to #36, next week it might rebound due to DJ Khaled's new album God Did dropping on Friday (June 26th).

Latto's Big Energy is down three spots to #34 and newly 2x▲Platinum in sales, while drops also occur for Wait For U by Future and Drake (33 to #37), Sweater Weather by The Neighbourhood (35 to #40), She's All I Wanna Be by Tate McRaw (37 to #41), Die For You by The Weeknd (38 to #42) and falling seven spots to #48 is Enemy for Imagine Dragons.

FURTHER NEW ENTRY

* #1 - Pink Venom by BLACKpink (YG Entertainment/Interscope)

* #50 - B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All) by Eliza Rose and Interplanetary Criminal (Rosebud Recordings) is the debut single for the singer Eliza and the producer Inter-Crim, with the track having spent this and last week at #1 in Ireland, while the song has also been held off the top spot in England by this week's #26 track for LF System. The song has a sample of the 1991 single Let The Beat Hit 'Em by Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam (HP-72, 1st of Sept., 1991) running through it, plus according to ARIA's website, the song has jumped up 94 places from last week (144 to #50).