Harry Styles Just Claimed A Very Impressive Aus Chart Record

It's Harry's House, and we're just living nearby; but this week Harry Styles invited us into his house, and showed us the new work he's been doing, as he occupies both chart summits in Australia with As It Was and Harry's House. 

As It Was by Harry Styles is again the #1 single in Australia, logging its sixth accumulated week at the top, making it now the longest-running #1 song for 2022, surpassing the five weeks racked up by Elton & Dua plus Glass Animals. The song also retains the top spot in England and Ireland (both for an eighth week, both longest-running #1s for the year), Canada (sixth week) and it regains the #1 slot in New Zealand for a second overall stay there. 

Plus his third studio album lands at #1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, becoming his third chart-topping set (as a solo act) and his seventh overall (four as a part of One Direction), plus with Harry Styles occupying the #1 spot on both charts locally, it becomes the 139th time that the top of both charts have been held by an act and its parent album. It's also the first time that this has occurred in 2022, as the last time this happened was on November 29th and December 6th, 2021 when Adele's 30 and its lead single Easy On Me held the top of both charts for two consecutive weeks. 

As It Was also becomes the equal-fourth longest-running #1 song this decade, tied with six other songs that have logged or accumulated six weeks at the summit in Australia for the 2020s. The other chart feat that Harry Styles achieves this week, is that all thirteen tracks from his new album have landed within the Top 15 on the chart, something which has never happened before. The closest we've seen previously was when Taylor Swift landed 13 entries between #1 and #25 (16 within the Top 50) on August 3rd, 2020 from her folklore album, while the previous highest total of entries within the Top 15 was from Drake's Certified Lover Boy album on September 13th, 2021 when he landed eight inside the Top 15 (21 in total within the Top 60). 

Harry's current #1 was the first new #1 single for 2022 (on April 11th), and by Harry landing so many tracks up the high end of the chart, he washes away the remaining long-running Top 10 entries which have been hogging the top-section for a very long time. So with no act ever having had eight songs within the Top 10 at one time, Harry creates another new chart feat, as he lands at #2 with Late Night Talking (also entering at No.2 in England, Ireland & NZ), followed by Matilda at #3 (also #3 in New Zealand) and then Music For A Sushi Restaurant at #4 (No.3 in England and Ireland, No.4 in NZ), giving Harry the entire Top 4 (in both Oz and NZ), beating the previous record-holder here for The Voice first winner Karise Eden's late June 2012 chart feat of four of the Top 5 singles. 

The only two songs to survive within the Top 10 this week are First Class for Jack Harlow, down two spots to #5 (third week at #1 in the US), and Lizzo with About Damn Time, which declines three spots to land at #7. Harry's further Top 10 debuts make it the youngest singles chart for 2022, as only As It Was at eight weeks is the longest-running Top 10 entry, while he also enters the ten with Little Freak (#6), Daylight (#8), Grapejuice (#9) and Satellite (#10), after which he has landed a further four songs outside of the Top 10. 

UP

With Harry's new entries pushing down so many songs this week, the first song to climb outside of the Top 10 is the new entry from last week for Post Malone with Roddy Rich and Cooped Up, which is up one spot to a new peak of #26, while his new album is only two weeks away, so it could pull the song up the charts as his new set gets released.

Only four further songs climb within the Top 50 this week; Enemy for Imagine Dragons is back up three to #35 (their new LP comes out July 1st), good 4 u by Olivia Rodrigo, up two to #37, Harry Styles' Watermelon Sugar gets pulled back up seven spots to land at #44, and the other big album's chart entry this week is for the new Flume album called Palaces, which sees its first issued single Say Nothing (HP-16, Feb 2022) rebound thirty places this week to land at #49. 

DOWN

Sweeping out the remnants of the long-running Top 10 singles this week, with eight Top 10 dropouts, first of which is the Glass Animals track Heat Waves (HP-1x11, WI10-68, #1 longest running Top 10 entry), which leaves the Top 10 for only the second time by dropping down six places to #16. Big Energy for Latto (HP-6x2, WI10-4) falls eight places to #17, The Kid LAROI started his national tour on Thursday (the last day of the chart week), so expect him to rebound next week, but for this week he drops down with Stay alongside Justin Bieber (HP-1x17, WI10-45, newly 9x▲Platinum {four weeks after it went 8xP}, equal second-longest-running Top 10 of all time; FIRST WEEK outside of the Top 10) down eight to #18 and his latest single Thousand Miles (HP-4x2, WI10-4) plummets eleven spots to #20.

Kendrick Lamar blitzed the chart last week with his new albums' tracks, thus he drops out of the Top 10 with N95 (HP-3), Die Hard (HP-5) and United In Grief (HP-7), which drop to #19, #27 and into the lower fifty respectively, with those first two Top 10 dropouts being his only Top 50 entries this week.

Last week's Top 10 dropouts all decline nine places apiece this week, with Bad Habits for Ed Sheeran, Where Are You Now by Lost Frequencies and Calum Scott, Cold Heart for Elton John and Dua Lipa, followed by Shivers by Ed Sheeran all down nine spots to #21, #22, #23 and #24 respectively. Further drops occur for the only Future Top 50 entry Wait For U (18 to #25), Gayle's abcdeFU (23 to #28), and down six to its lowest position ever (within the Top 50) is Justin Bieber's Ghost, dipping six to #30. 

Lil Nas X drops down with both his Industry Baby (26 to #32) and That's What I Want (36 to #41), SUPER-HI dip five to #33 after Following The Sun, while Adele's Easy On Me falls six places to #40. Jack Harlow sees a fifteen place dive to #46 for his Dua Lipa ode, with the last big drop occurring for newcomer Benson Boone's track In The Stars, down ten places to #50. 

FURTHER NEW ENTRIES

* #2 - Late Night Talking by Harry Styles (Columbia) 

* #3 - Matilda by Harry Styles (Columbia) 

* #4 - Music for a Sushi Restaurant by Harry Styles (Columbia) 

* #6 - Little Freak by Harry Styles (Columbia) 

* #8 - Daylight by Harry Styles (Columbia) 

* #9 - Grapejuice by Harry Styles (Columbia) 

* #10 - Satellite by Harry Styles (Columbia) 

* #11 - Cinema by Harry Styles (Columbia) 

* #12 - Daydreaming by Harry Styles (Columbia) 

* #13 - Love of My Life by Harry Styles (Columbia) 

* #14 - Keep Driving by Harry Styles (Columbia) 

* #15 - Boyfriends by Harry Styles (Columbia) all join the chart alongside the new Harry's House album first release As It Was, giving all thirteen tracks from the album entry to the chart. Harry's second set Fine Line saw ten of its twelve tracks within the Top 100 on December 23rd, 2019, while his self-titled debut set entered at #1 this past week five years ago (May 22nd, 2017), which had seen two singles from it already chart, while a third in Kiwi was its last chart entry. So his previous 13 chart entries are now joined by thirteen more, giving him now his 14th to 26th Top 100 entries, plus his tally of Top 50 placements rises to twenty in total.

HP = Highest Position

LW = Last Week

WI10 - Weeks in Top 10

*ARIA Chart info is based on sales for the week from the 20th to the 26th of May, 2022.

Written, Compiled and Researched by Gavin Ryan.