Kate Bush Rises Up The Aussie Charts With 'Running Up That Hill' Landing At No. 2

As it Was also remains at the top in England, Ireland (both 9th week, longest for 2022 in both locales), Canada (7th week) New Zealand (3rd week) and it returns to the U.S. Singles Chart summit for a fourth overall stay, thanks to his album holding or debuting at the top in four of the five aforementioned countries (it lost the top in England to the new Liam Gallagher album), while Harry holds the top of both charts again here this week, becoming the first Solo Male Artist to hold both the singles and albums chart summits for two weeks in a row since Ed Sheeran did it in March to May of 2017 with Shape of You and his Divide set. Seven of those eight weeks at the top at the time was broken at the sixth week by Harry Styles' debut single Sign of the Times (April 17th, 2017). 

Harry's seventh (accumulated) week at the top is still the longest running No.1 single for 2022, and As it Was has had the longest continual stay at No.1 since Stay by Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber spent their initial 14 weeks at No.1 from July 19th, 2021 (until Oct. 18th). Harry Styles has also racked up eight overall weeks at No.1 in Australia from his two chart-toppers, placing him equal 73rd on the listing for 'Accumulated Weeks at No.1: Singles (1940 to 2022)', alongside Boney M, Dr. Hook, Village People and Silverchair, plus the track is also now the outright fourth longest running No.1 song for this decade. 

Harry also decreases his Top 10 singles from last week's record breaking eight-out-of-ten entries to just three this week, scoring a second week within the Top 10 with Late Night Talking and Matilda, both dropping to No.5 and No.9 respectively, while all thirteen tracks from his Harry's House album manage to land a second week within the Top 50, something which doesn't usually happen after an artists initial chart-tsunami, as most entries drop right off or even out of the chart in it's second week of sales. 

Returning the Australian Singles Chart is the 1985 single by British artist Kate Bush called Running Up That Hill, which returns at a new peak of No.2, having originally peaked at No.6 in late October of 1985, spending two weeks within the AMR-ARIA Top 10, it regains a chart-hold thanks to it being used in the just issued fourth season of the streamed series Stranger Things. The song has also returned to No.2 in New Zealand, and within the Top 10 in both England (No.8) and Ireland (No.10), while locally the song became her third of five Top 10 singles in Australia. Kate has now placed a single on the Australian charts for five of the past six decades, the 1970's, 80's, 90's, 2010's when Wuthering Heights returned (HP-39, April 2012) and now the 2020's. 

Bouncing back up four places to regain it's former peak of No.3 for a second stay, is the Lizzo track About Damn Time (same position in the UK this week), followed by a one place rise to No.4 for the former No.1 single by Jack Harlow and First Class. And with The Kid Laroi touring the country at the moment (albeit not on Friday in Melbourne due to being sick), his two Top 10 dropouts from last week rebound back up the charts, with his newest entry Thousand Miles rising up fourteen places to No.6, and it's newly crowned Gold (●) in sales (after six weeks of charting), after which he also flies back eleven spots to land at No.7 with his Justin Bieber duet Stay, while the song also increases it's Top 10 weeks to now 46 in total (from 47 weeks on the chart), making it now the outright second longest running Top 10 in Australia of all time. 

Further Top 10 returns are for the 'Longest Running Top 10 Singles of All Time in Australia' in the Glass Animals track Heat Waves at 69 weeks (after only it's second ever week outside of the Top 10 last week), with the track rising back up eight places to land at No.8, while Latto's Big Energy jumps back up seven spots to land at No.10, logging it's fifth week within the Top 10 and the song is newly certified as ▲Platinum in sales (it went Gold on April 25th). 

UP:

As Harry's song-wave from last week recedes somewhat (and Post Malone will most likely do it next week), it gives a heap of songs a chance to climb back up the charts, with Ed Sheeran's Bad Habits climbing ten places to No.11 and his Shivers song rebounds seven to No.18, both in part to the Tour Edition of his =(Equals) album being issued last week (TW-7). Cracking the half-year chart milestone (26 weeks) is the Lost Frequencies and Calum Scott entry Where Are You Now, which is backup nine spots to No.13, while Elton John and Dua Lipa's Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) moves back up eight places to lodge at No.15 this week. 

After falling to it's lowest position of No.28 last week, the Gayle track abcdeFU is back up six spots to No.22, followed by the latest entry for Post Malone and Cooped Up with Roddy Rich, rising three spots to land at a new peak of No.23, with his new album Twelve Carat Toothache being issued on Friday, with a further twelve tracks from the set potentially charting next week (two have already charted). Future with Drake and Wait for U is back up one spot to No.24, while Justin Bieber's Ghost regains five chart-rungs to land at No.25. 

Talking of new albums, the debut studio album for Tate McRae called i used to think i could fly has debuted at No.10 on the Albums Chart this week, boosting her latest single She's All I Wanna Be (HP-19) back up the chart ten places to land at No.26. The last three songs to rise up the chart are Without You by current tourist Kid Laroi, moving back up nineteen places to land at No.43, Doja Cat and Woman, up one spot to No.46 and now 3x▲Platinum in sales, and thanks to the film Top Gun: Maverick opening around the world last week, the film's lead single from Lady Gaga and Hold My Hand (HP-36, May 16th) leaps back up thirty-seven places to land at No.47, helped also by the soundtrack album to the film debuting at No.11, with the original 1986 film music returning at No.47. 

DOWN: 

Harry Styles reduces his Top 10 entries of eight down to three, which means that five of last week's songs drop down for him, starting with Music for a Sushi Restaurant (4 to No.12), Daylight (8 to No.14), Little Freak (6 to No.16), Satellite (10 to No.18) and Grapejuice (9 to No.19), all of which logged one week within the Top 10. He also slips down with his five further entries from last week, Cinema (11 to No.27), Love of My Life (13 to No.28), Keep Driving (14 to No.29), Daydreaming (12 to No.30) and finally Boyfriends plummets twenty-four spots to land at No.39. 

The big entrant-act from three weeks ago was Kendrick Lamar, who is down to only two Top 50 entries this week, with N95 only dropping one spot this week to No.20, while he tumbles down twenty-three places to No.50 with Die Hard. The Camila Cabello and Ed Sheeran duet Bam Bam is down two places to No.31, and newly certified as Gold (●) in sales, while Lil' Nas X picks up three certs this week, one for his album Montero (now Gold (●) in sales) and for two of his singles Industry Baby (32 to No.37, newly 5x▲Platinum) and That's What I Want (41 to No.42, now 3x▲Platinum). The final substantial drops this week occur for Wait a Minute by Willow, down six to No.44 and dropping four spots to No.49 is The Killers track Mr. Brightside. 

FURTHER NEW ENTRIES:

* #2 - Running Up That Hill (from 'Stranger Things Season 4') by Kate Bush (Noble & Bright/Warner)

* #21 - True Love by Kanye West and XXXTentacion (Bad Vibes Forever/Columbia) was originally a bonus track from Kanye's "Donda 2" album, and will be featured on the upcoming XXXTentacion posthumous release "Look at Me: The Album", which will be a companion to his upcoming documentary of the same name; both issued on June 10th, while the track samples the Kanye song "Runaway" from his 2010 album "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy". This is now the seventh Top 50 (and Top 100) entry for the fallen-rapper, who last charted in November of 2018 with "Bad!" (HP-31).

* #32 - Potion by Calvin Harris feat. Dua Lipa and Young Thug (Columbia) is the lead single issued from the forthcoming sixth studio album for the Scottish artist called "Funk Wav Bounces Vol.2" (no date known as yet, but if it's going to be a northern Summer hit, it'd wanna be issued soon). This is now Calvin's 30th Top 50 entry in Australia, and his first since "Over Now" with The Weeknd (HP-17, Sept. 2020), while it's the second teaming for Calvin and Dua, having previously hit No.3 for two weeks in June of 2018 with "One Kiss", while this also becomes Dua's 19th Top 50 entry and Young Thug's tenth chart appearance. 

* #48 - Die Young by Sleepy Hallow feat. 347aidan (Winners Circle/RCA) is the second entry here for the Jamaican born and New York raised rapper, as he peaked at No.13 for three broken weeks with his first entry "2055" on August 9th, 23rd and 30th in 2021, logging 37 weeks within the Top 100. 

HP = Highest Position

LW = Last Week

WI10 - Weeks in Top 10

*ARIA Chart info is based on sales for the week from the 27th of May to the 2nd of June, 2022.