"Heat Waves" regained the Australian top spot last week, and holds for an eighth overall week (6 weeks from March 1st, 2021), while it's one-year return also sees it's second week at No.1 in 2022 making it the now longest running returner to the top of the Australian Singles Chart (6 weeks in 2021 and now 2 in 2022), surpassing the four single week returns Mariah's "All I Want for Xmas" achieved over the past four years.
Glass Animals have taken 55 weeks to hit No.1 in Switzerland, and also 59 weeks to climb to the top of the American Singles Chart this past week, the longest ever climb to the top spot in the U.S. (Mariah's Xmas tune was the previous at 35 weeks, beating her again), while here the song is logging it's 58th week within the Top 10 (it first entered our T10 on Feb 1st, 2021), still the longest of all time, while the song debuted in America on that same chart-date. "Heat Waves" and it's eighth week at the top here makes it one of 47 songs to spend that long at No.1, while it is still the fourth longest running No.1 for this decade.
Australia is still without a new No.1 for 2022, making it eleven weeks into the new year without seeing a new summit-sitter, but that could change with the new duet between former No.1 dueter's Megan Thee Stallion and Dua Lipa, who issued the track "Sweetest Pie" on Friday, but for now the top four singles are all made up of former No.1 songs, with a non-moving "Stay" at No.2 for Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber (WI10-35, fifth longest of all time), while swapping places are "Cold Heart" for Elton John and Dua Lipa (WI10-30, seventh longest, Canadian #1 for a 10th week) and "Bad Habits" by Ed Sheeran (WI10-36, fourth longest) to No.3 and No.4 respectively. Dua Lipa has now achieved three lengthy Top 10 singles with "Don't Start Now" (29 weeks, 2019-20, equal 8th longest), "Cold Heart" (30 weeks, 2021-21, 7th longest) and "Levitating" (31 weeks, equal 6th longest), and with her Elton duet likely to raise it's tally over the next few weeks/months, it will most likely become her longest running Top 10 entry.
There are four stable tracks within the Top 10 and six single-place movers, with the final two non-movers being "abcdefu" for Gayle at No.5 and "Where Are You Now" for Lost Frequencies with Calum Scott at No.6. Ed's second Top 10 entry in "Shivers" is back up one spot to No.8, swapping places with the lead single from the new No.1 Album this week, the 'Encanto' soundtrack, and "We Don't Talk About Bruno", which dips one spot to No.8 and drops from #1 to No.9 in England this week too. Lil' Nas X again has the last two spots in the Top 10, albeit swapped around from last week as "Industry Baby" is back up one place to No.9 and it's 27th week within the Top 10, matching his "Old Town Road" debut entry from 2019 as the equal tenth longest Top 10 in Australia, while his track "That's What I Want" is down a place to No.10, meaning no new Top 10 entries this week for a second week in a row.
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For a third week in a row No.11, 12 and 13 are all on hold, as they have been since Feb 28th, with Adele's "Easy on Me" at No.11, the ninth week running NZ No.1 single in "Down Under" for Luude and Colin Hay is at No.12 (new peaks of No.5 in England and No.20 in Ireland this week), while Justin's "Ghost" hovers at No.13 again, logging it's 21st week within the Top 20. The fourth and fifth Top 20 stable entries are former No.15 peaking songs "Enemy" for Imagine Dragons and "Boyfriend" by Dove Cameron at No.16 and No.17 respectively.
Labrinth has three singles from the 'Euphoria' TV soundtrack within the chart at the moment, and a song which debuted in the lower 100 last week called "I'm Tired", and featuring the shows lead actress in Zendaya, is up a massive sixty-seven places to land at No.21, becoming his highest charted single since "Jealous" went to No.18 in early March of 2015, while last week's entry for him "All For Us" slips back down into the lower fifty this week.
Three further new entries from last weeks Top 100 also leap up into the fifty this week, with the first entry for English duo's SUPER-Hi (two male producer's) and Neeka (two girls, UK's Katy Tiz and Sweden's Negin Djafari) with their collaboration "Following the Sun", rising thirty-seven places to land at No.27, followed by a thirty-three place leap to No.29 for the duet between rapper Tyga and singer Doja Cat called "Freaky Deaky". The third track is the first solo entry for American singer Elley Duhé called "Middle of the Night", climbing twenty spots to land at a new peak of No.31 (third Top 100 week), while she previously charted as guest on the Zedd track "Happy Now" (HP-27, Sept. 2018).
Rising three chart-rungs to a new peak of No.33 is the Em Beihold song "Numb Little Bug", while the latest Charlie Puth entry "Light Switch" rebounds five spots to No.34. The final rising song within the Top 50 is the Jaymes Young track spending it's ten week with the Top 100 called "Infinity", which rises seventeen spots to a new chart height of No.48
DOWN:
As I mentioned above, no songs leave the Top 10 this week, with the first non-1-or-2 place move outside of the ten being a three place slip to No.22 for the second 'Encanto' entry; "Surface Pressure", while their soundtrack's third and final Top 50 entry "The Family Madrigal" tumbles nine spots to land at No.50. Frank Ocean has "Lost" his Top 20 berth this week, as that track drops five places to No.23, while the latest Jack Harlow entry "Nail Tech" is down four spots to No.26.
There are four nine-place slides within the Top 50 this week (Family Madrigal is the fourth), with Tate McRae and "She's All I Wanna Be" (23 to No.32), "Say Nothing" for Flume and May-A (28 to No.37) and finally "Edamame" for Bbno$ & Rich Brain (34 to No.43). Jnr. Choir sees his track "To the Moon" wane seven places to No.39, followed by the biggest drop within the Top 50 this week, a thirteen place dive to No.40 for the Gunna and Future entry "pushin' P.", while the current Vance Joy single "Missing Piece" sees an eleven place slide to No.41. Post Malone and The Weeknd see their duet "One Right Now" drop seven to No.42, Billie Eilish with "Happier Than Ever" is sadly down eight spots to No.45 and last weeks Ed and Taylor duet for "The Joker & the Queen" leaves the Top 50 from last weeks No.40 spot.
NEW ENTRIES:
* #19 - Bam Bam by Camila Cabello feat. Ed Sheeran (Epic) becomes her eighteenth Top 100, twelfth Top 50 and sixth Top 20 entry for the former Fifth Harmony member, with this new track being the second issued from her April 8th due third studio album entitled "Familia", which saw it's first entry making it to No.43 in early August of 2021 with "Don't Go Yet". Ed Sheeran also replaced his duet within the Top 50 this week too, as his Taylor Swift track departs, this new one appears.
* #35 - Starlight by DAVE (Neighbourhood) is the new No.1 entry in both England and Ireland this week for the British rapper and singer, his second in the UK and first in Ireland, while here the new song becomes his second chart entry, as his first was the song "Clash" featuring Stormzy, which made it to No.29 in early August of 2021.
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HP = Highest Position, LW = Last Week, WI10 - Weeks in Top 10
*ARIA Chart info is based on sales for the week from the 4th to the 10th of March, 2022.
Written, Compiled and Researched by Gavin Ryan.
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