Taylor Swift's "Anti-Hero" Gains Another Week At #1

Anti-Hero is also again holding the top of the charts in England, Ireland, New Zealand and debuted this past week at the singles summits in The U.S.A. and Canada. Taylor Swift also took out ALL Top 10 places in both of those countries, a first for both charts, similar to what she achieved here last week with nine-out-of-the-ten positions, while she has increased her tally to six within the New Zealand Top 10 this week (it was four last week).

Meanwhile, back in Australia, Taylor has decreased her tally to six songs within the Top 10 this week, with last week's No.2 entry, Lavender Haze, down one spot to No.3, Midnight Rain also dips one spot to No.6, followed by her only climbing track to a new peak of No.7, Bejewelled; which most likely climbs thanks to it and Anti-Hero being the only two tracks from her Midnights album to have video clips. After which she declines four spots to No.8 with Maroon and drops six places to No.9 with her Lana Del Rey duet Snow on the Beach.

With all of the other chartifacts to discuss last week with Taylor's onslaught to the singles chart, one chart anomaly slipped my scrutiny, in that Taylor held the top of both the singles and album charts, which was the 140th time that such a chart feat has occurred since 1965. Now that Swift has held for a second week at the top, this is the first of her five dual-No.1-occupations to have done so for a second stay, as all of her previous singles/album No.1's were for a single week; starting with December 1st, 2014 when Blank Space and it's parent album 1989 held both charts for a single week. The other three were during this decade with Cardigan and folklore (August 3rd, 2020), Willow and evermore (December 21st, 2020) and "All Too Well" and Red (Taylor's Version) (November 22nd, 2021). By scoring a fifth dual No.1, she ties with Eminem for second place on the rarely-disturbed listing for 'Most Dual No.1 Singles & Albums (1965 to 2022)', with The Beatles at the top of that listing with 14 such occurrences.

Plus, this is the second time this year that we've had dual No.1-holders, as Harry Styles did it for three weeks on May 30th, June 6th and August 22nd. Taylor Swift also increases her tally of 'Weeks at No.1: Singles (1940 to 2022)' to now 18 accumulated weeks at No.1 in Australia, moving her from 42nd to now 39th on that listing, now ahead of The Rolling Stones (18 weeks from 6 #1's) and The Kid Laroi (18 weeks from two #1's). If she holds again next week, she will tie with Pink's record (19 weeks from nine #1's).

The only survivor of last week's Taylor-deluge was the Sam Smith and Kim Petras duet Unholy, which rebounds this week to #2, up five places. The song also sits at No.2 in England, Ireland, and New Zealand and is up to a new peak of #2 in Kim's homeland of Germany (former peak was #3), plus the track is newly certified Gold (●) in sales here. Further rebounds from last week to regain their Top 10 berths are I'm Good (Blue) for David Guetta and Bebe Rexha, up eleven spots to #4, and I Ain't Worried by OneRepublic, up six spots to #10, and newly certified 2x▲Platinum, plus it lands a sixteenth week within the Top 10, the new leader for 'Most Weeks within the Top 10'.

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Making her first Top 10 appearance in over six years is Rihanna, who debuts at #5 with Lift Me Up, taken from the November 10th opening film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the ballad a tribute to former Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman (who passed in August of 2020). The song has also landed within the Top 10 in England, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway (all #3), Lithuania (#8) and Germany (#9). Rihanna last appeared on our charts as a guest on the PartyNextDoor track Believe it (HP-28x2 April 2020), while her last solo Top 10 appearance here was with Work (HP-5, March 2016) featuring Drake, and her final ten-entry was as a guest on the DJ Khaled track "Wild Thoughts" (HP-2, July 2017), while all-up this is her 32nd Top 10 Singles in Australia (23 as lead singer, 9 as a guest), plus with the movie opening next week it could increase the position of the single to land her an eleventh No.1 in Australia.

UP:

With Taylor Swift no longer dominating the Top 14 positions this week, a lot of tracks rebound back up the chart, starting with the former No.4 song Miss You by Oliver Tree and Robin Schulz, rising five places to #13 while climbing within the Top 20 are Bad Habit by Steve Lacy (#17 to #15), B.O.T.A. for Eliza Rose (#19 to #16) and As it Was by Harry Styles (21 to #18).

Another female act who scores their first chart entry in over six years is Meghan Trainor, who snuck into the Top 100 last week at #58 with her latest album Takin' it Back and it's second issued track, Made You Look, which this week leaps up thirty-nine places to land at a new peak of #19, her first Top 50 placement since Me Too made it to #4 in June of 2016, making this her eight Top 20 and Top 50 appearance, as her first seven entries to the chart all cracked the Top 10.

Cuff it for Beyonce holds at #22 this week, while the next climbing track occurs all the way down at #35 for the Tom Odell track Another Love (HP-23), after which the Imagine Dragons' Bones again rises one spot to a new peak, this week to #43, and the second song to climb into its first week within the Top 50 is the JVKE track golden hour, jumping twelve places from last week to land at a new peak of #47. The song previously scored two weeks at #53 on Sept 26th and Oct 3rd before declining, and then in the past three weeks, it rebounded back up the chart 83-59-47 to give the 19-year-old Tik-Tok star and American singer born Jake Lawson his first ever Top 50 hit in Australia, while the song has also debuted this week at #34 in New Zealand too.

DOWN:

Taylor Swift departs the Top 10 this week with three tracks, You're on Your Own, Kid (#6 to #11), Karma (#9 to #12) and Vigilante Shit (10 to #14); all landing a single week within the Top 10 (so far), while she also declines with Question...? (#11 to #17), then Mastermind (#12 to #23), Labyrinth (#13 to #25) and Sweet Nothing (#14 to #29), which means all of last week's thirteen entries have maintained a second week within the Top 30 (and Top 50).

Chris Brown's Under the Influence dips one spot to No.21, which in turn makes it the first time in 2022 that the entire Top 20 singles are tracks that were issued during this year (while Under The Influence first charted this year for the first time, it's from a 2019 album). Former No.1 singles Super Freaky Girl for Nicki Minaj (newly▲Platinum in sales) and Heat Waves for Glass Animals both drop a single place to #24 and #26, respectively, while the Sunroof for Nicky Youre and dazy, and Something in the Orange by Zach Bryan both drop three spots to #27 and #30 respectively.

Both Lizzo tracks drop-down, with 2 Be Loved down two places to #28 and About Damn Time slumps six spots to #39. The latest Dean Lewis track, How Do I Say Goodbye is down two places to #31 but will most likely leap next week thanks to his new album The Hardest Love being issued on Friday, while the song jumps to a new peak of #23 in England along with Belgium (25 to #16), Switzerland (14 to #13), Austria (25 to #18), Germany (38 to #31) and The Netherlands (6 to #5), while it dips slightly in Ireland (22 to #23), Canada (56 to #58), Norway (HP-5, 6 to #7), Denmark (HP-7, 9 to #15), Sweden (HP-19 to #20).

Post Malone's I Like You (A Happier Song) with Doja Cat and SNAP for Rosa Linn both drop five places to #33 and #37, respectively, while Elton's two Top 40 tracks both dip, Hold Me Closer with Britney Spears (31 to #34, newly Gold (●) in sales) and Cold Heart with Dua Lipa (34 to #36). LF System's Afraid to Feel dips three spots to #38, and with Lewis Capaldi postponing his November visit here, his track Forget Me is down one spot this week to #40, but it could decline more next week.

Ed Sheeran is reduced to two songs within the 41-50 chart region this week, as Shivers dips three chart rungs to #41 and Bad Habits is down four to #44, with Doja for Central Cee dipping five places to #42 and Harry Styles' Late Night Talking tumbling seven to #48, while his recently issued video clip for Music for a Sushi Restaurant could see that track back in the charts soon, plus his new movie My Policeman dropped on Amazon on Friday.

Dua Lipa is in the country on tour at the moment, with her second Top 50 appearance this week being for Levitating, which is down one spot to No.49. For the first time this decade, The Weeknd has no tracks within the Top 50, as his song Save Your Tears departs from #50, as just under three years ago he debuted with Blinding Lights on December 9th, 2019 at #16 (153 weeks ago), while Save Your Tears entered at #50 on January 18th, 2021, leaving the Top 50 this week after 94 weeks within the fifty.

FURTHER NEW ENTRY:

* #5 - Lift Me Up (from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) (Westbury Records/Roc Nation/Def Jam)

* #20 - Shirt by SZA (Top Dawg/RCA) is the American female R&B singer's first new chart entry for 2022, with the track also landing within the Top 20 first week in Ireland (#19), England (#17) and New Zealand (#15). The video clip is an ultra-violent-homage to film male/female killing partnerships, with the track now becoming her twelfth Top 50 entry in Australia and also her sixth Top 20 appearance, with her last song to place this high being I Hate U which peaked at No.16 on December 20th, 2021, while her Doja Cat duet Kiss Me More (HP-2, peaked May 10th and 17th, 2021) left the Top 100 on September 19th of this year.