'Barbie' Songs Surge Up The Charts, But Dave And Central Cee Remain Unchallenged

It's a Barbie world within the Top 10 this week as three songs from the soundtrack leap up the chart, while Sprinter continues its run at the top of the singles chart. 

Sprinter for Dave and Central Cee has almost lapped it's original chart-run of four weeks (from June 12th to July 3rd), as this week it's second circuit at the top holds for a third stay, giving the track now seven overall weeks at #1 in Australia, the same also for Ireland, New Zealand and it scores an eighth week at the singles-summit in their home country of England. Sprinter's seven week's at the top here also makes it the seventh longest running #1 song for the 2020's and Dave and Central Cee are the equal-tenth act on the listing for 'Accumulated Weeks at No.1: Singles (2020's)'. 

Well it seems that life in plastic can be fantastic, as three songs from the recently opened film Barbie and it's accompanying soundtrack (#1 debut this week) all leap up and/or into the Top 10 this week, starting with last week's new entry for Billie Eilish and What Was I Made for?, which rises six spots to land at #2, becoming Billie's third Top 2 single after Everything I Wanted (HP-2, late Nov. 2019) and Bad Guy (HP-1 upon entry in April 2019), with that track jumping up in England (10 to #3) and also to #2 in both Ireland (LW-5) and New Zealand (LW-6), while it debuted this past week in both The U.S.A. (#34) and Canada (#21). 

Jumping up twenty places to land at #3 is the second issued single from the soundtrack for Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice and Aqua whose track Barbie World makes its first Top 10 appearance after five weeks of charting. Becoming now Nicki's fourteenth Top 10 (and now the first of Nicki's four Barbie titled entries to make the Top 10), the third for Ice Spice (after guesting on PinkPantheress and Taylor Swift tracks), and the fifth for Aqua, who last saw a Top 10 entry with their fourth charted single Turn Back Time (HP-10, peaked August 1998), while the original Barbie Girl (HP-1x3 from Nov. 16th, 1997) last saw a Top 10 berth in the final week of 1997, and a current remix by Tiësto was issued in April, there seem to be no further legal actions for the song from Mattel as it's now used in one of their movies. Jumps also occur for this song in England (20 to #5), Ireland (21 to #6), New Zealand (25 to #4), The U.S.A. (49 to #27) and Canada (43 to #24). 

The third song from the film to jump into the Top 10 was the first issued track from the new #1 Album set, Dua Lipa with Dance the Night, up twenty-one spots to #6 and its first Top 10 berth also, and Dua's tenth Australian Top 10 entry since her first with Be the One (HP-6, May 2016). Also jumping up overseas, this track has climbed in England (15 to #4), Ireland (11 to #4), New Zealand (33 to #8), The U.S.A. (32 to #25) and Canada (13 to #12). The previous two record holders for most-songs-from-a-soundtrack within the Top 10 at one time was first the Grease soundtrack from 1978, which on October 23rd of that year had four songs from the soundtrack sitting between #5 and #11 (Hopelessly Devoted to You #5, You're the One That I Want at #8, the title song Grease at #9 and the upcoming Summer Nights at #11). The other instance occurred April 18th, 1988 when three tracks from the Dirty Dancing soundtrack were within the Top 10, lead single (I've Had) The Time of My Life at #6, Hungry Eyes at #5 and lead actor Patrick Swayze's only chart entry with She's Like the Wind was at #8 (I also checked both Beverly Hills Cop and Batman & Robin, but they landed two within the Top 10 simultaneously).

Down one place each are vampire by Olivia Rodrigo and Last Night by Morgan Wallen to #4 and #5 respectively, while the Morgan track retains the #1 slot in Canada (2nd week) and his album returns to the top of their chart for an eighteenth week, while the track has been knocked off the top spot in The U.S.A. by a #1 entry for JungKook feat. Latto and Seven, which locally drops back down five places to land at #7 after entering at #2 last week. This is followed by three further declining entries for Taylor Swift and Cruel Summer (5 to #8), FukUMean by Gunna (7 to #9; new NZ peak this week of #3) and Luke Combs with Fast Car (6 to #10), with the two country artists scoring the longest running Top 10 singles at the top moment, Morgan is up to 22 weeks and Luke  notches up his 15th week inside of the ten. 

TOP 20: 

NEW PEAKS: One new peak and one peak-hold this week as at #11 for a second week are The Weeknd, Playboi Carti and Madonna with Popular from the TV series The Idol, while he also returns to the Top 20 at #20 with Die for You, which cracks it's one-year (52 weeks) within the Top 100 this week. A new six-track EP for NewJeans sees it's lead entry Super Shy this week leap up twelve places to land at #14, becoming the South Korean girl-groups first Top 20 entry in Australia, plus all of the further five tracks from the EP are scattered throughout this weeks Top 100 (more below in the New Entries section). 

The two songs to leave the Top 10 this week are Daylight for David Kushner (HP-4x2, WI10-14) and outside of the Top 10-garden-bed for the first time ever is Miley Cyrus' Flowers (HP-1x12, WI10-27, equal 12th longest Top 10 stay of all time in Australia), both of which drop three places each to #12 and #13 respectively. Last week's #12 entry for Troye Sivan and Rush is down three spots this week to #15 (#1 ARIA Dance Track), with further declining entries being Calm Down for Rema and Selena Gomez (14 to #17), Anti-Hero by Taylor Swift (13 to #18) and on hold at #19 is Zach Bryan with Something in the Orange. 

TOP 30: 

Three songs climb back up within the Top 30, starting with three place rebounds for Boy's a Liar (pt.2) by PinkPantheress and Ice Spice (24 to #21) and Heat Waves by Glass Animals (31 to #28), while Vance Joy's Riptide is back up four places to #29, with the two non-movers here being I Ain't Worried for OneRepublic (#25) and All My Life for Lil' Durk and J. Cole (#30). 

Post Malone just issued his fifth album AUSTIN on Friday (July 28th), so a five place decline for it's second single Chemical to #22 this week could be superseded next week as the album could pull the track back up. Taylor Swift has had one song within each chart region this week and her Top 30 placement is for Karma which drops down five places to #23, with the biggest drop here being a ten place fall to #26 for the other current South Korean girl-group and FIFTY FIFTY with Cupid. 

TOP 40: 

There are only single place rises within the Top 40 this week for Creepin' (#33), Sunflower  (#35), Escapism. (#36) and The Kind of Love We Make by Luke Combs (#38), which is the only Top 50 accreditation this week, now 3x▲Platinum in sales. The sole Taylor track here is Style, which is down four places to #39, with other four and five place declines being for Miracle by Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding (28 to #32) and Until I Found You for Stephen Sanchez and Em Beihold (32 to #37). 

TOP 50: 

NEW PEAK: goes to a fifty-one place jump to #45 for Noah Kahan and Dial Drunk, which originally peaked at #73 upon entry (June 19th), falling to #79 the following week before leaving the chart on July 3rd. Then the track returned at #96 last week thanks to a new version featuring guest vocals from Post Malone, which has helped the track to leap up this week and land within the Top 50 becoming the second entry here for Noah after he peaked at #14 alongside Julia Michaels on Hurt Somebody (peaked June 2018). 

On hold within the Top 50 chart section are Morgan Wallen with You Proof (#41) and Kylie Minogue with Padam Padam (#44) which drops down in both England (14 to #16) and Ireland (14 to #47) this week. Taylor Swift has two songs within the fifty, both of them back-to-back, as the highest charted entry from her Speak Now (TsV) edition called I Can See You plummets twenty-two spots to land at #42, while down five places to #43 is her 2014 #1 song Blank Space, and Ed Sheeran is down to only one Top 50 entry this week as Shivers drops eight places to #48 in it's 98th week within the Top 100 (six weeks shy of two years). 

NEW ENTRIES:

* #27 - K-Pop by Travis Scott feat. Bad Bunny and The Weeknd (Cactus Jack/Epic) is the lead single from the just issued fourth studio album by the American rapper and singer called Utopia (out July 28th), along with another track from the set Delresto (Echoes), which features Beyoncé and Bon Iver, with this new entry becoming Travis' twenty-first Top 50 entry (10 as lead, 11 as guest), with his last chart entry being Down in Atlanta with Pharrell Williams (HP-68, Nov. 28th, 2022) and as a guest on three tracks from late 2022, the SZA entry Open Arms (HP-81, Dec. 19th, 2022), the Metro Boomin' with 21 Savage entry Niagara Falls (Foot or 2) (HP-43, Dec. 12th, 2022) and the Drake and 21 Savage track Pussy & Millions (HP-5, Nov. 14th, 2022)

* #34 - ETA by NewJeans (ADOR Co.)

* #40 - Cool With You by NewJeans (ADOR Co.)

* #64 - ASAP by NewJeans (ADOR Co.)

* #82 - Get Up by New Jeans (ADOR Co.) are all taken from the girl-groups new EP called Get Up, with the first two tracks from the six-track set charting on July 17th, Super Shy (TW-14) and their groups self-titled track New Jeans, which originally entered at #98 and this week re-enters the Top 100 at a new peak of #53. These four new entries now give the South Korean act eight Top 100 entries in Australia, while Super Shy is up to new peaks in England (61 to #52), New Zealand (18 to #16), The U.S.A. (66 to #64) and Canada (34 to #31). 

New Certification: 

The Kind of Love We Make by Luke Combs ▲3

HP = Highest Position

LW = Last Week

WI10 - Weeks in Top 10

(TsV) = Taylor's Version

*ARIA Chart info is based on sales for the week from the 21st to the 27th of July 2023