Taylor Swift’s ‘Anti-Hero’ Looking To Upset Sam Smith & Kim Petras’ Aus Chart Reign

It's now been a month of the Unholy ruling the chart throne in Australia for Sam Smith and Kim Petras.

Unholy also roosts at the top of the charts in England, Ireland, New Zealand (all for a fourth week also) and Canada (third week), while it also remains at #2 in The U.S.A. and Norway (down from #1), #3 in Kim's homeland of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and The Netherlands, #4 in Denmark and Sweden and at #5 in Finland and Portugal, while it leaps to #16 in France and #18 in Belgium. With a fourth week at the top in Australia, Sam now climbs to equal 80th on the listing for 'Accumulated Weeks at #1: Singles (1940 to 2022)' alongside Anastacia, Boyz II Men, Col Joye and Sherbet who've all previously racked up six weeks at #1 from two chart-toppers. 

The remixes continue to come for Unholy, as the Starix remix dropped during the week, and the track now becomes one of five #1s during 2022 by English acts to log four or more weeks at the top (some consecutively) this year. Elton & Dua's Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) spent three weeks at the top in January and a further two in February; Heat Waves for Glass Animals logged five weeks during all of March and into early April; Harry Styles' As It Was saw it's second (of three) runs at the top spend six weeks at the summit from the first week of May, while Kate Bush's return to the charts with Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) saw its second stay rack-up seven consecutive weeks at #1 from the first week of July, and now Sam Smith and Kim Petras have now done a four-week stretch at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart, but with a new Taylor Swift album issued on Friday called Midnights, could it's lead track Anti-Hero take out the #1 slot next week?

Once again the entire top three songs remain stable, with a fourth straight week at #2 for David Guetta and Bebe Rexha's I'm Good (Blue), while OneRepublic's I Ain't Worried has now been locked in the #3 spot for six straight weeks starting from September 19th, the week after it peaked at #2 for single week. 

Last week's only Top 100 entry came in at #52, and this week it leaps up forty-eight places to land at #4, Miss You by Oliver Tree and Robin Schulz (giving us four out of the Top 5 being duets or collaborations). The song samples Oliver Tree's Jerk track and the track has seen some controversy over the past few months, as a few weeks prior to Robin's remix being issued (here on August 5th), another German DJ by the name of southstar issued the original version of Miss You, which saw a Top 10 placement in the German and Lithuanian charts, while Robin has (allegedly) done a direct copy of the track with better production. The southstar version has been streamed in Australia 43.195 million times, while Robin's has been played 38.068 million locally, yet southstar's version has yet to chart (within the Top 50) and Robin's blasts up to #4 this week, something which needs to be sorted out by Sony (southstar) and Atlantic/Warner (Robin).

Miss You also becomes the first Top 10 entry for Oliver Tree, who previously charted the #34 with Life Goes On (peaked Oct. 18th, 2021), while for Robin Schulz this is his sixth Top 30 entry and fifth Top 10 placement. The leap to #4 for the new dance track has pushed down all of last week's remaining Top 10 entries by one spot each, with B.O.T.A. (Baddest of All Time) for Eliza Rose and Interplanetary Criminal down to #5, current U.S. #1 song for a third week is down here to #6, Bad Habit for Steve Lacy, followed by Nicki Minaj with Super Freaky Girl to #7, As It Was by Harry Styles to its lowest chart position of #8. Beyoncé's Cuff It is now Gold (●) in sales and dips one spot to #9 and Chris Brown's Under The Influence falls to #10 while those two songs remain stable at #3 and #2 in New Zealand respectively. 

UP

Rising back up to its former peak of #11 is the Lizzo track 2 Be Loved (Am I Ready), with the only other song climbing within the Top 20 being a three-place rise to a new peak of #15 for Zach Bryan and his track Something In The Orange. 

Tom Odell's Another Love previously peaked at #26 on September 5th, and now this week the song rises four places to score a new peak at #23, followed two places lower by a fourteen-place leap to a new chart height of #25 for the Dean Lewis track How Do I Say Goodbye, which also rises overseas in England (43 to #35), Ireland (24 to #22), Canada (58 to #57), Switzerland (20 to #17) and Sweden (23 to #20), plus it's sitting within the Top 10 in Norway (#5), Denmark and The Netherlands (both #9). 

The 2012 track by The Neighbourhood and Sweater Weather had previously logged two weeks at #34 on August 15th and again last week (Oct. 17th), and now this week the track rises three spots to land at a new peak of #31, while it's still five weeks away before The Killers tour of both New Zealand and Australia, their 2004 track Mr. Brightside is this week back up four places to #34 and the song is newly 15x▲Platinum in sales. Celestial by Ed Sheeran ascends two places to a new peak of #35, while Marshmello and Khalid's Numb (HP-38x2) is back up six spots to #39, one place lower than its former peak. 

James Hype's Ferrari has stalled at #43 for a second week at that peak, while rising into the Top 50 are Imagine Dragons with their March 2022 issued track Bones, moving up thirteen places to land its first week within the Top 50 at #45. The track has gone 89-78-58-45 in its four weeks within the Top 100, and has most likely been selling well up until now (being issued in March as I mentioned) that it's newly certified as Gold (●) in sales, plus it also becomes the band's fifteenth Top 50 placement and first since Enemy left the Top 50 on September 5th. 

DOWN

The only song leaving the Top 10 this week is Heat Waves (HP-1x11, WI10-88a) by Glass Animals, the leader on the 'Longest Running Top 10' listing as it racked up 88 weeks within the ten, and almost half-a-year longer than the #2 placed track Stay by The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber (53 weeks, TW-19). The track first entered the Top 10 on February 1st, 2021 after winning the triple j Hottest 100 #1 slot, while the song had only left the Top 10 on two previous occasions on August 30th, 2021 (#11) and May 30th, 2022 (#16) and now the track has dropped three spots this week to land at #13 after a further twenty weeks within the Top 10 since its last departure. 

After five weeks of single place moves, the Post Malone and Doja Cat track I Like You (A Happier Song) has dipped two spots this week to #16, while Doja for Central Cee sees a three-place drop to #18 and Stay for Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber has a two-place dip to #19.

Ed Sheeran drops down within the Top 30 with both Shivers (22 to #24) and Bad Habits (24 to #27), while also declining three places each are Luke Combs' The Kind Of Love We Make (23 to #26), Vegas for Doja Cat (25 to #28) and Late Night Talking for Harry Styles (26 to #29), followed by a two-place dip to #30 for Lewis Capaldi's Forget Me, who announced this past week a July 2023 tour of Australia and his May 2023 forthcoming second album Broken By Desire to Be Heavenly Sent, plus he will be in Australia in November to co-host the ARIA Awards with Natalie Imbruglia. 

Jack Harlow's First Class leaves the Top 30 for the first time, down four places to #33, with six place drops occurring for Lil Nas X and Star Walkin' (30 to #36), Kate Bush with Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) (32 to #38) and a seven place slide to #40 for the Omar Apollo track Evergreen (You Don't Deserve Me At All) (TW-NZ #15), while the last big declining entry is for Joji's and Glimpse Of Us, which falls eight places to land at #44. 

NEW ENTRIES

* #49 - Poland by Lil' Yachty (Quality Control/Motown) is the sixth Top 100, third Top 50 and now first solo entry to the fifty for U.S. rapper Lil' Yachty, with his two previous entries being as a guest artist on the Charli XCX track After The Afterparty (HP-30, Dec. 2016) and with Kyle on iSpy (HP-33, May 2017), while this new track is supposedly lifted from a forthcoming 'non-rap album' intended to be a 'psychedelic-alternative project', but that was announced at the start of 2022, so it could be coming soon. Poland has also debuted in England (#30), Ireland (#26), New Zealand (#27), The U.S.A. (#65) and Canada (#52)

* #50 - EDGING by blink-182 (Viking Wizard Eyes/Columbia) is the first new entry for the U.S. punk-rock act since May 2016's Bored To Death (HP-50), and the first time since his 2015 departure that founding guitarist Tom DeLonge has rejoined the band. This new entry becomes the band's 14th Top 50 entry since their first in late 1997 with Dammit (Growing Up) (HP-34), and also their 18th Top 100 placement too. The track has also landed as a new entry in England (#31, their first Top 40 entry in 17 years) and Ireland (#63) so far. 

NEW CERTIFICATIONS

Cuff it by Beyoncé ●

Mr. Brightside by The Killers ▲15

Bones by Imagine Dragons ●

Bound 2 by Kanye West ▲3 (first certification) 

HP = Highest Position

LW = Last Week

WI10 - Weeks in Top 10

*ARIA Chart info is based on sales for the week from the 14th to the 20th of October 2022.

Written, Compiled and Researched by Gavin Ryan.