Kate Bush Chart Reign Continues As Singer Eyes Another Record

Equalling the longest stay at #1 for this year, Kate Bush's 1985 classic Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) has now spent its seventh week at the top of the Australian Singles-summit.

Running Up That Hill has now spent as many weeks at #1 during 2022 as the song it knocked off the top; As It Was, which has been sitting at #2 or #3 since it lost the top spot eight weeks ago. Kate remains at #1 for a seventh week in Ireland and climbs to a new peak of #3 in both Canada and the US, while it's also now the Global #3 song after two weeks atop that chart. 

Harry Styles and Kate are now tied at equal fifth on the listing for 'Accumulated Weeks at #1: Singles (2020s)', while Kate's Hill track is now the equal fourth longest-running #1 for this decade, plus Kate increases her tally of 'Weeks at #1 (1940 to 2022)' to ten overall weeks from her two chart-topping singles in 1978 and 2022, moving her up to equal 69th (from equal 72nd last week) alongside other acts who've had 10 weeks from two #1s in Aqua, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bonnie Tyler and UB40 among them. 

The entire top four singles are on hold this week, with the aforementioned Harry Styles track As It Was at #2, while it logs a 13th week at the top in Canada (but loses the top spot in the US), followed by the replaced #1 in New Zealand this week, Joji's Glimpse Of Us at #3 (NZ #2), while the Glass Animals shows in the country over the past week have helped their 77 weeks running Top 10 entry Heat Waves to remain at #4 this week, the song now one-week shy of 18 months within the ten, still the 'Longest of All Time within the Top 10'. 

After jumping into the Top 10 last week (36 to #9), the Steve Lacy single Bad Habit jumps up this week four places to land at a new peak of #5, (NZ 8 to #6, US 50 to #14), with the songs highest peak so far being in The Netherlands at #3. Steve is followed by the only other new peak within the Top 10, up one spot to #6 is the OneRepublic track I Ain't Worried (NZ 5 to #3), which (possibly) climbs due to Ryan Tedder announcing this past week a tour here in March of 2023. So last week the song was all sevens, and now this week it matches their last Top 10's peak of #6, Something I Need, which logged three weeks at that peak in late September of 2013.

The new #1 single in the US this week is the Lizzo single About Damn Time, helped to the top by her Special album entering at #2, with the song here dipping two places to #7, after which is the highest new entry of the week, British drill-rapper Central Cee with Doja, which comes in first week at #8, becoming his second Top 50 and now first Top 10 placement in Australia. The song samples the 2001 single for Eve and Gwen Stefani, Let Me Blow Ya Mind, while the song has entered first week at the top in New Zealand and at #2 in England and #5 in both Ireland and The Netherlands, plus #6 in Sweden (so far), plus it's his highest placed singe in all of those locations, while it's his third Top 10 in his homeland of England.

Jack Harlow's First Class track has now spent all sixteen weeks of its chart life within the Top 10, as the song drops one place to #9 this week, followed by a four place fall to #10 for the Doja Cat herself, and her ELVIS soundtrack single Vegas, of which the album got a physical release on Friday (July 29th). 

UP

The first song to climb outside of the Top 10 is a new peak at #19 for the Nicky Youre and dazy debut entry Sunroof, which climbs two spots this week, after which is a five-place rise to a new chart height for the Yung Gravy track Betty (Get Money), landing at #25, while both of the Top 50 entries for The Weeknd are non-movers this week, with Save Your Tears at #26 and his long-running Blinding Lights remaining at #37. 

Lil Nas X's Industry Baby climbs again this week, up two spots to #32, followed by a seven-place jump to a new peak of #33 for the R3HAB and Amy Shark remake Sway My Way, after which is a thirty-five place leap to a new height of #34 for the Becky Hill and David Guetta track Remember. The track was first issued in July of 2021, and logged a single week within the Top 100 at #87 on August 23rd, 2021, while last week the song returned to the Top 100 at #69, with the acoustic version of the song appearing on her recently reissued album Only Honest On The Weekend, plus it now becomes Becky's second Top 50 appearance after she was on the Meduza track Lose Control which made it to #11 in January of 2020, and her third Top 100 entry after hitting #100 on the 24th of January this year with her Topic teaming My Heart Goes (La Di Da).

DOWN

The long-running The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber entry Stay (HP-1x17, WI10-53) is the only song to leave the Top 10 this week, down two spots to #12, while it's only the second time in its 55-week chart-run that the song has left the Top 10, it previously did so on May 30th, when the Harry Styles tsunami hit the chart and pushed the song down to #18 for a single week, while Kid's other Top 20 entry Thousand Miles is one of two songs within the Top 20 to drop down two places, it falls to #17, while Beyoncé's Break My Soul is the other, down to #20, but with her new album Renaissance being issued on Friday (July 29th), it should rebound next week.

Five songs drop down two places each within the Top 30, with the bigger (!) declines being a four-place fall to #27 for recent tourist Tate McRae's She's All I Wanna Be and the Future and Drake teaming Wait For U dipping three spots to #28. 

Most of the big drops within the Top 50 this week fall into the Top 40 and Top 50, with Enemy by Imagine Dragons falling six to #35, Bam Bam for Camila and Ed Sheeran dipping four to #6, while Ed's 2Step with Lil' Baby drops three to #49. Charlie Puth and Jung Kook's Left And Right falls eight places to #39, followed by a sixteen-place dive to #40 for the Metallica track Master Of Puppets, with Post Malone feat. Roddy Rich and Cooped Up falling six spots to #41 and Drake's Massive plummeting eleven chart-rungs to land at #44, and finally dropping twelve places to #50 is Lady Gaga's Top Gun: Maverick single Hold My Hand.

FURTHER NEW ENTRIES

* #23 - TV by Billie Eilish (Darkroom/Interscope)

* #31 - The 30th by Billie Eilish (Darkroom/Interscope) are the first two tracks issued from her forthcoming second EP called Guitar Songs, with these two track issued to coincide with her current European tour, and once again they are co-written with her brother FINNEAS. TV has landed at #17 upon entry in both Ireland and New Zealand this week, while The 30th has landed at #20 and #22 in both of those countries respectively.

* #45 - Are You Entertained by Russ feat. Ed Sheeran (Diemon) is the first chart entry for the New Jersey singer and rapper born Russell Vitale (in 1992), who has previously charted three of his studio albums in Australia, while this teaming with Ed Sheeran samples the Russell Crowe plea from his Academy Award-winning film Gladiator at the start saying "are you not entertained...?".

HP = Highest Position

LW = Last Week

WI10 - Weeks in Top 10

*ARIA Chart info is based on sales for the week from the 22nd to the 28th of July, 2022.

Written, Compiled and Researched by Gavin Ryan.