Kate Bush Still #1 In Aus; 'Running Up That Hill' Now Holds These Records

On the eighth day of the eighth month, Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) claims its eighth overall week at #1 in Australia. 

Australia along with Sweden and Switzerland were the first counties to make the 1985 classic a #1 single, and now it seems as though Australia might also be its last #1 slot, as the track lost the top spot in Ireland this week (after seven consecutive weeks at the top), the only other location other than us Down Under to have the song at #1 last week, now we're the last outpost for its banner flying, as Running Up That Hill claims it's eight week at the top here, it also becomes...

• The longest-running #1 single for 2022 (surpassing the seven weeks for As It Was). 
• The longest #1 locally by a solo female singer this decade (Dua Lipa's 10 weeks were part of a duet).
• The outright fourth longest-running #1 this decade. 
• Kate's longest-running Top 10 single in Australia from her five Top 10 entries. (Wuthering Heights racked up eleven Top 10 weeks in 1978, now Running has two weeks from 1985 and now ten weeks in 2022, making it now 12 overall weeks within the Top 10 locally). 

Kate Bush also climbs to become the act at #10 on the listing for 'Accumulated Weeks at #1: Singles (2020s)', while on the other listing for 'Accumulated Weeks at #1: Singles (1940 to 2022)' she climbs to equal 66th (up from =69th) with her eleven overall weeks at #1 (from two #1s) alongside Cher, Culture Club, Billy Ocean, Normie Rowe and most recently Olivia Rodrigo. The Hill is one of 47 songs to have spent eight weeks at #1, and the song is also the sixth longest-running #1 for this decade too, the list below showing the longest for so far this decade:

1 = 2021 - 17wks - Stay by The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber

2 = 2020 - 11wks - Blinding Lights by The Weeknd

2 = 2020 - 11wks - Mood by 24GOLDN feat. Iann Dior

2 = 20/21- 11wks - Heat Waves by Glass Animals

3 - 20/21 - 10wks - Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) by Elton John & Dua Lipa

4 - 2022 - 8 wks - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) by Kate Bush

5 - 2022 - 7 wks - As It Was by Harry Styles

The current #1 single in Canada for a fourteenth week is the Harry Styles track As It Was, which here remains at #2 again {the same position occurs for his latest album too}, logging its 18th week within the Top 3 (it hasn't dropped any lower than #3 for three straight weeks from June 27th to July 11th), after which is a five-place climb to a new peak of No.3 for last week's highest new entry for Central Cee and Doja, which claims a second week at No.1 in New Zealand this week, while the track made an impressive debut at No.16 in Canada this past week and is sitting at #5 in Ireland and #4 in England.

Australia, New Zealand and Ireland are so far the only locations to give Steve Lacy's track Bad Habit a Top 10 berth, as the song climbs one spot to a new peak of #4 in Australia, while the track halves its position in NZ by climbing three spots to #3 and remains on hold at No.10 in Ireland, while it's jumped to #11 in the US, #14 in Canada and #17 in England this week. 

Glass Animals' Heat Waves dips one spot to #5 after their local tour pushed the track back up to #4 last week, while the song creates a new chart feat this week by logging its 78th week within the Top 10 (still the longest of all time), but 78 weeks equates to one-and-a-half-years within the Top 10. Thanks to her seventh studio album debuting at #1 this week, the seven-week-old lead single from Beyoncé's new album Break My Soul has leapt back up thirteen places this week to score its third overall week within the Top 10, but more so the track has scored a new peak of #6, plus seven further tracks from the album land within the Top 50 (more below). 

After spending the past three weeks at #3, and its first seven chart weeks within the Top 4, the Joji track Glimpse Of Us drops four places to land at #7, followed by two further declining tracks in the OneRepublic track I Ain't Worried (6 to #8, climbs to a new peak of #2 in New Zealand), and the second-week running U.S. No.1 single for Lizzo and About Damn Time, which is also down two spots here to #9. Doja Cat again has two tracks within the Top 10, one she's performing on and one she's name-checked in, with her vocal contributions featuring on the Post Malone track I Like You (A Happier Song), which is back up one spot to #10 (fourth week in T10), which replaces her Top 10 dropout track Vegas (down to #12). 

UP

One holding and one climbing track within the Top 20 this week, with Cold Heart for Elton and Dua not budging from #14, while it's followed by the Nicky Youre and dazy track Sunroof, which rises four places to a new peak of #15, plus after eight weeks within the Top 50 and nine within the Top 100, the track is newly Gold (●) in sales.

Harry Styles' only other Top 50 entry Late Night Talking along with Lost Frequencies' Where Are You Now remain on hold at #22 and #23 respectively, after which is the biggest climber within the chart this week, as Eurovision 2022 entry from Armenia Rosa Linn sees her fifth-placed finals track SNAP leap up forty-one spots to score a new chart height of #23 this week (third week within the Top 100), the track gaining traction post-Eurovision thanks to social media and TikTok.

The Killers issued a new track on Friday called boy, while their 2004 classic Mr. Brightside is back up to #28, followed by another new peak for Sway My Way by R3HAB and Amy Shark, rising four places to land at #29. Another older track to climb this week is the 2012 recent first-time entry for The Neighbourhood song Sweater Weather, up eighteen places to land first week within the Top 50 at #37 (fourth week within the Top 100), while other songs climbing into the fifty for their first T50 appearance's are Tom Odell's Another Love (66 to #43, twelfth week within the Top 100) and last week saw a few older tracks by The Weeknd return to the Top 100, with Die for You from 2017 this week climbing seven places to #44 (its first ever Top 100 appearance), while he also returned with Call Out My Name (LW-88, 2018 track), I Was Never There with Gesaffelstein (LW-98, 2018 entry), and a few weeks ago Starboy (LW-73, 2016 single). 

DOWN

Two songs leave the Top 10 this week, both dropping two places each, with First Class (HP-1x2, WI10-16) by Jack Harlow leaving the Top 10 for the first time, down to #11, followed by Vegas by Doja Cat (HP-4x2, WI10-6), down to #12, while the ELVIS soundtrack that it's taken from has leapt back into the Albums Chart at #4 this week thanks to its physical release last week.

Both The Kid LAROI and Ed Sheeran have two songs within the Top 20, Kid's Stay (12 to #13) and Thousand Miles' (17 to #19), surround the back-to-back Ed tracks in Bad Habits and Shivers, both dipping two places apiece to #17 and #18 respectively, while the biggest decline within the Top 20 is a three-place dip to #16 for the Drake and 21 Savage track Jimmy Cooks to #16, while the Future and Drake entry Wait For U dips two spots to #30.

There are no major dropping tracks until the Top 40 this week, but within the Top 30 we see Yung Gravy's Betty (Get Money) drop back from its #24 peak last week to #25 this week. Tate McRae's She's All I Wanna Be falls seven places to #34, while last week's two new entries for Billie Eilish decline this week, with TV slipping thirteen places to #36 and The 30th leaving the Top 50 from #31 last week. 

After three weeks of climbing back up the chart the Lil Nas X track Industry Baby falls back down eight places to #40, while the track picks up a new sales certification of 6x▲Platinum. Ed Sheeran reduces his Top 50 tally of five last week to three this week, as his Camila Cabello duet Bam Bam falls down nine places to #45, while he departs with his Russ new entry from last week Are You Entertained (#45) and Lil Baby duet with 2Step (#49). Olivia Rodrigo's Good 4 U also falls nine places, down to #47; The Weeknd sees an eleven place slide to #48 for his 2020 #1 single Blinding Lights, and J. Cole's No Role Modelz slips back down six to #49 after re-peaking at #43 last week.

NEW ENTRIES

* #24 - Cuff it by Beyoncé (Parkwood Ent./Columbia) {samples Ooh La La La by Teena Marie}

* #31 - Alien Superstar by Beyoncé (Parkwood Ent./Columbia) {samples Moonraker by Foremost Poets, Barbara Ann Teer's Black Theatre speech, Unique by Danube Dance and an interpolation of I'm Too Sexy by Right Said Fred}

* #33 - Summer Renaissance by Beyoncé (Parkwood Ent./Columbia) {samples I Feel Love by Donna Summer}

* #38 - I'm That Girl by Beyoncé (Parkwood Ent./Columbia) {samples Still Pimpin' by Tommy Wright III & Princess Loko}

* #42 - Energy by Beyoncé feat BEAM (Parkwood Ent./Columbia) {samples Ooh La La La by Teena Marie, Explode by Big Freedia and originallly Milkshake by Kelis (now removed)}

* #46 - Cozy by Beyoncé (Parkwood Ent./Columbia) {samples Bitch I'm Black by Ts Madison, Get With U by Lidell Townsell & M.T.F. and Unique by Danube Dance feat. Kim Cooper}

* #50 - Church Girl by Beyoncé (Parkwood Ent./Columbia) {samples Center of Thy Will by The Clark Sisters, and elements of Where They At by DJ Jimi, Think (About it) by Lyn Collins and Drag Rap (Triggerman) by The Showboys}, are all take from Beyoncé's seventh studio album Renaissance (Act 1) which lands at #1 on the ARIA Albums Chart this week, becoming her third chart-topping album locally, while these seven tracks are joined by the albums lead single Break My Soul {samples Show Me Love by Robin S. and Explode by Big Freedia} (TW-20 to #6), with the other half of the 16 track album potentially landing in the lower 50 this week, while the new album is also mixed into one long Dance/RnB set. These new entries for Beyoncé become her 32nd to 39th Top 50 appearances (33 as lead, five as guest, excluding Destiny's child entries). 

NEW CERTIFICATIONS

Sunroof by Nicky Youre and dazy ●

Industry Baby by Lil Nas X feat. Jack Harlow ▲6

Welcome to Brixton by SR ▲

HP = Highest Position

LW = Last Week

WI10 - Weeks in Top 10

*ARIA Chart info is based on sales for the week from the 29th of July to the 4th of August, 2022.

Written, Compiled and Researched by Gavin Ryan.