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The Rolling Stones roll all the way to the top of Australia’s albums chart with Hackney Diamonds (Polydor/Universal), for their eighth leader.
Hackney Diamonds debuts at No. 1 on the ARIA Chart, published Friday, Oct. 27, the legendary British rock band’s 34th top 10 title.
Featuring collaborations with Lady Gaga, Elton John Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney, and contributions from former bass player Bill Wyman and the group’s late drummer Charlie Watts, Hackney Diamonds is the Stones’ first album of original material since A Bigger Bang, which blasted to No. 4 in 2005. Since then, the Stones have clocked up two more leaders in Australia, with hits collection GRRR! in 2012, and covers set Blue & Lonesome in 2016.
Mick Jagger and Co. first led the national chart back in 1964 with their debut, self-titled album.
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The reunited Blink-182 bows at No. 2 on the ARIA Chart with One More Time… (Columbia/Sony), for the pop-rock trio’s ninth top 10 in the land Down Under. One More Time… marks the return of the classic line-up, with guitarist and singer Tom DeLonge slotting back in alongside bass player and vocalist Mark Hoppus, and drummer Travis Barker.
Blink-182 has now led the ARIA Chart on four occasions, including Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (2001), Neighborhoods (2011) and California (2016). One More Time… is the band’s first studio album since 2019’s Nine, which featured Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba in place of DeLonge, and which peaked at No. 4.
Olivia Rodrigo’s former leader Guts (Geffen/Universal) closes out the top 3 on the latest tally, holding at No. 3, ahead of LPs from Drake (For All The Dogs down 2-4 via Republic/Universal) and Taylor Swift (Midnights up 6-5 via Universal), respectively.
Over on the ARIA Singles Chart, Doja Cat’s “Paint The Town Red” (via RCA/Sony) retains top spot for the 10th consecutive week. According to ARIA, it’s the 27th single to log 10 or more weeks at the top, a list that’s led by Tones And I’s “Dance Monkey” with 24 non-consecutive weeks. Also, Doja is the sixth solo female act to clock double-figure weeks at No. 1, joining Tones, Dinah Shore (13 weeks with “Buttons And Bows” in 1949), Miley Cyrus (12 weeks with “Flowers” earlier this year), Whitney Houston (10 weeks in 1992-93 with “I Will Always Love You”) and Sandi Thom (10 weeks in 2006 with “I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker”).
It’s worth noting, the Spice Girls reigned over the national tally for 11 weeks in 1996-97 with their signature song “Wannabe,” and Elton John’s record-breaking “Cold Heart” with Dua Lipa, remixed by Aussie electronic act Pnau, spent 10 weeks at the summit in 2021-22.
The latest singles chart podium is completed by Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” (Universal), up 3-2 for a new peak position in its 21st week on the survey, and Tate McRae’s “Greedy” (RCA/Sony), down 2-3.
The top new release this week belongs to Sydney-raised singer and rapper The Kid LAROI with “Too Much” (Columbia/Sony), featuring BTS‘ Jung Kook and Central Cee. It’s new at No. 10 for LAROI’s seventh top 10 single in Australia, the third top 10 for British rapper Central Cee (including a seven-week stretch at No. 1 with Dave on “Sprinter” earlier this year), and the third top tier title for South Korean singer Jung Kook.
The Los Angeles-based LAROI ruled the chart for a week in 2021 with “Without You” and again with “Stay,” his monster hit with Justin Bieber, which owned top spot for 17 weeks in 2021-22.
Kenya Grace’s “Strangers” (via FFRR) takes pole position in the race for the U.K. chart crown. But there’s not much in it. The U.K.-raised, South Africa-born artist has reigned over the Official U.K. Singles Chart for the past two weeks with her breakthrough drum ‘n’ bass number. “Strangers” has a narrow lead heading into what […]
Kenya Grace is no stranger to the U.K. chart summit.
The South Africa-born, U.K.-based artist enters a second week at No. 1 with “Strangers” (via FFRR), her breakthrough, drum ‘n’ bass-backed tune and first through a major label.
“Strangers” is, once again, the most-streamed track in the U.K. with 4.8 million plays, the Official Charts Company reports, as it holds off the challenge of Cassö’s “Prada” (Ministry of Sound) featuring RAYE and D-Block Europe.
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The leader at the midweek point, “Prada” finishes the week at No. 2, less than 800 chart units adrift.
As previously reported, Grace is just the second U.K. female artist ever to write, produce and record a No. 1 single entirely by herself, following Kate Bush whose “Running Up That Hill” completed a mission impossible last year, hitting the top some 37 years after its initial release.
Tate McRae’s “Greedy” (Ministry of Sound) rounds off an unchanged top 3.
Meanwhile, another South African artist is making her move on the Official U.K. Singles Chart — Tyla. Born and raised in Johannesburg, Tyla (full name: Tyla Laura Seethal) enjoys a new peak with her breakthrough “Water” (RCA), rising 7-4.
Close behind is Chase & Status, Bou, Flowdan, IRAH, Trigga and Takura’s “Baddadan” (EMI), up 11-5 for its peak position, while Sonny Fodera, MK and Clementine Douglas’ “Asking” (Solotoko) is up 10-7, a new high.
U.S. alternative pop artist Mitski enjoys her first U.K. top 10 single with “My Love Mine All Mine” (Dead Oceans), improving 13-8. Prior to her latest, viral number, Mitski had never even nudged the singles tally, though two of her seven studio albums have impacted the top 10.
Fred Again snags a second top 20 solo sentry with “Ten” (Atlantic), featuring U.S. artist and songwriter Jozzy. It’s new at No. 16, for the highest debut on the latest tally, published Friday, Oct. 20. That’s the fifth top 40 entry for the hot producer and artist, and the first appearance on the chart for Jozzy.
Finally, Troye Sivan enjoys a hattrick of top 40 appearance on the latest chart, led by “One Of Your Girls,” new at No. 17, followed by lead single “Rush” (34-28) and “Got Me Started” (reentering at No. 36), lifting his career tally to seven U.K. top 40 singles.
All three tracks appear on Sivan’s third and latest LP Something To Give Each Other (via Polydor), which debuts at No. 4 on the national albums tally, for a new career high.
Ren scores his first U.K. No. 1 as Sick Boi, his independently released sophomore album, starts at No. 1.
The Welsh hip-hop artist (full name: Ren Erin Gill) times his chart race to perfection, overcoming a midweek deficit to Rick Astley’s ninth studio album Are We There Yet? (BMG), before putting on the afterburners to roar home in first place.
In the end, it wasn’t even close. Sick Boi had opened-up a 6,000-unit advantage when the Official U.K. Albums Chart was published Oct. 20, thanks in part to a “spectacular push” in the final 24 hours of the cycle, the Official Charts Company reports.
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Sick Boi is released through The Other Songs, founded five years ago by brothers Alastair and Billy Webber, formerly of Island Records and Warner Records, respectively, according to the OCC. It’s the indie entertainment company’s first ever U.K. top 10.
Ren’s crown “sees him join a long list of Welsh album chart-toppers,” notes OCC CEO Martin Talbot, “from Tom Jones, Bonnie Tyler and Shakin’ Stevens to Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics and Duffy, among many others – should not be under-estimated, especially given that it’s been achieved as a wholly-independent artist.”
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Astley, meanwhile, misses out on collecting a third leader with Are We There Yet?, which arrives at No. 2. It’s the Brit’s seventh top 10 appearance on the national albums tally.
The previous week’s leader, Drake’s For All The Dogs (OVO/Republic Records), slips 1-3.
Also new to the Official Chart this week is Troye Sivan’s Something To Give Each Other (Polydor), bowing at No. 4. That’s a U.K. career high for the Aussie pop artist, eclipsing 2015’s EP Wild (No. 5 peak) and 2018 LP Bloom (No. 8), for his third top tier slot. Something To Give Each Other is the week’s best-seller on wax in the U.K.
Completing the top 5 is 2022 BRITs Rising Star winner Holly Humberstone with Paint My Bedroom Black, her first full length effort. It’s new at No. 5.
Mike Skinner’s The Streets lands its seventh U.K. top 10 album with The Darker the Shadow (Rhino), new at No. 7, while British blues act When Rivers Meet, the husband-and-wife duo of Grace and Aaron Bond, snag a first top 10 album appearance with Aces Are High (One Road), new at No. 9.
Further down the list, new releases from Scouting for Girls (A Place We Used to Meet at No. 17 via Sony Music CG), CMAT (Crazymad, for Me at No. 25 via Cmatbaby), Creeper (Sanguivore at No. 29 via Spinefarm) and Death of Guitar Pop (Be Lucky at No. 30 via Ska Club Essex) make an impression.
Troye Sivan long-overdue return to music with Something To Give Each Other (EMI), his third studio album, is an instant success in his homeland.
Something To Give Each Other starts at No. 1 on the ARIA Chart, published Friday, Oct. 20, for his first leader. That result eclipses the No. 6 peak for Sivan’s debut LP from 2015, Blue Neighbourhood, and the No. 3 best for 2018’s sophomore effort Bloom.
At the same time, several singles from Something To Give Each Other are heading north on the ARIA Singles Chart, with the gold-accredited “Rush” up 43-26, “Got Me Started” lifting 45-27, and “One Of Your Girls” bowing at No. 28.
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Sivan won two ARIA Awards earlier in his career, and has six more chances to add to his collection at the 2023 ARIAs, set to be held Nov. 15 in Sydney.
“Troye Sivan is truly a once-in-a-generation artist, representing Australia on a truly global scale, with 22 billion streams worldwide and a career that’s pushed boundaries across music, screen and fashion,” comments ARIA CEO Annabelle Herd. “On behalf of ARIA, I am absolutely thrilled to congratulate him on his first No. 1 album at home, and can’t wait to celebrate at the ARIA Awards in a few weeks.”
The albums podium is completed by Drake’s For All The Dogs (down 2-1 via Republic/Universal) and Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts (down 2-3 via Geffen/Universal), while The Living End’s eponymously-titled debut full length album returns to the chart at No. 4, thanks to a 25th anniversary edition released through BMG/ADA. The Living End originally logged two weeks at No. 1 following its release in 1998.
Further down the latest list, South Korean boyband Tomorrow x Together’s The Name Chapter: Freefall (ING) arrives at No. 31. It’s the K-pop outfit’s first top 100 album in Australia, ARIA reports.
There’s no change at the top of that national singles tally as Doja Cat’s “Paint The Town Red” (RCA/Sony) enters week nine at No. 1. That breaks the tie with Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” for the second longest-reigning leader of 2023. At the top of that particular list is Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers,” at 12 weeks.
There’s a double result for U.S. country artist Zach Bryan as “I Remember Everything” (Universal/Warner) with Kacey Musgraves lifts 7-6 and his solo number “Something In The Orange” (Warner) cracks the top 10 for the first time in 66 weeks on the tally, up 11-8.
Finally, South African artist Tyla impacts the ARIA top 10 for the first time with “Water” (Sony) flowing 20-9. The Afrobeats artist’s breakout number recently broke into the U.K. top 10.
Sexyy Red, one of rap’s biggest breakout stars of 2023, lands her first top 10 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart through a guest spot on Drake’s “Rich Baby Daddy,” which also features SZA. The track is one of 21 Drake arrivals as his For All the Dogs album cuts flood the list.
“Rich Baby Daddy” debuts at No. 10 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs list dated Oct. 21. The premiere gives Sexyy Red her first top 10 in her fifth visit, following her breakthrough viral hit “Pound Town” with Tay Keith, which, after a remix release with Nicki Minaj, peaked at No. 21; “SkeeYee” (No. 17); “Looking for the Hoes (Ain’t My Fault)” (No. 49); and “Hellcats Srts 2,” with Lil Durk (No. 40).
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Fellow featured act SZA nabs her 16th career top 10 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, while, between “Rich Baby Daddy” and six further top 10 debuts this week, Drake ups his total to a record-extending 128 top 10s on the tally. The triple-digit total pushes him further into his own stratosphere, now 71 ahead of the second-place act, James Brown, who boasts 57 top 10s (dating to October 1958, when the chart became the first all-encompassing songs survey for the genre).
In the Oct. 6-12 tracking week, “Rich Baby Daddy” registered 24.3 million official U.S. streams and 1,000 downloads sold. The former allows for a No. 8 start on the R&B/Hip-Hop Streaming Songs chart, while the latter sparks a No. 12 bow on R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Sales. In addition, the track opens at No. 28 on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay thanks to 3 million audience impressions at the format.
As mentioned above, “Rich Baby Daddy” appears on Drake’s new album, For All the Dogs, released Oct. 6. The set’s tracks storm the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, with 21 debuts from the project and the previously released, former one-week champ “Slime You Out,” featuring SZA, at No. 6 in its fourth week on the list. The domination includes a second Dogs No. 1, “First Person Shooter,” featuring J. Cole, which grants Drake a record-extending 30th No. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. With his latest champ, he moves 10 ahead of the nearest competitors, Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder, each with 20 leaders.
South African singer Tyla achieves a milestone week in her young career as “Water” climbs to No. 1 on Billboard’s U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart (dated Oct. 21). The track rises from No. 2 and halts the record 58-week monopoly of Rema and Selena Gomez’s “Calm Down,” which had led the list each week since Sept. 10, 2022.
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The coronation also marks Tyla’s first No. 1 rank on any Billboard chart.
“Water,” released on FAX Records/Epic Records, takes over following gains in both streaming and sales, the two metrics that contribute to U.S. Afrobeats Songs. In the former category, “Water” surged to 8.3 million official U.S. streams in the Oct. 6-12 tracking week, a 29% swell compared to the previous week, according to Luminate. Sales, too, are up by a double-digit percentage, with 1,500 downloads sold in the U.S. in the same period, a 26% week-over-week improvement. Although the track was already posting gains, the arrival of its official music video on Oct. 6 sparked further momentum.
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In addition to its streaming and sales rallies, “Water” is making a splash on U.S. radio. The single races 39-26 on the latest Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, up 64% in plays for the tracking week. Similarly, it rockets 47-29 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart thanks to 2.9 million in audience, up 91% from the prior week. On Rhythmic Airplay, “Water” debuts at No. 38 following a 127% gain in plays in the last week. The song is also nearing the threshold of the 40-position Pop Airplay list.
Thanks to the rising tide across all metrics, “Water” benefits on many multi-metric U.S. Billboard charts, most notably, on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100. There, despite the arrival of 22 Drake tracks from the superstar’s new album, For All the Dogs, which forced many songs to tumble on the list, “Water” is one of two exceptions (the other: Noah Kahan’s “Stick Season”) to improve in position, as it ascends 67-63 in its second week on the chart.
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Cassö, RAYE and D-Block Europe’s “Prada” (Ministry of Sound) moves into pole position in the U.K. chart race. Based on midweek sales and streaming data published by the Official Charts Company, “Prada” is on track for its first stint at No. 1. The bouncing electronic track bumps Kenya Grace’s “Strangers” (RCA) into second place on […]
Drake does it again, as For All The Dogs debuts at No. 1 in the U.K.
For All The Dogs (via OVO/Republic Records) marks Drizzy’s sixth U.K. leader and second in just over a year.
The leader at the halfway point, For All The Dogs finishes the week at the summit, joining his other best-sellers Views (from 2016), Scorpion (2018), Dark Lane Demo Tapes (2020), Certified Lover Boy (2021) and Her Loss with 21 Savage (2022).
Drake’s delayed eighth LP outpaces another hip-hop recording, Crop Circle 3 (Zino) by London rapper Nines. It’s new at No. 2, equaling the peak of Crop Circle 2 from earlier this year. Crop Circle 3 is Nines’ fifth consecutive top 5 album in the U.K., a list that includes all three titles in the Crop Circle series, 2017’s One Foot Out (No. 4), and 2020’s No. 1 release Crabs In A Bucket.
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Roger Waters’ redux of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon crashes the chart at No. 3. The original, from 1973, is recognized as one of the most-successful British albums of all time, and has logged 560 weeks on the national tally.
Pink Floyd has six U.K. No. 1 albums, however Dark Side isn’t one of them; it originally peaked at No. 2.Waters, the founding singer, songwriter and bass player with Pink Floyd, now boasts five U.K. top 10 LPs.
Meanwhile, Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts (Geffen) completes the top 3 on the Official Albums Chart, published Oct. 13, dipping 2-3 in its fifth week.
DJ Joel Corry snags his first U.K. top 10 with Another Friday Night (Atlantic), his debut album. It’s new at No. 5.
Veteran U.S. artist Sufjan Stevens earns a second U.K. top 10, and first in eight years with Javelin (Asthmatic Kitty), which flies in at No. 7. To date, Stevens’s chart peak in the U.K. is No. 5 for 2015’s Carrie & Lowell.
Also new to the national albums survey is London rapper Slim’s Still Working 2 (No 22 via Warner Records), British indie folk group Stornoway’s Dig the Mountain (No. 49 via Cooking Vinyl) while U.S. singer and songwriter Noah Kahan’s Stick Season improves 48-28 (Island), following Olivia Rodrigo’s performance of its title track for her BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge session.
Kenya Grace bags her first No. 1 on the U.K. singles chart with “Strangers,” and, at the same time, earns a piece of history.
The South Africa-born, U.K.-raised artist completes her coronation with “Strangers” (via FFRR), a drum ‘n’ bass special, which reaches the top in its sixth week on the chart.
In doing so, she becomes just the second female artist to reach the summit with a song performed, written and produced entirely solo. The first to do it was, of course, Kate Bush, whose 1985 number “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” completed a remarkable chart-topping turn in 2022, powered by Stranger Things’ fourth season.
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According to the Official Charts Company, U.S. artist Tori Amos came close with her 1997 club monster “Professional Widow (It’s Got To Be Big),” which reached No. 1 but was boosted by a remix from DJ Armand Van Helden.
The leader at the midweek stage, “Strangers” becomes the first chart debut by a British female artist to reach No. 1 in almost a decade, since Ella Henderson’s 2014 release “Ghost.”
As predicted, “Strangers” ends Doja Cat’s five-week reign with “Paint the Town Red” (Ministry of Sound) which tumbles 1-12.
Coming in at No. 2 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, published Friday, Oct. 13, is Casso, RAYE, D-Block Europe’s “Prada” (Ministry of Sound), up two places for a new peak position, while Tate McRae’s “Greedy” (Ministry of Sound) holds at No. 3, its peak spot.
Thanks to the release of his chart-leading new album For All The Dogs (via OVO/Republic Records), Drake bags the highest entry on the latest singles chart. Actually, the Canadian hip-hop star secures the three top debuts with “First Person Shooter” featuring J Cole (at No. 4), “IDGAF” featuring Yeat (No. 5) and “Virginia Beach” (No. 6), boosting his total of U.K. top 10 hits to 44.
Finally, South African Afrobeats star Tyla rushes up the climb with “Water” (RCA), lifting 10-7, and Sonny Fodera, MK and Clementine Douglas crack the top 10 for the first time with “Asking” (Solotoko) up 11-10.