Welcome to This Week In Pop.
This week, Taylor Swift reclaims the #1 spot with 'The Tortured Poets Department', while the first of the Christmas albums start to climb up the ARIA Albums Chart.
The album jumps from #14 last week thanks to the release of vinyl and CD versions of 'The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology'. It is the album’s sixth non-consecutive week on top and its first week at the summit since early July.
On the Singles Chart, it’s five non-consecutive weeks at #1 for Rosé and Bruno Mars’ 'APT'. Last month Bruno broke the all-time record for monthly listeners on Spotify, topping 126 million and beating the previous record, set by The Weeknd, of 120.7 million.
The Christmas songs also start rushing back onto the singles chart: Mariah Carey’s former #1 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' re-enters at #7. It peaked at #2 when it was released in 1994. It first hit #1 in 2018 and has returned to the top spot every Christmas since then for a total of eight weeks so far. Wham’s 'Last Christmas' stopped at #3 in 1984, returned to the top 50 in 1997 and disappeared again until 2016. It matched its #3 peak in 2019, hit #2 in 2020 and again in 2021, got to #3 in 2022 and #3 again in 2023.
Top 10 Albums
1. 'The Tortured Poets Department' – Taylor Swift2. 'GNX' – Kendrick Lamar
3. 'Short n' Sweet' – Sabrina Carpenter
4. 'Wicked: The Soundtrack' – Wicked Movie Cast, Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande
5. 'The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess' – Chappell Roan
6. 'Hit Me Hard And Soft' – Billie Eilish
7. 'The Secret Of Us' – Gracie Abrams
8. 'The Highlights' – The Weeknd
9. 'BRAT' – Charli xcx
10. 'Guts' – Olivia Rodrigo
Top 10 Singles
1. 'APT.' – Rose, Bruno Mars2. 'That's So True' – Gracie Abrams
3. 'Luther' – Kendrick Lamar
4. 'Birds Of A Feather' – Billie Eilish
5. 'Die With A Smile' – Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars
6. 'A Bar Song (Tipsy)' – Shaboozey
7. 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' – Mariah Carey
8. 'Beautiful Things' – Benson Boone
9. 'Taste' – Sabrina Carpenter
10. 'Sailor Song' – Gigi Perez
