This Week In Pop – 15 February 2022

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This week, Korn get their first #1 in more than 20 years, and The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber make it 17 weeks at #1 on the Singles Chart.

This week's album chartifacts

#1: Korn ‘Requiem’ – Korn take out their third #1 album on the ARIA Charts with 'Requiem'. The 14th studio album from the American nu-metal veterans is the follow-up to 'The Nothing' (#5 September ’19) and becomes their tenth Top Ten album in Australia. Korn previously topped the ARIA Albums Chart with 'Follow The Leader' (#1 August ’98) and 'Issues' (#1 November ’99). Requiem also tops this week’s ARIA Vinyl Albums Chart.
#2: Australian Bird Calls ‘Songs Of Disappearance’ – After six weeks out of the Top 50, the Australian Bird Calls album 'Songs Of Disappearance' has re-entered and claimed a new peak at #2. Its re-entry comes off the back of a new deluxe issue of the project that features 53 of the most threatened species of Australian native birds. The first album of its kind to chart in the ARIA Top Ten, it’s a collaboration between nature recordist David Stewart, Nature Sound, the Bowerbird Collective, BirdLife Australia, Charles Darwin University and Mervyn Street of Mangkaja Arts. 'Songs Of Disappearance' is #1 on the ARIA Australian Albums Chart.
#6: Black Country, New Road ‘Ants From Up There’ – British post-punk band Black Country, New Road make their ARIA Top 50 debut at #6 with 'Ants From Up There'. The group’s second album comes a year on from their debut, 'For The First Time', which was released in February 2021 and peaked at #4 in the UK. Four days prior to the album's release, 'Black Country, New Road'’s lead vocalist and guitarist Isaac Wood announced his departure from the band. The group plans to continue in Wood’s absence.
#7: Mitski ‘Laurel Hell’ – Mitski takes out her ARIA Top 50 debut at #7 with 'Laurel Hell'. It’s the Japanese-American singer-songwriter’s sixth studio album, coming nearly four years on from 2018’s 'Be The Cowboy'. Mitski’s previous album became her first to chart in the UK and US. Laurel Hell has debuted on the ARIA Vinyl Albums Chart at #2.

This week's single chartifacts

#1: The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber ‘Stay’ – The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber make it 17 weeks at #1 on the ARIA Singles Chart with ‘Stay’ further cementing its spot at second on the list of most weeks at #1 on the ARIA Singles Chart. ‘Stay’ is still seven weeks behind the #1, Tones And I’s ‘Dance Monkey’, which spent 24 weeks at #1 between August 2019 and January 2020.
#5: Carolina Gaitan, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz ‘We Don't Talk About Bruno’ – ‘We Don't Talk About Bruno’ from Disney’s Encanto moves up one spot to hit the Top 5 for the first time at #5. The soundtrack’s other chart hits, ‘Surface Pressure’ and ‘The Family Madrigal’, sit at #20 and #40 this week, respectively. The soundtrack album has gone down one spot to #3.

Top 10 Albums

1. 'Requiem' – Korn
2. 'Songs Of Disappearance' – Australian Bird Calls
3. 'Encanto' – Soundtrack
4. '30' – Adele
5. 'SOUR' – Olivia Rodrigo
6. 'Ants From Up There' – Black Country, New Road
7. 'Laurel Hell' – Mitski
8. 'Dawn FM' – The Weeknd
9. 'Planet Her' – Doja Cat
10. '=' – Ed Sheeran

Top 10 Singles

1. 'Stay' – The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber
2. 'Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)' – Elton John & Dua Lipa
3. 'ABCDEFU' – Gayle
4. 'Heat Waves' – Glass Animals
5. 'We Don't Talk About Bruno' – Carolina Gaitan, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz
6. 'Where Are You Now' – Lost Frequencies & Calum Scott
7. 'Shivers' – Ed Sheeran
8. 'Bad Habits' – Ed Sheeran
9. 'Easy On Me' – Adele
10. 'Industry Baby' – Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow