This Week In Pop – 15 March 2022

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This week, the 'Encanto' soundtrack hits #1 on the Albums Chart, while Glass Animals hold their Singles Chart #1 and Missy Higgins scores her seventh top ten album.

This week's album chartifacts

#1: Soundtrack ‘Encanto’ – In its eleventh week on the ARIA Albums Chart, the soundtrack to the Disney animated film 'Encanto' hits #1 for the first time. Featuring songs written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the album debuted at #29 at the start of January before hitting the Top Ten for the first time in its second week on the chart and staying there for every week since.
#3: Missy Higgins ‘Total Control’ – Missy Higgins claims her seventh Top Ten entry on the ARIA Albums Chart, debuting at #3 with 'Total Control'. The mini-album is the ARIA Award-winning singer-songwriter’s first collection of all-new material since 'Solastalgia' (#7 December ’18). The material on 'Total Control' was inspired by music Higgins created for the ABC TV series of the same name. It includes her version of The Motels’ 1979 hit ‘Total Control’.
#10: Foo Fighters ‘Greatest Hits’ – A week on from performing their one-off show in Geelong as part of the Victorian initiative 'Always Love', Foo Fighters jump back into the Top Ten from #32 to #10 with their compilation 'Greatest Hits'. Hitting #1 on release in 2009, this is the first week it has appeared in the Top Ten since January 2010. It’s the album’s 119th week in the Top 50.

This week's single chartifacts

#1: Glass Animals ‘Heat Waves’ – ‘Heat Waves’ by British band Glass Animals notches up an eighth week at #1 on the ARIA Singles Chart. Since returning to #1 last week, 47 weeks after last hitting the peak, the single has gone to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time. ‘Heat Waves’ became Glass Animals’ first US #1 59 weeks after making its debut on the chart.

Top 10 Albums

1. 'Encanto' – Soundtrack
2. 'SOUR' – Olivia Rodrigo
3. 'Total Control' – Missy Higgins
4. 'Angel In Realtime.' – Gang Of Youths
5. 'Planet Her' – Doja Cat
6. 'The Highlights' – The Weeknd
7. '=' – Ed Sheeran
8. 'Resist' – Midnight Oil
9. 'Future Nostalgia' – Dua Lipa
10. 'Greatest Hits' – Foo Fighters

Top 10 Singles

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