Welcome to This Week In Pop.
This week, Tones And I stays at #1 for another week. Cold Chisel returns to #1 after 21 years with 'Blood Moon' and Camila Cabello releases 'Romance'.
This week's album chartifacts
#1: Cold Chisel ‘Blood Moon’ – 'Blood Moon', the ninth studio album from Cold Chisel, lands at #1 this week. It is their third #1 album in the ARIA Charts, after 'Twentieth Century' (1984) and 'The Last Wave of Summer' (1998). Cold Chisel had two more #1 albums before the ARIA Charts began – 'Circus Animals' (1982) and 'Swingshift' (1981). It has been 21 years since Cold Chisel topped the chart, and in that time they hit #2 with 'The Best Of Cold Chisel: All For You' (2011), 'No Plans' (2012) and 'The Perfect Crime' (2015). Cold Chisel has ended their #2 streak, and now takes the record for the Australian band with most time between their first #1 and their latest – 38 years from 1981 until 2019.#6: Camila Cabello ‘Romance’ – With her second studio album, Cuban-American singer Camila Cabello hasn’t quite managed to repeat the success of her debut, 'Camila', which entered the chart at #3 in January 2018. 'Romance' was preceded by six singles, including ‘Liar’, which peaked at #31 and was the only one to chart in Australia. The album does however include Cabello’s #1 duet with Shawn Mendes, ‘Senorita’, from his self-titled third studio album.
This week's single chartifacts
#1: Tones And I ‘Dance Monkey’ – Tones And I notches up a 20th week at #1 with ‘Dance Monkey’, extending her record for longest ever leader on the ARIA Singles Chart. The track has also tied the record for longest-running #1 by a female lead artist in the UK, equaling Rihanna’s 2007 hit ‘Umbrella’ and Whitney Houston’s 1992 classic ‘I Will Always Love You’, with 10 weeks in the top spot. Meanwhile, Tones And I’s follow-up single ‘Never Seen The Rain’ rises one spot to a new peak of #7.Top 10 Albums
1. 'Blood Moon' – Cold Chisel2. 'The Christmas Present' – Robbie Williams
3. 'Christmas' – Michael Buble
4. 'Frozen 2' Soundtrack
5. 'Songs From The South: Paul Kelly's Greatest Hits 1985-2019' – Paul Kelly
6. 'Romance' – Camila Cabello
7. 'Still Telling Everybody: 30 Years Of Hits' – Human Nature
8. 'When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?' – Billie Eilish
9. 'The Kids Are Coming – EP' – Tones And I
10. 'No.6 Collaborations Project' – Ed Sheeran
Top 10 Singles
1. 'Dance Monkey' – Tones And I2. 'Don't Start Now' – Dua Lipa
3. 'Roxanne' – Arizona Zervas
4. 'Memories' – Maroon 5
5. 'Circles' – Post Malone
6. 'Ride It' – Regard
7. 'Never Seen The Rain' – Tones And I
8. 'Good As Hell' – Lizzo
9. 'everything i wanted' – Billie Eilish
10. 'Someone You Loved' – Lewis Capaldi
