This Week In Pop – 25 November, 2019

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This week, Paul Kelly's new retrospective hits #1 on the Albums Chart. Tones And I continues her #1 reign. Celine Dion, Lady Antebellum and Billie Eilish release new music too.

This week's album chartifacts

#1: Paul Kelly ‘Songs From The South: Paul Kelly’s Greatest Hits 1985-2019’ – Iconic Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly achieves his third #1 debut with his new retrospective, going one better than his first best-of, 'Songs From The South', which peaked at #2 in June 1997. The milestone is a fitting cap to Kelly’s illustrious career to date, which has included 17 Top 50 albums - eight of which peaked in the Top Ten - and a staggering 58 ARIA Award nominations, 14 wins and an induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame.
#2: Celine Dion ‘Courage’ – Celine Dion returns to the Top Ten for a tenth time with her first English language studio album in six years, after 'Loved Me Back To Life' (#9 November ‘13). Dion last appeared on the Albums Chart with the compilation 'The Best So Far… 2018 Tour Edition', which peaked at #4 in August 2018. Writers on 'Courage' include Sia, David Guetta, Sam Smith and Skylar Grey, among others.
#7: Lady Antebellum ‘Ocean’ – Lady Antebellum return with their eighth studio album 'Ocean', their first to be produced by award-winning producer Dan Huff. The US country trio has landed in the Top Ten with each album released since their breakthrough second LP 'Need You Now' rose to #5 in April 2011, with the exception of their 2012 Christmas LP, 'On This Winter’s Night'.

This week's single chartifacts

#1: Tones And I ‘Dance Monkey’ – Tones And I’s meteoric rise continues, with ‘Dance Monkey’ notching up an unprecedented 17th week at #1, extending the record for most time spent in the top spot. In another week of firsts for the ARIA Award-nominated singer, she performed the global hit on 'The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon' and was honoured by triple j with the J Award for Unearthed Artist of the Year. She remains the #1 song in the UK and has now reached #1 in France. It has now hit #1 in 19 countries. Meanwhile, her newest single ‘Never Seen The Rain’ remains at #10 for a fourth consecutive week.
#2: Billie Eilish ‘everything i wanted’ – An unexpected treat for fans, ‘everything i wanted’ is the first music Billie Eilish has released since her album 'When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?' came out earlier this year. This is Eilish’s second highest peak on the Singles Chart to date, behind ‘Bad Guy’ (#1 April ‘19), which currently sits at #21, 34 weeks after it was released.

Top 10 Albums

1. 'Songs From The South: Paul Kelly's Greatest Hits 1985-2019' – Paul Kelly
2. 'Courage' – Celine Dion
3. 'What You See Is What You Get' – Luke Combs
4. 'Hollywood's Bleeding' – Post Malone
5. 'Lover' – Taylor Swift
6. 'No.6 Collaborations Project' – Ed Sheeran
7. 'Ocean' – Lady Antebellum
8. 'When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?' – Billie Eilish
9. 'The Kids Are Coming – EP' – Tones And I
10. 'Last Christmas – The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack' – George Michael & WHAM!

Top 10 Singles

1. 'Dance Monkey' – Tones And I
2. 'everything i wanted' – Billie Eilish
3. 'Roxanne' – Arizona Zervas
4. 'Memories' – Maroon 5
5. 'Ride It' – Regard
6. 'Circles' – Post Malone
7. 'Good As Hell' – Lizzo
8. 'Don't Start Now' – Dua Lipa
9. 'Lose You To Love Me' – Selena Gomez
10. 'Never Seen The Rain' – Tones And I