Chart Wrap: Ed Sheeran moves to take #1 on all charts
Hot 100 Meghan Trainor returns to #1 with All About That Bass this week, forcing Taylor Swift’s Shake It Off back down to #2. It looks as if the tug of war between the two tracks will last for at least a few more weeks. That’s assuming that Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud doesn’t shoot further up the Top 10 and break the Top 3 come this week’s chart. The track has been flying through the H100 and is performing extremely well on the ARIA Singles chart as well. At #3 is Calvin Harris & John Newman’s Blame, a new peak for the track. It might be the highest it reaches though, with airplay for both Trainor and Swift’s tracks not looking to lessen and Ed Sheeran’s single earning more and more, it seems like it is going to be increasingly difficult for Blame to climb any higher. Klingande’s Jubel has moved back up to #4, its previous highpoint, pushing past Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj’s Bang Bang, which remains at #5 for another week, Redfoo’s New Thang, which moves up to #7, a new peak and Lilly Wood & Robin Schulz’s Prayer In C, which falls down a position to #8 and is on its way out of the Top 10. At #9 is the aforementioned Thinking Out Loud by Ed Sheeran, which moves up from #31, a total of 22 places and is this week’s most moved track. Other notable movers this week are Alesso’s Heroes which went from #27 to #13, The Script’s Superheroes which jumps from #43 to #32 and Labrinth’s Let It Be which moves up to #36 from #50. One noteworthy debut can be seen in the form of One Direction’s Steal My Girl, which enters at #48 in its first week of radio. It is also the most added track to radio this week. ARIA Singles The Veronicas hold #1 for a second week on the ARIA Singles chart with You Ruin Me. This makes it the two sisters’ longest time spent at #1 on the Singles chart. Their previous best was with their single Hook Me Up, which stayed at #1 for one week in November of 2007. Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud – the third single to be taken off his X album – has now moved up to #2 from last week’s #12, becoming Sheeran’s fifth Top 5 single on the ARIA Singles chart. The track was no doubt helped along by his performance on The X Factor last week, being one of the two tracks he performed. Meghan Trainor’s All About That Bass moves down to #3 this week and could very well signal the start of a slow decline down the Singles chart. Echosmith’s Cool Kids breaks into the Top 10 this week, moving up from last week’s #13. AJR moves back into the Top 10 with I’m Ready, landing at #9, just four positions short of their previous personal best at #5. One Direction’s Steal My Girl also debuts fairly high on this chart, entering at #15 after less than a week’s worth of sales. This becomes their ninth Top 20 ARIA single. ARIA Albums The Albums chart sees a familiar act chart at #1 this week in the form of Ed Sheeran’s X. The album which originally debuted at #1 in June and returned to #1 in July and August is now back again following the success of his recent promo tour and his new single taken off of the album Thinking Out Loud. Barbra Streisand’s Partners moves down to #2 following last week’s #1 debut while former #1, the soundtrack to Frozen, returns to #3, moving up from #17. At #4 is a new debut from Sydney’s The Preatures with their debut album Blue Planet Eyes. Leonard Cohen’s Popular Problems debuts at #6, his thirteenth studio album and most recent release since 2012’s Old Ideas, which peaked at #2 in February of that year. Two other noteworthy debuts come from Prince’s Art Official Age which enters at #15 and SBTRKT’s Wonder Where We Land which comes in at #20. Art Official Age makes for Prince’s 33rd studio album and is the first time one of his albums have charted in Australia since Planet Earth did in July of 2007, peaking at #38. Subscribe to the charts for the rundown in full.