News 25 January 2020

The Weeknd lands first #1 single

Debuts for Eminem, Jonas Brothers and more!

The Weeknd lands first #1 single

Debuts for Eminem, Jonas Brothers and more!

‘Blinding Lights’ moves up one spot to land The Weeknd his first #1 single on the ARIA Charts, eight weeks after it was first released. The Canadian artist’s previous highest peak was #2 which he held with both ‘Can’t Feel My Face’ (#2 Jul. ’15) and ‘Starboy’ (#2 Nov. ’16). ‘Blinding Lights’ has hit #1 in a number of European markets and is racing up charts elsewhere.
 
Roddy Ricch’s viral hit ‘The Box’ moves up two spots in its third week in the Top 50 to land a new peak at #5. The single has now spent two weeks at #1 in the US.
 
A week on from debuting at #15, Future’s collaboration with Drake ‘Life Is Good’ climbs to a new peak at #11. To date, it’s peaked at #2 in the US and #3 in the UK.
 
After debuting at #41 last week, Halsey jumps 26 spots to #15 with ‘You Should Be Sad’. It comes on the back of the #2 debut on the Albums Chart for her third album, Manic.
 
This week’s chart also includes new peaks for Brockhampton’s ‘Sugar’ (#19), Selena Gomez’s ‘Rare’ (#22) and Mac Miller’s ‘Good News’ (#27).
 
Debuts:
 
#3: Eminem Feat Juice WRLD ‘Godzilla’ – With Eminem hitting #1 on the Albums Chart with Music To Be Murdered By, the American rapper hits the Singles Chart with five new tracks. Featuring the late Juice WRLD, ‘Godzilla’ is the highest-charting track at #3. Eminem has also debuted with ‘Those Kinda Nights’ (#25), ‘Darkness’ (#32), ‘Unaccommodating’ (#34) and ‘You Gon' Learn’ (#36).
 
#39: Jonas Brothers ‘What A Man Gotta Do’ – The Jonas Brother hit the Top 50 with their first new release of 2020, ‘What A Man Gotta Do’. The new single follows on from a successful 2019 for the reunited pop trio; a year which saw them hit #1 for three weeks with ‘Sucker’ and chart also with ‘Only Human’ (#38 Oct. ’19).
 
#48: Khalid ‘Eleven’ – American singer-songwriter Khalid scores his first chart entry for 2020 with ‘Eleven’. The 2019 ARIA Awards guest had five tracks hit the chart in 2019: ‘Talk’ (#4 Apr. ’19), ‘My Bad’ (#14 Apr. ’19), ‘Outta My Head’ (#20 Apr. ’19), ‘Right Back’ (#41 Aug. ’19) and ‘Up Al Night’ (#35 Dec. ’19).