My Top 50 - 01/06/2019

Halsey returns to #1 with the new year; Taylor Swift's catalogue invades the chart.

"Without Me" returns to #1 for the third non-consecutive week, meaning Halsey crowns the first new weekly chart of the year. It manages to hold off usual suspects: "thank u, next" moves up to #2, while last week's champion "breathin" slides to #3. Both tracks are by Ariana Grande.

"Close To Me" and "Good Grief" hold at their #4 and #5 peaks, respectively. Swae Lee, the featured act on "Close to Me" earns Greatest Gainer honors with his Post Malone collaboration "Sunflower", which moves up 38-24 this week. Bastille on the other hand celebrates two top 10 songs sitting side by side, as "Happier" with Marshmello is up one to #6.

4 Non Blondes' 90s hit "What's Up?" enters top 10 for the first time, up 4 to #7 this week. Just behind, the second biggest hit of last year, "Delicate" rides a wave of plays to a one spot bump to #8. In fact, more below on Taylor Swift...

This ain't 2006, but Panic! At The Disco and Jojo find themselves in the top 10 again, as "High Hopes" drops to #9, while the recently re-recorded "Too Little Too Late" is up two to #10, a new high point for the 2006 gem.

This means that "Nothing Breaks Like a Heart", despite a healthy increase in points, stays locked outside top 10, moving 13-11 on it's fifth week.

Taylor Swift's reputation World Tour debuting on Netflix helps not only "Delicate", but several of her older tracks, led by "Style" which re-enters at #17, "All Too Well" which re-enters at #20 and "Love Story" which enters for the first time at #23, this week's highest debut. "Story" predates this chart. Speak Now cut "Long Live" starts at #30, "You Belong With Me" starts at #33, "Mine" enters for the first time at #36, #1 hit "Look What You Made Me Do" re-enters at #40, while "End Game" and "...Ready for It?", the follow-up singles from reputation re-enter at #44 and #46. All this T-Swift action means that nothing outside of the top 15 moves up, except for Greatest Gainer "Sunflower". This is particularly hard on tracks with a bullet like "Money" by Cardi B, which had it's best week so far points-wise and yet it stays at #37, well below it's #23 peak.

Hot Shot Debut:

Taylor Swift - "Love Story" (#23 debut)

Greatest Gainer:

Post Malone, Swae Lee - "Sunflower" (moves up 38-24 this week)

Dropping this week:

Dua Lipa – “Want To” (#10 peak, 16 weeks on the chart)
Bazzi ft. Camila Cabello – “Beautiful” (#8 peak, 16 weeks on the chart)
Dean Lewis – “Be Alright” (#8 peak, 14 weeks on the chart)
Jonas Blue ft. Jack & Jack – “Rise” (#17 peak, 18 weeks on the chart)
Cardi B, Bad Bunny, J Balvin – “I Like It” (#1 peak, 38 weeks on the chart)
5 Seconds of Summer – “Youngblood” (#5 peak, 20 weeks on the chart)
benny blanco, Halsey, Khalid – “Eastside” (#20 peak, 16 weeks on the chart)
Selena Gomez – “Back to You” (#4 peak, 34 weeks on the chart)
Normani, Calvin Harris – “Slow Down” (#15 peak, 10 weeks on the chart)
Zara Larsson – “Ruin My Life” (#42 peak, 10 weeks on the chart)
Anne-Marie – “Perfect to Me” (#48 peak, 1 week on the chart)
Khalid – “Better”  (#44 peak, 5 weeks on the chart)
Lauren Jauregui – “Expectations” (#26 peak, 10 weeks on the chart)