News 6 April 2019

Bad Guy gives Billie Eilish first #1 single

Moves for Lil Nas X, Lewis Capaldi and more!

Bad Guy gives Billie Eilish first #1 single

Moves for Lil Nas X, Lewis Capaldi and more!

Billie Eilish debuts at #1 on this week’s ARIA Singles Chart with ‘Bad Guy’. It’s one of twelve tracks by the American singer-songwriter to appear in this week’s Top 50. Six of the tracks sit in the Top Ten, breaking the ARIA record for most tracks in the Top Ten previously claimed by Ed Sheeran in March 2017 when he had five tracks in the Top Ten.
 
After debuting at #47 last week, American rapper Lil Nas X makes jumps up 29 spots to #18 with ‘Old Town Road’.
 
Marshmello and Chvrches’ collaboration ‘Here With Me’ moves up one spot to hit a new peak at #21.
 
A week on from its debut, the first chart entry for Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi, ‘Someone You Loved’, jumps up 20 spots to #26.

Debuts:
 
#1: Billie Eilish ‘Bad Guy’ – American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish makes it a #1 double on this week’s ARIA Charts as she debuts at #1 on the Singles Chart with ‘Bad Guy’ and at the top of the Albums Chart with When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?. ‘Bad Guy’ is Eilish’s first #1 single in Australia and is one of eight tracks from the album to debut in this week’s Top 50. Others to debut include ‘All the Good Girls Go To Hell’ (#8), ‘Xanny’ (#10), ‘My Strange Addiction’ (#12), ‘I Love You’ (#20), ‘Ilomilo’ (#23), ‘Listen Before I Go’ (#29) and ‘8’ (#35). As well as the eight debuts on this week’s chart, four Billie Eilish tracks have jumped up the chart and claimed new peaks: ‘Bury A Friend’ (#3), ‘Wish You Were Gay’ (#5), ‘When The Party’s Over’ (#7) and ‘You Should See Me In A Crown’ (#16).
 
#48: Birds Of Tokyo ‘Good Lord’ – Bird Of Tokyo return to the ARIA Top 50 for the first time since 2015 with ‘Good Lord’. The Perth band last charted with ‘I’d Go With You Anywhere’ (#18 Nov. ’15). In 2018, they released ‘Unbreakable’, which was chosen as the theme song for the Invictus Games.