Waffle's Current Favourites - Week of August 5, 2023

So this was the week of Carly Rae Jepsen's The Loveliest Time, and it had a decently large impact this week. Starting with the Top 5, this is where you already see the impact, because the new #1 is "Shy Boy" - knocking "Enchanted (Taylor's Version)" by Taylor Swift to #2. This causes a bit of a domino effect in the Top 5 as a whole, because "Love Is A Highway" falls to #3, and "vampire" by Olivia Rodrigo falls to #4. But this takes us to our new arrival to the Top 5: "Cruel Summer" by Taylor Swift rising up to #5, nearly 4 years after it originally debuted and peaked at #10, and finally re-entering a few weeks ago. I suspect it's only gonna get higher in the coming weeks.

But this takes us to our debuts, and all 4 of them are from Carly: "Psychedelic Switch" at #8, "Come Over" at #16, "Stadium Love" at #18, and the opening track, "Anything To Be With You" at #25 - plus a few more in Bubbling Under. We lose 2 more former #1s, as "Lost The Breakup" by Maisie Peters and "Diamonds & Dancefloors" by Ava Max are both out after both spending 1 week at #1 back in the spring.

• Last Year's #1: Em Beihold - "12345" [1/3]
• Biggest Rise: Carly Rae Jepsen - "Shy Boy" [+3]
• Biggest Fall: Rosa Linn - "If I Were You" [–6]

Bubbling Under

• Benicio Bryant & Audrey Mika - "Move to Mars"
• Carly Rae Jepsen - "After Last Night"
• Carly Rae Jepsen - "Kamikaze"
• Carly Rae Jepsen - "Shadow"
• Charlotte Lawrence - "Boys Like You"
• Dylan & Bastille - "Liar Liar"
• Frank Walker ft. Ella Henderson - "I Go Dancing"
• Kim Petras - "King of Hearts"
• Maisie Peters - "Body Better"
• Maisie Peters - "There It Goes"
• Mimi Webb - "This Moment"
• Post Malone - "Enough Is Enough"
• Taylor Swift - "Back To December (Taylor's Version)"
• Taylor Swift - "Mean (Taylor's Version)"