AUSTRALIAN SINGLES REPORT the RUBENS: MILLION DOLLAR MEN the RUBENS ARIA-Nominated, Sold-Out Shows and Winners of APRA’S Rock Work of the Year Award
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OCTOBER 2017 | THEMUSICNETWORK.COM AUSTRALIAN SINGLES REPORT THE RUBENS: MILLION DOLLAR MEN THE RUBENS ARIA-nominated, sold-out shows and winners of APRA’s Rock Work of the Year Award. Even with all that success, The Rubens have still managed to maintain a low profile on social media - at least compared to their contemporaries. But make no mistake, The Rubens are back. Words by Elise Ferrari enowned for leapfrogging The song itself came about really Major Lazer and Kendrick easily and quickly, which is a rare Lamar to claim victory in thing. A lot of the time we labour triple j’s Hottest 100 in over a song before we get it to a R2016, The Rubens make a welcome place where we're happy with it, but reappearance this week with new this one didn't have that problem. single ‘Million Man’. It wasn't a conscious decision for us to go for a new sound - it never ‘Million Man’ clears one of the has been when we write new music. biggest hurdles faced by bands We kind of just see what we come returning with new music - remaining up with and what's exciting and fresh enough that people pay interesting for us. attention, without too much of a departure from their signature sound. The "Million Man” in our song is someone who is living their life in Brothers Sam and Elliott Margin pursuit of pleasure, sometimes have co-written most of the tracks debauchery, and kind of feeling on the album - which Sam says has bad about it. They question their a gospel and almost acapella feel to decisions and whether they are it. The album will drop sometime in doing right by themselves. In the end April or May next year. they embrace who they are and shed that god damn shame because life is Before the boys head to New York for living. to put the finishing touches on their full length, TMN spoke to Elliott You’ve been working out of a about ‘Million Man’, the new studio newly-created studio in Sydney’s they recorded in and the influence of west. How important is a change new the record’s new collaborators, in environment in fostering the Wilder Zoby and Little Shalimar (aka creativity required for a new Torbitt Schwartz). album? The new single is a fresh sound Any change in environment when for The Rubens. How did the song we're writing new music can be really come about and what is a “Million helpful in getting us excited and Man” exactly? creative. It won't necessarily change the sound of what we're writing song before, [and] Wilder and (recording by the beach didn't Torbitt had roots in hip hop with make us sound like Jack Run The Jewels, so it was an Johnson), but it helps to get us exciting combo. feeling good about pursuing new territory and experimenting Obviously you enjoyed with ideas. plenty of radio success with “Hoops”. The lines between Working in the [ex-world war what each station plays are communications] bunker was a little more blurred now (e.g. #2 awesome for us because it was Vera Blue now gets played such a relaxed environment on the Hit Network). Do 2015 LP Hoops debuted at #2 on the ARIA and so close to where we grew you think that works in The Albums Chart. up. We could have friends and Rubens’ favour? family drop by and hear what we were working on as we were It's cool to see commercial recording, which helped to stations supporting Australian #18 make us feel less isolated [and] artists and playing their tracks. more sane. Every artist wants their music #9 Hoops’ title track peaked at #18 on the TMN Hot 100 and #9 on the ARIA " Recording by the beach didn't Singles Chart. make us sound like Jack Johnson What was the most exciting to be heard by as many people" #1 part of bringing “Million as possible, so when artists Man” to life? Did you do cross over and get support ‘Hold Me Back’ anything differently or play from both commercial and non- reached #1 on the Hot 100 Australian Chart in with any new instruments or commercial stations it can only February 2016. technology? be good. I think the most exciting thing What can we expect from The about bringing 'Million Man’ Rubens in 2018? to life was seeing what Wilder [Zoby] and Torbitt [Schwartz] 2018 for us is touring, album could bring to the song as number three released and The Rubens won an ARIA producers. The demo already more touring. We cannot wait. Award in 2013, taking home Rock Work Of The had a lot of bounce and energy Year for their single ‘My that we hadn't really done in a Gun’. AUSTRALIAN SINGLES REPORT October 30, 2017 Compiled by The Music Network© FREE SIGN UP Hot 100 Aircheck spins, weighted with audience data & time of spins #1 hot 100 perfect 1 Ed Sheeran | WMA perfect havana Ed Sheeran | WMA 2 Camila Cabello | SME too good at goodbyes 3 Sam Smith | EMI Ed Sheeran’s ‘Perfect’ has displaced Sam Smith’s ‘Too Good At Goodbyes’ after jumping 59 frames in friends four weeks. Overall, Sheeran’s four Divide singles (‘Castle On The Hill’, ‘Shape Of You’, ‘Galway Girl’ and 4 Justin Bieber & Bloodpop... ‘Perfect’) have spent 10 weeks at the top of the chart since ‘Castle’ hit #1 in January - that’s a quarter feel it still 5 Portugal. The Man | WMA of the year so far! 6 what about us If you’ve been listening to Nova lately, you might have heard the sounds of Kita Alexander’s ‘Hotel’. P!NK | SME With a #52 debut on the Hot 100 this week, the Aussie singer lands one spot below Taylor Swift’s Good Old Days 7 Macklemore | WMA ‘Gorgeous’. In the past, Alexander has had a hard time settling in on the chart. Her track ‘Like You Want dusk till dawn To’ only made it as far as #98 before dropping off the next week. 8 ZAYN | SME I Like Me Better 9 Lauv | IND new rules 10 Dua Lipa | WMA #1 MOST ADDED TO RADIO sorry not sorry gorgeous 11 Demi Lovato | UMA Taylor Swift | UMA let you down 12 Peking Duk | SME rockstar In the tightest week of additions for some time, Taylor Swift has once again seized her rightful place at 13 Post Malone | UMA the forefront of commercial radio with new track ‘Gorgeous’. 14 HOW LONG Charlie Puth | WMA It was a three horse race in the end, with Guy Sebastian’s ‘Bloodstone’ and Liam Payne’s ‘Bedroom praying 15 Kesha | SME Floor’ all gaining similar additions throughout the week. However, the difference ultimately came down too much to ask to a number of Nova and commercial Hit stations that opted for Taylor over the others. 16 Niall Horan | EMI young, dumb & Broke Rita Ora has bounced back after ‘Your Song’ with new track ‘Anywhere’. In fact, the singer features 17 Khalid | SME twice in the Top 10 this week, with a guest appearance on Avicii’s cut ‘Lonely Together’. Nova added glorious the track across the board as did the ACE Radio Network. 18 Macklemore | WMA thunder 19 Imagine Dragons | UMA without you 20 Avicii | UMA #1 new single release whatever it takes MOST ADDED Imagine Dragons | UMA Additions weighted with audience data gorgeous Once again, commercial is overflowing with options this week. Imagine Dragons lead the way with 1 Taylor Swift | UMA new cut ‘Whatever It Takes’, the follow-up to smash hit ‘Thunder’. It peaked at #3 on the Hot 100 and bloodstone 2 Guy Sebastian | SME was the group’s fourth single to crack the Top 10 on the chart. bedroom floor Marshmello’s ‘Slience’ ft. Khalid gets an official radio service this week after circulating for some 3 Liam Payne | EMI weeks. It’s already been doing the rounds on a number of commercial networks and currently sits faking it 4 Calvin Harris | SME at #44 on the Hot 100. Undoubtedly, the addition of Khalid on the track will turn heads as his single Anywhere ‘Young, Dumb & Broke’ continues its rise at radio. 5 Rita Ora | WMA Australian dance trio PNAU have launched ‘Go Bang’. If past hit ‘Chameleon’ is anything to go by (#9 on the Hot 100), the track has the potential to be the jam of the summer. NEW SINGLE RELEASES TMN’s top singles being serviced to radio this week whatever it takes 1 Imagine Dragons | UMA silence 2 Marshmello | SME burning 3 Sam Smith | EMI been meaning to tell you 4 Starley | TINT go bang 5 PNAU | ETC Subscribe to access the full charts portal. Sign Up to get the this free report. View previous reports. Chart enquiries: [email protected]. All other enquiries: [email protected] RADIO AIRPLAY Full charts available at www.themusicnetwork.com/charts artist top 50 HOT 100 HEATSEEKERS HOT 100 BREAKERS Combines airplay, downloads & Most upward movement from Most likely to break into Hot 100 in hit Spins streams previous week coming weeks Friends havana Split stones let you down 1 1 Justin Bieber & 1 Camila Cabello | 1 Peking Duk | SME Maggie Rogers | EMI SME Bloodpop | UMA Sky walker i like me better perfect revenge 2 2 2 Ed Sheeran | WMA 2 P!NK | SME Miguel | SME Lauv | IND homely feeling perfect rockstar regular touch 3 3 3 Post Malone | UMA 3 Vera Blue | UMA Hockey Dad | INERTIA Ed Sheeran | WMA curve good old days new rules lose my mind 4 Gucci Mane | WMA 4 Macklemore | WMA 4 Dua Lipa | WMA 4 Dean Lewis | UMA Beautifully Unconventional let you down friends dawning 5 Wolf Alice | MUSHROOM 5 Peking Duk | SME 5 Justin Bieber & Bloodpop..