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Country chart report

New Zealand music chart report

This country report reads the latest New Zealand chart snapshot from Chart Atlas and compares the current Top 10 with the previous stored week. It is useful for spotting local breakouts, returning hits, and songs that are stronger in this market than globally.

Latest week: 2026-08-29Region: OceaniaPrevious comparison: 2026-08-22
Choosin' TexasCurrent #1 by Ella Langley
266,222combined streams across this Top 10 sample
0Top 10 songs moving up versus the previous snapshot
3Top 10 songs not seen in this country last snapshot

New Zealand Top 10

RankSongArtistMovementStreams
#1Choosin' TexasElla Langleyunchanged37,933 streams
#2Man I NeedOlivia Deanunchanged32,453 streams
#3Rein Me InSam Fenderunchanged32,058 streams
#4Islands in the StreamDolly Partonnew this week28,445 streams
#5JoleneDolly Partonnew this week25,938 streams
#69 to 5Dolly Partonnew this week23,863 streams
#7Dreams - 2001 RemasterFleetwood Macunchanged22,775 streams
#8EarringsMalcolm Todddown 421,171 streams
#9So Easy (To Fall In Love)Olivia Deandown 421,049 streams
#10Billie JeanMichael Jacksondown 120,537 streams

Local signal versus the global table

Every current New Zealand Top 10 song also appears on at least three other tracked country charts this week, so the local list mostly mirrors cross-market consensus rather than a domestic-only cycle.

Working in the other direction, 2 of the current global aggregate Top 15 songs do not chart in New Zealand at all this week, including Dai Dai by Shakira, The One That Got Away by Katy Perry. When a cross-market hit skips a market entirely, the gap usually maps to language, genre preference, or a local release calendar.

7 of the 50 songs on the full New Zealand chart appear nowhere else in the tracked set this week. The highest-ranked market exclusives: A Couple Minutes by Olivia Dean at local #25; That's What I Like by Bruno Mars at local #29; No Scrubs by TLC at local #30.

Stability and turnover

Choosin' Texas by Ella Langley has now led the New Zealand chart for 4 consecutive stored weeks. The longest-running current Top 10 song is Man I Need by Olivia Dean, present in the local Top 10 for 11 of the last 11 stored weeks.

22% of the full local chart is new versus the previous stored week, in line with the 15% average across the tracked set — typical turnover for this comparison window.

How to read this market

New Zealand belongs to the Oceania region in Chart Atlas. A song that rises here but remains flat globally can indicate a local event, language-market momentum, or a regional genre signal. A song that is simultaneously strong here and in several other countries is more likely to be part of a cross-market trend.

The movement labels compare stored weekly snapshots. They are not a claim about every daily chart change between the two capture dates.