20-year-old artist sombr has a firm grip on the top spot as his song “back to friends” spends a third week at #1, while Australian duo Royel Otis move up two spots to #2 with “moody” (I find it fascinating that a lot of acts today use all lowercase letters for their names and song titles). Twenty One Pilots (who for many years also spelled their name in all lowercase) advance five spots to enter the top 10 at #8 with “The Contract”, followed by Dexter and The Moonrocks‘ “Ritalin” and Matt Berninger‘s “Bonnet of Pins”, coming in at #s 9 and 10, respectively. The Black Keys are this week’s biggest upward mover with “No Rain, No Flowers”, jumping eight spots to #18.

The lone new debut this week is “Sally, When The Wine Runs Out” by ROLE MODEL, the music project of American singer-songwriter Tucker Harrington Pillsbury. Born in Maine and now based in Los Angeles, he began his music career in 2016, rapping under his first name Tucker, but soon changed his stage name to Dillis, under which he released an album Moth. In early 2017, he again changed his name, this time to ROLE MODEL, and switched from rapping to singing. He released his debut EP Arizona in the Summer that December, which earned him a following online and captured the attention of the late rapper Mac Miller, who invited him to Los Angeles to work with him on a music project. ROLE MODEL was subsequently signed to Interscope in 2018, and continued releasing singles and two more EPs, culminating in the release of his debut album Rx, though none of them charted.

In July 2024 he released his sophomore album Kansas Anymore, featuring a more country folk sound. He followed this past February with a deluxe edition of the album, Kansas Anymore (The Longest Goodbye), accompanied by the sweet single “Sally, When The Wine Runs Out”. Like many songs these days, it became popular on TikTok, undoubtedly helped by Tucker’s good looks and charming persona, and is his first song to chart in the U.S. and several countries, including Canada, the UK, Ireland, New Zealand and Israel.

1. BACK TO FRIENDS – sombr (1)
2. MOODY – Royel Otis (4)
3. NOTHING I NEED – Lord Huron (2)
4. PORCELAIN (LOSING ALL MY PATIENCE) – Somebody’s Child (3)
5. BASIC BEING BASIC – Djo (6)
6. CATCH THESE FISTS – Wet Leg (7)
7. ARCHBISHOP HAROLD HOLMES – Jack White (5)
8. THE CONTRACT – Twenty One Pilots (13)
9. RITALIN – Dexter and The Moonrocks (11)
10. BONNET OF PINS – Matt Berninger (12)
11. FEELS RIGHT – Talk in Waves (15)
12. SCARS – Secret Postal Society (14)
13. WHAT WAS THAT – Lorde (16)
14. IT’S AMAZING TO BE YOUNG – Fontaines D.C. (8)
15. BARBARIAN – AWOLNATION (9)
16. LET THINGS GO – Caamp (10)
17. RIPPLE – Good Neighbours (19)
18. NO RAIN, NO FLOWERS – The Black Keys (26)
19. BETTER OFF EVENTUALLY – Bealby Point (22)
20. RELATIONSHIPS – HAIM (23)
21. EMERGENCE – Sleep Token (24)
22. LOVE IS A FIRE – Art Block (25)
23. LONDON TOWN – HEALER (28)
24. BLOOM BABY BLOOM – Wolf Alice (29)
25. THE TURNAROUND – DelCobras (17) 19th week on chart
26. ASSHOLE – The Lumineers (30)
27. THREE SIX FIVE – Shinedown (18)
28. WALLS – Frank Joshua (20) 21st week on chart
29. LAREDO – Leon Bridges (21)
30. SALLY, WHEN THE WINE RUNS OUT – ROLE MODEL (N)