Max Allais’ Crybaby has claimed the top spot on New Zealand’s Hot NZ Singles chart, giving the New Zealand-French pop artist his first number one and headlining an eventful week on the Aotearoa Music Charts.
The chart, updated this week, shows Allais’s single leading the homegrown singles ranking even as American star Alex Warren dominates the wider Hot 40 with his new album Wildchild — his first number one album in New Zealand, and one that occupies the first four places on the singles chart, led by “Emerald Eyes”. Crybaby, released in July through Real Thing Records, Better Now Records and Universal Music Germany, marks a more vulnerable turn for an artist who built his early following on TikTok and Instagram before formal releases followed.
Elsewhere on the Aotearoa charts, Mel Parsons has reclaimed the number one album spot with Castle Hill, while Hori Shaw and Te Wehi’s “Ready To Ride” extended an extraordinary run at the top of the Aotearoa Hot 20, now sitting at 43 consecutive weeks in pole position — one of the longest chart reigns on record. New entries this week include Letoa’s Glocstarr 2, a collaborative EP from MOKOMOKAI and Troy Kingi, Jonathan Bree’s long-awaited Don’t Call It Love, and emerson’s Leap!.
For Max Allais, the achievement caps a rapid rise. Since breaking through with “When The Party Ends” and his debut EP Anywhere & Everywhere, he has toured extensively across New Zealand, Australia, Europe and the UK, sharing stages with acts including Arthur Hill and Calum Bowie. Of Crybaby, Allais has said he wanted to capture “that turning point after heartbreak where you finally stop looking back” — a description that now doubles as a fitting note for a breakthrough single that has spent weeks climbing steadily towards the top.
With Max Allais’ Crybaby now installed at number one, the coming weeks will show whether the track can match the staying power already shown this year by chart fixtures like Parsons and Hori Shaw and Te Wehi.
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