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Rosé makes it two records in as many weeks in Australia, where “APT.” retains top spot on the national singles chart.
Earlier, the New Zealand-born, Australia-raised BLACKPINK star ended Sabrina Carpenter’s reign on the ARIA Singles Chart, as “APT.” (via Atlantic/Warner), her collaboration with Bruno Mars, debuted at No. 1.
With that feat, Rosé (born Roseanne Park) became the first solo female K-pop star to top the tally, and just the second solo artist from South Korea to climb the chart ladder after PSY’s “Gangnam Style” spent six weeks on top back in 2012.
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“APT.” enters a second week at the summit of the ARIA Chart, marking the first time that a Korean solo artist or group has spent more than a week in the top spot since “Gangnam Style.” She’s the first solo female Korean artist to do so.
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Born in Auckland, and raised in Melbourne, Rosé relocated to South Korea aged 15, when the world of K-pop came calling. At her father’s suggestion, she auditioned for South Korean music company YG Entertainment. It was a shrewd move. The rest is music history.
Comprising Rosé, Jisoo, Jennie and Lisa, BLACKPINK is a record-smashing machine – here and everywhere. In 2022, BLACKPINK set the mark for the highest-debuting single by a K-pop group in ARIA Chart History when “Pink Venom” hit No. 1, beating the No. 2 start for BTS’ 2020 hit “Dynamite.”
BLACKPINK’s two studio albums, The Album (from 2020) and Born Pink (2022), both debuted and peaked at No. 2 on the Australian albums survey. In support of Born Pink, the pop group last year embarked on an east coast arena tour of Australia.
A reference to the Korean drinking game aparteu, or apartment in English, “APT.” is the first single from Rosé’s debut album Rosie, which is scheduled to drop on Dec. 6.
The cut bowed at No. 1 on both the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts, and opened at No. 4 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, establishing a new record in the process.
Kylie Minogue, the queen of pop, is crowned on Australia’s albums chart with Tension II.
The new collection is Kylie’s ninth leader on the ARIA Chart, fifth in succession, and second in a year; its predecessor, Tension, logged one week at the summit in September 2023.
Tension II (via Mushroom Music) is the Melbourne-raised pop icon’s 17th studio album, and with its fast start on the chart, pushes Kylie to No. 9 on the list of acts with the most No. 1s in Australia, a tally that includes Light Years (from 2000), Fever (2001), X (2007), Kiss Me Once (2014), Golden (2018), Step Back In Time: The Definitive Collection (2019), Disco (2020) and Tension.
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She also has 10 No. 1 singles in Australia, from “Locomotion” in 1987 to “2 Hearts” in 2007, ARIA reports, and she’s on the brink of a 10th No. 1 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart.
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“It is so awesome to see Australia’s OG pop queen continuing to dominate globally and at home, bringing joy and disco into our lives,” comments ARIA CEO Annabelle Herd. “Huge congratulations to her and her team for such a phenomenal career, five consecutive No. 1 albums, and continuing to represent Australia on the world stage.”
Also new to the ARIA Chart, published Friday, Oct. 25, is Dean Lewis’ The Epilogue (Island/Universal), at No. 2. It’s a third top 10 for the triple ARIA Award winner, a tally that includes a No. 1in 2019 with A Place We Knew.
Meanwhile, New South Wales indie rock duo Skegss start at No. 4 with Pacific Highway Music (Concord/Universal), their third full-length album. Skegss now have four top 10s under their belts: 2015 EP 50 Push Ups For A Dollar peaked at No. 4; My Own Mess hit No. 2 in 2018, and 2021’s Rehearsal went all the way to No. 1.
ARIA Award winner Thelma Plum’s lands in the top 10 with I’m Sorry, Now Say It Back (Warner Music Australia), new at No. 7. It’s the Brisbane singer and songwriter’s followup to debut Better In Blak, which peaked at No. 4 in 2019.
Confidence Man impact the top 40 with 3AM (La La La) (via I Oh You/Mushroom), on which the Aussie electro-pop act takes a time-machine back to ’90s rave and clubland. 3AM (La La La) is new at No. 40.
It’s a Melbourne double on the ARIA Charts as Rosé opens at No. 1 on the singles tally with her Bruno Mars collaboration, “APT.” (via Atlantic/Warner). That’s a record-breaking feat, making Rosé the first solo female K-pop artist to lead the chart. She’s just the second solo K-pop singer to rule the ARIA Chart after PSY’s “Gangnam Style” spent six weeks at the top back in 2012.
Rosé was born in Auckland and raised in Melbourne, before making the move to South Korea, where she joined Blackpink and smashed records everywhere. In Australia, the foursome owns the highest-debuting single by a K-pop group in ARIA Chart history, when “Pink Venom” went to No. 1 in 2022.
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Charli XCX bags her first No. 1 on Australia’s albums chart with Brat (via Atlantic/Warner), which powers home 16-1 following the release of the Brat And It’s Completely Different But Also Still Brat, the British producer and artist’s long-awaited remix album.
The new collection includes tracks reworked with the likes of The 1975, Jon Hopkins, Tinashe and Australasian stars Troye Sivan and Lorde.
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Previously, Brat peaked at No. 3 on the ARIA Chart earlier this year. Several tracks from it bounce up the singles chart, for the week starting Oct. 21, including former No. 1 “Guess” (with Billie Eilish), up from 22-16, “360” reenters at No. 43, and “Talk Talk” rebounds at No. 49. Also, Charli scores the highest new entry of the week with “Sympathy Is A Knife” debuting at No. 21; the version on the new album features Ariana Grande.
Charli XCX, who is the headliner for the 2025 Laneway Festival tour of Australia, tickets for which went on sale this week, knocks Sabrina Carpenter’s Short N’ Sweet (Island/Universal) off the chart summit after six non-consecutive weeks, down 1-2, while Rufus du Sol lands at No. 3 with Inhale / Exhale (Warner), the homegrown electronic music act’s fifth studio album.
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The trio has snagged a Grammy Award and four ARIAs; they’re nominated for four more at this year’s ceremony, set for Nov. 20 at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion. To date, all of RDS’s albums have hit the top 3 in Australia: Atlas (2013), Bloom (2016) and Surrender (2021) went to No. 1, and Solace (2018) peaked at No. 2.
Close behind is American rockers The Offspring with Supercharged (Concord/Universal), new at No. 4. It’s The Offspring’s ninth Australian top 10 album, a tally that includes No. 1s with Smash (1994) and Americana (1998).
Though she’s finally shunted from the top of the ARIA Albums Chart, Sabrina Carpenter collects an eighth straight week at No. 1 on the singles survey with “Taste”.
Sabrina Carpenter does it again, as Short n’ Sweet holds at No. 1 for the sixth non-consecutive week on Australia’s chart. With that feat, Carpenter breaks the tie with Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department and Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard And Soft for the album with the longest reign on the ARIA Chart in […]
It’s another chart double for Sabrina Carpenter in the land Down Under, while Bring Me The Horizon and The Amity Affliction ensure the top end of the ARIA Albums Chart is heavier than usual.
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Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet (via Island/Universal) holds at No. 1 on the latest tally, published Friday, Oct. 4, extending its chart reign to five non-consecutive weeks.
Meanwhile, Bring Me The Horizon’s Post Human: Nex Gen re-enters at a new peak of No. 2, following its release on physical format. That bests its No. 4 debut in May 2024.
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Chappell Roan’s seemingly unstoppable rise continues. The U.S. alternative pop diva completes the podium with The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess, up 5-3 for its peak position
Close behind is Ed Sheeran’s first greatest hits album, +–=÷× (Tour Collection), new No. 4, for the superstar British singer and songwriter’s eighth top 10 album in these parts. All seven of his studio albums have hit No. 1 on the ARIA Chart.
Further down the list, Australian hardcore act The Amity Affliction opens at No. 7 with Let The Ocean Take Me (Redux), a rerecording of their 2014 album which logged a single week at No. 1, one of their five leaders (the others are Chasing Ghosts in 2012, Let The Ocean Take Me in 2014, This Could Be Heartbreak in 2016 and Misery in 2018.
Let The Ocean Take Me (Redux) is one of three homegrown debutants in the ARIA Top 40, a tally that includes Aussie hip-hop duo Posseshot with PS4: Operation Burner Rap (No. 21) and The Rions with Happiness In A Place It Shouldn’t Be (at No. 35).
There’s a noteworthy bump for Katy Perry’s 2010 hit album Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection, up 24-13 following the U.S. pop star’s performance at the AFL Grand Final. The collection led the chart for two weeks back in 2010.
Over on the ARIA Singles Chart, Carpenter’s “Taste” holds at No. 1 for a sixth consecutive week, tying with Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” as the longest running leader this year.
Finally, the highest new entry belongs to The Weeknd and Playboy Carti, with “Timeless”, new at No. 11. The Weeknd is currently in Australia on his rescheduled Hours Til Dawn stadium tour.
Produced by Live Nation, the trek has completed two dates at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium (Oct. 5 and 6), and has two more to come at Sydney’s Accord Stadium, on Oct. 22 and Oct. 23.
Sabrina Carpenter love the taste of chart victory. The U.S. pop artist and actor leads Australia’s charts once more with “Taste” and Short n’ Sweet, respectively.
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When the ARIA Singles Chart was published late Friday, Sept. 27, “Taste” was on top for the fifth straight week, lifting her total number of weeks at No. 1 this year to eight – more than any other artist. The next best is Benson Boone, with six total weeks at the ARIA Chart summit, all clocked up by “Beautiful Things.”
With “Taste” in the lead, the podium is closed out by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With A Smile” and Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” respectively.
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Over on the ARIA Albums Chart, Short n’ Sweet logs a fourth non-consecutive week at No. 1, ahead of Katy Perry’s new arrival 143, dropping in No. 2.
That’s Perry’s fifth top 10 album following Teenage Dream (No. 1 for two weeks in 2010), Prism (No. 1 for one week in 2013), Witness (No. 2 in 2017) and her recent LP Smile, which peaked at No. 2 in 2020.
Meanwhile, Keith Urban swings in with High, new at No. 3. The Aussie country star played a surprise gig in his hometown Brisbane, ahead of the release of High, his 11th studio effort. He’ll return in the second-half of 2025 for a major arena jaunt.
A six-time ARIA Award-winner, Urban previously hit No. 1 on the ARIA Chart with The Story So Far (in 2012), Fuse (2013), Ripcord (2016) and The Speed Of Now Part 1 (2020).
Also new to the top tier is homegrown indie band The Rubens, new No. 4 with SODA, their sixth album. SODA is the band’s fifth top 10 appearance after 2012’s self-titled debut (peaking at No.3), 2015’s Hoops (No. 2), 2018’s Lo La Ru (No. 3) and 2021’s 0202 (No. 1 for one week).
The Rubens have collected a brace of ARIA Awards, and in January 2016 won triple j’s Hottest 100 countdown with “Hoops.”
Blossoms are blooming on the midweek U.K. chart with Gary.
Hailing from Stockport, England, the indie-rock act leads the Official Chart Update with Gary (via Odd Sk Recordings), their fifth full-length album.
If it holds its course, Gary will give the band a fourth leader following their self-titled debut from 2016, Foolish Loving Spaces (from 2020) and Ribbon Around The Bomb (2022), while 2018’s Cool Like You peaked at No. 4.
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The strongest challenge comes from Chappell Roan and her former chart-leading debut album The Rise And Fall of a Midwest Princess (Island). Based on midweek sales and streaming data published by the Official Charts Company, Midwest Princess is a little over 2,000 chart units behind Gary in second place.
Scottish singer and songwriter Tom Walker could complete the podium with I Am (Relentless), his sophomore album. It’s new at No. 3 on the chart blast. Previously, the Brit Award-winning artist led by chart in 2019 with his debut What A Time To Be Alive.
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Also eyeing a top 10 debut is Katy Perry with her sixth LP 143 (EMI). It’s set to start at No. 4 on the national tally, for what would be the U.S. pop star’s fifth top 10 title and highest-charting effort in the U.K. since Prism led the chart in 2013.
Meanwhile, the xx’s Jamie xx could nab a second solo top 10 with In Waves (Young). The followup to In Colour, which peaked at No. 3, the British producer’s latest is set to start at No. 6. As a member of the xx alongside Romy and Oliver Sim, Jamie has snared two U.K. No. 1s with Coexist (in 2012) and I See You (2017).
Further down the midweek chart, West Yorkshire rock act Terrorvision could nab a career high with We Are Not Robots (Total Vegas), set to bow at No. 7; Future could score a fifth U.K. top 10 with Mixtape Pluto (RCA), on track for a No. 9 bow; and post-punk Manchester outfit Ist Ist could land a first-ever top 10 appearance with Light A Bigger Fire (Kind Violence), new at No. 10 on the chart blast.
Over on the midweek singles chart, Sabrina Carpenter looks likely to extend her reign with “Taste” (via Island). Carpenter’s latest hit is heading for a fifth week at No. 1, which would extend her record as the solo female artist with the most combined weeks at No. 1 in a calendar year. Currently, her three leaders have notched a combined 16 weeks at No. 1. Chappell Roan could have something to say about it. The U.S. pop phenom is “closer than ever to her first UK No. 1 single,” the OCC reports, as “Good Luck, Babe!” sits at No. 2, fewer than 2,000 chart units from the leader.
All will be revealed when the Official U.K. Singles and Albums Charts are published late Friday, Feb. 27.
The long drought is over for Snow Patrol, as the alternative rock act nabs the U.K. No. 1 with The Forest Is The Path (via Polydor).
The Northern Irish-Scottish band, comprised of Gary Lightbody, Johnny McDaid and Nathan Connolly, previously led the Official Chart with 2006’s Eyes Open – almost two decades ago.
The leader at the midweek stage, The Forest Is The Path is Snow Patrol’s eighth studio album, and eighth top 10 appearance.
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“We are absolutely over the moon, it’s our first Number 1 album in 18 years and we’re overjoyed,” reads a statement from Snow Patrol to the Official Charts Company. “Thank you so much to everybody who bought it and streamed it, and everybody that helped us make it, and everybody that’s helped us over these last 30 years.”
Also arriving on the chart is London Grammar’s fourth studio album The Greatest Love (Ministry of Sound), new at No. 3. It’s the best-seller on wax this week. The Greatest Love is London Grammar’s fourth top 10 appearance, a tally that includes two leaders (2017’s Truth Is a Beautiful Thing and 2021’s Californian Soil).
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Meanwhile, Eminem’s former leader The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grace) roars back into the top 5 following the release of an “Expanded Mourner’s Edition.”
Over on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, published Friday, Sept. 20, Sabrina Carpenter completes a fourth week at No. 1 with “Taste” (Island).
It’s the third U.K. chart leader this year for Carpenter, lifting her total weeks at No. 1 in 2024 to 16, the OCC reports. With that effort, she becomes the solo female artist with most combined weeks at No. 1 in a calendar year.
Olivia Newton-John also clocked up 16 weeks in 1978, by way of Grease duets with John Travolta on “You’re The One That I Want” (nine weeks) and “Summer Nights” (six weeks).
Finally, after her performance at last week’s VMAs, Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!” (Island) rebounds 3-2, its equal peak position. Also, the U.S. pop artist’s “HOT TO GO!” improves 11-9, a new peak, and “Pink Pony Club” makes its Official Chart debut at No. 21, for Roan’s fourth U.K. top 40 appearance (“Red Wine Supernova” hit No. 31).
Missy Higgins is back on top with The Second Act (via Eleven/EMI), which debuts at No. 1 on Australia’s albums chart.
Higgins’ first full-length LP in six years, The Second Act opens at No. 1 on the ARIA Chart, published Friday, Sept. 13, for her fourth career leader.
The Second Act arrives 20 years after the release of Higgins’ breakthrough debut The Sound Of White, which dominated the tally for seven non-consecutive cycles.
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Her sophomore set On A Clear Night (from 2007) and third collection The Ol’ Razzle Dazzle (2012) also led the chart, while Oz (2014), Solastalgia (2018) and Total Control (2022) all cracked the top 3.
“I could not be happier or more grateful. This album was just so important to me and I just want to say a massive thank you to all the fans. I’m so touched,” she comments, as her album hits the ARIA Chart summit. “I wanted this No. 1 more than any other album I think. It’s 20 years since The Sound of White went No. 1 so I feel like the luckiest person alive to still be doing what I do to this day. Thank you guys to much. This means the world to me.”
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With that feat, the Melbourne singer and songwriter becomes only the seventh Australian artist in history to have No. 1 albums in at least three consecutive decades.
The Second Act is the fifth homegrown album to hit No. 1 in the past month, a lineup that includes recordings by Lime Cordiale, Tones And I, Amy Shark and Cold Chisel.
Higgins will be inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame, during the annual ARIA Awards, set for Nov. 20 at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion.
Also new to the national chart is Ten Days (Atlantic/Warner), by prolific British electronic music producer Fred Again. That’s one better than USB from June this year, which peaked at No. 4. Earlier in 2024, Fred Again embarked on unique tour of Australia – a “pop-up” jaunt, which sold almost one quarter of a million tickets, without any marketing spend.
Further down the tally, legendary Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour lands at No. 6 with Luck and Strange (Leg/Sony), his fifth solo album.
It’s the followup to Rattle That Lock, which reached No. 2 in 2015. As a member of Pink Floyd, ARIA reports, he notched 20 ARIA Top 50 albums, including leaders with Wish You Were Here (in 1975), The Wall (1979), The Division Bell (1994) and Pulse (1995).As a member of Pink Floyd, he has racked up 20 top 50 albums, hitting the summit with Wish You Were Here in 1975, The Wall in 1979, The Division Bell in 1994 and Pulse in 1995 (their biggest-selling collection, The Dark Side Of The Moon, reached at No. 2 here in 1973).
Over on the ARIA Singles Chart, Sabrina Carpenter’s “Taste” (Island/Universal) holds top spot ahead of Billie Eilish’s “Birds Of A Feather” (Interscope/Universal) and Lady Gaga’s collaboration with Bruno Mars, “Die With A Smile” (Warner/Universal), respectively.
Its Sabrina Carpenter for the win on Australia’s charts as Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds enjoy the top album debut.
Carpenter’s sixth studio album and first leader, Short n’ Sweet (via Island/Universal), extends its stay at the ARIA Chart summit for a second week, in doing so denying Nick Cave a homegrown leader with Wild God, new at No. 2.
It’s the alternative lock legends’ 14th ARIA top 10 album, and the followup to Ghosteen, which peaked at No. 2 in 2019. Nick Cave’s 2021 collaboration with Dirty Three leader Warren Ellis, Carnage, also reached No. 2.
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Cave has collected eight ARIA Awards for his solo or group work, took out top spot in 2013 with Push The Sky Away, and was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2007. Wild God is Cave’s first release in these parts through a new deal with PIAS/Inertia.
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Billie Eilish completes the podium with Hit Me Hard And Soft (Interscope/Universal), up 4-3.
Oasis’s hyped 2025 reunion tour has been a hot story in Australia, where live dates have yet to be announced. That excitement spilled over with the 30th anniversary edition of the Britpop-era heavyweights’ debut album Definitely Maybe (Big Brother/Orchard), which enters the top 10 for the first time, at No. 10. Definitely Maybe peaked at No. 23 in 1994, according to ARIA.
Meanwhile, the Manchester rockers’ sophomore album from 1995, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?, blasts back into the top 40, flying 71-27.
Oasis has impacted the ARIA Albums Chart Top 50 with nine titles, including a five-week stretch at No. 1 in 1996 for Morning Glory and for one week in 1997 with Be Here Now. Their last studio album, 2008’s Dig Out Your Soul, peaked at No. 5 in Australia.
Carpenter completes the chart double as “Taste” reigns for a second week on the ARIA Singles Chart, published Friday, Sept. 6. “Espresso,” meanwhile, stays hot at No. 2; “Please Please Please” is at No. 4, and Carpenters lands a fourth top 10 on the latest frame, as “Bed Chem” improves 11-10.
With the chart-topping successes of “Espresso,” “Please Please Please” and “Taste,” the U.S. singer and actor has logged five total weeks at No. 1 so far in 2024, more than any other female artist.