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Pink Tops 2013 ARIA Album Chart

by Gavin Ryan

Pink ‘The Truth About Love’ was the second biggest selling album in Australia for the second year running.

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ARIA Albums: Beyoncé Tops First Chart Of 2014

by Gavin Ryan

With the Christmas season over, it allows regular albums to reclaim the charts, and this week the self-titled fifth album for Beyonce climbs back up two places to give her the first ARIA No.1 album of her career.

Tagged as: album, ARIA, Beyonce, chart

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ARIA Singles: Pharrell Tops First Chart Of 2014

by Gavin Ryan

For the first chart of 2014, Pharrell Williams scores his third chart-topping appearance on the ARIA Singles Chart with his up-tempo track “Happy”.

Tagged as: ARIA, charts, Pharrell, Pharrell Williams, singles

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ARIA Albums: Michael Buble Stars On Top Of The Christmas Tree

by Gavin Ryan

Michael Buble holds for a third consecutive with his seasonal album “Christmas”, giving the album its twelfth accumulated week at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart.

Tagged as: ARIA, Justin Bieber, Michael Buble

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ARIA Singles: Jason Derulo Tops Last Chart 2013

by Gavin Ryan

The last chart of 2013 sees a new No.1 in the form of Jason DeRulo and “Trumpets”, which is up from last weeks No.3 to become his third chart-topping single in Australia.

Tagged as: ARIA, Jason Derulo

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Beyoncé, Bublé and Bieber Fly High In Midweek Sales

by Gavin Ryan

Beyoncé, Michael Bublé and Justin Bieber are the acts bubbling most this week as the Christmas sales week draws to a close.

Tagged as: ARIA, Beyonce, Justin Bieber, Michael Buble

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Michael Buble Sales Beat Pink And Beyonce

by Paul Cashmere

Michael Buble ‘Christmas’ has managed to outsell the Pink DVD ‘The Truth About Love Live From Melbourne’ by just 8 units this week but was well in front of the new Beyonce album by over 1000 copies.

Tagged as: ARIA, Beyonce, Christmas, Michael Buble, Pink

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ARIA Albums Michael Buble Tops Christmas Chart 2013

by Gavin Ryan

Michael Buble has the No.1 album on the ARIA Chart this week with his seasonal “Christmas” album, which was helped during the week by Channel 7 playing a musical special of Michael, plus the album is now certified 9x▲ Platinum in sales.

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ARIA Singles John Legend Spends 3rd Week On Top

by Gavin Ryan

John Legend remains at No.1 for a third week with his piano balled “All of Me”, keeping MAGIC! and their track “Rude” at No.2 for a second week, with their reggae infused track picking up a ▲ Platinum certification this week.

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ARIA Albums: Michael Bublé Christmas Is Top Of The Tree

by Gavin Ryan

Michael Bublé creates ARIA Albums chart history by reaching the top for the third consecutive year with his now deluxe re-packaged (with four bonus tracks) album “Christmas”.

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ARIA Singles: John Legend Stays On Top

by Paul Cashmere

John Legend stays at No.1 on the ARIA Singles chart for a second week, helped by his current tour alongside Alicia Keys, with the track also picking up a Platinum certification too.

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ARIA Albums: Taylor Henderson Takes Top Spot

by Gavin Ryan

It’s been a record year for albums, as the 35th number one album has landed at the top of the ARIA Albums chart this year, the self-titled debut set for Taylor Henderson is the new No.1 this week.

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ARIA Singles: John Legend Debuts At Number One

by Gavin Ryan

John Legend’s first Top 40 entry “All of Me” becomes his first No.1 single in Australia, the song also currently spending it’s fourth week at the top in Portugal, making us the only two countries in the world to give John a No.1 single (he’s had three US R&B No.1 albums).

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ARIA Albums: One Direction Land Another Number One

by Gavin Ryan

One Direction take out the top spot on the ARIA Albums Chart this week with their third consecutive No.1 album “Midnight Memories”, becoming the first British act since Coldplay to land three or more No.1 albums here.

Tagged as: albums, ARIA, One Direction

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Pink DVD Outsells Dami Im Album

by Paul Cashmere

Pink’s ‘The Truth About Love’ live DVD filmed in Melbourne has outsold reality TV star Dami Im’s debut album in first week sales.

Tagged as: ARIA, Dami Im, Eminem, Nickelback, Pink, The Truth About Love

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ARIA Albums: Dami Im Becomes First X Factor Act To Top Chart

by Gavin Ryan

The first X-Factor contestant to score a No.1 album occurs this week, as 2013 winner Dami Im takes her self-titled debut album straight in at number one.

Tagged as: albums, ARIA, Dami Im, X-Factor

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Eminem Week Two Sales Beat Lady Gaga Week One

by Paul Cashmere

Eminem has had a convincing win over Lady Gaga with the rapper’s second week sales beating the popstar’s first week sales by almost 25%.

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ARIA Albums: Eminem Blocks Lady Gaga From Top Of Chart

by Gavin Ryan

The seventh album for 2013 to notch up two or more weeks occurs this week, as Eminem holds at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart with “The Marshall Mathers LP 2”.

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ARIA Charts: Eminem and Rihanna Have Monster Hit

by Gavin Ryan

Eminem and Rihanna score their second No.1 duet this week as “The Monster” climbs a spot to No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart, giving both of them their eighth chart-topping single here, the song also achieving Gold (●) in sales.

Tagged as: ARIA, Eminem, Rhinanna, singles

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ARIA Charts: Taylor Henderson Goes No 1

by Gavin Ryan

X-Factor runner-up Taylor Henderson debuts at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart this week with his debut original single “Borrow My Heart”, which achieves Gold (●) in sales in its first week of release.

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ARIA Albums: Eminem Tops Australian Chart

by Gavin Ryan

The eighth studio album for Eminem entitled “The Marshall Mathers LP 2” becomes his seventh No.1 album in Australia.

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ARIA Albums: Katy Perry Prism Debuts At Number One

by Gavin Ryan

Katy Perry’s fourth album “Prism” becomes the thirty-first No.1 album for 2013 and her second consecutive chart-topping album, as seventy number one albums ago she debuted at the top with “Teenage Dream” (6-Sept-2010) (TW-42).

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ARIA Singles: Dami Im Is Alive At Number One

by Gavin Ryan

X-Factor 2013 winner Dami Im takes her debut original single “Alive” straight into ARIA Singles Chart at number one this week, achieving Gold (●) in sales in its first four days of sale.

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ARIA Albums: Triple J Like A Version 9 Claims Top Spot

by Gavin Ryan

This weeks No.1 debut is the first compilation album in over thirteen years to claim the top of the ARIA Albums Chart, as Triple J’s “Like a Version Volume 9” claims the top spot.

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ARIA Albums: Miley Cyrus Takes On Lorde And Wins

by Gavin Ryan

Miley Cyrus scores her second No.1 album in Australia with her first RCA album “Bangerz” becoming the 29th chart-topper and the 24th No.1 debut this year (so far).

Tagged as: ARIA, Lorde, Miley Cyrus

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Katy Perry. image by Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, photo

ARIA Singles: Katy Perry Is Still Roaring

by Gavin Ryan

Katy Perry is spending a seventh week at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart with her smash song “Roar”, making it the second longest running No.1 of 2013 behind Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” at eight weeks.

Tagged as: ARIA, Eminem, Katy Perry, Roar

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ARIA Hall of Fame Ted Mulry Petition Started

by Paul Cashmere

Supporters of the late Ted Mulry have started a petition to have the Australian rock star inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.

Tagged as: ARIA, ARIA Hall of Fame, Ted Mulry, Ted Mulry Gang, TMG

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ARIA Albums: Lorde Tops Six Top Debuts

by Gavin Ryan

For the first time ever in ARIA Albums Chart history, the top six albums are all new entries, with the closest previous effort occurring on 24th May this year when we had the top four as all new entries, prior to that it last occurred on 30-Nov-1997 with another top four, but never the top

Tagged as: Alter Bridge, ARIA, Justin Timberlake, Lorde, Pure Heroine

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ARIA Singles: Katy Perry Equals Katy Perry With Roar

by Gavin Ryan

Katy Perry remains for a sixth week at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart with her now 4x▲ Platinum selling track “Roar”, which equals her first No.1 “I Kissed a Girl” for longevity.

Tagged as: ARIA, Australia, Katy Perry, Roar, singles

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Midweek Chart: Lorde vs Birdy vs Timberlake vs Haim vs Hunters

by Gavin Ryan

It is a Lorde vs Birdy vs Timberlake vs Haim vs Hunters week this week. A lot of major releases are grid-locked for the ARIA chart.

Tagged as: ARIA, Birdy, Haim, Hunters & Collectors, Justin Timberlake, Lorde

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Not One Australian Song Released In 2024 Made The ARIA Top 100 of 2024

The ARIA end of year chart has been revealed and it is another embarrassment for Australian artists. Not one Australian song released in 2024 made the Top 100. Just three Australian artists made the ARIA Top 100 albums for 2024. They were Cold Chisel, The Kid Laroi and INXS.

January 14, 2025

Missy Higgins AWITG on Sunday 19 November 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

The Artists Missy Higgins Skipped Over For The ARIA Hall of Fame

Missy Higgins released her debut album ‘The Sound of White’ in 2004 and yes it was huge. It was a number one album that year and she had two more number one albums in a row. A position in the ARIA Hall of Fame is warranted. But for FFS ARIA, how about these artists first:

August 18, 2024

Not One Australian Song of 2023 Made The ARIA End of Year Top 100

Once again, ARIA has proven itself a disgrace with a complete lack of attention to Australian artists in 2023. Not one Australian song released in 2023 made the ARIA End of Year Top 100 Singles and only one Australian album released in 2023 made the ARIA End of Year Top 100 Albums.

January 12, 2024

Why Are The ARIA Awards Full Of Acts Who Can’t Even Make The ARIA Chart?

The nominations for the 2023 ARIA Awards have been announced and once again the glaring failures of the ARIA Chart disconnect with Australian acts and music consumers couldn’t be more obvious.

September 21, 2023

The ARIA Chart Is Something To Get ‘Angry’ About

The Rolling Stones 'Angry' debuted at 329 on the ARIA chart this week. Flop? Not really. It is another example of the how irrelevant the ARIA chart has become. It irrelevance is also having a negative impact on the perspective of Australian artist's success.

September 18, 2023