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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.

Tagged as: Angry, ARIA, Australia, charts, Hackney Diamonds, music industry, rock, Rolling Stones

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Australian Album Chart Report 1 September 2023

by Gavin Ryan

The fifth album for Powderfinger “Vulture Street” returns to the chart at #1 this week as a deluxe 20th Anniversary Edition.

Tagged as: 90s, ARIA, Australia, charts, Powderfinger, rock, Vulture Street

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Australian Albums Chart Report 7 July 2023

by Gavin Ryan

Taylor Swift dominates the top five positions on the ARIA Albums Chart this week, a first for the chart, as her “Midnights” set leads the pack.

Tagged as: ARIA, Australia, charts, pop, Taylor Swift

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Kate Bush ‘Running Up That Hill’ Is The No 2 Song In Australia

by Paul Cashmere

Kate Bush’s 1985 hit ‘Running Up That Hill’ is the number two song in Australia this week with thanks to the Netflix show ‘Stranger Things’.

Tagged as: 80s, charts, Kate Bush, Running Up That Hill, Stranger Things, UK

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Australian Charts: Encanto Is At Number One Is A Very Slow Sales Week

by Gavin Ryan

With no new major albums competing for the No.1 spot in Australia this week, the Disney soundtrack for ‘Encanto’ rises three places to spend it’s first week at the Album’s summit locally.

Tagged as: Australian charts, charts, Disney, Encanto

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Prince, The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac and Queen Dominated Music Sales In 2021

by Paul Cashmere

One of the few ways to get an actual read on what is really selling is to look at the Vinyl chart. 2021 is a wake-up call for popular acts and the wake-up call is classic rock.

Tagged as: charts, music charts, Pink Floyd, Prince, Queen, The Beatles, USA, vinyl

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UK Charts: Matt Lucas Makes His UK Chart Debut

by Music-News.com

Matt Lucas’ charity single Thank You Baked Potato debuts at Number 34, with the highest digital download sales of the week. The track – clocking in at just 1 minute and 4 seconds – is a rework of a song he performed on comedy panel show Shooting Stars 20 years ago, with new lyrics encouraging hand washing and social distancing. All proceeds from the song go to FeedNHS, which is providing hot meals to NHS staff and critical care workers.

Tagged as: charts, comedy, Matt Lucas, UK

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Tones and I To Perform Bushfire Benefit In Melbourne

by Paul Cashmere

Melbourne’s Tones and I will perform a benefit concert in aid Australia’s firefighters in Melbourne on 28 January.

Tagged as: 10s, Australia, bushfires, charts, pop, rap, Tones and I

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Australian Charts: Tones and I ‘Dance Monkey’ Is No 1 Song Again

by Gavin Ryan

With the Christmas sales period over the chart bounces back to how it was at the start of December 2019, with a vast majority of the singles chart rising back up with the mass evacuation of seasonal songs, thus the longest running No.1 of all time for an Australia artist and ARIA No.1 in “Dance Monkey” for Tones and I is back up one place for an overall 22nd week at the top here.

Tagged as: 10s, Australia, charts, pop, rap, Tones and I

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Australian Charts: Tones and I Clocks Up 21st Week At Number One

by Gavin Ryan

It’s a 21st week at No.1 for the smash single “Dance Monkey” for Tones and I, which is also now the equal fourth longest running Top 10 single in Australian Chart History in Australia.

Tagged as: 10s, Australia, charts, pop, rap, Tones and I

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More Timely Than Ever: Get Jarvis Cocker’s “C*nts Are Still Running The World” To Number One This Christmas

by Tim Cashmere

Way back in 2006, Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker eliminated any doubt as to his feelings of the global political climate with the release of his song C*nts Are Still Running The World.

Tagged as: 00s, 10s, 90s, Boris Johnson, charts, Christmas, Cunts, Cunts are still running the world, Donald Trump, election, England, Jarvis Cocker, politics, Pulp, Scott Morrison, UK, UK election

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Australian Charts: Tones and I Owns No 1 for 20th Week

by Gavin Ryan

An unprecedented 20th week at No.1 occurs this week for the worldwide smash single “Dance Monkey” for Tones and I with the song now 7x▲Platinum in sales, plus the tune also creates a new record at the top of the UK’s charts too.

Tagged as: 10s, Australia, charts, pop, rap, Tones and I

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UK Charts: Post Malone Hollywood’s Bleeding Debuts at Number One

by Music-News.com

Post Malone flies straight into Number 1 with Hollywood’s Bleeding, the rapper’s second collection to reach the top of the Official Albums Chart, following 2018’s Beerbongs and Bentleys.

Tagged as: 10s, charts, pop, Post Malone, rap, UK

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Australian Charts : 5 Seconds Of Summer Clock Up 8th Week At Number One

by Gavin Ryan

5 Seconds of Summer continue to shine for an eighth week at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart with their third albums title track “Youngblood”.

Tagged as: 10s, 5 Seconds of Summer, Australia, charts, music industry, pop

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ARIA Albums: Rolling Stones ‘Blue and Lonesome’ Is No 1 in Australia

by Gavin Ryan

The 25th studio album and their first (full) covers album in “Blue & Lonesome” for The Rolling Stones debuts at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart this week.

Tagged as: 60s, 70s, ARIA, Australia, Blue & Lonesome, charts, Rolling Stones, UK

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Australian Albums: A Day To Remember To Govern The Next Chart

by Paul Cashmere

A Day To Remember is set for a number one reign on the Australian album chart with their “reunion” album ‘Bad Vibrations’.

Tagged as: A Day To Remember, albums, Australian Albums: A Day To Remember To Govern The Next Chart, Australian charts, charts, music news

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Rick Astley Scores First UK No 1 In 29 Years

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Singer Rick Astley has made up the ground and officially scored his first number 1 album since 1987.

Tagged as: 50, charts, music news, Rick Astley, Rick Astley Hs His First UK No 1 In 29 Years, UK

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Prince Debuts At 1 and 2 in USA

by Roger Wink, VVN Music

Prince has gone 1, 2 in the U.S. on the Albums chart in an amazing surge of sales after his death.

Tagged as: charts, music news, Prince, Prince Debuts At 1 and 2 in USA, Santana

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ARIA Singles: Adele Says ‘Hello’ No 1

by Gavin Ryan

The lead single released last Friday from the 20th November due third album for Adele entitled “25” debuts at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart, as “Hello” simply greets the No.1 spot in it’s first week on the charts, but also sells enough to be certified Gold (●) in sales, which is over 35,000+

Tagged as: Adele, ARIA, charts, Hello, music news, Music News ARIA Singles: Adele Says 'Hello' No 1, singles

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ARIA Singles: Ellie Goulding Love Me Like You Do Is No 1

by Gavin Ryan

Ellie Goulding claims her first No.1 single in Australia this week with “Love Me Like You Do”, her song from the current No.1 album “Fifty Shades of Grey”, as it jumps up three places to claim the top spot on this weeks ARIA Singles Chart.

Tagged as: 50 Shades of Grey, ARIA, charts, Ellie Goulding, singles

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Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden, Photo Ros O'Gorman

Iron Maiden Fail To Stop Ben Haenow Take UK Christmas No 1

by Paul Cashmere

The campaign to use Iron Maiden to block Simon Cowell’s X Factor winner Ben Haenow from topping the UK chart is set to fail with Haenow’s ‘Something I Need’ now set for a certain number one.

Tagged as: Ben Haenow, charts, Christmas, Iron Maiden, music news, UK, Weadstone Raider

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Taylor Swift Shake It Off Still No 1 ARIA SINGLES

by Gavin Ryan

Taylor Swift spends a second week at No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart with her second chart-topping song here “Shake it off”.

Tagged as: ARIA, Australia, charts, music news, Taylor Swift

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Hilltop Hoods Maintain Number One Album Spot ARIA CHARTS

by Gavin Ryan

The Hilltop Hoods maintain their No.1 position on the ARIA Albums Chart this week with their fourth chart-topping set “Walking under Stars”.

Tagged as: ARIA, Australia, charts, Hilltop Hoods, music news

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Ed Sheeran Multiplies His No 1 Album Performance ARIA ALBUMS

by Gavin Ryan

Ed Sheeran holds at No.1 for a third (non-consecutive) week with his second album “x”, which also racks up a ▲Platinum certification in its sixth week on the charts.

Tagged as: 10s, ARIA, Australia, charts, Ed Sheehan, music news, pop, rock, UK, X

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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 Update: Troy Cassar-Daley & Adam Harvey Debuts Above Kanye West and Empire Of The Sun

by Gavin Ryan

It was either going to be Kanye West or Empire of the Sun to take out the No.1 spot in Australia this week, but they land at No.2 and No.3 respectively, as local country artists Troy Cassar-Daley and Adam Harvey have teamed up and their collection “The Great Country Songbook” takes the new No.1 spot

Tagged as: 2013, Adam Harvey, ARIA, Australia, charts, Empire Of The Sun, Kanye West, pop, Troy Cassar-Daley, Troy Cassar-Daly

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ARIA Update: Robin Thicke Hangs On To Number One For 7th Week

by Gavin Ryan

With Robin Thicke in the country last week doing press and performing his song “Blurred Lines” on The Voice grand finale Monday night (20-June), it has kept his song at the top of the ARIA Singles chart for a seventh week.

Tagged as: 2013, ARIA, Australia, charts, Delta Goodrem, pop, Ricky Martin, Robin Thicke, The Voice

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ARIA Chart: Bernard Fanning Departures Debuts At No 1

by Gavin Ryan

The second solo album for former Powderfinger front-man Bernard Fanning becomes his second solo No.1 album, as “Departures” sails into the top spot on the ARIA Albums chart this week.

Tagged as: Andrew Stockdale, ARIA, Australia, Bernard Fanning, Black Sabbath, charts, Daft Punk, industry, Queens Of The Stone Age

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Oasis Top Triple J Hottest 100 For Past 20 Years COMPLETE LIST

by Paul Cashmere

Oasis ‘Wonderwall’ was the number one song when Triple J counted down the most popular songs of the past 20 years.

Tagged as: Australia, charts, Hottest 100, Jeff Buckley, Oasis, radio, rock, The White Stripes, triple j, Wonderwall

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Triple J Hottest 100 Of Past 20 Years 51-100

by Paul Cashmere

Triple J is continuing the countdown on the Hottest 100 of the past 20 years after counting down 100-51 yesterday.

Tagged as: Australia, charts, Dandy Warhols, Hottest 100, industry, pop, rock, Silverchair, triple j, You Am I

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