Official ARIA CHARTS News

10th March 2018

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Drake’s ‘God’s Plan’ chalks up six weeks at the top, as Ed Sheeran blasts back to No. 1 with ‘÷’, on this week’s ARIA Charts

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CHECK OUT THE FULL CHART INFORMATION HERE 

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Singles:

Top 5:

1. Drake ‘God’s Plan’

2. Post Malone Feat. Ty Dolla $ign ‘Psycho’ 

3. Kendrick Lamar & SZA ‘All The Stars’

4. Rudimental Feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen ‘These Days’

5. Bebe Rexha & Florida Georgia Line ‘Meant To Be’

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Singles Chartifacts: 

#1: Drake ‘God’s Plan’ – It’s week six at #1 on the ARIA Singles Chart for rapper Drake and his track ‘God’s Plan’.

#6: Ed Sheeran ‘Perfect’ – In the week he kicked off his huge Australian tour and regained the #1 spot on the Albums Chart with ÷, Ed Sheeran has surged back up the Singles Chart. ‘Perfect’ is up four spots to #6 and ‘Shape Of You’ has climbed back up nine spots to #25.

#8: Zedd & Grey Feat. Maren Morris ‘The Middle’ – Moving up four spots in its fifth week in the top 50, ‘The Middle’ hits the top ten for the first time. The track becomes Zedd’s second top ten as a lead artist, following on from the Alessia Cara collaboration ‘Stay’ (#3 Apr. ’17).

#9: Marshmello & Anne-Marie ‘Friends’ – Marshmello and Anne-Marie jump up four spots to hit the top ten with ‘Friends’. It’s American producer Marshmello’s third top ten, following the Khalid collaboration ‘Silence’ (#5 Jan. ’18) and the Selena Gomez collaboration ‘Wolves’ (#5 Dec. ’17). It’s Anne-Marie’s second top ten entry as lead artist after ‘Alarm’ (#7 Aug. ’16).

#33: XXXTentacion ‘Sad!’ (debut) – American rapper XXXTentacion picks up his first appearance in the Singles Chart top 50 with ‘Sad!’. The single is the first to be released from XXXTentacion’s forthcoming second album. He hit the Albums Chart for the first time last year with 17 (#29 Sept. ’17).

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Check out video highlights of the top 10 singles HERE

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Albums:

Top 5:

1. Ed Sheeran ‘÷’

2. Soundtrack ‘The Greatest Showman’ 

3. Vance Joy ‘Nation Of Two’

4. Soundtrack ‘Black Panther: The Album’ 

5. Ed Sheeran ‘X’

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Albums Chartifacts:

#1: Ed Sheeran ‘÷’ – With a week of his Australian tour over, Ed Sheeran returns to the top of the ARIA Albums Chart with ÷. It’s the 23rd week in the top spot for Sheeran’s third studio album. X, his second album, has moved up three to #5, while debut album + climbs up four to #8.

#6: Camp Cope ‘How To Socialise & Make Friends’ (debut) – Melbourne’s Camp Cope take out their first top ten appearance on the ARIA Charts with How To Socialise & Make Friends. The trio’s second album comes two years on from their self-titled debut (#36 May ’16). Track ‘The Opener’ was #58 in the recent Triple J Hottest 100.

#10: Bruno Mars ‘24K Magic’ – As his tour continues around Australia, Bruno Mars re-enters the top ten with 24K Magic. It’s the album’s tenth week in the top ten.

#13: j-hope ‘Hope World’ (debut) – BTS member j-hope scores his first solo chart entry with Hope World. The mixtape is the Korean rapper’s first solo release. It debuted at #63 on the Billboard 200, making him the highest charting K-pop solo act on the chart. As a member of BTS, j-hope has appeared on the ARIA Charts with Love Yourself: 承 ‘Her’ (#8 Sept. ’17).

#19: Dua Lipa ‘Dua Lipa’ – In the country on her first tour, Dua Lipa jumps back up eleven spots to #19 on the chart with her self-titled debut album.

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Streaming Singles:

Top 5:

1. Drake ‘God’s Plan’

2. Post Malone Feat. Ty Dolla $ign ‘Psycho’

3. Kendrick Lamar & SZA ‘All The Stars’

4. Dua Lipa ‘IDGAF’

5. Rudimental Feat. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen ‘These Days’

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will countdown the biggest 10 songs on the ARIA Charts.

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ABOUT THE ARIA CHART:

The national ARIA Chart is Australia’s pre-eminent music chart representing a broad cross section of retail outlets. More than 1200 music retailers, including department stores, chain stores, independent retailers, streaming outlets, and digital providers contribute their data to ARIA to ensure that comprehensive charts are compiled across various genres and categories during any given week.

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