Official ARIA CHARTS News

for w/c 27th January 2020

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The Weeknd scores first #1 ARIA Single

Eminem returns to #1 for tenth time

Magic Dirt classic tops Vinyl Charts

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CHECK OUT THE FULL CHART INFORMATION HERE 

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Singles:

Top 5:

1. The Weeknd – ‘Blinding Lights’

2. Tones And I – ‘Dance Monkey’

3. Eminem feat. Juice WRLD – ‘Godzilla’

4. Dua Lipa – ‘Don’t Start Now’

5. Roddy Rich – ‘The Box’

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Singles Chartifacts: 

#1: The Weeknd ‘Blinding Lights’ – ‘Blinding Lights’ moves up one spot to land The Weeknd his first #1 single on the ARIA Charts, eight weeks after it was first released. The Canadian artist’s previous highest peak was #2 which he held with both ‘Can’t Feel My Face’ (#2 Jul. ’15) and ‘Starboy’ (#2 Nov. ’16). ‘Blinding Lights’ has hit #1 in a number of European markets and is racing up charts elsewhere.

#3: Eminem Feat Juice WRLD ‘Godzilla’ – With Eminem’s Music To Be Murdered By hitting #1 on the Albums Chart, the American rapper hits the Singles Chart with five new tracks. Featuring the late Juice WRLD, ‘Godzilla’ is the highest-charting track at #3. Eminem has also debuted with ‘Those Kinda Nights’ (#25), ‘Darkness’ (#32), ‘Unaccommodating’ (#34) and ‘You Gon’ Learn’ (#36).

#5: Roddy Ricch ‘The Box’ – Roddy Ricch’s viral hit ‘The Box’ moves up two spots in its third week in the Top 50 to land a new peak at #5. The single has now spent two weeks at #1 in the US.

#11: Future Feat. Drake ‘Life Is Good’ – A week on from debuting at #15, Future’s collaboration with Drake ‘Life Is Good’ climbs to a new peak at #11. To date, it’s peaked at #2 in the US and #3 in the UK.

#15: Halsey ‘You Should Be Sad’ – After debuting at #41 last week, Halsey jumps 26 spots to #15 with ‘You Should Be Sad’. It comes on the back of the #2 debut on the Albums Chart for her third album, Manic.

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Check out video highlights of the top 10 singles HERE

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Albums:

Top 5:

1. Eminen – ‘Music To Be Murdered By’ (debut)

2. Halsey – ‘Manic’ (debut)

3. Mac Miller – ‘Circles’

4. Harry Styles – ‘Fine Line’

5. Billie Eilish – ‘When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?’

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Albums Chartifacts:

#1: Eminem ‘Music To Be Murdered By’ – Eminem takes out his tenth #1 album in Australia with the surprise release Music To Be Murdered By. Released last Friday with no prior warning, the American hip hop star’s eleventh studio album features collaborations with Ed Sheeran, Juice WRLD, Skylar Grey, Q-Tip, Anderson .Paak and more. Five tracks from Music To Be Murdered By have made it into this week’s ARIA Top 50.
Eminem has also topped the ARIA Albums Chart with The Marshall Mathers LP (#1 Mar. ’01), The Eminem Show (#1 Jun. ’02), Encore (#1 Nov. ’04), Curtain Call: The Hits (#1 Dec. ’05), Relapse (#1 May ’09), Recovery (#1 Jun. ’10), The Marshall Mathers LP2 (#1 Nov. ‘13) and Kamikaze (#1 Sept. ’18). Curtain Call: The Hits and Kamikaze return to this week’s chart at #43 and #44, respectively.

#2: Halsey ‘Manic’ – American singer-songwriter Halsey scores her third consecutive #2 album on the ARIA Charts with Manic. Halsey’s third studio album includes the singles ‘Without Me’ (#2 Dec. ’18), ‘Graveyard’ (#24 Oct. ’19) and ‘You Should Be Sad’ (#15 Jan. ’20)). She performed ‘Graveyard’ at the 2019 ARIA Awards last November. Halsey has previously charted with the albums Badlands (#2 Sept. ’15) and Hopeless Fountain Kingdom (#2 Jun. ’17).

#3: Mac Miller ‘Circles’ – The late Mac Miller snares his highest chart peak with the posthumous release Circles. Miller’s sixth album becomes his second Top Ten release after Swimming (#7 Sept. ’18), released a month before his death in September 2018. The Circles single ‘Good News’ has jumped up 16 spots this week to #27.

#26: Magic Dirt ‘Life Was Better’ – Following its reissue, Magic Dirt’s 1994 EP Life Was Better makes its ARIA Albums Chart debut. First released by the Geelong band in November 1994, it originally hit #77 on the ARIA Singles Chart. Owing to a change in the chart rules since, it now qualifies for the Albums Chart. It’s debuted at #1 on this week’s ARIA Vinyl Albums Chart.

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Australian Artist Singles:

Top 5:

1. Tones And I – ‘Dance Monkey’

2. Tones And I – ‘Never Seen The Rain’

3. Flume Feat. Vera Blue – ‘Rushing Back’

4. No Money Enterprise – ‘German’

5. The Rubens – ‘Live In Life’

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Australian Artist Albums:

Top 5:

1. Tones And I – ‘The Kids Are Coming – EP’

2. Cold Chisel – ‘The Best Of Cold Chisel: All For You’

3. Cold Chisel – ‘Blood Moon’

4. Paul Kelly – ‘Songs From The South: Paul Kelly’s Greatest Hits 1985-2019’

5. Dean Lewis – ‘A Place We Knew’

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Vinyl Albums:

Top 5:

1. Magic Dirt – ‘Life Was Better’

2. Halsey – ‘Manic’ (debut)

3. Harry Styles – ‘Fine Line’

4. Cold Chisel – ‘Blood Moon’

5. Tyler, The Creator – ‘Igor’

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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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