Official ARIA CHARTS News

22nd December 2018

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On this week’s ARIA Charts:
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
deliver the longest running Number One
album of the year, chalking up 9 weeks,
as Ariana Grande holds for a sixth week
and Christmas titles infiltrate the charts!

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CHECK OUT THE FULL CHART INFORMATION HERE 

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Singles:

Top 5:

1. Ariana Grande ‘Thank U, Next’ 

2. Post Malone & Swae Lee ‘Sunflower’ 

3. Ava Max ‘Sweet But Psycho’  

4. Halsey ‘Without Me’ 

5. George Ezra ‘Shotgun’

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Singles Chartifacts: 

#1: Ariana Grande ‘Thank U, Next’ – For the sixth consecutive week American singer-songwriter Ariana Grande holds #1 on the ARIA Singles Chart with ‘Thank U, Next’.

#2: Post Malone & Swae Lee ‘Sunflower’ – Notching up a ninth week in the Top 50 ARIA Singles Chart, Post Malone and Swae Lee take out a new peak at #2 with ‘Sunflower’.

#10: Mariah Carey ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ – The 1994 festive classic, ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’ by Mariah Carey, continues its climb back up the chart to #10 on this week’s ARIA Singles Chart. The track has re-entered the chart during every festive season since 2012. During its original chart run, it peaked at #2 for two weeks in December 1994.

#15: Ariana Grande ‘Imagine’ (Debut) – ‘Imagine’ is a song recorded by American singer Ariana Grande, and the second song to be lifted from her upcoming fifth studio album Thank U, Next (2018). The title track from the set currently sits #1 on the ARIA Singles Chart.    

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Check out video highlights of the top 10 singles HERE

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Albums:

Top 5:

1. Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper ‘A Star Is Born’ 

2. Queen ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

3. Michael Bublé ‘Christmas’ 

4. Queen ‘Greatest Hits’

5. Soundtrack ‘The Greatest Showman’

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Albums Chartifacts:

#1: Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper ‘A Star Is Born’ – In its ninth week at #1 the soundtrack to A Star Is Born becomes the longest running album to hold at #1 on the ARIA Albums Chart in 2018.

#6: Bruce Springsteen ‘Springsteen on Broadway’ (Debut) – The Bruce Springsteen On Broadway album is the new album of music and stories by Bruce Springsteen, and the soundtrack to the Netflix film of the same name. The album is the complete live performance of his one man show which ran on Broadway at The Walter Kerr Theatre from 2017 – 2018.

#20: Samantha Jade ‘The Magic Of Christmas’ – Samantha Jade’s Christmas album climbs up the chart this week and achieves a new peak at #20.

#27: Soundtrack ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ (Debut) – The Official Soundtrack Album for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse! The soundtrack includes the hit single ‘Sunflower’ by Post Malone & Swae Lee, which this week hits a new peak at #2 on the ARIA Singles Chart.

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Streaming Singles:

Top 5:

1. Ariana Grande ‘Thank U, Next’

2. Post Malone & Swae Lee ‘Sunflower’ 

3. Halsey ‘Without Me’ 

4. Ava Max ‘Sweet But Psycho’  

5. Travis Scott & Drake ‘Sicko Mode’

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For all the ARIA Charts
go HERE at 5pm Saturday

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Catch the ARIA Chart highlights
on Facebook and via Twitter

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Check out the ARIA Chart App
in the Spotify App Finder

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Each Saturday at 5pm The HIT Network
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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