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This week’s

ARIA CHARTS

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Adele holds Albums Chart #1 for third week
Return to Singles Chart #1 for Elton John & Dua Lipa
Top 5 debut for Australian Bird Calls

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CHECK OUT THE FULL CHART INFORMATION HERE 

Albums:

Top 5:

1. Adele – ‘30’ (Debut)

2. Ed Sheeran – ‘=’
3. Paul Kelly – ‘Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train’
4. Taylor Swift – ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’
5. Australian Bird Calls – ‘Songs Of Disappearance’ (Debut)

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Album Highlights: 

#1: Adele ‘30’ – For the third straight week, British singer-songwriter Adele holds #1 on the ARIA Albums Chart with her fourth studio album, 30. Australia is one of 22 territories the album has hit #1 in. 30 has also topped the ARIA Vinyl Albums Chart for a third straight week.

#3: Paul Kelly ‘Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train’ – In its third week in the Top 50, Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train climbs from #6 to #3. This week marks the start of the fourth running of the ARIA Hall Of Fame member’s Making Gravy tour, which will include shows in Melbourne and Brisbane in the coming weeks.

#5: Australian Bird Calls ‘Songs Of Disappearance’ – This week’s highest debut comes from the Australian Bird Calls album Songs Of Disappearance. A collaboration between the nature recordist David Stewart, Nature Sound, the Bowerbird Collective, BirdLife Australia, Charles Darwin University and Mervyn Street of Mangkaja Arts, this project features birdsong of 53 of the most threatened species of Australian native birds. It’s the first album of its kind to chart in the ARIA Top Ten.

#11: The Teskey Brothers & Orchestra Victoria ‘Live At Hamer Hall’ – Melbourne blues rock band The Teskey Brothers take out their fourth ARIA Top 50 entry as they debut at #11 with Live At Hamer Hall. The quartet’s second live album was recorded at the iconic Melbourne venue in December 2020, in collaboration with Orchestra Victoria. As well as tracks from the studio albums Run Home Slow (#2 Aug. ‘19) and Half Mile Harvest (#18 Jun. ‘17), two original Teskey Brothers Christmas songs – ‘Dreaming Of A Christmas With You’ and ‘Highway Home For Christmas’ – are featured on the album. The first Teskey Brothers live album, Live At The Forum, spent a week at #1 in May 2020.

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Check out video highlights of the top 10 singles HERE

Singles:

Top 5:

1. Elton John & Dua Lipa – ‘Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)’

2. Adele – ‘Easy On Me’
3. The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber – ‘Stay’
4. Gayle – ‘ABCDEFU’
5. Glass Animals – ‘Heat Waves’

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Singles Highlights:

#1: Elton John & Dua Lipa ‘Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)’ – After three weeks out of the top spot, Elton John and Dua Lipa return to claim a third week at #1 with ‘Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)’. In the UK, the track only managed one week at #1 but has to date spent ten weeks in the Top Ten. It’s the track’s 17th straight week in the Top Ten in Australia.

#8: Mariah Carey ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ – Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ jumps up ten spots to hit #8. It becomes the 17th week in the ARIA Top Ten for the 1994 track, which has hit #1 on the chart in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

#14: Michael Bublé ‘It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas’ – After returning to the chart last week at #35, Michael Bublé’s ‘It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas’ jumps up to 21 spots to hit #14. It’s ten spots below the peak the track reached in December 2019.

#19: SZA ‘I Hate U’ – American neo-soul singer-songwriter SZA takes out her second Singles Chart entry for 2021 as ‘I Hate U’ debuts at #19. A demo of the track was released by SZA on Soundcloud in August before officially releasing it last week. Earlier in the year, SZA scored her highest peak with ‘Good Days’ (#7 Feb. ’21). More recently, SZA appeared as feature artist on the Doja Cat track ‘Kiss Me More’ (#2 May ‘21), which this week sits at #15.

#26: Lost Frequencies & Calum Scott ‘Where Are You Now’ – Belgian DJ and record producer Lost Frequencies and British singer Calum Scott team up for the track ‘Where Are You Now’. It becomes the first Lost Frequencies track to hit the chart since ‘Reality’ (#35 Dec. ’15). For Scott, it’s his first Top 50 entry since ‘You Are The Reason’ (#27 Dec. ’17).

#27: Ed Sheeran & Elton John ‘Merry Christmas’ – English singer-songwriters Ed Sheeran and Elton John debut at #27 with their duet ‘Merry Christmas’. Co-written by the pair, the song appears on the Christmas edition of Sheeran’s = (#1 Nov. ‘21) as well as a new edition of John’s The Lockdown Sessions (#2 Nov. ’21). It’s John’s second festive season single, coming 48 years on from 1973’s ‘Step Into Christmas’.

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Australian Artist Singles:

Top 5:

1. The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber – ‘Stay’

2. The Kid Laroi with Miley Cyrus – ‘Without You’
3. Vance Joy – ‘Missing Piece’
4. Shouse – ‘Love Tonight’
5. Jolyon Petch – ‘Dreams’

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Australian Artist Albums:

Top 5:

1. Paul Kelly – ‘Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train’

2. Australian Bird Calls – ‘Songs Of Disappearance’ (Debut)
3. The Teskey Brothers & Orchestra Victoria – ‘Live At Hamer Hall’ (Debut)
4. The Kid Laroi – ‘F*ck Love (Over You)’
5. Delta Goodrem – ‘Only Santa Knows’

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Vinyl Albums:

Top 5:

1. Adele – ‘30’ (Debut)

2. The Teskey Brothers & Orchestra Victoria – ‘Live At Hamer Hall’ (Debut)’
3. The Smith Street Band – ‘No One Gets Lost Anymore’ (Debut)
4. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – ‘Raise The Roof’
5. Nirvana – ‘Nevermind’

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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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AMNPLIFY – DB