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This week’s

ARIA CHARTS

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Mariah Carey Christmas classic hits #1 for fourth straight year
Sixth week at #1 for Adele’s 30
Christmas makes huge impact on Singles Chart

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CHECK OUT THE FULL CHART INFORMATION HERE 

Albums:

Top 5:

1. Adele – ‘30’ (Debut)

2. Michael Bublé – ‘Christmas’
3. Ed Sheeran – ‘=’
4. Taylor Swift – ‘Red (Taylor’s Version)’
5. Olivia Rodrigo – ‘SOUR’

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Album Highlights: 

#1: Adele ‘30’ – For the sixth consecutive week, British superstar Adele tops both the ARIA Albums Chart and the ARIA Vinyl Albums Chart with her fourth album, 30.

#2: Michael Bublé ‘Christmas’ – Michael Bublé’s Christmas moves up from #5 to hit its highest peak for 2021. This week marks the 2011 album’s 65th week in the ARIA Top Ten.

#15: Tame Impala ‘Currents’ – The week’s highest re-entry comes from Tame Impala’s ARIA Award-winning 2015 album Currents after a surge in vinyl sales. The Perth act’s third studio album has notched up 42 weeks in the Top 50.

#23: Soundtrack ‘Sing 2’ – The soundtrack to Sing 2 makes its debut on this week’s Albums Chart, five years on from the original movie’s soundtrack. The album includes an original song by U2, ‘Your Song Saved My Life’, plus performances by Taron Egerton, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson and many more. The soundtrack to the original Sing film peaked at #2 in January 2017

#29: Soundtrack ‘Encanto’ – Featuring original songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the soundtrack to new Disney animated film Encanto makes its chart debut at #29. Featuring songs in both English and Spanish, the album includes performances from Stephanie Beatriz, John Leguizamo, Rhenzy Feliz, Carolina Gaitán and Diane Guerrero, among others.

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Check out video highlights of the top 10 singles HERE

Singles:

Top 5:

1. Mariah Carey – ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’

2. Mariah Carey – ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’
3. Gayle – ‘abcdefu’
4. The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber – ‘Stay’
5. Glass Animals – ‘Heat Waves’

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Singles Highlights:

#1: Mariah Carey ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ – Mariah Carey has triumphed again, hitting #1 on the ARIA Singles Chart for an unprecedented fourth straight year with her festive season classic ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You. The American star’s single – which was originally released in 1994 – also hit #1 in Australia in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

This week’s Top 50 is dominated by Christmas songs due to the beginning of the chart week including Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

The movers for this week include Wham’s ‘Last Christmas’ (#9 to #2), Michael Bublé’s ‘It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas’ (#10 to #3), Ariana Grande’s ‘Santa Tell Me’ (#12 to #5), Brenda Lee’s ‘Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree’ (#17 to #8), Ed Sheeran & Elton John’s ‘Merry Christmas’ (#16 to #10), Bobby Helms’ ‘Jingle Bell Rock‘ (#24 to #13), Band Aid’s ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’ (#27 to #14), The Ronettes’ ‘Sleigh Ride’ (#32 to #16), Sia’s ‘Snowman’ (#29 to #17), John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band’s ‘Happy Xmas (War Is Over)’ (#46 to #18), Michael Bublé’s ‘Holly Jolly Christmas’ (#30 to #19), Andy Williams’ ‘It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year’ (#37 to #20), Justin Bieber’s ‘Mistletoe’ (#36 to #23), Kelly Clarkson’s ‘Underneath The Tree’ (#44 to #24) and Paul Kelly’s ‘How To Make Gravy’ (#34).

There have been re-entries for ‘Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!’ by Frank Sinatra (#22), ‘Santa Claus Is Coming To Town’ by The Jackson 5 (#29), ‘Jingle Bell Rock’ by Daryl Hall & John Oates (#32), ‘Jingle Bells’ by Michael Bublé Feat. The Puppini Sisters (#35), ‘A Holly Jolly Christmas’ by Burl Ives (#36), ‘Run Rudolph Run’ by Chuck Berry (#37), ‘Step Into Christmas’ by Elton John (#40) and ‘Fairytale Of New York’ by The Pogues (#46).

Some festive season songs have made their first ever entry in the ARIA Top 50: Chris Rea’s ‘Driving Home For Christmas’ (#26), Shakin’ Stevens’ ‘Merry Christmas Everyone’ (#27), Jose Feliciano’s ‘Feliz Navidad’ (#28), Paul McCartney’s ‘Wonderful Christmastime’ (#38), Dean Martin’s ‘Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!’ (#42), Kylie Minogue’s ‘Santa Baby’ (#44) and Michael Bublé’s ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’ (#48).

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Australian Artist Singles:

Top 5:

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

2. Sia – ‘Snowman’
3. Paul Kelly – ‘How To Make Gravy’
4. Kylie Minogue – ‘Santa Baby’
5. Vance Joy – ‘Missing Piece’

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Australian Artist Albums:

Top 5:

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

2. Tame Impala – ‘Currents’
3. The Kid Laroi – ‘F*ck Love (Over You)’
4. Delta Goodrem – ‘Only Santa Knows’
5. INXS – ‘The Very Best’

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Vinyl Albums:

Top 5:

1. Adele – ‘30’ (Debut)

2. Tame Impala – ‘Currents’
3. Arctic Monkeys – ‘AM’
4. Nirvana – ‘Nevermind’
5. The Weeknd – ‘The Highlights’

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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