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This week’s

ARIA CHARTS

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Fourth ARIA #1 album for The Weeknd
Seventh week at #1 for Elton John & Dua Lipa
Top Ten debuts for Dope Lemon and Lauren Spencer-Smith

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CHECK OUT THE FULL CHART INFORMATION HERE 

Albums:

Top 5:

1. The Weeknd – ‘Dawn FM’ (Debut)

2. Dope Lemon – ‘Rose Pink Cadillac’ (Debut)
3. Adele – ‘30’
4. Ed Sheeran – ‘=’
5. Soundtrack – ‘Encanto’

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Album Highlights: 

#1: The Weeknd ‘Dawn FM’ – Returning with fifth album, Dawn FM, Canadian singer-songwriter The Weeknd scores his fourth #1 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Coming two years on from After Hours (#1 Jan. ’20), Dawn FM features contributions from Tyler, the Creator, Lil Wayne, Max Martin, Oneohtrix Point Never, Calvin Harris and Swedish House Mafia, plus actor Jim Carrey, legendary producer Quincy Jones and filmmaker Josh Safdie. The Weeknd has also topped the ARIA Albums Chart with Beauty Behind The Madness (#1 Sept. ‘15) and Starboy (#1 Dec. ‘16). After Hours re-enters the chart this week at #36.

#2: Dope Lemon ‘Rose Pink Cadillac’ – ARIA Award-winning artist Angus Stone releases his fifth solo album and the third under the Dope Lemon moniker, Rose Pink Cadillac. It becomes the singer-songwriter’s third solo album to debut at #2 after previous Dope Lemon album Smooth Big Cat (#2 Jul. ’19) and Broken Brights (#2 Jul. ’12), which was released under Stone’s own name. Last year, Stone and his sister Julia released the album Life is Strange (#16 Aug. ’21), which went on to win Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album at the 2021 ARIA Awards. Rose Pink Cadillac is #1 on the Vinyl Albums and Australian Albums charts.

#12: Gunna ‘DS4EVER’ – American rapper Gunna takes out his second ARIA Top 50 entry as he debuts at #12 with DS4EVER. The third studio album from the artist – real name Sergio Kitchens – comes as the follow-up to WUNNA(#17 Jun. ’20). The album includes guest appearances by Future, Young Thug, 21 Savage, Drake, Kodak Black, Chlöe, Lil Baby and Roddy Ricch, among others.

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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. Gayle – ‘abcdefu’
3. The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber – ‘Stay’
4. Glass Animals – ‘Heat Waves’
5. Ed Sheeran – ‘Bad Habits’

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Singles Highlights:

#1: Elton John & Dua Lipa ‘Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)’ – Elton John and Dua Lipa make it seven weeks at #1 on the ARIA Singles Chart with ‘Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)’. It surpasses the six weeks spent at #1 by John’s previous chart-topper ‘Something About The Way You Look Tonight’ / ‘Candle In The Wind’ (#1 Sept. ’97) to become his longest reign in the top spot in ARIA Charts history.

#8: Lauren Spencer-Smith ‘Fingers Crossed’ – Lauren Spencer-Smith makes her ARIA Singles Chart debut at #8 with ‘Fingers Crossed’. The 18-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter first rose to prominence when she was a finalist in the 2020 series of American Idol. ‘Fingers Crossed’ has been going viral on TikTok since a snippet of the track was first posted to the platform by Spencer-Smith in November. It’s since had 23 million views.

#9: The Weeknd ‘Sacrifice’ – As Dawn FM debuts at #1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, The Weeknd scores eight new entries on this week’s Singles Chart, with ‘Sacrifice’ the highest at #9. Debuts also come for ‘Is There Someone Else?’ (#18), ‘How Do I Make You Love Me?’ (#27), ‘Gasoline’ (#28), ‘Out Of Time’ (#29), ‘Best Friends’ (#45), ‘Here We Go… Again’ (#46) and ‘Less Than Zero’ (#47). Meanwhile, previous single ‘Take My Breath’ has re-entered the chart at #15) and ‘Moth To A Flame’ with Swedish House Mafia has moved back up twelve spots to #30.

#12: Carolina Gaitan, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero, Stephanie Beatriz ‘We Don’t Talk About Bruno’ – The Encantobuzz continues on this week’s chart. On top of the Disney film’s soundtrack hitting a new peak at #5, the track ‘We Don’t Talk About Bruno’ has climbed from #20 to #12 and ‘Surface Pressure’ by Jessica Darrow is up 20 spots to #24.

#19: Luude Feat. Colin Hay ‘Down Under’ – After debuting at #48 last week, Gold Coast producer Luude’s reworking of Men At Work’s ‘Down Under’ has jumped 29 spots to hit #19 The new version features reworked vocals by Colin Hay, the lead singer of ARIA Hall Of Fame members Men At Work.

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Australian Artist Singles:

Top 5:

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

2. Luude Feat. Colin Hay – ‘Down Under’
3. Vance Joy – ‘Missing Piece’
4. Havana Brown – ‘We Run The Night’
5. Shouse – ‘Love Tonight’

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Australian Artist Albums:

Top 5:

1. Dope Lemon – ‘Rose Pink Cadillac’ (Debut)

2. The Kid Laroi – ‘F*ck Love (Over You)’
3. INXS – ‘The Very Best’
4. Rüfüs Du Sol – ‘Surrender’
5. Cold Chisel – ‘The Best Of Cold Chisel: All for You’

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Vinyl Albums:

Top 5:

1. Dope Lemon – ‘Rose Pink Cadillac’ (Debut)

2. VOIID – ‘Socioanomaly’ (Debut)
3. Adele – ‘30’
4. Tame Impala – ‘Currents’
5. Amy Winehouse – ‘Back To Black’

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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