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This week’s

ARIA CHARTS

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Drake claims fourth ARIA #1 album, 20 tracks in Top 50
Nine weeks at #1 for The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber
Debuts for ABBA, Iron Maiden, Imagine Dragon and more!

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CHECK OUT THE FULL CHART INFORMATION HERE 

Albums:

Top 5:

1. Drake – ‘Certified Lover Boy’ (Debut)

2. Kanye West – ‘Donda’
3. Iron Maiden – ‘Senjutsu’ (Debut)
4. Olivia Rodrigo – ‘SOUR’
5. Doja Cat – ‘Planet Her’

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Album Highlights: 

#1: Drake ‘Certified Lover Boy’ – Drake nabs his fourth #1 album on the ARIA Charts as he debuts in the top spot with Certified Lover Boy. The Canadian hip hop star’s sixth album is his first since Scorpion (#1 Jul. ’18) and features contributions from Jay-Z, Kid Cudi, Travis Scott, Future, Young Thug, Yebba, 21 Savage and more. Between albums, Drake charted with the compilation Care Package (#7 Aug. ’19) and the mixtape Dark Lane Demo Tapes (#1 May ’20). He first hit #1 with Views in May 2016.

#3: Iron Maiden ‘Senjutsu’ – Heavy metal legends Iron Maiden claim their third straight Top Five album as Senjutsu debuts at #3. The British band’s 17th studio album comes six years on from The Book Of Souls (#2 Sept. ’15) and, like its predecessor, is a double album. Iron Maiden’s first Top Five album in Australia was with The Final Frontier (#2 Aug. ’10). Senjutsu is this week’s ARIA Vinyl Albums Chart #1.

#10: Imagine Dragons ‘Mercury – Act 1’ – American band Imagine Dragons score their fifth ARIA Top Ten album as they hit #10 with Mercury – Act 1. The follow-up to Origins (#4 Nov. ’18) was executive produced by Rick Rubin. All four of the previous four Imagine Dragons albums peaked at #4.

#12: Guy Sebastian ‘T. R. U. T. H.’ – Guy Sebastian re-enters the chart at #12 with his former #1 album T. R. U. T. H. It comes on the back of The Voice coach’s performance of the new single ‘Believer’ on the most recent episode of the show.

#14: Stray Kids ‘NOEASY’ – South Korean boy band Stray Kids make their Top 50 debut as they hit #14 with NOEASY. The eight-member group’s second album comes just over a year on from their debut, Go Live. Both albums have topped the charts in South Korea and hit the Top Ten in Japan. First dropping in mid-August, NOEASY is hitting the Top 50 now after its release on CD.

Check out video highlights of the top 10 singles HERE

Singles:

Top 5:

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

2. Drake Feat. Lil Baby – ‘Girls Want Girls’ (Debut)
3. Drake Feat. Travis Scott – ‘Fair Trade’ (Debut)
4. Ed Sheeran – ‘Bad Habits’
5. Elton John & Dua Lipa – ‘Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)’

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Singles Highlights:

#1: The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber ‘Stay’ – The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber hold on to the #1 spot on the ARIA Singles Chart for a ninth straight week with ‘Stay’. The second #1 single for Sydney rapper The Kid Laroi hits equal second spot on the list of most weeks at #1 on the ARIA Singles Chart for track by an Australian artist, joining Justice Crew’s ‘Que Sera’ (#1 May ’14). Tones And I’s ‘Dance Monkey’ (#1 Aug. ’19) is the current record holder with 24 weeks.

#2: Drake Feat. Lil Baby ‘Girls Want Girls’ – Debuting at #1 on this week’s ARIA Albums Chart with Certified Lover Boy, Drake hits the Singles Chart with 20 of the album’s tracks. The Canadian rapper has five tracks in this week’s Top Ten: ‘Girls Want Girls’ (#2), ‘Fair Trade’ (#3), ‘Champagne Poetry’ (#6), ‘Way 2 Sexy’ (#7) and ‘Papi’s Home’ (#8). Further down the chart, there’s ‘Love All’ (#12), ‘Knife Talk’ (#13), ‘In The Bible’ (#14), ‘Tsu’ (#16), ‘No Friends In The Industry’ (#18), ‘N 2 Deep’ (#19), ‘Pipe Down’ (#23), ‘7am On Bridle Path’ (#28), ‘Race My Mind’ (#29), ‘IMY2’ (#33), ‘Fountains’ (#36), ‘Yebba’s Heartbreak’ (#38), ‘You Only Live Twice’ (#40), ‘Get Along Better’ (#41) and ‘F**king Fans’ (#46).

Drake’s 20 tracks break the records for most debuts in the Top 50 in one week and most debuts in the Top 50 in one week set by Kanye West last week.

#27 & #39: ABBA ‘Don’t Shut Me Down’ & ‘I Still Have Faith In You’ – Legendary Swedish band ABBA return with their first new music in four decades. ‘Don’t Shut Me Down’ & ‘I Still Have Faith In You’ are the first two singles released from the quartet’s ninth album, Voyage, set for release on 5 November. It’s the first time ABBA have charted in Australia with new material since they hit #48 in December 1982 with ‘The Day Before You Came’. The band last appeared on the chart when ‘Mamma Mia’ re-entered at #48 in July 2008. On the Albums Chart, the career-spanning compilation ABBA Gold & More has re-entered at #18.

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Australian Artist Singles:

Top 5:

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

2. Jolyon Petch – ‘Dreams’
3. Clinton Kane – ‘I Guess I’m In Love’
4. The Kid Laroi with Miley Cyrus – ‘Without You’
5. Vance Joy – ‘Missing Piece’

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Australian Artist Albums:

Top 5:

1. Bliss N Eso – ‘The Sun’ (Debut)

2. The Kid Laroi – ‘F*ck Love (Over You)’
3. Guy Sebastian ‘T. R. U. T. H.’
4. David Campbell – ‘The Saturday Sessions’ (Debut)
5. INXS – ‘The Very Best’

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Vinyl Albums:

Top 5:

1. Iron Maiden – ‘Senjutsu’ (Debut)

2. Lorde – ‘Solar Power’
3. Olivia Rodrigo – ‘SOUR’
4. Halsey – ‘If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power’
5. Anderson .Paak – ‘Malibu’ (Debut)

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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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