Singles
A new ARIA Chart #1 this week, sort of. Glass Animals has dislodged Elton John and Dua Lipa from top spot this week. It’s not the first time Glass Animals has led the chart with Heat Waves, but it’s been some 47 weeks since it last landed there. Of the tune’s 65 weeks on the chart, it has spent 57 weeks in the top 10, something which ARIA points out is a chart record for the English indie rockers from Oxford.
There were no new entries in the top 10 this week, just a shuffling of some of the chart positions.
There was in fact just one new entry into the top 50 – Labrinth in at #49 with All For Us. It is the first top 50 entry for the British singer-songwriter-rapper-producer Timothy Lee McKenzie since 2015 with Jealous. All For Us hails from 2019 and is a song Zendaya performed in the first season of Foxtel TV series Euphoria.
Big movers this week included Nail Tech from Jack Harlow which lifted 14 places to #22 in its second week.
Em Beihold moved up 12 spots to #36 with Numb Little Bug, also the second week on the chart.
Albums
Anyone who went to the 2017 ARIA Awards will remember the evening as Gang of Youths night as the Sydney band dominated the ceremony with four wins including Album of the Year for Go Farther in Lightness. Their first album since then, Angel in Realtime, sees history repeat itself with another #1 debut. Just how well it performs for the band in the next ARIA Awards remains to be seen. The band now spend much time out of Australia and it’s paid off as the new album has also cracked the top 10 in the UK.
Commenting on their latest success, the band said: “We just want to thank everybody for sticking with us and buying and streaming our record. We are proud to be an Australian band and we just want to say again how much we appreciate the support we get from you all.”
Gang of Youths were just one of five artists with new releases cracking the top 10 on debut. There was just one other new release in the top 50 outside the top 10.
Those are the other ARIA Chart albums debuts:
#2: Slash & Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators with Four
The fourth album from the Guns N’ Roses guitar man and Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators.
#3: Avril Lavigne with Love Sux
Lavigne’s seventh studio album is her seventh top 10 entry on the ARIA Albums Chart.
#6: Central Cee with 23
New ARIA top 50 peak for the British rapper as he charts at #6 with a second mixtape.
#7: Tears For Fears with The Tipping Point
A return to the ARIA Albums Chart for the first time in over 30 years. This is the band’s first chart entry since its third album The Seeds Of Love (#18 1989) and its first top 10 since Songs from the Big Chair (#5 1985).
#17: Casey Barnes with Light It Up
Country singer-songwriter Casey Barnes claims his second career top 50 entry after Town of a Million Dreams peaked at #16 in 2020.
2022 ARIA Chart Toppers
Singles
January 3 Mariah Carey All I Want For Christmas Is You
January 10 Elton John & Dua Lipa Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)
January 17 Elton John & Dua Lipa Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)
January 24 Elton John & Dua Lipa Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)
January 31 The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber Stay
February 7 The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber Stay
February 14 The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber Stay
February 21 Elton John & Dua Lipa Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)
February 28 Elton John & Dua Lipa Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)
March 7 Glass Animals Heat Waves
Albums
January 3 Adele 30
January 10 Adele 30
January 17 The Weeknd Dawn FM
January 24 The Weeknd Dawn FM
January 31 Meat Loaf Bat Out Of Hell
February 7 The Weeknd Dawn FM
February 14 Korn Requiem
February 21 Huskii Antihero
February 28 Midnight Oil Resist
March 7 Gang of Youths Angel in Realtime
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