Singles
Harry Styles’ As It Was hits its fifth week at #1 on the ARIA singles chart. It comes a week before the single’s parent album, Harry’s House, will likely hit the ARIA albums chart following its release on 20 May.
With Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers debuting at #1 on the albums chart this week, American hip hop artist Kendrick Lamar takes out 14 spots in this week’s top 50, with N95 the highest at #3. Kendrick Lamar has also cracked the top ten with Die Hard at #5 and United In Grief at #7. Further down, he has debuts with Father Time at #11, Rich Spirit at #16, Worldwide Steppers at #17, We Cry Together at #19, Count Me Out at #20, Silent Hill at #21, Purple Hearts at #22, Savior at #30, Mr. Morale at #43, Crown at #44, and Auntie Diaries at #48.
The highest ranking Australian single this week comes from The Kid Laroi with Thousand Miles at #9. The ARIA Award winner’s first single of 2022 was his first track to hit the top ten since Not Sober peaked at #8 in August last year.
Post Malone debuts at #27 with the Roddy Ricch collaboration Cooped Up. It’s the second single to come from Malone’s forthcoming fourth album, Twelve Carat Toothache, which is set for release on 3 June. The album has already produced the single One Right Now which peaked at #9 in November last year.
Albums
Returning with his fifth studio album, Kendrick Lamar takes out his second ARIA #1 album with Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers. The first album in five years from the American is the follow-up to Damn. which hit #2 in April 2017 and is Lamar’s first double album. Guests on Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers include Ghostface Killah, Baby Keem, Sampha, Blxst, and Portishead’s Beth Gibbons. Kendrick Lamar first hit #1 with To Pimp A Butterfly in March 2015.
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British indie pop act Florence & The Machine claim their fifth top three debut as Dance Fever enters the chart at #2. It’s the follow-up to 2018’s High As Hope and features a host of collaborators including Jack Antonoff, Glass Animals’ Dave Bayley, Maggie Rogers, and Kid Harpoon. Florence + The Machine previously topped the chart with Ceremonials in 2011 and How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful in. 2015.
After returning to the chart at #12 last week, Hilltop Hoods’ Drinking From The Sun has moved up seven places to hit #5, making it the highest ranking Australian album. The album’s climb comes off the back of a second week of vinyl sales, leading to it again topping the ARIA Vinyl Albums Chart. The last time Drinking From The Sun appeared in the top ten was August 2012.
Mallrat scores her second ARIA top ten entry as she debuts at #6 with Butterfly Blue. The Brisbane singer-songwriter’s debut album comes three years after she made her first chart appearance with the EP Driving Music. Butterfly Blue features the track Surprise Me, a collaboration with American rapper Azealia Banks.
The soundtrack to the Eurovision Song Contest Turin 2022 debuts at #11 following the staging of the annual event last weekend in Italy. The album features all 40 participating songs including Australia’s entry, Not the Same by Sheldon Riley, and the winner, Stefania by Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra. The Eurovision soundtrack has charted in the top 50 every year since 2012, with Eurovision Song Contest 2015 Vienna peaking highest at #4.
American rock duo The Black Keys take out their second chart debut in a year as Dropout Boogie hits #35. The follow-up to Delta Kream (which hit #8 in May 2021) is the eleventh album from their pair and their ninth to appear in the ARIA top 50. ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons appears on the track Good Love.
British group The Smile make their chart debut at #41 with their first release, A Light For Attracting Attention. The trio features Radiohead members Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, along with drummer Tom Skinner. The Smile formed during COVID19 lockdowns and made their debut live appearance in May 2021 in a streamed performance produced by Glastonbury Festival. Yorke and Greenwood last charted together with the Radiohead album A Moon Shaped Pool at #2 in May 2016. More recently, Yorke released the solo album, ANIMA which peaked at #23 in July 2019.
Empire of the Sun and The Sleepy Jackson’s Luke Steele makes his solo debut on the ARIA charts at #46 with Listen to the Water. Listen To The Water is Steele’s first album to be credited under his own name and his first release since he collaborated with Daniel Johns under the name DREAMS with the album No One Defeats Us in 2018.
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
March 14 Glass Animals Heat Waves
March 21 Glass Animals Heat Waves
March 28 Glass Animals Heat Waves
April 4 Glass Animals Heat Waves
April 11 Harry Styles As It Was
April 18 Jack Harlow First Class
April 25 Jack Harlow First Class
May 2 Harry Styles As It Was
May 9 Harry Styles As It Was
May 16 Harry Styles As It Was
May 23 Harry Styles As It Was
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
March 14 Encanto Soundtrack
March 21 The Wiggles ReWiggled
March 28 Charli XCX Crash
April 4 Machine Gun Kelly Mainstream Sellout
April 11 Red Hot Chili Peppers Unlimited Love
April 18 Wet Leg Wet Leg
April 25 Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia
May 2 Northlane Obsidian
May 9 Future I Never Liked You
May 16 Daniel Johns FutureNever
May 23 Kendrick Lamar Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
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