Singles
Good 4 U by Olivia Rodrigo takes out the #1 spot on the ARIA singles chart for a fifth straight week. The track is one week away from equaling the run at #1 by Rodrigo’s debut single, Drivers License.
Masked Wolf takes out this week’s highest Australian single again with Astronaut In The Ocean, which stays jumps up a place from #9 to #8 this week.
37 weeks into its run in the top 50, Dua Lipa’s Levitating jumps up two spots to return to its previous peak of #4. Having spent three straight weeks at #4 in January, it dropped as low as #14 before making its move back up the chart.
2021 Eurovision Song Contest winners Maneskin make their ARIA Singles Chart debut at #22 with Beggin. The single is a cover of the track first released by The Four Seasons in 1967. It appeared on Maneskin’s 2017’s EP Chosen. Maneskin won Eurovision with the track Zitti e buoni.
Sydney band Gang Of Youths make their return to the ARIA singles chart for the first time since 2018 as they debut at #48 with The Angel Of 8th Ave. It’s the first single from the group’s forthcoming third album, their follow-up to the ARIA Award-winning Go Farther In Lightness which hit #1 in August 2017. It becomes their highest-charting single, taking over from Let Me Down Easy at #49 in February 2018.
Albums
Olivia Rodrigo makes it five consecutive weeks at #1 on the ARIA albums chart with SOUR. The last artist to spend five or more weeks at #1 on both the albums and singles charts was Ed Sheeran, who spent five straight weeks at #1 in March/April 2017 with ÷ and Shape Of You, respectively.
The highest rating Australian album this week is Nick Cave & Warren Ellis’ Carnage as it scores a new peak on the ARIA albums chart at #2. The album from the long-time collaborators came out digitally as a surprise release in February, charting at #40. It’s the first full-length studio album by Cave and Ellis as a duo, aside from their soundtrack work.
American industrial metal band Fear Factory release their tenth album, Aggression Continuum. It equals the peak of #15 with Fear Factory’s previous album, Genexus in August 2015, and becomes their eighth album to appear in the ARIA top 50. Singer Burton C. Bell departed the band in 2020 after more than three decades as a member. Having recorded his vocals in 2017, he appears on Aggression Continuum.
The soundtrack to Fast & Furious 9: The Fast Saga, the ninth installment in the Fast & Furious film franchise, hits this week’s chart at #29. The album includes tracks by Skepta, Pop Smoke, Lil Tecca, Offset, Trippie Redd and more. The last album from the series to chart was The Fate of the Furious: The Album at #13 in April 2017.
K-pop superstars BTS debut at #31 with the compilation BTS, The Best. The album contains all of the group’s previous Japanese-language singles, including versions of Mic Drop, Fake Love, Idol, Boy With Luv, and On. BTS’ English-language single, Dynamite also appears as a bonus track. BTS were last on the albums chart with BE at #2 in November 2020.
At #10, this week is the 80th week that Fine Line by Harry Styles has been in the top 50. It’s also week 50 for Juice WRLD‘s posthumous album, Legends Never Die which came in at #28.
2021 ARIA Chart Toppers
Singles
January 4 24Goldn Mood
January 11 24Goldn Mood
January 18 Olivia Rodrigo Drivers Licence
January 25 Olivia Rodrigo Drivers Licence
February 1 Olivia Rodrigo Drivers Licence
February 8 Olivia Rodrigo Drivers Licence
February 15 Olivia Rodrigo Drivers Licence
February 22 Olivia Rodrigo Drivers Licence
March 1 Glass Animals Heat Waves
March 8 Glass Animals Heat Waves
March 15 Glass Animals Heat Waves
March 22 Glass Animals Heat Waves
March 29 Glass Animals Heat Waves
April 5 Glass Animals Heat Waves
April 12 Justin Bieber ft. Daniel Caesar & Giveon Peaches
April 19 Justin Bieber ft. Daniel Caesar & Giveon Peaches
April 26 Lil Nas X Montero (Call Me By Your Name)
May 3 Lil Nas X Montero (Call Me By Your Name)
May 10 The Kid Laroi Without You
May 17 Russ Millions and Tion Wayne Body
May 24 Russ Millions and Tion Wayne Body
May 31 Olivia Rodrigo Good 4 U
June 7 Olivia Rodrigo Good 4 U
June 14 Olivia Rodrigo Good 4 U
June 21 Olivia Rodrigo Good 4 U
June 28 Olivia Rodrigo Good 4 U
Albums
January 4 Taylor Swift Evermore
January 11 Taylor Swift Evermore
January 18 Barry Gibb Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers’ Songbook
January 25 Illy The Space Between
February 1 Bluey Bluey The Album
February 8 The Kid Laroi Fuck Love (Savage)
February 15 Foo Fighters Medicine at Midnight
February 22 The Rubens 0202
March 1 Tash Sultana Terra Firma
March 8 Architects For Those That Wish To Exist
March 15 Kings Of Leon When You See Yourself
March 22 Dua Lipa Future Nostalgia
March 29 Justin Bieber Justice
April 5 Skegss Rehearsal
April 12 Justin Bieber Justice
April 19 Taylor Swift Fearless (Taylor’s Version)
April 26 London Grammar Californian Soil
May 3 Justin Bieber Justice
May 10 Amy Shark Cry Forever
May 17 Amy Shark Cry Forever
May 24 Delta Goodrem Bridge Over Troubled Dreams
May 31 Olivia Rodrigo SOUR
June 7 Olivia Rodrigo SOUR
June 14 Olivia Rodrigo SOUR
June 21 Olivia Rodrigo SOUR
June 28 Olivia Rodrigo SOUR