ARIA to launch Vinyl Albums Chart on Record Store Day

Released on the day Americans voted in the 1996 presidential election, the Seattle trio's second album continued their extraordinary mid-90s success, reaching number three in Australia while bringing songs from their earliest independent recordings into the major-label era.

Melbourne rock band Amyl and The Sniffers will play a run of outdoor shows across Brisbane, Fremantle, Sydney and Melbourne in February and March 2027, with $5 from every ticket directed to a group of Australian charities .

Things of Stone and Wood have released "Fade Away", the latest single from their comeback album Rae Street, while confirming more Australian performances and signalling that a second new studio album will follow later in 2026.

An Aussie Single Hasn’t Topped The Charts Since 2022 Mid-season report 2026: There’s good news and bad news.

The debate over streaming fraud and passive listening has intensified as chart milestones continue to be compared with records established during the vinyl, cassette and CD eras. Industry studies, platform disclosures and independent audits now suggest that modern music charts measure a fundamentally different consumer activity than the charts that once tracked physical purchases, raising questions about whether meaningful comparisons can be made across generations.

The Rubens have returned with ‘Are You Getting High', a new single that sees the New South Wales band lean further into the introspective songwriting that has defined much of their recent work. Released as the follow-up to ‘Goanna', the track explores the uneasy emotional space that follows the end of a relationship, capturing the tension between acceptance and unresolved resentment.

by Paul Cashmere The modern music charts used by ARIA, Billboard and the UK's Official Charts Company now measure an entirely different form of consumer behaviour than the charts of the vinyl, cassette and CD eras. While chart headlines frequently compare contemporary streaming milestones with historical sales achievements, industry analysts increasingly acknowledge that the two systems are built on fundamentally incompatible metrics.