Gavin Ryan

Pink Keeps Mumford & Sons From ARIA Chart Peak

It’s been six weeks since an album has held onto the No.1 spot for a second week (“The Sapphires Soundtrack for two weeks from 20-Aug), but P!nk’s “The Truth About Love” holds for a second week at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart survey.

Tagged as: Clare Bowditch, Mumford & Sons, Pink

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Guy Sebastian PSY Fi’d Off Top Of ARIA Chart

by Gavin Ryan

Park Jae-sang is better known as the South Korean K-Pop artist PSY, who moves up to No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart with his first hit here “Gangham Style”, the song turning over to Platinum in sales within its third week on the charts, and we are now the tenth country around the planet to

Tagged as: ARIA, Guy Sebastian, Psy

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Pink The Truth About Love Debuts At Top Of ARIA Chart

by Gavin Ryan

The sixth studio album for P!nk entitled “The Truth About Love” lands at No.1 this week becoming her fourth No.1 album in Australia and her third consecutive No.1 debut.

Tagged as: ARIA, Pink, The Killers, The Rubens, The Truth About Love

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Guy Sebastian Now Equals 2nd Longest No 1 Of 2012

by Gavin Ryan

Six weeks now at No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart for Guy Sebastian and his “Battle Scars”, making it the equal second longest running chart-topper for 2012 alongside Flo Rida’s “Wild Ones” featuring Sia (Jan/Feb 2012).

Tagged as: ARIA, Carly Rae Jepsen, Flo Rida, Guy Sebastian

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Gympie’s The Amity Affliction Tops ARIA Album Chart

by Gavin Ryan

145 years ago gold was discovered in the town of Gympie, Queensland, today though they can claim their first No.1 album by a local group; The Amity Affliction with their third album entitled “Chasing Ghosts” enters at No.1, the head of six Top 10 debuts this week.

Tagged as: ARIA, Bob Dylan, Kasey Chambers, Pet Shop Boys, Shane Nicholson, The Amity Affliction, The xx

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Guy Sebastian Tops Aussie Chart For 5th Week

by Gavin Ryan

Guy Sebastian spends a fifth consecutive week at No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart with his longest running No.1 (so far) “Battle Scars” feat Lupe Fiasco, plus the song is now the equal third longest running chart-topper for 2012, tying with “Call Me Maybe” for Carly Rae Jepsen (TW-30).

Tagged as: ARIA, Carly Rae Jepsen, Guy Sebastian, Timomatic

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Birdy Replaces The Sapphires As Top ARIA Album

by Gavin Ryan

Back in May 2011, The Wombats debuted and peaked at No.2 in Australia with their second album “This Modern Glitch”, which is on the 14th Floor Records label (through Atlantic/Warner here).

Tagged as: ARIA, Birdy, Gavin Ryan, James Morrison, Karin Schaupp, Katie Noonan

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Guy Sebastian Scores An ARIA Hat Trick

by Gavin Ryan

Guy Sebastian keeps his “Battle Scars” at No.1 in Australia for a third week, matching the three week run at the top of his first No.1 “Angels Brought Me Here” (Dec 2003).

Tagged as: ARIA, Flo Rida, Gavin Ryan, Guy Sebastian, James Morrison, Jason Derulo, The Veronicas

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The Sapphires Remains ARIA Number One Album

by Gavin Ryan

The Soundtrack to the film “The Sapphires” stays at No.1 for a second week, whilst it was also again at No.2 for a second week on the Australian Box Office report, only dropping 17% from the previous weeks box office receipts (most second week films drop dramatically, so 17% is a good thing).

Tagged as: ARIA, Ed Sheeran, Jessica Mauboy, The Sapphires

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Guy Sebastian Maintains Top Spot On ARIA Singles Chart

by Gavin Ryan

Guy Sebastian stays at No.1 for a second week with his sixth chart-topping single “Battle Scars”, picking up a Gold sales certification and it becomes his third consecutive two-week-running No.1 track, as “Like it Like That” (Sept 2009) and “Who’s That Girl” (Dec 2011) both spent two weeks at the top.

Tagged as: Abba, ARIA, Guy Sebastian, Justice Crew

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Guy Sebastian Equals Abba For Number 1 Hits In Australia

by Gavin Ryan

Guy Sebastian scores his sixth No.1 single in Australia by debuting at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart with his new track “Battle Scars”. He now sits in third position on the list of ‘Aussie’s with the Most No.1’s’ behind Delta Goodrem with eight and Kylie Minogue with ten.

Tagged as: Abba, Guy Sebastian, Justice Crew

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The Sapphires Becomes First Soundtrack Since Mamma Mia To Reach No 1

by Gavin Ryan

The new Australian feature film “The Sapphires” debuted at No.2 on the box-office report last week (with $2.475 million behind Dark Knight Rises’ $2.9 million), and this week on the ARIA Albums Chart, the soundtrack jumps up to No.1 becoming the first film soundtrack to make it to No.1 this decade, and the first locally

Tagged as: ARIA, Ed Sheeran, Jessica Mauboy, The Sapphires

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Ed Sheeran, Photo Image Ros O'Gorman, Noise11

Ed Sheeran Has The Number One Album In Australia

by Gavin Ryan

Ed Sheeran’s “+” (plus and/or positive) jumps up two places to land at No.1 after forty-six weeks within the Top 100, becoming the equal-fifth longest climb to No.1 in ARIA Chart history (1983 to 2012). The album originally debuted at No.1 in the UK last September, but did take 39 weeks to climb to the

Tagged as: Ed Sheeran

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Justice Crew Boom Boom Stays No. 1 On ARIA Chart

by Gavin Ryan

“Boom Boom” for local dance troupe Justice Crew holds at No.1 on the ARIA Singles Chart for a second week, in fact the entire top three from last week stay put this week, Maroon 5’s “One More Night” equaling the two-weeks-at-No.2 “Payphone” (TW-19) achieved back in June, whilst former No.1 “Some Nights” for fun. holds

Tagged as: ARIA, Ed Sheeran, Flo Rida, Fun, Gavin Ryan, Justice Crew, The Veronicas

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Karise Eden Makes 6 Weeks At No 1 For ARIA

by Gavin Ryan

Karise Eden’s “My Journey” spends its sixth straight week at No.1 on the ARIA Albums chart, and also picks up a second Platinum sales certification. That album now becomes the longest continuous chart run this year (Adele has had two runs of four week’s, and a total of nine weeks at No.1 this year), and

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Justice Crew Become First Aussie Band With No 1 Single In 5 Years

by Gavin Ryan

Justice Crew become the first Australian group to hit No.1 in over five years, as their fourth single “Boom Boom” climbs to No.1 this week and lands a Platinum sales certification too.

Tagged as: ARIA, Flo Rida, Fun, Gavin Ryan, Justice Crew, The Veronicas

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ARIA Number One Is Still fun

by Gavin Ryan

Current tourist’s fun. stay on top of the ARIA Singles Chart for a second week with their second No.1 “Some Nights”, but challenging for the lead this week are local dance troupe Justice Crew who jump up five places to No.2 with “Boom Boom”, another chart career high for the group who three weeks ago

Tagged as: ARIA, charts, Fun, Gavin Ryan

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Karise Eden Makes It Five Weeks At No 1 On ARIA

by Gavin Ryan

Karise Eden’s “My Journey” album stays on top of the ARIA Albums Chart for a fifth consecutive week, now equaling Damien Leith’s “The Winners Journey” (from 18-Dec-2006) five week stretch at the top for ‘Reality Show Winners (local) Longest No.1 Albums’.

Tagged as: ARIA Charts, Karise Eden, The Voice

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Karise Eden Welcomes Darren Percival, Rachael Leahcar and Sarah De Bono To ARIA Chart

by Gavin Ryan

Karise Eden’s “My Journey” album holds for a fourth consecutive week at No.1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, as her former competitors debut all below her, giving us four acts from ‘The Voice’ within the Top 10 this week, something which Australian Idol could only do once with two albums from two former acts (winner

Tagged as: ARIA, Darren Percival, Karise Eden, Rachael Leahcar, Sarah De Bono, The Voice

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fun. Bumps Pink From Number One On ARIA Chart

by Gavin Ryan

Fun become the second act this year and the second group this decade to score two No.1 singles, as their new track “Some Nights” moves up a spot to the top of the ARIA Singles Chart this week. Earlier in the year they hit No.1 with “We Are Young”, which held the top spot for

Tagged as: ARIA, Carly Rae Jepsen, Flo Rida, Fun, Pink

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Karise Eden Makes It 3 Weeks On Top Of ARIA Album Chart

by Gavin Ryan

For a third week, The Voice winner Karise Eden holds onto the No.1 spot on the ARIA Albums Chart with her “My Journey” album, but this coming week her three former grand finalists are all releasing their solo albums, so could Karise be in for some No.1 competition again from her former competitors, we will

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Pink Lands Her 6th ARIA Number One

by Gavin Ryan

P!nk lands her sixth No.1 single in Australia by debuting at the top this week with “Blow Me (One Last Kiss)”, the first single from her sixth studio album ‘The Truth About Love’ which is due in mid September.

Tagged as: ARIA, charts, Gavin Ryan, Pink, Reece Mastin

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Karise Eden Album Keeps Her Voice At No. 1

by Gavin Ryan

The Voice winner Karise Eden holds at No.1 for a second week with her collection of songs on “My Journey”, giving us two different reality show winners at No.1 in Australia this week, with Reece Mastin at No.1 on the ARIA singles chart.

Tagged as: ARIA Charts, Gavin Ryan, Justin Bieber, Karise Eden, One Direction, Reece Mastin

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Reece Mastin Debuts At 1, Karise Eden Plummets

by Gavin Ryan

Reece Mastin debuts at No.1 with his third single entitled “Shout it Out”, which becomes the 97th No.1 debut in Australia and our 993rd No.1 single (1940 to 2012) plus it’s the 427th No.1 for ARIA (1983 to 2012).

Tagged as: ARIA Chart, Australian-charts.com, Gavin Ryan, Karise Eden, Reece Mastin

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The Voice ARIA Slaughterhouse, Karise Eden 1 to 54

by Gavin Ryan

For all of the huge debuts that The Voice racked up last week, their presence in the Top 10 has been reduced to one song within the entire ten.

Tagged as: ARIA, Karise Eden, The Voice

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Karise Eden Takes Top Spot On ARIA Chart

by Gavin Ryan

Karise Eden drops from the No.1 spot on the singles chart, but claims the new No.1 album in the country with instantly platinum certified “My Journey”, which is also the sixth consecutive No.1 debut in the past seven weeks.

Tagged as: ARIA Charts, Gavin Ryan, Karise Eden, The Voice

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The Voice Winner Karise Eden Debuts With 3 Songs On ARIA

by Gavin Ryan

The winner of the first Australian edition of The Voice was crowned on Monday night (18th June, 2012), and the winner Karise Eden not only debuts at No.1 with her version of the song “Stay With Me Baby” (only previous version to chart in Australia was The Walker Brothers in 1967 version HP-45), she also

Tagged as: ARIA, Karise Eden, Seal, The Voice

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Justin Bieber Believe Debuts At No. 1

by Gavin Ryan

Justin Bieber’s third album becomes his second No.1 album here in Australia, as “Believe” debuts at No.1 this week, also becoming the 309th No.1 debut and the fifth consecutive top-spot debut.

Tagged as: ARIA, Australian-charts.com, Believe, Gavin Ryan, Justin Bieber

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ARIA Chart Positions Project A 2025 Australian Artist Chart Disgrace

ARIA’s first six months of published music charts are projecting that Australian artist chart figures for 2025 will be a disaster. All that recent fluff about changing the chart formula looks like just ‘deck chairs being rearranged on the Titanic’ based on how Australian artists have performed on the ARIA chart so far in 2025.

July 13, 2025

Not One Australian Song Released In 2024 Made The ARIA Top 100 of 2024

The ARIA end of year chart has been revealed and it is another embarrassment for Australian artists. Not one Australian song released in 2024 made the Top 100. Just three Australian artists made the ARIA Top 100 albums for 2024. They were Cold Chisel, The Kid Laroi and INXS.

January 14, 2025

Missy Higgins AWITG on Sunday 19 November 2017. Photo by Ros O'Gorman

The Artists Missy Higgins Skipped Over For The ARIA Hall of Fame

Missy Higgins released her debut album ‘The Sound of White’ in 2004 and yes it was huge. It was a number one album that year and she had two more number one albums in a row. A position in the ARIA Hall of Fame is warranted. But for FFS ARIA, how about these artists first:

August 18, 2024

Not One Australian Song of 2023 Made The ARIA End of Year Top 100

Once again, ARIA has proven itself a disgrace with a complete lack of attention to Australian artists in 2023. Not one Australian song released in 2023 made the ARIA End of Year Top 100 Singles and only one Australian album released in 2023 made the ARIA End of Year Top 100 Albums.

January 12, 2024

Why Are The ARIA Awards Full Of Acts Who Can’t Even Make The ARIA Chart?

The nominations for the 2023 ARIA Awards have been announced and once again the glaring failures of the ARIA Chart disconnect with Australian acts and music consumers couldn’t be more obvious.

September 21, 2023

The ARIA Chart Is Something To Get ‘Angry’ About

The Rolling Stones 'Angry' debuted at 329 on the ARIA chart this week. Flop? Not really. It is another example of the how irrelevant the ARIA chart has become. It irrelevance is also having a negative impact on the perspective of Australian artist's success.

September 18, 2023