The ARIA Charts are the main Australian
music sales charts, issued weekly by the
Australian Recording Industry Association
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade association representing the Australian recording industry which was established in the 1970s by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replac ...
. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA became the official Australian music chart in June 1988, succeeding the
Kent Music Report
The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent (historian), David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999. The chart was re-branded the Australian Music ...
, which had been Australia's national music sales charts since 1974.
History
The ''
Go-Set
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'' charts were Australia's first national singles and albums charts, published from 5 October 1966 until 24 August 1974. Succeeding ''Go-Set'', the Kent Music Report began issuing the national top 100 charts in Australia from May 1974. The compiler,
David Kent, also published Australia's national charts from 1940 to 1974 in a retrospective fashion using state-based data. In mid-1983, the Australian Recording Industry Association commenced licensing the Kent Music Report chart.
The first printed national top 50 chart available in record stores, branded the ''
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'' chart, was dated the week ending 10 July 1983.
ARIA began compiling its charts in-house from the chart survey dated 13 June 1988, corresponding with the printed top 50 charts dated the week ending 26 June 1988. Various artists' compilation albums were initially included in the albums chart, as they had been on the Kent Report chart, until 2 July 1989, when a separate Compilations chart was created. ''The ARIA Report'', detailing the top 100 singles and albums charts, was first available via subscription in January 1990.
[ The printed top 50 charts ceased publication in June 1998, but resumed publication later in the year. The printed top 50 charts again ceased publication at the end of 2000.][
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'' was the first single to reach No. 1 in Australia that was not available on 7-inch vinyl, but cassingle only.
In April 2006, ARIA began publishing the Digital Tracks Chart, counting download sales data from providers such as iTunes
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and BigPond Music. Starting from 9 October 2006, digital sales data was integrated into the singles chart alongside physical sales, although singles were required to have a physical release to be included. From 5 November 2007, the eligibility rules were widened so that singles only available digitally could chart, and " Apologize" by Timbaland
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was the first single to enter the chart purely on digital sales. In February 2008, " Don't Stop the Music" by Rihanna
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became the first single to reach number one on digital sales alone.
In May 2006, it was announced that the Brazin retailing group, comprising HMV, Sanity
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and Virgin Megastore outlets, would no longer contribute sales data to the ARIA charts. However, after a five-month absence, Brazin reportedly re-commenced contributing sales figures on 26 November 2006.
On 10 December 2012, ARIA launched the Streaming Tracks Chart, tracking audio streaming data from services such as Spotify
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, and later Apple Music
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. ARIA introduced streaming data into the singles chart on 24 November 2014, and the albums chart on 15 May 2017. In October 2018, ARIA changed the methodology to give greater emphasis to paid subscription streams over ad-supported streams.
On 15 March 2021, ARIA announced that as of the following Friday, they would be releasing weekly chart figures at 5pm AEST
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each Friday, replacing the previous method of releasing them each Saturday evening.
On 1 March 2022, the association announced that chart figures would incorporate YouTube
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streaming data from logged-in users from 4 March onwards.
Publication
The ARIA website publishes the top 50 singles and albums charts (truncated from the top 100), top 40 digital tracks chart (truncated from the top 50), and top 20 dance singles chart (truncated from the top 25). The ARIA Report lists all charts in full and is available via paid e-mail subscription each week. These reports are uploaded to the Pandora Archive periodically.
The top 50 singles and albums charts are also published by online industry magazine ''The Music Network
''The Music Network'' is an Australian magazine launched in 1994 by John Woodruff. In 2017, it was acquired by Jake Challenor, who serves as its publisher and editor.
History
''The Music Network'' was founded by John Woodruff in 1994, initi ...
'', along with various other charts.
Chart shows
On 5 February 2006, the ''ARIA Chart Show'' was a radio program launched on the Nova network and broadcast throughout Australia, playing the official ARIA top 50 singles. The live music program was hosted by Jabba each Sunday afternoon at 3:00pm.
From 1 June 2013 to 3 September 2016, the ''Take 40 Australia
''Take 40 Australia'' was Australia's first and longest-running music countdown. It counted down the official top 40 singles on the ARIA chart on a weekly basis. It was broadcast nationally each week to over 1.2 million listeners. Starting i ...
'' radio program broadcast the official ARIA top 40 singles on Saturday afternoons, typically from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm, on each state's Hit Network-owned radio station.
Charts
*ARIA Top 100 Singles Chart
*ARIA Top 100 Albums Chart
*ARIA Top 100 Physical Albums Chart (only published in The ARIA Report)
* ARIA Top 50 Digital Tracks Chart (only published in The ARIA Report as of February 2020)
* ARIA Top 50 Digital Albums Chart (only published in The ARIA Report as of February 2020)
* ARIA Top 50 Streaming Tracks Chart
* ARIA Top 50 Club Tracks Chart (replaced with the Club Buzz Chart during the COVID-19 pandemic)
*ARIA Top 50 Catalogue Albums Chart
* ARIA Top 40 Urban Singles Chart
* ARIA Top 40 Urban Albums Chart
* ARIA Top 40 Country Albums Chart
*ARIA Top 40 Music DVDs Chart
* ARIA Top 25 Dance Singles Chart
*ARIA Top 25 Dance Albums Chart (only published in The ARIA Report)
*ARIA Top 20 Australian Artist Singles Chart
*ARIA Top 20 Australian Artist Albums Chart
*ARIA Top 20 Compilation Albums Chart
*ARIA Top 20 Jazz & Blues Albums Chart
*ARIA Top 20 Classical/Crossover Albums Chart
*ARIA Top 10 Core Classical Albums Chart
*ARIA Top 20 Hitseekers Singles Chart (only published in The ARIA Report)
*ARIA Top 20 Hitseekers Albums Chart (only published in The ARIA Report)
*Yearly Top 100 End of Year charts profiling the year in music
*End of Decade Top 100 charts profiling the decade in musicAria End of Decade Chart
Retrieved 28 March 2010
Number-one singles
Pre-2000
*1940s
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*1950s
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*1960s
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*List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1970s, 1970s
*List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1980s, 1980s
*List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1990s, 1990s
2000 to present
*List of number-one singles of 2000 (Australia), 2000
*List of number-one singles of 2001 (Australia), 2001
*List of number-one singles of 2002 (Australia), 2002
*List of number-one singles of 2003 (Australia), 2003
*List of number-one singles of 2004 (Australia), 2004
*List of number-one singles of 2005 (Australia), 2005
*List of number-one singles of 2006 (Australia), 2006
*List of number-one singles of 2007 (Australia), 2007
*List of number-one singles of 2008 (Australia), 2008
*List of number-one singles of 2009 (Australia), 2009
*List of number-one singles of 2010 (Australia), 2010
*List of number-one singles of 2011 (Australia), 2011
*List of number-one singles of 2012 (Australia), 2012
*List of number-one singles of 2013 (Australia), 2013
*List of number-one singles of 2014 (Australia), 2014
*List of number-one singles of 2015 (Australia), 2015
*List of number-one singles of 2016 (Australia), 2016
*List of number-one singles of 2017 (Australia), 2017
*List of number-one singles of 2018 (Australia), 2018
*List of number-one singles of 2019 (Australia), 2019
*List of number-one singles of 2020 (Australia), 2020
*List of number-one singles of 2021 (Australia), 2021
*List of number-one singles of 2022 (Australia), 2022
Top-10 singles
2006 to present
*List of top 10 singles in 2006 (Australia), 2006
*List of top 10 singles in 2007 (Australia), 2007
*List of top 10 singles in 2008 (Australia), 2008
*List of top 10 singles in 2009 (Australia), 2009
*List of top 10 singles in 2010 (Australia), 2010
*List of top 10 singles in 2011 (Australia), 2011
*List of top 10 singles in 2012 (Australia), 2012
*List of top 10 singles in 2013 (Australia), 2013
*List of top 10 singles in 2014 (Australia), 2014
*List of top 10 singles in 2015 (Australia), 2015
*List of top 10 singles in 2016 (Australia), 2016
*List of top 10 singles in 2017 (Australia), 2017
*List of top 10 singles in 2018 (Australia), 2018
*List of top 10 singles in 2019 (Australia), 2019
*List of top 10 singles in 2020 (Australia), 2020
*List of top 10 singles for 2021 in Australia, 2021
*List of top 10 singles for 2022 in Australia, 2022
Number-one albums
Pre-2000
2000 to present
Top-10 albums
2016 to present
See also
*Music of Australia
*List of Australian chart achievements and milestones
References
External links
*
All ARIA Albums Charts No. 1s
from July 1983 to the present day
All ARIA Single Charts No. 1s
from July 1983 to the present day
Top 50 chart archives from June 1988
at australian-charts.com
Top 100 chart archives from January 2001 to September 2019
at National Library of Australia
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Australian Recording Industry Association
1988 establishments in Australia
Australian record charts