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List of Australian chart achievements and milestones

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This is a comprehensive listing which highlights significant achievements and milestones in Australian music chart history, based upon Kent Music Report and Australian Recording Industry Association.

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Songs with the most weeks at number one

24 weeks
17 weeks
15 weeks
14 weeks
13 weeks
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Artists with the most number-one songs

Artists with the most consecutive number-one songs

Longest climb to No. 1 on the ARIA Singles Chart

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Longest climb to No. 1 on the ARIA Top 100 Albums Chart (1983–present)

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Songs making the biggest drop from number one

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Songs making the biggest jump to number one inside Top 100 (1963–present)

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Most number-one singles from a single album

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Most top five singles from a single album

Six

Five

Most top-ten singles in a year

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Songs that have hit number one by different artists

Note:[c]

  1. "Mona Lisa" by Dennis Day/Nat King Cole (1950) and Conway Twitty (1959)
  2. "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" by Doris Day (1956) and Normie Rowe (1965)
  3. "In the Summertime" by Mungo Jerry (1970) and The Mixtures (1970)
  4. "Walk Right In" by The Rooftop Singers (1963) and Dr. Hook (1977)
  5. "Venus" by Shocking Blue (1970) and Bananarama (1986)
  6. "Funkytown" by Lipps Inc (1980) and Pseudo Echo (1986)
  7. "Unchained Melody" by Al Hibbler/Les Baxter (1955) and The Righteous Brothers (1990)
  8. "Can't Help Falling in Love" by Elvis Presley (1962) and UB40 (1993)
  9. "The Power of Love" by Jennifer Rush (1985) and Celine Dion (1994)
  10. "Stayin' Alive" by Bee Gees (1978) and N-Trance (1995)
  11. "Killing Me Softly with His Song" by Roberta Flack (1973) and The Fugees (1996, entitled Killing Me Softly)
  12. "American Pie" by Don McLean (1972) and Madonna (2000)
  13. "What About Me" by Moving Pictures (1981) and Shannon Noll (2004)
  14. "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor (1982) and Lee Harding (2005, as a double a-side single with Wasabi)
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Number-one single debuts

Pre-2000

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

Artists with the most cumulative weeks at number-one for singles

Songs with most weeks in the top 100

200 weeks or more

100 weeks or more

75 weeks or more

Songs with most weeks in the top 50

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An asterisk (*) represents that a single is still in the chart

100 weeks or more

80 weeks or more

50 weeks or more

Songs with most weeks at number two

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Note: This list includes songs that eventually peaked at number one in the chart.

Twelve weeks

Eleven weeks

Ten weeks

Nine weeks

Eight weeks

Seven weeks

Songs spending the most weeks in the top ten

Over 31 weeks

22–30 weeks

21 weeks

20 weeks

Biggest drops

Songs that made the biggest drop in the top fifty (30+ places)

Songs that made the biggest drop in the top hundred (45+ places)

Songs that made the biggest jump in the top fifty (30+ places)

Songs that made the biggest jump in the top hundred (50+ places)

Self-replacement at number one on singles chart

Non-English number one songs

Most runs at number one

Singles

Four:

  • Rosé and Bruno Mars – "Apt" (28 October 2024 – 11 November 2024; 2 December 2024 – 23 December 2024; 6 January 2025 – 27 January 2025; and 3 March 2025 – 17 March 2025)

Three:

  • LMFAO – "Sexy and I Know It" (17 October - 21 October 2011; 12 December 2011; and 2 January - 9 January 2012)
  • Flo Rida – "Right Round" (23 February 2009 – 16 March 2009; 30 March 2009; and 13 April – 20 April 2009)

Albums

Albums with most weeks at number one

76 weeks
34 weeks
32 weeks
30 weeks
29 weeks
28 weeks
  • Original Australian Broadway cast – Hair (1969)
27 weeks
25 weeks
20 weeks

Albums with most weeks in Top 100 chart (since 1988; over 100 weeks or 2 years)

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Source and notes:[90][d][e]

300 weeks or more

200 weeks or more

150 weeks or more

125 weeks or more

110 weeks or more

100 weeks or more

(Note: Updated 19 October 2023; some pre-2023 albums may need weeks readjusted) [# at W/C: 7/5/12] - not complete (above)

Most weeks in ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart

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An asterisk (*) represents that an album is still in the chart

300 weeks or more

Updated 11 August 2025

200 weeks or more

150 weeks or more

100 weeks or more

Artists with the most number-one albums

Artists with multiple albums in Top 100/Top 50

Top 100

Top 50

  • Taylor Swift (10) – two consecutive weeks from 6 November 2023 to 13 November 2023[f] and then in April 2024

Artists at number one on singles and albums chart at the same time

Simultaneously occupying the top three or more positions

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Albums

For the first time in ARIA chart history, Michael Jackson occupied the first three spots of the Albums Chart, following his death in June 2009.

  1. The Essential Michael Jackson
  2. Number Ones
  3. Thriller

For the first time in ARIA chart history, Taylor Swift occupied the first five spots of the Albums Chart dated 10 July 2023, after tickets for the Australian leg of The Eras Tour went on-sale.[261]

  1. Midnights
  2. Lover
  3. 1989
  4. Reputation
  5. Folklore

Swift repeated the feat on the chart dated 12 February 2024, with 1989 (Taylor's Version) topping the chart, followed by Midnights, Lover, Reputation and Folklore.[262] She repeated the feat again on the chart dated 26 February 2024, when the Australian leg of The Eras Tour began, with Midnights on No. 1, followed by 1989 (Taylor's Version), Lover, Folklore and Reputation.[4]

On the chart dated 4 March 2024, Swift became the first artist ever to simultaneously occupy the entire top 6 of the albums chart, as the Australian leg of her tour concludes.[260]

  1. Midnights
  2. Lover
  3. 1989 (Taylor's Version)
  4. Folklore
  5. Reputation
  6. Evermore

Singles

After winning season one of The Voice, Karise Eden simultaneously occupied the top three positions of the singles chart, the first time this has occurred in Australian chart history since The Beatles held the top six spots in 1964.[263][g]

On 27 February 2017, Ed Sheeran occupied the top three positions.[265] However next week, "How Would You Feel" fell out of the top ten and was replaced by The Chainsmokers and Coldplay's "Something Just like This".[266]

On 28 October 2022, Taylor Swift occupied the top six positions and nine overall in the top 10, with songs from her tenth studio album, Midnights.

On 26 April 2024 Taylor Swift became the first artist to occupy the entire top ten of the singles chart with songs from her eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department.

On 2 September 2024, Sabrina Carpenter occupied the top three positions.[267]

Other achievements

  • The first artist to have singles debut at the top two simultaneously was Ed Sheeran on 16 January 2017 with "Shape of You" at number one and "Castle on the Hill" at number two.
  • Ed Sheeran has had 3 albums, "÷", "x", and "+" simultaneously in the top 50 for 36 consecutive weeks, from the debut of "÷" on 19 March 2017 to the departure of "+" on 19 November 2017. Together, these albums spent a total of 810 weeks in the top 50.
  • All 16 tracks from Taylor Swift's album Folklore debuted on the singles chart breaking the all-time record for the most simultaneous debuts in one week.[268]
  • On 28 October 2022, Taylor Swift simultaneously occupied 9 out of the 10 spots in the top ten of the singles chart becoming the artist to occupy the most spots in the top ten at a time. She also became the artist with most top ten singles earned in a year.[269]
  • Taylor Swift's "Anti-Hero" became the first song in the chart's history to debut at number one on the airplay chart. Swift was also atop the singles and albums chart making her the very first artist to simultaneously hold three number one's in ARIA chart history.
  • On 17 July 2023, Taylor Swift became the first artist to replace themselves at No. 1 on the albums chart, when Speak Now (Taylor's Version) replaced Midnights.[270]
  • On 26 April 2024 Taylor Swift became the first artist to occupy the entire top ten of the singles chart with songs from her eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department. Additionally Swift charted 29 songs in the top 50 of the singles chart the most by any artist.

Notes

  1. Also the #1 ARIA album of 1999
  2. Also the #1 ARIA album of 1995
  3. Ed Sheeran's "Perfect", either solo, with Andrea Bocelli or with Beyoncé, reached number one for 3 weeks in 2017 and 5 weeks in 2018, but on the chart it was listed without crediting either.
  4. Richard Clayderman's Reveries album spent 178 weeks in the Australian Top 100 from December 1980; The Original Cast Recording of Jesus Christ Superstar spent 141 weeks in the Top 100 (from December 1970); Dire Straits' Love over Gold spent 140 weeks from October 1982
  5. Other notable long-stayers from a soundtrack pre-ARIA days: Grease (OST), The Phantom of the Opera (London Cast Recording), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Original Cast Recording/Soundtrack)
  6. 6 November 2023,[257] 13 November 2023[258]
  7. Eden's songs made some of the biggest falls in Australian chart history in the following weeks. "Stay With Me Baby" fell to #54 the next week, the biggest drop for a #1 single in chart history, and left the top 100 the following week. It is currently the shortest time a #1 song has spent in both the Top 50 and the Top 100. "Hallelujah" dropped from #2 to #38 and then out of the Top 100 the next week. "I Was Your Girl" spent only one week in the Top 100, a drop of 97+ places, the equal biggest fall out of the Top 100 in Australian chart history.[264]

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