Taylor Swift Returns to No. 1 on ARIA Chart

It’s Taylor Swift’s year, and the ARIA Chart is here to remind us.

Just days after Swift was crowned the most-streamed artist on Spotify’s Australian platform, the U.S. pop superstar returns to No. 1 with The Tortured Poets Department (via Universal).

Swift’s collection, the most streamed album in these parts this year on Spotify, lifts 14-1, powered by the release of vinyl and CD editions of The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology.

Tortured Poets locks up a sixth non-consecutive week at the summit, and its first since July.

In a year when TayTay’s The Eras Tour swept through Australia for seven stadium days, all of which sold-out in moments, the superstar singer has set the standard on both main ARIA Charts.

At one point in 2023, Swift swept the entire top 10 on the ARIA Chart – an unprecedented effort. And she delivered a Swift Sweep on the national albums tally in early 2024, by locking up the entire top five on more than one occasion.

Taylor has logged 16 weeks atop the ARIA Chart this year with four different albums: 1989 (Taylor’s Version), Midnights, Lover and The Tortured Poets Department.

As their 50th anniversary Australian tour reached its final destination this week, Cold Chisel enjoys fresh chart life with 50 Years – The Best Of (Cold Chisel/Universal), up 21-13. Following its release, the compilation hit No. 1 on the chart for Chisel’s sixth leader. The rock legends’ tour of Australia shifted more than 225,000 tickets, and will cross the ditch in January 2025 for addional dates in New Zealand.

Christmas comes early to the national charts, led by the respective Queen and King of the holidays, Mariah Carey and Michael Buble. Buble’s Christmas (Reprise/Warner), the Canadian crooner’s diamond-certified collection, which marches back into the chart as it always does this time of year, at No. 15.

At the back end of the list, Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas (Columbia/Sony) re-enters at No. 100. The yuletide set peaked at No. 2 following its release in 1994, and re-entered the top 10 albums chart in 2018 and 2019. For the weeks ahead, with Carey dominating Christmas playlists, as she so often does, the only way is up.

Over on the ARIA Singles Chart, Carey’s former leader “All I Want From Christmas Is You re-enters at No. 7, ahead of Wham’s “Last Christmas” (Sony) at No. 11, and seasonal classics by Brenda Lee, Ariana Grande, Bobby Helms, Buble, Kelly Clarkson and Andy Williams, all of which make their move into the top 50.

Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” peaked at No. 2 following its release in 1994. It had to wait until 2018 for its first stint at No. 1, a lofty position it has occupied every Christmas since, for a total of eight weeks.

Wham’s “Last Christmas” peaked at No. 3 in 1984, and, in the 40 years since, has never gone higher than No. 2 – which it achieved in 2020 and again in 2021.

At the top of the tally, published Friday, December 6th, is Rosé and Bruno Mars’ “APT.” (via Warner), which locks-up its five non-consecutive cycle at No. 1. “APT.” appears on Rosie, the debut solo album from Rosé, the New Zealand-born, Australia-raised Blackpink star. Rosie dropped today.