ARIA Charts: Another Australian album debuts at #1
Tones and I has topped the ARIA Albums chart with her second record, Beautifully Ordinary, making this the second week in a row an Aussie has taken the top spot following Lime Cordiale’s #1 debut last week.
Amy Shark released her album on Friday, having moved the release date forward a week — no doubt to avoid clashing with Post Malone’s inevitable #1 release — so we might see three Australian #1s in a row by the end of the week.
Given there had been none this year prior to Lime Cordiale, that would be quite the second-half turnaround for 2024.
Speaking of strong Australian debuts, The Deluge, the first album from Paul Dempsey and Bernard Fanning’s synth-driven project, Fanning Dempsey National Park, has entered the charts at #3, one spot ahead of Vultures 2, by Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign, which debuted at #4.
Meanwhile, Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard And Soft remains at #2 – untroubled by all these debuts.
Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department has dropped to #5, its lowest place in its 16-week run so far. Is Taylormania finally over? A cursory glance at the rest of the chart would show five other Swift records in the Top 50 – so, the answer is a firm ‘no’.
Download the ARIA Top 50 – August 12 
Over on the ARIA Singles chart, Charli XCX has taken the top spot with her new single, Guess, knocking Shaboozey off the top spot after a five-week stay.
Billie Eilish remains at #2, much like on the Albums chart, while the highest non-Charli debut comes from Hanumankind and Kalmi, who landed at #15 with Big Dawgs.
Charli XCX also debuted at #18 with her ‘other’ new single, Apple.
ARIA Singles Chart Top 50 – August 12
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Nathan Jolly is the Features Editor at Mumbrella. He joined the team in July, 2023.
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