ARIA Charts: Taylor Swift occupies the entire Top 10… and over half of the Top 50
Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, has taken over the entire ARIA Top 10 Singles Chart, and 28 spots in the Top 50. This madness needs to end.
As the below chart neatly illustrates, the ARIA Singles Chart becomes completely worthless when a blockbuster album is released.
New Taylor Swift songs occupy the entire top 10, with another six taking up the remainder of the 20.
Just say you don’t like Taylor Swift. Wanting to change the entire system because one person achieved too highly is akin to “everyone gets a ribbon” in primary school.
A few weeks ago I asked ARIA this question. I still have not got a response.
ARIA is rigged. It’s the chart equivalent of drugs in sport.
“Just wondering what the P indicates these days next to a song or album in the ARIA charts? It used to be for “Platinum” sales before the streaming era.
For instance, this week Taylor Swift’s “You Belong With Me” debuts at #37 and is marked “P”. Similarly her song “Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince” lands at #42 in its second week after dropping 10 places, yet is also marked “P”.
Surely this can’t mean Platinum any more.
There are so many artists whose songs and albums have charted longer and higher who don’t get such accreditation.
Can you explain the accreditation please ARIA”