A Boone for Benson

Benson Boone breaks into the ARIA Albums Chart at #1 this week with his second album, American Heart. 

His first, Fireworks & Rollerblades, peaked at #17 last year and was home to the #1 single of 2024: Beautiful Things, which comes in at #8 on the singles chart this week. 

Sabrina Carpenter’s Short N’ Sweet lands at #2, while Morgan Wallen’s I’m The Problem climbs one spot to #3.

Yungblud debuts at #4 with Idols, his fourth album. The English pop-punk singer – real name Dominic Richard Harrison – reached #6 in 2020 with Weird! and spent one week at #1 in 2022 with Yungblud.

The soundtrack from Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters is new at #5. The movie is centred on a fictional K-pop girl group, HUNTR/X, who lead double lives as demon hunters and battle a rival boy band, whose members are secretly demons.

Californian sisters Alana, Danielle and Este Haim round out the top 20 with I Quit at #20. It’s Haim’s fourth chart appearance: they reached #2 in 2013 with Days Are Gone, #4 in 2017 with Something To Tell You and #7 in 2020 with Women In Music Part III. 

The 25th anniversary edition of Killing Heidi’s Reflector debuts at #22. Ella and Jesse Hooper’s debut album spent six weeks at #1 in 2000 and spawned three top 10 singles: Weir (peaked at #6), Mascara/Leave Me Alone (#1 for three weeks) and Live Without It (peaked at #5). They won four ARIA Awards in 2000, including Album of the Year and Best Group.

On the Singles Chart, Alex Warren’s Ordinary sits at #1 for the 14th week in a row, putting it in a tie with ABBA’s Fernando and Rosè and Bruno Mars’ APT., which also spent 14 weeks on top in 1976 and 2024-25 respectively. Incidentally, Alex’s track with Rosè, On My Mind, is out today. One more week at #1 and Ordinary will level up with Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of You, which ruled for 15 weeks in 2017. 

Fred Again.., Skepta and PlaqueBoyMax debut at #3 with Victory Lap. It’s the second top 20 single for Fred Again.., who reached #13 in 2023 with Leavemealone (with Baby Keem). It’s the first top 20 appearance by Skepta and the first chart ink for PlaqueBoyMax.

Disco Lines and Tinashe’s No Broke Boys jumps from #20 to #9 in its second week on the chart. It’s a remix of the original No Broke Boys from Tinashe’s 2024 album Quantum Baby. Tinashe reached #3 in 2015 as a featured artist (along with Chance The Rapper) on Snakehips’ All My Friends.