News 23 December 2020

AC/DC, Delta Goodrem, Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney and Mariah Carey vie for the ARIA Charts Christmas #1s

The Beatles icon will be aiming for his second Top Five in three years.

AC/DC, Delta Goodrem, Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney and Mariah Carey vie for the ARIA Charts Christmas #1s

It was a Taylor Swift double at the top of last week’s ARIA Charts, with the American star debuting at #1 on the Albums Chart with evermore and at #1 on the Singles Chart with ‘willow’.

Who could take out the #1s on the ARIA Charts for Christmas 2020?

Albums

Paul McCartney shows how he spent his lockdown with the release of 18th solo album, McCartney III. It could give him his second Top Five album in three years, coming on the back of Egypt Station (#4 Sept. ’18).

New Zealand reggae band L.A.B. could make their ARIA Top 50 debut with fourth album, L.A.B. IV.

There could be jumps up this week’s Albums Chart by Eminem’s Music To Be Murdered By, Robbie WilliamsThe Christmas Present, Tame Impala’s The Slow Rush, and more.

Along with the debuts and movers, current occupants of the higher reaches of the chart, AC/DC’s PWR/UP, Taylor Swift’s evermore and Delta Goodrem’s Only Santa Knows could feature high up this week.

Singles

Sia’s ‘Snowman’, from her 2017 Christmas album, could make its Top 50 debut.

‘Underneath The Tree’, from Kelly Clarkson’s 2013 Christmas album, will be aiming for to appear in the Top 50 for the very first time.

Other festive favourites looking to make a move up the chart include Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’, Wham’s ‘Last Christmas’, Michael Bublé’s ‘It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas’ and Ariana Grande’s ‘Santa Tell Me’.

Find out where your favourite artists placed when this week’s ARIA Charts are revealed at 5pm on Saturday.