Chart’s new best friend

It’s the first week of the brand new ARIA charts and to kick it off, Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend roars onto the albums chart at #1, ending the seven-week run of the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, while The Wolfe Brothers return with their latest top 10 album. 

Man’s Best Friend is Sabrina’s seventh studio album and the follow up to Short N’ Sweet, which has spent 13 non-consecutive weeks at #1 over the past year. Short N’ Sweet bounces back up the chart, from #12 to #6. 

The lead single from the new album, Manchild, reached #2 in June and bounces back from #20 to #7 this week. New track Tears debuts at #3, while another 10 tracks land in the top 50. 

The Wolfe Brothers land at #9 with Australian Made. It’s the seventh studio album from Tom and Nick Wolfe and their fifth straight top 10 album. They reached #10 in 2015 with This Crazy Life, #9 in 2018 with Country Heart, #6 in 2021 with Kids On Cassette and #8 in 2023 with Livin’ The Dream. 

Fellow Aussie country act Hayley Jensen’s Country Soul is new at #14. It’s her best chart result: Turning Up The Dial got to #52 in 2018 and Breakin’ Hearts peaked at #25 in 2021.

Speaking of Australian acts, Keli Holiday – the alter-ego of Peking Duk’s Adam Hyde – takes the #1 spot on the Australian music singles chart with Dancing2. It’s the first track from his yet-to-be-titled second full-length album. 

It’s a good week for Tyler, The Creator, who wraps his Australian tour tonight. His former #1 album Chromakopia rises from #16 to #15, current album Don’t Tap The Glass rebounds from #23 to #16 and the 10th anniversary edition of Cherry Bomb is at #23 (it hit a new peak of #10 last week). His 2019 album Igor is at #3 on the new On Replay albums chart. 

Under the new chart rules, the albums chart sees 17 new entries and 45 re-entries to the top 100, meaning only 38 of the albums in this week’s chart continue on from last week. 

On the ARIA Singles Chart, Golden from the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack extends its reign at #1 to six weeks in a row. It’s now tied with Psy’s 2012 hit Gangnam Style as the longest running #1 ever by a Korean artist.

English singer-songwriter Olivia Dean lands in the top 10 for the first time, as Man I Need rises from #12 to #6. 

The On Replay Albums Chart gifts Sabrina Carpenter another #1 with her 2022 release Emails I Can’t Send – it reached #27 on the main albums chart – while the #1 On Replay single is Goo Goo Dolls’ Iris. It spent five weeks at #1 in 1998.