News 10 September 2021

Nine weeks at #1 on ARIA Singles Chart for The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber's Stay

Plus, Drake breaks a Top 50 record!

Nine weeks at #1 on ARIA Singles Chart for The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber's Stay

The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber hold on to the #1 spot on the ARIA Singles Chart for a ninth straight week with ‘Stay’. The second #1 single for Sydney rapper The Kid Laroi hits equal second spot on the list of most weeks at #1 on the ARIA Singles Chart for track by an Australian artist, joining Justice Crew’s ‘Que Sera’ (#1 May ’14). Tones And I’s ‘Dance Monkey’ (#1 Aug. ’19) is the current record holder with 24 weeks.

Debuting at #1 on this week’s ARIA Albums Chart with Certified Lover Boy, Drake hits the Singles Chart with 20 of the album’s tracks. The Canadian rapper has five tracks in this week’s Top Ten: ‘Girls Want Girls’ (#2), ‘Fair Trade’ (#3), ‘Champagne Poetry’ (#6), ‘Way 2 Sexy’ (#7) and ‘Papi’s Home’ (#8). Further down the chart, there’s ‘Love All’ (#12), ‘Knife Talk’ (#13), ‘In The Bible’ (#14), ‘Tsu’ (#16), ‘No Friends In The Industry’ (#18), ‘N 2 Deep’ (#19), ‘Pipe Down’ (#23), ‘7am On Bridle Path’ (#28), ‘Race My Mind’ (#29), ‘IMY2’ (#33), ‘Fountains’ (#36), ‘Yebba’s Heartbreak’ (#38), ‘You Only Live Twice’ (#40), ‘Get Along Better’ (#41) and ‘F**king Fans’ (#46).

Drake’s 20 tracks break the records for most debuts in the Top 50 in one week and most debuts in the Top 50 in one week set by Kanye West last week.

Legendary Swedish band ABBA return with their first new music in four decades. Debuting at #27 and #39, respectively, ‘Don’t Shut Me Down’ & ‘I Still Have Faith In You’ are the first two singles released from the quartet’s ninth album, Voyage, set for release on 5 November. It’s the first time ABBA have charted in Australia with new material since they hit #48 in December 1982 with ‘The Day Before You Came’. The band last appeared on the chart when ‘Mamma Mia’ re-entered at #48 in July 2008. On the Albums Chart, the career-spanning compilation ABBA Gold & More has re-entered at #18.