Madonna scores her 13th #1 album as \u201cConfessions II\u201d arrives at the summit of the ARIA Albums Chart this week. It\u2019s the sequel to \u201cConfessions On A Dance Floor\u201d, which spent one week at #1 in 2005.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The best-selling female music artist of all time, Madonna has now racked up 22 top 10 albums, hitting #1 with \u201cTrue Blue\u201d in 1986, the \u201cI\u2019m Breathless\u201d soundtrack in 1990, \u201cThe Immaculate Collection\u201d in 1990, \u201cErotica\u201d in 1992, \u201cBedtime Stories\u201d in 1994, \u201cSomething To Remember\u201d in 1995, \u201cRay Of Light\u201d in 1998, \u201cConfessions On A Dance Floor\u201d in 2005, \u201cHard Candy\u201d in 2008, \u201cMDNA\u201d in 2012, \u201cRebel Heart\u201d in 2015, \u201cFinally Enough Love\u201d in 2022 and now \u201cConfessions II\u201d. Only Jimmy Barnes, The Beatles and Taylor Swift have had more #1 albums.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Newcomer Sienna Shapiro lands at #3 with her debut album, \u201cVisitor\u201d. The UK singer has had three top 50 singles over the past year, including \u201cDie On This Hill\u201d, which peaked at #19.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Legendary UK rock band Deep Purple return with their 24th studio album, \u201cSplat!\u201d, new at #19. Formed in 1968, they hit #1 twice before the ARIA charts started in 1988: in 1970 with \u201cDeep Purple In Rock\u201d and again in 1972 with \u201cMachine Head\u201d. Since then, they have had scored one top 50 album: \u201cWhoosh!\u201d reached #13 in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Ella Langley\u2019s \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas\u201d holds at #1 for the fifth non-consecutive week on the Singles Chart. Her 2025 track \u201cWeren\u2019t For The Wind\u201d hits a new peak, up from #57 to #37.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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As Tame Impala\u2019s \u201cDracula\u201d climbs to new peak of #8 on the \u201cBillboard 100\u201d and #1 on the Pop Airplay charts in the US, it sits at #9 on the Singles Chart, #1 and clocks its 37th non-consecutive week at #1 on the Australian Singles Chart. Only three songs have spent more weeks at #1 on the latter: Vance Joy\u2019s \u201cRiptide\u201d (61 weeks on top), The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber\u2019s \u201cStay\u201d (57 weeks) and Tones and I\u2019s \u201cDance Monkey\u201d (54 weeks).\u00a0<\/p>\n
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New Yorker Sombr scores his fifth top 30 hit in less than two years as \u201cMy Body Isn\u2019t Ready\u201d jumps from #46 to #27. Its four predecessors \u2013 \u201cBack To Friends\u201d, \u201cUndressed\u201d, \u201c12 To 12\u201d and \u201cHomewrecker\u201d \u2013 all reached the top 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Michael Jackson\u2019s 1982 album \u201cThriller\u201d holds at #1 on the ARIA On Replay Albums Chart; it\u2019s the best-selling album of all time, with estimated worldwide sales of 70 million copies. The second single from the album, \u201cBillie Jean\u201d, is #1 again on the On Replay Singles Chart.<\/p>\n
Hilltop Hoods sit at #2 on the Vinyl Chart and #3 on the On Replay Albums with \u201cDrinking From The Sun, Walking\u00a0 Under Stars Restrung\u201d, a remix album of their 2016 album by the same name. It is the second Restrung album after 2007\u2019s \u201cThe Hard Road: Restrung\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madonna scores her 13th #1 album as \u201cConfessions II\u201d arrives at the summit of the ARIA Albums Chart…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-793674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}