ARIA Charts

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The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA became the official Australian music chart in June 1988, succeeding the Kent Music Report which had been Australia's national charts since 1974.

History

The Go-Set charts were Australia's first national singles and albums charts published from 2 February 1966 until 24 August 1974. Succeeding Go-Set, the Kent Music Report began issuing the national top 100 charts in Australia from May 1974. The compiler, David Kent, also published Australia's national charts from 1940–1974 in a retrospective fashion using state based data. In April 1983, the Australian Recording Industry Association commenced licensing the Kent Music Report chart. The first printed national top 50 chart available in record stores, branded the Countdown chart, was dated the week ending 10 July 1983.[1]

ARIA began compiling its own charts in-house from the chart dated week ending 26 June 1988.[2] Various artists compilation albums were initially included in the albums chart, as they had been on the Kent Report chart, until 2 July 1989, when a separate Compilations chart was created.[3] The ARIA Report, detailing the top 100 singles and albums charts, was first available via subscription in January 1990. The printed top 50 chart ceased publication in June 1998,[4] but resumed publication later in the year. The printed top 50 chart again ceased publication at the end of 2000.[5]

The ARIA charts are based on data collected from physical and digital retailers in Australia. Data of physical sales come from retailers such as Sanity and JB Hi-Fi, while data of digital sales come from online retailers such as iTunes, Bandit FM, GetMusic and BigPond Music.[6] Since 17 February 1997, all physical sales data contributing towards the chart has been recorded electronically at point of sale.[5]

Starting from 8 October 2006, due to low physical single sales at the time, the ARIA singles chart included online data as well as physical sales. In 2006, it was announced that the Brazin retailing group, comprising major retailers HMV, Sanity and Virgin music/DVD stores would no longer contribute sales data to the ARIA charts.[7][8] However, after a five-month absence, Brazin reportedly re-commenced contributing sales figures to the ARIA Charts on 26 November 2006.[9]

On 1 June 2013, radio program Take 40 Australia began broadcasting the ARIA top 40 singles on Saturday afternoons from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm AEST on the Today Network, before it is released on the ARIA charts website.[10] All charts are then released on the website at 7:00 pm AEST, with each chart dated according to the Monday of the given week.[10] The charts were previously released at 6:00 pm each Sunday.[10] The website lists shortened versions of the albums and singles charts (top 50 instead of top 100), digital tracks chart (top 40 instead of top 50) and the dance singles chart (top 20 instead of top 25). The ARIA Report lists all charts in full and is available via paid e-mail subscription each week. These reports are uploaded to the Pandora Archive periodically.

Charts

ARIA certifications

A music single or album qualifies for a platinum certification if it exceeds 70,000 copies shipped to retailers and a gold certification for 35,000 copies shipped. The diamond certification was created for albums in November 2015 to mark 500,000 sales/shipments.[12]

For music DVDs (formerly videos), a gold accreditation originally represented 7,500 copies shipped, with a platinum accreditation representing 15,000 units shipped.

Format Status[13]
Gold Platinum Diamond
Album 35,000[nb 1] 70,000[nb 1] 500,000[nb 2]
Single 35,000[nb 3] 70,000[nb 3] N/A
Music DVD 7,500 15,000 N/A
  1. 1 2 Australian albums figures can include digital album sales.
  2. ↑ Thus far, only Ed Sheeran's x and Taylor Swift's 1989[14] have gained the certification, although historically other albums have sold as well or better. Sheeran was presented with a Diamond Award at the ARIA Music Awards of 2015.[12]
  3. 1 2 Australian singles figures can include sales from legal digital downloads.[15]

Number-one singles

Pre-2000:

2000 to present:

Number-one albums

Pre-2000:

2000 to present:

See also

References

External links

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