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 5 October 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 mid 1983, the Australian Recording Industry Association commenced licensing the Kent Music Report chart.[1] The first printed national top 50 chart available in record stores, branded the Countdown chart, was dated the week ending 10 July 1983.[2]

ARIA began compiling its own charts in-house from the chart dated week ending 26 June 1988.[3] 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.[4] The ARIA Report, detailing the top 100 singles and albums charts, was first available via subscription in January 1990.[1] The printed top 50 chart ceased publication in June 1998,[5] but resumed publication later in the year. The printed top 50 chart again ceased publication at the end of 2000.[6]

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.[7] Since 17 February 1997, all physical sales data contributing towards the chart has been recorded electronically at point of sale.[6] In March 1991, "Do the Bartman" by The Simpsons was the first single to reach #1 in Australia that was not available on 7 inch vinyl, but cassingle only.[8]

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.[9][10] However, after a five-month absence, Brazin reportedly re-commenced contributing sales figures to the ARIA Charts on 26 November 2006.[11]

The ARIA website publishes the top 50 singles and albums charts (truncated from the top 100), top 40 digital tracks chart (truncated from the top 50), and top 20 dance singles chart (truncated from the 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.

Chart shows

On 5 February 2006, the ARIA Chart Show was a radio program launched on the Nova network and broadcast throughout Australia, playing the official ARIA top 50 singles. The live music program was hosted by Jabba each Sunday afternoon at 3:00pm.[12]

From 1 June 2013 to 3 September 2016, the Take 40 Australia radio program broadcast the official ARIA top 40 singles on Saturday afternoons, typically from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm, on each state's Hit Network-owned radio station.[13] The show was aired before the top 50 chart, dated for the following Monday, is published on the ARIA website at 6:00 pm.[13] The charts were previously published online at 6:00 pm each Sunday.[13]

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.[15]

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

Format Current Accreditation Levels[16]
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[17] 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.[15]
  3. 1 2 Australian singles figures can include sales from legal digital downloads.[18]

Prior to ARIA taking on the role of certification authority in 1983, the music industry used the following certification levels:

Format Accreditation Levels used until 1983[19]
Gold Platinum Diamond
Album 20,000 50,000 N/A
Single 50,000 100,000 N/A

Number-one singles

Pre-2000:

2000 to present:

Top 10 singles

2016 to present:

Number-one albums

Pre-2000:

2000 to present:

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "The ARIA Chart Process (from The ARIA Report Issue No. 29)". Imgur.com. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
  2. ↑ "The first ARIA top 50 singles chart (Countdown, 3rd July 1983)". YouTube. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  3. ↑ Scott, Gavin. "25 Years Ago This Week: June 26, 1988". blogspot.com.au. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  4. ↑ Scott, Gavin. "25 Years Ago This Week: July 2, 1989". blogspot.com.au. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  5. ↑ "The ARIA Chart 7 June 1998 (Victoria & Tasmania State Chart)". Imgur. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
  6. 1 2 "The ARIAnet Charts". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 5 April 2001. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  7. ↑ "ARIA Chart Stores". Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 30 December 2013.
  8. ↑ "Chartifacts – Week Ending: 17 March 1991 (from The ARIA Report Issue No. 60)". Imgur.com. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  9. ↑ "Undercover - Your Daily Music Fix".
  10. ↑ "Dining out: Lady Gaga turns heads".
  11. ↑ "Brazin Data Returns To Aus Charts".
  12. ↑ "Australian Record Industry Assocation". www.aria.com.au.
  13. 1 2 3 "Take 40, Top 40 Countdown Australia, Music Charts". ARIA Charts. 4 April 2016. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  14. ↑ Aria End of Decade Chart Retrieved 28 Mar 2010
  15. 1 2 Ryan, Gavin (28 November 2015). "ARIA Albums: Adele '25' Debuts At No 1 in Australia". Noise11. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  16. ↑ "ARIA Charts - Gold and Platinum ARIA Accreditation Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
  17. ↑ Ryan, Gavin (19 December 2015). "ARIA Singles: Justin Bieber 'Love Yourself' Racks Up Second Week at No 1". Noise11. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  18. ↑ "International Certification Award levels" (PDF). International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. March 2010. p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 7 June 2010.
  19. ↑ Glenn A Baker (12 June 1982). Riding an International Wave. Billboard, Nielsen Business Media, Inc. pp. 54, Australia New Zealand insert p2 (A/NZ2). ISSN 0006-2510.
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