Kylie takes her fifth consecutive #1

It’s a double-header this week as Australia’s queen of pop, Kylie Minogue, becomes the sixth local artist to top the ARIA Albums Chart in 2024, new at #1 with Tension II; while Melbourne-raised K-pop sensation Rosé ends Sabrina Carpenter’s reign at the top of the Singles Chart. All this in a week with four Aussie debuts in the top 10! 

Tension II is Kylie’s follow-up to Tension, which spent one week on top in September last year. It is her ninth time at the top of the chart and her fifth consecutive #1 album (it’s also on track to become her 10th #1 album in the UK). 

She now ranks ninth on the list of the acts with the most #1 albums, after reaching #1 with Light Years in 2000, Fever in 2001, X in 2007, Kiss Me Once in 2014, Golden in 2018, Step Back In Time: The Definitive Collection in 2019, Disco in 2020 and Tension last year.  

Tension II is Kylie’s 17th studio album, reaching back to Kylie, which peaked at #2 in 1988. She has had 10 #1 singles in Australia, from Locomotion in 1987 to 2 Hearts in 2007.

ARIA CEO, Annabelle Herd, said: “It is so awesome to see Australia’s OG pop queen continuing to dominate globally and at home, bringing joy and disco into our lives. Huge congratulations to her and her team for such a phenomenal career, five consecutive #1 albums, and continuing to represent Australia on the world stage!”

Local singer Dean Lewis lands at #2 with The Epilogue. The three-time ARIA Award winner hit #27 in 2017 with Same Kind Of Different, #1 in 2019 with A Place We Knew and #4 in 2022 with The Hardest Love. 

NSW rock duo Skeggss debut at #4 with their third full-length album Pacific Highway Music. They reached #2 in 2018 with My Own Mess and #1 in 2021 with Rehearsal. Their 2015 EP, 50 Push Ups For A Dollar, hit #4 in 2015. 

ARIA Award winner Thelma Plum’s second album, I’m Sorry, Now Say It Back, arrives at #7. Her debut, Better In Blak, peaked at #4 in 2019 and her EP Meanjin stopped at #28 in 2022. 

Aussie electro-pop band Confidence Man return to the chart at #40 with 3AM (La La La). Their first album, Confident Music For Confident People, topped out at #31 in 2018, while Tilt climbed to #7 in 2022. They are nominated for three 2024 ARIA Awards, which will be handed out on 20 November. 

Queensland country duo Route 33 are new at #62 with their third studio album Chapters. They reached #59 in 2017 with The Switch and #26 in 2019 with Coro Drive. 

On the ARIA Singles Chart, Blackpink star Rosé and Bruno Mars charge onto the chart at #1 with APT., making her the first solo K-pop star to top the chart since 2012, when PSY’s Gangnam Style spent six weeks on top. She is the first solo female K-pop star to ever top the ARIA Singles Chart, and with Blackpink, holds the record for the highest-debuting single by a K-pop group in ARIA chart history after Pink Venom hit #1 in 2022. 

APT. is a reference to South Korean drinking game aparteu, or apartment in English, and is the first single from Rosé’s debut album Rosie, which lands on 6 December. 

Born in New Zealand and raised in Australia, Rosé reached #31 with On The Ground and #63 with Gone, both in 2021. APT. is Bruno’s fourth number following Just The Way You Are and Grenade in 2010 and Uptown Funk (with Mark Ronson) in 2014. He is also at #4 this week with former #2 hit Die With A Smile, with Lady Gaga.