Two Aussies land top 5 debuts

Keith Urban and The Rubens make top 5 debuts this week, while Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet scores its fourth non-consecutive week at the summit of the ARIA Albums Chart. On the Singles Chart, she enjoys five straight weeks at the top with Taste. 

It lifts her total number of weeks on top of the Singles Chart this year to eight, the most for any artist this year. Benson Boone ranks second with six weeks for Beautiful Things. 

Keith Urban’s 11th studio album, High, debuts at #3, becoming his ninth top 10 album. The New Zealand-born, Queensland-raised, Nashville-based star reached #1 with The Story So Far in 2012, Fuse in 2013, Ripcord in 2016 and The Speed Of Now Part 1 in 2020.  

He has had 21 #1 singles on the US country charts and won six ARIA Awards, four GRAMMYs and 15 Academy of Country Music Awards. 

Aussie band The Rubens are new at #4 with SODA, their sixth album and fifth top 10 entry. The winners of two ARIA Awards, they reached #3 in 2012 with The Rubens, #2 in 2015 with Hoops, #3 in 2018 with Lo La Ru and #1 for one week in 2021 with 0202. 

Katy Perry is back, with 143 arriving at #2. It’s her seventh studio album (the first was released under her real name, Katy Hudson, in 2001) and her first since Smile, which reached #2 in 2020. 

It is her fifth top 10 album following Teenage Dream (#1 for two weeks in 2010), Prism (#1 for one week in 2013) and Witness (#2 in 2017). 

The announcement of American country music star Luke Combs’ 2025 Australian tour sends several of his albums back up the chart. Leading the charge is his 2017 album This One’s For You, which jumps from #19 to #8.