ARIA Chart

Like many in the music industry, I grew up with the ARIA Charts as my bible as a kid. A #1 on the ARIA Chart really meant something. You’d head to the record store (remember them?) every week and…

Fresh from Paul Kelly dethroning Ed Sheeran as the current ARIA chart king with his first-ever number one album last week, Aussies have invaded the top of the charts, with four records in the top…

On May 15, a long-awaited change debuted on the ARIA Albums chart, with qualifying on-demand streams contributing to the Album charts result. Already the case on the Singles chart, the change was…

When a major label pop artist (“the biggest pop star in Australia”) who’s worked with the likes of Dianne Warren, Flo-Rida, Babyface and Snoop Dogg, selects a 100% Australian track as the lead single…

Greg Carey, co-chair of the Association of Artist Managers (AAM) and former director of entertainment company Umbrella Music, launched his new music company just over two weeks ago. Between running…

UPDATE: The Industry Observer has amended this story to include new information from ARIA. Almost four months since Apple rectified its issue of releasing music early in nine territories, thus…

Ed Sheeran is an absolutely unstoppable juggernaut in the charts by this point. Last week, we noted how he was set to equal a record held by Eminem if he kept up his success, and this week, he’s…