An Australian Song Just Topped The ARIA Singles Chart For The First Time In Nearly Two Years

All eyes were on where Courtney Barnett's Tell Me How You Really Feel LP would debut on the ARIA chart , so you may have missed another massive occurrence that happened on this week's list. 

Sydney's own 5 Seconds Of Summer climbed to the top of the Singles chart with Youngblood, marking the first time an Australian song has topped the list in almost two years, thanks to lengthy reigns from tracks like Drake's God's Plan, Ed Sheeran's Perfect and Luis Fonsi's Despacito.

The last local act to do so was The Veronicas in July 2016 with In My Blood; before that, the Australian drought lasted until Flume's Never Be Like You topped the chart in February that year and before that it was Delta Goodrem's Wings which held #1 for two weeks in August 2015.

It comes just weeks after US rapper Post Malone occupied a whopping 14 songs in the ARIA top 40; seven times the number of Australian songs in the list. 

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Similarly in August last year, more songs featuring Justin Bieber were listed in the top 20 over Australian songs.

Speaking to The Music last year, Managing Director of SGC Media, Stephen Green, said the industry needs to accept that "the system is broken" and find a way to fix it.

"It's not about blaming streaming or radio - people in there want Australian music to thrive as much as anyone," Green said.

"It's also not about re-weighting the chart to pretend like our songs are being heard when they aren't."