Six And Out: Quarter Time For Australian Music On The ARIA Charts

For the past six weeks, not a single Australian song has featured in ARIA’s Top 40.

After three months of 2025, a homegrown hit is yet to crack the Top 20. The year’s highest-charting local release has been Vance Joy’s Riptide, which hit number 21 in January.

Riptide was released 12 years ago.

Just five Aussie singles have reached the Top 40 this year: Riptide; Cyril’s 2024 hit Stumblin’ In (#30); Sonny Fodera’s collaboration with Irish singer Jazzy and British producer D.O.D, Somedays (#26); Royel Otis’ cover of The Cranberries’ Linger (#37) and Dom Dolla’s Dreamin’ (#33).

The story is not much brighter on ARIA’s Albums Chart. No local releases have hit number one in the 13 charts this year.

Four Aussie albums have hit the Top 10: Dear Seattle’s Toy (#4), Slowly Slowly’s Forgiving Spree (#8), Rum Jungle’s Recency Bias (#9) and Old Mervs’ self-titled debut (#4). However, it’s worth noting that all four of these albums topped the Top 10 Australian Albums Chart upon their release.

Overall, 13 Aussie albums have cracked the Top 40 in 2025. But only one local release – Cold Chisel’s 50 Years compilation – has spent more than one week in the Top 40.

The high-water mark for Aussie singles this year was three charts in January, when the Top 40 contained three local entries.

And the February 3 chart featured three Aussie albums – the best result so far this year. 

In four separate weekly charts, the Top 40 has failed to feature any Australian albums.