Ed Sheeran Set To Dominate ARIA Charts Following New Single Releases

Ed Sheeran is set to blast back on to the ARIA charts this week following the huge reception to his two new singles, Shape Of You and Castle On The Hill.

Both tracks are expected to debut in the top three on the Singles charts and it looks to now just be a question of which song will take out the #1 spot. 

The singles have been so popular that they both smashed Spotify's streaming record (over 13 million combined streams in 24 hours) and garnered a whopping 25,839,709 streams in 24 hours. 

If one of the new songs do come in at top spot, it would bump Clean Bandit's Rockabye off after a six-week reign at #1.

Other singles that should debut in the top 50 this week include Machine Gun Kelly & Camila Cabello's Bad Things, Sia's Move Your Body and Sofi Tukker's Drinkee.

The midweek figures suggest Sheeran's mini-comeback is also being felt in the Albums chart, with both of his albums surging up the list. 

X (2014) is primed to re-enter the top ten, while his debut effort, + (2011) is looking to crack the top 30.

Film soundtracks are likely to fill out the top end of the Albums chart for a second week, after the Trolls soundtrack finished at #1, though expect the soundtrack for La La Land (which cleaned out the Golden Globes this week) to climb into the top 15. 

Other album debuts this week include You Me At Six's Night People, Dropkick Murphys' 11 Short Stories Of Pain & Glory and Halestorm's Reanimate 3.0: The Covers EP.