No Surprises Here, Eminem Has Dominated The ARIA Charts

Eminem has dominated the ARIA charts with his latest LP Music To Be Murdered By debuting at #1.

Music To Be Murdered By was surprise-released on 17 Jan. It follows his last surprise effort, Kamikaze, which when released in August 2018 also debuted at #1 on the ARIA Albums chart.

Check out our track-by-track review of the LP here.

Halsey's Manic and Mac Miller's posthumous release Circles were also in contention for the top spot but finished at #2 and #3 respectively. 

Halsey joined The Green Room With Neil Griffiths podcast to chat about Manic on release day last week, check it out here. 

Elsewhere, the reissue of Magic Dirt's 1994 classic Life Was Better debuted at #26.

Eminem's success continued over on the Singles chart with 15 tracks off the album debuting on the charts, five in the top 50. Godzilla featuring Juice WRLD debuted at #3, Those Kinda Nights featuring Ed Sheeran debuted at #25, Darkness debuted at #32, Unaccommodating featuring Young MA debuted at #34 and You Gon' Learn debuted at #36. 

This week also marks the end of Tones & I's reign on top of the ARIA Singles chart. Dance Monkey was overthrown by The Weeknd's Blinding Lights. 

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