'I Can't Bloody Believe It' - Tones & I Claims Her First-ever ARIA #1 Album

Tones & I has landed an ARIA Albums Chart #1 with her debut album. 

The local artist has claimed the top spot with her album Welcome To The Madhouse on debut.

Tones & I made her debut on the chart in September 2019 with her EP The Kids Are Coming and enjoyed a massive 24 weeks in the #1 spot on the ARIA Singles Chart across 2019 and 2020 with her global hit Dance Monkey, giving it the record as the longest-running #1 in the chart's history. 

The long-awaited release from the record-breaking artist, the album was solely written by Tones & I, as well as co-producing and creating the album's cover. 

“Wow wow wow! Thank you so much Australia for your ongoing love and support, I am blown away," said Tones & I of the #1. 

"I can’t bloody believe it, I will not be quitting any time soon. Haha!"

"This is an incredible result for Tones & I, and for Australian music," added ARIA CEO Annabelle Herd. 

"As the world’s number one songwriter in 2020 and after ruling the singles charts in 30 countries, Tones epitomises the unbelievable credibility of our home-grown recording industry. The chart-topping Welcome To The Madhouse continues an incredible string of successes that we are proud to champion." 

Read our full oral history on the success of Dance Monkey here.

Welcome To The Madhouse is 10th Australian #1 album on the chart in 2021 following on from Illy's The Space Between, Bluey's Bluey The Album, The Kid LAROI's Fuck Love (Savage), The Rubens' 0202, Tash Sultana's Terra Firma, Skegss' Rehearsal, Amy Shark's Cry Forever, Delta Goodrem's Bridge Over Troubled Dreams and Jimmy Barnes' history making Flesh & Blood. 

Looking at the wider chart, Olivia Rodrigo's SOUR is holding tight to the chart's top tier shuffling down to #2 after reclaiming #1 last week. John Mayer's Sob Rock has debuted at #3 while Pop Smoke's posthumous release, Faith, lands at #4. 

KSI's All Over The Place debuts at #6, while Chet Faker lands at #19 with Hotel Surrender and Diesel comes in at #20 with Alone With Blues. The Foo Fighters' alter-egos Dee Gees have landed at #31 with their Record Store Day special release, Hail Satin. 

It's an album order reshuffle over on the Vinyl Albums Chart, with Mayer at #1, Tones & I at #2, Taylor Swift's evermore at #3 and Dee Gees coming in at #4, with Harry Styles' Fine Line landing at #5. 

Over on the ARIA Singles Chart, The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber have held onto the #1 spot with their track Stay. The Kid LAROI has also seen his previous #1 Without You move up to #9 this week. It's expected to be a big week on the charts for The Kid LAROI next week following the release of his Fuck Love 3: Over You mixtape today. 

The top five remains unchanged overall this week with Ed Sheeran's Bad Habits (#2), Olivia Rodrigo's Good 4 U (#3), Maneskin's Beggin' (#4) and Doja Cat's Kiss Me More feat. SZA (#5) all holding their positions from last week. 

Vance Joy's Missing Piece makes its way up nine spots to #14, while Pop Smoke's Woo Baby feat. Chris Brown lands at #24 and Tones & I's Cloudy Day comes in at #31, moving up 13 positions.