Emerging Aussie Rapper Soars Into ARIA Chart To Score Week's Top Debut

Rising Aussie rapper Youngn Lipz has scored the week’s highest debut on the ARIA Albums Chart with his debut album, Area Baby.

The South West Sydney artist has soared into the chart to place at #7, which is not only the week’s highest debut but the only debut in the Top 10 this week.

Area Baby features Youngn Lipz hit single Misunderstood, which won APRA Music Awards' Most Performed Hip Hop/Rap Work earlier this year.

He’s also signed with Western Sydney hip hop heavyweights Biordi Music, which announced a global distribution partnership with Virgin Music Label & Artist Services Australia earlier this year.

Fellow Sydney artist May-A also debuts this week, placing at #31 with Don't Kiss Ur Friends.

Meanwhile, George Harrison's classic 1970 album All Things Must Pass has returned to the Top 10 thanks to a new 50th-anniversary release that includes a vinyl re-issue.

All Things Must Pass was the third solo album for Harrison - who released it at just 27 following The Beatles' split - and is home to Harrison's best-known solo track My Sweet Lord along with songs like What Is Life, If Not For You and more.   

The album spent eight weeks at #1 in Australia in 1971.

Over on the Singles Chart, The Kid LAROI holds onto #1 for a fifth week with his Justin Bieber collab, Stay, a release that recently saw him become the first Australian-born male solo artist to hit #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart in just over 40 years.

It was also revealed this week that Stay was #1 on Spotify's Top 50 Global Charts, ahead of Maneskin's Beggin', Lil Nas X's Industry Baby feat. Jack Harlow, Ed Sheeran's Bad Habits, Olivia Rodrigo's good 4 u, Billie Eilish's Happier Than Ever and more.

And, after making his Singles Chart Top 50 debut last week with a viral cover of Fleetwood Mac’s Dream, New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based DJ/producer Jolyon Petch this week climbs up five places to #23.