Ariana Grande is the queen of the ARIA Albums Chart, as Petal (via Republic/Universal) blossoms with a No. 1 start.
Petal becomes Grande’s sixth leader on Australia’s all-genres national survey, following My Everything (in 2014), Dangerous Woman (2016), Sweetener (2018), Thank U, Next (2019) and Eternal Sunshine (2024). She and Cynthia Erivo also topped the tally last year with the soundtrack to Wicked: For Good.
The best-seller on vinyl during the latest cycle, Petal deposits 12 tracks in top 50 of the national singles chart, including top in the top 10.
Grande leads an all-female podium, ahead of Olivia Rodrigo’s you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love (up 3-2 via Geffen/Universal) and Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving (up 5-3 via Universal).
Also new on the chart, published late Friday, Aug. 7, is Dice’s I Thought The Altitude Would Make it Worth The View (Virgin Music Group/Inertia). It starts at No. 13, for the Perth, Australia band’s career best chart position, besting the No. 27 peak for their 2024 debut Midnight Zoo. Altitude is the top ranked of three homegrown albums on the latest chart.
One of those titles is PNAU’s AHHCade (etcetc), which opens at No. 33. Led by Nick Littlemore and Peter Mayes, PNAU has collected three ARIA Awards and crashed the ARIA Chart with 2007’s PNAU (No. 31), 2011’s Soft Universe (No. 13), 2012’s Good Morning To The Night with Elton John (No. 40) and 2017’s Changa (No. 11).
English singer Erin LeCount, who is currently on tour in Australia, sees her third EP, Pareidolia (Atlantic/Warner), begin its chart odyssey at No. 29, while Bozeman, Montana duo Buffalo Traffic Jam (Pictures of You at No. 31 via Arista/Sony) and Las Vegas, NV heavy rockers Five Finger Death Punch (Legacy at No. 46 via Better Noise/MGM) impact the ARIA top 50.
Over on the ARIA Singles Chart, Ella Langley completes a ninth non-consecutive week at No. 1 with “Choosin’ Texas” (via Sony Music). It’s another all-female top 3, as Ariana Grande’s “hate that i made you love me” lifts 6-2, a new peak with the release of Petal, and Olivia Dean’s blockbuster “Man I Need” dips 2-3.
