Noah Kahan brings a nation together as The Great Divide opens its account at No. 1 on the ARIA Chart.
The Great Divide is Kahan’s fourth studio collection, and second consecutive leader in Australia after Stick Season logged three weeks atop the chart in early 2024.
The American singer and songwriter will reward his loyal Australian fans when his The Great Divide Tour stops by Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena and Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena for eight total concerts this September and October.
Foo Fighters enjoy another stint on the podium as Your Favorite Toy unwraps its debut ARIA Chart position at No. 3. The Foos have landed all 12 of their studio albums in the ARIA Top 10, with eight going all the way to No. 1: One By One (in 2002), In Your Honor (2005), Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (2007), Wasting Light (2011), Sonic Highways (2014), Concrete And Gold (2017), Medicine At Midnight (2021) and their last record, But Here We Are (2023). The Rock Hall-inducted band also led the list in 2009 with Greatest Hits.
Homegrown metal merchants The Amity Affliction enjoy a No. 4 start with House of Cards, their ninth studio album. It’s the eighth straight top 10 appearance for the Gympie, Queensland rockers, after Youngbloods (No. 6 in 2010), Chasing Ghosts (No. 1 in 2012), Let The Ocean Take Me (No. 1 in 2014), This Could Be The Heartbreak (No. 1 in 2016), Misery (No. 1 in 2018), Everyone Loves You…Once You Leave Them (No. 2 in 2020) and Not Without My Ghost (No. 2 in 2023).
Also new to the latest frame, published Friday, May 1, is the soundtrack from the new Michael Jackson biopic, which moonwalks its way to No. 17. Michael: Songs From The Motion Picture is the late king of pop’s 24th solo appearance on the ARIA Top 50, the trade body reports, stretching back to 1973’s Music And Me. That tally includes chart leaders Off The Wall (from 1979), Thriller (1983), Dangerous (1991), HIStory: Past, Present And Future, Book I (1995), Invincible (2001) and The Essential Michael Jackson (2005).
Kehlani is close behind with her self-titled effort, arriving at No. 18, while new releases from Masayoshi Takanaka (Takanaka Super Live 2025 Black Ship in L.A. at No. 22), Ruby Fields (Small Achievements at No. 29), Nessa Barrett (Jesus Loves a Primadonna at No. 41) and Pink Floyd (Live From The Los Angeles Sports Arena, April 26th, 1975 at No. 43) impact the top 50.
Over on the ARIA Singles Chart, Olivia Dean and Sam Fender’s “Rein Me In” enters a third non-consecutive week at No. 1, ahead of her former leader “Man I Need” (holding at No. 2) and Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas,” up 8-3 for a new peak position.
