Olivia Dean is still doing all the talking on Australia’s charts in 2026.
The English singer and songwriter starts the New Year on a high in the land Down Under, where she completes another chart double.
Dean’s sophomore album The Art Of Loving (via Universal) leads the ARIA Albums Chart for a fifth non-consecutive week, while “Man I Need” rules the ARIA Singles Chart for a seventh week.
According to ARIA, “Man I Need” becomes the longest reigning single by a solo female artist since Sabrina Carpenter’s “Taste” topped the leaderboard for eight weeks in 2024.
Add another week and you have the longest-running No. 1 by a female English artist, Kate Bush, whose 1985 song “Running Up That Hill” topped out for nine weeks in 2022, thanks to its sync in season four of Stranger Things. The all-time crown belongs to Tones And I’s “Dance Monkey,” a monster which led the ARIA Chart for 24 non-consecutive weeks in 2019 and 2020.
Further down the latest ARIA Singles Chart, published late Friday, Jan. 2, Dean’s “So Easy (To Fall In Love)” dips 5-7 and “Nice To Each Other” holds at No. 9. The Brit will show her fans some love this October, when she embarks on a six-date east coast arena tour of Australia and New Zealand, produced by Handsome Tours and Laneway Presents.
No new titles appear on the latest singles frame, and the only homegrown recording to make an impact is Tame Impala’s “Dracula” (Columbia/Sony), improving 41-37.
Over on the ARIA Albums Chart, the entire top 10 is stacked with albums that have logged at least one week at No. 1. All are pop, with the exception of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here (50th Anniversary Edition) (via Columbia/Sony), down 7-8, and Tyler, The Creator’s Chromakopia (Columbia/Sony), down 8-10.
Just one title debuts in the top 50, $uicideBoy$’s Thy Will Be Done (Orchard). It’s new at No. 32. Thy Will Be Done is the New Orleans, LA hip-hop duo’s sixth studio album, and the followup to 2024’s New World Depression, which peaked at No. 6 in Australia.
Holding at No. 19, Tame Impala’s Deadbeat is the highest-ranked of the eight homegrown releases on the national albums tally.
