Lorde has prolonged her good streak on the ARIA Albums Chart, as Virgin debuts at No. 1 this week (chart dated July 4).
The Auckland-born singer-songwriter now boasts 4 chart-topping albums in Australia, following her breakout 2013 debut Pure Heroine, 2017’s Melodrama and 2021’s Photo voltaic Energy.
“This album broke me aside and cast a brand new creature out of me,” Lorde wrote in a current social media submit. “I’m so proud to face earlier than you as we speak as her, grateful for this stunning life spent singing to myself and to you, for so long as you’ll have me. Thanks a lot, from the underside of my coronary heart, right down to my cells.”
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The ARIA triumph comes on the heels of Lorde’s surprise set at Glastonbury final weekend, the place she warmed up for her Ultrasound World Tour kicking off in November in america. She additionally teased a forthcoming Virgin B-sides launch, revealing that a number of tracks didn’t make the ultimate reduce for the album.
Trailing shut behind Virgin is Kpop Demon Hunters, up 5-2 in its second chart week, making it the highest-charting soundtrack since Depraved hit No. 3 final yr. Morgan Wallen’s former chief I’m The Drawback holds regular at No. 3.
Teddy Swims’ I’ve Tried All the things However Remedy (Full Version) arrives at No. 11, whereas Bruce Springsteen’s The Misplaced Albums begins at No. 21. Australian illustration on the albums chart comes courtesy of The Child LAROI’s The First Time, rebounding to No. 47 following the discharge of his Thundercat collaboration, “How Does It Really feel.”
On the ARIA Singles Chart, Alex Warren’s “Extraordinary” claims a fifteenth consecutive week at No. 1, tying Ed Sheeran’s “Form of You” because the third-longest reign in ARIA historical past. Solely The Child LAROI & Justin Bieber’s “Keep” (17 weeks) and Tones And I’s “Dance Monkey” (24 weeks) have spent longer on the summit.