Billie Eilish lands at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart this week with her second studio album "Happier Than Ever", also becoming her second No.1 set in Australia.
The second album for local singer Amy Shark called “Cry Forever” becomes her second No.1 Album in Australia this week.
“Cry Forever” (Wonderlick/Sony) becomes the 915th No.1 Album in Australia (1965 to 2021), the 765th for ARIA (1983 to 2021), the 15th No.1 set for 2021, the 551st to debut at the top and also the second for the record label Wonderlick, as Amy’s debut album “Love Monster” spent a week at No.1 on July 23rd, 2018.
The new No.1 album is the first to feature the word ‘Cry’ in its title (the previous highest was Carrie Underwood with “Cry Pretty” HP-4, Sept 2018), while the word ‘Forever’ has appeared once before at the top, Paula Abdul’s first album “Forever Your Girl”, which spent a single week at the top during this week in 1990, (May 13th, 1990, 31 years ago).
Taylor Swift issued a surprise ninth studio album last week called “evermore”, which debuts at No.1 on this week’s ARIA Albums Chart, giving her a second chart-topping album for 2020.
The new Taylor set “evermore” becomes the 901st No.1 Album in Australia (1965 to 2020), the 751st for ARIA (1983 to 2020), the 39th No.1 for the year (2020), the 538th album to debut at No.1 (1976 to 2020), the 16th No.1 for record label for Republic (Universal) and the seventh No.1 for Taylor Swift, plus she has now achieved the smallest gap between No.1 albums at five months and three weeks (3-Aug-2020 to 21-Dec-2020), the previous holder was Ariana Grande with “Sweetener” (27-Aug-18) to “thank u, next” (18-Feb-2019), just on six months.