An article noting Mark Seymour And The Undertow on the Australian music charts.

Author:  Jeff Jenkins, The Music.

Date: 27 April 2024.

Original URL: https://themusic.com.au/news/swift-domination-tay-tay-continues-to-torture-aussie-artists-on-the-aria-charts/nb0jsbCzsrU/27-04-24

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Swift Domination: Tay Tay Continues To Torture Aussie Artists On The ARIA Charts

27 April 2024 | 9:39 am | Jeff Jenkins

Taylor Swift has dominated the ARIA Top 10 Singles Chart and owns over one-third of this week’s Top 100 Singles Chart, making new records.

Taylor Swift’s domination is complete.

On her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, the American superstar asks: Who’s Afraid Of Little Old Me?

As she adds, you should be.

When you combine this week’s Top 40 singles and albums, the scoreboard is:

Taylor Swift – 37

Australia – 0

For the first time ever, one artist occupies the entire Top 10 on ARIA’s Singles Chart, led by Swift’s 12th chart-topping single, Fortnight, her collab with Post Malone.

Overall, Swift has 27 singles in the Top 40 – a new record.

There is not a single local entry in the Top 40 – singles or albums.

The highest-placed Aussie single is Cyril’s remake of Chris Norman and Suzi Quatro’s Stumblin’ In at #45, after spending seven weeks in the Top 40.

Just one Australian single has cracked the Top 10 this year – Dom Dolla’s Saving Up spent one week at #10 in the second week of February.

This week’s highest-ranking Aussie album is The Boxer, the new release for Mark Seymour & The Undertow, which debuts at #41.

Four months into 2024, no local albums have hit number one. The highest-charting homegrown hit has been Ricki-Lee’s On My Own, which debuted at #3.

Swift has had four number-one albums this year—1989 (Taylor’s Version), Midnights, Lover, and The Tortured Poets Department. With her new album arriving at #1, Swift has now had 13 chart-topping albums in Australia—the most by any woman. Jimmy Barnes is the overall leader, with 15 solo chart-toppers and five with Cold Chisel. The Beatles have 14.

Swift has 12 #1 singles, trailing only The Beatles (26) and Elvis Presley (14).

Swift owns more than one-third of this week’s Top 100 Singles Chart, with 34 entries – again, a record.

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