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The ARIA Albums Chart ranks the best-performing albums and extended plays (EPs) in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on the weekly physical and digital sales of albums and EPs. [1] In 2020, 39 albums claimed the top spot; Harry Styles' Fine Line returned to number one on the first chart of the year after spending one week atop the chart in December 2019. Eleven acts, Selena Gomez, Lil Uzi Vert, Dua Lipa, The Smith Street Band, The Teskey Brothers, Vika and Linda, Pop Smoke, Lime Cordiale, Juice Wrld, Joji and Adam Lambert, achieved their first number-one album.
† | Indicates best-performing album of 2020 [2] |
Position | Artist | Weeks at No. 1 |
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1 | Taylor Swift | 6 |
2 | AC/DC | 4 |
3 | Harry Styles | 2 |
3 | BTS | 2 |
3 | Drake | 2 |
3 | Lady Gaga | 2 |
4 | Selena Gomez | 1 |
4 | Eminem | 1 |
4 | Billie Eilish | 1 |
4 | Dune Rats | 1 |
4 | Green Day | 1 |
4 | Tame Impala | 1 |
4 | Lil Uzi Vert | 1 |
4 | The Weeknd | 1 |
4 | 5 Seconds of Summer | 1 |
4 | Violent Soho | 1 |
4 | Dua Lipa | 1 |
4 | The Smith Street Band | 1 |
4 | Birds of Tokyo | 1 |
4 | The Teskey Brothers | 1 |
4 | The 1975 | 1 |
4 | Vika and Linda | 1 |
4 | Pop Smoke | 1 |
4 | Lime Cordiale | 1 |
4 | Juice Wrld | 1 |
4 | The Killers | 1 |
4 | Metallica | 1 |
4 | San Francisco Symphony | 1 |
4 | Marilyn Manson | 1 |
4 | Keith Urban | 1 |
4 | Joji | 1 |
4 | Queen | 1 |
4 | Adam Lambert | 1 |
4 | Linkin Park | 1 |
4 | Guy Sebastian | 1 |
4 | Bruce Springsteen | 1 |
4 | Midnight Oil | 1 |
4 | Kylie Minogue | 1 |
American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift has released 10 original studio albums, 2 re-recorded studio albums, 9 extended plays, and 7 live albums. She has sold an estimated 114 million album units worldwide and, in terms of pure sales, tallied 37.3 million in the United States and 3.34 million in the United Kingdom. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), her albums have garnered 51 million certified units in the United States. As of June 2023, she is the woman with the most weeks (61) at number one on the US Billboard 200.
American rapper and singer Juice Wrld released four studio albums, nine extended plays, two mixtapes, 35 singles, and one promotional single. Two of the projects were released posthumously.
Lime Cordiale are an Australian pop rock group formed in 2009. It consists of brothers Oli and Louis Leimbach, with additional members James Jennings, Felix Bornholt and Nicholas Polovineo. They released their debut studio album Permanent Vacation in 2017. The group have performed at Groovin' the Moo and South by Southwest (SXSW). At the 2020 ARIA Music Awards they were nominated in eight categories and won Breakthrough Artist – Release for their second album, 14 Steps to a Better You.
American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift has released 59 singles as lead artist, 8 singles as a featured artist, and 40 promotional singles. She had sold over 150 million singles worldwide by December 2016. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), Swift's digital singles have achieved 137.5 million certified units, based on sales and on-demand streaming, as of October 2022. With 190 chart entries on the Billboard Hot 100, Swift is the female artist with the most charted songs in the United States.
The Teskey Brothers are an Australian blues rock band from Melbourne, named after the two brothers who formed the group in 2008: Josh Teskey and Sam Teskey. In 2019 they signed with Glassnote Records and Ivy League Records. They have released three albums: Half Mile Harvest (2017), Run Home Slow (2019) and The Winding Way (2023). At the 2019 ARIA Music Awards, The Teskey Brothers were nominated for seven awards. They won three categories for the album, Run Home Slow, Best Group, Best Blues and Roots Album and Engineer of the Year.
Australian pop rock duo Lime Cordiale have released two studio albums, two box sets, four extended plays and thirty-three singles.
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"Exile" is a song by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, featuring American band Bon Iver. It is the fourth track on Swift's eighth studio album, Folklore, which was released on July 24, 2020. "Exile" was written by Swift, Joe Alwyn, and the band's frontman Justin Vernon, with production by Aaron Dessner and Alwyn. Republic Records sent "Exile" to US alternative radio stations on August 3, 2020.
F*ck Love is the debut mixtape by Australian rapper and singer the Kid Laroi. It was released on 24 July 2020 by Grade A Productions and Columbia Records. Production was handled by twenty-one record producers over the course of the mixtape's four releases, including Benny Blanco, Bobby Raps, Cashmere Cat and Taz Taylor. The original tracklist features guest appearances from Lil Mosey, Corbin Smidzik, and the late Juice Wrld.
"The 1" is a song by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift from her eighth studio album, Folklore (2020). Republic Records released the song for digital download on October 9, 2020, in Germany. Swift wrote "The 1" with its producer, Aaron Dessner; it is a minimal soft rock tune with elements of electronic and indie in the instrumentals. Written from the perspective of one of Swift's friends, the song describes the narrator's newborn positive approach to life and past romance, in a sad but humorous tone, using numerous one-liners.
Josh Teskey is an Australian blues musician, best known for his work with the Teskey Brothers. Teskey released the collaborative studio album, Push the Blues Away with Ash Grunwald, on 13 November 2020, which peaked at number 8 on the ARIA Albums Chart.
Sam Teskey is an Australian blues musician, best known for his work with the Teskey Brothers. Sam won the ARIA Award for Engineer of the Year in 2019.
Evermore is the ninth studio album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. It was a surprise album released on December 11, 2020, via Republic Records, less than five months after Folklore, her eighth studio album. Evermore was a spontaneous product of Swift's extended collaboration with her Folklore collaborator Aaron Dessner, mainly recorded at his Long Pond Studio in the Hudson Valley.
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