Olivia Dean has secured an eleventh straight week as the #1 Single-holder with her track Man I Need.
By securing an eleventh consecutive week, Man I Need is now the longest running #1 song for Capitol Records this century, tying with their only other 11-week-holder in Mull of Kintyre by Wings (1977-78, pre-ARIA-era), along with six other tracks to become the equal-eleventh longest running #1 song in Australian Chart history, with those others being (Everything I Do) I Do it for You by Bryan Adams (1991), Wannabe for The Spice Girls (1996-97), God's Plan by Drake (2018) and three more from this decade; Blinding Lights by The Weeknd (2020), Mood by 24KGOLDN (2020) and Heat Waves by Glass Animals (2021 and 2022).
Both Heat Waves and Man I Need achieved the Triple J Hottest 100 #1 spot (J100#1), with Glass Animals rising to #1 the week after their announcement in 2021, while Olivia had already spent ten weeks at the top prior to her winning this year's J100#1 position, something of a first from memory that an already established #1 took out the J100 top-spot, rather than leaping the week after the countdown (which many songs do this week), and I have placed this year's J100# positions next to this week's Top 50 entries too. Olivia Dean's track is also the longest running #1 single in Australia by a British Solo Female Artist (surpassing the 10 weeks racked up by Sandi Thom) during the current era, prior to ARIA there are three Vera Lynn songs from the 1940's which ran for 13, 14 and 19 weeks at the top.
Only two other female artists have accumulated more weeks at #1 this decade, Flowers for Miley Cyrus as 12 weeks (2023) and Rosé feat. Bruno Mars with APT. (2024-2025) at 14 weeks from its four chart-runs. Man I Need is again at #1 in New Zealand for a 17th record-breaking week, while she also has their #1 duopoly for a thirteenth week too, plus the song peak-holds in Canada and rises to the same new-peak in The U.S.A. of #2, along with Top 10 berths in Denmark (#5), The Netherlands (#6), Belgium (#8) and Sweden (#9) {see more overseas positions in the table below}.
The first Top 10 debut for 2026 occurs this week (Bruno came close three weeks ago with a #11 entry), as Harry Styles enters at #2 with the first single from his forthcoming fourth album Kiss All the Time. Disco, occasionally (due March 6th) called Aperture, the song also sees #1 entries in his native England along with Ireland and Lithuania, while it also scores #3 debuts in both New Zealand and The Netherlands, along with Sweden (#5), Germany (#7) and Norway (#9) so far. Overall, this now becomes his thirteenth Top 10 placement and seventh Top 5 too.
RAYE and her #1 Hip Hop/R&B track WHERE IS MY HUSBAND? holds it #3 peak for a second week (J100#5), while RE-PEAKING at #4 and rising two spots to #4 is the other Top 10 entry for Olivia Dean and So Easy (to Fall in Love), having previously been this high on December 1st, 2025, now it's been boosted by securing the J100#11 position too.
After six weeks at #1 then ten weeks at #2 the Taylor Swift track The Fate of Ophelia secures it's third ever chart position this week by falling three places to land at #5, which matches the position her album The Secret Life of a Showgirl rises to this week also. The song remains at #1 in Canada (14th week), Germany (13th week), Belgium, Singapore and Switzerland, while the Austrian and our On Replay #1 song is the Djo return of End of Beginning, which falls two places this week to land at #6 nationally.
The two songs with the second-highest accumulated total within the Top 10 this week are back-to-back with 30 weeks apiece, as the #1 Dance Single for Disco Lines with Tinashe and No Broke Boys rebounds two places to #7 (J100#9), while down three spots to its lowest T10 position ever is the KPop Demon Hunters track Golden for HUNTR/X at #8. After which the sombr track 12 to 12 rebounds back into the Top 10 by rising two spots to #9 (J100#8) and Alex Warren sees a 44th week within the Top 10 (equal sixth longest of all time in Australia) for his former #1 Ordinary, down three spots this week to #10 plus its newly certified as 7x▲Platinum in sales too.
TOP 20: The two Top 10 dropouts are both 2026 entries, with Raindance for Dave with Tems (HP-8, WI10-2, J200#159) and I Just Might for Bruno Mars both down three places each to #11 and #13 respectively, with Bruno holding the U.S. #1 Singles spot for a second week. Wedged in-between those two is the first of two non-movers within the Top 20, Nice to Each Other for Olivia Dean (J100#7) and Love Me Not for Ravyn Lenae are both stable for a third straight week at #12 and #17 respectively.
Olivia Dean has one of three rising tracks within the Top 20 but also the only NEW PEAK as her duet with Sam Fender and Rein Me In jumps up nine places to #20 (J100#14) after almost 20 weeks within the Top 100 (WI100-19), while she is back-to-back with herself and her fifth T20 entry for this week A Couple Minutes (down one to #19). Also rising back up is an eleven-place jump to #16 for Victory Lap by Fred Again.. (27 to #16, J100#12, from Gold to 2x▲Platinum) and Undressed by sombr (up four to #18, J100#18), while his track back to friends dips one to #14 (J100#19) and is 4x▲Platinum in sales too.
TOP 30: Of the three NEW PEAKS here, the smallest gaining track sees Ella Langley and Choosin' Texas move up one spot to a new chart height of #23. Meanwhile the second and third placed tracks on the Triple J Hottest 100 blast back up the chart, firstly is former #66 peaking (Dec. 8th, 2025) Dancing2 for ARIA winner and Peking Duk member under his alias Keli Holiday which scored J100#2 position and returns to the entire T100 this week at #24 after departing three weeks ago (Jan. 12th was its last showing at #100). Tame Impala score the third NEW PEAK as Dracula flies up twenty-five places from last week to land at #26 (J100#3), surpassing the #28 peak it previously saw on November 24th, 2025. Extra note too: ARIA mentioned in their Friday chart facts that J100#4 placed Keith by Playlunch managed to debut at #53 nationally this week too.
After leaping to #20 last week the PinkPantheress and Zara Larsson team-up Stateside is back down one spot to #21, with a two-place drop going to Olivia Dean's Baby Steps to #30. Falling three places each are A Bar Song (Tipsy) for Shaboozey and BIRDS OF AFEATHER by Billie Eilish to #28 and #29 respectively. Justin Bieber's DAISIES wilt four places to #27, another peak from last week declines this week in Die on This Hill for SIENNA SPIRO, dropping six places to #25, while the biggest fall here sees Taylor Swift's Opalite discolour seven places to #22.
TOP 40: Jumping back into the Top 40 since the song peaked at #36 on June 16th, 2025, is J100#20 placed Addison Rae and her track Fame is a Gun, which jumps up fourteen places to land at #39, with the only other rising entries here being Olivia Dean's Let Alone the One You Love (up one to #35) and the Tate McRae track Sports Car, up three to #32 (J100#26), while she also has the only non-mover here at #37 for Just Keep Watching.
EsDeeKid sees their debut album Rebel enter at #14 this week, and that usually means that the songs from the album rebound back up the charts, but nothing is usual about this Kids chart-run, and we see both of his Top 50 entries fall ten places each this week, with 4 Raws falling to #31. Down one spot is Chrystal with THE DAYS - NOTION Remix (to #34), two-place-fall for I Had Some Help by Post Malone and Morgan Wallen (to #40), That's So True by Gracie Abrams (falls three to #33) and down four-places each are Die with a Smile for Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars (to #36) and CHANEL by Tyla (to #38, J200#193).
TOP 50: Tate McRae has the only J100 entry here and the first of two rising tracks, as TIT FOR TAT is up two spots to #42 (J100#45), while Chappell Roan sees a four-place rise to #45 for Good Luck, Babe!, after which Sabrina Carpenter's two entries are some of the smallest declines here, with Manchild down one to #47 and Espresso dips two to #49, along with two-place drops for both APT. by Rosé feat. Bruno Mars (to #41) and Sailor Song for Gigi Perez (to #43).
Kehlani's Folded scores it's half-a-year (26 weeks) chart milestone and drops four spots to #46, with the two double-digit-declines here being a thirteen-place tumble to #44 for the new Luke Combs track Sleepless in a Hotel Room, while the second ten-place fall for EsDeeKid and his Phantom track, which falls to #50 this week.
Leaving the Top 100 this week and transferring over to the On Replay chart is the Benson Boone track Beautiful Things (LW #16), debuting at #5 on that chart after 105 weeks in the Top 100, in fact the song only ever got as low as #32 (Oct 13th & 20th, 2025) within the chart, securing six weeks at #1 and 69 weeks within the Top 10, now the second longest Top 10 tally of all time in Australia.
NEW ENTRY: * #2 - Aperture - Harry Styles (Erskine Records/Columbia)
The final and self-titled studio album for Megadeth becomes their first #1 Album in Australia this week.
Megadeth (BLKIIBLK/Frontiers) becomes the 1038th #1 Album in Australia (1965 to 2026), the 889th for ARIA (1983 to 2026), the 665th to debut at #1, the second NEW #1 for 2026, the first for both labels BLKIIBLK and Frontiers, while Megadeth have charted fourteen of their studio albums, and this is now the first to top the charts, coming close with their last release, September 2022's The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead! (LP#16, HP-2).
Megadeth is only the third album this decade to hit the top as a self-titled album, last week's #1 holder was the last back on September 12th, 2022, for YUNGBLUD, while the other for this decade was Wet Leg (April 18th, 2022), while overall this is now the 44th self-titled set to make it to #1 in Australia, plus their new album also lands at #1 on the Vinyl Sales Chart too.
The new #1 set for Megadeth becomes their 14th Top 100 entry and now fourth Top 10 placement, plus the set has also landed at the top overseas in Austria, Belgium and on the Hard Rock Album listings in both Sweden and Japan, along with #2 entries in Finland, Norway and Sweden, #3 in England, Scotland and Germany, #4 in The Netherlands, #5 in Italy and New Zealand, plus #8 in Ireland.
The Megadeth album also becomes the 370th #1 Album by an American Artist (whether solo male or female, duo or group) along with the 440th for a Group (local or overseas), plus they are the first American Group to hit the top since Linkin Park's From Zero (Nov. 25th, 2024). Megadeth themselves become the 175th American Act to hit #1 in Australia and also the 66th American Group to score a chart-topping album locally.
Two albums remain stable within the Top 10 this week, The Art of Loving for Olivia Dean at #2 (No.4 Vinyl) and KPop Demon Hunters at #4, while Olivia also sits at #1 in Ireland and New Zealand for a fourteenth overall week. Debuting in-between those two former #1's is the third studio album for Louis Tomlinson called How Did I Get Here?, becoming his third Top 10 entry and fourth overall (3 studio and 1 live set), following on from Walls (LP#1, HP-6 Feb. 2020) and Faith in the Future (LP#2, HP-2, Nov 2022). The set has debuted at #1 in his homeland of England along with The Netherlands and Belgium, plus #2 in Germany, Austria, Italy and Scotland, #3 in Finland, #5 in Sweden, #15 in Ireland and #16 in New Zealand. His former bandmate Harry Styles took out the #1 singles spot in England, giving the two One Direction members the #1 spots on both major charts in the UK this week (a first).
Moving up one spot each this week are The Life of a Showgirl for Taylor Swift (to #5, No.16 Vinyl) and SO CLOSE TO WHAT??? by Tate McRae (to #6), after which is the third and final new entry into the Top 10 this week, the seventh album and now first entry for American singer Poppy with Empty Hands coming in at #7 (No.3 Vinyl), which also managed entries in Scotland (#15), Austria (#19), Germany (#22) and England (#82).
Last week's new entry within the ten for A$AP Rocky and Don't Be Dumb is only down three places this week to #8 (No.10 Vinyl, #1 Hip Hop/R&B Album) which saw a #1 entry in The U.S.A. and #2 in Canada this past week. Sabrina Carpenter only has one album within the Top 10 this week and it's her older entry Short N' Sweet which dips one spot to #9, while regaining a Top 10 berth is sombr with I Barely Know Her, up three spots to #10 for an eighteenth week inside of the Top 10.
TOP 20: Three of the four Top 10 dropouts from last week land within the Top 20, as Sabrina Carpenter sees her most recent release Man's Best Friend (HP-1, WI10-21) along with Alex Warren's You'll Be Alright, Kid (HP-2, WI10-24) both slip down two places each to #11 and #12 respectively, while last week's highest entry for Madison Beer and locket (HP-3, WI10-1) drops down seventeen places to land at #20.
The only rising entry here is the Fred Again.. USB set which moves up two places to #16, with one-spot-drops seen by Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem (to #15, #1 Country Album) and HIT ME HARD & SOFT for Billie Eilish (to #17), with the two three-week-old entries both falling seven places each for Zach Bryan and With Heaven on Top (#1 in Canada for a second week) and BEFORE I FORGET by The Kid LAROI to #18 and #19 (#1 Australian Artist Hip Hop Album) respectively.
TOP 30: The three climbing albums here all benefit from last weekend's Triple J Hottest 100 for 2025 countdown, which took place over the Australia Day long-weekend. Ocean Alley scored four Top 100 entries (a fifth in the 101-200 section) and that helps their Love Balloon set to float up twelve places to #22 as well as a No.9 Vinyl slot, while five entries for Spacey Jane from their If That Makes Sense set (including the J100#6 spot for Whateverrrr), they're pulled up thirty-seven places from last week to land at #25. Tame Impala scoring the J100#3 slot for Dracula was the highest of four entries for them, and their latest set Deadbeat is back up four places to #29.
Gracie Abrams' The Secret of Us is the smallest declining entry here, down two to #21, with a three-spot fall to #28 for MAYHEM by Lady Gaga, two four-place drops are for newly touring Ed Sheeran and Play (to #24) and Jessie Murph with Sex Hysteria (to #27). Charli XCX drops five to #26 with her BRAT set, Taylor's Tortured Poets Department tumbles six places to #23, with the biggest drop here being a halving from last week's #15 entry position to #30 this week for Enhypen with their EP THE SIN: VANISH.
TOP 40: Royel Otis saw four Top 100 entries on the J100 countdown last weekend, but their hickey is the third and final non-mover within the Top 50 this week at #32, while Renee Rapp only saw one entry with Leave Me Alone (J100#77) but her album BITE ME also halves it's position from last week and leaps thirty-six places to land at #36, with another four-entry-artist being Ninajirachi and her album I Love My Computer jumping up eleven spots to #38 (No.20 Vinyl).
Bad Bunny sees a one-spot move to #39 for his set DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, while ROLE MODEL have the smallest declining entry here, down four spots to #31 with Kansas Anymore. Ariana's eternal sunshine dims five places to #34, Sleep Token see a seven-place drop to #37 with Even in Arcadia, with two nine-place falls going to CHROMOKOPIA by Tyler, the Creator and Addison by Addison Rae to #33 (No.19 Vinyl) to #33 and #40 respectively, while the biggest drop here sees a thirteen-place fall to #35 for Robbie Williams' new set BRITPOP.
TOP 50: YUNGBLUD sees his #1 placement from last week Idols (HP-1, WI10-2) fall down to #46, the biggest drop within the Top 50 this week, while either side of his position are two sets which both fall eight places each for Kendrick Lamar and GNX (to #45) and 96 Months by Calvin Harris (to #47).
Sam Fender's People Watching is the only rising set here, up six places to #41, while there's a re-entry at #50 for the Wish You Were Here 50 set for Pink Floyd, which three weeks ago was sitting at #20 nationally, dropped out two weeks ago and re-enter this week. PinkPantheress' mixtape Fancy That is only down three places this week to #48 (thanks to her Top 30 single), The Crux for Djo drops five to #43, JB's SWAG I + II falls six to #49 and down seven places to #42 is the Post Malone set F1-Trillion.
FURTHER NEW ENTRIES: * #1 (LP#17) - Megadeth - Megadeth (BLKIIBLK/Frontiers)
* #3 (LP#3) - How Did I Get Here? - Louis Tomlinson (78 Productions/BMG)
* #7 (LP#7) - Empty Hands - Poppy (Sumerian)
* #13 (LP#7) - If You Go There, I Hope You Find it - The Paper Kites (Wonderlick/Sony Aust.) is the seventh issued album, sixth entry and now second highest charted, as their second set Twelvefour is their highest placed peaking at #8 in September of 2015. The set becomes the new #1 on the Australian Artists Album Chart this week along with the No.5 spot on the Vinyl Chart. The band last charted with the set At the Roadhouse (LP#6, HP-68, Sept. 11th, 2023).
* #14 (LP#1) - Rebel - EsDeeKid (XV/Lizzy Records) is the debut album for the UK rapper and unknown artist, which came out overseas in September, where it eventually climbed to a UK peak of #8 at the end of December 2025, this week it sits at #24. So far charted singles for EsDeeKid have been 4 Raws (HP-21, TW-31), Phantom (HP-21, TW-50), Century (HP-45 on Dec. 29th), LV Sandals (HP-87 last week) and Rottweiler (HP-82 on Dec. 29th, 2025).
* #44 (LP#3) - Cowboy is a State of Mind - FRECKO (FRECKO/RTC Records) are father and son duo of Jason and Jack Freckleton from the NSW Central Coast and Inner West Sydney, with this third release becoming their first chart entry, issuing their last album at the same time last year, called Dreams are Hard to Sell (LP#2, #24 on the Country Chart, Feb. 3rd, 2025), while their first set was called Two of Everything (LP#1, April 2021 issued).
New Accreditations/Certifications: Singles: Ordinary - Alex Warren ▲7 back to friends - sombr ▲4 Victory Lap - Fred Again.. feat. Skepta & PlaqueBoyMax ▲2 (was Gold) The Door - Teddy Swims ▲5
No Albums this week.
Extra Single Cert: Pink Skies - Zach Bryan ▲5 (was 2P)
*ARIA Chart info is based on sales for the week is from the 23rd to the 29th of January 2026.
For a 4th week, "End Of Beginning" and "Lush Life" are the top 2 of the On Replay singles chart. "Beautiful Things", which turned 2 years old this week and thus has been excised from the regular singles chart, debuts at #5. It's the 4th song to have been transferred out from the singles top 100 since the new rules began, after "The Door" and "greedy" (which went from #30 and #58 respectively on the singles chart in their final week, to #4 and #18 On Replay debuts), and "Austin (Boots Stop Workin')" (which was #82 on the singles chart in its final week, and only scraped the On Replay chart several weeks later). Thus, "Beautiful Things" is the highest removal, having been #16 last week, and is the first song to have reached 105 weeks in the top 100 since that became the allowed maximum ("greedy" had 97).
"As It Was" climbs #34 to #19. Australia Day leads "Khe Sanh", "My Happiness" and "Never Tear Us Apart" to ascend into the all-nationalities On Replay singles chart for the first time, which makes 10 Australian songs in the chart. "Everlong", which popped in at #50 once in November, returns at #47.
I am disappointed by the Australian singles On Replay chart. I think a decent handful of songs should've debuted this week due to Australia Day, but only 2 of them actually do - "Sounds Of Then" at #30, and "Throw Your Arms Around Me" at #50. Here's a comparison to the at-least-2-years-old Australian songs in the January 26 daily Spotify chart:
Spot
O.R.
Song
Spot
O.R.
Song
18
-
Men At Work - Down Under
99
35
Daryl Braithwaite - The Horses
25
7
Cold Chisel - Khe Sanh
103
-
Empire Of The Sun - We Are The People
39
1
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
105
20
Hilltop Hoods, Montaigne, Tom Thum - 1955
40
13
Choirboys - Run to Paradise
110
41
AC/DC - It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)
45
10
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
112
-
Cold Chisel - Cheap Wine
46
17
ICEHOUSE - Great Southern Land
115
-
Paul Kelly, The Messengers - Dumb Things
47
8
Powderfinger - My Happiness
122
31
John Farnham - You're the Voice
54
9
INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
125
-
Hunters & Collectors - Holy Grail
60
-
Daddy Cool - Eagle Rock
128
12
Gotye, Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know
61
25
Australian Crawl - The Boys Light Up
131
-
The Screaming Jets - Better
62
30
GANGgajang - Sounds Of Then (This Is Australia)
139
21
Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl
64
-
Paul Kelly, The Messengers - To Her Door
141
26
INXS - Need You Tonight
65
3
Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream
142
-
Dragon - Rain
67
4
Tame Impala - The Less I Know The Better
143
33
Jimmy Barnes - Working Class Man - David Nicholas Mix
70
18
AC/DC - Back In Black
146
27
Hilltop Hoods - Cosby Sweater
71
2
Vance Joy - Riptide
160
34
Bernard Fanning - Wish You Well
73
11
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
170
50
Hunters & Collectors - Throw Your Arms Around Me
74
23
Goanna - Solid Rock
171
-
Australian Crawl - Reckless (Don't Be So...)
76
19
Cold Chisel - Flame Trees
173
15
Hilltop Hoods - The Nosebleed Section
77
5
The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition
176
-
Cold Chisel - Bow River
78
6
AC/DC - Thunderstruck
186
-
Silverchair - Tomorrow
79
14
Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning
188
-
Midnight Oil - Power And The Passion
80
16
The Angels - Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again
190
46
Crowded House - Better Be Home Soon
It's not a very clear comparison since I'm comparing a daily chart to a weekly one, but surely "Eagle Rock" and "To Her Door" should've debuted at minimum. "Cheap Wine" onwards may not be certain, but if "Throw Your Arms Around Me" was able to make it, I feel like most of the ones above it should've too. (Only 1 of the 3 versions of "Throw Your Arms Around Me" is on Spotify, so it's not that it has split versions on the Spotify charts.)
Although there are only 2 debuts, there are 7 re-entries, and many new peaks. "Great Southern Land" has charted for 19 weeks and all of them have been below #40, except for a #33 on the week of New Year's Eve, and a #17 this week. The biggest fallers are the comparatively-newer songs; the highest song that is less than 9.9 years old ("Never Be Like You" just turned 10, and "1955" will do so shortly) is CYRIL's "Stumblin' In", which falls #13 to #24, while "NIGHTS LIKE THIS" tumbles #20 to #38. ("Never Be Like You" at #22 is the highest song that isn't in the above table.) Empire Of The Sun's "Alive" drops out from its remix-release-boosted #30 peak. RÜFÜS DU SOL narrowly manage to keep all 3 of their songs in, but Sia loses all 3 of hers (including featured "I Love It"). "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" loses its streak of having charted every week.
"Harry's House" and "Fine Line" climb to #2 and #4 respectively on the On Replay albums chart, and "Harry Styles" surfaces at #41. There are no Australian albums in the chart (which is not unusual, but is a contrast to the singles chart). On the Australian version, Men At Work's "Business As Usual" climbs #36 to #9 and I can't deduce why (it's far too big a climb to be from streams of songs beyond the big 2, it hasn't been on the iTunes albums chart, and I don't see a new reissue). I also don't know why The Wiggles' "The Best Of" (a 2016 compilation, as per its catalogue number, not to be confused with the previously-charted 2023 "The Best Of The Wiggles") debuts at #11.
"Working Class Man" has indeed been removed from the regular Australian singles chart, after finishing its 10-week window since the release of its "ballad version" (which, if you're wondering, has a total of 42,853 Spotify plays - less than the regular song did on January 26 alone). I'm almost impressed that ARIA appear to have successfully followed their rules Next week should be the final week for Empire Of The Sun's "Alive" then (unless the subsequent remixes reset the timer?).
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Next week should be the final week for Empire Of The Sun's "Alive" then (unless the subsequent remixes reset the timer?).