Weekly music charts for 2016

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Australian music charts for week ending 17th December 2016:

singles:

For the third week in a row, Clean Bandit holds the #1 spot on the ARIA Singles Chart with ‘Rockabye’.
The Weeknd’s ‘Starboy’ is #2 for a ninth week. It’s now one week away from joining Maroon 5’s ‘Moves Like Jagger’ as the record holder for most weeks at #2 without reaching #1 on the ARIA Singles Chart. The Canadian artist also picks up a new peak this week with ‘I Feel It Coming’; it’s up two to #11.
A jump of two spots gives ‘24K Magic’ a new peak. It joins ‘Locked Out Of Heaven’ (#4 Nov. ’12) as Bruno Mars’ second-highest Singles Chart peak.
Moving up six spots, ‘Scars To Your Beautiful’ becomes Alessia Cara’s first top ten on the ARIA Singles Chart. It takes over from ‘Here’ as the Canadian singer-songwriter’s highest peak.
Andy Grammer’s ‘Fresh Eyes’ moves up 16 spots to #16, becoming the American singer-songwriter’s ARIA Singles Chart peak.
This week’s Singles Chart also includes new peaks for Jonas Blue’s ‘By Your Side’ (#33), Lady Gaga’s ‘Million Reasons’ (#34), Musa Musa’s ‘Love$ick’ (#35), Robin Schulz & David Guetta’s ‘Shed A Light’ (#38) and Milky Chance’s ‘Cocoon’ (#42).
Debuts:
#3: Zayn & Taylor Swift ‘I Don’t Wanna Live Forever’ – Taylor Swift and Zayn join forces for the single ‘I Don’t Wanna Live Forever’. The track is the first single to come from the soundtrack to Fifty Shades Darker, the sequel to Fifty Shades Of Grey. It’s Swift’s first appearance in the top ten since ‘Wildest Dreams’ (#3 Sept. ’15) and Zayn’s first since ‘Pillowtalk’ (#1 Feb. ’16).
#25: Steve Aoki & Louis Tomlinson ‘Just Hold On’ – DJ/producer Steve Aoki and former One Direction member Louis Tomlinson join forces for the latter’s first post-1D release ‘Just Hold On’. As well as being Tomlinson’s first solo track, it’s Aoki’s first appearance in the top 50 since the Laidback Luke collaboration ‘Turbulence’ (#37 May ’11).
#45: J. Cole ‘Deja Vu’ – As well as scoring this week’s highest debut on the ARIA Albums Chart at #6 with 4 Your Eyez Only, American rapper J. Cole picks up his first top 50 appearance on the ARIA singles Chart with ‘Deja Vu’. The track features a sample of ‘Swing My Way’, a track from 1998 by K.P. and Envyi.

heres the link to the Aussie top50 singles chart: http://www.ariacharts.com.au/charts/singles-chart


albums:


In its fifth week in the top 50, John Farnham & Olivia Newton-John’s Friends For Christmas has hit #1 on the ARIA Albums Chart for the first time. The album debuted at #3 in November and hits #1 after two weeks at #4. Friends For Christmas becomes the twentieth Australian #1 album on the ARIA Charts in 2016.
With Keith Urban currently touring nationally, Ripcord returns to the top five for the first time since early June. The album spent its first two weeks on the chart at #1.
In the week Coldplay wrapped up their Australian tour, A Head Full Of Dreams (#2 Dec. ’15) returns to the top ten for the first time since mid-March. Further down the chart the band’s 4 CD Catalogue Set has achieved a new peak at #27.
On tour with Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood returns to the top 50 at #28 with Storyteller.
As well as Friends For Christmas at #1, there’s seven other Christmas albums in this week’s top 50: Michael Bublé’s Christmas (#2), Pentatonix’s A Pentatonix Christmas (#23). Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas (#24), Human Nature’s The Christmas Album (#25), Pentatonix’s That’s Christmas To Me (#31), The Ten Tenors’ Our Christmas Wish (#33) and Kylie Minogue’s Kylie Christmas (#46).
Debuts:
#6: J. Cole ‘4 Your Eyez Only’ – The fourth studio album from J. Cole gives the American rapper his first appearance in the top ten on the ARIA Albums Chart. 4 Your Eyez Only is the follow-up to 2014 Forest Hills Drive (#40 Dec. ’14) and takes over from Born Sinner (#14 Jul. ’13) as his highest peak.
#12: Isaiah ‘Isaiah’ – The debut album from 2016 X Factor winner Isaiah Firebrace. It includes the single ‘It's Gotta Be You’ (#26 Nov. ’16), as well as covers of tracks by the likes of Rudimental, Pharrell, Rihanna and Beyoncé.


heres the link for the top50 albums chart: http://www.ariacharts.com.au/charts/albums-chart