Ed Sheeran extends his perfect record in Australia as Play blasts to No. 1 on the ARIA Chart.
All of Sheeran’s albums have reached the summit, including Play which opens at the top of the national leaderboard, published Friday, September 19th.
Play follows Autumn Variations (from 2023), + (plus from 2012), X (multiply from 2014), ÷ (divide from 2017), No. 6 Collaborations Project (2019), = (equals from 2019) and – (subtract from 2023), all of which led the all-genres ARIA Chart.
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According to the charts compiler, Sheeran has accumulated 46 total weeks at No. 1, including an impressive 27 week with divide.
Adding in special edition albums and his recent greatest hits collection, ARIA reports, Sheeran has collected upwards of 1,200 weeks on the ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart.
Play is also the best-seller on wax, as it takes out top spot on the ARIA Vinyl Chart.
Australians have adopted Sheeran like one of their own. His Mathematics Tour in 2023 smashed several records, and his Divide tour in 2018, also with Frontier Touring, shifted more than 1 million tickets, a feat that wiped Dire Straits’ record for a single trek (950,000) that had stood for since the 1980s.
Sheeran returns to these parts in the first quarter of 2026 for his Loop Tour, which will stop by stadiums in in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Adelaide. Frontier Touring and MG Live, both part of the Mushroom Group, are producing the jaunt.
Also new to the latest ARIA Chart is Twenty One Pilots’ Breach, the US rock band’s eighth studio album. It’s new at No. 2. 21P has impacted the ARIA Top 10 on four occasions, with Blurryface (No. 7 in 2015), Trench (No. 1 for one week in 2018), Scaled And Icy (No. 3 in 2021) and Clancy (No. 1 for one week in 2024).
Meanwhile, former Little Mix singer Jade bows as No. 11 with That’s Showbiz Baby!, her debut solo LP. All seven of the British girl group’s albums impacted the ARIA top 10, with Get Weird (from 2015) and Glory Days (2016) peaking at No. 2.
The top new domestic release belongs to Parcels, as LOVED debuts at No. 24.
On the ARIA Singles Chart, KPop Demon Hunters hit “Golden” retains top spot for the eighth consecutive week, and leads an unchanged top 3, with Olivia Dean’s “Man I Need” and Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” respectively completing the podium.
Finally, U.S. singer and songwriter Sombr scores his third ARIA top 10, as “12 To 12” improves 13-6. That comes on the heels of “Undressed” (No. 2) and “Back To Friends” (No. 3), all of which appear on his debut, I Barely Know Her, which is currently unmoved on the albums tally at No. 5. Sombr will embark on his first headline tour of Australia this December, for a trek produced by Frontier Touring.
