Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drop Dead” (via Interscope/Universal) shows a lot of heart by roaring to No. 1 on the ARIA Singles Chart.
“Drop Dead” got a boost from not one, but two, music videos, and a live performance at Coachella last Saturday night (April 18), when Rodrigo was a surprise guest during Addison Rae‘s set. It’s the lead single from her forthcoming third studio album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, due out June 12. With it’s lightning start, the U.S. pop star now boasts a fourth No. 1 single in Australia after “Drivers Licence” (six weeks in 2021), “Good 4 U” (five weeks in 2021) and “Vampire” was (one week in 2023).
Rodrigo ends Olivia Dean’s months-long reign with the singles “Man I Need,” which holds at No. 2 on the latest chart, published Friday, April 24, and “Reign Me In,” her collaboration with Sam Fender, which dips 1-3.
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The only other debutant in the top 40 is Justin Bieber, who benefits from his headline performances on both weekends of Coachella. Bieber’s “Speed Demon” (Def Jam/Universal) is new at No. 39, while his former No. 1 “Daisies” flowers 10-4; “Beauty And a Beat” featuring Nicki Minaj returns to the list at No. 5, its peak position; and “Yukon” is on the rise, up 23-18.
She lost her singles crown, but Olivia Dean remains the queen of the ARIA Albums Chart, as The Art of Loving (Universal) enters a 13th non-consecutive week at No. 1. That’s the longest-reigning album by an English singer since Ed Sheeran’s ÷ (divide) logged 27 weeks at the top of the leaderboard in 2017-18, ARIA reports.
Meanwhile, Sydney singer and songwriter Matt Corby works some chart magic with his fourth full-length album, Tragic Magic (Island/Universal). It’s new at No. 3, for the top debut album of the latest cycle. Corby has three career ARIA Awards, and a string of top 10 appearances on the albums tally, including No. 1 in 2016 with Telluric.
Western Australia’s Spacey Jane launch at No. 30 with Live At The Hordern Pavilion (AWAL), for the ARIA Award-winning indie band’s fifth appearance in the ARIA Top 50. Also new to the chart is homegrown singer Charley with her first album The Chronicles Of A Serial Idealist (EMI), new at No. 23; Australian Idol 2026 champ Kesha Oayda with The Idol Collection (Orchard), new at No. 31; and Australian Music Prize-winning outfit Hermitude, whose eighth studio album, Eight (ELT), enters at No. 39.
