Australia was Harry’s House in 2022, as Harry Styles locked up the best-selling single and the No. 2 album, in keeping with year-end knowledge printed by ARIA.
The former One Direction star leads the ARIA Top 100 Singles Chart with “As It Was” (by way of Columbia/Sony Music), which racked up 5 platinum certifications following its April 1 launch.
Its guardian LP, Harry’s House, Styles’ third successive solo No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, spawns three of the highest 50 tracks for 2022, and finishes at No. 2 on the year-end albums tally. Styles confirmed his reputation when he received hottest worldwide artist on the 2022 ARIA Awards, a fan-voted class.
The best-selling album, in keeping with ARIA, is Taylor Swift’s Midnights (Universal), which chalked up the largest single gross sales cycle of any LP in 2022 and scooped a report 9 of the highest 10 singles in its first week. Also, Midnights was the 12 months’s best-selling LP on wax.
Both Midnights and Harry’s House are platinum licensed (for 70,000 mixed models).
U.S. and worldwide acts dominate the year-end tallies.
The top-ranked homegrown album is the Kid LAROI’s F*ck Love (Over You), which completed 2022 at No. 21, after touchdown at No. 3 on the 2021 year-end survey. The Sydney-raised, Los Angeles-based singer and rapper additionally scores three singles within the high 100 for 2022, led by “Stay” (Columbia/Sony) that includes Justin Bieber at No. 3 (“Stay” completed 2021 at No. 2).
Also, Pnau’s award-winning remix of “Cold Heart” (by way of Warner/Universal) that includes Elton John and Dua Lipa finishes 2022 at No. 4 (“Cold Heart” completed 2021 at No. 13).
The 12 months in music can be remembered by the stranger issues accomplished by Kate Bush’s 1985 music “Running Up That Hill (Deal With God)” (by way of Warner), which caught hearth on gross sales charts across the globe. Powered by Netflix’ Stranger Things, the only logged 9 weeks at No. 1 on the ARIA Singles Chart, greater than some other music in 2022, and arrives at No. 11 on ARIA’s year-end tally.
ARIA 2022 Top 5 Albums
Taylor Swift – Midnights
Harry Styles – Harry’s House
The Weeknd – The Highlights
Olivia Rodrigo – Sour
Ed Sheeran – =
ARIA 2022 Top 5 Singles
Harry Styles – “As It Was”
Glass Animals – “Heat Waves”
The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber – “Stay”
Elton John & Dua Lipa – “Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)”
Ed Sheeran – “Bad Habits”
ARIA 2022 Top 5 Vinyl Albums
Taylor Swift – Midnights
Harry Styles – Harry’s House
Spacey Jane – Here Comes Everybody
Arctic Monkeys – AM
Ed Sheeran – =
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