Taylor Swift Breaks ARIA Chart Record with ‘The Life of a Showgirl’

Unsurprisingly, Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl has dominated the ARIA charts this week.

The US star’s 12th album has debuted at #1 on the ARIA Albums Chart, marking her 14th chart topper and bringing her total weeks at #1 to 69.

Per ARIA, Swift now sits at #2 on the list of artists with the most #1 albums since the ARIA charts started in 1983. Only Jimmy Barnes is ahead of her, with 16 chart-toppers as a solo act (he has also hit the top six times with Cold Chisel).

In fact, only two of her studio or re-recorded albums have not hit top spot — 2006 debut, Taylor Swift, landed at #33 and 2008’s Fearless hit #2. However, Fearless (Taylor’s Version) did get to #1 in 2021.

Over on the Singles Chart, the Pennsylvania-born songwriter has set a new chart record by owning the entire top 12 with every track on The Life of a Showgirl, led by “The Fate of Ophelia” at #1. “The Fate of Ophelia” is Swift’s 13th #1 track on the Singles chart and first since “Fortnight” featuring Post Malone, which spent two weeks on top in April-May last year. It’s also her 54th top 10 single, going all the way back to Love Story, which spent two weeks at #1 in 2009.

The Life of a Showgirl has bumped Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving from top spot down to #3, while the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack has jumped back to #2. The top five is rounded out by Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend and Australian indie rock band The Rions’ debut album, Everything Every Single Day, at #5.

Meanwhile, Terrigal singer-songwriter BOY SODA has come in at #32 with his debut effort, Soulstar.

Check out this week’s full ARIA charts results here.