News 12 August 2020

Who'll challenge Taylor Swift and Jawsh 685 x Jason Derulo for this week's #1s?

New releases come from Luke Bryan, Cardi B, In Hearts Wake and more.

Who'll challenge Taylor Swift and Jawsh 685 x Jason Derulo for this week's #1s?

New releases come from Luke Bryan, Cardi B, In Hearts Wake and more.

At the top of last week’s ARIA Charts, Taylor Swift held #1 on the Albums Chart for a second week with folklore and Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo returned to #1 on the Singles Chart with ‘Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)’.

Which artists could we see make an impact on the ARIA Charts this week?

Let’s look at some of the likely debutants and movers.

Albums

American country star Luke Bryan could score a third Top Ten as he releases seventh album Born Here Live Here Die Here; Byron Bay’s In Hearts Wake will be aiming for their fourth career Top Ten with Kaliyuga; British band Glass Animals return with Dreamland, their first album in four years; Sydney’s sleepmakeswaves bring together their three most recent Eps for These Are Not Your Dreams; hard rock icons Deep Purple release their 21st studio album Whoosh!; following his win in the 2020 season, Chris Sebastian releases The Complete Collection (The Voice Australia 2020); American indie act The Microphones return with their first album in 17 years, Microphones In 2020; American rapper Amine could score his second career Top 50 entry with Limbo.

Watch out for moves up this week’s chart by the Frozen 2 soundtrack and DaBaby’s Blame It On Baby, among others.

Singles

Cardi B could make her first Singles Chart appearance in over a year with the Megan Thee Stallion-featured ‘WAP’; the late Juice WRLD could score a third entry in this week’s Top50 following the release of ‘Smile’ featuring The Weeknd.

This week’s Singles Chart could include moves by Pop Smoke’s ‘Mood Swings’ and ‘For The Night’, as well as Joel Corry and MNEK’s ‘Head & Heart’.

Find out where your favourite artists placed when this week’s ARIA Charts are revealed at 5pm on Saturday.