Lorde’s Virgin goes all the way to No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart.
The New Zealand pop star makes it four-from-four, as Virgin debuts atop the latest national tally, published Friday, July 4th.
With that fast start, the Auckland singer and songwriter keeps her perfect record intact, after Pure Heroine (in 2013), Melodrama (2017) and Solar Power (2021) all checked into the chart penthouse.
“This album broke me apart and forged a new creature out of me,” she wrote in a recent post. “I am so proud to stand before you today as her, grateful for this beautiful life spent singing to myself and to you, for as long as you’ll have me. Thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart, down to my cells.”
Lorde got back into the swing of things last weekend with a secret performance at the UK’s Glastonbury Festival, a warm-up for her Ultrasound World Tour which kicks off this November in the US.
There’s more music on the way. Earlier this week, she teased Virgin B-sides and revealed that a few songs were kept off the official album.
Virgin holds-off a fast-rising Kpop Demon Hunters, the musical companion to the Netflix film. It’s up 5-2 in its second week on the frame, making it the highest-charting soundtrack collection since Wicked reached No. 3 last year, ARIA reports.
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US country star Morgan Wallen completes the podium with his former leader I’m The Problem, unchanged at No. 3.
Also crashing the tally is Teddy Swims’ I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Complete Edition), dropping in at No. 11. Part 1 reached No. 4 in 2023, and Part 2 logged one week the summit in February 2025. The Complete Edition includes six fresh cuts.
The soundtrack to F1: The Movie (Atlantic/Warner), featuring Rolling Stone AU/NZ cover star Dom Dolla’s “No Room For a Saint”, revs up at No. 19, while Bruce Springsteen’s The Lost Albums (Columbia/Sony) is close behind, starting at No. 21.
Charlton Howard, aka The Kid LAROI, returns to the ARIA Chart with The First Time. The gold-certified collection rebounds into the top 50, at No. 47, following the release of “How Does It Feel,” a collaboration with funk wizard Thundercat. The First Time is the only Australian recording on the albums survey.
Over on the ARIA Singles Chart, Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” enters a 15th consecutive week at the top. That effort draws level with Ed Sheeran’s 2017 hit “Shape Of You” as the third longest reigning single in chart history. Ahead of it on the all-time list is The Kid LAROI and Justin Bieber’s “Stay” (17 weeks on top in 2021-22) and the all-time champ, Tones and I’s “Dance Monkey” (24 weeks in 2019-20).
No homegrown recordings appear on this week’s singles tally.
