Aussie acts Teenage Dads and Stand Atlantic nab podium spots on the latest ARIA chart, behind the new album from nuclear-hot U.S. pop star Sabrina Carpenter.
Mornington Peninsula indie band Teenage Dads blast to No. 2 with Majordomo, released through Chugg Records and MGM, their second album. The reigning ARIA Award winners for the Michael Gudinski Breakthrough Artist category, the Dads peaked at No. 28 last year with their EP Midnight Driving.
The lads are currently supporting the LP with a headline tour, with Australian dates to come in Adelaide, Perth and Melbourne, before crossing the ditch for shows in New Zealand, and return concerts next month in Hobart and Melbourne.
The U.S. awaits. In late October, the Dads head north to join indie-pop act Dayglow as the main support on his North America headline tour.
Meanwhile, Stand Atlantic debuts at No. 3 on the ARIA Albums Chart, published Friday, Aug. 30th with Was Here (Hopeless Records/RKT), their fourth release. That’s a career best for the Sydney pop punk favourites, after Pink Elephant stomped in at No. 23 in 2020 and F.E.A.R. reached No. 10 in 2022.
Stand Atlantic will showcase to the music industry next week at BIGSOUND 2024.
No one and nothing and can stop Sabrina Carpenter, however, as Short n’ Sweet (via Island/Universal) opens its account at No. 1 on the ARIA Chart, nabbing a chart double in the process.
Short n’ Sweet is Carpenter’s sixth album and first No. 1. Until now, her highest-charting album was Emails I Can’t Send, which peaked at No. 27 in 2022. With that fast start, Carpenter breaks a four-week streak at No. 1 by homegrown acts on the ARIA Albums Chart, with releases from Lime Cordiale, Tones & I, Amy Shark and Cold Chisel.
Meanwhile, Sabrina collects the entire top 3 on the ARIA Chart with “Taste,” “Please Please Please” and “Espresso.”
In a sweet piece of symmetry, she becomes the first act to score the trifecta since April of this year when The Tortured Poets Department gave Taylor Swift a top 10 clean sweep. Sabrina is, of course, a fully-fledged member of TayTay’s #Squad, and has opened for the U.S. pop superstar on tours in their homeland.
According to ARIA, the singer and actor becomes the first artist to secure three No. 1 singles in the same year since Drake topped the chart in 2018 with “God’s Plan” (11 weeks), “Nice For What” (two weeks) and “In My Feelings” (four weeks).
