This Week In Pop – 3 January 2022

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This week, Adele reaches her sixth atop the Albums Chart and Mariah Carey's Christmas classic is #1 on the Singles Chart for a fourth straight year.

This week's album chartifacts

#1: Adele ‘30’ – For the sixth consecutive week, British superstar Adele tops both the ARIA Albums Chart and the ARIA Vinyl Albums Chart with her fourth album, '30'.
#2: Michael Bublé ‘Christmas’ – Michael Bublé’s 'Christmas' moves up from #5 to hit its highest peak for 2021. This week marks the 2011 album’s 65th week in the ARIA Top Ten.

This week's single chartifacts

#1: Mariah Carey ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ – Mariah Carey has triumphed again, hitting #1 on the ARIA Singles Chart for an unprecedented fourth straight year with her festive season classic 'All I Want For Christmas Is You'. The American star’s single – which was originally released in 1994 – also hit #1 in Australia in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

Top 10 Albums

1. '30' – Adele
2. 'Christmas' – Michael Buble
3. '=' – Ed Sheeran
4. 'Red (Taylor's Version)' – Taylor Swift
5. 'SOUR' – Olivia Rodrigo
6. 'The Highlights' – The Weeknd
7. 'Voyage' – ABBA
8. 'Paul Kelly's Christmas Train' – Paul Kelly
9. 'Planet Her' – Doja Cat
10. 'Nevermind' – Nirvana

Top 10 Singles

1. 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' – Mariah Carey
2. 'Last Christmas' – Wham
3. 'It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas' – Michael Buble
4. 'Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)' – Elton John & Dua Lipa
5. 'Santa Tell Me' – Ariana Grande
6. 'Stay' – The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber
7. 'ABCDEFU' – Gayle
8. 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' – Brenda Lee
9. 'Heat Waves' – Glass Animals
10. 'Merry Christmas' – Ed Sheeran & Elton John