Lorde Gets Top 10 Debut on Aria Singles Charts

Kiwi pop superstar Lorde has made the biggest splash on this week’s ARIA Charts with fans lapping up her first new music in four years.

“What Was That” has debuted at No. 9, the highest new entry in the singles charts this week. She made a splash announcing the song in Washington Square Park last week via a fan event she organised with a text blast. The response was massive – by the designated start time of 7pm, so many people had filled up the park that local police had to come in and shut the event down.

Co-produced by Dan Nigro, who has worked with Olivia Rodrigo, Chappell Roan, Kylie Minogue, and others, it’s the lead track from her upcoming fourth studio album, Virgin, which is set to be released on June 27th.

Lorde was last on the ARIA Singles Chart in 2021, when she peaked at #29 with Mood Ring. She’s had two top 10 hits: The Love Club EP, which contained Royals (#2 in 2013) and Green Light (#4 in 2017).

Alex Warren remains at #1 this week with “Ordinary” – his sixth concecutive week on top. Gracie Abrams has suddenly surged from #6 up to #2 with “That’s So True”, bumping Chappell Roan down one spot to #3 with “Pink Pony Club”. Other staples round out the top 5 including Rosé and Bruno Mars’ “APT.” (#4, last week #3), and Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” (#5, last week #4), which has now been in the charts for a whopping 67 weeks.

Over on the album charts, Swedish goth-metallers Ghost have done it for the metalheads and knocked Sabrina Carpenter off her perch. Led by frontman Tobias Forge and his bandmates, who are known only as ‘Nameless Ghouls’, they’ve entered at No.1 with their sixth studio record Skeleta.

Before this week, the band had had three of their albums reach the top 20, with the best being Imperapeaked which peaked at #3 in 2022. The remainder of the top 5 albums are all by solo female artists, with Carpenter, Abrams, Billie Eilish, and Tate McRae occuping the spots.

ARIA CHARTS W/C 5TH MAY 2025

Top 5 Albums

1. Ghost – Skeleta
2. Sabrina Carpenter – Short n’ Sweet
3. Gracie Abrams – The Secret Of Us
4. Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft
5. Tate McRae – So Close to What

Top 5 Singles

1. Alex Warren – “Ordinary”
2. Gracie Abrams – “That’s So True”
3. Chappell Roan – “Pink Pony Club”
4. Rosé, Bruno Mars – “APT.”
5. Benson Boone – “Beautiful Things”

You can check out the full ARIA charts for this week here.