Sweet Success – Lime Cordiale Score 2024’s First Aussie Chart-topper

It took seven months, but an Australian album has finally topped the ARIA charts. Sydney’s Lime Cordiale have broken the chart-topping drought, with their third album, Enough Of The Sweet Talk, knocking off Eminem to arrive at number one.

“FINALLY,” ARIA CEO Annabelle Herd reacted when the news was confirmed. “We have an Australian #1 album in 2024 and it feels incredible.”

It ended the longest local chart drought since 2001, when it was October before an Aussie album (Kylie Minogue’s Fever) reached the summit.

“Ah man, this feels so amazing,” Lime Cordiale said. “We put a lot into this album and to have so many people appreciating it feels incredible. Thanks to everyone who bought or streamed our album this week. 

“We’ve worked so hard with Chugg Music to push this as hard as it can go. It’s really awesome having an indie label help us to be the first Australian artist to get #1 in the ARIA Albums Chart this year. Australian music is #1.”

Enough Of The Sweet Talk follows Lime Cordiale’s 2020 album, 14 Steps To A Better You, which also topped the charts.

It is the brightest chart news of the year so far. Until this week, the year’s highest-charting local release had been Troy Cassar-Daley’s Between The Fires, which debuted at #2 in May.

No Australian singles have hit number one in 2024. Just one homegrown hit – Dom Dolla’s Saving Up – has cracked the Top 10 (it spent one week at #10 in February).

Ten weekly charts – including last week’s chart – have failed to feature an Australian album in the Top 40.

But Lime Cordiale could lead a run of chart-topping local releases, with some big titles on the way. The Deluge, the first offering from Fanning Dempsey National Park, will enter the charts next week, as will Tones and I’s Beautifully Ordinary. They will be followed by Grinspoon’s whatever, whatever (out August 9), Amy Shark’s Sunday Sadness (August 16), Cold Chisel’s 50 Years best-of (August 23), Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Wild God (August 30), Missy Higgins’ The Second Act (September 6), The Rubens’ Soda (September 20), Keith Urban’s High (September 20) and Kasey Chambers’ Backbone (October 6).