The ARIA top 100 lists for 2024 show Australians have turned off homegrown music

ARIA has released its Top 100 albums for 2024 and it’s horrifying news for homegrown talent.

Australian music fans have turned off homegrown music, with only three records from local artists making the ARIA Top 100 albums for 2024.

Beloved rockers Cold Chisel, buoyed by their wildly successful Big Five-O tour, was the highest charting Australian act on the Top 100 albums with their 50 Years – The Best Of compilation landing at No.44.

The Kid Laroi’s debut record The First Time, released back in November 2023, finished 2024 at No.67 on the highest selling album chart for the year.

And The Very Best of INXS, which has been a staple in the ARIA charts since it was released in 2011, came in at No.81.

Cold Chisel’s greatest hits was the highest selling Australian album in 2024. Picture: Caroline Tan.

The dire state of Australian music in the streaming era was also reflected on ARIA’s Top 100 singles of the year.

Just five local artist tracks were among the highest selling and streaming songs and not one of them was actually released in 2024. And not one female artist among them.

The local frontrunner was Riptide at No.24, the debut single for Vance Joy, which has stubbornly welded itself onto playlists and radio airwaves for 11 years.

Local electronic star Cyril blasted out of Darwin onto the world stage when his 2023 reinvention of Stumblin’ In, the 1978 hit for Suzi Quatro and Smokie frontman Chris Norman, went viral on social media last year. It came in at No.29 on ARIA’s Top 100.

The Kid LAROI flew the flag for Australian artists on the ARIA Top 100. Picture: Mike Coppola/Getty Images.

Another dance music hero Dom Dolla reached No.50 with his 2023 single Saving Up, PNAU’s 2021 Cold Heart remix featuring Elton John and Dua Lipa came in at No.85 and The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber hit Stay, also from 2021, landed at No. 96.

So what did Australia listen to in 2024?

Unsurprisingly, all of the Taylor Swift records. Her 2024 double record The Tortured Poets Department was the highest selling record for the year and she had 10 other entries in the top 100.

Billie Eilish, who kicks off her Australian tour next month, was also a stream queen with her 2024 album Hit Me Hard and Soft at No.2; her other two studio albums and debut EP also made the cut.

Sabrina Carpenter was one of Australian music fan’s fave artists in 2024. Picture: Charley Gallay/Getty Images.

Other artists with multiple albums in the top 100 included Sabrina Carpenter, The Weeknd, Dua Lipa, Luke Combs, Eminem and Olivia Rodrigo.

But the yearender chart also showed Australians love your old stuff better than your new stuff.

Two albums hailing from the 1970s were popular in 2024 – Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours and Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits from Creedence Clearwater Revival.

And while the movie came out in 2018, Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody soundtrack featuring their classic hits from the 70s and 80s, was No.41 in 2024.

Guns N’ Roses represented the 80s with their debut record Appetite For Destruction at No.99.

The 90s classic records Nevermind by Nirvana and 2001 by Dr Dre were in the bottom half of the top 100.

All of Billie Eilish’s records made the ARIA top 100 ahead of her Australian tour next month. Picture: Kevin Winter/WireImage.

Australians continue to flog the greatest hits of their favourite artists with a fifth of the top 100 featuring best of compilations – even from Pitbull.

The biggest single for 2024 was Benson Boone’s Beautiful Things, followed by Shaboozey’s A Bar Song (Tipsy) and Sabrina Carpenter’s Espresso.

It has been more than two years since an Australian artist had a No.1 single on the ARIA charts; Joji’s Glimpse Of Us reached the summit in June 2022.

ARIA, which represents the country’s record labels, continues to lobby for greater support of homegrown singles and albums on streaming and commercial radio playlists to get Australians engaged with local artists again.

But radio flogged songs by Troye Sivan, including his singles Got Me Started and Rush and yet neither track made ARIA’s end of year list.

Originally published as The ARIA top 100 lists for 2024 show Australians have turned off homegrown music