These are the top 50 albums of 1989 in Australia from the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) End of Year Albums Chart. These were the second End of Year album charts created by ARIA, it had started producing its own charts from mid-1988. ARIA had previously used the Kent Music Report, known from 1987 onwards as the Australian Music Report. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.
# Title Artist Highest pos. reached Weeks at No. 1 1. Volume One Traveling Wilburys 1 2 2. ...Ish 1927 1 4 3. Hysteria Def Leppard 1 3 4. The Raw and the Cooked Fine Young Cannibals 1 1 5. Edge Daryl Braithwaite 1 3 6. Like a Prayer Madonna 4 7. Johnny Diesel and the Injectors Johnny Diesel 2 8. Beaches Soundtrack / Bette Midler 1 4 9. Mystery Girl Roy Orbison 1 4 10. A New Flame Simply Red 2 11. Appetite for Destruction Guns N' Roses 7 12. Sunshine on Leith The Proclaimers 2 13. Repeat Offender Richard Marx 1 7 14. Hold On to Me The Black Sorrows 7 15. The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber Various Artists 1 1 16. Melissa Etheridge Melissa Etheridge 3 17. Look Sharp! Roxette 2 18. Rattle and Hum U2 1 5 19. Cocktail Soundtrack 1 5 20. Brave Kate Ceberano 2 21. Gipsy Kings Gipsy Kings 2 22. Matchbook Ian Moss 1 3 23. Phantom of the Opera Soundtrack 2 24. Heavy Nova Robert Palmer 2 25. Pop Art Transvision Vamp 13 26. Open Up and Say... Ahh! Poison 7 27. Big Daddy John Cougar Mellencamp 1 1 28. Hangin' Tough New Kids on the Block 7 29. Watermark Enya 8 30. Shiver Jenny Morris 5 31. Greatest Hits Fleetwood Mac 3 32. Heart of Stone Cher 1 1 33. Warragul John Williamson 1 1 34. Hard Reyne James Reyne 7 35. Union Toni Childs 8 36. G N' R Lies Guns N' Roses 18 37. Electric Youth Debbie Gibson 10 38. Barnestorming Jimmy Barnes 1 3 39. Velveteen Transvision Vamp 2 40. The George Thorogood Collection George Thorogood and the Destroyers 2 41. Storm Front Billy Joel 1 2 42. Living Years Mike and the Mechanics 10 43. Young Einstein Soundtrack 6 44. Everything The Bangles 7 45. Stop! Sam Brown 13 46. Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman 2 47. The Other Side of the Mirror Stevie Nicks 8 48. Trash Alice Cooper 5 49. Batman Prince 4 50. Southside Texas 14
Peak chart positions from early 1988 were calculated by David Kent for the Kent Music Report. Late 1988 and all 1989 peak chart positions are from the ARIA Charts. Overall position on the End of Year Chart is calculated by ARIA based on the number of weeks and position that the records reach within the Top 50 albums for each week during 1989.
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