The ARIA Singles Chart ranks the best-performing singles in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on the weekly physical and digital sales and streams of singles. Fourteen songs topped the chart in 2022, with Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" topping the chart in a fourth separate year, "Cold Heart (Pnau remix)" by Elton John and Dua Lipa returning to number one after spending five weeks at number one in 2021, and "Stay" by the Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber returning to number one as well, after its 14-week stay at number one in 2021. The best-performing song of 2021 in Australia, "Heat Waves" by British band Glass Animals, also returned to number one after six weeks atop the chart in early 2021. As It Was by Harry Styles was the best-performing song of 2022, spending a total of 8 non-consecutive weeks at number one.
Kate Bush's 1985 song "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)" returned to the chart dated 6 June, and topped the chart the following week, after being featured in season 4 of Netflix series Stranger Things. It marks Bush's second number-one single in Australia after "Wuthering Heights" in 1978.
Blackpink became the first K-pop group to top the singles chart with "Pink Venom" debuting atop the chart dated 29 August.
Six artists, Jack Harlow, Joji, Blackpink, Nicki Minaj, Bebe Rexha and Kim Petras, reached the top for the first time. Elton John reached the top twice in the same year, with "Cold Heart (Pnau remix)" and "Hold Me Closer".
Chart history
+KeyIndicates best-performing single of 2022 +List of number-one singles Issue date Song Artist(s) 3 January "All I Want for Christmas Is You" Mariah Carey 10 January "Cold Heart (Pnau remix)" Elton John and Dua Lipa 17 January 24 January 31 January "Stay" The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber 7 February 14 February 21 February "Cold Heart (Pnau remix)" Elton John and Dua Lipa 28 February 7 March "Heat Waves" Glass Animals 14 March 21 March 28 March 4 April 11 April "As It Was" Harry Styles 18 April "First Class" Jack Harlow 25 April 2 May "As It Was" Harry Styles 9 May 16 May 23 May 30 May 6 June 13 June "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)" Kate Bush 20 June 27 June "Glimpse of Us" Joji 4 July "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)" Kate Bush 11 July 18 July 25 July 1 August 8 August 15 August 22 August "As It Was" Harry Styles 29 August "Pink Venom" Blackpink 5 September "Hold Me Closer" Elton John and Britney Spears 12 September "Super Freaky Girl" Nicki Minaj 19 September "I'm Good (Blue)" David Guetta and Bebe Rexha 26 September 3 October "Unholy" Sam Smith and Kim Petras 10 October 17 October 24 October 31 October "Anti-Hero" Taylor Swift 7 November 14 November 21 November 28 November 5 December 12 December "Unholy" Sam Smith and Kim Petras 19 December "All I Want for Christmas Is You" Mariah Carey 26 December
Number-one artists + List of number-one artists, with total weeks spent at number one shown Position Artist Weeks at No. 1 1 Kate Bush 9 2 Harry Styles 8 3 Elton John 6 3 Taylor Swift 6 4 Dua Lipa 5 4 Glass Animals 5 4 Sam Smith 5 4 Kim Petras 5 5 The Kid Laroi 3 5 Justin Bieber 3 5 Mariah Carey 3 6 Jack Harlow 2 6 David Guetta 2 6 Bebe Rexha 2 7 Joji 1 7 Blackpink 1 7 Britney Spears 1 7 Nicki Minaj 1
See also 2022 in music List of number-one albums of 2022 (Australia)
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