The ARIA Albums Chart ranks the best-performing albums and extended plays (EPs) in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on the weekly physical and digital sales and streams of albums and EPs. In 2022, 34 albums claimed the top spot, with the first, 30 by Adele, continuing its run from the end of 2021. Meat Loaf returned to number one with his best-selling 1977 debut album Bat Out of Hell following his death in January 2022. Future Nostalgia also returned to the top for a third week in a third consecutive year. Nine artists, the Wiggles, Charli XCX, Machine Gun Kelly, Wet Leg, Future, Daniel Johns, Spacey Jane, Yungblud and Meg Mac, achieved their first number-one album.
Chart history +KeyIndicates best-performing album of 2022
Date Album Artist(s) 3 January 30 Adele 10 January 17 January Dawn FM The Weeknd 24 January 31 January Bat Out of Hell Meat Loaf 7 February Dawn FM The Weeknd 14 February Requiem Korn 21 February Antihero Huskii 28 February Resist Midnight Oil 7 March Angel in Realtime Gang of Youths 14 March Encanto (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Various artists 21 March ReWiggled The Wiggles 28 March Crash Charli XCX 4 April Mainstream Sellout Machine Gun Kelly 11 April Unlimited Love Red Hot Chili Peppers 18 April Wet Leg Wet Leg 25 April Future Nostalgia Dua Lipa 2 May Obsidian Northlane 9 May I Never Liked You Future 16 May FutureNever Daniel Johns 23 May Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers Kendrick Lamar 30 May Harry's House Harry Styles 6 June 13 June 20 June Proof BTS 27 June Soul Deep 30 Jimmy Barnes 4 July Here Comes Everybody Spacey Jane 11 July Harry's House Harry Styles 18 July 25 July 1 August 8 August Renaissance Beyoncé 15 August 22 August Harry's House Harry Styles 29 August Finally Enough Love Madonna 5 September Will of the People Muse 12 September Yungblud Yungblud 19 September Darker Still Parkway Drive 26 September Matter of Time Meg Mac 3 October 5SOS5 5 Seconds of Summer 10 October The End, So Far Slipknot 17 October FutureNever Daniel Johns 24 October Being Funny in a Foreign Language The 1975 31 October Midnights Taylor Swift 7 November 14 November 21 November 28 November 5 December Blue Christmas Jimmy Barnes 12 December Paul Kelly's Christmas Train Paul Kelly 19 December Midnights Taylor Swift 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 Harry Styles 8 2 Taylor Swift 7 3 The Weeknd 3 4 Adele 2 4 Beyoncé 2 4 Daniel Johns 2 4 Jimmy Barnes 2 5 Meat Loaf 1 5 Korn 1 5 Huskii 1 5 Midnight Oil 1 5 Gang of Youths 1 5 The Wiggles 1 5 Charli XCX 1 5 Machine Gun Kelly 1 5 Red Hot Chili Peppers 1 5 Wet Leg 1 5 Dua Lipa 1 5 Northlane 1 5 Future 1 5 Kendrick Lamar 1 5 BTS 1 5 Spacey Jane 1 5 Madonna 1 5 Muse 1 5 Yungblud 1 5 Parkway Drive 1 5 Meg Mac 1 5 5 Seconds of Summer 1 5 Slipknot 1 5 The 1975 1 5 Paul Kelly 1
See also 2022 in music List of number-one singles of 2021 (Australia)
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