Pink Tops ARIA End Of Album Chart; Katy Perry, Lorde Also Winners In Australia

Australians really love Pink. The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has released the most popular albums for Aussie music buyers for 2013, and the American songstress has topped the chart for a second year in a row.

Pink’s “The Truth About Love” was named the most popular album for 2012. A year later, it’s still at the top of the ARIA End of Year Albums Chart, making Pink the first artist the title. She also has had an album placed either at number one or two in the ARIA End of Year Albums Chart for the past six of the last seven years of the ARIA end of album charts.

2013 also saw Pink dominating the concert scene in Melbourne with her “The Truth About Love Tour: Love in Melbourne,” breaking her previous record for most concerts in an Australian city.

Top 10 Albums of 2013:
1. P!nk “The Truth About Love”
2. Katy Perry “Prism”
3. Bruno Mars “Unorthodox Jukebox”
4. Michael Buble “To Be Loved”
5. Daft Punk “Random Access Memories”
6. One Direction “Midnight Memories”
7. Michael Buble “Christmas”
8. Eminem “The Marshall Mathers LP2”
9. Lorde “Pure Heroine”
10. Passenger “All The Little Lights”

Also feeling the Aussie love are Katy Perry and Lorde, whose singles “Roar” and “Royals” respectively also make it to the top of the charts.

“Roar” is the top single of 2013, while “Royals” is the top streaming track of the year. Lorde’s “The Love Club EP feat. Royals” is fifth on the singles chart, while Katy’s “Prism” is second only to Pink’s “The Truth About Love” on the top album chart.

Top 10 Singles of 2013:
1. Katy Perry “Roar”
2. Robin Thicke Feat. T.I. & Pharrell “Blurred Lines”
3. Passenger “Let Her Go”
4. Avicii “Wake Me Up”
5. Lorde “The Love Club EP Feat. Royals”
6. P!nk Feat. Nate Ruess “Just Give Me A Reason”
7. Daft Punk Feat. Pharrell Williams “Get Lucky”
8. OneRepublic “Counting Stars”
9. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Feat. Ray Dalton “Can’t Hold Us”
10. James Arthur “Impossible”

Top 10 Streaming Tracks of 2013:
1. Lorde “Royals”
2. Avicii “Wake Me Up”
3. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Feat. Ray Dalton “Can’t Hold Us”
4. Passenger “Let Her Go”
5. Imagine Dragons “Radioactive”
6. Robin Thicke Feat. T.I. & Pharrell “Blurred Lines”
7. OneRepublic “Counting Stars”
8. Daft Punk Feat. Pharrell Williams “Get Lucky”
9. Flume “Holdin On”
10. Vance Joy “Riptide”