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\n\tEd Sheeran<\/a> extends his perfect record in Australia as Play<\/em> blasts to No. 1 on the ARIA Chart.<\/p>\n \n\tAll of Sheeran\u2019s albums have reached the summit, including Play<\/em> which opens at the top of the national leaderboard, published Friday, September 19th.<\/p>\n \n\tPlay<\/em> follows Autumn Variations<\/em> (from 2023), +<\/em> (plus<\/em> from 2012),\u202fX<\/em> (multiply<\/em> from 2014), \u00f7<\/em> (divide<\/em> from 2017),\u202fNo. 6 Collaborations Project<\/em>\u202f(2019),\u202f=<\/em>\u202f(equals<\/em> from 2019) and \u2013<\/em> (subtract<\/em> from 2023), all of which led the all-genres ARIA Chart.<\/p>\n \n\tAccording to the charts compiler, Sheeran has accumulated 46 total weeks at No. 1, including an impressive 27 week with divide<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tAdding in special edition albums and his recent greatest hits collection, ARIA reports, Sheeran has collected upwards of 1,200 weeks on the ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tPlay<\/em> is also the best-seller on wax, as it takes out top spot on the ARIA Vinyl Chart.<\/p>\n \n\tAustralians have adopted Sheeran like one of their own. His Mathematics Tour<\/em> in 2023 smashed several records<\/a>,\u00a0and his Divide<\/em> tour in 2018, also with\u00a0Frontier Touring<\/a>, shifted more than\u00a01 million tickets<\/a>, a feat that wiped\u00a0Dire Straits<\/a>\u2019 record for a single trek (950,000) that had stood for since the 1980s.<\/p>\n \n\tSheeran returns to these parts in the first quarter of 2026 for his Loop Tour, <\/em><\/a>which will stop by stadiums<\/a> in in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Perth, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Adelaide. Frontier Touring and MG Live, both part of the Mushroom Group, are producing the jaunt.<\/p>\n \n\tAlso new to the latest ARIA Chart is Twenty One Pilots\u2019 Breach<\/em>, the US rock band\u2019s eighth studio album<\/a>. It\u2019s new at No. 2. 21P has impacted the ARIA Top 10 on four occasions, with Blurryface<\/em> (No. 7 in 2015), Trench<\/em> (No. 1 for one week in 2018), Scaled And Icy<\/em> (No. 3 in 2021) and Clancy<\/em> (No. 1 for one week in 2024).<\/p>\n \n\tMeanwhile, former Little Mix singer Jade bows as No. 11 with That\u2019s Showbiz Baby!<\/em>, her debut solo LP. All seven of the British girl group\u2019s albums impacted the ARIA top 10, with Get Weird<\/em> (from 2015) and Glory Days<\/em> (2016) peaking at No. 2.<\/p>\n \n\tThe top new domestic release belongs to Parcels, as LOVED<\/em> debuts at No. 24. <\/p>\n