This Time Next Week, Aussie Women Will Top Both The US Albums And Singles Charts

Sales forecasts suggest that this time next week, two Australians will sit atop both the American Billboard Singles and Albums charts.

Iggy Azalea is on track to land week number eight on top of the singles chart with her juggernaut ‘Fancy’, while Sia’s album 1000 Forms Of Fear is almost certain to debut at #1; industry forecasters predict sales in the ballpark of 50,000 units. Her single ‘Chandelier’ is currently at #17.

As we hit upon last week in our exhaustive rundown of the highest-selling singles of 2014, Sia has written ten American hit singles (those are just the ones that charted in the Billboard Hot 100; there are plenty of others). Her biggest success to date is Rihanna’s #1 Diamonds, which sold a lazy 7.5 million copies worldwide.

Iggy Azalea, on the other hand has spent seven weeks on top of the American singles chart with her single ‘Fancy’. Her debut album The New Classic recently debuted at #1 in the US, too, having sold close to a quarter of a million copies there since its late-April release.

On top of this, Ariana Grande’s brassy, brash ‘Problem‘, on which Iggy features, has sold two million singles in the US, with 438,000 of those within the first week.

The success of these twin singles earned Iggy a remarkable distinction: only her and Liverpool skiffle group The Beatles have sat at #1 and #2 simultaneously on the US Billboard Singles chart with their first two charting songs.