List of top 25 albums for 1989 in Australia

These are the top 50 albums of 1989 in Australia from the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) End of Year Albums Chart.^[1] These were the second End of Year album charts created by ARIA, it had started producing its own charts from mid-1988.^[2] ARIA had previously used the Kent Music Report, known from 1987 onwards as the Australian Music Report.^[3]

#	Title	Artist	Highest pos. reached	Weeks at No. 1
1.	Volume One	Traveling Wilburys	1	2[4]
2.	...Ish	1927	1	4[5]
3.	Hysteria	Def Leppard	1	3[6]
4.	The Raw and the Cooked	Fine Young Cannibals	1	1[7]
5.	Edge	Daryl Braithwaite	1	3[8]
6.	Like a Prayer	Madonna	4
7.	Johnny Diesel and the Injectors	Johnny Diesel	2
8.	Beaches	Soundtrack / Bette Midler	1	4[9]
9.	Mystery Girl	Roy Orbison	1	4[10]
10.	A New Flame	Simply Red	2
11.	Appetite for Destruction	Guns N' Roses	7
12.	Sunshine on Leith	The Proclaimers	2
13.	Repeat Offender	Richard Marx	1	7[11]
14.	Hold On to Me	The Black Sorrows	7
15.	The Premiere Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber	Various Artists	1	1[12]
16.	Melissa Etheridge	Melissa Etheridge	3
17.	Look Sharp!	Roxette	2
18.	Rattle and Hum	U2	1	5[nb 1]
19.	Cocktail	Soundtrack	1	5[14]
20.	Brave	Kate Ceberano	2
21.	Gipsy Kings	Gipsy Kings	2
22.	Matchbook	Ian Moss	1	3[15]
23.	Phantom of the Opera	Soundtrack	2
24.	Heavy Nova	Robert Palmer	2
25.	Pop Art	Transvision Vamp	13
26.	Open Up and Say... Ahh!	Poison	7
27.	Big Daddy	John Cougar Mellencamp	1	1
28.	Hangin' Tough	New Kids on the Block	7
29.	Watermark	Enya	8
30.	Shiver	Jenny Morris	5
31.	Greatest Hits	Fleetwood Mac	3
32.	Heart of Stone	Cher	1	1
33.	Warragul	John Williamson	1	1
34.	Hard Reyne	James Reyne	7
35.	Union	Toni Childs	8
36.	G N' R Lies	Guns N' Roses	18
37.	Electric Youth	Debbie Gibson	10
38.	Barnestorming	Jimmy Barnes	1	3
39.	Velveteen	Transvision Vamp	2
40.	The George Thorogood Collection	George Thorogood and the Destroyers	2
41.	Storm Front	Billy Joel	1	2
42.	Living Years	Mike and the Mechanics	10
43.	Young Einstein	Soundtrack	6
44.	Everything	The Bangles	7
45.	Stop!	Sam Brown	13
46.	Tracy Chapman	Tracy Chapman	2
47.	The Other Side of the Mirror	Stevie Nicks	8
48.	Trash	Alice Cooper	5
49.	Batman	Prince	4
50.	Southside	Texas	14

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Peak chart positions from early 1988 were calculated by David Kent for the Kent Music Report.^[3] Late 1988 and all 1989 peak chart positions are from the ARIA Charts.^[2] Overall position on the End of Year Chart is calculated by ARIA based on the number of weeks and position that the records reach within the Top 50 albums for each week during 1989.^[2]

Notes

1. Rattle and Hum debuted at #1 in November 1988 for five weeks and remained in the ARIA Top 50 until April 1989, it returned in August and reached #6 in October, overall it spent 51 weeks in the Top 50.^[13]

References

1. "ARIA Charts - End Of Year Charts - Top 50 Albums 1989". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 14 February 2009.
2. "Official ARIA Charts". Australian Charts Portal. 8 February 2009. Retrieved 14 February 2009.
3. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970-1992. St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.
4. "Traveling Wilburys - Vol. 1". Australian Charts Portal. Retrieved 23 February 2009.
5. "1927 - ...Ish". Australian Charts Portal. Retrieved 23 February 2009.
6. "Def Leppard - Hysteria". Australian Charts Portal. Retrieved 23 February 2009.
7. "Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw & The Cooked". Australian Charts Portal. Retrieved 23 February 2009.
8. "Daryl Braithwaite - Edge". Australian Charts Portal. Retrieved 23 February 2009.
9. "Bette Midler - Beaches". Australian Charts Portal. Retrieved 23 February 2009.
10. "Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl". Australian Charts Portal. Retrieved 23 February 2009.
11. "Richard Marx - Repeat Offender". Australian Charts Portal. Retrieved 23 February 2009.
12. "Andrew Lloyd Webber - The Premiere Collection". Australian Charts Portal. Retrieved 23 February 2009.
13. "U2 - Rattle And Hum". Australian Charts Portal. Retrieved 23 February 2009.
14. "Soundtrack - Cocktail". Australian Charts Portal. Archived from the original on 14 November 2012. Retrieved 23 February 2009.
15. "Ian Moss - Matchbook". Australian Charts Portal. Retrieved 23 February 2009.