Seven of the most popular 20 albums in 2014 were by Australians (a higher number than any other nationality), according to ARIA's end-of-year data, and 36 of the top 100 were made by locals – nine more than the past two years.
Englishman Ed Sheeran's X was the biggest album of 2014 here, ahead of Taylor Swift's 1989 and the love/hate obsession of most parents of under 10s, the Frozen soundtrack. INXS's positively prehistoric The Very Best was the most popular album by an Australian act, spending seven weeks at no.1 and selling more than 140,000 copies.