Australian Idol discography

Australian releases

The most successful season of Australian Idol was the first one in 2003, with the contestants achieving 18 of the 32 Australian Idol number ones, and almost half the certifications. Season one winner Guy Sebastian has been the most commercially successful Australian Idol contestant, with season four runner up Jessica Mauboy second. They are followed by season one runner up Shannon Noll, season five runner up Matt Corby, season two runner up Anthony Callea, and season four winner Damien Leith. These contestants have all achieved multiple chart entries and certifications. Eleven other contestants have had two or more certified top 50 releases as solo artists. Following are lists of albums, singles and DVDs released by Australian Idol contestants, including ARIA Chart peaks and runs, certifications, and any Australian chart records these releases hold.

2003 Australian Idol (Season one)

Winner – Guy Sebastian
Runner up – Shannon Noll

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EPs

Singles

2004 Australian Idol (Season two)

Winner – Casey Donovan
Runner up – Anthony Callea

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EPs

Singles

2005 Australian Idol (Season three)

Winner – Kate DeAraugo
Runner up – Emily Williams

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EPs

Singles

2006 Australian Idol (Season four)

Winner – Damien Leith
Runner up – Jessica Mauboy

Albums

EPs

Singles

2007 Australian Idol (Season five)

Winner – Natalie Gauci
Runner up – Matt Corby

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EPs

Singles

2008 Australian Idol (Season six)

Winner – Wes Carr
Runner up – Luke Dickens

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EPs

Singles

2009 Australian Idol (Season seven)

Winner – Stan Walker
Runner up – Hayley Warner

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EPs

Singles

Young Divas

The Young Divas was a group of four female contestants from various Idol years, active during 2006 and 2007. Originally the group was made up of Season One finalist Paulini, Season Two finalist Ricki-Lee Coulter, and Season Three winner and runner up Kate DeAraugo and Emily Williams. After the first album Coulter left the group and was replaced by Season Four runner up Jessica Mauboy. The group disbanded after the second album.

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Singles

Album and single certification totals

Current ARIA Accreditation levels for album and singles:

Release history and total certifications

Australian Idol DVDs

Current ARIA Accreditation levels for DVDs:

Australian Idol records

Highest selling Australian Idol albums^[a]

Just as I Am, Guy Sebastian – 6× platinum

That's What I'm Talking About, Shannon Noll – 5× platinum

The Winner's Journey, Damien Leith – 4× platinum

Lift, Shannon Noll – 3× platinum

For You, Casey Donovan – 3× platinum

Note a ^ Just as I Am had documented retail sales of 480,000, just short of 7× platinum

Best chart runs – Albums

Most weeks at number one – The Winner's Journey, Damien Leith (5 weeks)

Most weeks in top ten – That's What I'm Talking About, Shannon Noll and Armageddon, Guy Sebastian (14 weeks)

Most weeks in top 50 – Been Waiting, Jessica Mauboy (59 weeks)

Cumulative weeks in chart – Albums

Most weeks at number one – Damien Leith (6 weeks)

Most weeks in top ten – Guy Sebastian (50 weeks)

Most weeks in top 50 – Guy Sebastian (138 weeks)

Highest selling Australian Idol EP

Into the Flame, Matt Corby – 6× platinum

Best chart runs – EPs

Highest peak – Into the Flame, Matt Corby (number three)

Most weeks in top ten – Into the Flame, Matt Corby (2 weeks)

Most weeks in top 50 – Into the Flame, Matt Corby (36 weeks)

Highest selling Australian Idol singles

"Battle Scars", Guy Sebastian (feat. Lupe Fiasco) – 9× platinum

"Who's That Girl", Guy Sebastian (feat. Eve) – 5× platinum

"Angels Brought Me Here, Guy Sebastian – 4× platinum

"The Prayer", Anthony Callea – 4× platinum

"What About Me", Shannon Noll – 4× platinum

"Don't Worry Be Happy", Guy Sebastian – 4× platinum

"Like it Like That", Guy Sebastian – 4× platinum

Best chart runs – Singles

Most weeks at number one – "Battle Scars, Guy Sebastian featuring Lupe Fiasco(6 weeks)

Most weeks in top ten – "These Kids", Joel Turner (15 weeks)

Most weeks in top 50 – "This Time I Know It's for Real", Young Divas (30 weeks)

Cumulative weeks in chart – Singles

Most weeks at number one – Guy Sebastian (15 weeks)

Most weeks in top ten – Guy Sebastian (81 weeks)

Most weeks in top 50 – Guy Sebastian (277 weeks)

Australian chart records

Guy Sebastian's album Just as I Am – Second highest one week sales ever recorded in Australia, and the highest for an Australian artist. Sold 163,711 units in its first week of release.

Guy Sebastian – Only male Australian artist to achieve six number one singles in Australian chart history, and he is third overall for all Australian acts. Only Kylie Minogue and Delta Goodrem have achieved more.

Shannon Noll – Noll's first ten singles released between 2004 and 2007 all reached the top ten of the ARIA Singles Chart, making him the only male Australian artist to achieve ten consecutive top ten singles in Australian chart history. John Farnham, Jimmy Barnes and Sebastian have all achieved more than ten, but they were nonconsecutive.

Guy Sebastian's single "Angels Brought Me Here" – Held the record of being the highest selling Australian artist song of all time until 2011. Prior to 2003 the highest recorded sales for an Australian artist song were for John Farnham's 1968 single "Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)" with sales of 180,000+ units. "Angels Brought Me Here" became the first Australian artist song in chart history to reach 4× platinum certification and achieved sales in excess of 303,000. It remained the highest selling Australian artist song until its sales were surpassed by Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" in 2011, which eventually reached 11× platinum in 2013. Since then a number of other Australian songs have also reached higher than 4× platinum certification, the highest being Sebastian's own single "Battle Scars" featuring Lupe Fiasco which achieved 9× platinum certification.

Anthony Callea's single "The Prayer" – Highest one week single sales for both an Australian artist and an artist on debut, and second highest one week sales in Australian Chart history for any artist, behind Elton John's Princess Diana tribute "Candle in the Wind". "The Prayer" sold over 147,000 copies in its first full week of sales. Sebastian has the second highest one week sales for an Australian artist and third overall with 128,679 copies of "Angels Brought Me Here" sold in its first week.

ARIA 2000 – 2009 End of Decade Charts

In January 2010 the Australian Recording Industry Association released a report of the 100 highest selling singles and albums of the decade 2000 – 2009. Eight idol releases featured in the lists. Australian Idol contestants had three of the five highest selling singles of the decade, with only one other Australian song in the top twenty.

ARIA Music Awards

As well as administering the official Australian music charts, ARIA also holds the annual ARIA Music Awards to recognise excellence, innovation and achievement in Australian music. The awards have industry judged and highest selling categories, and since 2010 public vote categories where the criteria for selection as a nominee is most commonly being one of the highest selling acts during the year. Australian Idol contestants have been nominated for 86 ARIA Awards since 2004, with 24 highest selling nominations, 25 nominations for publicly voted categories, and 37 industry judged nominations. Guy Sebastian has received the most nominations with 27, including four wins. Jessica Mauboy has had 18 nominations including two wins, and Matt Corby eight nominations with two wins. Shannon Noll has received six nominations. Sebastian has also had the most industry voted nominations with 12. Mauboy has received 11 industry voted nominations, and Lisa Mitchell and Matt Corby have had four each. Joel Turner has been nominated three times in industry voted categories, Damien Leith twice, and Shannon Noll once. In 2013 Sebastian and Mauboy became the first Idol contestants to win industry voted ARIA Awards. Sebastian for Best Pop Release, and Mauboy for Best Female Artist.

International releases

Nine Australian Idol contestants have charted outside of Australia with at least one release, in countries including New Zealand, Ireland, Germany, Norway and the UK. Stan Walker and Guy Sebastian have achieved multiple chart entries and certifications in New Zealand. Sebastian has also achieved three certified singles in Sweden, and is currently the only Australian Idol contestant to chart in the United States. "Battle Scars", a collaboration with Lupe Fiasco, reached number 71 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, number 23 on the Billboard Digital Song Chart and number one on the R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Chart. The song spent 20 weeks in the Hot 100, and has been certified platinum for sales of one million. In January 2013 Ricki-Lee Coulter's "Do It Like That" reached number seven on the Japan Hot 100. Matt Corby's debut album Telluric charted in four European countries in 2016.

Current New Zealand certification levels: Current US certification levels: Current Swedish certification levels:

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Singles^[a]

Note a ^ Sebastian's single "Angels Brought Me Here" was released in Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Singapore. His official biography states the song reached number one in four Asian countries. There are no online records for this charting.