Cold Chisel’s ’50 Years’ Is The Only Australia LP on the ARIA Chart [Video]

The latest ARIA Albums Chart is a disappearing double act.

On the fresh tally, for the week of Monday, January 6th, Christmas music marches off for another year, and Australian music proves especially hard to find.

Indeed, just one homegrown recording holds the flame in the ARIA Top 50: Cold Chisel’s 50 Years – The Best Of (Cold Chisel/Universal), down 13-25.

The so-called discoverability problem plaguing the Australian music community isn’t an easy fix, though no shortage of solutions have been presented by the industry. Among them, Music Australia’s funding initiative the Music Australia Record Label Development Scheme, which is designed to support homegrown labels that are “actively discovering, developing, and promoting local talent”; the AAM’s Michael’s Rule, a policy that would ensure at least one local artist would be among the support acts on every tour; and the ongoing (and contentious) discussion on content quotas. 

Since forming in Adelaide in 1973, the ARIA Hall of Fame-inducted Cold Chisel …