Australian Idol discography


Australian Idol was a televised talent contest, screened on Channel Ten for seven seasons between 2003 and 2009. Several contestants were signed to record labels, while others released their music independently. Since 2003 Australian Idol acts have placed well on the Australian music charts, with numerous platinum and gold certifications. Eight Idol releases appeared in the 2000 – 2009 ARIA End of Decade Charts, and 24 releases have been nominated for Highest Selling ARIA Music Awards. Idol contestants have also been nominated for 35 ARIA Awards in public vote categories, where the nominees are most commonly selected from the highest selling acts of the year. There have also been 50 industry judged ARIA Award nominations. To date there have been 11 wins in sales and public vote categories, and in 2013 season one winner Guy Sebastian and season four runner up Jessica Mauboy became the first Idol contestants to win peer voted ARIA Awards.
While many of the contestants only charted with their early releases, some, most notably Sebastian, Mauboy, season five runner up Matt Corby,
season one runner up Shannon Noll, and season two runner up Anthony Callea have experienced long-term success. Nine Idol acts have charted outside Australia, including Noll and Leith who reached the top ten on the Irish charts with their debut singles, and Sebastian and season seven winner Stan Walker who have both achieved numerous top ten certified entries on the New Zealand charts. Sebastian is currently the only Australian Idol contestant to chart in the US. "Battle Scars", a collaboration with Lupe Fiasco, reached number 71 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, 23 on the Billboard Digital Song Chart and number one on the R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Chart. Billboard.biz. Archived from on 13 September 2012. It spent 20 weeks in the Hot 100, and has been certified triple platinum for sales of three million. "Battle Scars" also reached number two in Norway. In January 2013 Ricki-Lee Coulter's "Do It Like That" reached number seven on the Japan Hot 100.

Australian Idol Contestants

The most successful season of Australian Idol was the first one in 2003, with the contestants achieving 19 of the 35 Australian Idol number ones, and more than 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 five runner up Matt Corby, season one runner up Shannon Noll, 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 Season One

Winner – Guy Sebastian

Runner up – Shannon Noll
Albums
EPs
Singles
'''DVDs'''

2004 Season Two

Winner – Casey Donovan

Runner up – Anthony Callea
Albums
EPs
Singles
'''DVDs'''

2005 Season Three

Winner – Kate DeAraugo

Runner up – Emily Williams

Albums
EPs
Singles
'''DVDs'''

2006 Season Four

Winner – Damien Leith

Runner up – Jessica Mauboy
Albums
EPs
Singles
'''DVDs'''

2007 Season Five

Winner – Natalie Gauci

Runner up – Matt Corby
Albums
EPs
Singles
'''DVDs'''

2008 Season Six

Winner – Wes Carr

Runner up – Luke Dickens
Albums
EPs
'''Singles'''

2009 Season Seven

Winner – Stan Walker

Runner up – Hayley Warner
Albums
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.
Albums
YearArtistTitle----
YearArtistTitleChart
peak		Weeks in
Top 10		Weeks in
Top 50		Certification
award
2006Young DivasYoung Divas45172× platinum
2007Young DivasNew Attitude1018Gold

'''Singles'''

Certification totals

Release history and total certifications
Album certifications
ArtistPlatinumGoldSales
Guy Sebastian1711,225,000+
Shannon Noll9—630,000+
Damien Leith61455,000+
Jessica Mauboy52420,000+
Casey Donovan3—210,000+
Anthony Callea21175,000+
Young Divas21175,000+
2003 Top 122—140,000+
Paulini1—70,000+
Joel Turner1—70,000+
Kate DeAraugo1—70,000+
Natalie Gauci1—70,000+
Lisa Mitchell1—70,000+
Stan Walker1—70,000+
Cosima De Vito—135,000+
Lee Harding—135,000+
Ricki-Lee Coulter—135,000+
Wes Carr—135,000+
Matt Corby—135,000+

EP certifications
ArtistPlatinumGoldSales
Matt Corby10—700,000+

Single certifications
ArtistPlatinumGoldSales
Guy Sebastian6564,760,000+
Jessica Mauboy1671,365,000+
Matt Corby114910,000+
Shannon Noll83665,000+
Anthony Callea6—420,000+
Stan Walker43385,000+
Ricki-Lee32280,000+
Matt Corby31245,000+
Casey Donovan2—140,000+
Young Divas11105,000+
Paulini1—70,000+
Cosima1—70,000+
Joel Turner1—70,000+
Kate DeAraugo1—70,000+
Lee Harding1—70,000+
Damien Leith1—70,000+
Wes Carr—270,000+
2003 Top 12—135,000+
Rob Mills—135,000+
Natalie Gauci—135,000+
Axle Whitehead—135,000+
Lisa Mitchell—135,000+
Hayley Warner—135,000+

DVD Certifications
ArtistPlatinumGoldSales
2003 Top 122145,000+
Shannon Noll1—15,000+
Anthony Callea1—15,000+
2004 Top 12—215,000+
Guy Sebastian—17,500+
2006 Top 12—17,500+

Chart achievements

Australian Idol records

Highest selling Australian Idol albums#endnote_a|
Note a ^ Just as I Am had documented retail sales of 480,000, just short of 7× platinum
Best chart runs – Albums
Highest selling Australian Idol EPInto the Flame, Matt Corby – 10× platinum
Best chart runs – EPs
  • Highest peak – Into the Flame, Matt Corby
  • Most weeks in top ten – Into the Flame, Matt Corby
  • Most weeks in top 50 – Into the Flame, Matt Corby
Highest selling Australian Idol singles
Best chart runs – Singles

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 eventually achieved 5× platinum certification in 2019. It remained the highest selling Australian artist song until its sales were surpassed by Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" in 2011. Since then a number of other Australian songs have also reached much higher than 4× platinum certification, including Sebastian's own single "Battle Scars" featuring Lupe Fiasco which has achieved 14× platinum certification.
  • Anthony Callea's single "The Prayer (Céline Dion and [Andrea Bocelli song)|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.

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. Guy Sebastian and Matt Corby also appeared in the highest selling releases of the 2010 – 2019 decade.
2000 – 2009
'''2010 – 2019'''

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 109 ARIA Awards since 2004, with 24 highest selling nominations, 35 nominations for publicly voted categories, and 50 industry judged nominations. Guy Sebastian has received the most nominations with 34, including seven wins. Jessica Mauboy has had 31 nominations including two wins, and Matt Corby 11 with two wins. Shannon Noll has received six nominations. 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 triple platinum for sales of three 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.
Albums
'''Singles'''