List of Top 25 albums for 1989 in Australia
# Title Artist Highest pos . reached Weeks at No . 1
1 Volume One Traveling Wilburys 1 2
2 ... Ish 1927 1 4
3 Hysteria Def Leppard 1 3
4 The Raw and the Cooked Fine Young Cannibals 1 1
5 Edge Daryl Braithwaite 1 3
6 Like a Prayer Madonna 4
7 Johnny Diesel and the Injectors Johnny Diesel 2
8 Beaches Soundtrack / Bette Midler 1 4
9 Mystery Girl Roy Orbison 1 4
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
14 Hold On to Me The Black Sorrows 7
15 The Premiere Collection : The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber Various Artists 1 1
16 Melissa Etheridge Melissa Etheridge 3
17 Look Sharp ! Roxette 2
18 Rattle and Hum U2 1 5
19 Cocktail Soundtrack 1 5
20 Brave Kate Ceberano 2
 Top 25 albums of 1989 < 19881990 > Other Australian top charts for 1989top 25 singlesTriple J Hottest 100Australian top 40 charts for the 1980ssinglesalbumsAustralian number-one charts of 1989albumssingles 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 ]
These are the top 50 albums of 1989 in Australia from the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) End of Year Albums Chart. These were the second End of Year album charts created by ARIA, it had started producing its own charts from mid-1988. ARIA had previously used the Kent Music Report, known from 1987 onwards as the Australian Music Report. Peak chart positions from early 1988 were calculated by David Kent for the Kent Music Report. Late 1988 and all 1989 peak chart positions are from the ARIA Charts. 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.