TMRW Music claimed 60% of ARIA's Australian Dance Chart in a single week

Six tracks, one week

In a single week this April, Sydney-based TMRW Music Group occupied 60% of the ARIA Top Australian Dance Singles Chart. According to Billboard, the haul included four tracks from Gold Coast producer and DJ FISHER (among them his collaboration with Tones And I, "Favour", debuting at No. 3), the Dom Dolla remix of Puretone's "Addicted To Bass" at No. 4, and Yes Boone's "All I Really Want" at No. 7. All six tracks also appeared in the overall Top 20 Australian Singles Chart.

Two of those titles crossed hemispheres: Supafly and Greg Stainer's "Girls" featuring Ca$h X entered the Music Week Club Chart in the United Kingdom at No. 16, and Jessi Lowkey x Cristiano Fry's "I Know" landed at No. 20.

Why Australia, why now

The context around this run is worth understanding. The IMS Business Report placed Australia as the third-largest market in the world for electronic music, behind only the United States and Germany. A Spotify disclosure cited by Billboard revealed that Australian dance tracks were streamed more than 1 billion times internationally in a single month last year, making dance the country's most popular music export.

TMRW Music Group's head of A&R Chris Fraser credits patient, infrastructure-first thinking rather than chasing trends. "Dance music has always had to work harder, build its own infrastructure, create its own pathways," he told Billboard. The Dom Dolla remix of "Addicted To Bass" is a case in point: it began as a bootleg Dom Dolla made for his own stadium show in Sydney before being developed into a proper release. Fraser describes the original track as "a special record 28 years ago."

What comes next

FISHER collected the highest-selling single award for his track "Stay" on April 22, presented in the artist's hometown. Further up the pipeline, Sydney electronic duo PNAU, whose 2012 collaborative remix album with Elton John, Good Morning to the Night, reached No. 1 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart, are set to release a new album. AHHCade arrives July 31 via etcetc worldwide and features "Tu Corazon" with Mexican sister act The Warning.