Here Comes The Drop: How TMRW Music Dominated 60% of ARIA’s Dance Chart In a Single Week
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Billboard caught up with the top brass at TMRW Music and etcetc for a closer look at Australia’s vibrant dance space and how the Sydney label group is lifting the tempo.
Por Billboard | 14/05/2026
SYDNEY, Australia — For all the column inches devoted to the resurgence of country, the dominance of pop and the steady strength of rock, it’s dance music that has the place jumping in Australia. Of the hundreds of music festivals that sprawl out across Australia’s warmer months, roughly one in four pump out dance music — the most popular genre, according to data presented in Soundcheck , published in late 2024 by Creative Australia. On the streaming side of the story, the IMS Business Report found Australia to be the third-largest market in the world for electronic music, trailing only the United States and Germany. Australians stream, on average, more of the genre than any other nation, the publication’s authors explain. In just one month last year, Spotify revealed Aussie dance cuts were streamed more than 1 billion times internationally on its platform, making the genre the most popular music export from the land down under. TMRW Music is leading the charge. In one remarkable week in April, the Sydney-based music group, which includes the etcetc label, nabbed 60% of the tracks in ARIA’s Top Australian Dance Singles Chart , including four from FISHER (including the Gold Coast producer and DJ’s collaboration with Tones And I , “ Favour ,” new 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 appeared in the overall Top 20 Australian Singles Chart. A couple of those TMRW tracks also made the leap to the Music Week Club Chart in the United Kingdom: Supafly & Greg Stainer’s “Girls” featuring Ca$h X at No. 16, and Jessi Lowkey x Cristiano Fry’s “I Know” at No. 20. FISHER went on to collect the highest-selling single award for his track “Stay,” presented April 22 in the artist’s hometown . The hits should keep coming with PNAU , the Sydney electronic pairing of Nick Littlemore and Peter Mayes, whose 2012 collaborative remix album with Elton John, Good Morning to the Night , went to No. 1 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart — a feat they repeated in 2021 with the remix of “Cold Heart” (with Dua Lipa), which topped charts globally. PNAU will release its new album AHHCade on July 31 via etcetc worldwide, a fresh collection that features the previously released single “Tu Corazon” with Mexican sister act The Warning. Billboard caught up with TMRW Music Group CEO Tim McGee , etcetc Music general manager Aden Mullens , TMRW Music Group’s head of A&R Chris Fraser and TMRW Music Group senior marketing manager, labels, Lana Howlett, for a closer look at Australia’s vibrant dance space and how the Sydney label group is lifting the tempo. Broadly speaking, Australian dance music is having a “moment” both here and internationally. What’s behind that? Mullens: Dance music has become recognized and accepted as part of the mainstream globally. It’s now a multigenerational and multilingual genre, which has had a comp