The self-titled debut album for Sydney four-piece 5 Seconds of Summer comes straight in at No.1, selling enough to achieve Gold (●) in its first week on sale, and giving us Australian acts at the top of both major charts this week.
“5 Seconds of Summer” strangely enough becomes the 707th No.1 album in Australia (1965 to 2014), on the 7th of July (7.07) chart, plus it’s also the 558th No.1 on the ARIA Albums Chart (1983 to 2014), and it also becomes the 37th self-titled album to hit the top and the third this year after MKTO (Feb) and Beyonce (Jan), and lastly it’s the fourteenth No.1 album for the Capitol label, their last being “Prism” by Katy Perry in early November of 2013.
5 Seconds of Summer (the title) is the third album with a ‘5’ in its title, the previous two being “Odyssey No.5” (Sept 2000) for Powderfinger and “Glee: The Music Volume 5” (March 2011), plus it’s the first ‘Second(s)’ to appear but the sixth ‘Summer’, with a couple of compilations in ‘1983… Summer Breaks’, ‘Summer ‘87’ and ‘Summer ‘89’, whilst there were also “Last Wave of Summer” (Oct 1998) by Cold Chisel and “Summer at Eureka” (May 2008) for Pete Murray.
5 Seconds of Summer (the group) become the 91st Australian act to hit the top, plus the fifth for this year (INXS, Kylie, Chet Faker & Amity Affliction), and the album is the 172nd performed by an Australian act to make it to No.1. The album is also the 333rd by a group to reach the top, and the band become the 53rd Australian Group to make it to No.1, with the last new local act to make it being Boy & Bear (August 2013).
The seventeenth Top 10 album for the Sydney church Hillsong debuts at No.2 entitled “No Other Name”. It’s the 31st album to chart for the church, and the 63rd that they have released. They last hit the Top 10 back in March with “The White Album [Remix Project]” and were last this high on the charts back in March 2013 when they debuted at No.1 with “Zion”. They also return at No.63 with “We are Young & Free” (HP-6) by Hillsong Young & Free.
From 3 to 7, we have all former No.1 albums back-to-back, with last weeks No.1 debut of ‘x’ for Ed Sheeran dropping down to No.3, pushing Coldplay’s “Ghost Stories” down two spots also to No.4, and down a single place to No.5 is the ‘Frozen’ Soundtrack. Two weeks ago Lana Del Rey debuted at the top with “Ultraviolence”, which is down three to No.6 and thanks to his current tour, Chet Faker leaps back up nineteen places to No.7 with “Built on Glass”, which cracks Gold (●) in sales this week. 360 falls three places to No.8 with “Utopia” and landing his first Top 10 placing in Australia is deadmau5 with “While (1<2)”, which climbs up seven spots to No.9 and returning to the Top 10, up three places is Sam Smith with “In the Lonely Hour”, which means he sits at No.10 on both charts this week. NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: Ed Sheeran’s first album “+” is back up eight spots to No.21, with ZHU and his EP “NightDay” also up eight to No.25, whilst Illy leaps eighteen to No.26 with his “Cinematic” album. Russell Morris is back up nine to No.30 with his “Van Diemen’s Land” set and the self-titled set for Beyonce returns to the Top 100 at No.33 after dropping out last week. Jason DeRulo blasts up fifty-three spots to No.36 with “Tattoos” and Ellie Goulding stops falling and rises back up twenty-eight to No.37 with “Halcyon Days”. The current national tour for The Pierce Brothers sees their EP “The Night Tree” (HP-21) re-enter at No.38 and Violent Soho are back up fourteen places to No.42 with “Hungry Ghost”. DOWN DOWN: After two weeks within the Top 10, “The Hunting Party” for Linkin Park is down five to No.11, whilst after three weeks within, The Amity Affliction drop three to No.12 with “Let the Ocean Take Me”. After a single week in the Top 10, “Sadnecessary” for Milky Chance falls eight to No.16 and “Once More Round the Sun” for Mastodon drops sixteen spots to No.23, whilst “Fuse” for Keith Urban is down seven to No.17 after his recent tour. Pharrell’s “G I R L” falls fifteen to No.29 and “Atlas” for Rufus tumbles eleven to No.31. First Aid Kit are down eleven to No.45 with “Stay Gold” and Bastille fall back down eighteen to No.46 with “Bad Blood”, with “Mutineers” by David Gray dropping twenty-six to No.48 and “The Story So Far” for Keith Urban down twenty to No.50. Dropping out of last weeks Top 50 are Kasabian (35 to 55), Glass Animals (46 to 59), The Angels (41 to 63), Jennifer Lopez (24 to 67), Queen (50 to 73), The Eagles (47 to 77), The Beatles (43 to 85) and Confession (19 to 95), with David Campbell’s “Sings John Bucchino” leaving from last weeks Top 50 at No.37. The original soundtrack to the Clint Eastwood directed version of “Jersey Boys” debuts at No.27, beating the No.32 peak that the Cast Recording achieved in January 2011, with the original set lasting 53 weeks within the Top 100 since it first debuted in mid-July 2010 (almost four years ago). The seventh album for US metalcore band Every Time I Die is entitled “From Parts Unknown” and comes in at No.32, which gives them their highest charting set here in Australia. Previously they have charted with “New Junk Aesthetic” (HP-81, September 2009) and “Ex Lives” (HP-46, March 2012).
With Kylie Minogue back on TV screens as a judge on The Voice: Australia, and performing her new single on last weeks show, this week she debuts at No.39 with the 21 track collection “The Best of Kylie Minogue”, which becomes her sixth best of compilation to chart. The final Top 50 entry at No.43 is Seether with “Isolate and Medicate”, the groups seventh studio album and fourth to chart here. All of their albums have reached the Top 50 with “Disclaimer II” (HP-38, Aug 2004, LP#3) “Karma and Effect” (HP-39, June 2005, LP#4) and “Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray” (HP-05, May 2011, LP#6), plus they have all debuted and peaked in their first week on the charts.
Lower 50: “Meet the Vamps” by The Vamps jumps back up twenty-six to No.51 and “Home” by Rudimental is back up forty-three to No.54, with the Nickelback collection “The Best of” rising twenty-one to No.60. The Chet Faker tour helps his first entry “Thinking in Textures” back into the Top 100 at No.66, with the self-titled Flume album back up fifteen places to No.70. Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Greatest Hits” jumps up twelve to No.76 and “The Essential Michael Jackson” (which went to No.1 this week in 2009 after his passing) is back up to No.81. The other re-entries include collections for Lee Kernaghan (#97), Fleetwood Mac (#98) and The Bee Gees (#100).
The Bon Jovi album “New Jersey” (HP-1×1, Oct 1988) has been re-mastered and re-packaged for it’s 25th anniversary, and returns to the Top 100 at No.90 this week, with the only NEW entry in the lower fifty coming at No.99, the six track EP for Tove Lo entitled “Truth Serum (EP)” which features her current Top 5 single “Stay High”.
Written, Compiled and Researched by Gavin Ryan.
