Pink returns for an eighth week at No.1 on the ARIA Albums chart with her set “The Truth About Love”, plus it’s the third week at the top during 2013 (January, July and now).
And by gaining another week atop the Australian charts, Pink is now ranked outright seventh on the list of ‘Accumulated Weeks at No.1: Albums (1965-2013)’ as she racks up her 32nd accumulated week at No.1, breaking away from the three way tie she had with Jimmy Barnes and Delta Goodrem on 31 weeks each. Below is the list as it stands today and this information includes pre-ARIA information:
126 weeks – The Beatles
53 weeks – Dire Straits
46 weeks – Neil Diamond
45 weeks – John Farnham
39 weeks – Abba
38 weeks – Rod Stewart
32 weeks – Pink
31 weeks – Jimmy Barnes
31 weeks – Delta Goodrem
30 weeks – Elton John
30 weeks – Michael Jackson
Back in April Passenger spent three straight weeks at No.2 with “All the Little Lights”, and now that the albums second single here “Holes” is sitting inside the Top 40 the album jumps back up to No.2 again this week, whilst last weeks No.1 debut of “Asymmetry” by Karnivool drops down to No.3. Two further Aussie acts remain within the Top 5, as Bliss N’ Eso are down a place to No.4 with “Circus in the Sky” and Harrison Craig is down one spot to No.5 with “More Than a Dream”.
Imagine Dragons are touring here in October and their album “Night Visions” has now spawned three Top 30 hits (“It’s Time”, “Radioactive” and now “On Top of the World”) and that all helps the album to leap up eight places to a new peak of No.6 this week, also its first week inside the Top 10. Pink remains with a second album inside the Top 10 as her “Greatest Hits… So Far” set is down a couple of places to No.7 and down one spot to No.8 and No.10 is “Unorthodox Jukebox” for Bruno Mars and “Blurred Lines” for Robin Thicke respectively. In between those two is “25 Years – The Chain” (HP-7) for Fleetwood Mac, which is back up six places to No.9 for a second week inside the Top 10.
NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: With the ‘Splendour in the Grass’ festival on last weekend a lot of acts benefit from their performances, Frank Ocean (who dropped out of the festival, but did his Sydney shows) and his album “Channel Orange” jump back up thirteen places to No.11, Of Monsters and Men are back up twenty-one places to No.17 with “My Head is an Animal”, Jake Bugg and his self-titled set climb six places to a new peak of No.19, Alt-J are back up nineteen places to No.25 with “An Awesome Wave”, James Blake and “Overgrown” rockets up seventy-one places to No.27 and Flume with his self-titled set are back up to No.41.
Further climbs come from Hillsong Live and their recent set “Glorious Ruins” back up twelve places to No.16, John Williamson and his new double best of set “A Hell of a Career!” is up fourteen places to No.29, and with their tour here only a couple of weeks away (14 to 16-Aug) Bastille are up five places to a new peak of No.48 with “Bad Blood” now in it’s sixteenth week within the Top 100.
DOWN DOWN: Luke Kennedy leaves the Top 10 after two weeks with his set “A Time for Us” (HP-6), down a couple of places to No.12, whilst last weeks No.8 debut of “Stars Dance” for Selena Gomez tumbles thirty-one spots to No.39 this week. “A” for Agnetha Faltskog is down seven places to No.20 and is now certified Gold (●) and is also the only new album certification this week. “The Great Gatsby” soundtrack tumbles twelve places to No.32 whilst “This Music” for The Voice contestant Celia Pavey is down fifteen places to No.33. Josh Pyke continues to tumble as “The Beginning and the End of Everything” is down fifteen places to No.45 and City and Colour see their “The Hurry & The Harm” album fall fifteen spots too, to No.50 this week.
Kate Ceberano lands the highest new entry of the week as her latest set “Kensal Road” debuts at No.23. It’s the first album of new material from Kate since 1998’s “Pash”, which also debuted and peaked at No.23. This is her fifteenth album to chart in Australia, her last being “Merry Christmas” which climbed to No.17 in December 2009.
Landing their highest charting album this week are Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes whose new self-titled album debuts at No.24, beating the peak of their first two album to chart here; “Up from Below” (HP-74, peaked April 2010) and “Here” (HP-37, June 2012).
The final Top 50 new entry comes from The Rolling Stones with a concert album that was recorded in July of this year. Entering at No.37 is “Hyde Park Live”, their eleventh live album and their eighth to chart here in Australia, plus also they have landed a live album on our album charts for the past five decades. Below is a list of their previous live sets to chart here:
Nov-1970 – Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out (HP-2 on Kent and Go-Set) Live #2
Oct-1977 – Love You Live (HP-10) Live #3
July-1982 – Still Life (HP-10) Live #4
Apr-1991 – Flashpoint (HP-12) Live #5
Nov-1995 – Stripped (HP-7) Live #6
Nov-1996 – Rock and Roll Circus (HP-46) Live #7
Apr-2008 – Shine a Light (HP-28) Live #10
Aug-2013 – Hyde Park Live (HP-37*) Live #11
Lower 50: Chet Faker returns to the Top 100 at No.55 with “Thinking in Textures” (HP-44), and other returning albums include the self-titled set for The Lumineers at No.88, “GRRR!” for The Rolling Stones at No.92, “Ultimate Hits” for Bob Seger at No.94, “Greatest Hits” for The Foo Fighters at No.96 (all potential Fathers Day items) and back in at No.100 is “Abba Gold” for ABBA. The other ABBA item charting at the moment is “18 Hits” which drops to No.66 this week, although the ABC did replay the doco “Bang a Boomerang” earlier in the week.
Drops come for albums by Danny Ross and “As The Crow Flies” (40 to 61), “The 20/20 Experience” for Justin Timberlake (49 to 73), “Greatest Hits” for Ricky Martin (65 to 89), “The Platinum Collection” for Judith Durham (58 to 91), Electric” for The Pet Shop Boys (57 to 98) and a big drop out of the Top100 is from last weeks No.51 debut of “Unimagine” by Hands Like Houses.
The debut album for UK electro-duo AlunaGeorge is entitled “Body Music” and it enters at No.71 this week, whilst the last new entry is in at No.83, “Tracing Back Roots” for We Came as Romans, their third album and second to chart here after they reached No.72 in September 2011 with their second set “Understanding What We’ve Grown to Be”.
Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
