Avicii toured Australia from late last week, and that has helped his debut album “True” to take the top spot on the ARIA Albums chart this week, making us the first non-Scandinavian country to place it at No.1.
“True” has reached No.1 in his home country of Sweden (6 broken weeks) as well as Norway (4 broken weeks) and Denmark (debuted at No.1 for a single week), and now Australian becomes the fourth country to put it at the top of the charts, the album originally debuting at No.2 here late last September. The album becomes the 695th No.1 album in Australia (1965 to 2014) and the 554th ARIA No.1 Album (1983 to 2014), plus it’s the tenth chart-topping album for the Universal (direct) label, the last one being “Pure Heroine” for Lorde which is back up to No.2 this week after her Grammy and Triple J Hottest 100 wins, which means Universal hold the top two albums in the country this week.
The new No.1 becomes the fourth chart topping album with ‘True’ in its title, the first being “True Colours” by Split Enz (from 14-April-1980) followed in 1986 by two more, “True Blue” for Madonna (from 4-Aug-86) and then another “True Colors” for Cyndi Lauper (from 29-Sept-86) {yes they were both spelt differently}. The other major thing of note about Avicii is that he becomes only the second Swedish act to EVER hit No.1 on the Australian Albums chart, as ABBA have scored four No.1’s (three pre-ARIA, one again in 1992 with ‘Gold’), so in turn he is the first Swedish Male artist to top the Aussie charts, whilst he is also the 194th Solo Male Act to reach the top here.
Last weeks No.1, “High Hopes” for Bruce Springsteen falls back to No.3 after a single week at the top, but he is touring here from this week, so the album shouldn’t drop too fast, whilst the highest new entry this week is at No.4, “The Greatest Hits” for Australian Crawl, which sees their entire back catalogue also now released digitally, helping them to score two re-entries to the singles chart this week in “Reckless” and “The Boys Light Up”. The first best of collection for the band was the December 1984 set “Crawl File”, which climbed to No.2 in mid-Dec, spending eight weeks within the Top 10.
After peaking at No.2 last week, the “Frozen” soundtrack drops back to No.5, whilst London Grammar climb back up a couple of places to No.6 with “If You Wait”. The self-titled album for Beyonce falls four to No.7, whilst down a place to No.8 are INXS with “The Very Best of”. The third album for US metalcore band Of Mice & Men debuts at No.9 entitled “Restoring Force” becoming their first chart entry in Australia, whilst returning to the Top 10 at No.10 are The Arctic Monkeys with “AM”.
NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: With recent BDO shows, the self-titled set for Flume is back up seven to No.14 this week, with Grammy winners Daft Punk and their album “Random Access Memories” leaping back up thirty-six places to No.16 this week, whilst Rufus and their “Atlas” album are back up nineteen spots to No.17. Haim and their album “Days are Gone” bounce back up twenty-two places to No.26 and Cold Chisel see their “The Best of – All for You” album rebound twenty-four places to No.35 this week. Grammy winners Macklemore & Ryan Lewis see their album “The Heist” jump back up thirty-three spots to No.44 and the self-titled album for The Lumineers is back up thirty-nine places to No.48.
DOWN DOWN: After thirteen weeks within the Top 5 (didn’t drop lower than No.5), leaving the Top 10 for the first time is “Prism” by Katy Perry, which falls seven places to No.11, but it does also pick up a 3x▲Platinum certification this week, with the other Top 10 dropouts being “The Marshall Mathers LP 2” by Eminem (WI10-12, TW-9 to 12), which is also out of the Top 10 for the first time, whilst Imagine Dragons fall three places to No.13 with “Night Visions” (HP-4) after a ninth broken week within the ten. John Legend falls five places to No.20 with “Love in the Future”, picking up a Gold (●) sales certification, with One Direction dropping eight to No.21 with “Midnight Memories”. “25 Years – The Chain” for Fleetwood Mac is down eight to No.28 and after leaping back up to No.16 last week, “The Great Country Songbook” for Troy & Adam falls back sixteen places to No.32. Ahead of the new Neil Finn studio album out next week, his live teaming with Paul Kelly on “Goin’ Your Way” is down five places to No.34, but picks up a Gold (●) in sales, whilst Robbie Williams’ “Swings Both Ways” falls twelve to No.38 this week. “Bangerz” for Miley Cyrus is down twelve spots to No.46 and falling thirteen to No.53 is the “Bon Jovi Greatest Hits” collection. Falling twenty-five places to No.58 is the soundtrack to the film “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, with further drops for “My Own Lane” by Kid Ink (38 to 65), “Harder to Tame” by McAlister Kemp (18 to 66), “+” by Ed Sheeran (53 to 76), the self-titled album for Warpaint (35 to 95) and Top 50 drop-outs for The Angels with “Talk the Talk” (#46) and Switchfoot with “Fading West” (#50).
The debut EP for local act Jackie Onassis is entitled “Juliette (EP)” and debuts at No.30 this week, whilst another extended play debuts at No.37, “Clear (EP)” by Periphery, which becomes their second ARIA Albums chart entry, as they reached No.46 in July 2012 with their second album “Periphery II: This Time it’s Personal”.
Lower 50: Violent Soho rebound sixteen places to No.54 with “Hungry Ghost”, and back up thirty-two places to No.60 is Illy with his “Cinematic” album. Chrvches’ debut album “The Bones of What You Believe” jumps back up thirty-two places to No.63 and Neil Finn’s former band Crowded House see their “The Very Very Best of” climb back up eighteen places to No.68 and the Grammy winning “Modern Vampires of the City” for Vampire Weekend is up twelve to No.84. Returning albums to the lower chart include “March Fires” for Birds of Tokyo (#75), “Moonfire” by Boy & Bear (#80), the just crowned Gold (●) in sales, “Sempiternal” for Bring Me the Horizon (#83), “Lonerism” by Tame Impala (#87), “Hits” for Jimmy Barnes (#92), “Crucible: The Songs of Hunters & Collectors” (#94), “The Very Best of” by Slim Dusty (#98) and “Thinking in Textures” for Chet Faker (#100).
The classic 1971 surfing film “Morning of the Earth” (HP-16, April 1972) sees the soundtrack return at No.91 this week, now re-issued as a double CD with the bonus album containing new versions by Xavier Rudd, Busby Marou, POND and others, whilst the just released tribute film to ‘Morning of the Earth’ entitled “Spirit of Akasha” sees its soundtrack debut at No.51 this week, featuring songs by Xavier again, plus Dirty Three, Matt Corby and Angus Stone. The only other new entry in the lower fifty is the first chart entry here, and sixth studio album overall for Against Me!, with their latest set “Transgender Dysphoria Blues” new at No.89 this week.
Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
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