Beyonce holds for a second week with her self-titled fifth studio album on the top of the ARIA Albums Chart this week, plus the album picks up a ▲ Platinum sales certification too.
It’s still an all-girl Top 3 this week too, as “Prism” for Katy Perry and “Pure Heroine” for Lorde hold at No.2 and No.3 respectively, whilst leaping up thirty places to No.4 are London Grammar with “If You Wait” (HP-2), with album initially peaking upon debut last September, it now racks up a third week within the Top 10. All of this is helped by their current national tour and No.11 single “Strong”.
Eminem holds at No.5, whilst leap-frogging over him are One Direction, who drop two places to No.6 with “Midnight Memories”. Avicii is back up a place to No.7 with “True”, with the self-titled album for Taylor Henderson drops back down a couple of places to No.8. James Blunt rises to No.9 with “Moon Landing”, and Imagine Dragons fall back three places to No.10 with their “Night Visions” album.
NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: With four singles now within the Top 100 charting, the 32nd Disney soundtrack to chart here in Australia (1965 to 2014) “Frozen” leaps up sixteen spots to No.11, and if it enters the Top 10 next week, it will be the first Disney Soundtrack since “Hannah Montana: The Movie” (HP-6, peaked mid-August) first entered in late May 2009. John Legend is back up five places to his original peak of No.18 with “Love in the Future” and leaping back up thirteen places to No.19 is Pink with “Greatest Hits… So Far”. Jason DeRulo is back up to No.29 with his “Tattoos” album, which is now certified Gold (●) in sales, with the other soundtrack to debut last week, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” up thirteen places to a new peak of No.34. Rudimental are up nine spots to No.35 with “Home” now that they have a new Top 5 single with “Free”, and leaping back into the Top 50 are “Sharkmouth” for Russell Morris (82 to 40) and “Atlas” by Rufus (65 to 46).
DOWN DOWN: After six weeks within the Top 10, peaking at No.3, The Twelfth Man drops down to No.12 with “Willy Nilly – The 12th Man’s Biggest Hits”, and Dami Im with her self-titled album is down to No.20 this week. OneRepublic with “Native” and Pink with “The Truth About Love” (#1 of 2013) are both down seven places to No.23 and No.24 respectively. The Paradise Edition of Lana Del Rey’s “Born to Die” is down ten places to No.31 and after leaping back up last week, “Random Access Memories” for Daft Punk is back down nine to No.37 this week. “ArtPop” for Lady GaGa is down nine to No.42 and Bastille tumble sixteen places to No.45 with “(All the) Bad Blood”. Leaving the Top 50 this week we see Passenger with “All the Little Lights” down eleven to No.51, whilst Justin Bieber with “The Journals” tumbles forty-two places this week to No.92. Leaving the chart from last weeks Top 50 are the two big Christmas albums, Michael Buble from #36 and Human Nature from #38.
The only new album to the entire Top 100 this week is in at No.25, the second album for James Vincent McMorrow entitled “Post Tropical”. It far surpasses the No.94 peak of his debut album “Early in the Morning” which charted here last April and it featured the covered single “Higher Love”.
Lower 50: With Bliss N’ Eso scoring a new Top 50 entry for “My Life”, their “Circus in the Sky” album is back up to No.53 this week, whilst the Red Hot Chili Peppers take their “Greatest Hits” set back up twelve places to No.55. The “Pitch Perfect” soundtrack zooms back up thirty places to No.59 and the first of eleven returning albums this week is at No.62, Michael Jackson and “#1’s” album.
Illy is back up nine places to No.64 with “Cinematic” and Childish Gambino climbs back up twelve spots to No.65 with “Because the Internet”. Phil Collins’ “Hits” jumps back up eighteen places to No.67 and The Foo Fighters “Greatest Hits” set is back up nineteen spots to No.68. Disclosure and their “Settle” album rises back up twelve places to No.69 and the regular version of Lana Del Rey’s album is back up to No.78 this week.
Albums also returning to the charts include Greatest Hits/Best of collections from Blink 182 (#74), Powderfinger (#79), Crowded House (#83), Bob Dylan (#96), and David Bowie (#97), whilst albums for Vampire Weekend (#76), Alicia Keys (#86) and Paramore (#91) and “The Great Gatsby” soundtrack also return to the ARIA Albums chart.
Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
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