Both ARIA Charts maintain their No.1’s this week, as John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John are at the top for a third straight week with their album “Two Strong Hearts”, the album picking up a Gold (●) in sales too.
John increases his tally of weeks at No.1 in Australia to 49 weeks (four behind his nearest rival Dire Straits on 53 accumulated weeks at the top), whilst Olivia climbs from 46th to equal 42nd as she has now notched up 13 weeks at No.1 alongside Led Zeppelin and Midnight Oil (four #1’s), Taylor Swift (three), James Blunt and Susan Boyle (two each) who have all previously racked up thirteen weeks at No.1 in Australia.
“Two Strong Hearts” also becomes the third longest running No.1 for 2015. In equal second place are the ’50 Shades of Grey’ soundtrack and “Spirit of the ANZACS” for Lee Kernaghan at four weeks at the top, whilst “1989” for Taylor Swift is the current leader having notched up five weeks so far this year (that will probably increase when she tours here later in the year).
The top four albums all hold their places from last week, with “Title” for Meghan Trainor at No.2, “x” by Ed Sheeran at No.3 and “1989” by Taylor Swift at No.4. The highest new entry occurs at No.5, the new UK No.1 album, and the debut release for British act Years & Years entitled “Communion”, which features the current Top 50 songs “King” (HP-9, TW-40) and “Shine” (TW-48). Right behind them at No.6 is the third studio album for local rapper Tuka (from Thundamentals), whose new album “Life Death Time Eternal” becomes his second chart entry and first Top 10 entry, as his second set “Feedback Loop” made it to No.92 in November 2012.
Florence + the Machine fall two places to No.7 with “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful” and down one spot to No.8 is Sam Smith with “In the Lonely Hour” whilst Mumford & Sons hold at No.9 with “Wilder Minds”, helped by their tour announcement for November this past week. Leaping back into the Top 10, up fifteen places to No.10 is INXS with “The Very Best”, making it the albums 22nd week in the Top 10; it was last this high back in January.
UP: Fleetwood Mac are touring again in October, but this week their 2002 collection “The Very Best of” returns to the Top 100 at No.11, which also gives the longest charting album in ARIA Chart History (at 375 weeks), its new peak, as the album previously made it to No.16 in December 2009 when the band toured around that time. Sia is spending her one year anniversary by moving up to No.12 with “1000 Forms of Fear”. David Bowie’s repackaged single disc edition of “Nothing Has Changed: The Best of” blasts up twenty-four places to a new peak of No.14 and back up six to No.20 are The Hilltop Hoods with “Walking Under Stars”. Bon Jovi leap up forty-six places to No.25 with their “Greatest Hits” set and jumping back up fourteen places to No.29 is James Taylor with “Before This World”, and The Voice judge Jessie J is back up fifteen places to No.31 with “Sweet Talker”. Three of the four returning albums into the Top 50 this week score new peaks, with the “Greatest Hits” set for Notorious B.I.G. blasting back into the Top 100 at No.36, the “Home” soundtrack is back in at a new peak of No.40 after the recent DVD and Blu-Ray release, whilst “Pure Heroine” for Lorde returns to the hundred at No.41, and finally up twenty-eight places to a new chart-height of No.45 (and first week in the Top 50) is Neil Diamond with “All Time Greatest Hits”.
DOWN: The three albums dropping out of the Top 10 all do so in dramatic style, with “Empires” (HP-1×1, WI-10-4) for Hillsong United, which drops sixteen places to No.22 and the album becomes the churches equal longest running Top 10 album, as their July 2008 set “This is Our God” (HP-2) also notched up four weeks within the ten. The two debuts into the Top 10 last week fall out after only a single week, with “Wildheart” for Miguel dropping thirty-one spots to No.39 and The Getaway Plan with “Dark Horses” is down eighty-five places to No.95. After leaping up last week, the “Guardians of the Galaxy” album is back down nine spots to No.31 and halving its position from last week by dropping sixteen to No.32 is Leon Bridges with “Coming Home”. Kendrick Lamar is down seven to No.34 with “To Pimp a Butterfly”, with the album picking up a Gold (●) in sales this week too. The ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ soundtrack drops eight to No.37, but falling fifteen to No.43 are Of Monsters and Men with “Beneath the Skin”. “Yuck” for Alpine drops thirteen places to No.48, “35 Biggest Hits” for Tim McGraw is down fifteen to No.49 and falling thirteen to No.50 is Adam Lambert with “The Original High”. The albums falling out of the fifty this week come from Thy Art is Murder (30 to 54), A$AP Rocky (47 to 57), AC/DC (24 to 65), Neil Young (23 to 71), Tori Kelly (44 to 72), London Grammar (33 to 76), Breaking Benjamin (39 to 78), Meek Mill (42 to 81) and falling out the hundred from last weeks fifty are Alabama Shakes with “Sound & Color” (#32).
LA five-piece pop band R5 see their second album “Sometime Last Night” become their first chart entry in Australia, coming in at No.19 this week. The one-woman four male member band all have names starting with R, expect one whose surname starts with an R. UK act Cradle of Filth see their eleventh studio album “Hammer of the Witches” enter at No.28 this week becoming the acts first entry since their ninth set “Darkly, Darkly Venus Aversa” made it to No.89 in November 2010, whilst it becomes the bands sixth Top 100 and fourth Top 50 album, plus by debuting so high it also becomes the bands highest charting album in Australia.
The fifth studio album for Owl City debuts at No.33 entitled “Mobile Orchestra”, becoming his fourth album to chart in Australia, all three previous entries charting within the Top 40 or higher. His former entries were “Ocean Eyes” (LP#2, HP-14, peaked February 2010), “All Things Bright and Beautiful” (LP#3, HP-33, peaked June 2011) and “The Midsummer Station” (LP#4, HP-29, peaked August 2012).
Lower 50: “Sol Invictus” for Faith No More is back up twenty-two places to No.61 and “21” by Adele is up twenty-seven to No.62, whilst the new Amity Affliction singles chart entry helps to bring back their previous album “Let the Ocean Take Me” at No.66. Zac Brown Band climb back up eleven places to No.75 with “Jekyll + Hyde” and up twenty places to No.80 is Drake with “If You’re Reading This it’s Too Late”. Further returning albums are Mariah Carey with “#1 to Infinity” (#83), “Ceremonials” for Florence + the Machine (#84), Fleetwood Mac with their 1989 “Greatest Hits” set (#86), “The Best of” for Blur at No.98 and “My Everything” for Ariana Grande (#99).
There are two new entries in the lower fifty this week, with Cody Simpson coming in at No.74 with the independently released album “Free”, which becomes his fourth albums chart entry (one EP and three LPs). The other entry comes in at No.97 and is the soundtrack to the newly released film from author John Green entitled “Paper Towns”. His previously written film “The Fault in Our Stars” saw its soundtrack climb to No.11 in June 2014.
Written, Compiled and Researched by Gavin Ryan.
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