It’s a fourth week at the top for the Queen biopic soundtrack “Bohemian Rhapsody”, strengthened this week by the five Oscar nominations that the film received this past week.
The film has also so far picked up seven BAFTA film nominations (British Film Awards) and two for The Screen Actors Guild, plus the film has won two Golden Globe Awards earlier in January and also won lead actor Rami Malek an AACTA International Award too. The soundtracks fourth week at the top also gives the band Queen its overall sixth week at the top, moving the band from equal 117th to now equal 105th on the list for ‘Accumulated Weeks at No.1: Albums (1965 to 2019)’ alongside Phil Collins and Oasis (six accumulated weeks from two #1 albums). The band are also at No.3 with their “Greatest Hits” and again at No.5 with “The Platinum Collection” which is newly certified 2x▲Platinum in sales and the two collections log their 15th and 12th weeks within the Top 10 respectively (although their ‘Greatest Hits’ did also spend 14 weeks in the Top 10 back in 1981/82 also {I did include the albums three weeks in the Top 10 from 1991/92 in the current 15 weeks tally}).
The other musical that scored a massive amount of Oscar nominations this week was for Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s “A Star is Born” whose soundtrack is on hold at No.2 again this week (16th week within the Top 2, No.1 in New Zealand for a 12th week too), while with the rest of the Top 7 on hold this week the next soundtrack to appear is for ‘The Greatest Showman’ at No.4 (54th week within the Top 10, 28th week at No.1 in England also), whose covers album “The Greatest Showman Reimagined” drops down two spots this week to No.10 (10th week within the Top 10).
“÷ (Divide)” by Ed Sheeran is on hold at No.6 again this week, logging its 93rd week within the Top 10, while another of 2018’s No.1 albums is the Post Malone set “Beerbongs & Bentleys”, which is stable at No.7 for its 28th week inside of the Top 10. The first Top 10 debut for 2019 occurs this week at No.8, and is the debut major-label album release for American singer Maggie Rogers (she had two independent releases in 2012 and 2014) titled “Heard it in a Past Life”, which features her current US Triple A (Adult Alternative Songs) chart topping track “Light On”, plus he previously released songs like “Alaska” and “On and Off”. The second entry to the Top 10 this week is due to the current national tour which kicked off last week in Perth for Phil Collins, as his collection “The Singles” (HP-6, peaked upon debut in late Nov. of 2016) bullets up thirty-nine places to land at No.9, becoming the albums second week within the Top 10 also.
UP:
* Last week several albums by local acts were re-issued on limited edition coloured vinyl, and thus those albums return this week, two for Missy Higgins in her debut set “The Sound of White” at No.18 and her second album “On a Clear Night” at No.34, while fellow-label mates (Eleven Records) in Silverchair also return with limited edition vinyl sets of “Young Modern” (5th and final album from 2007) at No.36 and “Diorama” (fourth album from 2002) at No.64.
* Local country artist Keith Urban is currently touring the country at the moment, thus his most recent album “Graffiti U” is back up fifteen places to No.20.
* Mumford & Sons finish their current tour here this weekend in Perth (27th of Jan) and their fourth album “Delta” jumps up nine spots to No.21.
* Further returns occur in the Top 50 for Seal with his 2017 album “Standard” (HP-32) at a new peak of No.31, “Flicker” for Niall Horan at No.32, “Melodrama” by Lorde at No.43 and “24k Magic” by Bruno Mars at No.47, while further down there are also returns of “Revival” by Eminem at No.79, Aug-Sept 2019 tourists Fleetwood Mac with “25 Years-The Chain” at No.88 and coming back in at #100 are The Killers with “Wonderful Wonderful”.
* Florence + the Machine issued a new song called “Moderation” on Friday, which is NOT on their current climbing album “High as Hope” rising six spots to No.41.
* The Crowded House “Very Very Best of” is back up six places to No.52, with other climbing best of’s being for Fleetwood Mac (GH 78 to 56, Very Best of 95 to 60), Guns N’ Roses (62 to 61) and Bon Jovi (100 to 83).
* Rising for the first time this year and up six spots to No.66 is the Michael Buble album “Love”.
* A fourth Fleetwood Mac climber this week is the 1977/78 set “Rumours”, up twelve to No.69.
* The new No.1 singles chart entry for Ariana Grande sees one of her three album chart entries rise this week in “Dangerous Woman”, up twelve places to No.70.
DOWN:
* The two albums leaving the Top 10 this week are Drake with his “Scorpion” (HP-1×2, WI10-19a) down two to No.11 and Eminem with his “Kamikaze” set (HP-1×4, WI10-11a), dropping three spots to No.13.
* After almost climbing into the Top 10 last week the soundtrack for ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse’ falls down six spots this week to No.17, while also dropping are the soundtracks for ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ (15 to 26), ‘Guardians Vol.1.’ (39 to 57), ‘Black Panther’ (63 to 84), ‘Molly’ (83 to 86), ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’ (54 to 87) and ‘Moana’ (60 to 89).
* George Ezra drops down eleven spots to No.27 with his second album “Staying at Tamara’s”.
* Both album chart entries for slain rapper XXXTentacion move back down this week with “?” down six to No.28 and his newer posthumous set “Skins” plummeting thirty spots to No.75 (a vinyl edition was issued on Friday so it might rebound next week).
* Luke Combs has a ten place slump to No.30 with his 45 week running set “This One’s for You”.
* Rita Ora also falls ten spots to No.37 with her “Phoenix” album.
* The first two Ed Sheeran albums drop down double-figures this week with “x” sliding thirteen spots to No.38 and his first set “+” falls eleven places to No.76.
* The Queen “Greatest Hits II” falls fifteen spots to No.39, while there are also tumbles for collections by Cold Chisel (28 to 40), Pink (36 to 48), ABBA (Gold 43 to 63, Gold & More 87 to 93), Maroon 5 (50 to 67), RHCP (59 to 71), Missy Higgins (71 to 78), John Farnham (66 to 81) and falling out are sets by The Wiggles, Green Day, Paul Kelly, Elton John and The Eagles.
* Khalid sees his debut set “American Teen” fall twelve places to No.44, while his newer EP “Suncity” is down sixteen spots to No.58.
* The self-titled fourth Shawn Mendes album tumbles nineteen spots to No.45.
* The current U.S. (2nd week) and Canadian (1st week) No.1 album “Hoodie SZN” for A Boogie wit da Hoodie is here down nine spots to No.46.
* After climbing the past few weeks the Ziggy Alberts set “Laps Around the Sun” this week falls back down twenty places to No.49.
* The Rufus du Sol set “Solace” dips down thirteen places to No.51.
* Taylor Swift’s “1989” set (222 weeks within the Top 100 now) falls down nineteen spots to No.53.
* There’s a twenty-one place slide to No.54 for the Cardi B set “Invasion of Privacy”.
* AC/DC drops down eleven spots to No.55 with their “Live” album.
* The Imagine Dragons’ older albums chart entry “Evolve” de-evolves eighteen spots to No.59.
* 21 Savage and his “I Am > I Was” album falls down twenty-two spots this week to No.62.
* Adele’s third album “25” falls back down thirteen places to No.65.
* The Hilltop Hoods set “Drinking… Walking… Restrung” slips back down seventeen places to No.72.
* Vance Joy tumbles down twenty-seven places to No.73 with their second album “Nation of Two”.
* The Nicki Minaj album “Queen” loses twenty-eight places on the chart to fall to No.77.
* David Guetta’s “7” falls down sixteen spots to land at No.80.
* Jonas Blue and his debut album “Blue” drops down twenty-six places to No.82.
* Jess Glynne issued on Friday a new track with H.E.R. titled “Thursday”, which if it charts could boost her second album “Always in Between” back up, as this week it falls twenty-four spots to No.85.
* Andrea Bocelli has the biggest drop of the week as his set “Si” plummets down forty spots to No.91.
* After zooming back up last week, this week the Troye Sivan album “Bloom” wilts back down thirty seven spots to No.94.
* The Triple J Hottest 100 count down is on this Australian Day long weekend, which should help boost the stations current album “Like a Version Vol.14” back up next week, as this week it has fallen down twenty-six spots to No.96.
* 5 Seconds of Summer drop down thirty-one places to No.98 with their third album “Youngblood”, which just this week scored its third Top 50 entry with their new track “Lie to Me” (TW-42).
* Calum Scott and his set “Only Human” drops down twenty-six places to No.99.
FURTHER NEW ENTRIES:
* #12 (LP#3) – self titled by Cub Sport is the third studio and first self-titled for the Brisbane, QLD four piece band, plus it becomes their second chart entry and now highest charted too, as their second set “BATS” peaked at No.67 in 2017.
* #22 (LP#4) – Assume Form by James Blake is the fourth studio and chart entry here for the English solo singer, songwriter and producer, and features his single “Mile High” with Travis Scott and Metro Boomin’, with his previous album chart entries here being “James Blake” (HP-32, March 2011), “Overgrown” (HP-5, April 2013) and “The Colour in Anything” (HP-16, May 2016).
* #33 (LP#7) – Future HNDRXX Presents: The Wizrd by Future is the overall seventh albums chart entry here for the U.S. rapper (4 studio albums and 3 Mixtapes), and also his sixth Top 50 placing too, with his last chart entry being the mixtape with Juice WRLD called “WRLD on Drugs” (HP-28, Nov 2018).
* #42 (LP#10) – Who Do You Trust? by Papa Roach is the eighth album to chart here for the U.S. rock band, having landed five of those albums within the Top 50, their last album becoming their highest charted here in “Crooked Teeth” (LP#9, HP-18, late May of 2017).
* #50 (EP#3) – Human (EP) by Dodie was born Dorothy Miranda Clark in Epping, Essex, England in 1995, and this is her third released EP and now second to chart here, as her August 2017 second set “You” debuted and peaked at No.17.
* #68 (LP#12) – Remind Me Tomorrow by Sharon Van Etten is now the twelfth studio album for the New Jersey, U.S.A. singer/songwriter and actress (she has appeared in ‘The OA’ and the most recently in the redo of ‘Twin Peaks’) and this is her first chart entry here in Australia, having issued her first self released set “Right Beside Me” back in 2005.
* #97 (EP#1) – Signs of Satanic Youth (EP) by Magic Dirt was the first ever release item for Geelong, Victoria band Magic Dirt which came out in November of 1993, and was re-issued for its 25th anniversary last week on CD, and it makes its first ever chart appearance this week, becoming the bands sixth chart entry (five albums and now one EP).
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Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
