For the sixth week this year the Billie Eilish debut album “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” is the No.1 selling album in Australia, attaining an overall fifth run at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart.
“When We All Fall Asleep…” also returns to the top in New Zealand (8th week) and Canada (6th week) and here it becomes the longest running No.1 album for 2019 (so far), surpassing the five weeks that Ariana Grande’s “thank u, next” achieved in February and March, plus Billie’s set is also the longest running No.1 album since the soundtrack for “A Star is Born” logged its eleventh and final week at the top in February of this year (when it returned after it’s Oscar wins).
After a single week at No.1 the Bruce Springsteen set “Western Stars” is down a place to No.2, while Elton John’s collection “Diamonds” is back up to its former peak of No.3 for a second week there, plus the album is the only newly certified set within the Top 100, now certified Gold (●) in sales, while his biopic soundtrack departs the Top 10 this week.
Pink is back up one spot to No.4 with her “Hurts 2B Human” set, thanks to the recent vinyl release of the album, while Jimmy Barnes’ latest album “My Criminal Record” is stable at No.6, last weeks No.2 debut for Madonna and “Madame X” drops down six places to No.8, while it debuted at the top in the U.S.A. this week. Khalid’s “Free Spirit” set drops back down two places to No.9, and rising back up five places to No.10 is the soundtrack for Queen’s biopic ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ for an overall 30th week within the Top 10, helped by the Queen and Adam Lambert special screened on Tuesday night here.
Two new entries debut within the Top 10 this week, the highest of which is new at No.5, the first EP for the current No.1 singles chart holder Lil’ Nas X called “7”, named because there are seven different songs on the set (8 in total, as two of them are versions of his current No.1 song “Old Town Road” {regular version and Billy Ray Cyrus remixed}). Also coming in at No.7 is “Late Night Feelings”, the fifth studio album for UK artist, producer and songwriter Mark Ronson, his third albums chart entry and also Top 10 entry, as his last set “Uptown Special” debuted and peaked at No.2 (LP#4, late January, 2015) and prior to that his third set “Record Collection” debuted and peaked at No.6 (early October, 2010). Plus this new album contains guests such as Miley Cyrus, Camila Cabello (which are his two current charting singles), Lykke Li, King Princess, Alicia Keys and Ilsey among them.
UP:
* Soundtracks rising this week apart from the Queen biopic are for ‘A Star is Born’ (12 to 11), ‘The Greatest Showman’ (23 to 21) and ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.1′ (87 to 79).
* With a new Ed Sheeran album due in a couple of weeks time (12th of July) his third set “÷ (Divide)” is back up four places to No.13.
* Post Malone’s “Beerbongs & Bentleys” rises back up three places to No.15.
* With the Queen special on TV this week, they also rise with their “Greatest Hits” set (49 to 39) and to a lesser extent with their “Platinum Collection” (68 to 64), with other climbing best of sets being for Bon Jovi (83 to 75), Green Day (stable at #86) and The Killers (returns at No.92).
* Once again the self-titled Shawn Mendes set rises with a new singles chart entry, the album moved back up three to No.47, with his third set “illuminate” back up eight spots to No.77.
* After three weeks at #100 the Clean Bandit set “What is Love” rebounds nine spots to No.91.
* The second and final re-entry for the week is the Kendrick Lamar set “Damn.” at No.98.
DOWN:
* Three albums leave the Top 10 this week starting with two soundtracks in “Aladdin” (HP-4, WI10-4, 8 to 14) and “Rocketman” (HP-6, WI10-4, 10 to 16) and last weeks new entry for Hayden James and his debut set “Between us” (HP-9, WI10-1, 9 to 22).
* Jonas Brothers’ “Happiness Begins” set plummets thirteen places this week to No.24.
* Lewis Capaldi regains the No.1 spot in England for a fifth overall week with his debut set “Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent, which here is down three places to No.28.
* The Avicii posthumous set “Tim” is down thirteen spots to No.35.
* There’s a ten place slide to No.37 for the Tyler, the Creator album “Igor”.
* Sliding collections this week are by The Seekers (36 to 38), INXS (39 to 40), Maroon 5 (47 to 48), Eminem (46 to 57), The Wiggles (67 to 71) and Missy Higgins (84 to 89).
* BTS could score a new No.1 album next week as they surprise released their “BTS World” soundtrack on Friday, but for now their recent chart-topping EP “Map of the Soul; Persona” is down five to No.46.
* Taylor Swift’s surge last week is over, as she drops back down with “Reputation” (38 to 49) and “1989” (43 to 53).
* Conrad Sewell’s “LIFE” declines a massive twenty-two spots this week to No.52, the same amount of falling also occurs for Tyga’s “Legendary” set landing down at No.54.
* Elton John’s classic 1974 set “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” declines fourteen spots to No.58.
* The Hilltop Hoods “Drinking… Walking… Restrung” falls ten places to No.65.
* Juice WRLD’s second set “Death Race for Love” falls eight spots to No.72, while his earlier released “Goodbye & Good Riddance” is only down four to No.85.
* After returning last week the Joji set “Ballads 1” falls back down eleven spots to No.74.
* P!nk’s earlier set “Beautiful Trauma” drops down twelve places to No.88.
* Rufus du Sol and their third set “Solace” falls twenty-one chart rungs to land at No.95.
* Four of last weeks debuts leave the chart this week, two of which entered within the Top 50 last week for Amber Lawrence (#13) and Bastille (#21, who were on Graham Norton screened here on Friday night, so they might return next week) and also leaving after one week were sets for Baroness (#52) and GoldLink (#70).
FURTHER NEW ENTRIES:
* #18 (Comp#10/Post#2) – Originals by Prince is the second posthumous release for Prince, after “Piano and a Microphone 1983” (HP-33, October 2018), with this 15 track set containing fourteen previously unreleased tracks that Prince wrote for other acts, and also tracks covered by other artists, including the songs “Jungle Love” (done by The Time), “Manic Monday” (The Bangles), “The Glamorous Life” (Sheila E), “Love…Thy Will Be Done” (Martika) and of course “Nothing Compares 2 U” (Sinead O’Connor).
* #23 (LP#3) – Help us Stranger by The Saboteurs (U.S.), who are also known as The Raconteurs see their third album become their third chart entry, having previously charted with “Broken Boy Soldiers” (HP-14, late May 2006) and “Consolers of the Lonely” (HP-18, mid-April 2008) and this is the bands first new release in over 11 years.
* #25 (LP#1) – Keepsake by Hatchie is the debut album for the Brisbane, Queensland 26 year old who was born Harriette Pilbeam and who was initially a bassist and vocalist in the bands Babaganouj and Go Violets before going solo in 2017.
* #30 (LP#52) – Party Time! by The Wiggles is the 52nd studio album issued for the Australian children’s entertainers who issued their first self-titled album back in 1991, while overall this is the foursome’s 22nd Top 100 entry (19 studios, 3 Best of’s) and their last NEW chart entry was their 50th album “Wiggle Pop!” (HP-24), and they are also charting with their set “The Best of” (HP-16, TW-71, 153 weeks of charting).
* #41 (S’tk) – Yesterday Soundtrack by Himesh Patel is the music from the new Danny Boyle directed (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours) and Richard Curtis penned (4 Weddings & a Funeral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’ Diary, Love Actually) film about a guy who is in an accident and after he awakens he discovers no one knows who The Beatles were, thus he cashes in on his knowledge. Classic Beatles songs covered on the album include the title song, “Let it Be”, “Something”, “Carry That Weight”, “Help!”, “She Loves You”, “A Hard Days Night”, “I Want to Hold Your Hand”, “All You Need is Love”, “Hey Jude” and “Ob-la-Di, Ob-la-da” among them.
* #44 (LP#2) – Rise by Hollywood Vampires is the second album from the supergroup which includes the members Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp and Joe Perry among them, while their first self-titled set debuted and peaked at No.34 in September of 2015.
* #59 (LP#7) – A Bath Full of Ecstasy by Hot Chip is the seventh released and now fifth consecutive albums chart entry for the English act, but their first NOT to land within the Top 50, as they previously charted with “Made in the Dark” (LP#3, HP-25, 2008), “One Life Stand” (LP#4, HP-27), “In Our Heads” (LP#5, HP-19, 2012 and their highest charted) and “Why Make Sense?” (LP#6, HP-29, 2015).
* #62 (LP#4) – False Alarm by Two Door Cinema Club is the fourth issued set for the Northern Irish three piece, and also the bands fourth chart entry, first charting with “Tourist History” (LP#1, HP-44, 2010) then their only Top 10 entry in “Beacon” (LP#2, HP-4, 2012) and they last charted with “Gameshow” (LP#3, HP-24, 2016).
* #82 (LP#14) – Delusions of Grandeur by Gucci Mane is the U.S. rappers fourteenth studio album, but only his second to chart here, as his eleventh set “Mr. Davis” debuted and peaked at No.49 (late October of 2017).
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Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
