For a fourth time Ed Sheeran’s “÷ (Divide)” returns to the top of the ARIA Albums Chart, racking up its fourteenth overall week at No.1 in Australia.
Ed also returned to the top in the UK this week after his Glastonbury Music Festival appearance, and here he also racks up his 23rd overall week at No.1, placing him outright 21st on the list for ‘Accumulated Weeks at No.1: Albums 1965-2017’, one week behind the 24wks racked up by Celine Dion, Creedence and Eminem. As for this decades accumulated list, Ed is now equal second along with Pink having both notched up 23 weeks at the top during this decade (Adele is at the top on 40 weeks). “÷ (Divide)” has also spent as long at the top as “So Far So Good” (1993/4) for Bryan Adams, “Only By the Night” (2008/9) for Kings of Leon and “Christmas” for Michael Buble (2011/12/13/14 and 2017) from its five runs at the top.
Two of last weeks four Top 10 debut survive for a second week within the ten, as “Melodrama” for Lorde drops down a spot to No.2 after coming into the chart at the top last week, and Nickelback see their “Feed the Machine” set move down two places to No.5 this week. The two final Top 10 survivors came into the ten three weeks ago, “Truth is a Beautiful Thing” for London Grammar and “Witness” for Katy Perry both move down four places to No.9 and No.10 respectively, but with Katy in the country and on The Voice on Sunday night, her album should last another week or two.
The highest new entry is the tenth studio album for King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard entitled “Murder of the Universe”, coming in at No.3 this week, and becoming the bands second Top 3 entry, as back in March they debuted and peaked at No.2 with their ninth album “Flying Microtonal Banana”, and before the year is out they expect to release a third set entitled “Sketches of Brunswick East”. And by coming in at No.4, the third album “Evolve” for Imagine Dragons becomes the bands third successive album to peak at No.4, as their first entry “Night Visions” climbed to that peak in August of 2013, then their second set “Smoke + Mirrors” debuted and peaked at No.4 in late February 2015. This new album has three Top 100 entries (see singles chartifacts), the highest of which is “Thunder” up to No.12 this week.
There are two repackaged albums returning to the Top 10 this week, both of which return at higher chart peaks than they originally achieved during their 1997 chart runs. Radiohead’s third album “OK Computer” debuted and peaked at No.7 in late June of 1997, and now the 20th Anniversary edition of the album retitled “OK Computer: OKnotOK 1997-2017” is back in at No.6 this week. The new set containing a bonus eleven track CD of unreleased and rare recordings from the album, and it racks up its overall third week within the Top 10. Grinspoon have also issued a 20th anniversary edition of their debut set “Guide to Better Living”, which by debuting at No.8 gives the album its first week within the Top 10 ever, as it debuted and peaked at No.11 in late September, 1997, later climbing back into the Top 20 in April of 1998. This new edition features bonus tracks, and the band will be touring the country in support of the album, plus the album is newly certified 2x▲Platinum in sales. The fifth and final Top 10 debut for this week is the tenth studio album for current Top 5 Singles Chart occupant DJ Khaled, with “Grateful” coming in at No.7 and becoming his second chart and Top 10 entry, as his ninth set “Major Key” debuted and peaked at No.6 in August of 2016.
UP:
* A third re-packaged classic album returns to the chart this week, the 1984 album and soundtrack for “Purple Rain” by Prince (HP-1×1, peaked August 1984), which now contains a bonus disc of unreleased material from the film, plus a further expanded edition with remixes, single versions and further songs cut from the original set. The album returns this week at No.13, having recently been as high as No.5 in eraly May of 2016 after his passing, whilst he also returns at No.72 with his collection “The Very Best of”.
* The recent DVD and Blu-Ray release for Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” (plus national school holidays now on), helps the soundtrack to blast back up twenty-four places to No.14.
* The Weeknd recently announced a national tour here, which helps his current album “Starboy” to climb again this week, up seven to No.28, whilst “Beauty Behind the Madness” jumps up thirty-six spots to No.61.
* Rag’N’Bone Man is up seven to No.36 with his debut set “Human”.
* Khalid debuts at No.43 on the singles chart with “Location”, and his debut album “American Teen” cracks the Top 50 for the first time, up twenty-seven places to score a new peak of No.42.
* The Tash Sultana EP “Notion” jumps back up fifteen to No.56.
* With the announcement this past week of a future ‘Frozen’ sequel and an upcoming short from the series scrrening in cinemas, the original soundtrack is back up fourteen places to No.70.
* After plummeting down the chart the past couple of weeks, the “Fifty Shades Darker” soundtrack is back up sixteen places to No.77.
* Collections rising back up come from Fleetwood Mac (74 to 67), Cold Chisel (92 to 79) and Red Hot Chili Peppers (99 to 82).
* Beth Ditto appeared on both Graham Norton and James Corden’s “Late Late Show” last week singing “Fire” from her debut album “Fake Sugar”, which climbs this week six places to a new peak of No.83.
* Further returning albums come from The Teskey Brothers (#87), Ellie Goulding (#89), twenty one pilots double pack of “Vessel” and “Blurryface” (#97) and the AC/DC “Live” album (#98).
DOWN:
* Kendrick Lamar leaves both the singles and albums Top 10 this week, as his “DAMN.” album (HP-2, WI10-10) drops down three places to No.11, whilst also leaving for the first time is the self titled Harry Styles (HP-1×1, WI10-6) album, dropping seven to No.16. “Wonder” (HP-4, WI10-2) for Hillsong United falls sixteen spots to No.23 and two of last weeks debuts tumble this week, with “How Did We Get So Dark?” (HP-4, WI10-1) by Royal Blood dropping eighteen to No.22 and the Fleet Foxes set “Crack-Up” (HP-10, WI10-1) which plummets thirty-nine spots to No.49.
* Ed Sheeran has one album in the Top 10, Top 20 (X, down four to No.15) and Top 30 in “+” which is down seven to No.21.
* The Beatles drop nine spots to No.26 with their repacked “Sgt. Pepper’s” album.
* Halsey falls ten places to No.29 with her second set “hopeless fountain kingdom”, with “Badlands” down eight to No.64.
* Down nine to No.32 are Adam Harvey & Beccy Cole with “The Great Country Songbook Vol.2”.
* Lady Antebellum descend fifteen places to No.33 with their “Heart Break” album.
* Last week resurge for “Pure Heroine” by Lorde receeds this week, as it drops twelve to No.38.
* Also down twelve is Pete Murray with his “Camacho” album to No.39.
* Alt-j drops seventeen to No.46 with their “Relaxer” set.
* Falling ten places apiece are “Dangerous Woman” for Ariana Grande (41 to 51), “Glory Days” by Little Mix (45 to 55) and “After Laughter” by Paramore (75 to 85),
* Tumbling down thirty places apiece to No.58 and No.62 are Rise Against with “Wolves” and “Is This the Life We Really Want?” for Roger Waters respectively.
* The Lindsay Buckingham and Christine McVie self-titled collaboration is down twenty-three to No.59.
* Zara Larsson is down thirteen places to No.63 with her first entry “So Good”.
* Gorillaz continue their downward climb, as “Humanz” de-evolves thirteen places to No.71.
* Dimming twenty places to No.86 are Linkin Park and “One More Light”.
* Illy falls sixteen spots to No.93 with his former No.1 set “Two Degrees”.
* Bernard Fanning’s “Brutal Dawn” is about to set, dropping thirty-seven spots to No.96 this week.
* Two further big tumbles occur at the lower end of the chart, “The Nashville Sound” for last weeks debut Jason Isbell is down sixty-nine places to No.99 and the Mark Vincent set “A Tribute to Mario Lanza” is down thirty spots to No.100.
NEW ENTRIES:
* #17 (LP#2) – Big Fish Theory by Vince Staples is the second studio album and second chart entry for the US rapper who also scores his second singles chart entry this week with this albums title track at No.82. He previously peaked at No.35 in September of 2016 with his EP “Prima Donna”.
* #68 (LP#1) – Vera by Crooked Colours is the debut album for local electronic trio who achieved high rotation on Triple J in the past.
* #76 (Strck) – Despicable Me 3 Soundtrack is the first of the three albums from the animated films to make the chart, this one is infused with eight (out of 16 tracks) brand new Pharrell Williams songs, plus classics from Michael Jackson, a-ha, Nena, Madonna and a couple of Minions performed tracks.
Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
