Ed Sheeran’s third album “÷ (Divide)” returns to the top of the ARIA Albums chart this week for a tenth overall week at the top here, and is now 4x▲Platinum in sales too.
“÷ (Divide)” also builds Ed’s tally on the list for ‘Accumulated Weeks at No.1; Albums; 2010’s’ to now nineteen overall weeks at the chart-summit for this decade, and by cracking the ten week mark it joins seven previous albums that have achieved that long at the top here, Elton John’s “Caribour” (1974), Rod Stewart’s “A Night on the Town” (1976), Split Enz at this time in 1980 with “True Colours”, John Lennon’s last album “Double Fantasy” (late 1980/early 1981), the 1992 Australian Cast Recording for ‘Jesus Chris Superstar’, Alanis Morissette’s “Jagged Little Pill” (1996) and also that year the Crowded House collection “Recurring Dream-The Very Best of”. It also becomes one of only five other albums to crack the double-digit mark at the top here for this decade, the others being for Pink (twice), Adele, and Michael Buble.
So last weeks debut at the top for Harry Styles and his self-titled solo album is down one spot to No.2 this week, whilst the highest new entry for this week is the seventh studio album for Linkin Park entitled “One More Light”. It also becomes the bands seventh Top 3 album, with all of their studio albums cracking the Top 3 or higher and overall this is their ninth Top 10 album (seven studios and one remix and one collaboration), plus this is the bands first new album in just under three years (mid-June 2014 was the last one ‘The Hunting Party’ (HP-3)).
The next three albums are all stable this week, with the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2’ soundtrack at No.4, followed by Kendrick Lamar and “Damn.” and “x (Multiply)” for Ed Sheeran at No.5 and No.6 respectively, with Ed’s album now notching up its 100th week inside the Top 10 too. And whilst the singles chart saw two returning tracks for the recently deceased Chris Cornell, the albums chart is a much different field, where thirteen albums of his music are within the Top 100 this week alone, from solo, Audioslave, soundtrack work and Soundgarden; whose “Superunknown” album returned at No.78 last week, and this week blasts up seventy-one spots to land at No.7, its first time back within the Top 10 since September of 1994.
One of Chris’s many side projects was the band Audioslave, whose first self-titled album returns to the chart at its original debut and peak position of No.8 (25-Nov, 2002) this week, plus the album since last charting has now been re-certified 3x▲Platinum in sales. The Australian duo The Pierce Brothers see their second EP “The Records Were Ours” debuts at No.9 this week, becoming the groups second Top 10 album, as their 2015 entry “Into the Dirt” debuted and peaked at No.10 in early October. The July 2016 album for Blink 182 in “California” (HP-2), returns to the chart at No.10 this week due to it being re-issued as a 2CD bonus edition, the extra CD containing twelve extra tracks.
UP:
* Only soundtracks climb within the Top 20 this week, with ‘Guardians Vol.1’ (13 to 12), ‘Moana’ (16 to 13) and ‘Trolls” (19 to 17) moving back up within this week twenty.
* Drake climbs up eight places to No.20 with his “More Life” playlist album.
* The Chris Cornell solo album “Songbook” is back in at a new peak of No.21 (former peak #76 in Dec 2011), and is the first of two of his solo albums to return this week, the other is “Higher Truth” (HP-21, debuted and peaked late Sept 2015).
* Chris’ Soundgarden returns kick off at No.27 with a new peak for “BadMotorFinger” (LP#3, former peak No.54 in Sept 1994), followed at No.33 by “King Animal” (LP#6, HP-6, 19-Nov, 2012), the collection “A-Sides” (GH#1, HP-39, 23-Nov, 1997) comes back in at No.47, “Telephantasm” (GH#2, HP-20, 4-Oct, 2010) at No.79, and finally for them “Down on the Upside” (LP#5, HP-1, 6-March, 1994) at No.91.
* Kaleo might be dropping slightly on the singles chart, but their album “A/B” jumps up thirteen spots to land at a new peak of No.29.
* The new Shawn Mendes Top 10 track helps his album “Illuminate” to climb up five to No.38.
* The DVD and Blu-Ray release for ‘Fifty Shades Darker” helps it leap up forty-two to No.41, whilst the soundtrack for ‘The Fate of the Furious’ is back up twelve to No.77 (its first climb up the chart).
* The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Greatest Hits” burns back up forty-seven places to No.44.
* After unfortunate events this past week in Birmingham at the Ariana Grande concert, her fans have let her know they care by buying her album “Dangerous Woman”, moving it back up twelve places to No.45.
* Chris Cornell’s Audioslave project produced three albums in total, their first is back within the Top 10 this week, whilst the bands other two albums return lower down, with “Out of Exile” (LP#2, HP-3, 30-May, 2005) at No.58 and “Revelations” (LP#3, HP-1, 11-Sept, 2006) at No.76. Last of his returns is the just re-issued soundtrack (one day before he died) to the 1992 film set in Seattle during the emerging grunge scene entitled “Singles” (HP-18, peaked July 1993), which is back in at No.96.
* Childish Gambino is back in at No.63 with his “Awaken, My Love!” album, his entire back catalogue (including this one) were just re-issued on vinyl last week.
* The Crowded House compile “The Very Very Best of” is back up thirteen spots to No.66.
* Both twenty one pilots entries are in the lower fifty this week, with “Blurryface” by itself back up twenty-two to No.70 and the teaming of their previous album “Vessel” with “Blurryface” back up seven spots to No.88.
* Linkin Park not only score the highest new entry for the week, but their first album from 2000 in “Hybrid Theory” returns at 84 this week.
* Further returning albums this week are “Lemonade” for Beyonce at No.93, “The Eminem Show” at No.99 and Maroon 5’s “Singles Collection” at #100.
DOWN:
* Leaving the Top 10 for the first time this year, is “25” (HP-1×8, WI10-71) by Adele, down two places to No.11, having racked up seventy-one weeks in total so far, whilst further dropouts occur for two of last weeks debuts “After Laughter” by Paramore (HP-3, WI10-1) down sixteen to No.19 and the Zac Brown Band’s “Welcome Home” (HP-8, WI10-1), whilst two recent Mother’s Day items leave the ten, “Greatest Hits and Interpretations” (HP-2, WI10-5) for Tina Arena down fifteen to No.25 and the Mark Vincent album “A Tribute to Mario Lanza” (HP-3, WI10-5), down nineteen places to No.26 this week.
* Bruno Mars is down five to No.16 with his “24k Magic” album, whilst his “Doo-Wops & Hooligans” set drops a massive forty-four spots to No.95 this week, and “Unorthodox Jukebox” leaves the Top 100 from last weeks No.55 this week.
* Gorillaz drop down eight to No.28 with their “Humanz”, but they were on Graham Norton this past Friday (26th May), so they might climb back up next week.
* James Blunt drops ten to No.36 with his album “The Afterlove”.
* Down fourteen to No.37 is the Adam Harvey and Beccy Cole album “The Great Country Songbook Vol.II”.
* The soundtracks dropping this week are for “Beauty & the Beast” (35 to 48) and “La La Land” (64 to 98), whilst the “Eurovision 2017: Kyiv” collection drops back down thirty-nine spots to No.54.
* Dean Lewis’ debut set from last week “Same Kind of Different” falls twenty-two spots this week to No.49.
* After three weeks within the Top 40, the Bee Gees collection “Timeless” drops nineteen places this week to No.51, and the Guns N’ Roses “GH” set is down fourteen to No.53.
* The Ten Tenors drop down low this week (and not just their voices), as their set “Wish You Were Here” tumbles thirty-seven chart-octaves.
* Milky Chance are down fourteen to No.60 with “Blossom”
* Aled Jones falls a massive forty-one spots to No.62 this week with “One Voice”.
* Mac DeMarco falls out the Top 50 with his album “This Old Dog”, down sixteen to No.64.
* The Lee Kernaghan “25th Anniversary Album” drops twenty-seven to No.,67.
* The Smith Street Band’s “More Scared of You…” drops down twenty-two to No.72.
* The Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds collection “Lovely Creatures” drops a massive forty-four spots this week to land at No.80.
* The yo-yoing for Taylor Swift’s “1989” continues, as it drops backs down twenty-nine to No.87.
* The Chris Stapleton set “From a Room: Vol.1” drops forty-two spots to No.89 this week too.
* Four albums leaving the Top 100 from last weeks fifty all debuted within, Dead Letter Circus (#17), Seether (#29), Machine Gun Kelly (#37) and Midnight Oil’s “The Full Tank” boxset (#38).
NEW ENTRIES:
* #18 (LP#9) – Crooked Teeth by Papa Roach becomes the heavy-rock bands highest charting album in Australia, beating the No.19 peak of their third album “LoveHateTragedy” (HP-19, 24-June, 2002), and becomes the bands seventh albums chart entry overall.
* #24 (LP#10)- Back to us by Rascal Flatts becomes the US country acts third albums chart entry here, and first since their 2014 No.17 set “Rewind”.
* #35 (LP#7) – Reaching into Infinity by DragonForce becomes the English power-metal acts fourth album in a row to chart here, and their first new entry in almost three years.
* #56 (LP#1) – Temple of the Dog by Temple of the Dog is the debut album from 1990 for the Seattle grunge band featuring recently passed Soundgarden/Audioslave lead singer Chris Cornell, and this is the first time that their only studio album has charted here in Australia.
* #85 (LP#7) – The King & I by Faith Evans and The Notorious B.I.G., it’s been over twenty years (9-March, 1997) since the world lost the talents of rapper and singer The Notorious B.I.G., and his then wife Faith Evans later in 1997 scored her only No.1 here with Puff Daddy and 112 on “I’ll Be Missing You”. This album contains songs that the couple were working on before he passed away, and it becomes her first albums chart entry here, and his fifth.
* #94 (LP#15)- Neva Left by Snoop Dogg is an indepenctly released album of new material from the L.A. rapper and producer, who uses his early teen photo on the cover of the album, which features guest appearancs by Redman, Too $hort, Method Man and Wiz Khalifa.
Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
