Ed Sheeran remains in the No.1 spot for an eleventh broken week on the ARIA Albums chart with his third studio album “÷ (Divide)”.
“÷ (Divide)” now takes Ed’s tally of weeks at No.1 to twenty overall, moving him to equal 24th on the list for ‘Accumulated Weeks at No.1: Albums; 1965-2017′ alongside the twenty weeks (also from three #1 albums) racked up by Mariah Carey. Plus on the same list for this decade, Ed is now two weeks away from the 22wks that Michael Buble has notched up during this decade. And “÷ (Divide)” also becomes one of fifteen albums that have racked up eleven weeks at the top, including Beatles albums “Beatles for Sale”, “Help!” (both 1965) and “Rubber Soul” (1966), plus the self-titled ABBA (1975/76) album, Skyhooks’ “Ego is Not a Dirty Word” (1975), “Tattoo You” for The Rolling Stones (1981), “Thriller” for Michael Jackson (1983/4), the second “Whitney” album (1986), “Man of Colours” by Icehouse (1987), the soundtracks for “Titanic” (1998) and “Moulin Rouge” (at this time in 2001), and the last album to spend eleven weeks at the top was the debut set for Susan Boyle and “I Dreamed a Dream” (2009/10).
The fourth solo album for former Powderfinger lead singer Bernard Fanning is the highest new entry this week, as “Brutal Dawn” debuts at No.2, matching the peak and entry position that the albums companion piece “Civil Dusk” achieved back in mid-August of 2016, that album returning at No.35 this week; and his first two albums both entered at No.1 “Tea & Sympathy” (Nov 2005) and “Departures” (June 2013). Another Aussie act with their fourth album, but now third Top 10 are In Hearts Wake from Byron Bay, the metalcore act enter at No.3 with “ARK”, following up from “Skydancer” (HP-2, May 2015), “Earthwalker” (HP-5, May 2015) and their first entry “Divination” (HP-27, Sept 2012).
Harry Styles’ debut self-titled album slips down two places this week to No.4, and returning to the Top 100 at No.5 is the 50th Anniversary Edition of the eighth Beatles album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, which rings up its 87th week inside the Top 10, and the first time back within the ten since the initial CD re-issue this week in 1987 (8th June, 1987) where it jumped to No.4 in its second week on the chart, spending four weeks back within the ten. Originally the album was released on the 1st of June in 1967, and the UK chart dated the 3rd of June saw it debut at No.1 spending 28 weeks at the top there, where it returns for 29th week this very week in the UK. Here the album entered at No.1 in the first week of August (5th) and spent the next 30 weeks at top here.
The “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2” soundtrack, “DAMN.” by Kendrick Lamar and “x (Multiply)” for Ed Sheeran are all down two places apiece to numbers six, seven and eight respectively, whilst Ed again has three albums within the Top 10, as his first set “+ (Positive)” is back up four places to No.10. In between those two Ed album is the third new and fifth overall entry to the Top 10 this week, as the thirteenth studio album for Frenzal Rhomb entitled “Hi-Vis High Tea” debuts at No.9, and this now becomes the bands first ever Top 10 entry, their previous best effort was 1999 fifth album “A Man’s Not a Camel” which debuted and peaked at No.11 in mid-April of that year, and overall this is their ninth albums chart entry.
UP:
* The soundtrack for “Fifty Shades Darker” jumps back up twenty places this week to No.21 thanks to the recent DVD and Blu-Ray releases of the film, plus the “La La Land” album rebounds forty places this week to settle at No.58, also recently released on DVD & BR.
* Not only does Rag’N’Bone Man rise back up on the singles chart, but his album “Human” is up six to No.25 this week.
* After falling the past couple of weeks, the Adam Harvey and Beccy Cole album “The Great Country Songbook Vol.2” rises this week eight places to No.29.
* Ariana Grande sees her last album “Dangerous Woman” (#1 this week in 2016) rise up eleven to No.34 and her previous album “My Everything” returns at No.78.
* The Wiggles are back up ten places to No.42 with their collection “The Best of”, whilst the Guns N’ Roses “Greatest Hits” is also up ten to No.43, the INXS “Very Best of” is back up nine to No.52, the Play School “50 Best Songs” rises eleven to No.61 and “The Essential” by Michael Jackson is up eighteen places to No.72.
* The Weeknd rises back up into the Top 50 with “Starboy”, up twelve to No.45.
* Little Mix rebound sixteen spots to No.49 with “Glory Days”.
* Sia announced a November tour this past week, and that helps her set “This is Acting” to climb back up twenty-three spots to No.51.
* Post Malone not only climbs on the singles chart, but his first albums chart entry “Stoney” jumps up fourteen spots to a new peak of No.54.
* Whilst Drake’s “More Life” playlist is on hold at No.20, his previous album “Views” jumps back up sixteen places to No.59.
* “The Eminem Show” (#1 this week in 2002) for Eminem is up thirty-four spots to No.65.
* Former No.81 album “American Teen” by Khalid rises up six places this week to land at a new peak of No.76.
* Further returning albums occur for “Rumours” by Fleetwood Mac (#84), “Badlands” by Halsey (#88), Flume and his “Skin” set (#89), Rihanna’s “Anti” (#96) and the “Frozen” soundtrack returns at No.96.
DOWN:
* All of the five albums leaving the Top 10 were only there for a single week, although some of them have accumulated totals from previous chart-runs. The Linkin Park album “One More Light” (HP-3, WI10-1, #1 this week in the USA and Canada) drops sixteen spots to No.19, whilst also dropping from last weeks Top 10 debut are The Pierce Brothers and their EP “The Records Were Ours” (HP-9, WI10-1), which descends twenty-eight spots to No.37. The two Chris Cornell infused albums that returned to the ten last week also drop, with the self-titled Audioslave (HP-8×2, WI10-2) falling thirty-nine spots to No.47, and the Soundgarden set “Superunknown” (HP-1, WI10-14) plummets a massive fifty-seven spots to No.64. The re-packaged “California” (HP-2, WI10-5) by Blink-182 drops a huge forty three places to No.53 and is the only new album cert this week, now Gold (●).
* Paramore are down nine places to No.28 with their latest album “After Laughter”, whilst another album which entered the chart in the same week (three weeks ago) is the Zac Brown Band set “Welcome Home”, which is down eleven places to No.41.
* Kaleo peaked at No.29 last week with their album “A/B”, which falls back down fifteen to No.46.
* After three weeks within the Top 50, the Diana Krall set “Turn up the Quiet” is this week down thirteen places to No.56.
* Dean Lewis leaves the Top 50 after two weeks, with his debut set “Same Kind of Different” falling seventeen spots to land at No.66.
* Expect the Ten Tenors album to rebound a little over the next few weeks as they’ve just announced a national tour for later in the year, but this week their most recent entry “Wish You Were Here” is down fifteen places to No.70.
* Almost down twenty (actually nineteen places) is the Aled Jones album “One Voice” to No.81.
* Papa Roach have the biggest fall of the week, as their Top 20 debut from last week “Crooked Teeth” (#18) drops down seventy-two places to No.90.
* Mac DeMarco tumbles thirty-three spots to No.97 with “This Old Dog”, and the RHCP “Greatest Hits” rebounded from 91 to 44 last week, and this week it falls back down fifty-five spots to No.99.
* There are seven albums which were within the Top 50 last week, which this week leave the Top 100, starting with Chris Cornell’s “Songbook” (#21) and his “Higher Truth” (#46), three of the Soundgarden albums “BadMotorFinger” (#27), “King Animal” (#33) and “A-Sides” (#47), plus albums by Rascal Flatts (#24) and DragonForce (#35).
NEW ENTRIES:
* #12 (LP#2) – True to Self by Bryson Tiller is the second album and first entry here for the US R&B singer who won the BET 2016 Best Male and Best New Artist Awards.
* #18 (LP#1) – Half Mile Harvest by The Teskey Brothers is the debut album for the Melbourne based four piece band led by the brother Josh and Sam Teskey, who recorded this album in their home studio in Warrandyte.
* #26 (LP#1) – Songs on My Sleeve by Caitlyn Shadbolt, who came fifth on the sixth season of X-Factor (2015), this is her second albums chart entry, as her self-titled EP debuted and peaked at No.50 in late August of 2015.
* #27 (2CDs) – The Wonder of You & If I Can Dream by Elvis Presley & the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is a 2CD set of both the 2015 and 2016 albums by Elvis and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, who recently toured with both albums’ music here, thus the double set debuting this week, whilst the first set of “The Wonder of You” returns this week at No.75.
* #62 (LP#1) – Teenage Emotions by Lil’ Yachty is the debut album for the US rapper, featuring guest artists such as Grace, Diplo and Migos, who feature on the albums first single “Peek a Boo”.
* #63 (LP#1) – Cable Ties by Cable Ties is the self-titled debut album from Melbourne three piece post-punk band who only formed in mid-2015.
* #79 (EP#2) – Eleven and Two by Kyle Lionheart is the first entry for Bryon Bay native Kyle, who released his first EP “Keep in Mind” back in 2013/14.
* #92 (LP#11) – El Dorado by Shakira is her first new material in over three years, as her self-titled tenth album debuted and peaked at No.8 in April of 2014, and now this new English, Spanish and French sung album becomes her fourth albums chart entry overall.
Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
