Exactly ten years after the initial explosion for the soundtrack for “Mamma Mia!” (21st July, 2008 for 5 weeks) the follow-up collection of ABBA songs for the sequel/prequel movie “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” climbs to the top of the ARIA Albums Chart.
“Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” becomes the 831st No.1 Album in Australia (1965 to 2018) and the 682nd for ARIA (1983 to 2018), plus the 20th for the Polydor record label since their first in March of 1968 (50 years ago, Cream with “Disraeli Gears” in late March), with their last No.1 being The Rolling Stones set “Blue & Lonesome” (12th Dec, 2016).
This new No.1 album becomes the 51st soundtrack (TV or cinema) to hit No.1 in Australia and the second for this year after “The Greatest Showman” stayed for eight weeks from the 8th of January (and it is back up to No.2 again this week), and this becomes only the second soundtrack from a cinema series to land a second No.1 album, as the “50 Shades of Grey” (16-Feb, 2015) and “50 Shades Darker” (20th Feb, 2017) sets both hit the top here, while I could also include the TV series Glee who scored two No.1 albums in May 2010 and March 2011. The album also takes out the top spot in both New Zealand and England
This is the sixth time that the word ‘Here’ has appeared in a No.1 album title, the second ‘we’, the seventh ‘go’ and the third ‘Again’, while of course the original ‘Mamma Mia!’ soundtrack was at the top ten years ago this week in its second of five weeks at No.1, while overall this is the sixth album of ABBA songs to hit No.1 in Australia (3 in 1975/76, one in 1992 and then ‘Mamma Mia!’ in 2008). It is also the second time this year that the top two albums have been soundtracks as “The Greatest Showman” is back up one spot to No.2 and back in late February and early March the top sets were ‘Showman’ alongside the “Black Panther” set (TW-33).
For a third week at the top in both America and Canada is the Drake set “Scorpion”, which is down one place to No.3 and last weeks No.1 debut for Amy Shark and “Love Monster” drops down three places this week to land at No.4. “÷ (Divide)” for Ed Sheeran is on hold at No.5 as it logs its 73rd week with in the Top 5, Post Malone with “Beerbongs & Bentleys”, “Beautiful Trauma” for current national tourist Pink, the self titled Shawn Mendes album and XXXTentation and “?” all climb back up one spot to numbers six, seven, eight and nine respectively, making the top eight albums all current or former No.1 albums in Australia, while Pink also sees her “Greatest Hits… So Far!!!” climb back up three places to No.10 for a 29th week with in the Top 10, the last time it was within the ten was in October of 2017.
UP:
* Celine Dion is currently touring the country and her collection “The Best So Far…2018 Tour Edition” is back up three places to No.11.
* ABBA appear on four albums within the Top 40 this week (a new record for them), as two of their collections zoom back up in “ABBA Gold & More” (48 to 14) and “ABBA Gold” (97 to 34), and the original “Mamma Mia!” soundtrack returns to the chart at No.32 (the highest entry this week too).
* The two month old Kayne West album “ye” got a physical release last week and that helps it to zoom back up twenty-two spots to No.16 this week.
* Kendrick Lamar is on hold at No.19 this week with his “DAMN.” album helped by his tour and current appearances on the roster for ‘Splendor in the Grass’ (20 to 22nd of July), with other Splendor acts climbing this week being Gang of Youths with “Go Farther in Lightness” (56 to 25), Khalid and “American Teen” (34 to 27), Dean Lewis with last weeks returned set “Same Kind of Different” (80 to 60), Lorde and her “Melodrama” (68 to 63), “Love is Dead” for Chvrches (returns at No.67), “Drinking…Walking…Restrung” by The Hilltop Hoods (73 to 72), “Chiaroscuro” by Ocean Alley (79 to 78) and The Wombats with “Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life” (re-entry at No.85).
* A second and more expanded trailer for the upcoming Queen film ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ was issued in the past week, which helps their two collections to rise again in their “Greatest Hits” (41 to 28) and “The Platinum Collection” (66 to 46), with other rising best of’s being for The Wiggles (39 to 38), Cold Chisel (65 to 57), The Foo Fighters (94 to 84), with the longest charted album (mainstream chart) at 481 weeks in “The Very Best of” for Fleetwood Mac returns at No.96.
* Shawn Mendes sees his older set “Illuminate” rise back up fourteen places to No.35.
* The AC/DC “Live” set is back up seven spots to No.45.
* Two further Pink albums rise back up this week in “Funhouse” (82 to 52) and “The Truth About Love” (87 to 55).
* Getting close to its two year mark (currently at 98 weeks) the ‘Suicide Squad’ soundtrack is back up thirteen places to No.64. the ‘Molly’ TV soundtrack is back up thirteen to No.80, and the soundtrack for ‘Bridget Jones’ Baby” returns at No.94.
* The new George Ezra single again helps his second set “Staying at Tamara’s” to move back up, this week it rises fourteen spots to No.73.
* Carole King’s 1971 No.1 album “Tapestry” (in the US & Canada at this time in ’71) jumps up sixteen places to land at No.74.
* Chris Brown left the chart last week with “Heartbreak on a Full Moon” and his set is the sixth and final returning album this week at No.90.
DOWN:
* The only album leaving the Top 10 this week is last weeks No.6 entry “Milestones…20 Years” for Adam Brand (HP-6, WI10-1), which drops down twelve places to No.18.
* Vance Joy leapt last week to No.21 with their second set “Nation of Two”, which turns back around this week and is down fifteen spots to No.36.
* The Slim Dusty “Very Best of” returned at No.31 last week and is down eight to No.39 this week, with other falling collections being for INXS (37 to 43), Guns N’ Roses (35 to 44), Maroon 5 (46 to 50), Bon Jovi (60 to 70), Crowded House (76 to 79), Fleetwood Mac (GH 85 to 88) and Red Hot Chili Peppers (61 to 93).
* Gorillaz tumble down twenty-nine places to No.54 with their four week old set “The Now Now”.
* After a physical sales rebound last week The Carters set “Everything is Love” falls back down thirty spots to No.56.
* Bruno Mars sees his “24k Magic” set fall sixteen places to No.58.
* With the tickets selling now for the October/November Taylor Swift tour here, her older set “1989” drops down fourteen places to No.59.
* The “Fifty Shades Freed” soundtrack falls fourteen spots to No.65.
* The new Rubens single jumped into the Top 40 this week, but their latest album “Lo La Ru” falls down thirteen places to land at No.66.
* Anne-Marie and her debut album “Speak Your Mind” falls twelve places to No.71.
* There’s a thirteen place fall to No.77 for the Justin Bieber set “Purpose”.
* Bebe Rexha drops down twelve spots to No.81 with her debut album “Expectations”.
* Charlie Puth falls thirteen places to No.83 with his “Voicenotes” set.
* J. Cole and his former No.1 album “KOD” is down fourteen places to No.86.
* Both of the entries for Ariana Grande are down a little in “Dangerous Woman” (81 to 89) and “My Everything” (88 to 92).
* Sam Smith drops down eleven places to No.97 with his second album “The Thrill of it All”.
* The only album leaving the Top 100 from last weeks Top 50 is The Babe Rainbow set “Double Rainbow” (#18), while other new entries to leave after a single week are by Deafheaven (#54) and Wiz Khalifa (#55).
NEW ENTRIES:
* #40 (LP#4) – Hive Mind by The Internet is the fourth studio album for the five-piece LA soul-trip-hop act and now their second chart entry here as their third set “Ego Death” debuted and peaked at No.45 in mid-August of 2015.
* #61 (GH#1) – Head in the Clouds by 88rising is a collection of the label’s (88rising) stable of acts including Rich Brian, BlocBoy JB, Higher Brothers, AUGUST 08, Niki Zefanya and Yung Pinch among its 17 tracks.
* #62 (LP#7) – self-titled by Catherine Britt & the Cold Cold Hearts is the seventh studio album and now sixth chart entry for the local country singer/songwriter who last charted with “Boneshaker” (HP-41, May 2015), her highest charted album so far.
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Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
