The sequel-prequel film soundtrack for “Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again” remains the top selling album in Australia for a second week (and also again at the top in N.Z. and the U.K.).
Ten years ago the original “Mamma Mia!” (TW-54) was logging its third of five weeks at the top, and for this new set to stay at the top for a second week makes it one of only four albums to log a second stay at the top during this year, all three of those albums are lying within the Top 6 this week in “Scorpion” (2 wks) back up one spot to No.2, swapping places with the soundtrack for “The Greatest Showman” (8 wks), down one to No.3 and Ed Sheratan’s “÷ (Divide)” (6 wks during 2018) which is down one spot to its lowest position so far of No.6 (for a third overall time).
With Celine Dion in a full blown tour of Australia at the moment her latest collection “The Best So Far… 2018 Tour Edition” jumps up seven spots to land at a new peak of No.4, while Pink’s current massive tour sees her again drop back to just one album within the Top 10 as “Beautiful Trauma” is on hold at No.7, but she does have four more albums within the Top 100.
One of eight former or current No.1 albums within the Top 10 is the #1 set from three weeks ago and “Love Monster” for Amy Shark, which is down one to No.5, while the Post Malone set “Beerbongs and Bentleys” and the self-titled Shawn Mendes third album are both down two spots each to No.8 and No.10 respectively. The highest debut of the week occurs in-between those two albums at No.9, “The Nashville Tapes” for local country artist Adam Harvey, which is his fourteenth studio album and now his fifth Top 10 album and highest charting solo, as he had two higher entries with other artists in “The Great Country Songbook” alongside Troy Cassar-Daley (HP-2, June 2013) and “The Great Country Songbook II” with Beccy Cole (HP-6, May 2017).
UP:
* Andrew Denton spoke with Keith Urban on his show “interview’ this past week, plus Keith announced a January 2019 national tour also, which helps his latest album “Graffiti U” to leap back up twenty-seven places to No.14.
* Pink’s further three studio albums charting this week are “The Truth About Love” (55 to 38), “Funhouse” (52 to 49) and “I’m Not Dead” (returns at No.82).
* The older Taylor Swift entry at 197 weeks in “1989” is back up fourteen places to No.43.
* Another national tour started last week for Katy Perry, and her most recent album “Witness” is back into the Top 100 at No.47.
* Thanks to the new Top 40 hit for George Ezra in “Shotgun” (TW-37), his parent album “Staying at Tamara’s” (HP-7) jumps back up seventeen spots to land this week at No.56.
* With a new Justin Bieber Top 10 debut this week his three-and-a-half year old album “Purpose” is back up fourteen places to No.63.
* The soundtrack for “Bridget Jones’ Baby” rises twenty-six spots to No.68.
* Further returning albums this week are collections for Billy Joel (#77), Shania Twain (#79) and Green Day (#98), while Snow Patrol were on a promo tour here this week for their recent album “Wildness” (HP-12), which is back in at No.97.
DOWN:
* There are two albums leaving the Top 10 this week with the only dropping (of 5 entries) for Pink and her “Greatest Hits… So Far!!!” (HP-1×8, WI10-29a) falling three to No.13 and the XXXTentacion second album “?” (HP-2, WI10-9a) also down three spots to No.12.
* Panic! At the Disco see their single “High Hopes” rise to a new peak of No.24, while their parent album “Pray for the Wicked” is down six spots to No.19.
* Last weeks ABBA best of surges move back down this week in “ABBA Gold & More” (14 to 21) and the singular “ABBA Gold” only down a single spot to No.35, with further falling collections being for Eminem (30 to 34), Queen (GH 28 to 36, Platinum 46 to 59), Adam Brand (18 to 44), The Wiggles (38 to 48), INXS (43 to 55), Guns N’ Roses (44 to 57), Maroon 5 (51 to 65), Slim Dusty (39 to 66), Cold Chisel (57 to 75), Bon Jovi (70 to 80), Crowded House (79 to 88), Foo Fighters (84 to 89) and Fleetwood Mac (GH 88 to 94).
* Florence + the Machine fall ten spots to No.22 with their latest set “High as Hope”.
* After a physical sales resurgence last week the Kanye West set “ye’ it is back down twelve to No.28.
* Kendrick Lamar has now left the country and his albums drop too in “DAMN.” (19 to 30), the “Black Panther” soundtrack (33 to 46) and “Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City” (68 to 92).
* With the older Taylor Swift set climbing, her most recent entry “Reputation” drops eight to No.31.
* Cardi B falls seven places to No.33 with her debut album “Invasion of Privacy”.
* Dropping soundtracks this week are “Moana” (31 to 37), “Black Panther” (33 to 46), “Mamma Mia!” (32 to 54), “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2” (47 to 61), “Fifty Shades Freed” (65 to 70), “Suicide Squad” (61 to 71) and the “Molly” TV soundtrack (80 to 81).
* “Evolve” for Imagine Dragons falls ten places to No.39.
* After their Splendor in the Grass festival shows the Gang of Youths set “Go Farther in Lightness” is back down sixteen places this week to No.41, the same for the Ocean Alley set “Chiaroscuro” (78 to 83).
* Vance Joy drops down nine spots to No.45 with their second album “Nation of Two”.
* Shawn Mendes’ “Illuminate” dims seventeen places to land at No.52.
* Calum Scott falls fifteen spots to No.53 with his debut set “Only Human”.
* Adele’s “25” falls fourteen places to No.62, while her “21” dips eight spots to No.90.
* The debut Ed Sheeran album “+ (Positive)” falls down twenty-two spots this week to No.64.
* Maroon 5 also see their current studio album “Red Pill Blues” slide down seventeen spots to No.67.
* Bruno Mars’ “24k Magic” falls eleven spots this week to No.69.
* Dean Lewis’ debut album “Same Kind of Different” falls back down thirteen places to No.73.
* Lorde falls twenty-two spots to No.85 with her second set “Melodrama”.
* The Carters tumble down thirty-one places to No.87 with their collaboration album “Everything is Love”.
* Odette tumbles forty-six places to land at No.95 with her debut album “To a Stranger”, while also falling hard to the lower end of the chart are “The Now Now” for Gorillaz (54 to 99) and the self-titled debut album for Dua Lipa (76 to 100).
* Last weeks No.40 entry for The Internet and “Hive Mind” is the only Top 50 dropout album from the entire chart, while two more of last weeks new entries also leave for 88rising (#61) and Catherine Britt & the Cold Cold Hearts (#62).
FURTHER NEW ENTRIES:
* #11 (LP#1) – Sect by Golden Features is the debut album for the Australian DJ and producer born Tom Stell who has worked with in the past Nicole Miller and Julia Stone and done remixes for The Presets and Flume, plus released three of his own EP’s in 2014-15-16.
* #15 (LP#2) – Electrify 80’s: Stock, Aitken & Waterman by Tim Campbell is the second album of covers by the local singer and actor, this one containing SAW tracks by Dead or Alive, Bananarama, Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan, Divine and Mel & Kim among the ten tracks, while his first album of covers in “High School Disco” made it to No.25 in April 2014.
* #16 (LP#4) – Vicious by Halestorm is the first studio album top chart here, and their second overall entry for the US hard rock band who made it to No.30 in January of 2017 with their EP “Reanimate 3.0: The Covers EP”.
* #17 (LP#8) – Gotcha Covered by The Screaming Jets is the eighth studio album and now eighth Top 50 album entry for the Aussie rock band (7 studios and one best of), with this new set featuring fifteen tracks of classic Australian music from The Easybeats, Goanna, Men at Work, The Radiators, Paul Kelly, The Angels, INXS, Dragon AC/DC and Australian Crawl among the tracks.
* #27 (LP#3) – Ta1300 (Taboo) by Denzel Curry is the third studio album and now first chart entry in Australian for the US rapper who released his first set back in 2013 titled “Nostalgia ’64”.
* #29 (LP#5) – Under My Skin by Kirsty Lee Akers is the fifth studio album for the local country singer and now her first Top 50 entry.
* #40 (LP#5) – Cage to Rattle by Daughtry is the first new album in almost five years and becomes the bands fifth chart entry and now fourth Top 50 hit, as their last album “Baptized” made it to No.56 in November of 2013.
* #42 (LP#27) – One Voice: Believe by Aled Jones is the third in the ‘One Voice’ series the classical singer has issued after the Christmas version late last year and the original edition made it to No.13 in May of 2017 (around Mother’s Day).
* #50 (LP#2) – Nova by RL Grime was born Henry Alfred Steinway and is from Los Angeles, with this being his second album and first chart entry here, his debut set “Void” was issued in 2014.
* #51 (LP#17) – Songs for the Saints by Kenny Chesney is the seventeenth studio album for the US country singer and now his sixth chart entry here, with his last entry being back in November of 2016 with “Cosmic Hallelujah” (HP-19).
* #72 (Coll#2) – The Ghost Note Symphonies Vol.1 by Rise Against is the second compilation of tracks from the US rock band and their seventh entry overall (the other six landed in the Top 30 or higher), with their other compile being “Long Forgotten Songs: B-Sides & Covers 2000-2013” (HP-16, Sept 2013).
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Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
