Paul Kelly sees his 24th studio album “Nature” become his second successive No.1 on the ARIA Albums Chart this week.
“Nature” becomes the 838th No.1 Album in Australia (1965 to 2018), the 689th for ARIA (1983 to 2018), the 23rd No.1 album for 2018 and the 480th to debut at No.1 (1976 to 2018), plus the second for Paul’s record label ‘Gawd Aggie’, as back on the 21st of August 2017 he and his label scored their first No.1 album with “Life is Fine” (1 wk at No.1).
Paul Kelly becomes the 20th act this decade to have logged two weeks at No.1 with two albums and the seventh act to achieve that total this year after Vance Joy, Kylie Minogue, Parkway Drive, The Arctic Monkeys, Kanye West and most recently The John Butler Trio. This is the first time that the word ‘Nature’ has appeared in a No.1 album title (although the group Human Nature has been at the top four times) and this new chart-topping album becomes the tenth by an Australian Act to hit the top spot during 2018, overall this is the 228th Australian Performed No.1 album (solo, duo or group) and also the 235th by a Solo Male Artist (local or overseas).
The returning No.1 album in New Zealand (6th overall week) is on hold here at No.2 in the Eminem set “Kamikaze”, while last weeks debut at No.3 for the soundtrack of “A Star is Born” is stable this week in that position, while the set entered at No.1 in both America and Canada this week.
Two further debuts within the Top 5 occur next as Hands Like Houses enter at No.4 with “Anon” their fourth album and now the Canberra based bands second Top 10 entry and highest charted, beating the No.7 entry of their third album “Dissonants” (March 2016) and their third entry overall as they first charted with their second album “Unimagine” (HP-51, July 2013). Following at No.5 is the second album for local country artist (and US based) Morgan Evans with “Things That We Drink to”, which by landing at No.5 becomes his first Top 10 album locally and charts fifteen places higher than his self-titled debut set achieved in late March of 2014 (HP-20).
Down a place each are “÷ (Divide)” for Ed Sheeran and “Scorpion” for Drake to No.6 and No.7 respectively, while the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Powderfinger third studio album and first No.1 here (20th Sept, 1998, 1 wk) “Internationalist” returns to the chart at No.8 logging its overall 19th week within the Top 10 and 121st week within the Top 100. Last weeks No.1 entry for twenty one pilots and “Trench” drops down eight places to No.9 while falling three spots to No.10 is the soundtrack for “The Greatest Showman”, which should rebound next week thanks to a new expanded and sing-a-long edition of the album just released on Friday.
UP:
* Eminem’s “Curtain Call: The Hits” rises three chart rungs to No.21, while other climbing collections are by Queen (GH 37 to 29, Platinum Collection 48 to 44, and the soundtrack for ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ came out on Friday so these could climb more over the next few weeks), INXS (52 to 50), ABBA (Gold 57 to 51), Paul Kelly (returns at No.74 thanks to his new No.1 set), Green Day (82 to 75), Cher (stable at No.76), Crowded House (94 to 79), Jason DeRulo (83 to 80), Foo Fighters (returns at No.91) and The Killers (returns at No.95).
* Tony Bennett and Diana Krall jump up nine spots to land at a new peak of No.30 with “Love is Here to Stay”.
* Sticky Fingers’ album “Caress Your Soul” debuted and peaked at No.39 in mid March of 2013 spending a single week within the Top 50, and now this week it claims its second week within the fifty by jumping up twenty places to No.48.
* Soundtracks climbing back up for ‘Black Panther’ (56 to 53), ‘Suicide Squad’ (58 to 55), ‘Molly’ (66 to 64) and ‘Moana’ (67 to 65).
* Kendrick Lamar’s “Damn” album is back up seven spots to No.62.
* Anne-Marie jumps back up twenty-three spots to No.67 with her debut set “Speak Your Mind”, thanks to her recent national tour.
* Maroon 5 rebounds twenty places to No.72 with their latest album “Red Pill Blues”.
* Eminem also rises with “The Eminem Show” (98 to 81) and returns with “Revival” (#88) and “Recovery” (#98).
* The self-titled Dua Lipa album jumps back up twelve spots to No.85.
* Other than the Paul Kelly, The Killers and Eminem returns the 1977 No.1 album for Fleetwood Mac and “Rumours” is back in at No.100.
DOWN:
* Unlike the past several weeks of major Top 10 dropouts, this weeks four albums leaving the Top 10 all do so with smaller falls, “Beerbongs & Bentleys” for Post Malone (HP-1×2, WI10-24a) is down two to No.11, “Sweetener” for Ariana Grande (HP-1, WI10-8) leaves the Top 10 for the first time and is down two to No.12 (and at 8 weeks within the ten is now her longest running Top 10 album in Australia), “The Best of-All for You” by Cold Chisel (HP-2, WI10-12a) is down five places to No.13 and the Cher covers album “Dancing Queen” (HP-2, WI10-2) falls ten places to No.14.
* After reaching a new peak of No.18 last week the Billie Eilish set “Don’t Smile at Me” is back down six spots to No.24.
* Lil’ Wayne’s “Tha Carter V” falls down fourteen places this week to No.25.
* John Butler Trio were at No.1 three weeks ago and this week their “Home” slides down eleven places to No.26.
* Vance Joy drops down eight places to No.31 with “Nation of Two”.
* Now that their tour is over the Panic! At the Disco set “Pray for the Wicked” drops eleven to No.33.
* Nicki Minaj drops down nine spots to No.34 with her “Queen” album.
* Jimmy Barnes falls twenty-four places to No.38 with his “Working Class Boy-Soundtracks” set, while the soundtrack for ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.1’ is down nine spots to No.39, followed by ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’ which falls down nineteen places to No.40, with other falling soundtracks being for ‘Guardians Vol.2’ (74 to 89) and ‘Deadpool 2′ (86 to 99).
* Pink’s “Greatest Hits… So Far!!!” drops down eight to No.43, with her “Beautiful Trauma” dipping eleven to No.58, leaving the Top 50 for the first time since it debuted 53 weeks ago, further falling collections are for ABBA (Gold & More 64 to 77), The Wiggles (78 to 83) and Red Hot Chili Peppers (84 to 96).
* Logic drops down twenty-two places to No.49 with his fourth set “YSIV”.
* Troye Sivan drops twenty spots to No.60 with his album “Bloom”.
* Rod Stewart’s latest album “Blood Red Roses” descends twenty-nine places to No.73.
* Carrie Underwood and her “Cry Pretty” set drops down nineteen spots to No.78.
* Sigala manage a third week on the charts with his debut set “Brighter Days”, down ten chart rungs this week to No.87.
* Keith Urban’s Graffiti U” drops down thirteen spots to No.94.
* Albums leaving the Top 100 from last weeks Top 50 were by Last Dinosaurs (#26), Behemoth (#34), Cat Power (#42), the mixtape for Lil’ Baby & Gunna (#45) and Coheed & Cabria (#49).
FURTHER NEW ENTRIES:
* #16 (LP#1) – Quavo Huncho by Quavo is the debut solo album for Migos member Quavo (born Quavious Keyate Marshall) and the album features guests such as Offset, 21 Savage, Drake, Cardi B., Travis Scott, Kid Cudi and Madonna.
* #18 (LP#2) – Always in Between by Jess Glynne is the new No.1 album in England this week (her second successive No.1 there) and it comes in here eleven places lower than her debut set “I Cry When I Laugh” (HP-7, late Sept 2015) and this new album features the current chart entries “I’ll Be There” (HP-23, TW-44), “All I Am” (HP-78, TW-88) and her appearance on the Rudimental track “These Days” (HP-2, TW-96).
* #19 (LP#1) – self-titled by Ella Mai is the debut album for the UK singer and features her three chart entries in “Boo’d Up” (HP-46, peaked July 2018) “Whatchamacallit” with Chris Brown (HP-66, TW-82) and “Trip” (HP & TW-63).
* #66 (LP#8) – Bottle it in by Kurt Vile becomes his third chart entry in Australia having previously charted with “b’lieve I’m goin’ down…’ (HP-27, Oct 2015) and alongside Courtney Barnett on “Lotta See Lice” (HP-5, late Oct 2017).
* #90 (LP#4) – The Atlas Underground by Tom Morello is the Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave guitarists fourth studio album and now his first solo entry here, having placed albums in the past for Prophets of Rage (HP-11, Oct 2017), Audioslave (3 albums) and RATM (4 albums).
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Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
