Coldplay stay for a third week at the top of the ARIA Albums chart with “Ghost Stories”.
The album now takes the Coldplay tally of accumulated weeks at No.1 in Australia to ten, the same amount achieved by The Foo Fighters (also from five #1 albums), Live, Missy Higgins and Bruce Springsteen (from three albums) Dido and Paul McCartney (from two albums).
By staying for a third week at the top, “Ghost Stories” also becomes the equal second longest running No.1 album for 2014, alongside the three weeks that the self-titled Beyonce album achieved back in January, whilst INXS’ “The Very Best of” leads with seven accumulated weeks at the top this year. Coldplay might be knocked off next week by new albums by either The Amity Affliction, Jack White or even First Aid Kit or Glass Animals.
The ‘Frozen’ soundtrack is back up to No.2 this week, notching up its 21st straight week within the Top 10, and it swaps places with Sam Smith who is down to No.3 with “In the Lonely Hour”. Returning to the Top 100 at No.4 is the newly repackaged ‘International Deluxe Edition’ of Ellie Goulding’s “Halcyon Days (Int.Ed.)”, which marks the albums 43rd week within the Top 100, but first ever Top 10 placing, as when the album was re-issued in September 2013 it returned and peaked at No.12, but now that she has just finished a national tour here, the album returns again this week to a new chart peak.
Two further albums return to the Top 10 thanks to current or pending tours with “Fuse” for Keith Urban leaping back up thirty-three places to No.6 thanks to his appearance on ‘The Voice’ on Monday night and his national tour which starts on June 14th, the album now notching up its fifth week within the Top 10. James Blunt is also on tour here at the moment, and his former No.2 album “Moon Landing” leaps back up fifty-one places to No.8, notching up a ninth week inside the Top 10.
Michael Jackson is down one place to No.5 with his “Xscape” album, whilst Iggy Azalea is steady at No.7 with her debut set “The New Classic”. The INXS compilation “The Very Best of” is down one spot to No.9 and the last new No.1 album prior to Coldplay, “Turn Blue” for The Black Keys falls four to No.10 this week.
NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: Katy Perry’s five minute appearance on The Voice this past week helps her album “Prism” to rise back up to No.13 this week, whilst the passing of The Angels lead singer Doc Neeson on Wednesday, triggered late sales for three of the bands compilation, their most recent collection “40 Years of Rock – Volume 1: 40 Greatest Studio Hits” leaps back up forty-three places to No.20, whilst the late 2013 set “Greatest Hits” (peaked at #91 in January 2014) returns at a new peak of No.26, and their “40 Years of Rock – Volume 2: 40 Greatest Live Hits” re-enters at No.72. Next week these albums could rise again, as Doc passed away at the end of the chart sales week. Gabrielle Aplin is back up nine places to No.31 with “English Rain” and The Eagles 2015 tour and ticket sales helps “The Very Best of” to jump back up fifteen places to No.35. The Vamps are another act touring Oz at the moment, and their set “Meet the Vamps” rebounds forty-four places to No.47 whilst another local best-of “The Best of Cold Chisel – All for You” is back up forty spots to No.49 this week.
DOWN DOWN: “AM” for The Arctic Monkeys drops five to No.14 after six accumulated weeks within the Top 10, and also down five is ZHU with his EP “The NightDay”, which spent two weeks within the ten, whilst one of last weeks Top 10 debuts, Mariah Carey’s “Me I Am Mariah” tumbles twenty four places to No.29 this week after a single week inside the Top 10, the same amount of time her previous two albums notched up too. “To Be Loved” for Michael Buble is down six to No.17, as too Pharrell with “G I R L” to No.19. Lily Allen falls seven to No.25 with “Sheezus” and also down seven to No.27 is Avicii with “True”. The soundtrack for the film “The Fault in Our Stars” is down fourteen places to No.33 and Violent Soho is down eight to No.34 with “Hungry Ghost”. “Tattoos” for Jason DeRulo is down thirteen to No.37 and “So We Can Remember” for Thundamentals falls seventeen to No.45, whilst another of last weeks high entries, “Do it Again” for Royksopp and Robyn tumbles thirty-two spots to No.46. Further tumbles come from Kim Churchill (32 to 51), “Essential” for Michael Jackson (25 to 54), Rudimental (37 to 55), The Ten Tenors (44 to 62), Harrison Craig (45 to 64), Neil Young (46 to 68), Sol3 Mio (48 to 70), and dropping out from last weeks Top 50 are Cher Lloyd (#23), The Roots (#34) and Afrojack (#49).
South African rap-rave band Die Antwoord debut at No.11 with their third album “Donker Mag” becoming their highest charting album in Australia. Their first entry “$O$” made it to No.53 in February 2011, whilst their second entry “Ten$ion” debuted and peaked at No.38 a year later in February 2012. The other Top 20 entry of the week is the fifth studio album for rapper 50 Cent entitled “Animal Ambition – An Untamed Desire to Win” which comes in at No.16. This is his first entry for this decade, as 50 Cent last charted in November 2009 with “Before I Self Destruct” (HP-19), and this is his sixth albums chart entry (five studios and one soundtrack).
The Melbourne duo of Jack and Pat Pierce are known as The Pierce Brothers, who enter at No.21 with their debut EP “The Night Tree”, whilst one place lower at No.22 Brisbane trio The Dune Rats see their self-titled EP become their first chart entry also, with both acts touring the country at the moment also.
Lower 50: Passenger leaps back up twenty places to No.57 with “All the Little Lights”, whilst there is a heap of re-entering albums this week including the self-titled set for Busby Marou (#58), the Paradise Edition of “Born to Die” falls out this week, but the standard original version re-enters at No.59 for Lana Del Rey, and as their tour here was just announced for August, the “Greatest Hits” (HP-2, peaked late Dec 1981) for Queen returns at No.60. The Broods were the support on the recent Ellie Goulding tour, and their self-titled EP is back in at No.63, with “Legend: The Very Best of” for Bob Marley & the Wailers returning at No.67. Further returns include the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Soundgarden album “Superunknown” (HP-1, peaked March 1994) at No.76, “Greatest Hits” for Red Hot Chili Peppers (#86) and Australian Crawl (#87), “Goin’ Your Way” for Neil Finn and Paul Kelly (#90), “Crash My Party” for Luke Bryan (#99) and compilations for Creedence (#93) and Crowded House (#94).
The only new entry in the lower fifty is by Sydney hip hop duo Mind Over Matter with their fifth album “This Way to Elsewhere”, which enters at No.61 and becomes the groups first ARIA Albums chart entry.
Written and Compiled by Gavin Ryan with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
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