INXS maintain a sixth non-consecutive week at No.1 on the ARIA Albums chart with their compilation set “The Very Best of”, which is helped by the recent release of the TV mini-series on DVD and Blu-Ray.
The album now becomes INXS’ longest running No.1 album of their career, beating the five weeks that their first number one album “The Swing” achieved back in 1984. It also takes their tally of weeks at No.1 to fifteen, moving them from 39th to equal 36th on the list of ‘Accumulated Weeks at No.1: Albums 1965-2014’ alongside Matchbox 20 (also with four albums) and Split Enz (from 3 #1’s). It’s also the longest run at the top since Pink notched up ten broken weeks (from four runs at the top) with her set “The Truth About Love”.
Debuting at No.2 with their fourth album are US heavy-metal (parody too) act Steel Panther with the album entitled “All You Can Eat”, surpassing their previous chart entry (album #3) “Balls Out” (HP-50, peaked March 2012), with their December 2013 tour of Australia being recorded for an upcoming release too. Holding at No.3 is the “Frozen” soundtrack, and then at No.4 is Johnny Cash with some missing recordings on his new set “Out Among the Stars”. The material was recorded in the early 1980’s around the time of his ‘The Baron’ recordings. This becomes his fifth Top 10 appearance, but first album of new material to hit the Top 10 since the 1970 album “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash” (HP-9, May), as his Top 10 appearances since then have been via The Highwaymen (HP-9, July 1991) and then on the compilations “Ring of Fire: The Best of” (HP-10, peaked late Feb 2006) and the soundtrack for the film ‘Walk the Line” (HP-2, peaked March 2006), plus its Johnny’s first ever Top 10 debut in Australia.
After climbing back up to No.2 last week, Pharrell Williams’ “G I R L” is down to No.5, and after peaking at No.4 last week, Skrillex with “Recess” drops down to No.6, whilst also down a couple of places is “Prism” for Katy Perry to No.7. Entering at No.8 is the self-titled tenth album “Shakira”, which also becomes her third entry and third Top 10 album, as she spent two broken weeks at the top with “Laundry Service” (from February 2002) and “Oral Fixation Volume 2” (HP-9, peaked late July 2006). London Grammar appeared on ‘The Graham Norton Show’ last Sunday night, and that has helped their album “If You Wait” to jump back up eight places to No.9 this week, whilst the recent national tour for the John Butler Trio sees their current album “Flesh & Blood” back up five places to No.10.
NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: Gabrielle Aplin blasts up ten places to a new peak of No.14 with her album “English Rain”, helped by her recent promo tour here, whilst leaping back up forty-five places to No.19 are Troy & Adam with “The Great Country Songbook”. The soundtrack to the Channel 9 TV Series ‘Love Child” is back up seven places to a new peak of No.22 this week, and jumping up twenty-three spots to No.26 are Violent Soho with their “Hungry Ghost” (HP-6) album. 30 Seconds to Mars’ tour here helps their former No.4 album “Love, Lust, Faith +Dreams” to jump back up twenty-three places to No.29 and the self-titled album for Taylor Henderson is back up seven places to No.30 this week. Bliss N’ Eso see their former No.1 album “Circus in the Sky” climb back up twenty-six spots to No.37 and after their recent promo visit, A Great Big World are up thirteen places to No.38 with “Is There Anybody There?” (HP-33). Pink returns to the Top 50 with her “Greatest Hits… So Far” set, up thirty-five places to No.44 and back within the Top 100 at No.45 is Fleetwood Mac with “The Very Best of”, still the longest charting album in ARIA history, now up 342 weeks, also back up thirty-two spots to No.48 is the compilation “The Essential” for Michael Jackson.
DOWN DOWN: After two weeks within the Top 10, Kylie Minogue is down five places to No.11 with “Kiss Me Once” (HP-1×1), and also spending two weeks within the ten was Asgeir with “In the Silence” (HP-8), down seven to No.15. After returning last week, both “Pure Heroine” for Lorde (9 to 13) and Eminem’s “The Marshall Mathers LP 2” (7 to 17) leave the Top 10 again, whilst the fifth and final Top 10 dropout is Kate Miller-Heidke with “O Vertigo!” (HP-4) which plummets twenty-three places to No.33 this week after two weeks within the ten. George Michael and his “Symphonica” album drop’s down four places to No.16 and “Home” by Rudimental drops seven to No.20. With their national tour now occurring in late October, The Rolling Stones’ “GRRR!” is down ten places to No.36, with Foster the People falling seventeen spots to No.42 with “Supermodel”, and one place lower last weeks highest new entry at No.11, “May Death Never Stop You” for My Chemical Romance tumbles thirty-two spots to No.43. The War on Drugs tumbles down thirteen spots to No.47 with “Lost in the Dream” and after jumping up last week, Daft Punk drop back fourteen places to No.49 with “Random Access Memories”. Further drops come from INXS with “Kick” (39 to 52), Lea Michele (33 to 55), Flume (36 to 60), Haim (42 to 61), Pink (40 to 63), Rufus (41 to 64), Enrique Iglesias (23 to 67), Avicii with his remix album (16 to 69), Aloe Blacc (19 to 79), The Pretty Reckless (20 to 88), Ellie Goulding (45 to 92), Keith Urban (50 to 94) and falling out from last weeks Top 50 are Hillsong United (#38) and La Dispute (#43).
The second album for Canberra house duo The Aston Shuffle debuts at No.12 entitled “Photographs”, far surpassing the No.45 peak their debut album “Seventeen Past Midnight” achieved in late April 2011. Also entering with their second album is Christina Perri, new at No.23 with “Head or Heart”, with her debut set “Lovestrong” climbing to No.5 in mid-July 2011. And landing their second entry (with their third album) is Band of Skulls at No.24 with “Himalayan”, which beats the No.35 debut and peak that their previous entry “Sweet Sour” achieved in February 2012.
New at No.25 are local act Architecture in Helsinki with their fifth studio album (fourth album to chart) entitled “Now + 4Eva”, with the previous entries being “In Case We Die” (HP-67, April 2005), “Place Like This” (HP-30, Aug 2007) and “Moment Bends” (HP-12, April 2011). The recently screened 100th episode for the Channel 11 series “Glee” sees the soundtrack enter at No.35 entitled “Glee: The Music – Celebrating 100 Episodes”; the 21st Albums chart entry for the TV show. New at No.40 is the debut album “Pocketknife” for Mr. Little Jeans, a pseudonym for Norwegian singer Monica Birkenes, and coming in at No.46 is another debut album “Pulses” for Karmin.
Lower 50: Jessica Mauboy is back up nine places to No.53 with her “Beautiful” set, and returning to the Top 100 at No.57 and No.58 are “The Essential” for Johnny Cash and the Kendrick Lamar album “Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City” respectively. Ed Sheeran just announced his second album “x” for late June, but his debut set “+” is back up twenty-one places to No.62 this week, whilst returning at No.68 is “The Very Best of” for The Eagles, with the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Greatest Hits” back up twenty-four places to No.71. “El Camino” for The Black Keys and Passenger with “All the Little Lights” return to the Top 100 at No.72 and No.73 respectively, whilst also re-entering are “The Lion King” Broadway Cast Recording at No.83, “The Number Ones” for The Bee Gees at No.90, “Hits” by Phil Collins at No.95, Bring Me the Horizon with their “Sempiternal” set at No.96, Tame Impala and “Lonerism” at No.97 and Frank Ocean at No.99 with “Channel Orange”.
The fifth studio album for The Kaiser Chiefs is new at No.65 entitled “Education, Education, Education & War”, becoming their sixth entry in Australia (5 studio and 1 Best of), with their best previous effort being their second album “Yours Truly, Angry Mob” which debuted and peaked at No.9 in March 2007. The third album for US progressive metal band Animals as Leaders becomes their first chart entry in Australia this week, coming in at No.77 is “The Joy of Motion”, with the last two new entries being “The Good Life” EP for local act Bam Bam at No.89 and also landing his first entry with his third album is Canadian artist Mac DeMarco at No.91 with “Salad Days”.
Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
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