INXS climb to the No.1 spot with their compilation “The Very Best”, which hits the chart pinnacle in its 77th week within the Top 100, the longest climb to the top on the ARIA Albums chart, ever!
With the help of the screening last Sunday night of the first part of the mini-series ‘INXS: Never Tear us Apart’, the set “The Very Best” becomes the 697th No.1 album in Australia (1965 to 2014) and the 556th for ARIA (1983 to 2014), whilst it’s also the 60th best of/greatest hits set to reach the top, with the last one being way back on 21-May-2012 when “The Story So Far” (TW-95) by Keith Urban debuted and stayed atop for a single week.
As I mentioned, “The Very Best” by INXS has taken the longest time to reach the No.1 spot at 77 weeks, and the album first entered the charts back on 31-Oct-2011, initially debuting and peaking at No.39, returning in January 2012 to climb to No.73. The set returned in November 2012 climbing up to No.41 before returning for a fourth time at the start of June in 2013, the start of its current run. The previous record holders for ‘Longest Climb to No.1: Albums’ was an album released in late 1989 that didn’t hit the top until February 1991 (when she toured here). Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation 1814” took 69 weeks to climb to the top, and the other previous long-climb to the top was Shania Twain with “Come on Over”, which took 65 weeks to climb to No.1, where it stayed for 20 broken weeks.
“The Very Best” becomes the fourth No.1 album for INXS, with their previous chart toppers being “The Swing” (5 weeks from 2-April-84), “Listen Like Thieves” (2 weeks from 14-Oct-85) and “X” (2 weeks from 21-Oct-1990). There tally at No.1 is now up to ten weeks, the same amount as Foo Fighters, Live, Missy Higgins, Bruce Springsteen, Dido and Paul McCartney. The new No.1 album also becomes the 168th chart-topper by an Australian act (the last being Taylor Henderson on 9-Dec-13), and 329th No.1 album by a Group (the last one there being One Direction’s “Midnight Memories on 2-Dec-13).
The INXS mini-series also helps five of their previous albums to return to the charts this week, with their October 1987 album “Kick” (HP-2×5, peaked Nov 1988) back in at No.7, their 1991 Live album “Live Baby Live” (HP-3, Nov 1991) has been re-packaged for its first time digital-release as “Live at Wembley Stadium 1991” which debuts at No.17. The October 1982 released set “Shabooh Shoobah” (HP-5, peaked Nov 1982) returns at No.41, whilst their first No.1 album “The Swing” (HP-1×5, April 194) is back in at No.43. The follow-up to that album was their second chart-topper “Listen Like Thieves” (HP-1×2, October 1985) which is back in at No.53.
The eighth studio album for the John Butler Trio debuts at No.2 entitled “Flesh & Blood”, becoming his fifth Top 10 album, with his sixth album “April Uprising” (HP-1×1, April 2010) being his last Top 10 entry and the set “Tin Shed Tales” (HP-28, May 2012) being his last Top 100 entry. The lead single from the album “Only One” (HP-44) is back in at No.91 this week.
With Bruce Springsteen touring the country at the moment, his former No.1 album “High Hopes” is back up three places to No.3, whilst the “Frozen” Soundtrack is back up one spot to No.4, which pushes Lorde and her “Pure Heroine” album down two places to No.5 this week. The third studio album for New Zealand’s Neil Finn entitled “Dizzy Heights” debuts at No.6 becoming Neil’s fourth Top 10 album, as he hit No.5 last November alongside Paul Kelly on the live set “Goin’ Your Way” (TW-46). His two other Top 10 albums were his first two solo sets, “Try Whistling This” (HP-1×2, June 1998) and “One Nil” (HP-9, March 2001).
Another tourist here at the moment is Dolly Parton, who rises two places to No.8 with her current studio set “Blue Smoke”, which last week became her first ever Top 10 album in Australia, plus her tour also inspires entries at No.38 with “The Very Best of” and at No.100 with another compilation entitled “The Hits”. HAIM leap back into the Top 10, up ten places to No.9 with “Days are Gone”, gaining its fourth week inside the ten, and down three places to No.10 is former No.1 “True” for Avicii.
NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: Ahead of Rudimental visiting our shores, their album “Home” is back up nine places to No.18 (there’s a re-packaged version coming at the end of February), and helped by his current tour (again), Bruce Springsteen and his “Greatest Hits” set are back up eight spots to No.33, whilst he also returns at No.91 with “Collection 1973-2012” (HP-6). “The Heist” for Macklemore & Ryan Lewis is back up twenty-one places to No.34 this week, and two returning sets to the Top 100 this week within the Top 50 area, “Live – One Night Only” (HP-1) by The Bee Gees back in at No.44 and “All Over the World” The Very Best of” for Electric Light Orchestra (HP-35) at No.50.
DOWN DOWN: Like their singles action, London Grammar drop out of the ARIA Top 10 Albums this week, down a couple of places to No.11 with “If You Wait” (HP-2) having spent seven broken weeks within the ten. After seven weeks inside the Top 10, the self-titled album for Beyonce is down four to No.12, whilst last weeks No.1 debut of the MKTO album falls dramatically to No.19 this week, whilst The Jezabels’ with “The Brink” is down from No.2 to No.21 this week, a bigger drop than MKTO-BTW. Australian Crawl with their latest “Greatest Hits” collection are down twelve spots to No.23 and after his Super Bowl jump last week; Bruno Mars’ “Unorthodox Jukebox” is back down nine places to No.27 this week. Taylor Henderson sees his self-titled set drop fourteen places to No.39 and A Great Big World and their “Is There Anybody Out There” album fall back sixteen to No.49. Big drops also come from “Atlas” by Rufus (16 to 51), “Cavalier Youth” for You Me at Six (14 to 60), “Restoring Force” for Of Mice & Men (37 to 61), “Harlequin Dream” by Boy & Bear (47 to 62), “Bangerz” by Miley Cyrus (45 to 67), Russell Morris’ “Sharkmouth” (46 to 71), the self-titled albums for Dami Im (49 to 87) and The Lumineers (53 to 88), “Hydra” for Within Temptation (26 to 92), “Reflektor” for Arcade Fire (44 to 93), the Broods EP (30 to 94) and falling out from last weeks Top 50 is the debut set for Sky Ferreira “Night Time, My Time” (#40).
The second album for US band Broken Bells debuts at No.14 entitled “After the Disco”, which surpasses their debut self-titled album which debuted and peaked at No.20 in March 2010. The debut album for local Gold Coast act Prepared Like a Bride debuts at No.30 and is entitled “Overcomer”, whilst the current UK No.1 album, the fourth for UK indie act Bombay Bicycle Club, is their first to chart here, entering at No.36 is “So Long, See You Tomorrow”. The last Top 50 entry for the week is the self-titled debut album for super-group The Dead Daisies at No.42, who are made up of Jon Stevens (Noiseworks), Richard Fortus, Frank Ferrer and Dizzy Reed (Guns N’ Roses), Darryl Jones (Rolling Stones), Brian Tichy (Whitesnake) and Alex Carapetis (Nine Inch Nails) amongst its many members.
Lower 50: The National album “Trouble Will Find Me” (HP-2) jumps back up twenty-one places to No.56, with Bruno Mars’ “Doo-Wops & Hooligans” back up nine spots to No.57. After dropping to No.71 last week the soundtrack for “Spirit of Akasha” is back up to No.63 this week, whilst one place lower at No.64 is the return of “The Essential” collection for the Divinyls.
The debut album for UK act Temples is new at No.55 with their set “Sun Structures”. The eighth album to chart for The Wiggles is new at No.68 entitled “Apples & Bananas”, whilst a couple of places lower at No.70 are The Glitch Mob, a three-piece group from Los Angeles with their second album entitled “Love Death Immortality”, their first album to chart in Australia.
Currently touring here is Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi, who lands his first ever entry here at No.73 with his eighteenth album “In a Time Lapse”. Tim McGraw debuts at No.77 with the album “Love Story”, his sixteenth album to chart here, whilst one place lower at No.78 are Polish extreme metal band Behemoth with their tenth studio album (and first to chart here) “The Satanist”.
Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
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