INXS score a fourth week at No.1 on the ARIA Albums Chart with the collection “The Very Best”, and in the process the album becomes the longest running No.1 album for 2014.
They beat the three weeks that “Beyonce” spent at the top from the first week of the year, and INXS also take their tally of accumulated weeks at No.1 to thirteen now, moving them to equal 41st on the list ‘Accumulated Weeks at No.1: Albums (1965 to 2014), alongside the thirteen weeks that Led Zeppelin, Midnight Oil, James Blunt and Susan Boyle have previously achieved. Zep and the Oils have also done it with four No.1 albums too, James and SuBo with two chart-toppers.
The second solo album for Pharrell Williams debuts at No.2 entitled “G I R L”, the album came out on Monday, so it hasn’t quite had a full week of sales, and with Pharrell in the country for the Future Music Festival at the moment, plus having the No.1 single with “Happy”, it could climb to the top next week. His first set “In My Mind” debuted and peaked at No.15 in August 2006, so this becomes his first solo Top 10 album in Australia.
Katy Perry was in the country for a promo tour to promote her upcoming November concert, and this has helped her current album “Prism” to jump up six places to No.3 this week, whilst the recently crowned Oscar winning song from the ‘Frozen’ soundtrack keeps the album at No.4 for a second week. Bruno Mars started his national tour this past week, and his former No.1 album (Jan 2012) jumps back up nineteen places to No.5 this week to spend its thirty-sixth week within the Top 10.
After his promo tour leap last week to No.2, Robbie Williams’ “Swings Both Ways” drops back down four places to No.6, and another Future Music Festival act in the form of Rudimental are back up five places to No.7 with “Home” (HP-2), which is now re-packaged and claiming its seventh week within the Top 10 (they’ll also perform on SYTYCD this Sunday night too).
Avicii is back up eight places to No.8 with his former No.1 set “True”, logging a fifteenth week within the Top 10, and after his tour finished up last week, Eminem and his “The Marshall Mathers LP 2” is down three places to No.10. Debuting in between those two albums at No.9 is Hillsong United with “The White Album (Remix Project)”, becoming the Church’s fifteenth Top 10 album (under their three guises).
NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: One Direction jump back up twenty-three places to No.20 with “Midnight Memories”, and the “Love Child” TV Soundtrack is up eight places to a new peak of No.23. Future Festival act Macklemore & Ryan Lewis see their former No.2 album “The Heist” back up thirteen places to No.28 and Bruno’s first album “Doo-Wops and Hooligans” jumps back up thirty-six spots to No.29. HAIM are up twenty-three places to No.33 with “Days are Gone” and Troy and Adam’s “Great Country Songbook” jumps back up thirty-five spots to No.38. Kanye West is back up eleven places to No.42 with “Yeezus” and Pink’s “The Truth About Love” turns back around and is up thirteen places to No.44 with Gabrielle Aplin blasting up twenty-four spots to No.47 with her debut set “English Rain”.
DOWN DOWN: The five albums leaving the Top 10 this week are “Flesh & Blood” for John Butler Trio (HP-2, WI10-3, TW-8 to 13), “Kick” for INXS (HP-2, WI10-3 {2014}, TW-3 to 15), “Morning Phase” by Beck (HP-5, WI10-1, TW-5 to 18), “Blue Smoke” for Dolly Parton (HP-7, WI10-4, TW-10 to 19), and “High Hopes” for Bruce Springsteen (HP-1×1, WI10-6, TW-6 to 22), with the last two dropping after their tour finished up last week in Australia. INXS also drop with “Live from Wembley Stadium, 1991” (17 to 24), “The Swing” (34 to 50), “Listen Like Thieves” (37 to 86), and “Shabooh Shoobah” leaves the Top 100 from No.46. “Atlas” for Rufus is back down twelve places to No.31, and A Day to Remember sees their “Common Courtesy” set fall fifteen to No.37. Dolly’s “Very Best of” collection is down thirteen to No.40 and also falling hard are “Beloved” for I Killed the Prom Queen (33 to 53), Bruce Springsteen’s “Greatest Hits” (39 to 62), “Helios” for The Fray (21 to 72), “Artpop” by Lady GaGa (23 to 83), “Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City” for Kendrick Lamar (49 to 90) and The Funkoars EP “Dawn of the Head” (18 to 92), with the other albums to drop out from last weeks Top 50 include “White Deer Park” for Papa vs. Pretty (#35) and “The Eminem Show” for Eminem (#48).
Landing his first Albums Chart entry is US rapper ScHoolboy Q with his third set entitled “Oxymoron” at No.11 this week. His only previous chart appearance was on the Macklemore track “White Walls” (HP-34, Oct. 2013), and this new album has debuted at No.1 on the USA Album Chart too. The only other Top 50 entry is in at No.49 “Mastermind”, the sixth studio album for Rick Ross, and his second entry on the ARIA Charts, as his fifth set “God Forgives, I Don’t” made it to No.46 in August 2012.
Lower 50: Ellie Goulding and her “Halcyon Days” album jumps back up twenty-one places to No.54, and Russell Morris’ “Sharkmouth” is up six to No.58, plus it’s been certified ▲ Platinum in sales. “…Like Clockwork” for Queens of the Stone Age is back up thirty-nine places to No.60 thanks to their tour at the moment, and the current UK No.1 album “Bad Blood” for Bastille is up twenty-one places here to No.64. Keith Urban is up eighteen spots to No.69 with “Fuse”, and his “The Story So Far” compilation returns at No.88 (his tour here starts in mid-June). Ed Sheeran is up thirteen to No.70 with his “+” album and returning albums this week come from Katy Perry with “Teenage Dream” (#57), Jake Bugg with “Shangri-La” (#75), Greatest Hits for both Red Hot Chili Peppers (#93) and Bon Jovi (#97), which is due to Richie Sambora’s current national tour. Also back in is “GRRR!” for The Rolling Stones (#96), the Original Broadway Cast recording for “The Lion King” (#98) and Passenger with “All the Little Lights” (#99).
The debut album for local singer/songwriter (from Sydney) Christie Lamb enters at No.51 this week entitled “All She Wrote”, and the fourth album for Kid Cudi is new at No.55, “Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon”. All of Kid’s previous three albums have charted here too, “Man on the Moon: The End of Day” (HP-85, Sept 2009), “Man on the Moon 2: The Legend of Mr. Rager” (HP-65, November 2010) and Indcud (HP-28, April 2013).
US indie rock band Real Estate take their third album into the ARIA Albums chart at No.66, “Atlas”, which is their first entry in Australia. Local electronic artist and screen composer Blair Joscelyne is better known as MOOG, and his album “Kei to the City” debuts at No.74 to become his first chart entry, and the album is also the soundtrack to the film ‘Mighty Car Mods’. The final new entry is at No.100, Sally Seltmann with her fourth solo album “Hey Daydreamer”, becoming her second chart entry after “Heart That’s Pounding” (HP-73, April 2010) and her teaming on “Seeker Lover Keeper” (HP-3, June 2011).
Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
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