Breaking the eight week running one-week-at-the-top for number one albums by staying at the top for a second week is Justin Timberlake’s “The 20/20 Experience”, beating the one week his previous album stayed at the top back in 2006.
Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience
Leaping up seven places to a new peak of No.2 is Passenger with “All the Little Lights”, helped by his current tour and new national No.1 single “Let Her Go”. Passenger’s former tour-mate (from March) Ed Sheeran is down a place to No.4 with “+”, pushing down Pink and “The Truth About Love” to No.5.
The Bruce Springsteen tour of Australia continues to push his new set “Collection 1973-2012” up, this week it moves two places to a new peak of No.6, whilst former No.1 album “What About Now” for Bon Jovi drops down six places to No.8 this week. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis drop two places to No.9, but the album is now certified ▲ Platinum in sales.
Landing the highest new entry of the week at No.3 is Sydney metal-core band Northlane, whose second album “Singularity” far surpasses the No.85 peak that their November 2011 first set “Discoveries” achieved. Whilst Melbourne band British India take their fourth album “Controller” into the charts at No.10 becoming their third consecutive Top 10 set, after “Thieves” (HP-5, July 2008) and “Avalanche” (HP-10, May 2010). Their first album “Guillotine” hit No.55 in July 2007.
Debuting in-between the local entries at No.7 are The Strokes with their fifth album “Comedown Machine”, becoming their fifth consecutive Top 10 album in Australia, but also their lowest entry to the Top 10. Their previous chart entries for Australia are listed below, NOTE: that the highest position (HP) is also the entry positions for the albums.
LP#|Entry Date|HP|WI|Titles
A01|06-Aug-01|5|60|Is This it?
A02|27-Oct-03|6|17|Room on Fire
A03|09-Jan-06|4|17|First Impressions of Earth
A04|28-Mar-11|1|12|Angles
A05|01-Apr-13|7|1*|Comedown Machine
NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: Russell Morris sees his “Sharkmouth” album climb three places to a new peak of No.16, and with the deluxe edition of the “Les Miserables” soundtrack now released, it rebounds sixteen places to No.27, ahead of it’s April 24th DVD release, whilst right behind, back up fifty-one places to No.28, is Pitbull with his “Global Warming” (HP-14) album.
DOWN DOWN: After fifteen consecutive weeks in the Top 10, Bruno Mars drops one place to No.11 with his “Unorthodox Jukebox” (HP-1×3) album, whilst another former number one, “March Fires” by Birds of Tokyo leaves the Top 10 after three weeks inside it, falling eight places this week to No.13. David Bowie’s “The Next Day” (HP-2) is down eight spots also to No.14, whilst the Bee Gees “Mythology” box-set falls seven places to No.21 this week.
“Zion” for Hillsong United halves itself this week, falling eighteen places to No.36, whilst Nick Cave’s “Push the Sky Away” is down twelve places to No.38. Dido drops twenty-eight places to No.66 with “Girl Who Got Away” (HP-12), Mumford & Sons’ “Sigh No More” falls twenty-six places to No.78, and Bob Evans is down sixty-six places to No.100 with his latest “Familiar Stranger” (HP-34). Falling out of the Top 100 altogether from high places include “Sing to the Moon” for Laura Mvula from No.33 and “If You Leave” for Daughter from No.50.
Brisbane singer Emma Louise takes her debut album into the ARIA Albums chart at No.12 this week entitled “VS Head VS Heart”, and it follows on from the 2011 EP “Full Hearts and Empty Rooms” (HP-90, peaked Feb 2012). Whilst making an entry at No.22 is Eric Clapton with his 20th studio album “Old Socks”, an album of covers, plus two new tracks written by Eric.
The tenth studio album for Lil’ Wayne debuts at No.43 entitled “I Am Not a Human Being II”, which is his fifth album to chart here. His best effort was his last album “Tha Carter IV” (HP-9) in September 2011, whilst the first “I Am Not a Human Being” album from October 2010 made it to No.60.
Lower 50: Birdy’s self-titled album jumps back up eighteen places to No.51 ahead of her April tour of Australia, whilst Kendrick Lamar sees his “Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City” album rebound sixteen places to No.76. The Zac Brown Band return at No.55 with their “Caged” (HP-38) album, whilst recent tourist Jason Mraz sees his “Love is a Four Letter Word” (HP-23) album return at No.56. Two further tourists also return, with “Ora” (HP-24) for Rita Ora back in at No.74 and Paul Simon’s “Graceland” (HP-1) is back in at No.77. Ben Howard returns at No.84 with “Every Kingdom” (HP-72) and after the recent DVD release, the “Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 2” (HP-11) soundtrack is back in at No.87.
The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club debut at No.53 with their seventh studio album “Specter at the Feast”, becoming their sixth album to chart here (fifth didn’t chart in Oz), and in at No.70 is Billy Bragg with his fourteenth studio album entitled “Tooth & Nail”, his first new material to chart here since he hit No.83 in April 2002 with his eleventh studio album “England, Half English”.
Richard Clayderman makes his first chart appearance in almost eleven years, as he debuts at No.79 with the album “Romantique”, becoming his 21st studio album (23rd overall) to chart here in Australia since he first graced our charts with his album “Reveries” (HP-12, WI-176) in late 1980. Making their first chart appearance here in Australia with their tenth studio album is US rock band Clutch and the album “Earth Rocker” at No.82. And making their debut at No.88 is the Australian music duo of Victoria and Barb Baillie who go by the name of Baylou, with the album “Go to Hell & I Love You”.
Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
The ARIA Chart is updated every Sunday at 6pm
