Lana Del Rey lands her second successive No.1 album in Australia, as her third studio set “Ultraviolence” debuts at the top of the ARIA Albums chart this week.
Her previous chart-topping album “Born to Die” is still within the Top 100 at No.51 (The Paradise Edition) and No.64.
“Ultraviolence” becomes the 705th No.1 album in Australia (1965 to 2014) and the 556th for ARIA (1983 to 2014), plus also the 354th album to debut at No.1 and the eighth this year. It’s the 21st No.1 album for the Interscope label and as I said earlier, the second for Lana, who debuted at No.1 in February 2012 with “Born to Die”. It’s the first time that the words ‘Ultra’ or ‘Violence’ have appeared in a chart-topping album, with the previous highest ‘Ultra’ being the Depeche Mode album from 1997 which made it to No.7 (their only Top 10 album in Australia).
The new No.1 album also becomes the 257th No.1 album for an American artist (the last being The Black Keys with “Turn Blue” on 19-May) and the 103rd by a Female Artist, the last one was six #1 albums ago, “Kiss Me Once” for Kylie Minogue (24-March #699) and prior to that six No.1’s albums ago was another female artist, the self-titled album for Beyonce (6-Jan #693).
Last week we saw debuts at one, two and three, and this occurs again this week, as 360 sees his third studio album “Utopia” enter at No.2, becoming his second album to chart after “Falling & Flying” (re-enters TW-89) debuted and peaked at No.4 in October 2011, thus making this new entry his highest charting ARIA Album.
Linkin Park are new at No.3 with their sixth studio album and first new material in almost two years (last entry was 2-July-2012) entitled “The Hunting Party”. All of their previous studio albums have reached and debuted at either No.1 or No.2; and prior to that their first entry “Hybrid Theory” peaked in its 60th week on the charts at No.2. Being a busy week of titles released, Linkin Park has to settle for a No.3 entry, although previously a couple of their albums have climbed in their second weeks on the chart, with 2007’s “Minutes to Midnight” climbing to the top spot.
With Coldplay in the country this past week, their former No.1 set “Ghost Stories” holds at No.4 for a second week, whilst last weeks top three debuts all fall this week, although Jack White with “Lazaretto” is the best drop, down two places to No.5 this week, whilst “Let the Ocean Take Me” for The Amity Affliction (only cert this week claiming Gold ●), falls from No.1 to No.7 and “Whispers” for Passenger is down seven places to No.9. The ‘Frozen’ soundtrack is down a place to No.6, whilst two further albums return to the Top 10 this week, “Prism” for Katy Perry, up twelve places to No.8 and thanks to his national tour starting, “Fuse” for Keith Urban is back up twelve places also to No.10 this week.
NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: With Rufus scoring their first Top 50 placing this week with “Sundream” (TW-47), their former No.1 album “Atlas” is back up seventeen places to No.17, whilst another former chart-topping set, “Built on Glass” for Chet Faker is back up seven spots to No.20. The EP “NightDay” for ZHU is back up eight spots to No.24 and Bastille blast back up thirty spots to No.26 with “Bad Blood”. “True” for Avicii is up nineteen spots to No.28 and Imagine Dragons’ “Night Visions” is back up eleven to No.29. On ‘Sunday Night’ last week, they interviewed Queen about their upcoming August tour here, which helps their “Greatest Hits” set jump back up thirty-eight places to No.33, whilst the new Ed Sheeran album “x” is out as of Friday, his former set “+” jumps back up twenty-four places to No.39. Keith Urban’s tour also helps his collection “The Story So Far” leap back up forty-eight spots to No.42 and also back within the Top 50 are “Native” for OneRepublic (64 to 47), “Cinematic” by Illy (54 to 48) and “English Rain” by Gabrielle Aplin (62 to 50).
DOWN DOWN: Five albums leave the Top 10 this week, with Sam Smith down three to No.13 after three weeks within the ten on “In the Lonely Hour” (HP-2), “Stay Gold” by First Aid Kit (9 to 15) and “Platinum” by Miranda Lambert (8 to 44) both spent a single week within the Top 10 and after returning last week “AM” for The Arctic Monkeys (7 to 22) and “Pure Heroine” for Lorde (6 to 25) both drop down into the Top 30. After leaping up to No.11 last week, the soundtrack for ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ is down to No.14 this week, whilst “Xscape” for Michael Jackson drops seven places to No.21. James Blunt is down fifteen places to No.30 with “Moon Landing” and after debuting at No.12 last week, Glass Animals drops nineteen spots to No.31 with “Zaba”. The Led Zeppelin returns last week all drop down, with the first self-titled set down to No.38 (from #16), “II” falls nineteen places to No.43 (from #24) and “III” falls eighteen spots to No.41 (from #23). “Meet the Vamps” by The Vamps drops back down eighteen to No.46 and falling out of the Top 50 are Ellie Goulding (26 to 54), The Angels’ “Greatest Hits” (33 to 57), “The Complete Greatest Hits” for The Eagles (30 to 60), Passenger’s “All the Little Lights” (46 to 67), Hellyeah (41 to 69), REMI (29 to 71), 50 Cent (50 to 73), Jason DeRulo (17 to 76), One Direction (37 to 79) and falling out of the Top 100 from last weeks Top 50 are The John Butler Trio (#19), Baby Animals (#43) and MKTO (#48).
Kasabian debut at No.11 with their recent fourth UK #1 album “48:13” (the running time of the album), and this fifth studio album for the band becomes their equal second highest charting album in Australia, matching the No.11 debut and peak that their third set “West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum” achieved in June 2009, whilst their previous album “Velociraptor!” is their only Top 10 set here, reaching No.8 in October of 2011.
Also scoring their second highest charting album here is deadmau5, who debuts at No.12 with “while (1<2)” (the name of the album is a programming language reference, meaning “to loop indefinitely”), which came out on Tuesday, so this position is only from half-a-weeks sales. This is his fourth album (from seven studio sets) to chart in Australia, with his last set >Album Title Goes Here< (Oct 2012) debuting and peaking at No.11. The fifth studio album for Tiesto enters at No.18 entitled “A Town Called Paradise”, which instantly becomes his highest charting set here, beating the No.31 peak that his previous album “Kaleidoscope” achieved in October 2009, whilst he also charted in May 2012 with the mix-set album “Club Life Volume 2 – Miami”. This new album features his first Top 10 single here “Red Lights” (HP-8, peaked January 2014) and current Top 50 single “Wasted” (TW/HP-48).
Lower 50: With Lana Del Rey’s new album taking the top spot, both versions of her previous album “Born to Die” are up this week, ‘The Paradise Edition’ up forty-three to No.51 and the regular version back up to No.64. Dan Sultan’s “Blackbird” flies back up fourteen spots to No.56 and Guns N’ Roses are back up twenty-three spots to No.59 with their “Greatest Hits” collection. Neil Finn and Paul Kelly are back up thirty-seven spots to No.61 with “Goin’ Your Way”, and The Wiggles collection jumps up fourteen to No.62. The Crowded House collection “The Very Very Best of” is up thirteen to No.70 and Bliss N’ Eso with “Circus in the Sky” is up fourteen to No.74. Returning albums this week come from collections by Bon Jovi (#65), Elton John (#72) and The Rolling Stones (#100) plus albums for Flume (#78), Of Monsters and Men (#86), the Pitch Perfect Soundtrack (#87), John Legend (#90), Haim (#91) and Chet Faker’s “Thinking in Textures” (#97).
We haven’t seen an album entry for Swedish metalcore band Arch Enemy since 2007’s “Rise of the Tyrant” (HP-73, Oct 2007), which was the bands seventh studio album. This week their tenth album “War Eternal” comes in at No.52 becoming not only their second ARIA Albums chart entry here, but also their highest charting set.
The 72nd studio album for country singer Willie Nelson is “Band of Brothers”, which debuts at No.66 this week, and is his first entry here since his 69th set “Heroes” (HP-79, May 2012) charted. Nine of the fourteen tracks were written by Willie, the most self-recorded songs for one of his album since 1996’s “Spirit”. The final entry of the week is new at No.98, “David Campbell sings John Bucchino” for David Campbell, becoming his six albums chart entry and first since November 2011’s “Let Go” (HP-23).
Written, Compiled and Researched by Gavin Ryan.
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