Pink reclaims the No.1 spot in Australia with “The Truth About Love” this week on the ARIA Albums chart, giving the album its tenth broken week at the top.
Next week the Pink albums spends one-year on the charts, so can it hold the top spot for that anniversary, we will have to wait and see. But for now Pink lands her 34th accumulated week at No.1 in Australia, and Truth becomes her second longest running No.1 album, as it surpasses the nine weeks that “Funhouse” (from 3-Nov-08, TW-64) spent at the top and “The Truth About Love” has now achieved the third longest run at the top for this decade, as Adele’s “21” is first at 32 weeks and Pink’s “Greatest Hits… So Far” is second with thirteen weeks, with that album sitting at No.10 this week.
Father’s Day was last Sunday (in Australia) and it seems a lot of dads might have received the current Fleetwood Mac album “25 Years – The Chain” as a present, as the album climbs two places to score a new peak of No.2 this week. The highest new entry is right behind them at No.3, “Hesitation Marks” for Nine Inch Nails, the bands eight album and first new studio album in over five years. It becomes the bands fourth Top 10 album and second highest charting set, as their third album “The Fragile” debuted and peaked at No.2 in September 1999. Their other Top 10 albums were from May 2005, “With Teeth (HP-10) and from April 2007, “Year Zero” which made it to No.5.
Last weeks No.1 debut for John Mayer “Paradise Valley” is down three places to No.4 this week, whilst the previous No.1 “Harlequin Dream” for Boy & Bear holds at No.5. Also holding at No.7 is “The Great Country Songbook” for Troy Cassar-Daly and Adam Harvey, whilst in between those two holds is the second and final Top 10 entry this week, as Ariana Grande enters at No.6 with her debut album “Yours Truly”. Passenger is down a couple of places to No.8 with “All the Little Lights”; and last weeks No.2 entry of “Hail to the King” by Avenged Sevenfold drops seven places to No.9 this week.
NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: Bruno Mars enters this week with the fifth single (Gorilla #68) from “Unorthodox Jukebox”, which jumps back up to No.11 this week, whilst OneRepublic return to their former peak of No.14 with “Native”. Harrison Craig is back up four places to No.23 with his set “More Than a Dream” and The Eagles see their “The Very Best of” set back up eleven to No.31. Fat Freddy’s Drop leap back up fifty-eight places to No.33 with “Blackbird” (HP-11) and returning to the Top 100 at No.40 is “Time” for Rod Stewart and with Lana Del Rey within the Top 3 with her new song, the ‘Paradise’ edition of her “Born to Try” (which has the remixes on it) is back up thirty-four places to No.49 this week.
DOWN DOWN: After five weeks inside the Top 10, “Night Visions” (HP-4) by Imagine Dragons is down four to No.13 this week and after three weeks within the ten, RUFUS drop nine places to No.19 with “Atlas” (HP-1×1). After scoring his highest charting album ever last week by climbing to No.11 with “40 Years of Pride” for Charley Pride, the album is down four places to No.15 this week, but he’s touring here in November, so it might go back up by then. After returning to the Top 100 at No.12 last week, Ellie Goulding’s repackaged “Halcyon Days” drops sixteen places to No.28, whilst Dead Letter Circus fall fourteen to No.34 with “The Catalyst Fire”. DevilDriver plummet twenty-eight places to No.42 with “Winter Kills” and down twelve from last weeks debut to No.43 this week is Wendy Matthews’ “The Welcome Fire”. Franz Ferdinand fall twenty-seven places to No.45 with their new album “Right Thoughts…” and down eighteen to No.52 is Luke Bryan with “Crash My Party”. Sara Storer falls thirty-eight from last weeks No.25 debut to No.63 this week with “Lovegrass”, Kanye West is down twenty-one to No.68 with “Yeezus” (now Gold ●), Elvis falls twenty-eight places to No.69 with “Elvis at Stax”, Perfect Tripod are down forty-six to No.75 with “Australian Songs” and Earl Sweatshirt is down a massive seventy-two places to #100 this week with his second album “Doris” (HP-23).
Brisbane band The Jungle Giants see their debut album “Learn to Exist” enter at No.12 this week, whilst Melbourne band The Paper Kites see their debut album “States” enter at No.17. The tenth Bob Dylan bootleg series album enters at No.20 entitled “Another Self Portrait: The Bootleg Series Volume 10”, becoming the highest charting in his Bootleg set, beating the No.29 peak for volume four from November 1998. The final Top 50 entry of the week is the second album for the Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) side project Volcano Choir, who enters at No.27 with their second album “Repave”, their first album “Unmap” failed to chart here.
Lower 50: Jimmy Barnes’ “Hits” set jumps back up twenty-five places to No.51, with Justin Timberlake’s “The 20/20 Experience” rising twenty-one spots to No.53. Queens of the Stone Age and “…Like Clockwork” is back up eleven places to No.55 and “Settle” for Disclosure is back up twenty-two spots to No.59. Bee Gees “Mythology” is up twenty-one places to No.61 and returning album this week include “Cold Fact” for Rodriguez at No.67, “Essential Michael Jackson” at No.74, “Trouble Will Find Me” by The National at No.82, “#1” by The Beatles at No.96 and “13” for Black Sabbath at No.97.
Naughty Boy falls out of the Top 10 with his track “La La La” this week, but enters with his debut album “Hotel Cabana”, with guest vocals from Emeli Sande (on seven of the tracks), Tinie Tempah, Wiz Khalifa, Gabrielle, Wretch 32, Bastille, Wiley, Professor Green and Ed Sheeran. With the last entry of the week at No.93, the second album for Miguel entitled “Kaleidoscope Dream”; and it’s his first albums chart entry here. Special mention must go to the INXS collection “The Very Best of” (HP-28, TW-98) which has achieved Platinum (▲) in its 54th accumulated week within the Top 100.
Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
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