With Mothers Day (in Australia) only a week away, it could be said that Michael Buble will be given as a gift to a lot of Mums next weekend, as his album “To Be Loved” holds for a third consecutive week at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart, becoming the equal longest run at the top this year (so far), the other three week run was for Bruno Mars in January.
Michael Buble To Be Loved
Perth Drum & Bass musician and producer Karl Thomas goes by the name ShockOne, and his debut album “Universus” is the highest new entry this week, coming in at No.2. Previously charted tracks from the album include “Chaos Theory” (HP-95, Oct 2012) and more recently “Lazerbeam” (HP-100, April 2013).
The aforementioned Bruno Mars is down a spot to No.3 with “Unorthodox Jukebox” (now 2x▲ Platinum in sales), and holding steady at No.4 is Flume and his self-titled album. Debuting at No.5 is the first of three former reality show contestants who debut with new albums. First up though is X-Factor finalist Jason Owen, who debuts at No.5 with his first chart entry entitled “Life is a Highway”. The other two entries are in the Top 20 this week.
Ricky Martin’s “Greatest Hits” climbs two places to a new peak of No.6 with Pink turning around and spending her 33rd consecutive week inside the Top 10 at No.7 with “The Truth About Love”. Passenger drops five places to No.8 with “All the Little Lights” and returning to the Top 10 is Justin Timberlake with “The 20/20 Experience” (17 to 9) and “Babel” from Mumford and Sons, back up thirteen places to No.10 this week.
NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: Ed Sheeran is back up one place to No.11 with “+”, which now hits 4x▲ in sales, whilst further down the chart, The Bee Gees “Mythology” set jumps back up sixteen places to No.37. “18 Months” for Calvin Harris is back up nine places to No.29 and the Coldplay “4CD Catalogue Set” rises two places to a new peak of No.31. “Nothing But the Beat: Ultimate” for David Guetta is back up twelve places to No.32 and with the DVD/Blu-Ray release of “Les Miserables”, the soundtrack jumps back up twenty-four places to No.33. The Seekers re-enter the Top 100 at No.39 with “The Golden Jubilee Album” (HP-10), “The Sapphires” soundtrack is back up eight places to No.43, whilst also returning to the Top 50 is Emeli Sande with “Our Version of Events” (60 to 45) and “Greatest Hits… So Far” for Pink (59 to 48). Climbing up eighteen places to No.50 is Andre Rieu with “Mother & Child – Lullabies the Whole World Loves” which could climb again next week helped by Mother’s Day sales.
DOWN DOWN: After fifteen broken weeks inside the Top 10, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis drop down five places to No.12 with “The Heist” (HP-2), next is Russell Morris’ “Sharkmouth” (HP-6), which falls eight places to No.14 after four weeks inside the Top 10. The two Top 10 debuts from last week both fall out, with Will.i.am’s “#WillPower” down eleven places to No.20 and Phoenix tumble twenty-nine places to No.34 with “Bankrupt!”
Major Lazer falls ten places to No.30 with “Free the Universe” (HP-5) and James Blake drops down sixteen places to No.41 with “Overgrown” (HP-5). Guy Sebastian’s “Armageddon” falls fifteen spots to No.42, with Olly Murs down seventeen places to No.46 with “Right Place Right Time”. Renee Geyer’s “Swing” falls twenty-five spots to No.47 whilst Alt-J crash nineteen places to No.49 with “An Awesome Wave”. Leaving the Top 100 altogether from last weeks Top 50 are “Complete Greatest Hits” for the Steve Miller Band from No.19 and falling out from No.28 is “Nightswim” for Owl Eyes.
The two further reality-show contestants who debut with new albums this week are The Voice finalist Rachael Leahcar with her second album “Romantique” at No.13. Her debut set “Shooting Star” from July of last year made it to No.5 upon debut. And the former Australian Idol (2004) runner-up Anthony Callea debuts at No.18 with his new album “Thirty”. This becomes his third album to chart, previously he charted with his self-titled debut album in April 2005, which spent three weeks at No.1, and then in December of 2006 he made it to No.9 with “A New Chapter”.
Snoop Dogg re-invents himself as a reggae artist for his new album “Reincarnated” which debuts at No.23 this week. This is his eleventh studio album, and the documentary about the making of the album in Jamaica was screened on SBS twice last week. Snoop’s previous chart entries for Australia are listed below:
LP#|Entry Date|HP|WI|Titles
A01|23-Jan-94|2416|Doggystyle (as Snoop Doggy Dogg)
A02|01-Dec-96|12|14|Tha Doggfather (as Snoop Doggy Dogg)
A03|16-Aug-98|14|08|Da Game is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told
A04|24-May-99|48|06|No Limit Top Dogg
A05|15-Jan-01|38|05|Tha Last Meal
G01|12-Nov-01|86|02|Death Row’s Greatest Hits
C05|26-Aug-02|53|04|Snoop Presents: The Doggy Style Allstars Vol.1
A06|07-Apr-03|55|19|Paid tha Cost to be Da Bo$$
A07|29-Nov-04|38|31|R+G (Rhythm + Gangsta’s) The Masterpiece
A08|27-Nov-06|56|03|Tha Blue Carpet Treatment
A09|17-Mar-08|29|05|Ego Trippin’
A11|25-Apr-11|12|07|Doggumentary
A12|06-May-3|23|1*|Reincarnated (as Snoop Lion)
The final new entry to the Top 50 is the third album for OneRepublic entitled “Native”, which debuts at No.26 this week. Their previous chart entry was with their first album “Dreaming Out Loud” which climbed to No.4 in mid-April 2008. Currently charting from the new album is the track “If I Lose Myself” (HP-53) which is at No.83 this week.
Lower 50: With the announcement of a tour later in the year here by Bon Jovi, their two current charting albums rise back up this week, with “Greatest Hits” and “What About Now” at No.52 and No.53 respectively. Tegan & Sara jump back up thirty-six places to No.57 with “Heartthrob” (HP-14), and Tame Impala are back up eighteen places to No.73 with “Lonerism”. Bastille climb to a new peak of No.81 with “Bad Blood”, and returning albums to the Top 100 include the “Jersey Boys” cast recording at No.77, Chet Faker and “Thinking in Textures” at No.87, “Chasing Ghosts” for The Amity Affliction at No.97 and current tourists Aerosmith return at No.99 with their latest album “Music from Another Dimension” (HP-30).
The eighth album for Finland’s rock band HIM debuts at No.65 entitled “Tears on Tape”. This is their fifth album to chart in Australia, the previous four (three studio albums and a live set) have all debuted and peaked within the Top 50, their best effort coming from their sixth studio album “Venus Doom” which made it to No.32.
The reformed Black Sabbath is touring the country at the moment, and debuting at No.84 is their “Greatest Hits” collection, whilst they also re-enter at No.94 with “The Best of Black Sabbath” (HP-41). This is the fifth greatest hits/best of set for the band to chart, their highest placed so far has been “The Best” (HP-26) from mid 1983.
Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
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