In an extremely busy week for album entries, Kings of Leon land their third consecutive No.1 album on the ARIA chart as their sixth studio album “Mechanical Bull” debuts at top.
“Mechanical Bull” is the 683rd No.1 album in Australia (1965 to 2013) and the 542nd for ARIA (1983 to 2013), whilst this week back in 1998 (27-Sept) we notched up the 386th No.1 with the Marilyn Manson album “Mechanical Animals”, the only other ‘Mechanical’ to hit the top spot, whilst the only previous ‘Bull’ was achieved back in October 1972 when Cat Stevens went to No.1 for seven weeks with “Catch Bull at Four”.
This third No.1 for Kings of Leon takes their accumulated tally at No.1 in Australia to seventeen weeks (“Only By the Night” 14 weeks from 29-Sep-08 {TW-88} and “Come Around Sundown” for 2 weeks from 25-Oct-10). They move up to equal 31st on the list of ‘Most Accumulated Weeks at No.1: Albums’ alongside John Lennon who also notched up seventeen weeks at No.1 from three albums. “Mechanical Bull” is also the 247th No.1 album by an American Act, and the 326th by a Group, whilst it’s the first No.1 for the RCA Record label since Pink’s latest album returned to the top in July of this year.
Drake’s third album entitled “Nothing Was the Same” lands at No.2, becoming his first Top 10 entry and highest charting album all in the same week. His current single from the album is at No.8, “Hold On, We’re Going Home”, and his previous two chart entries were “Thank Me Later” (HP-81, June 2010) and “Take Care” (HP-15, Nov 2011).
Keith Urban’s debut from last week “Fuse” drops back down to No.3, whilst another former No.1, “AM” for The Arctic Monkeys holds at No.4. Debuting at No.5 is the third album for Jason DeRulo entitled “Tattoos”, which becomes his third Top 10 album, as his self-titled debut album reached No.4 in March 2010, whilst his second set “Future History” climbed to No.9 in late October 2011. This new album has seen a No.1 single in “Talk Dirty” (TW-5) and the next song is entitled “Marry Me”.
Jack Johnson is down three places to No.6 with his new album “From Here to Now to You” and the fourth and final Top 10 debut of the week is new at No.7, Jessie J with her second album “Alive”. Her first album “Who You Are” climb to No.4 in late May 2011, so this becomes her second successive Top 10 album in Australia, with this new album featuring two current chart entries in “Wild” (HP-6, TW-61) and “It’s My Party” (HP-12, TW-34).
Pink manages to hold on for another week inside the Top 10 with “The Truth About Love”, as it falls a couple of places to No.8, whilst former No.2 album “Home” for Rudimental benefits from their recent visit here by jumping back up five places to No.9. Last weeks No.2 entry of “True” for Avicii drops down eight places to No.10 this week.
NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: The Nirvana album “In Utero (20th Ann.Ed)” (HP-2×3, 26-Sept-93), returns to the chart at No.22, whilst current tourists One Direction see their albums jump this week, with “Up All Night” up twelve places to No.23 and “Take Me Home” up twenty-eight spots to No.27. Rihanna also started her tour this week too, which sees her album “Unapologetic” jump back up twenty-eight places also, to No.44.
DOWN DOWN: With sooo many new albums entering this week, it’s quite a drop-fest for the previously charting material. After two weeks inside the Top 10, “If You Wait” (HP-2) for London Grammar drops six places to No.11 and after nine weeks, having also reached No.2, “25 Years – The Chain” for Fleetwood Mac is down seven places to No.14. “All the Little Lights” (HP-2×4) for Passenger is down eleven places to No.19 after twenty-three broken weeks inside the ten, whilst Bruno Mars’ “Unorthodox Jukebox” falls eleven spots to No.21 (it’s lowest chart placing) after thirty-five broken weeks within the Top 10. Last ten drop-out is Placebo who debuted at No.9 last week with “Loud Like Love” which this weeks tumbles twenty-six places to No.35. Also falling are Boy & Bear (13 to 25), Slim Dusty (20 to 31), Rufus (19 to 34), John Mayer (18 to 38), Bliss N’ Eso (25 to 41), Kodaline (24 to 43), Mumford & Sons (29 to 46), Nine Inch Nails (27 to 50), Avenged Sevenfold (32 to 51), The Naked & Famous (12 to 58), Russell Morris (39 to 61), Elton John (26 to 65), Tonight Alive (33 to 87), Janelle Monae (22 to 89), Rise Against (41 to 92), and falling out from last weeks Top 50 are Mantra (#17), The Weeknd (#30), MGMT (#31), Elvis Costello & The Roots (#40), The 1975 (#43), Violent Soho (#44), Goldfrapp (#49) and Mr Grevis (#50).
With four new entries within the Top 10, there are six new albums coming within the Top 20 section. Firstly Eskimo Joe sees their sixth album “Wastelands” come in at No.12, whilst Chvrches see their debut set “The Bones of What You Believe” come in at No.13. The self-titled twelfth album for Dream Theater lands at No.15 becoming their highest charting album here, beating the No.16 peak of their tenth album “Black Clouds and Silver Linings” (HP-16, June 2009) and giving them their third Top 20 placing, as their eleventh set “A Dramatic Turn of Events” made it to No.17 in September 2011.
The new film about Metallica sees the soundtrack debut at No.16 entitled “Through the Never”, becoming the bands twentieth chart entry in Australia (studio/live/EPs /best of and collaborations), whilst the twenty-fifth studio album for Cher entitled “Closer to the Truth” comes in at No.17. She hasn’t been seen in the Top 20 since late September 2003 (ten years ago this week) when she took her collection “The Very Best of Cher” to No.12. The final Top 20 entry is in at No.18, “Spreading Rumours” the second album for California’s GroupLove, which just surpasses the No.21 peak that their debut album “Never Trust a Happy Song” (Sept 2011) achieved.
The second album for Italy’s The Bloody Beetroots is entitled “Hide”, and it debuts at No.28. Their debut set “Romborama” originally debuted at No.31 in early September 2009, and climbed to No.21 the following week. Also entering with their second album is local singer Adalita with “All Day Venus” at No.30. Her self-titled album debuted and peaked at No.23 in March 2011.Alan Jackson debuts with two albums this week, firstly is his sixteenth studio album “The Bluegrass Album” at No.32 becoming his thirteenth album to chart here (nine studio, four best of), whilst he also debuts at No.95 with his fifth best of set to chart here “The Very Best of”.
Sting sees his eleventh studio album “The Last Ship” debut at No.39. It’s his first new material since 2003’s “Sacred Love” (HP-13, Sept 2003) and his first entry since July 2010’s “Symphonicities” (HP-24, peaked Feb 2011). Chicago dance trio Krewella enter at No.45 with their debut album “Get Wet” and local band Hellions see their debut album “Die Young” come in at No.49 this week.
Lower 50: “The Essential Michael Jackson” is back up twenty-three places to No.60 this week, whilst returning at No.67 is Chet Faker’s album “Thinking in Textures”. Bernard Fanning and “Departures” is back up eighteen places to No.72 and the “Greatest Hits” for Red Hot Chili Peppers jumps back up twenty-four spots to No.74. Also returning is “March Fires” for Birds of Tokyo at No.81, the longest charting album for ARIA ever (now up to 322 weeks) “The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac” at No.85, and finally the Kings of Leon return with “Only By the Night” at No.88.
Winner of 2006’s TV series ‘Nashville Star’ was Chris Young, who sees his fourth album “A.M.” become his first chart entry here in Australia. Also scoring their first albums chart entry at No.62 is Icona Pop with their second album “This is Icona Pop”. Finally coming in at No.93 is the debut set for Irish band The Strypes entitled “Snapshot”.
Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
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