Ball Park Music looks set to debut with a number one album on the Australian chart this week and Pharrell Williams should stay at number one.
It looks like an Australian onslaught for the No.1 spot in the country this weekend, whilst Pharrell might have finished his run at the top with “Happy”, although nothing is set in stone until ARIA reveals their chart on Saturday.
At the moment, Sheppard with “Geronimo”, Sia and her first solo Top 10 “Chandelier” and Peking Duk with “High” are all competing for the top spot this week, with all three tracks having been at No.1 during the past five days of sales. Clean Bandit and Calvin Harris seem to be making up the rest of the Top 5, but Pharrell could replace one of them within the five.
Zendaya and her debut single “Replay” were up to No.17 this week, with the track possibly cracking the Top 10 for this coming week, whilst remaining within the Top 10 should be filled with Gabrielle Aplin, David Guetta and Skylar Grey, The Chainsmokers and possible a Coldplay return with “Magic”.
Rita Ora looks set for the highest new entry of the week with “I Will Never Let You Down”, within the Top 20, as too Tegan and Sara with The Lonely Island and the theme from the LEGO Movie entitled “Everything is AWESOME”, whilst 360 featuring Pez could debut in the high-end of the Top 30 with “Live it Up”, with Justin Timberlake, Route 94 and Duke Dumont potentially climbing up within the Top 30.
John Martin and “Anywhere for You” (TW-51) dropped a little last week, but it looks set to rebound into the Top 40 this weekend, and just outside the forty at the moment are the new Magic track “Don’t Kill the Magic” and from the about-to-open movie ‘Divergent’ is the new Ellie Goulding track “Beating Heart”, with Glass Animals possibly climbing into the Top 50 with “Gooey” (TW-54) and maybe this week Passenger can debut with his new track “Whispers”.
Lower 50: Enrique and Kylie entered at No.78 with their ballad “Beautiful”, which could leap into the higher end of the Top 60 this week, whilst Kate Miller-Heidke could return to the charts with her biggest hit “The Last Day on Earth”, and also returning could be Chet Faker (with Kilo Kish) with “Melt” (HP-68, Sept 2013) around the same position the track reached last year. The news of the Katy Perry track “Birthday” being the next single has started sales off already, as too Pharrell Williams’ “Marilyn Monroe”, both potentially entering within the Top 80 this week. Also possibly entering is Austin Mahone with Pitbull on “Mmm Yeah”, and another new 360 track (with Lunar C) called “Sixavelli”.
Albums: Like the singles chart, it’s an Aussie rush for the No.1 spot on the Albums chart this week, as at the moment the fight for the top is between Dan Sultan with his “Blackbird” album and Brisbane’s Ball Park Music with “Puddinghead”, whilst INXS could possibly pull another week at the top, making it seven in total.
Gabrielle Aplin jumped to a new peak of No.14 this week with her “English Rain” album, which this weekend could score a Top 10 placing, whilst also within the Top 10 could be the ‘Frozen’ soundtrack, Skrillex, Pharrell Williams, London Grammar and possibly Katy Perry or even Lorde or Johnny Cash.
At the moment the highest anticipated album waiting for release is Chet Faker’s second set “Built on Glass” (due Friday), but this week his first album “Thinking in Textures” (TW-74, HP-44) could leap into the Top 20, giving the album it’s first taste within the Top 40 after 37 broken weeks within the Top 100 (it first debuted chart dated 2-April-2012, peaked late Feb 2013). Ahead of the 40th Anniversary of their Eurovision win, the “Abba Gold” album has been repackaged as a 3CD set, which could return the album to the Top 20 this weekend, whilst Eurovision this year is the first weekend in May.
Two movie soundtracks could debut within the Top 30, “The LEGO Movie” (film out now) and “Divergent” (opens Thursday), with both possibly sending songs into the charts this week (see above), whilst the just announced August tour here for Hanson has helped their 2013 album “Anthem” to start selling this week. Further Top 50 entries could come via the ambient electro act SOHN with “Tremors”, The Used with their sixth set “Imaginary Enemy” and the surprise release from Wolfmother and “New Crown”.
Further entries could come from Nirvana back-catalogue items for the 20th Anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s passing, country duo Dan + Shay with “Where it All Began”, Betty Who and her EP “Slow Dancing”, Todd Terje with “It’s Album Time”, Sza with “Z”, and finally Manchester Orchestra with their new album “Cope”.
Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Chats.com
