Bruno Mars jumps up a couple of places to land the No.1 spot on the ARIA Albums chart with his second album “Unorthodox Jukebox” the album also gaining its second Top 10 single this week too, as “When I Was Your Man” jumped up to No.6, with the first single from the set “Locked Out of Heaven” (HP-4) dropping a few places to No.12.
Bruno Mars Unorthodox Jukebox
It took his debut album “Doo-Wops & Hooligans” (TW-51) fourteen weeks to reach its peak of No.2 in the fourth week of 2011 (24-Jan), but the new set does it in its fifth week on the chart, it is also newly certified Platinum (▲) in sales. “Unorthodox Jukebox” becomes the 659th No.1 album in Australia (1965 to 2013) and the 518th for ARIA (1983 to 2013). It’s also the first time that either the words ‘Unorthodox’ or ‘Jukebox’ have appeared in a No.1 album title.
Bruno Mars becomes the 135th American performer to land a No.1 album in Australia with the 240th number one album performed by an American artist. Bruno is also 40th American Male artist to score a chart-topping album, the last US Male being John Mayer back in June of 2012. Also “Unorthodox Jukebox” becomes the 182nd No.1 album by a Solo Male performer.
It’s a double-header for the Atlantic/Warner label this week, as Bruno becomes the 17th Atlantic label act to top the Australian charts, but sitting at No.2 for a second week is his UK label-mate Ed Sheeran with his “+” album (now 2x▲) who was the 15th Atlantic artist to reach No.1 here.
Summer in Australia is a bounty for cinema goers, as they try to escape the heat by submerging themselves in front of the air-conditioned silver-screen, and that in-turn makes people buying the soundtracks, and this week we have two such albums scoring new peaks within the Top 10. Up two places to a new peak of No.3 is the “Les Miserables” soundtrack, and jumping up seven places to No.10 is the “Pitch Perfect” soundtrack.
After reclaiming the No.1 spot last week, Pink’s “The Truth About Love” falls back to its former lowest placing of No.4 and down one spot to No.5 is Guy Sebastian with “Armageddon”. From number six to No.9 all the albums are holding steady this week, with “Red” (now 3x▲) for Taylor Swift at No.6, “Mythology” for The Bee Gees at No.7, “The Heist” for Macklemore & Ryan Lewis at No.8 and One Direction are at No.9 again with “Take Me Home”.
NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: Of Monsters and Men move up a couple of places to a new peak of No.12 with “My Head is an Animal”, and Flume sees his self-titled album jump back up seven places to No.14. With the release of Katy Perry’s DVD for “Part of Me 3D”, it helps her “Teenage Dream” album rebound back up twenty-three places to No.20. Back up ten places to No.22 is Fun with their “Some Nights” album, and the self-titled album for The Lumineers jumps up nineteen places to a new peak of No.23.
Adele’s “21” is back up nine places to No.29, and The Rubens sees their self-titled album rebound seven places to No.33. Alt-J are up ten places to No.39 with “An Awesome Wave”, and returning to the Top 50 is Pink with her “Greatest Hits… So Far” up nine places to No.43, “Drinking from the Sun” for The Hilltop Hoods up nine places to No.47 and only up three places to No.48 is “Warrior” for Ke$ha.
DOWN DOWN: “Celebration Day” for Led Zeppelin (now ▲) is down six places to No.24, and “The Golden Jubilee Album” (now Gold ●) drops ten places to No.30. “DNA” fro Little Mix is down eight places to No.34 and falling eighteen places to No.42 is Susan Boyle with her “Standing Ovation” album. And unlike last year where Michael Buble’s “Christmas” album took three weeks to leave the Top 100 after dropping from the top spot, this year it is only one week after falling from the No.1 position that his “Christmas” (now 7x▲) album falls out of the entire chart from No.28. We also see Rod Stewart’s “Merry Christmas, Baby” say goodbye from the No.60 position.
Lower 50: Ahead of their national tour, the “Greatest Hits” for the Red Hot Chili Peppers is back up sixteen places to No.58. “Bangarang” for Skrillex is back up twelve places to No.59, and Parkway Drive see their “Atlas” album back up nine places to No.68. The Killers and their album “Battle Born” jumps back up sixteen places to No.72, and after returning to the Top 100 last week after a thirty-four year absence, this week Rodriguez and his “Cold Fact” album jumps up twenty places to No.74 this week.
The seventh studio album for Christian Contemporary musician Chris Tomlin is the only new entry to the ARIA Albums chart this week, debuting at No.71 is “Burning Bright”. This is his second ARIA Albums chart entry, as back in Xmas of 2011 he reached No.19 with the festive season album “Glory in the Highest: Christmas Songs of Worship”.
There are also seven albums returning to the Top 100, the first of which is “In Our Heads” (HP-19) for Hot Chip at No.69, and then at No.76 is “#1” for The Beatles. Chet Faker returns at No.80 with “Thinking in Textures” (HP-67), then Bat for Lashes are back in at No.89 with “The Haunted Man” (HP-21). Alabama Shakes are back in at No.94 with “Boys and Girls” (HP-61), Seth Sentry returns at No.96 with “This Was Tomorrow” (HP-6) and First Aid Kit are back at No.97 with “The Lion’s Roar” (HP-36).
Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
The ARIA Chart is updated every Sunday at 6pm.
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