The Hilltop Hoods maintain their No.1 position on the ARIA Albums Chart this week with their fourth chart-topping set “Walking under Stars”.
The feat matches the amount of weeks at the top that their past two No.1 albums achieved, with both “Drinking from the Sun” (2012, TW-55) and “State of the Art” (2009) having spent two weeks atop the Albums chart upon debut.
Moving up a place to a new peak of No.2 is the soundtrack to the latest Marvel film ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ with “Awesome Mix Volume 1” swapping places with last weeks No.2, now down to No.3, the self-titled set for Angus & Julia Stone, whilst holding at No.4 for another week is Ed Sheeran with his second album “x”.
The highest new entry of the week comes in at No.5 the second album for New Zealand artist Kimbra entitled “The Golden Echo”. Her first entry “Vows” was also the highest entry of the week (12-Sept-2011) and also came in at No.5, climbing to No.4 the following week, helped by her then current high flying appearance on the Gotye track “Somebody That I Used to Know”.
Holding place at No.6 and No.7 respectively is Sam Smith with “In the Lonely Hour” and the ‘Frozen’ Soundtrack which is spending its 32nd straight week within the Top 10, whilst back up two places to No.8 is Paloma Faith with “A Perfect Contradiction” and down a spot to No.10 is the self-titled debut album for 5 Seconds of Summer. Entering at No.9 is the ninth studio album for another New Zealand act, Shihad, which also becomes their second Top 10 entry as their album “Pacifier” (which they had changed their name to at that time) debuted and peaked at No.8 in August 2002, plus this new album debuted at No.1 in their home country last week.
NEW PEAKS & MOVERS
Violent Soho are just about to finish up a national tour, and their album “Hungry Ghost” leaps back up fifty places to land at No.11 this week, whilst the recent screening in New Zealand of the biopic ‘INXS: Never Tear US Apart’ also boosts the INXS compilation “The Very Best of” back up fifteen places to No.13, the album is No.1 this week in New Zealand and they have two further albums within their Top 40 (Kick & Live at Wembley). The Eagles new collection “Selected Works 1972-1999” jumps up seven places to a new peak of No.14 (just in time for Fathers’ Day here) and rebounding twenty-four places to No.15 are The Arctic Monkeys with “AM”. George Ezra continues to climb a few places every week with “Wanted on Voyage”, which is up to a new peak of No.18, and returning to the Top 100 at No.25 is David Guetta’s previous album “Nothing But the Beat (Ultimate Edition)”. Passenger jumps back into the Top 50, up twenty-two places to No.32 with “Whispers” and up twenty-three places to a new peak of No.36 is the soundtrack to the new film “Begin Again”. The McClymonts current national tour (which lasts until the first week of November) helps their album “Here’s To You & I” climb back up ten places to No.37 this week and also re-entering the Top 100 within the fifty is Bruno Mars’ “Unorthodox Jukebox” at No.47.
DOWN DOWN
There were three local artists who debuted in the Top 10 last week, this week two of them fall out after only a single week within the ten, Adam Brand’s “My Side of the Street” (HP-5) is down seventeen to No.22 and The Kite String Tangle see their EP “Vessel” (HP-8) drop eighteen to No.26. Gabrielle Aplin falls eleven to No.29 with “English Rain” (but a new deluxe edition has just been released, so it should rise again next week), and after debuting at No.11 last week, The Gaslight Anthem falls twenty-three places to No.34 with “Get Hurt”. Sticky Fingers tumbled last week with “Land of Pleasure”, this week though they’re only down ten places to No.41, whilst Eric Clapton’s “The Breeze” is down nineteen spots to No.48, One Day fall twenty-six places to No.49 with “Mainline” and another of last weeks entries, “Worlds” for Porter Robinson plummets thirty-seven spots to No.50 (from #13). Dropping out from this weeks Top 50 are FKA Twigs (34 to 59), Anja Nissen (37 to 62), Rudimental (42 to 64), Rufus (30 to 67), John Legend (59 to 69), Lily Allen (49 to 84) and now that they’re tour is over Kasabian (48 to 98).
The only other new entry within Top 50 this week is at No.38 from the recently finished TV series “The Voice: Kids”, which becomes the shows third albums chart entry after “The Voice: The Final 24” (HP-13, June 2012) and “The Voice 2013: Final 12” (HP-34, May 2013).
Lower 50
The Hilltop Hoods also climb with their previous No.1 album “Drinking from the Sun”, which is back up twelve to No.55 and jumping back up thirty-three places to No.56 are The Angels with their “Greatest Hits” collection. Jason DeRulo’s new Top 40 single helps his “Tattoos” album back up fifteen places to No.63 and “The Very Very Best of” for Crowded House is back up twenty-three spots to No.76. Returning albums this week come from Luke Bryan at No.61 with “Crash My Party”, “Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City” for Kendrick Lamar at No.77, the self-titled album for The 1975 at No.79, The Vamps with “Meet the Vamps” at No.80, Bon Jovi’s “Greatest Hits” at No.85, Alt-J’s “An Awesome Wave” at No.86 and back in at No.91 is the debut album for Glass Animals, “Zaba”.
Hanson have been touring the country for the past couple of weeks, and their X-Factor appearance and performance this past week helps their current album “Anthem” to debut at No.65, becoming their seventh ARIA Albums Chart appearance and first since October 2005’s “Greatest Hits-Live” made it to No.93. The only other lower fifty entry is at No.95, another compilation for Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons entitled “Jersey Beat: The Music of…”.
Written, Compiled and Researched by Gavin Ryan.
