P!nk’s promo tour of Australia last week has helped her to maintain a third consecutive week at No.1 on the ARIA Albums Chart with her “The Truth About Love” album.
Pink at the Forum Theatre 2012
Gavin Ryan reports that her tally of ‘Accumulated Weeks at No.1: Albums (1965 to 2012)’ rises to 27 weeks, this moves her up to equal eleventh on the tally board with Skyhooks who racked up that many weeks from their two No.1 albums “Living in the 70’s” (16 weeks) and “Ego is Not a Dirty Word” (11 weeks) both in 1975.
Debuting at No.2 are Muse with “The 2nd Law”, their sixth album and now third Top 2 placing in Australia, their two previous albums “The Resistance” (Sept 2009) and “Black Holes and Revelations” (July 2006) both debuted at No.1 upon entry.
“Babel” for Mumford and Sons drops down one place to No.3 from last weeks debut of No.2, but holding at No.4 for a third week is Birdy’s self-titled album. The other Top 3 debut from last week, “Uno!” for Green Day is down three places to No.6 and dropping two spots to No.7 are Matchbox 20 with “North”. The Script’s “#3” returns to it’s debut position of No.9, up three places from last week, and also returning to the Top 10 at No.10 is James Morrison with “The Awakening” (HP-9) also back up three places and helped by a national tour of the country.
The two further Top 10 debuts this week are both by Australian artists; the first in at No.5 is Something for Kate with “Leave Your Soul to Science”. This is the bands seventh studio album and first new materiel in six years as their last new album was July 2006’s “Desert Lights” which debuted and peaked at No.1 (although lead singer Paul Dempsey did release the solo album “Everything is True” (HP-5, Aug 2009). This new album becomes their fifth Top 10 entry overall, their ARIA Album discography is below…
LP|Entry Date|HP|WI|Titles
A1|27-July-97|70|05|Elsewhere for Eight Minutes
A2|14-Jun-99|10|20|Beautiful Sharks
A3|07-Feb-00|92|01|Q&A with Dean Martin
A4|02-July-01|02|42|Echolalia
A1|02-July-01|70|02|Elsewhere for Eight Minutes
A5|25-Aug-03|1×1|18|The Official Fiction
G1|30-Aug-04|27|04|Phantom Limbs – Selected B-Sides
A6|10-July-06|1×1|12|Desert Lights
G2|27-Aug-07|26|06|The Murmur Years
A7|08-Oct-12|05|1*|Leave Your Soul to Science
Grinspoon score the other Top 10 debut this week, with “Black Rabbits” coming in at No.8, their seventh studio album, and first new material since 2009’s “Six to Midnight” (HP-6, Sep 2009). This is also their sixth Top 10 hit, as their first album “Guide to Better Living” debuted and peaked at No.11 in 1997. So here is the bands album discography…
LP|Entry Date|HP|WI|Titles
A1|28-Sep-97|11|78|Grinspoon’s Guide to Better Living
A2|22-Nov-99|04|33|Easy
A3|10-Jun-02|02|55|New Detention
A4|27-Sep-04|04|41|Thrills, Kills and Sunday Pills
G1|14-Nov-05|12|14|Best in Show
A5|30-July-07|02|12|Alibis and Other Lies
A6|21-Sep-09|06|08|Six to Midnight
A7|08-Oct-12|08|1*|Black Rabbits
NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: There are NO albums scoring a new peak within the Top 100 ARIA Albums chart this week, but plenty of movement. With The Temper Trap playing the AFL Grand Final last Sunday, their current self-titled album jumps back up thirty-one places to No.14, whilst their former album “Conditions” (HP-9) returns to the Top 100 at No.57. Lady Antebellum were touring here last week finishing their tour in Sydney (1,2,3-Oct) at the Opera House, plus they performed on X-Factor last week, so this all helps their two previous albums to climbs, with “Own the Night” (HP-5) up forty places to No.37, and “Need You Now” (HP-5) returning to the Top 100 at No.42. Finishing up her tour here at the moment also is Kelly Clarkson, whose “Stronger” album climbs back up ten places to No.49.
P!nk’s promo tour has turned her “Greatest Hits… So Far” back around again, this time it jumps back up seventeen places to No.20, and Timomatic’s self-titled album climbs back up ten places this week to No.21.
DOWN DOWN: “Battle Born” (HP-2) for The Killers drops down nine places to No.15 this week after two weeks inside the Top 10. Kanye West’s compilation album “Cruel Summer” (HP-7) spent only one week in the Top 10, it’s down sixteen places to No.23, whilst No Doubt’s “Push and Shove” (HP-8) debuted at No.8 last week and now tumbles twenty-one places to No.29 this week.
Michael Jackson’s “Bad” re-issue falls sixteen places to No.30, Ronan Keating’s “Fires” (HP-12) goes down fifteen places to No.33, and after debuting at No.11 last week, the new deadmau5 set >Album title goes here< (HP-11) drops thirty places to No.41 this week. Biggest falls of the week though go to the thirty-six place drop from No.15 to No.53 for Illy’s new album “Bring it Back” (HP-15), and the forty-four place freefall for Ben Folds Five with “The Sound of the Life of the Mind” (HP-24 to No.68).
The fourth album for Lupe Fiasco is entitled “Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Part 1”, which debuts at No.17 this week. Lupe’s third album “Lasers” debuted and peaked at No.4 in March 2011, his highest rated record here so far, with his prior two albums charting here also being “Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor” (HP-70, Oct 2006) and “Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool” (HP-42, peaked Jan 2008). The current album has seen the singles “Around My Way (Freedom Ain’t Free)” (HP-58) and the current No.3 single and former No.1 “Battle Scars” where he teams with Guy Sebastian.
Local teen-pop singer Cody Simpson debuts at No.31 with his first album entitled “Paradise”, whilst the final Top 50 debut of the week is Diana Krall at No.44 with “Glad Rag Doll”. This is her first new material in three years and now her tenth studio album. Her Australian chart discography is listed below…
LP|Entry Date|HP|WI|Titles
A5|23-July-01|72|01|When I Look in Your Eyes
A6|24-Sep-01|07|58|The Look of Love
L1|07-Oct-02|41|32|Live in Paris
A7|19-Apr-04|21|16|The Girl in the Other Room
A8|18-Sep-06|28|06|From This Moment on
G1|17-Sep-07|40|06|The Very Best of Diana Krall
A9|06-Apr-09|14|19|Quiet Nights
A10|08-Oct-12|44|1*|Glad Rag Doll
Lower 50: Returning albums this week include: “Born and Raised” (HP-1) for John Mayer at No.58; Good Charlotte’s “Greatest Hits” (HP-41) at No.76 thanks to their NRL Grand Final live appearance and the newly re-packaged 25th anniversary edition of the INXS album “Kick” (HP-2×5) returns at No.64.
New lower entries to the charts include Papa Roach with their seventh studio album “The Connection” at No.70. Sydney band Heroes for Hire see their third album “No Apologies” debut at No.75, this being their first chart entry. Also a first time on the ARIA Albums Chart for the Devin Townsend Project who debut at No.80 with their fifth album “Epicloud”.
Israel Kamakowiwo’ole’s best of collection “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” debuts at No.95. Electronic artist Flying Lotus (aka Steven Ellison from L.A.) is in at No.97 with his fourth studio album “Until the Quiet Comes”, his first to chart here, and Melbourne hip-hop duo Diafrix see their second album debut at No.98 entitled “Pocket Full of Dreams”.
Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-charts.com
The ARIA chart is updated Sundays at 6pm
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