Pink reclaims the ARIA No.1 Albums position this week with her now 6xPlatinum selling “The Truth about Love”, which now racks up it’s sixth week at No.1, and thanks to her tour later in the year, this is one album that will be around for quite some time.
Pink at the Forum Theatre 2012
By reclaiming the top spot, Pink racks up her 30th accumulated week at No.1 on Australia’s album charts, putting her at equal ninth on the list of ‘Most Accumulated weeks at No.1: Albums’ (1965-2013) alongside Elton John (7 albums) and Michael Jackson (6 albums), with Pink having achieved this with only four No.1 albums. If she maintains the lead next week, she will equal Delta Goodrem and Jimmy Barnes with their 31 amassed weeks, after which her next target will be Rod Stewart’s 38 weeks from his seven No.1 albums. Two years ago Pink was at this same position (3-Jan-2011) with her “Greatest Hits… So Far” album (TW-52, 102nd week in the chart).
Ed Sheeran’s “+” jumped back into the Top 10 last week, but this week it leaps seven places to No.2, whilst right behind him, and up four places to a new peak of No.3 is Bruno Mars with “Unorthodox Jukebox”, his first album “Doo-Wops and Hooligans” (HP-2) returns to the Top 100 at No.57, plus there are two Top 20 hits from this new album now.
Guy Sebastian slips a place to No.4 with his “Armaggedon” album, but leaping into the Top 10, up fourteen places is the soundtrack to the film “Les Miserables”, the first time this album (in any version) has reached the Top 10 in Australia. Taylor Swift is down a place to No.6 with “Red”, The Bee Gees are up a spot to No.7 with “Mythology”, whilst also jumping into the 10 for the first time is Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with their album “The Heist”, up fifteen places to No.8. Down three spots to No.9 are One Direction with “Take Me Home”, but with a new single due soon (Kiss You), it shouldn’t drop far next week, whilst holding onto the No.10 spot are Mumford & Sons with “Babel”.
NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: Rihanna’s “Unapologetic” jumps back up seven places to No.11, David Guetta’s “Nothing but the Beat: Ultimate” zooms up twenty-two places to a new peak of No.13, and the album currently has four singles within the Top 100 this week. Right behind him at a new peak of No.14, up seven spots from last week, are Of Monsters and Men with “My Head is an Animal”. Current UK No.1 album “18 Months” (HP-5) for Calvin Harris rises up nine places to No.16, and is now certified Gold in sales, with the “Pitch Perfect” soundtrack leaping up sixteen places to No.17, helped by three Top 100 entries this week. “Flume” (HP-2) by Flume is back up eight places to No.21, with the Frank Ocean album “CHANNEL Orange” (HP-18) rising back up twenty-one places to No.25.
Tame Impala’s “Lonerism” (HP-4) is back up nine places to No.30, but Flo Rida’s “Wild Ones” (HP-5) album leaps forty-six places to No.31 thanks to his new single “Let it Roll” cracking the Top 40 singles this week. Fun are back up twelve places to No.32 with “Some Nights” (HP-2), and The Lumineers crack the Top 50 for the first time, up twenty places to new peak of No.42 with their self-titled album. Thanks to DVD “Part of Me 3D”, Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection” (HP-1) is back up fifteen places to No.42, and the Cold Chisel “Best of – All for You” (HP-2) is up eight places to No.44. “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” halves itself from last week, up forty-five places to No.45 this week, and back up nineteen places to No.49 are Alt-J with “An Awesome Wave” (HP-32).
DOWN DOWN: Michael Buble’s “Christmas” album was not expected to hold onto the top spot much past the festive season, and this week it tumbles from the top spot all the way down to No.28. Last year it went from the top to No.29, so a similar chart fall to last year, with the album falling 1-29-48-79 until the end of January 2012. “Christmas” has also now racked up nine weeks at No.1, putting at No.68 on the list of ‘Longest Charting Albums: 1965-2013’.
Samantha Jade sees her self-titled album fall seven places to No.23, with festive favorite Susan Boyle down eleven places to No.24 with “Standing Ovation”. The Collective’s self-titled album falls fifteen places to No.35, but is now certified Gold in sales, this also applies to Kelly Clarkson’s “Greatest Hits – Chapter One”, down five places to No.37.
Adele drops ten places to No.38 with “21”, but down nineteen places to No.41 is AC/DC with “Live at River Plate” (HP-11). Delta Goodrem falls fourteen spots to No.48 with “Child of the Universe”, and down seventeen places to No.58 are Matchbox 20 with “North”.
Rod Stewart’s “Merry Christmas, Baby” falls from No.4 to No.60 this week, and falling out of the Top 100 from No.26 is Mariah Carey’s “Merry Christmas”, with other seasonal recordings dropping out including “This Christmas” (HP-33) for John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John from No.61 and “December Lights” (HP-61) for Andre Rieu.
Lower 50: Similar to the singles chart this week, it’s only a bunch of albums returning to the Top 100, with the aforementioned first Bruno Mars album back in at No.57, the next returnee is Coldplay at No.66 with “A Rush of Blood to the Head”. “Beacon” (HP-4) for Two Door Cinema Club is back in at No.73 and thanks to their upcoming tour, Red Hot Chili Peppers return at No.74 with their “Greatest Hits” (HP-2). “Blunderbuss” (HP-2) for Jack White is back in at No.78 and Olly Murs returns to a new peak of No.84 with “Right Time Right Place” (it peaked at No.87 in mid-December).
“Moonfire” (HP-2) for Boy & Bear is back at No.91, Neil Young & Crazy Horse see their “Psychedelic Pill” (HP-28) return at No.95, Jimmy Barnes is back in at No.97 with “Hits” (HP-1), Taylor Swift’s “Fearless” (HP-2) returns at No.98. And she returned at No.98 on the singles chart, but over on the albums chart Ellie Goulding is back in at No.100 with her “Halcyon” album.
Making a unique return to the Australian Albums chart this week at No.94 is the 1970 released album “Cold Fact” by Rodriguez, originally charting here in late May 1976 where it climbed to No.77 in June, but it wasn’t until early June of 1978 that it re-entered and by late July it had climbed to a peak of No.23, spending 55 weeks upon the albums chart of the time. The US artist Rodriguez really only ever achieved chart success in Australia and South Africa, and the recently released documentary ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ is about the singer.
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Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-charts.com
The ARIA chart is updated every Sunday at 6pm.
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