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Russell Morris, Sharkmouth

Russell Morris Sharkmouth Leaps To 6 On ARIA Chart

by Paul Cashmere on April 13, 2013

in News,Noise Pro

‘Sharkmouth’, the “labour of love” Aussie rock legend Russell Morris, will be the number 6 album when the ARIA chart is updated tomorrow.

Russell Morris, Sharkmouth, Noise11, Photo

Russell Morris, Sharkmouth

Russell’s success with ‘Sharkmouth’ is also a victory for record industry executive Robert Rigby who had the foresight to release the album.

The birth of ‘Sharkmouth’ began more than three years ago for Morris who then took the idea to every record label and was knocked back by the them all. Morris describes his current success as “a Lazarus story”.

Rigby, the former managing director of Warner Music Australia, was the only one who heard the potential and released the album through his new Fanfare Records.

A week ago, ‘Sharkmouth’ became the first ever top 10 album for the 64-year old Russell Morris and was the biggest selling Australian album of last week. In the past week sales of ‘Sharkmouth’ accelerated with the album selling double what it did in the week before.

The Leading Edge group, the largest chain of independent music stores in Australia, report that ‘Sharkmouth’ was not only their biggest seller again this week but that it was outselling the number two record by 9 to 1.

ARIA chart statistician Gavin Ryan will update this weeks chart positions tomorrow morning at 9am at Noise11.com.

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