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Tame Impala Currents Tops Billboards Alternative Chart

by Paul Cashmere on July 31, 2015

in New Music,News,Noise Pro

Tame Impala have the number one album in the USA on Billboard’s Alternative chart.

‘Currents’ had an overall debut at no 4 on the album chart but debuted on top of the Alternative Albums as well as Tastemaker Albums.

‘Tame Impala ‘Currents’ debuted at no 1 in Australia last week with 11.415 sales making it the third fastest selling album of 2015 so far in Australia.

The first week album sales of 2015 in Australia are:

1. Florence + The Machine – ‘How Big How Blue How Beautiful’ (15,706)
2. Muse – Drones (12.047)
3. Tame Impala – Currents (11,415)
4. Mumford & Sons – Wilder Mind (11,038)
5. Hermitude – Dark Night Sweet Light (10.352)
6. Meghan Trainor – Title’ (9,631)
7. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly (8,958)
8. Hillsong – United ‘Empires” (7,778)
9. Soundtrack – Fifty Shades of Grey (7,449)
10. John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John – Two Strong Hearts (7,118)
11. Madonna – Rebel Heart (6,962)

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