Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are sitting at the top of the ARIA albums chart this week with their brand new album Push the Sky Away. Remarkably their 15th studio album, their first in five years, is their first Aussie number one.
ARIA doesn’t recognise it as an Australian release, but I figure it’s worth claiming the Bee Gees’ Mythology album as one of our own. It sits at number five this week, no doubt buoyed by Barry Gibb’s current local tour.
There’s no debate about the achievements of Flume though. Australian born and bred, the Sydneysider’s self-titled album jumps one to number seven this week.
It’s a very quiet week for Aussies on the singles charts, with Birds of Tokyo our only representatives in the top ten. They’re only just hanging in there though; “Lanterns” sits at number ten, down from seven last week.
Click below for this week’s complete top ten charts.
Top 10 Albums
1. Push the Sky Away – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2. Unorthodox Jukebox – Bruno Mars
3. The Truth About Love – P!nk
4. The Heist – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
5. Mythology – Bee Gees
6. My Head is an Animal – Of Monsters and Men
7. Flume – Flume
8. Babel – Mumford & Sons
9. channel ORANGE – Frank Ocean
10. Holy Fire – Foals
Top 10 Singles
1. “Harlem Shake” – Baauer
2. “Just Give Me a Reason” – P!nk feat. Nate Ruess
3. “One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks)” – One Direction
4. “Impossible” – James Arthur
5. “Stay” – Rihanna feat. Mikky Ekko
6. “Beneath Your Beautiful” – Labrinth feat. Emile Sande
7. “Same Love” – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Mary Lambert
8. “Get Up (Rattle)” – Bingo Players feat. Far East Movement
9. “When I Was Your Man” – Bruno Mars
10. “Lanterns” – Birds of Tokyo
Image source: ARIA Charts