Kasey Chambers lands 10 top 10s

Australian country star Kasey Chambers lands her 10th top 10 album, with Backbone debuting at #3 on the ARIA Albums Chart this week. Inspired by material from her new book Just Don’t Be A Dickhead, it’s her 13th studio album including collaborations with former husband Shane Nicholson, Bill Chambers and the Little Hillbillies, and The Fireside Disciples. 

The winner of 13 ARIA Awards and an ARIA Hall of Fame inductee in 2018, Kasey has scored five #1 albums: Barricades & Brickwalls in 2001, Wayward Angel in 2004, Carnival in 2006, Rattlin’ Bones (with Shane) in 2008 and Dragonfly in 2017. 

Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet holds at #1 for the sixth non-consecutive week, breaking it out of a tie with Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Departmentand Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard And Soft for the album with the most weeks on top this year; while on the Singles Chart, Taste reigns supreme for the seventh straight week, making it 2024’s longest-running #1 song. 

It lifts her total number of weeks this year across three singles to 10. Sabrina wrote Taste with Amy Allen – who also co-wrote her two other #1 hits this year, Espresso and Please Please Please – and Julia Michaels, who scored a #5 hit here as a singer in 2017 with Issues.  

Coldplay are new at #2 with Moon Music. It’s the UK band’s 10th studio album, all of which have reached #1 or #2 here, while their 2018 album Live In Buenos Aires peaked at #7. They have scored seven chart-toppers: A Rush Of Blood To The Head in 2002, X&Y in 2005, Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends in 2008, Mylo Xyloto in 2011, Ghost Stories in 2014, Everyday Life in 2019 andMusic Of The Spheres in 2021.  

TISM’s Death To Art debuts at #15. It’s their first album since the legendary Aussie band reunited in 2022 following a 16-year break. They have landed in the top 50 six times with Great Truckin’ Songs Of The Renaissance (#48 in 1988), Machiavelli And The Four Seasons (#8 in 1995), www.tism.wanker.com (#26 in 1998), De RigeurMortis (#24 in 2001) and Best Off (#44 in 2002) and now Death To Art.  

Aussie punk band Hard-Ons land at #71 with I Like You A Lot Getting Older.Their highest-charting albums have been I’m Sorry Sir, That Riff’s Been Taken,which peaked at #4 in 2021 and Ripper ’23, which got to #26 in 2023.