News 18 October 2024

Rufus du Sol make a shining debut

Brat and it’s completely different but it has a new chart peak

Rufus du Sol are new to the ARIA Albums Chart at #3 with Inhale / Exhale, while the release of Brat And It's Completely Different But Also Still Brat sends Charli XCX’s Brat soaring from #16 to #1 for the first time after it reached at #3 earlier this year.

Charli’s reworked album includes tracks with Troye Sivan, The 1975, Jon Hopkins, Ariana Grande, Tinashe and Lorde, plus her recent #1 single Guess with Billie Eilish.

Inhale / Exhale is the fifth studio album for Rufus du Sol: Atlas and Bloom went to #1 in 2013 and 2016 respectively, Solace peaked at #2 in 2018 and Surrender hit the summit in 2021. Live From Joshua Tree reached #14 in 2020.

Rufus have won four ARIA Awards and are nominated for four including Best Group and Best Australian Live Act in this year’s awards, to be announced on November 20.

American rock band The Offspring return with Supercharged at #4, their ninth top 10 album. Formed in Garden Grove, California, in 1984, they have released 11 studio albums, landing in the top 10 with Smash (#1 in 1994), Ixnay On The Hombre (#2 in 1997), Americana (#1 in 1998), Conspiracy Of One (#4 in 2000), Greatest Hits (#2 in 2005), Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace (#3 in 2008), Days Go By (#7 in 2012) and Let The Bad Times Roll (#2 in 2021).

American rapper-turned-country-singer Jelly Roll steps onto the chart at #19 with his 10th solo studio album, Beautifully Broken. It’s his first album to chart here.

Canberra-born folk singer Kim Churchill is new at #61 with his seventh album, It’s Lovely To Have You Here. He reached #32 in 2017 with Silence/Win and #6 later that year with Weight Falls.

On the Singles Chart, it’s eight straight weeks at #1 for Sabrina Carpenter’s Taste; while the updated Brat sends several tracks back up the chart, with former #1 hit Guess (with Billie Eilish) up from #22 to #16, 360 re-entering at #43, and Talk Talk returning at #49. She also lands the highest new entry of the week, with Sympathy Is A Knife debuting at #21; the version on the new album features Ariana Grande.