Two Aussies in the top 5

This week Tyler, The Creator’s first #1 album, Chromakopia, holds on top of the ARIA Albums Chart for two consecutive weeks, Paul Kelly’s Fever Longing Still debuts at #3, and Rosé holds a third week at the top of the Singles Chart.

Fever Longing Still is the 16-time ARIA Award winner’s 28th studio album as a solo artist or a member of a group. He has now racked up 13 top 10 albums, hitting #1 with Life Is Fine in 2017, Nature in 2018, Songs From The South 1985-2019 in 2019 and Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train in 2022. Paul was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 1997. 

Cairns trio turned social media superstars Chase Atlantic land in the top 50 for the first time with their fourth album, Lost In Heaven. 

English rock band The Cure land at #5 with Songs Of A Lost World, their 14th studio album and first collection of original material in 16 years. They have scored five top 10 albums: The Head On The Door (#6 in 1985), Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (#9 in 1987), Disintegration (#9 in 1989), Wish (#1 in 1992) and Wild Mood Swings (#5 in 1996).

Coldplay’s Australian tour sees its latest album Moon Music jump from #51 to #6. It debuted and peaked at #2 five weeks ago. Their album A Head Full Of Dreams re-enters at #46; it hit #2 in 2015. 

John Butler is new at #23 with Still Searching. As part of the John Butler Trio, he had five top 10 albums, including the chart-toppers Sunrise Over Sea in 2004 , Grand National in 2007, April Uprising in 2010 and Home in 2018 (Flesh & Blood stopped at #2 in 2014). The ARIA Award winner’s highest charted solo album, One Small Step!, reached #23 in 2007.

And rounding out the Aussie top 50 debuts is Sarah Blasko, new at #37 with I Just Need To Conquer This Mountain. It’s her ninth album, including two as part of Seeker Lover Keeper. The three-time ARIA Award winner has hit the top 10 six times: What The Sea Wants The Sea Will Have reached #7 in 2006, As Day Follows Night hit #5 in 2009, I Awake got to #9 in 2012, Eternal Returnpeaked at #6 in 2015 and Depth Of Field landed at #5 in 2018. Seeker Lover Keeper’s self-titled album peaked at #3 in 2011. 

On the Singles Chart, Rosé and Bruno Mars hold the #1 spot for a third straight week with APT., bringing Bruno’s total at #1 to 13 weeks: he was #1 for one week in 2010 with Just The Way You Are, three weeks in 2010-11 with Grenade, and six weeks in 2014-15 with Uptown Funk with Mark Ronson. 

APT. lifts from Toni Basil’s Mickey, which was #1 for two weeks in 1982. Mickey was co-written by Australian songwriter Mike Chapman, who gets a credit on APT. Chapman and English writer Nicky Chinn were a hit machine in the 1970s and 1980s, churning out big singles for Suzi Quatro, The Sweet, Tina Turner, Smokie, Exile, Mud and others.