Calvin Harris lands his first No.1 on the ARIA Singles chart this week as his latest track “How Deep is Your Love” featuring Disciples is up one place to take over the chart summit.
“How Deep is Your Love” becomes the 476th No.1 single for ARIA (1983 to 2015), plus the second this year for the Columbia label after “Bills” by LunchMoney Lewis hit the top back in March. This new number one becomes Calvin’s first chart-topping single in Australia, as he previously peaked at No.2 with two tracks, “We Found Love” with Rihanna which spent five weeks at two during October and November of 2011 and the following year in October, 2012 he debuted and peaked at No.2 for two weeks with “Sweet Nothing” featuring Florence Welch as guest vocalist. The other thing that Calvin achieves is to become the first Scottish act to reach the top of the Australian charts this century. The last Scottish artists to make it to No.1 here were The Proclaimers in February of 1989 with “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)”. So Calvin becomes the eight artist from Scotland to make it to No.1 here, and the third Solo Male artist from former land of The Pitts, plus all previous Scottish acts to hit No.1 here have only done-so the one time.
Jumping up five places to a new peak of No.2 are Nico & Vinz with “That’s How You Know”, which now becomes their second song to reach No.2, as last years “Am I Wrong” spent three weeks during June at that peak too. The Weeknd holds at No.3 for a fourth week with “Can’t Feel My Face”, whilst overall the song has spent five weeks at this position and three weeks at No.2, whilst also holding steady is Lost Frequencies with “Are You With Me”, at No.4 a fourth week also.
The first chart entry for R. City now becomes the duos first Top 10 hit as “Locked Away” leaps up seventeen places to No.5, and as the song is sung by Adam Levine from Maroon 5, the song now beats the peak of his last Top 10 entry, as “Sugar” peaked at No.6 for three weeks back in March. Also jumping into the Top 10 is Taylor Swift with “Wildest Dreams” which is up twelve spots to a new peak of No.6, becoming her fifth consecutive Top 10 hit from her current album “1989”, which is also sitting at No.6, and no other previous Taylor albums has amassed this many Top 10 singles, overall it becomes her twelfth single to make it into the ten within Australia. Galantis drop back one place to No.7 with “Peanut Butter Jelly”, and the third of four new entries to the Top 10 sees Vance Joy up seven places to No.7 with “Fire & the Flood” which benefits from the song being sung on ‘The Voice: Semi Final’ last Sunday night and now it becomes the acts second Top 10 hit and the song also picks up a Gold sales certification.
Three weeks ago One Direction dropped from 1 to 8 with “Drag Me Down”, but this week we see Delta Goodrem fall harder from the No.1 nest down to No.9 with “Wings” which was atop the charts for the previous two weeks and the tumble comes the week of ‘The Voice: Grand Final’ so it could get another boost of wind from this weekends show to keep it soaring within the ten. Debuting at No.10 is Nelly and Jeremih with “The Fix” which samples the 1983 single “Sexual Healing” (HP-4, peaked late March) by Marvin Gaye which was his first and last Top 10 single in Australia. Nelly was last within the Top 10 back in 2013 with “Hey Porsche” (HP-5, peaked April 2013) and this new entry now becomes his eleventh Top 10 hit in Australia, plus it’s the first for Jeremih who had previously gone as high as No.12 on the Natalie La Rose track “Somebody” back in early May.
UP: All of the Top 20 are songs dropping down this week expect for one, “Show Me Love” for Sam Feldt, which rises a place to a new peak of No.19. Hardwell and Jason DeRulo climb up to a new peak of No.26 with “Follow Me” and after spending the past three weeks in the 31-40 to region, “Omen” for Disclosure and Sam Smith is up six places to a new peak of No.29, and with the DVD and Blu-Ray release of ‘Furious 7’, the song “See You Again” for Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth is back up four to No.39, whilst returning to the Top 50 after falling out last week is Meg Mac with “Never Be” at No.50.
DOWN: Adam Lambert is down six places to No.11 with his “Ghost Town” (HP-2x2, WI10-3), Aston Merrygold is down two to No.12 with “Get Stupid” (HP-10, WI10-1), Pia Mia with Chris Brown and Tyga drop five to No.14 with “Do it Again” (HP-5, WI10-5) and former No.1 “Like I’m Gonna Lose You” (HP-1x4, WI10-10) for Meghan Trainor and John Legend falls seven to No.15 after ten weeks within the Top 10 and the song is newly certified 2xPlatinum in sales. Selena Gomez and A$AP Rocky are down four to No.16 and Fifth Harmony drop five places to No.22 with “Worth it”, whilst Robin Schulz also leaves the Top 20, dropping four to No.23 with “Headlights”. The new UK No.1 single this week is “Fight Song” for Rachel Platten, which here is down five to No.35 and falling seven places to No.44 is “Let it Go” by James Bay and down six to No.46 is Jason DeRulo with “Want to Want Me”.
Felix Jaehn teams up with Jasmine Thompson and together they blast into the charts and land at No.21 with their rendition of the 1983 single for Chaka Khan, “Ain’t Nobody (Loves Me Better)”, with the song now having its third Top 50 placing during its life (the other two were covers in 1994). Last weeks UK No.1 single for Jess Glynne entitled “Don’t Be So Hard on Yourself” leaps into the fifty at No.37 here and landing her eleventh Top 50 chart entry is Jessie J with a song she performed on ‘The Voice: Semi Final’ show last Sunday night entitled “Ain't Been Done” and is taken from her current album “Sweet Talker” which bullets back up the albums chart at No.22 this week. The duet between Jarryd James and Julia Stone entitled “Regardless” is the final Top 50 entry this week, new at No.48.
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The sixth studio album for US heavy metal act Disturbed entitled “Immortalized” becomes the acts second No.1 chart-topper on the ARIA Albums chart this week.
“Immortalized” becomes the 590th No.1 album for ARIA (1983 to 2015), plus the 386th to debut at the top of the charts and the thirteenth for the Reprise record label. The acts fourth album “Indestructible” debuted at the top and stayed for a single week back on the 16th of June, 2008 and in-between those two No.1 albums, the Reprise label has had three No.1 albums, all by Michael Buble (although it could be seen as six No.1’s, as his ‘Christmas’ album did go back to the top on four separate occasions).Plus this is the fourth of the five last No.1 albums all coming from hard-rock or metal acts, Tame Impala (27-July), Northlane (3-Aug), and last weeks Bullet for My Valentine (24-Aug).
The N.W.A. biopic opens in Australia next week and in anticipation of its release the soundtrack and Dr. Dre album “Compton” are back up two places to No.2, whilst three of the group’s albums return to the chart this week too. Debuting at No.3 is the thirteenth studio album for Bon Jovi entitled “Burning Bridges”, which becomes the acts fourteenth Top 10 album (10 studio, 2 best of, 1 live) in Australia and their first studio album NOT to debut at No.1 since album #11 “The Circle” (HP-4) from November 2009, as eight of their previous albums have all debuted in the top spot.
The third studio album for Matchbox 20 lead singer Rob Thomas debuts at No.4 entitled “The Great Unknown”, which is the same position his previous album “Cradlesong” debuted at back in mid-July 2009 before it climbed to No.3, whilst his first solo entry “…Something to Be” debuted and peaked at No.1 in May 2005. The final Top 10 debut is in at No.5, and is the third album for local act Short Stack called “Homecoming” which becomes their third Top 10 album in the process, as their previous two albums were “This is Bat Country” (LP#2, HP-6, November 2010) and “Stack is the New Black” (LP#1, HP-1x1, August 2009), with both albums having spent a single week in the top ten each.
Holding steady this week are Taylor Swift with “1989” and Ed Sheeran with his “x” album at No.6 and No.7 respectively, whilst the only album from last weeks Top 10 debuts to survive for a second week within the ten this week is Jimmy Barnes’ “Best of The Soul Years”, dropping five places to No.8, after which Meghan Trainor and her “Title” are down a place to No.9 and after last weeks screening on TV of “Two Strong Hearts” for John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John, the album jumps back up nine places to No.10.
UP: Tame Impala climb back up a couple of places to No.13 with “Currents” and after singing her new song “Ain’t Been Done” (TW-47) on ‘The Voice: Semi Final’ last Sunday night, Jessie J sees her album “Sweet Talker” leap back into the fifty at No.22 this week. The DVD and Blu-Ray release of ‘Furious 7’ again helps the album to climb, this week it’s back up fourteen places to No.28 and after “Never Tear us Apart” was sung on ‘The Voice’ last Sunday, the INXS collection “The Very Best” is back up fifteen places to No.30. The soundtrack to the just opened film ‘Southpaw’ (HP-13) blasts back into the Top 50 at No.36 and climbing up to a new peak of No.38 is Paul Simon with his “Ultimate Collection” set. With the announcement this past week of a new album plus the release of a new single entitled “Lost”, the Cold Chisel collection “The Best of–All for You” bullets back into the Top 50 at No.41, whilst also blasting back is the AC/DC set “Rock or Bust” at No.48 this week.
DOWN: Last weeks top two debuting albums both fall ten places this week, with the No.1 debut “Venom” (HP-1x1, WI10-1) for Bullet for My Valentine down to No.11 and “Aesthesis” (HP-2, WI10-1) by Dead Letter Circus falling to No.12, whilst The Waifs’ “Beautiful You” (HP-5, WI10-1) tumbles thirteen spots to No.18 this week. The Rubens’ “Hoops” (HP-2, WI10-2) album is down five to No.14 and after spending two further weeks in the Top 10, “Chaos and the Calm” (HP-3, WI10-5) for James Bay is down six to No.16 now. Josh Groban and his “Stages” album drops fourteen to No.26, Adam Lambert and “The Original High” is down eleven to No.27 and Gurummul sees his “Gospel Album” fall thirteen spots to No.31. Sia drops eighteen places to No.35 with “1000 Forms of Fear” and spiraling down twenty-two spots to No.44 is Kendrick Lamar and his “To Pimp a Butterfly” album.
Swedish heavy metal Ghost (former Ghost BC) debut with their third studio album at No.20 entitled “Meliora” (Latin for ‘the pursuit of something better’), which becomes their first Top 50 entry and second Top 100 berth, as their second album “Infestissumam” made it to No.62 in April 2013. One place lower is the first entry for Newcastle singer/songwriter Szymon Borzestowski who goes by just his first name, and who passed away from depression in December 2012. His family worked to get his music out and now his songs can be found on the album “Tigersapp” which enters at No.21. Adelaide rock band Bad//Dreems see their debut album “Dogs at Bay” come in at No.33 this week and one place lower at No.34 is the first Top 50 appearance of the 1996 compilation for N.W.A. “Greatest Hits”, which originally peaked at No.64 in September of that year, whilst they also return with two more albums in the lower fifty this week.
Carly Rae Jepsen debuts at No.37 with her third album “E.mo.tion” which features the former No.37 single “I Really Like You” and the new track “Run Away with Me” (New TW-100). Her previous album “Kiss” debuted and peaked at No.8 late September 2012 and this is her second chart entry overall. The second album and first chart entry for US country singer Kip Moore entitled “Wild Ones” comes in at No.46, whilst the third entry and second EP for US Christian metalcore act The Devil Wears Prada entitled “Space” comes in at No.47 and the final Top 50 entry is new at fifty, the self-titled album for X-Factor 2014 fifth place-getter Caitlyn Shadbolt.
New Entries:
10 ‘The Fix’ – Nelly feat Jeremih
21 ‘Ain’t Nobody’ – Felix Jaehn feat Jasmine Thompson
37 ‘Don’t Be So Hard on Yourself’ – Jess Glynne
47 ‘Ain’t Bee Done’ – Jessie J
48’Regardless’ – Jarryd James feat Julia Stone
Written, Researched and Compiled by Gavin Ryan.
