Aussies Snare Top Spots In Another Strong Chart Week

Australia's Got Talent and The X Factor finalist Taylor Henderson and Brisbane-based pop juggernauts Sheppard have made impressive debuts on the ARIA Top 100 Albums chart, with their respective albums Burnt Letters and Bombs Away taking out the top two spots in what has been yet another strong week for local acts.

International punk luminaries Rise Against round out the top three, with The Black Market making its debut this week as well, along fellow top-20 first-timers Pennywise (Yesterdays, #16), Jason Mraz (YES!, #17) and Jungle (Jungle, #20).

Other impressive debuts came courtesy of rising Sydneysider Andy Bull, with Sea Of Approval scoring a #23 placing, while the Sunshine Coast's D At Sea makes it in just outside the top 30 — Anchors & Diamonds steps out at #33. Interestingly, veteran act Judas Priest also make the cut, with Redeemer Of Souls making its debut at #31 (fellow old salt Morrissey's World Peace Is None Of Your Business trails behind at #58).

On the incumbent-entry front, both enigmatic songstress Sia and pop-punk wunderkinds 5 Seconds Of Summer both suffered slight falls, though they still placed strongly, with the former's 1000 Forms Of Fear netting #5 and the latter's self-titled LP just behind at #6. UK troubadour Ed Sheeran hung in tight at #4 with X, despite also dropping marginally, down from #2 last week.

Hillsong compilation No Other Name (#10) just outranks Kiwi darling Lorde and her Pure Heroine, which remains high at #11 despite hanging around for 42 weeks in the charts, while local rap heavyweight 360 stays close to the top 10, with Utopia coming in at #13, country gals The McClymonts hold on at #15 with Here's To You & I, and INXS sticks inside the top 20 with The Very Best taking #19.

Chet Faker's Built On Glass and The Amity Affliction's Let The Ocean Take Me just miss out on top-20 spots, coming in at #21 and #22 respectively, while startup cult Allday's Startup Cult falls just the other side of Mr Bull, squeezing into the top 25 at #24.

On the Singles Chart, Justice Crew slide in as the highest-charting Aussies at #5, beaten out for a higher placing by The Madden Brothers' We Are Done (#1), David Guetta's debutant Lovers On The Sun featuring Sam Martin (#2), Brit chanteuse Ella Henderson's Ghost (#3) and Ariana Grande's Break Free, featuring Zedd (#4).

Sheppard's Geronimo remains in the top 10, at #9, while Sia's Chandelier falls not too far behind at #13.

Riptide troubadour Vance Joy's Mess Is Mine made its debut at #37, just above other debuts from Johnny Rollins (When A Man Loves A Woman, #38), and Usher (She Came To Give It To You feat. Nicki Minaj, #40), while past-life Australian Idol Ricki-Lee steps out at #65 with Happy Ever After, one spot above the re-issue of Salt-N-Pepa's Push It.

Check our charts page for a detailed look at the week!