Bluejuice Earn Top-Five Indie Charts Debut With Final Album

The mid-victory-lap Bluejuice have nabbed another accolade in their final months as a band, with farewell retrospective album Retrospectable earning them the fifth-highest placing on the Carlton Dry Independent Albums Chart on debut this week.

 

The entry spot is particularly sweet given that they are the only new entrants on the albums chart for the week, and one of only two debutants across the board, alongside precocious young talent Japanese Wallpaper, whose new cut Between Friends, featuring Jesse Davidson, nabbed him a top-20 opening spot, coming in at #17.

 

The top six singles for the week remain the same dominant ditties we’ve seen in recent times, with Timmy Trumpet’s Freaks remaining unshakeable from pole position, Sheppard’s Geronimo still hot on his heels at #2, Sia’s Chandelier at #3, Vance Joy’s Riptide still at #4, and Hilltop Hoods’ Cosby Sweater (#5) leapfrogging the Dream Your Life Away scribe’s Mess Is Mine (#6).

 

Similarly, in the full-length stakes, last week’s top four placers (Missy Higgins’ Oz, Jimmy Barnes’ 30:30 Hindsight, the Hilltops’ Walkign Under Stars and Joy’s Dream Your Life Away, respectively) remain exactly where they were atop the charts, with last week’s #5, Kingswood’s Microscopic Wars, suffering a fairly hefty drop to #10.

 

Perhaps unsurprisingly, we’re still seeing strong performances from a few of last week’s Independent Music Awards winners, including Peking Duk and their single High sticking in at #17 on that ladder (its thirty-third week), the same spot held by fellow prize-grabbers Violent Soho and their full-length Hungry Ghost on the albums chart, which has been a featured release on the top 20 for more than a year - it just hit 54 weeks.