Lee Kernaghan Claims Top Three Debut With New Album ‘Backroad Nation’

Australian country legend Lee Kernaghan has soared into the ARIA Albums chart with his latest LP, Backroad Nation, scoring the week’s highest debut at #3.

Sitting just behind Pink and Billie Eilish, who hold onto #1 and #2 respectively, Backroad Nation is Kernaghan’s tenth top 10 entry on the Aussie chart.

Kernaghan’s first top 10 LP was 1995’s 1959, which peaked at #9, while one of his most successful albums was 2015’s Spirit Of The Anzacs, which spent four weeks at #1 upon its release.

Meanwhile, Logic’s Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind falls just short of the top 10, debuting at #12, as Mac DeMarco’s Here Comes The Cowboy enters the Album chart (#25), and Vinyl Albums chart (#2), the latter of which Dean Lewis tops this week as he prepares to wrap his A Place We Knew tour tomorrow night in Melbourne.

With their respective solo releases easily topping charts across the globe, it’s no surprise that Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber’s collaborative track, I Don't Care, has shot to the top of the ARIA Singles chart this week.

The new hit, which has surpassed 40 million hits on YouTube just over a week since its release, has knocked Lil Nas X's Old Town Road from the top of the chart after four straight weeks, while Gold Coast DJ Fisher debuts at #41 with You Little Beauty, just ahead of Luke Combs’ Beer Never Broke My Heart at #51.