Aus Bands Sick Puppies & Atlas Genius Enter US Alternative Charts

Sydney's Sick Puppies and Adelaide's Atlas Genius are now both enjoying bigger chart success in the US than in their home territory. The bands both making impressions in this week's US Alternative Songs chart.

Sick Puppies jumped from 40 to 32 with new single There's No Going Back (lifted from their Connect album, set for a July 14 release). The band are no strangers to Stateside success after their Free Hugs video went viral in 2006 and single Maybe, off their Tri-Polar set, cracked the US Hot 100 in 2009.

Atlas Genius' If So moved up to 18 from 20 in the alternative chart as well - it's their second hit in a row there with previous single Trojans having a year-long run just prior.

Australians also find continued success in the US Dance/Club Play chart: Nervo's Hold On this week holds at three - it's peak position after eight weeks in, while Tommy Trash, with Sebastian Ingrosso and John Martin, jumps from 34 to 26 with Reload. Stafford Brothers' Hello this week fell out of the dance top 20, having reached its peak at 11 last week.

But locals are also well-represented in the current Next Big Sound chart, which industry music media giant Billboard uses to predict future US chart success by measuring "the fastest accelerating artists during the past week, across all major social music sites". This week Jagwar Ma are at three with Hiatus Kaiyote at ten and The Preatures at 12.