The Beautiful Girls Make Top-Five Debut On Carlton Dry Indie Charts

Sydney-bred roots veterans The Beautiful Girls have snagged the highest debut of the week on the Carlton Dry Independent Music Charts, with their ebullient fifth studio album, Dancehall Days, securing them the fifth-highest placing on the Albums ladder.

It's a strong entry, to be sure, but not enough to dethrone incumbent respective top-four full-lengths Oz (Missy Higgins), Walking Under Stars (Hilltop Hoods, up one spot from last week), 30:30 Hindsight (Jimmy Barnes, dropping a place) and Dream Your Life Away (the rock-solid Vance Joy). That said, The Beautiful step out into a particularly strong field — not a single album currently placing on the charts (with the exception of The Wiggles' improbably long-staying Hot Potatoes!) has peaked below a top-five spot.

It was a similarly glacial week for the Singles Chart, with the top seven releases only experiencing the most minor of shuffles (between Hilltop Hoods' fourth-placing Cosby Sweater, up a spot, and Vance Joy's Mess Is Mine, also up one rung to #5, and Riptide, down two to #6) — Timmy Trumpet's Freaks sits atop the pile for another week, still chased by chart mainstays Sheppard, with Geronimo at #2, at Sia, whose Chandelier is still placing strongly, at #3.

As on the long-player ladder, there's only the one new entry for the week — Melburnian indie-folk luminaries Husky step into the top 20 with I'm Not Coming Back, which slides in just behind Illy's One For The City (featuring Thomas Jules) to claim #17. Interestingly, in the airplay stakes, the sole debut also came in at #17, and from a Victorian band — King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's Cellophane.