The Script Make Week's Highest Debut On ARIA Albums Chart

Irish rockers The Script have made the week's highest new entry on the ARIA Albums Chart, with their new album Freedom Child landing at #5 on debut.

It does mean that Ed Sheeran reassumes the top spot with the unkillable ÷ (Divide), leapfrogging past a steady Paul Kelly (Life Is Fine, #2 for a second week running) as last week's #1s, Queens Of The Stone Age (Villains), fall to #3. And, somehow, the Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 soundtrack has stayed at #4 for a second week.

The Script's nearest fellow fresh faces on the ladder are LCD Soundsystem, whose American Dream enters at #10, while Neil Finn's newest, Out Of Silence (the creation of which was documented on his Facebook page), enters at #12.

Debuts are scant throughout the remainder of the list, especially inside the Top 40, though both Dixie Chicks (DCX MMXVI Live, #20) and north Qld outfit King Social (In Colour, #40) manage to pull it off.

Just behind them, Jake Bugg's Hearts That Strain comes in at #44, while Cloud Control's Zone enters at #53, Motörhead's Under Cöver at #57, Mogwai's Every Country's Sun at #65 and Mr Grevis' Game Over at #71.

There have been some interesting movements and re-entries despite the underwhelming debut results; for example, seemingly apropos nothing, Vance Joy's Dream Your Life Away has shot up from #61 last week to land inside the top 10, at #8, this week.

Also, Ariana Grande has seen a significant climb for Dangerous Woman, up 28 spots to #21 this week, while The Very Best INXS (perhaps bolstered by news of an impending biopic about Michael Hutchence) rises nine places to #41. And, ahead of his upcoming Australian tour, Roger Waters' Is This The Life We Really Want? has re-entered the charts at #68.

There's less to report on the Singles chart, where Taylor Swift's Look What You Made Me Do remains at #1 for a second week, with Pink also steady at #2 with What About Us.

Swift's new single, ...Ready For It?, makes its landing at #3, knocking Macklemore's Glorious (ft. Skylar Grey) down to #4 and Justin Bieber & BloodPop's Friends down to #5.

Outside the Top 20 singles, Maroon 5's What Lovers Do (ft. SZA) makes its debut at #33, Jason Derulo's If I'm Lucky lands at #59, Guy Sebastian's High On Me enters at #73, Ricki-Lee's Not Too Late steps out at #83, and Galantis & ROZES' Girls On Boys closes out the new crop coming to the list at #96.