Karnivool Claim Top Spot In ARIA Chart

WA heavy prog rock outfit Karnivool have pushed Pink aside to debut at number one with their Asymmetry album. It's the Perth band's third album outperforms their 2009 Sound Awake album which peaked at number two. Midweek figures had indicated it would be a tight race between the two artists.

Karnivool issued a statement tonight, to say. "We're bloody stoked." They also thanked fans and called their number one debut "another win for independent alternative Australian music."

And, Karnivool member Ian Kenny makes history by being "the first singer to have two number one albums in the same calendar year with two different bands. Kenny's other band Birds Of Tokyo debuted at one in March with their March Fires album. Kenny greeted the news with: "What a nut ball of a year it's been!"

The weekend's other ARIA Album Chart debuts include: US poppet Selena Gomez in at eight with Stars Dance; UK rock'n'roller Jake Bugg - in Australia for this weekend'sSplendour festival - finally charted his self-titled British number one, in at 25; local country legend John Williamson's A Hell Of A Career! retrospective landed at 43; just missing the top 50, Canberra's post-hardcore Hands Like Houses came in at 51 with Unimagine.

Bugg was not alone in getting an early Splendour sales bump influenced by festival hype and sideshows. Others on the bill bouncing back up the ARIA Albums chart include: Mumford & Sons - Babel up from 44 to 33 and Sigh No More re-entering at 85; My Head Is An Animal by Of Monsters & Men moved up from 49 to 38; Frank Ocean's Channel Orange bulletted from 54 to 24 ahead of his tour cancellation; MS MR came back in at at 56 with Secondhand Rapture; Birds Of Tokyo's March Fires leapt from 80 to 61; James Blake's Overgrown snuck back in at 98; and 'secret' Splendour guests Alt-J saw their An Awesome Wave set move from 65 to 44.

In the Singles Chart, Splendour's Frank Ocean replacement act Lorde stepped into the top three with The Club EP. The NZ singer fended off boy band One Direction's Best Song Ever - which debuted at four - but was unable to move OneRepublic's Counting Stars from two or Aviici's Wake Me Up from one.

Local debuts on the single chart came in the form of: To The End Of The Earth - Jessica Mauboy (22); Another Life - The Collective (47); The Breach - Dustin Tebutt (100).