Katy Perry Vs Kerser In This Week’s Charts

Two releases from complete opposite ends of the spectrum are in an unlikely race to the top of this week's ARIA Charts, with one of the world's biggest pop stars Katy Perry leading Campbelltown, New South Wales, underground rapper Kerser in the midweek figures.

Perry's promotional machine has been in full swing this week for her album Prism, which looks a safe bet for #1 thanks to its massive single Roar, which has spent nine weeks at #1 on the ARIA Single Chart. The biggest story of the week is Kerser, though, with his album S.C.O.T (which stands for Sickest Cunt Out There), who is currently looking at a top five debut, bordering on a top three.

It won't be his first chart success, earlier this year his tour DVD The No Rest For The Sickest National Tour debuted at #1 on the ARIA Music DVD chart.

At the time his label Obese told theMusic, “With little to no support from radio, media and industry peers, this result couldn't have happened to a better person. He is one of the hardest working, most humble artists I've had the pleasure to work with and whether you love him or hate him he continues to show the music industry that he's a force to be reckoned with.”

If sales keep tracking the way they have so far, not only will Kerser be rubbing chart shoulders with Katy Perry, but Lorde, James Blunt and Miley Cyrus as well. It'll also debut ahead of Linkin Park's Recharged remix album.

Elsewhere in the album chart One Direction's Take Me Home and Beyonce's 4 are enjoying sales bumps, thanks to a new single and a national tour respectively, while it's also proving to be a strong week for Bernard Fanning's Departures, Fall Out Boy's Save Rock And Roll, Paul Kelly's Songs From The South Volume 1 & 2 and Queens Of The Stone Age's …Like Clockwork.

While she's favourite for the top album spot, Katy Perry's nine-week run atop the singles chart is under serious threat this week. One Direction's Story Of My Life is sitting at number two after just a day's sales and the X-Factor effect is yet to be fully felt. Winner Dami Im' was at 27 with And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going after just a couple of hours' worth of sales.

Other debuts will come from Guy Sebastian with Like A Drum, Perry again with new single Unconditionally, other Dami Im track in Alive, Jai Waetford's Don't Let Me Go, Taylor Henderson's The Bolower's Daughter, Taylor Swift's Sweeter Than Fiction, Taylor Henderson's Some Nights, Imagine Dragons' Demons, Reece Mastin's Girls (All Around The World).

Redfoo's Let's Get Ridiculous and Justice Crew's Everybody are strong movers this week.