INXS top album
Australian rock legends INXS have the highest selling album of the year so far, with 35 local albums and 24 local singles in the mid-year top 100s.
Released this morning by ARIA, INXS’ The Very Best enjoyed a strong run thanks to the TV mini-series Never Tear Us Apart. The band saw six albums chart after it aired.
In the Singles Chart the highest Australian single of the year so far is Sheppard’s Geronimo – which is third overall behind the top selling Pharrell’s Happy and A Great Big World featuring Christina Aguilera’s Say Something.
The tally of 35 local albums in the top 100 is up on the 2013 chart, where 27 albums made the top 100, as are the 24 local singles, 13 made the 2013 chart. Australians have held the number one spot on the ARIA Singles Chart for 11 weeks of the 26 in this period, while locals have topped the Albums chart for 11 weeks.
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1. INXS – The Very Best
12. Chet Faker – Built On Glass
15. The Amity Affliction – Let The Ocean Take Me
16. John Butler Trio – Flesh & Blood
25. RÜFÜS – Atlas
29. Flume – Flume
32. Keith Urban – Fuse
33. Harrison Craig – L.O.V.E
34. Jessica Mauboy – Beautiful
36. Taylor Henderson – Taylor Henderson
3. Sheppard – Geronimo
5. Justice Crew – Que Sera
8. Sia – Chandelier
10. 5 Seconds Of Summer – She Looks So Perfect
13. Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX – Fancy
14. Peking Duk featuring Nicole Millar – High
20. Ariana Grande featuring Iggy Azalea – Problem
38. Vance Joy – Riptide
40. Jessica Mauboy – Never Be The Same
53. Taylor Henderson – When You Were Mine
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1. INXS – The Very Best
2. Frozen (soundtrack)
3. Coldplay – Ghost Stories
4. Katy Perry – Prism
5. Pharrell Williams – G I R L
6. Lorde – Pure Heroine
7. Avicii – True
8. London Grammar – If You Wait
9. Arctic Monkeys – AM
10. Bruce Springsteen – High Hopes
11. Beyonce – Beyonce
12. Chet Faker – Built On Glass
13. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP2
14. Michael Buble – To Be Loved
15. The Amity Affliction – Let The Ocean Take Me
16. The John Butler Trio – Flesh & Blood
17. Imagine Dragons – Night Visions
18. Rudimental – Home
19. Ed Sheeran – X
20. Bruno Mars – Unorthodox Jukebox
21. Robbie Williams – Swings Both Ways
22. James Blunt – Moon Landing
23. Michael Jackson – Xscape
24. Jason Derulo – Tattoos
25. Rufus – Atlas
26. Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence
27. MKTO – MKTO
28. John Legend – Love In The Future
29. Flume –Flume
30. OneRepublic – Native
31. One Direction – Midnight Memories
32. Keith Urban – Fuse
33. Harrison Craig – L.O.V.E
34. Jessica Mauboy – Beautiful
35. Skrillex – Recess
36. Taylor Henderson – Taylor Henderson
37. Kylie Minogue – Kiss Me Once
38. The Black Keys – Turn Blue
39. INXS – Kick
40. Iggy Azalea – The New Classic
41. Australian Crawl – The Greatest Hits
42. Bliss N Eso – Circus In The Sky
43. Sam Smith – In The Lonely Hour
44. Violent Soho – Hungry Ghost
45. Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
46. Ed Sheeran – +
47. Haim – Days Are Gone
48. 360 – Utopia
49. Russell Morris – Van Diemen’s Land
50. Dan Sultan – Blackbird
51. Jack White – Lazaretto
52. P!NK – Greatest Hits… So Far!!!
53. Various – triple j Like A Version
54. Dolly Parton – Blue Smoke
55. ABBA – ABBA Gold & More (Anniversary Edition)
56. Passenger – Whispers
57. P!NK – The Truth About Love
58. Boy & Bear – Harlequin Dream
59. Ellie Goulding – Halcyon Days
60. Bastille – Bad Blood
61. Gabrielle Aplin – English Rain
62. Lana Del Rey – Born To Die - The Paradise Edition
63. Cliff Richard – The Fabulous Rock ‘N’ Roll Songbook
64. Fleetwood Mac – 25 Years - The Chain
65. Nickelback – The Best Of Nickelback Volume 1
66. The Wiggles – Hot Potatoes! The Best Of The Wiggles
67. Disclosure – Settle
68. Lily Allen – Sheezus
69. Troy Cassar-Daley & Adam Harvey – The Great Country Songbook
70. Zhu – The Nightday EP
71. Linkin Park – The Hunting Party
72. The Jezabels – The Brink
73. Asgeir – In The Silence
74. Fleetwood Mac – The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac
75. Illy – Cinematic
76. Johnny Cash – Out Among The Stars
77. Michael Jackson – Essential Michael Jackson
78. Neil Finn & Paul Kelly – Goin’ Your Way
79. Thundamentals – So We Can Remember
80. Tina Arena – Reset
81. Passenger – All The Little Lights
82. The Eagles – The Very Best Of The Eagles
83. Love Child (soundtrack)
84. Kate Miller-Heidke – O Vertigo!
85. Russell Morris – Sharkmouth
86. Bruce Springsteen – Greatest Hits
87. Guns N’ Roses – Greatest Hits
88. Bruno Mars – Doo-Wops & Hooligans
89. Sol3 Mio – Sol3 Mio
90. The Rolling Stones – GRRR!
91. Cold Chisel –The Best Of Cold Chisel - All For You
92. Chvrches – The Bones Of What You Believe
93. Miley Cyrus – Bangerz
94. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist
95. Bon Jovi – Bon Jovi Greatest Hits
96. Ball Park Music – Puddinghead
97. Keith Urban – The Story So Far
98. The 12th Man – Willy Nilly - The 12th Man’s Biggest Hits
99. Adele – 21
100. Red Hot Chilli Peppers – Greatest Hits