"Weird Al" Yankovic Scores Highest New Entry In ARIA Charts

American musical comedian "Weird Al" Yankovic scored the highest debuting album in Australia this week following a strong social media marketing campaign that saw plenty of his satirical videos go viral in the week leading up to the release of Mandatory Fun.

The Yankovic album landed at number nine this week, way ahead of the week's second highest entry — and the top local debut of the week — Jessica Mauboy's iTunes Sessions EP, in at 25.

It is Yankovic's 14th studio long-player, but his first Australian top ten album. It is also his first US number one and the first comedy album to top the US Albums Chart since My Son The Nut by Allan Sherman in 1963.

The only other new entry for the week was Trouble In Paradise by La Roux, in at 28.

At the top end of the chart, local former TV talent show contestant Taylor Henderson fell to three after one week on top with Burnt Letters, while Queensland band Sheppard held tight at number two with Bombs Away while Ed Sheeran took back the number one spot with X and expat Sia crept back to number four with 1000 Forms Of Fear.

International artists in the country for Splendour In The Grass received bumps in sales this week: Lily Allen's Sheezus moved from 56 to 32; Foster The People's Supermodel re-entered at 39; First Aid Kit's Stay Gold jumped 50 to 42; Asgier's In The Silence went from 93 to 64. Even cancelled headliners London Grammar experienced a boost as If You Wait soared from 43 to 21.

In the Singles Chart, UK singer Paloma Faith took over the number one spot with Only Love Can Hurt Like This. The highest debut track comes from US singer Meghan Trainor, as All About That Bass enters at 36. The highest new local entry is Pyramid Building by Hilltop Hoods, coming in at 42.