Hilltop Hoods Clean Up On Carlton Dry Independent Music Charts

National hip-hop dons the Hilltop Hoods have snared the top spot on the Carlton Dry Independent Music Charts with their album Walking Under Stars this week, with country star Adam Brand and his tenth studio full-length My Side Of The Street hot on their heels at #2.

One top-twenty debut – and a #1 at that – wasn’t enough for the nation’s apparent favourite rhymesmiths, who also made dual first appearances on the singles chart with Cosby Sweater at #12 and the full-length’s title track picking up #14.

In an otherwise relatively calm week on the ladder, the only other album to debut was #1 Dads’ About Face, which ambles in easily at #15, but it’s outclassed a bit over on the singles rankings, where Missy Higgins Shark Fin Blues just earns her top-ten status, with exeunting larrikins Bluejuice just behind her at #11 with I’ll Go Crazy.

Timmy Trumpet also stands out this week for his massive leap up the singles chart from #10 to #1 for Freaks, knocking last week’s first through third placeholders – Sheppard (Geronimo), Sia (Chandelier), and Illy (Tightrope) – down a notch each, while the Hilltops once again stay strong, holding on to #5 with Won’t Let You Down (and Pyramid Building at #16, and The Nosebleed Section at #20…), while former fourth-placeman Vance Joy and Mess Is Mine drop to #6 (and #7, incidentally, for the apparently still listenable Riptide).

It’s a similar story back on the full-length charts, where Sheppard (Bombs Away, #3) and Sia (1000 Forms Of Fear, #4) stay unmoved, while last week’s victors One Day drop slightly but stay high with Mainline at #5.

And, yes, the Hilltop Hoods are there more than once, too – their previous albums Drinking From The Sun (#13) and The hard Road (#19) both make the cut for this week.