The Church Snag Top-Ten Debut On Carlton Dry Indie Music Charts

Veteran Aussie rock outfit The Church have stuck it to a field filled with artists half their age, achieving a top-ten debut on the Carlton Dry Independent Music Charts for their recent, lauded full-length Further Deeper, coming in at #9 on the albums ladder this week.

They weren't the highest new entry in the past seven days - that honour goes to Husky and their #4-earning Ruckers Hill, with Planetshakers' This Is Our Time (Live) hot on their heels at #5 - but it marks an impressive effort for the elder statesmen, who follow the likes of recent chart fixtures Jimmy Barnes and Russell Morris as a seasoned act pulling out the big guns well into their career.

The top two albums for this week have swapped spots, with Hilltop Hoods' Walking Under Stars asserting itself at pole position on the strength of their current national Cosby Sweater tour - the namesake single for which is still hanging tough at #2 in the singles stakes - and Missy Higgins' Oz slipping ever so slightly to #2. Barnesy rounds out the top three with 30:30 Hindsight still charting strongly.

On the singles ladder, West Australian upstarts San Cisco make a comeback appearance for radio play, with new cut Run earning them the 17th-highest spot on debut; outside the airwaves, singles chart-leader Timmy Trumpet (whose Freaks remains untoppled for another week) putting in the final new entry for the week, as Nightmare cruises in at #13.

As a cool little bonus, both Vance Joy and AC/DC manage back-to-back entries this week — the former for Riptide and Mess Is Mine (#6 and #7 respectively), with the latter's Play Ball and Thunderstruck sitting pretty at #8 and #9 (and again with You Shook Me All Night Long and Back In Black, which nabbed #17 and #18 for the week).