Hilltop Hoods Top Carlton Dry Indie Music Singles & Albums Charts

Renowned Aussie hip hop trio the Hilltop Hoods have kicked off 2015 atop both the Singles and Albums ladders in the Carlton Dry Independent Music Charts, with Cosby Sweater retaining its pole position and the Walking Under Stars LP reclaiming the spot from strongly performing Coachella headliners AC/DC (Rock Or Bust, #2).

The upper echelons of both rankings remain relatively steady on 2014's end, with Chet Faker's Built On Glass jumping two spots to hit #3, edging out Countdown (#4) and Jimmy Barnes (30:30 Hindsight, #5) and knocking both down a peg each. Vance Joy's Dream Your Life Away maintains its place at #6, while another batch of upwardly mobile albums form the back half of the top 10 full-lengths for the week: Sia's 1000 Forms Of Fear (#9 → #7), Flight Facilities' Down To Earth (#12 → #8), Dan Sultan's Blackbird (#11 → #9) and Sheppard's Bombs Away (#13 → #10). Just outside the top half, The Angels' Greatest Hits Live also makes a strong northward movement, stepping up from #15 to #11.

Paul Kelly makes the list twice this week — Songs From The South comes in at #13, while The Merri Soul Sessions hangs in at #15 — with the Hilltop Hoods being the only other act to do so on the full-length ladder this week; Drinking From The Sun squeezes in between Kelly's efforts at #14.

Timmy Trumpet's Freaks remains a strong force in the singles stakes, switching spots with Peking Duk's Take Me Over, featuring SAFIA, this week — the former up to #2 and the latter down to #3, while Will Sparks stays the course at #4 with Ah Yeah. Another switch sees Sia's Chandelier back up to #5, jumping over Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP's take on Rodriguez's Sugar Man (#6), but the lower end of the top 10 remains consistent: Sheppard (Geronimo, #7), Peking Duk (High, #8), Chet Faker (Talk Is Cheap, #9) and Vance Joy (Mess Is Mine, #10) all keep their places for another week.

Notably, the rejuvenated AC/DC see three tracks re-enter the singles chart this week — Thunderstruck (#13), T.N.T. (#18) and Highway To Hell (#20) — and that was before the public even knew they'd be hitting Coachella this year. Age ain't nothing but a number after all.