Taylor Swift Back On Top Of ARIA Albums Charts

Ubiquitous US songstress Taylor Swift has regained the top spot on this week's ARIA Albums Chart, with her acclaimed full-length 1989 riding high on the wave of momentum sent the singer's way likely courtesy of her fanbase's recent Hottest 100 campaign.

Last week's top placeholder, Meghan Trainor's Title, took a dive to #5 this week, opening up room for two new high-placing debutants — Mark Ronson's Uptown Funk makes good on midweek promises to step out at #2, while Fall Out Boy's polarising American Beauty/American Psycho makes a super-strong entry at #3. British troubadour Ed Sheeran stays highly placed at #4, down a spot on last week.

Additional new entrants include Above & Beyond, who nab the next-highest debut spot at #11 for We Are All We Need, while controversial rapper Joey Bada$$ and his B4.DA.$$ LP enter the charts at #17. Meanwhile, 'electronicore' outfit Enter Shikari see their newest effort, The Mindsweep, make its way into the Aussie chart world at #19.

The indie/alternative/fringe sets get their look-in further down the ladder: The Decemberists' What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World enters at #27, while Bjork's rushed-out Vulnicura snags the Icelandic vet #28 and the gentle china dolls of Belle & Sebastian unleash Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance at #57.

It was a much quieter week for new faces in the singles stakes, at least certainly in the upper echelons of the chart — the highest entry is GRL's Lighthouse at #38, one spot ahead of fellow debutant Sugar, by Maroon 5 — with the pointy end of the list reduced to a mild shuffle of last week's faces, although two tracks make big leaps to breach the top 10: The Avener's Fade Outlines is up to #8 from #14 last week, while Calvin Harris' Pray To God, feat. Haim, enjoys some divine intervention to rocket to #10, up from #26 last week.

Expat Aussie chanteuse Sia makes her way back up to bracket the top five again this week, as her single du jour, Elastic Heart, re-asserts itself at #5, from #8, this week; the top four, however — Omi (Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix]), Mark Ronson (Uptown Funk, feat. Bruno Mars), Hozier (Take Me To Church) and James Bay (Hold Back The River), respectively — are much the same as last week.