Sia Maintains Reign Over Carlton Dry Independent Music Charts

Sia's Elastic Heart remains atop the Singles ranks of this week's Carlton Dry Independent Music Charts in a week that saw the entire top 20 stay unchanged, albeit generously shuffled.

Indeed, the sole new entrant across both Singles and Albums charts this week comes from Storm The Sky and their full-length effort Permanence, which steps out at #9 on its respective ladder, an anomalous entry alongside Paul Kelly's re-appeared Songs From The South, which comes back with a vengeance to re-enter the list at #13.

Otherwise, both charts are dominated by artists, songs and albums with which Aussie audiences should be all too familiar after weeks of strong performance and the weekend's triple j Hottest 100 wrap-up: countdown third-place-getters Hilltop Hoods, for example, have two songs in the singles chart — Cosby Sweater at #2 and The Nosebleed Sector at #15 — while Peking Duk also make a double entry (Take Me Over, feat. SAFIA, takes out #4; High stays at #11), as do Timmy Trumpet (Freaks, #5, and Nightmare, #16), Vance Joy (Riptide, #14, and Mess Is Mine, #18), Sia (she's also in with Chandelier at #6), and Chet Faker (Talk Is Cheap, #9, and Gold, #19).

The Hilltops keep their strong hold over the full-lengths stakes as well, their 2014 effort Walking Under Stars hitting the top of the deck for another week. Sia's not far off, with 1000 Forms Of Fear up to #2 from #3 last week, switching spots with Saint Chet's Built On Glass. Veteran rockers AC/DC are still doing all right for themselves, with most recent album Rock Or Bust hanging on at #4, just ahead of Vance Joy's Dream Your Life Away LP (#5). Interestingly, given the make-up of this week's list, with the exception of Storm The Sky's album and The Best Of The Wiggles' ineligibility for a 'highest place' ranking (it's still in the charts at #11), every entrant on this week's album charts was, at one point, a top-five contender, if not a #1 titleholder, leaving us with a well-bred line-up for the past seven days.