Sheppard Rise In US Charts After Late-Night TV Appearance

Brisbane-bred Australian pop sextet Sheppard and their track Geronimo are echoing their performance Down Under last year as the certified chart-stayer plants its infectious roots in the ears of the American public, and, fresh off their debut late-night TV appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the song is once more on the move up the Billboard 100.

Granted, it's enjoyed a rise of a single spot — up to #78 from #79 last week — but, seven weeks into its American chart tenure, any northward trajectory is a good sign. Compared with Australian equivalents, the Billboard 100 isn't quite as stagnant a concern, so the fact they've hung around for close to two months with relatively little international notoriety or exposure behind them is an achievement not to be scoffed at.

That said, notoriety certainly doesn't go astray — the increasingly famous-despite-her-best-efforts Sia is still performing strongly on the ladder, with Elastic Heart sitting just inside the top 40 at #39 five weeks into its chart tenure, while Chandelier — now in its 40th chart week — enjoys a five-spot boost to hit #32 as the ripples of Sia's Grammys performance with Kristen Wiig and Maddie Ziegler are reflected in the list.

Just below the enigmatic songstress is ever-reliable old mate Vance Joy, whose indefatigable Riptide, which spent a million weeks at the pointy end of local charts, is displaced one spot south to #33 in its 33rd week of ranking, and wraps up the Aussie contingent to have made the Billboard 100 this week. The very top is led once more by Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars' Uptown Funk, with Ed Sheeran (Thinking Out Loud), Hozier (Take Me To Church), Maroon 5 (Sugar) and Taylor Swift (Blank Space) rounding out the top five.