Courtney Barnett Makes #1 Debut On Carlton Dry Indie Music Charts

Courtney Barnett can add another chart scalp to her growing pile after impressive debuts in the ARIA and UK full-length charts, not just entering the Carlton Dry Independent Music Charts with Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit this week but topping the albums ladder outright.

Barnett's dominant entry knocks previous top placeholder 1000 Forms Of Fear, by Sia, off its perch to #2, having a knock-on effect on San Cisco's Gracetown, down a peg to #3 this week; however, last week's #4 and #5 — Flight Facilities' Down To Earth and Sticky Fingers' Land Of Pleasure respectively — remain unchanged, as does Sti-Fi's back-to-back entry, with Caress Your Soul still sitting pretty at #6. A second appearance from Barnett isn't far behind — The Double EP: A Sea Of Split Peas is #8 this week.

The strength of Barnett's debut LP's entry is reinforced by the fact that she is, this week, the only new face across both the albums and singles charts, though we do see the return of some old faces — namely: Seth Sentry, whose This Was Tomorrow is back in the top 20 at #15; Ziggy Alberts, whose Land & Sea re-enters at #17; and Client Liaison, whose self-titled EP jumps back in at the #20 cut-off.

Last week's top five singles, from Jarryd James (Do You Remember), Sia (Elastic Heart), Chet Faker (Talk Is Cheap), Sia (again, Chandelier), and Safia (Counting Sheep), remain in their positions from last week, but there's been positive upward movement from Sheppard (Geronimo, up three spots to #6), Courtney Barnett (Pedestrian At Best, up three spots to #11), Flume & Chet Faker (Drop The Game, up four spots to #16) and another Safia cut — You Are The One — which re-enters at #20.