Two New Debuts See Flume Fill More Than 25% Of Aussie Indie Music Charts

Unstoppable Australian electronic artist Flume now represents more than a quarter of the songs on this week's Carlton Dry Independent Music Charts after nabbing two Singles debuts — the only new entrant tracks for the week — for Take A Chance, ft. Little Dragon (#5), and Lose It, ft. Vic Mensa (#8).

Mama Streten's li'l prodigy also stays atop the pile with incumbent #1 Say It, ft. Tove Lo, and fills out his excessive occupancy with Never Be Like You, ft. Kai (#3), Smoke & Retribution, ft. Vince Staples & Kucka (#9) and seminal hit Holdin On, sitting pretty at #17 in its 113th week on the chart.

His performance is echoed but not quite matched by celebrated chanteuse Sia, who takes out four spots with Cheap Thrills (#2), Chandelier (#6), Alive (#7) and Elastic Heart (#12), meaning there are only two spots in the entirety of the top 10 not occupied by one of those two dominant forces — namely, the #4 spot, which goes to The Temper Trap for Fall Together, and #10 itself, where Hein Cooper sees Rusty land.

New faces on the Albums chart are few this week, appearing back-to-back a ways down in the form of Chase The Sun's self-titled full-length, which claims #15 on entry, and Mitch King's A Life Under The Sun, hot on its heels at #16. Lloyd Spiegel's Double Live Set (#13) and The Bamboos' Medicine Man (#18) are the next-closest thing to a debut appearance, however, with both albums making their re-entry to the charts this week.

The top end, thus, remains comprised of the same acts and albums that filled out the apex bracket last week, albeit reshuffled somewhat — The Cat Empire's Rising With The Sun steps up a rung to take #1 this week, trading places with new #2 This Is Acting, by Sia; meanwhile, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard stay where they were, at #3, with Nonagon Infinity, and Sia's 1000 Forms Of Fear switches spots with The Screaming Jets' Chrome to make up the new #4 and #5 entries, respectively.