Red Hot Chili Peppers Set To Cap Off Return With Aus #1 Album

Fans have waited five years for new material from US legends Red Hot Chili Peppers and it looks to be well worth it as the group's 11th studio album, The Getaway, is the favourite to take out #1 this week on the ARIA Albums Chart. 

The new record is primed for a top three debut and is the only threat to taking down Aussie rockers The Temper Trap. 

If RHCP are successful in clinching top spot, it will mark the band's sixth #1 Aus album and their first since their 2006 effort, Stadium Arcadium.

Radiohead are also making a late push to re-enter the top three with their ninth album A Moon Shaped Pool, which peaked at #2 last month.

Rounding out the album debuts this week include Gojira's Magma, Case/Lang/Veirs self-titled offering, Jake Bugg's On My One, With Confidence's Better Weather, YG's Still Brazy, the soundtrack for UK rom-com Me Before You and Bob Evans' Car Boot Sale.

The Singles Chart looks again to be dominated by  Drake, Calvin Harris and Justin Timberlake, but expect to see top 20 debuts from Twenty One Pilots with Heathens, Aussie artist Jarryd James' 1000x and Chili Peppers' Dark Necessities.