Ball Park Music Prove Themselves Right As Frank Ocean Takes #1 On ARIA Chart

Beloved Brisbane outfit Ball Park Music have the bittersweet privilege of proving themselves right after they self-deprecatingly guessed they wouldn't be able to outpace Frank Ocean to the #1 spot on this week's ARIA Albums Chart. (We always believed in them, though.)

The US rapper's eagerly awaited follow-up to his acclaimed Channel Orange LP, Blond, proved an unstoppable force on entry, though the stalwart local indie crew still turned out a commendable effort with their new full-length, Every Night The Same Dream, picking up the #3 spot. Veteran rapper Drapht is just behind, too, with new album Seven Mirrors making its entry at #4. Both Aussie acts land just behind a steady Suicide Squad soundtrack, which stays surprisingly strong at #2.

Sports-comedy icons Roy & HG also debut inside the top 10 this week with This Sporting Life at #6, just one place behind last week's #1 This Could Be Heartbreak, by The Amity Affliction, which slides to #5. They're not the only elder statespeople to make a splash this week; Dolly Parton ushers Pure & Simple to a #9 debut while John Williamson's His Favourite Collection steps out at #14. Meanwhile, a little ways down but still notable, evergreen punk heroes Frenzal Rhomb show they've still got what it takes to shift units, nabbing #58 for We Lived Like Kings (We Did Anything We Wanted), and triple j hosts Matt & Alex's novelty release Play It Out makes its debut at #69.

There are some significant movers on the Albums chart this week too, with Ocean's Channel Orange obviously feeling the effects of the Blond buzz, spiking from #81 to land inside the top 20 at #19, just a couple of spots behind a similarly resurgent Guns N' Roses, whose Greatest Hits makes the leap up to #17 from #52. Vintage Aussie rockers INXS, too, feel the effects of recent bursts of interest as The Very Best makes its way up from #68 to just the other side of the #20 mark, at #22, while Architects' latest album, All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us, re-enters the charts altogether at #75 in the wake of the death of their guitarist, Tom Searle.

There are fewer new faces making serious impacts in the Singles stakes to speak of — the top five, for example, all remain unmoved from their respective placings last week: The Chainsmokers' Closer (ft. Halsey) at #1 (for its third straight week, no less), DJ Snake's Let Me Love You (ft. Justin Bieber) at #2, Major Lazer's Cold Water (ft. Justin Bieber & MØ) at #3, Twenty One Pilots' Heathens at #4 and Illy's Papercuts (ft. Vera Blue) at #5.

Meanwhile, in addition to Heathens, fellow soundtrack entry Sucker For Pain — by Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa & Imagine Dragons, X Ambassadors, Ty Dolla $ign and Logic — becomes the second Suicide Squad track to move into the top 10, jumping up from #12 to #8 in its third week in the top 50.