No Bullshit: Dune Rats Have Taken #1 On ARIA Albums Chart

Beloved Brisbane trio Dune Rats have claimed the #1 spot on this week's ARIA Albums Chart with their new LP The Kids Will Know It's Bullshit, beating out nearest debutante rivals Ocean Grove by a handful of placings.

Buoyed over the past year or so by deals with UNFD, Village Sounds and the US-based United Talent Agency, as well as their recent feature album spot on triple j, the ascendant Melburnian outfit settle for a still-impressive #5 with their new album, The Rhapsody Tapes.

In-between those two midweek contenders are the recurrently high-performing soundtracks for Trolls (#2) and Moana (#3), as well as a positively insurgent Human Nature, whose Gimme Some Lovin': Jukebox Vol. II rises from #17 to land at #4 this week. (Their Jukebox album has also re-entered the charts, at #50.)

Both the Dunies and Ocean Grove land well ahead of their nearest fellow new faces, with Big Sean the next in line outside the top 10 at #14 with I Decided., while Elbow's Little Fictions is a couple of rungs below at #16.

Also making debuts inside the top 40 are Pete Tong, The Heritage Orchestra & Jules Buckley, whose Classic House steps out at #20, as well as Sampha (Process, #28) and the original Broadway cast of Dear Evan Hansen (#34).

A little further out, we also see new entries for Kari Jobe (The Garden, #57), The Menzingers (After The Party, #61) and James Blundell (Campfire, #71).

Meanwhile, current tours from some of the all-time greats — namely Guns N' Roses and Bruce Springsteen — have resulted in re-entries and rises for a handful of their albums in kind, including the former's Greatest Hits (#10, up from #24), Appetite For Destruction (re-entered at #40), and Use Your Illusion I and II (back in the charts at #59 and #63 respectively), and the latter's Chapter & Verse (up three spots to #18), Greatest Hits (re-entered at #23), Born In The USA (up nine spots to #56) and The Essential Bruce Springsteen (re-entered at #64).

Also of note is old mate Ed Sheeran, who has seen a couple of his albums undergo big surges this week — X is up 12 places to #6, while + leaped up a whopping 30 places to hit #17.

As is tradition, there's significantly less to write home about in the Singles arena, where the top three songs of the week are as they were seven days ago — Ed Sheeran in the top two spots with Shape Of You and Castle On The Hill now in their fifth week on the charts, and local songstress Amy Shark sitting pretty at #3 with her acclaimed song, Adore.

Otherwise, the highest debut single comes from Imagine Dragons at #33 with their new track Believer, while also making fresh entries are Alex Da Kid (Not Easy ft. X Ambassadors, Elle King and Wiz Khalifa, #73), Big Sean (No Favors, #77) and John Legend & Ariana Grande, who skate in by the skin of their teeth at #99 with Beauty & The Beast.