Justice Crew Equal Gotye's Record Run At Number One

28 June 2014 | 7:00 pm | Staff Writer

Plus, Aus metalcore band's poster controversy scores them a Top 20 debut

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Former Australia's Got Talent winners Justice Crew have stayed number one for an eighth week with their hit Que Sera.

That feat ties the record for Longest Stay At Number One For A Local Single - catching them up to three Australian classics: Gotye & Kimbra's Somebody That I Used To Know (2011), Savage Garden's Truly, Madly, Deeply (1997) and Austen TayshusAustraliana (1983).

It's the second ARIA Singles Chart topper for the hip pop crew, they first hit the top spot with 2012's Boom Boom which managed two weeks in the peak position.

Elsewhere in the chart, local power pop act 5 Seconds Of Summer debuted three new tracks in the top 20 - their debut album was released yesterday. They were the week's first, third and fourth highest new entries: Amnesia (in at seven); Everything I Didn't Say (11); Kiss Me Kiss Me (14). Ed Sheeran snuck his Don't in at nine and as The Voice Australia contestant Sabrina Batshon entered at 39 with her cover of Sia's Chandelier, Sia herself came in at 36 with Big Girls Cry.

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As expected, Sheeran's X was the top new entry in the ARIA Albums Chart this week. It's the British star's second album and his second Australian number one.

But the real chart action drama came with the week's highest local debut. Thanks to controversy surrounding an advertising campaign for Melbourne-via-Perth-metalcore outfit Confession, their Life And Death album found its way in at 19.

In between the Sheeran and Confession entries there were debuts from Mastodon, with Once More 'Round The Sun in at seven (their first top ten album here), and Milky Chance, in at eight with Sadnecessary. Coming in outside the 20 were David Gray's Mutineers (22) and Jennifer Lopez's AKA (24).

And, as Lana Del Rey's Ultraviolence dropped from one to three, the Paradise Edition of her Born To Die set celebrated one year in the chart, as it climbed from 51 to 42.

In the Music DVD chart, Midnight Oil came in at number one with their Black Rain Falls set. Soon-to-tour ZHU holds down the Club Chart number one spot for a third week with Faded.