2013’s Hottest Records Get Final Week Sales Bump

Records from the likes of Daft Punk, Arcade Fire and Queens Of The Stone Age have enjoyed some last minute sales bumps as the record buying public look to catch up with the best records of 2013 before it's all over.

Daft Punk's number one record Random Access Memories bounds back into the ARIA Top 40 Albums Chart this week, sitting 19 spots higher than the 59th position it was in last week - up to number 40, while Arcade Fire's most recent record Reflektor, which managed to get as high as third spot on the charts, has jumped up five spots to number 60.

The biggest jump of the week comes from Queens Of The Stone Age, whose much revered …Like Clockwork LP has rocketed up the charts from 98th spot to number 68 this week. Notably absent from the Top 100, however, is Kanye West, whose Yeezus LP hasn't managed to make it back into the top 100 despite plenty of chatter about it in numerous end of year lists.

Topping the albums chart this week is once again Michael Buble, whose Christmas LP is simply unstoppable at this time of year and has been for three years. Katy Perry has managed to leap over Beyoncé, The 12th Man and Human Nature to sit in second position, with the other three in third, fourth and fifth respectively.

The only debut in the top 40 this week is Justin Bieber, whose Journals collection sits in 35th position after its first week on shelves. This is one more debut than the Singles chart saw, however, as no new tracks surfaced within the top 40 - then in 44th position, Beyoncé's XO debuts this week.

Much like the singles chart, some of the biggest tracks of 2013 saw a spike in this final full week of sales for 2013; Robin Thicke and co's Blurred Lines jumped up five spots to land at 59, Passenger's Let Her Go is up ten spots to 67 and Avicii's Wake Me Up jumps up four positions to sit in 23rd position.

Nobody could stop Jason Derulo's ascension to the top of the charts though, his Trumpets tracks managing to climb a couple of spots this week to take the number one position, while Pharrell Williams' Happy continues to climb, this week sitting in second position – its highest spot since its release three weeks ago. Can it hit the top in the first week of 2014?

In one bizarre chart move, everyone's favourite Christmas Carol, Wham!'s Last Christmas, managed to enter the streaming chart for the very first time this week, as it was the 35th most listened to track on streaming services this week. It was joined in the streaming chart by no less than nine Christmas-flavoured songs by Buble debuting between numbers 15 and 27.