AC/DC's fifteenth studio full-length, Rock Or Bust, has beaten all on-comers to take out the top spot on this week's Carlton Dry Independent Music Charts, narrowly eclipsing younger contemporary Chet Faker, whose new iTunes Session LP stepped out at #2.

The two new entrants aboard the Albums ladder block-knock back last week's upper echelons, with Faker's previously triumphant Built On Glass falling to #4 from #1 this week. In fact, every release between the top two and Kingswood's Microscopic Wars (up three places to #11) suffered a drop — the Hilltop Hoods (Walking Under Stars, from #2 to #3), Countdown (down to #5 from #3), Jimmy Barnes (30:30 Hindsight, from #4 to #6), Sheppard (Bombs Away, down to #7 from #5), Sia (1000 Forms Of Fear, down two places to #8), Dan Sultan (Blackbird, down to #9 from #7), and Vance Joy (Dream Your Life Away, down from #8 to #10). However, Kingswood was only one of two acts this week to gain ground — they're joined by Lee Kernaghan, whose Driving Home For Christmas steps up a place to #12 — while Mr Faker is the only artist to maintain position; Thinking In Textures remains at #15.

The shake-up wasn't so severe in the Singles chart, where the highest new entry comes from Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP's do-over of Rodriguez's seminal Sugar Man. The prodigious dance team-up see their single step out at #8 (#6 if measured by radio play alone), with the newly fronted Northlane and Rot marking the only other new entrant on the ladder for the week, sliding in just outside the top ten at #11.

This week brings re-entry from the Hilltop Hoods (Won't Let You Down, #19) and George Maple (Talk Talk, #20) at the base of the ladder, while the pointy end remains largely unchanged — the Hilltops' Cosby Sweater sits atop the pile once more, with Will Sparks' Ah Yeah coming in at #2 for a second week running. Peking Duk's Take Me Over, featuring SAFIA, is up a spot to #3, displacing the still-impressively-performing Timmy Trumpet and Freaks, which stays inside the top five at #4.