Airbourne Continue Global Chart Attack With US Charge

Warrnambool's biggest rock band, Airbourne have capped off a week of making their presence felt around the world with a strong showing in America's Billboard Chart.

After achieving a peak of two on the iTunes rock albums chart in America, their new album Black Dog Barking has debuted at 89 on the Billboard 200. It also appeared at two on the Hard Rock albums chart – the highest debut of the week.

The band's classic Aus-rock sound has been adopted in markets around the world, where the band experience more success than they do in their home country. After topping iTunes charts in the UK, Germany, France, Switzerland and Canada, amongst others, they debuted at 22 on the UK charts in a particularly busy week. On of their most impressive debuts was in Germany, where they entered the chart at five, only behind debuts from Daft Punk, Thirty Seconds To Mars and local favourite Beatrice Egli.

Today the band's manager Gregg Donovan told theMusic.com.au, “North America is always a place where Airbourne find it tough to break through on radio, just because of the way radio works over there. But we're really growing our awareness over there and getting more spins each week and selling more singles every week.”

He said that the record was having a “absolutely stomper” around the rest of the world. “It feels like we're walking into a launch pad at the moment.”

Elsewhere in the Billboard charts, Melbourne DJ duo Nervo have shot to three in the Dance/Club Play chart with Hold On. Stafford Brothers' Hello, featuring Lil Wayne and Christina Milian, dropped from 11 to 15 in the same rankings. Tommy Trash's collaboration with Sebastian Ingrosso and John Martin, Reload, jumped from 43 to 34.

There's even an Australian band in part of the charts we're not used to seeing them – Clairy Browne & The Bangin Rackette's American dream continues in the R&B Albums chart this week. The Melbourne group's Baby Caught The Bus debuted at eight this week.