'Alive' Puts Sia Back On Top Of Indie Singles Chart

Chart-topping chanteuse Sia has added another notch to her belt with new cut Alive, after the track — co-written with Adele and Tobias Jesso Jr — made its debut at #1 on this week's Carlton Dry Independent Music Charts.

It's the sort of entry we've come to expect from the platinum-wigged songstress, but comes too late to knock the chart's "Sia count" up to a record (since we invented the measure) of six — Fire Meet Gasoline slips out of the top 20 to keep her "only" at five entries this week (and all within the top 10, at that), also including Elastic Heart (#4), Chandelier (#5), Big Girls Cry (#9) and My Love (#10).

It's solidly the week's highest new placing for singles, too, with the next-highest entry coming from stalwart producer Basenji and his Track Pad EP, stepping out at #14, just a couple of spots ahead of young contemporary Japanese Wallpaper, whose self-titled EP drops at #16.

Sia remains the dominant player on the Albums chart, where 1000 Forms Of Fear claims #1 for another week, still holding court after 65 weeks on the chart. However, newly dread-less troubadour Ash Grunwald makes sure nobody else is getting too comfortable with their spots, storming the charts with an impressively strong debut at #2, just ahead of Hermitude's Dark Night Sweet Light, up a spot this week to #3.

Ball Park Music frontman Sam Cromack, aka My Own Pet Radio, also enjoys a top-20 entry this week, as new LP Goodlum cracks the list at #18; although there are no further debuts for the week, resilient rapper Seth Sentry sees a strong performance for Strange New Past, which leaps up five spots to hit a very healthy #4 after 17 weeks on the chart, while The Beards find themselves as new gatekeepers of the ladder as 10 Years 1 Long Beard climbs back into the charts at #20.