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It's A Good Week For Heavy Music With The Amity Affliction, Polaris & Ozzy Osbourne In The Charts

We are pleased.

Heavy music has had a mighty week with three albums debuting within the top five of this week's ARIA Albums Chart. 

While BTS' Map Of The Soul: 7 has debuted at #1 on the chart, local act The Amity Affliction have debuted at #2 with Everyone Loves You... Once You Leave Them. 

Sadly this has meant that the group have missed out on their fifth straight #1 record, which would seen them join an exclusive club that only features Silverchair, Powderfinger and Hilltop Hoods. 

Sydney group Polaris have picked up their highest-ever chart position, with The Death Of Me landing at #3. The LP was our pick for Album Of The Week last week, check it out here

Interestingly, the results have flipped for over on the Vinyl Chart, with Polaris taking out this week's #1 and The Amity Affliction picking up #2. 


That's not all though, with legendary Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne picking up the #4 spot with his latest solo work, Ordinary Man.  

Looking further at the chart, Tame Impala's The Slow Rush has moved down the chart to #5 after debuting strong at #1 last week. 

Grimes' Miss Anthropocene debuts at #10, King Krule's Man Alive! makes its first appearance on the chart at #35, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie's Artist 2.0 debuts at #39 and John Farnham's Greatest Hits appears at #48 for its first time on the chart. 

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Over on the Singles Chart, The Weeknd holds onto the #1 spot with Blinding Lights for the sixth straight week, while last week's #2 and #3 - Dua Lipa's Don't Start Now and Justin Bieber's Intentions feat. Quavo - remain unchanged. Tones & I's Dance Monkey creeps back up from #5 to #4. 

The Weeknd's run continues further down the chart however, with After Hours debuting at #11. BTS' On, Lil Mosey's Blueberry Faygo and Endor's Pump It Up debut at #29, #42 and #43 respectively.