Adele Blocks Paul Kelly From #1 On The Aussie Chart This Week

Aussie icon Paul Kelly’s new festive LP is the week’s highest local debut on the ARIA Albums Chart, landing at #2.

Featuring Kasey Chambers, Emma Donovan, Vika & Linda Bull, Kate Miller-Heidke, Marlon Williams and more, Paul Kelly's Christmas Train is Kelly’s eighth studio album in six years and the fifth of those to hit the Top 10, following 2016’s Seven Sonnets & A Song (#9), 2017’s Life Is Fine (#1), 2018’s Nature (#1) and 2020’s Please Leave Your Light On (#3).

It’s not surprising that this week’s #1 goes to British pop megastar Adele for her new album, 30, marking her third chart-topping effort on the ARIA Albums Chart.

Adele’s last album, 2015’s 25, spent eight weeks at #1 upon release, while 2011’s 21 spent 32 weeks in the top spot upon release, the second most weeks at #1 in ARIA charts history behind Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms, which spent 34 weeks at #1 in the ‘80s.

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Meanwhile, over the Singles Chart, the singer returns to #1 with Easy On Me, while nine tracks from the new album debut in the Top 50, including Oh My God (#6) and I Drink Wine (#10) in the Top 10.

Other Albums Chart debuts this week come from Bruce Springsteen’s The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts (#6), Robert Plant & Alison Krauss’ Raise The Roof (#18) and Frenzal Rhomb’s Not So Tough Now, with the 1996 record entering the chart on its 25th anniversary thanks to a vinyl reissue.