Best Ofs, Re-Entries & Compilations Are The First ARIA Chart Stars For 2015

Although the world is slowly emerging from the sedate fog that engulfs it during the festive season, the change is yet to tangibly reflect on this week's ARIA Charts, with the major players for the first seven (well, five) days of 2015 coming in the form of well familiar faces.

While the pointy end of the Albums Chart is still occupied by the unmovable likes of Taylor Swift (1989, #1) and Ed Sheeran (X, #2), the back end of the top 10 is where the year's first notable action takes place, with compilation record Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 making great strides to slide into single figures this week, hitting #8 from last week's position of #22. Similarly, best-of set The Very Best Of INXS made an upward leap from #20 to #9 this week. In a trio of big jumps, Chet Faker's Built On Glass — notably one of the most widely critically acclaimed albums released in 2014, and thus atop several end-of-year round-ups — rounds out the top 10 after coming in at #21 last week.

A little further down the ladder, we see a re-entry to the top 100 for Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits (#38), while just below them sits P!nk's Greatest Hits… So Far!, up slightly shy of 30 spots to hit #39 this week. Guns N Roses' Greatest Hits LP also enjoyed quite the boost, up 19 places to #41. Eminem's Curtain Call: The Hits takes a giant step up from #71 to #45, Iggy Azalea's Reclassified is up to #51, from #83 last week, just behind ABBA's re-entered ABBA Gold & More (Anniversary Edition) at #50.

The Albums ladder also saw best-of re-entries for Michael Jackson (#1's, #54), Bruce Springsteen (Greatest Hits, #57), Cold Chisel (The Best Of Cold Chisel — All For You, #58), Bon Jovi (Bon Jovi Greatest Hits, #59), Bob Marley & The Wailers (Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley & The Wailers, #60), Phil Collins (Hits, #71), Elvis Presley (30 #1 Hits, #73), blink-182 (Greatest Hits, #75) and Neil Diamond (All Time Greatest Hits, #78), among a few other stragglers in the dying rungs of the ladder.

Over on the Singles Chart, it's much the same story as far as being populated with previous/existing entries, though mercifully there is one debut to speak of: Omi's Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix) steps out at #22 this week. Mark Ronson's Uptown Funk, featuring Bruno Mars, maintains its position atop the singles rankings, ahead of Hozier (Take Me To Church, up one to #2), T-Swift (Blank Space, #3), Aron Chupa (I'm An Albatraoz, #4) and Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud (#5 for another week).

Things were a little less quiet around the mid-point of the rankings: Iggy Azalea's Fancy, featuring Charli XCX, is the first of a crop of singles making decent upward movements, hitting #45 from #49 last week: Peking Duk's High, featuring Nicole Millar, is up four spots to #46, the same-size jump made by German indie-poppers Milky Chance and Stolen Dance (to #47), while Katy Perry's This Is How We Do makes a 12-spot leap to #48 and Ariana Grande's Break Free, featuring Zedd, is up nine spots to #49.