Boo Seeka Make One Of The Only Two Debuts In This Week's ARIA Top 40 Albums

Sydney duo Boo Seeka have taken the week's highest debut on the ARIA Albums chart, with their new record, Never Too Soon, making a top-10 landing at #8.

It's one of only two albums to make its first appearance inside the top 40 — the other being Travis Collins & Amber Lawrence's Our Backyard, right on the cutoff at #40 — in a week that sees only 11 make an entry across the top 100.

Three of those fresh entries belong to late, great country icon Glen Campbell, his passing earlier this week spurring a boost to sales of Greatest Hits (#41) and Glen Campbell's Twenty Golden Greats (#52) — the latter of which makes its debut just behind another departed icon, Slim Dusty, whose Odds & Sods has its initial landing at #51 — as well as The Glen Campbell Collection, entering the ranks at #86.

The remaining debuts comprise a pretty mixed bag, from US alt-rockers Deadweight (Wage War, #45) and country muso Brett Eldredge (Brett Eldredge, #61) to the soundtrack for Atomic Blonde (#66), hardcore-punk supergroup Dead Cross (Dead Cross, #71) and Richard Tognetti/Australian Chamber Orchestra (Mountain, #75).

Despite the lack of strictly new entries into the top 10, there's a distinct amount of shuffling going on; although Ed Sheeran remains atop the list with ÷ (Divide) at #1 yet again, Lorde's Melodrama has shot up nine places to take #2, Kendrick Lamar's DAMN. has leapt from #12 to #3, the Moana soundtrack has rocketed 22 places to land at #4, Baby Driver's soundtrack is up to #5 from #10, and Imagine Dragons' Evolve has made a 12-spot jump to hit #6.

Both Lana Del Rey (Lust For Life, #7) and Linkin Park (One More Light, #9) remain where they are, while Arcade Fire suffer an ignominious tumble from being last week's #2 to this week's #10.

In the top 100 singles, there are only two debuts across the board, the highest being Khalid's Young, Dumb & Broke (#57), coming in a ways ahead of Camilla Cabello's OMG (ft. Quavo) at #77.

Despacito (by Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee, ft. Justin Bieber) remains at #1 for another week but, on the plus side, at least the Australian presence is getting stronger across the board in contrast to recent weeks — there are now a (relatively) whopping 10 songs by local artists in the top 100, five of them being in the top 40, a marked turnaround from even a few months ago, when that figure had dipped as low as two.