Can Our Aussie Legends Beat US Pop Star To #1?

US pop star Meghan Trainor will be looking for a second #1 album in Australia this week with her sophomore offering Thank You, but she'll have two massive obstacles in her way to claim top spot on the ARIA Albums Chart in Aussie legends The Living End and Paul Dempsey.

The Living End are this week dropping their seventh studio album (and their first in five years), Shift, while Dempsey releases his third solo record, Strange Loop, which are both aiming for top five debuts alongside Trainor.

The Something For Kate frontman recently stopped by theMusic to give us an exclusive track-by-track look into his new album — check it out here. 

If Dempsey can crack higher than #4, he will break his own record for solo releases, following on from 2013's Shotgun Karaoke (#17) and 2009's Everything Is True (#4), while The Living End's last album, 2011's The Ending Is Just The Beginning Repeating, peaked at #3.

The Living End would claim their third #1 Aussie album if they come out on top this week.

Set to make top 30 debuts on the Albums chart this week include Pierce The Veil with Misadventures, Kygo's Cloud Nine, Devildriver's Trust No One, Hatebreed with The Concrete Confessional and Modern Baseball's Holy Ghost.

While the Eurovision compilation album is expected to crack the top ten, Australian contestant Dami Im's The Sound Of Silence is primed to burst into the top five of the Singles Chart, following her acclaimed performance which saw her finish in second place. 

Other tracks set to debut this week include Keith Urban's The Fighter, featuring Carrie Underwood, Meghan Trainor's Me Too, Little Mix's Hair, yet another Drake and Rihanna compilation in Too Good and Cheat Codes with Sex, featuring Kris Kross Amsterdam.