Daft Punk Arrive In Aus Charts

The top of the ARIA Charts received an overhaul this week, with the top four positions replaced by debuts and Daft Punk's Random Access Memories leading the way thanks to the highest single-week sales of the year so far.

The album, which was lead in by a huge marketing campaign, is the first time Daft Punk have topped the Aussie charts – previously Discovery was their most successful, peaking at seven in 2001. The record sold seven times more than the second placed release, The National's Trouble Will Find Me. The Splendour-bound American outfit last appeared in the chart with 2011's album High Violet, which peaked at 29.

As was predicted mid-week, The Cat Empire also had a big release with Steal The Light debuting at three (their fourth top ten) and Thirty Seconds To Mars' Love Lust Faith + Dreams debuted at four.

Hoping for top ten debuts, locals Airbourne debuted at 17 with Black Dog Barking and Jinja Safari's self-titled managed 27. It was the highest points for both bands, with Airbourne's previous best 19 in March 2010 and Jinja Safari's 53 in November 2011. Other notable debuts came from Eurovision Song Contest – Malmo 2013 at 16, UK singer Gabrielle Aplin with English Rain at 22, Escape The Fate at 34 with Ungrateful and The Dillinger Escape Plan's One Of Us Is The Killer at 45.

It was far less volatile over at the Singles chart with Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines, featuring T.I. and Pharrell, holding off Daft Punk's Get Lucky, featuring Pharrell. Daft Punk has the supremacy in the Streaming Tracks chart though, with 14 tracks inside the top 25 – including Get Lucky twice at one and four.

It is the first time an act has had so many tracks so high in the new streaming chart. Previously Michael Buble had 15 in the top 39 on the last day of 2012.