DisturbedFour years after their last studio full-length, American heavy-rock veterans Disturbed have returned with a bang, hitting #1 on this weeks' ARIA Albums Chart with comeback effort Immortalised.
It's comfortably the strongest debut of the week, coming in a couple of rungs higher than the next batch of new entrants, led by fellow veteran act Bon Jovi and their new LP Burning Bridges, which steps out at #3, and also including old mate Matchbox 20 Rob Thomas (The Great Unknown, #4) and curiously enduring Aussie pop-punk outfit Short Stack (Homecoming, #5).
The next-highest new entrants come a ways down the list — although John Farnham & Olivia Newton-John enjoy a healthy nine-spot rise for Two Strong Hearts, up to #10 this week — in the form of mysterious metallers Ghost, whose Meliora claims the top-20 cutoff spot. They're just ahead of Szymon (Tigersapp, #21) and Jessie J (Sweet Talker, #22), themselves a cut above next-highest debut and stalwart locals Bad//Dreems, whose Dogs At Bay steps into daylight at #33.
It's a decent entry performance, but not quite enough to match the resurgent power of INXS, whose The Very Best is somewhat inexplicably up 15 spots to #30, only two rungs below the Furious 7 soundtrack, itself newly buffeted by a 14-place rise to #28. Pop princess Carly Rae Jepsen (E.MO.TION, #37), Kip Moore (WIld Ones, #46), The Devil Wears Prada (Space EP, #47) and Caitlyn Shadbolt (Caitlyn Shadbolt, #50) complete this week's line-up of solidly placing debuts on the chart.
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There's less to write home about on the Singles ladder, where Calvin Harris & Disciples' How Deep Is Your Love reclaims the throne from Delta Goodrem and Wings, which tumbles to #9 this week — though Nelly's The Fix (featuring Jeremih), incidentally the week's highest new entry on this chart, prevents her from hitting #10.
Also pertinent to our debut interests, but apparently not those of the ARIA audience, is Parkway Drive hitting the list with Crushed… at #96 (hey, it's still counted). There are some solid performances from some old faces in the upper echelons, however, with Nico & Vinz leading the charge with That's How You Know, featuring Kid Ink & Bebe Flexha, jumping five spots to #2 this week. Also making solid movements are R. City, whose Locked Away (featuring Adam Levine) rises an impressive 18 places to #5, Taylor Swift, who sees Wildest Dreams leap 12 rungs to #6, and old mate Vance Joy, whose other song that isn't Riptide, Fire & The Flood, enjoys a seven-spot boost to #8.
