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Surprise, Surprise: Drake Has Dominated The ARIA Charts With 'Scorpion'

Staff Writer

Check out this week's results.

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As predicted, Drake's new album, Scorpion, has dominated both the ARIA Albums and Singles charts this week. 

The LP has debuted at #1 on the Albums list, which sees the Canadian rapper score his second-straight Australian top charting studio album on the back of 2016's Views.

The dominance of Scorpion​ has seen Florence & The Machine's High As Hope land at #2, The Rubens' LO LA RU at #3 and Gorillaz' The Now Now at #4, while ​The Greatest Showman ​soundtrack rounds out the top five.

read more: Check out our review of 'scorpion'

Other album debuts this week include Bullet For My Valentine's Gravity (#10), Hillsong Young & Free's III ​(#15) and Pendulum's The Reworks (#29).

On the Singles chart, while 5 Seconds Of Summer​ have held top spot for a seventh-straight week with ​Youngblood​, a whopping 11 songs from Drake's ​Scorpion​ have placed in the top 50.

They include Don't Matter To Me (#3), Nonstop​ (#5), Nice For What (#7), ​God's Plan ​(#8), Emotionless (#12), In My Feelings (#15), ​I'm Upset​ (#17), 8 Out Of 10 (#27), Mob Ties (#28), Talk Up (#33) and Can't Take A Joke (#36).

Sydney artist Dean Lewis​' new track, Be Alright​, has also debuted on the list at #19.

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