Drake Takes #1 On ARIA Albums Chart With 'Views'

Canadian rapper/singer-songwriter Drake has seen the days following the release of his new album Views come to their logical conclusion, with the full-length taking out the #1 spot on this week's ARIA Albums Chart.

It's not just Australians that have caught the Drizzy bug, however, as the Hotline Bling scribe rides that song's late inclusion on the album to #1 in the UK Top 100 as well. Both charts see the exact same movement take place, thus, as Beyonce's Lemonade steps back to #2. But, from there, local tastes take over and back home it's Adele (25, #3), Dami Im (Classic Carpenters, #4) and Marina Prior & Mark Vincent (Together, #5) who round out the first five entries for the week.

The second-highest full-length debut for the week comes from homeless-chic rocker Rob Zombie, who lands inside the top 10 with the exhaustively titled The Electric Warlock Acid With Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser stepping out at #8. It's one up from the fellow veteran headbangers in Sixx:A.M., whose much more sensibly titled Prayers For The Damned drops in at #9, before Josh Groban's live album Stages closes the bracket at #10. 

Graeme Connors also sees a strong debut this week, coming in at #11 with new record 60 Summers, while Oz-punk crew Luca Brasi also put a good foot forward with If This Is All We're Going To Be, new in the charts at #18. Fellow locals King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are right behind them with Nonagon Infinity at #19, one step ahead of the resilient Sia, whose This Is Acting falls three spots to #20 this week. Olympia's Self Talk is also a notable debutante inside the top 50, stepping out at #36.

Prince sees his first (of several) entries high up the list at #6, with The Very Best Of leading his reduced but still significant charge throughout the Albums chart — he pops up again at #14 with The Hits/The B-Sides; #21 with Ultimate; #22 with Purple Rain (with The Revolution); and #75 with The Hits. 

In the Singles rankings, it's Calvin Harris who brings the week's highest-performing new entrant with This Is What You Came For (ft. Rihanna), but it's not quite enough to block Drake's One Dance (ft. Wizkid & Kyla) from spiking up from #5 to claim #1 (which it also took out in the UK). Familiar faces fill the upper echelons; Gnash slips a rung to #3 with I Hate U, I Love U (ft. Olivia O'Brien), and last week's #1, Pink, is down to #4 with Just Like Fire, knocking The Chainsmokers down a spot to #5 with Don't Let Me Down (ft. Daya). The next-highest debuts are a little ways down the list, with Ghost Town DJs breaking the drought at #42 with My Boo and Blink-182 following suit with comeback single Bored To Death landing smack on the halfway mark at #50. Despite a buzzworthy film clip, Radiohead's Burn The Witch is further down the list, entering at #81.

Of note internationally, Empire Of The Sun have topped the US club charts at last, their eight-year-old hit seeing them rise from #2 to claim pole position on Billboard's Dance Club Songs chart following an obviously successful campaign with Honda, which even got them on TV with Ellen DeGeneres. Good things come to those who wait, we guess.