Flume & Sia Retain Top Spots On Aussie Indie Music Charts

Flume and Sia have remained dominant forces on this week's Carlton Dry Independent Music Charts, with both acts retaining their #1 positions atop the Singles and Albums ladders for Never Be Like You (ft. Kai) and This Is Acting, respectively.

Despite the lack of movement, Sia's omnipresence across both lists is still something to behold: in the full-length stakes, she props up a very healthy 25% of the top 20, enjoying entries for 1000 Forms Of Fear (#3), Best Of... (#7), Some People Have Real Problems (#17) and We Are Born (#20), more than matching that output in singles, with her six appearances spread throughout the top 20. Namely, she claims #2 (Cheap Thrills), #7 (Alive), #11 (Chandelier), #17 (Elastic Heart), #19 (Unstoppable) and #20 (Bird Set Free).

While not quite as consistent, Flume's no slouch for multiple entries in the singles rankings either, also getting in at #5 with Smoke & Retribution, ft. Vince Staples and Kucka, as well as his breakthrough hit Holdin On, which re-enters for its 111th week on the charts at #18.

It's a quiet week for debutante entries, however, with Violent Soho making the sole new appearance for singles with new cut Viceroy, hitting the halfway mark at #10, while new albums from Lanu (The Double Sunrise) and NO ZU (Afterlife) freshen up the albums chart, though not until their respective entry points of #18 and #19.

The top five in both cases are a crop of familiar faces — Grammy-nominated Aussie Courtney Barnett stays strong with Sometimes I Sit & Think, & Sometimes I Just Sit, becoming the #2 album this week after its drop to #3 last go-round, with Hermitude (Dark Night, Sweet Light, #4) and Seth Sentry (Strange New Past, #5) rounding out the upper echelons.

Meanwhile, across the way, Hottest 100 winners The Rubens enjoy another solid week for their competition-crushing single Hoops, down a spot to #3 this week, while Marcus Marr & Chet Faker (The Trouble With Us, #4) also make the cut — twice, actually; their Work EP is also on the charts for another week, down two spots to #13.