Australia Still Loves Flume As He Storms Back Into The Charts

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The latest offering from Aussie electronic producer Flume, Some Minds, is the highest debut on this week’s ARIA Singles Chart.

The tune, which features guest work from Miike Snow’s Andrew Wyatt, was added to triple j rotation during the week, and debuted at 27.

While Flume was the highest debuting artist, Taylor Swift remains at number one with Bad Blood.

Conrad Sewell’s single Start Again shot from 60 to six — the local lad could be on his way to the top just weeks after his sister Grace was number one with You Don’t Own Me.

As expected from mid-week figures, international artists dominate the new entries in this week's Albums Chart, seeing Splendour In The Grass headliner Florence + The Machine debuting at the very top with How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful and English music producer Jamie xx scoring second place with In Colour. Also new: Peace Is The Mission by Major Lazer at five, Everything Is 4 by Jason Derulo at 12 and Last Of Our Kind by The Darkness at 23. 

The week's highest local debut was former Idol Paulini's Come Alive at 25 while Perth's Make Them Suffer landed in at 30 with Old Souls and fellow West Australians Jebediah came in at 32 with Twenty. Melbourne country band Jetty Road debuted at 38 with Hearts On Fire with fellow Victorians Mark Seymour & The Undertow moved in at 43 with Mayday. Ben Lee's Love Is The Great Rebellion, debuted at 71.

Unsurprisingly there was a big spike for Courtney Barnett’s Sometimes I Sit And Think... following her appearance on Channel Seven’s Sunday Night and ABC1's 7.30 this week — the album leapt back up from 51 to 22.