Gurrumul debuts top five with Delta duet.
American stoner rock giants Queens Of The Stone Age have debuted at number one on this week's ARIA Albums Chart. Their ...Like Clockwork album has pushed Daft Punk from the top spot in Australia, with the French duo having enjoyed two weeks at number one with Random Access Memories - it's still selling strong and only slips to number two.
But this week's biggest news comes from the ARIA Singles Chart where local Indigenous artist Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu makes the week's highest debut with Bayini, a duet with Delta Goodrem recorded live when the pair performed it on her high-rating TV hit The Voice. The song comes in at number four. The track landed ahead of the weekly slew of Voice-related tracks which included a new single by the 2012 talent show's winner Karise Eden (Threads Of Silence, in at 19). The only other local non-Voice related debut came from Sheppard, their self-titled EP coming in at 38.
Behind QOTSA, the rest of the week's Albums Chart debuts played out as predicted mid-week - with a slew of big ticket international releases battling for top 20 positions. City & Colour's The Hurry And The Harm came in at four, Disclosure's Settle at five, John Fogerty's Wrote A Song For Everyone at six and Sleeping With Sirens' Feel at 14.
The highest local debut for the week came from Baby Animals, their This Is Not The End set coming in at 19. Behind them was former Australia's Got Talent contestant Jonny Taylor's Something To Say in at 45.
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Baby Animals performed stronger in the Digital Albums chart, where This Is Not The End debuted at seven. Also coming in higher in the digital chart was New Zealand's Shapeshifter, in at 20 with Delta - which missed out on a place in the Albums Chart top 50.