Some Splendour 2016 Acts Just Bulldozed Their Way Back On The ARIA Charts

Artists playing last week’s Splendour In The Grass festival experienced sales bumps throughout this week’s ARIA Albums chart.

While veteran Australian harmony-pop group Human Nature landed their first local #1 in ten years with their Gimme Some Lovin': Jukebox Vol II covers set, Splendour darling Flume flew back up to #2 with Skin - a 13-place jump.

Fellow Splendour alumni The Avalanches saw their Wildflower album only slip one notch to #3, in its third week in the chart here, as it plummeted down other album charts around the world.

The Splendour effect kicks in again for The Cure, whose Greatest Hits re-entered the top 100 at #27 - its highest position to date.

Also riding the wave is festival act Jack Garratt, who sees Phase re-enter the rankings at #31, just a few spots above Gang Of Youths, whose acclaimed LP The Positions is back at #35. Other Splendour acts to see re-entries this week include DMA’S (Hills End, #50), Boy & Bear (Limit Of Love, #79), Violent Soho (Hungry Ghost, #80), City Calm Down (In A Restless House, #82) and The 1975 (The 1975, #84).

The week’s other non-Splendour-related entries include: Periphery's Periphery II: Select Difficulty (#8); Crown The Empire’s Retrograde (#53); Warren H William & Dani Young’s Desert Water (#71); Relient K’s Air For Free (#72); Aradhna’s Brown Girl (#73).

In the Singles Chart, Major Lazer take out the top position with new single Cold Water, ft. Justin Bieber and MØ, the first single from their forthcoming fourth album, Music Is The Weapon.

Local rapper Illy enjoys a strong week, too, seeing his first-ever top-10 track, Papercuts ft. Vera Blue, rise up six places in its third week in the chart to reach #2.