Human Nature Take Out Highest Aussie Debut On ARIA Charts

Veteran Sydney-bred pop outfit Human Nature have earned the highest ranking of any Australian artist on the ARIA Charts this week.

The stalwart four-piece's twelfth studio full-length, Jukebox, took out second place on the albums ladder, narrowly pipped by ubiquitous chanteuse Taylor Swift, who nabbed top spot for her acclaimed release 1989. Human Nature's success has also seen their previous album — last year's The Christmas Album — re-enter the charts, just over halfway down the list, at #56. Sydney electro wizards Flight Facilities weren't far behind those two acts, with the pair's debut full-length Down To Earth earning them third-place honours on debut.

The trio of acts sit well ahead of the next-highest-ranking full-length for the week, with English singer-songwriter Ben Howard the nearest new entry, a little down the ladder but still in the top 10, with I Forget Where We Were earning #9. Fellow Brit Susan Boyle and her new album Hope fall just the other side of the bracket cut-off, coming in at #11.

There were a number of impressive jumps from the full-lengths pool this week, too, with Maroon 5's V leaping 38 places to #26, T-Swift's Red heading up from #42 to #29, current tour darlings The Rolling Stones' GRRR! heading up to #32 from #63, and a nine-spot jump for veteran stringsmith Rodriguez, whose Cold Fact makes it to #35 from #44.

In the singles stakes, X Factor winner Dean Ray nabs the highest entry of any act, with Coming Back making its debut smack on the top-five cutoff, a couple of places ahead of All About That Bass scribe Meghan Trainor and her new cut Lips Are Movin. The top four tracks for the week — Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud, Marlisa's Stand By You, Taylor Swift's Shake It Off and The Veronicas' You Ruin Me — remain relatively unchanged, with only the latter two acts switching places.

Justice Crew follow up their wildly successful #1 Que Sera with a slightly less impactful track — Rise & Fall steps out at #11 — while Freaks hitmaker Timmy Trumpet is also on the ladder with another track, this time taking out #26 for Nightmare. Runner-up X Factor success story Brothers3 also manage a top-30 entry, for The Lucky Ones, stepping out at #29.

Finally, local pop heroes Sheppard and San Cisco can also add another chart accreditation to their accolades — the former's Smile hit #63 on entry, and the latter claimed #67 for Run.