Illy Makes Top Ten Debut On Carlton Dry Independent Music Charts

Resilient Aussie hip-hop luminary Illy enjoys double honours on the Carlton Dry Independent Music Charts this week, becoming the only artist for the past seven days to have made their debut on the indie singles and/or album charts, as well as making that appearance in the top 10 tracks for the week.

Yes, Illy's newest cut, One For The City, featuring Thomas Jules, steps out smack on #10 for the indie singles rankings this week, which sees Timmy Trumpet (Freaks), Sheppard (Geronimo), Sia (Chandelier) and Illy again, with Tightrope, all remain unmoved from their respective first four placings on the ladder, with Vance Joy's Mess Is Mine hopping over Hilltop Hoods' Won't Let You Down to switch the fifth and sixth placings for the week. Further driving home the stability of the ladder at the moment, last week's seventh, eighth and ninth placings respectively (Vance Joy, Riptide; Go Comet!, Worlds Apart; Peking Duk, High) take #8, #9 and #7 this week.

Over on the album side of things, last week's top-placeholders Hilltop Hoods remain triumphant this week, with Walking Under Stars unmoved from #1 (and two previous efforts, Drinking From The Sun and The Hard Road, both still inside the top twenty), though not for a lack of effort on the part of Violent Soho — their Hungry Ghost leapt up ten spots from #12 last week to be the new #2 indie album for the week. Sheppard hang steady at #3 for Bombs Away, while last week's silver medallist Adam Brand and his well-received My Side Of The Street drop a few spots to #4. 

Familiar faces abound as we round out the top ten, including Sia and 1000 Forms Of Fear (#5), Hillsong's resilient No Other Name (#6), hirsute harmonist Chet Faker and Built On Glass (#7), the ubiquitous Sticky Fingers and Land Of Pleasure (#8), star of the week Illy, with Cinematic (#9), and hip-hop supergroup One Day's Mainline (#10).