INXS Stay #1; Beck Scores Highest New Entry

With last weekend's INXS interview on 7's Sunday Night garnering 1, 910, 000 viewers across the nation's capital cities (just 64, 000 short of the number of viewers for part one of the INXS mini-series a fortnight earlier), interest in the '80s arena rockers kept their complilation The Very Best at number one for a third week.

While sales began to slide for the back catalogue titles, their 1987 album Kick remained in the top three, slipping down just a notch from two last week. Their Live At Wembley Stadium 1991 set held at 17 but The Swing dropped to 34, Listen Like Thieves to 37 and Shabooh Shoobah to 46.

Having last week reached its highest ever peak since its release as a single in 1988, Never Tear Us Apart dropped from 11 to 15 in this week's Singles Chart. The band still have Need You Tonight at 36 (down from 28) and Don't Change at 46 (up from 59). Outside the top 50 they are also charting with By My Side (54), Original Sin (59), New Sensation (68), Mystify (73) and Beautiful Girl (84).

INXS are also atop the Music DVD chart with Live Baby Live while their Mystify DVD climbs up to six.

Having released his previous album as sheet music-only, American alt-pop hero Beck returned to traditional release methods with his latest album Morning Phase. He was rewarded by being this week's highest new entry in the ARIA Albums Chart - it becomes his highest-ever charting album in Australia. The biggest debut by a local artist was Adeliade hip hop crew Funkoars' Dawn Of The Head, in at 18 (it's their second top 50 album, 2011's The Quickening peaked at 11). Other new entries this week included: Helios by The Fray (21); the soundtrack of local TV hit Love Child (31, and featuring two cuts by Sydney's former The Voice contestant Emma Birdsall); White Deer Park by Sydney's Papa Vs Pretty (35); the self-titled set from American indie singer/songwriter St Vincent (54) and Real Feel by Sydney indie rockers The Holidays (63).

Eminem's Australian visit also gave the US hip hop star big sales lifts. His most recent album The Marshall Mathers LP2 moved up to seven while the Curtain Call best-of re-entered at 26 and 2002's The Eminem Show returned at 48.

In the Singles Chart, current Australian FMF headliner Pharrell Williams remained at number one for an eighth week with Happy. The week's highest debut came from Sydney band 5 Seconds Of Summer, having supported One Direction on tour internationally last year, their track She Looks So Perfect debuted at three this week. The only other local new entry came from Alex Lloyd, the re-working of his 2003 single Coming Home as a football anthem for AFL team Richmond (Coming Home To Richmond) came in at 64.