Jimmy Barnes Makes #1 Debut On Carlton Dry Indie Charts

Iconic Aussie rocker Jimmy Barnes has backed up his performance on the ARIA charts this week with another top-place debut for new collaborative full-length 30:30 Hindsight, snagging the #1 spot on the Carlton Dry Independent Music Charts as well.

Barnesy comfortably earned the highest new entry for the week, but he was not alone in the upper echelons — ubiquitous Brissy outfit Dead Letter Circus picked up #3 with their Stand Apart EP, while The Vines slide into the top five behind those acts as well as long-stayers the Hilltop Hoods (Walking Under Stars, #2) and Sia (1000 Forms Of Fear, #4). The independently released My Old Man, from The Sunny Cowgirls, rounds out the new full-length entries for the week, falling inside the top twenty at #19.

It's still a strong week for Aussie hip-hop, too, with Illy (Cinematic, #13),Briggs (Sheplife, #14) and One Day (Mainline, #15) falling in a nice little group just outside the top ten, but still notably high on the list.

In the singles stakes, there are noticeably fewer new faces — just Missy Higgins with The Way You Are Tonight, at #11, and Jason Owen's Damn Right picking up #17 — with incumbent top-three placeholders Timmy Trumpet (Freaks), Sia (Chandelier) and Sheppard (Geronimo) remaining unmoved for the week. Continuously ascendant troubadour Vance Joy, too, brings his singles within spitting distance of each other — Mess Is Mine (#4) just pips the still-popular Riptide (#5), while Wasted Time (#9) and My Kind Of Man (#10) conspire to give the man four simultaneous top-ten hits.

When viewed through a radio-play lens, however, the singles realm looks a little more colourful — by that measure, there are debut efforts from exeunting larrikins Bluejuice (I'll Go Crazy, #10), The Aston Shuffle (Back & Forth, #15), Sticky Fingers (If You Go, #17), The Bennies (Knights Forever, #19), and Dan Sultan (No More Explanation, #20).