Kingswood Make Top Ten ARIA Chart Debut

Stalwart Melburnian rockers Kingswood have made good on their midweek potential of taking out a top-ten spot on the end-of-week ARIA charts, with their debut full-length Microscopic Wars stepping out in style just outside the top five, at #6.

They're not the highest debut for the week — as projected, Ariana Grande's My Everything knocked the dominant Hilltop Hoods' Walking Under Stars off its top-spot perch, with the latter falling to #2 as a result, with the UK's Royal Blood (Royal Blood, #3) and Kiwi upstarts Broods (Evergreen, #5) also making high-ranking first appearances — but they are the highest Aussies in a week that saw quite a number of new albums (and singles, for that matter) making the list.

Impressively, both country singer Adam Harvey and Shepparton-bred hip-hop luminary Briggs also lived up to their early promise this week, with the former's Family Life falling strongly at #10, and the latter's third full-length, Sheplife, coming in inside the top twenty, at #16.

International metal juggernauts Opeth weren't far behind, stepping out with Pale Communion at #17 — the last debut inside the top twenty — while Wiz Khalifa (#26), DragonForce (#48), Ace Frehley (#59), The Griswolds (#62), Pentatonix (#63) and Basement Jaxx (#98) all managed to squeeze into the 100 top-selling albums in the country this week.

There were slightly fewer new faces on high in the singles stakes — last week's #5-placing Shake It Off, by Taylor Swift, took out top spot, with Meghan Trainor's All About That Bass dropping to #2 — but pub-attack victim Redfoo makes the highest entry for the week, with New Thang capably picking up #24, a solid five places ahead of Eminem's track featuring Sia, Guts Over Fear, which came in at #29. Vance Joy is still making chart-worthy hits, with Wasted Time making its debut at #43, just ahead of Pitbull's Fireball, featuring John Ryan, at #44.

The X Factor contestant Sydnee Carter's cover of Video Killed The Radio Star also made its debut this week, coming in at #63, which, yeah, seems about right, and young prodigy Japanese Wallpaper's Zach Braff film-worthy single Breathe In just scrapes into the top 100 at #98.