The latest single from ubiquitous singer-songwriter Sia, Elastic Heart, has rocketed to the top of the Carlton Dry Independent Music Charts upon debut following the high-profile controversy surrounding its accompanying video clip starring Maddie Ziegler and Shia LaBeouf.
Sia also saw a big upwards jump for her album 1000 Forms Of Fear, which re-enters the top five (from #7) to hit #3 this week, while her new single entry knocks last week's top placeholders, Peking Duk with Take Me Over feat. SAFIA, down a peg to #2. The one-down pattern continues for spots #3 to #8 (held this week by Hilltop Hoods' Cosby Sweater, Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP's Sugar Man, Timmy Trumpet's Freaks, Will Sparks' Ah Yeah, Sia's Chandelier and Sheppard's Geronimo), until the week's next-highest debut, This Is Living by Hillsong Young & Free feat. Lecrae, disrupts the flow at #9.
Fellow debutant Is It A Banger?, by Odd Mob (heavily assisted by samples of Aziz Ansari on Parks & Recreation), closes out the top 10, knocking Peking Duk (High), Chet Faker (Talk Is Cheap) and Vance Joy (Riptide) down three spots each to fill the #11-#13 spots and just beating out the week's final new single entry, Something About You by Hayden James, which steps out at #14.
On the full-lengths ladder, the Hilltops (Walking Under Stars) and Chet Faker (Built On Glass) maintain fine form in the top two spots, while AC/DC hang tough at #4 for another week and Countdown falls prey to the Sia surge, dropping down to #5.
In terms of movements and re-entries, Paul Kelly enjoyed a healthy week, with his Merri Soul Sessions stepping up eight rungs to hit #10, rounding out a top bracket once again populated by Vance Joy (Dream Your Life Away, #6), Flight Facilities (Down To Earth, #7), Jimmy Barnes (30:30 Hindsight, #8) and Sheppard (Bombs Away, #9). Meanwhile, Chet Faker's Thinking In Textures makes a strong re-appearance at #13 for its 98th week on the charts, while The Smith Street Band's Throw Me In The River is back for a seventh non-consecutive top-20 week at #17.
