Top Debuts For One Day, Sticky Fingers On Carlton Dry Indie Charts

In a battle for supremacy that mirrored their upper-echelon stoush on the ARIA Charts at the weekend, hip-hop outfit One Day and rambunctious rockers Sticky Fingers have come away with the top two positions, respectively, on this week's Carlton Dry Independent Music Charts, for their albums Mainline and Land Of Pleasure.

The perfect storm has knocked month-long first placeholders Sheppard and their debut full-length Bombs Away down to #3, with Sia's 1000 Forms Of Fear and Hillsong's No Other Name slipping in kind to #4 and #5 respectively. Dan Sultan's Blackbird makes an impressive leap to #6 (from #13 last week), while Chet Faker (#7, Built On Glass), Russell Morris (#8, Van Diemen's Land), Illy (#9, Cinematic) and Violent Soho (#10, Hungry Ghost) all juggling around the proximity of their previous places.

The sole remaining album debut for the week comes courtesy of Citipointe Live's Wildfire, which steps out at #16, just one place below the resilient Bliss N Eso's Circus In The Sky (#15). Fellow hip-hoppers Hilltop Hoods see re-entry for their previous LP Drinking From The Sun, too, as hype builds around follow-up record Walking Under Stars.

On the singles front, the week's highest-placing (and only) debut comes just a little below the week's highest album first-timer, with Brisbane-based prodigy Japanese Wallpaper netting an impressive #17 placing for his single Breathe In, featuring Wafia. This week also sees re-entry for electro-brass whiz Timmy Trumpet, whose Freaks re-appears on the charts at #10 after peaking at #9 upon release.

Otherwise, it remains a fairly steady week once more for the Carlton Dry Singles chart — the top five placings, held respectively by Sheppard (Geronimo), Sia (Chandelier), Illy (Tightrope), Vance Joy (Mess Is Mine) and Hilltop Hoods (Won't Let You Down) — remain exactly as they were for the prior seven days.