Chart Wrap: The Cat Empire score first independent #1

Hot 100

Lukas Graham hits #1 on the TMN Hot 100, up from #2 with certified hit 7 Years. Charlie Puth shares in his success at #2 up from #5 on its tenth week in the chart, while Zara Larsson’s Lush Life moves back up to #3 from #4.

Flume’s Never Be Like You featuring Kai takes a new peak at #5 from #10, leading ahead of the three new Top 10 entries. At #7 is the first with Selena Gomez’s Hands To Myself moving up from #12. It’s followed by Twenty One Pilots’ Stressed Out at #8 from #15 and Kiiara’s Gold at #10 from #13.

Outside the Top 10, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ new single Dance Off makes it up to #26 from #37 on its second week in the chart. Rudimental’s Rumour Mill makes it into the Top 40 at #40 from #51. Alan Walker’s Faded makes the most of this quiet week of movers at #24 from #49 on its second week in the chart.

Fifth Harmony makes for the highest debut at #28 with Work From Home featuring Ty Dolla $ign. Justin Bieber’s Company comes in at #42 followed by Dua Lipa’s Be The One at #53. Jason Derulo scores a re-entry at #56 with Get Ugly.

ARIA Singles

It’s now been four weeks at #1 for Lukas Graham’s 7 Years, the same time charting at #1 as Danes Cut ‘N’ Move, whose Give It Up was at #1 for four weeks in 1994. Twenty One Pilots’ Stressed Out hits #2 from #3 on its fifth week in the Top 10 while Daya’s Hide Away hits #7 from #13.

Sia makes for the last interesting Top 10 movement as Cheap Thrills enters the chart at #8 from #12 making for her fourth Top 10 single.

The highest debut to come in is Yo Preston’s Love Yourself Vs F@*k Yourself featuring Kelly Kiara following a huge week at commercial radio.

ARIA Albums

Taking out a #1 debut this week is The Cat Empire’s new album Rising With The Sun, their second #1 as Two Shoes peaked there in 2005. Rising With The Sun is the group’s second album since making the decision to go 100% independent in 2012. The first indie release was 2012’s Steal The Light, which peaked at #3.

Kendrick Lamar comes in at #3 with the debut of Untitled Unmastered, his second Top 5 debut, all of which are demos from 2015’s #1 To Pimp A Butterfly. Lamar also enjoys a #1 debut on the Billboard 200 with the new album. The next debut is at #6 with Tonight Alive’s third album Limitless, also marking their second Top 10 entry.

Urthboy’s highly anticipated The Past Beats Inside Me Like A Second Heartbeat takes a new career highpoint with a debut of #7. It follows 2012’s Smokey’s Haunt which peaked at #12. No other new debuts come in until #18 with Miike Snow’s III entering just short of 2012’s album Happy To You, which peaked at #16.

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