‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Completes Another Chart Double In Australia

It’s different illustration week, different illustration treble for KPop Demon Hunters (Republic/Universal) successful Australia.

The soundtrack to the deed carnal Netflix movie is flying astatine the apical of the ARIA leaderboard for a ninth non-consecutive week. Among soundtracks, ARIA reports, that effort equals the 9 week tally by the 1997 soundtrack for Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo & Juliet.

Since the ARIA Charts were archetypal published successful 1983, lone 4 soundtracks person logged much weeks astatine the top, according to the charts compiler: the Australian formed signaling of Jesus Christ Superstar (10 weeks successful 1992); positive Titanic (1998), Moulin Rouge (2001) and A Star Is Born (2018), which each led for 11 weeks.

Meanwhile, the apical way from KPop Demon Hunters, “Golden,” reigns implicit the ARIA Singles Chart for a ninth consecutive week. That’s closing successful connected the all-time people for a deed from an animated film, presently acceptable astatine 12 weeks by Pharrell Williams’ 2014 azygous “Happy” from Despicable Me 2.

Back with the ARIA Albums Chart, Ocean Alley’s Love Balloon (via Community Music) lifts disconnected for a No. 3 debut, the highest commencement for immoderate caller merchandise connected the existent frame, published Friday, Sept. 26.

Recorded successful 3 stints implicit astir 3 months, Love Balloon is Ocean Alley’s fifth workplace album, and archetypal recorded with legendary American stone shaper Nick DiDia (Bruce Springsteen, Rage Against The Machine).

With that agleam start, Love Balloon is the Sydney indie-rock outfit’s 3rd consecutive postulation to deed No. 3, pursuing 2020’s Lonely Diamond and 2022’s Low Altitude Living. Their breakthrough 2nd medium from 2018, Chiaroscuro, which housed the triple j Hottest 100 person “Confidence,” reached No. 11 connected the nationalist survey.

Ocean Alley scores silverware arsenic Love Balloon is crowned connected the ARIA Top 20 Australian Albums chart, a feat they celebrated Saturday at London’s Alexandra Palace, with a header amusement for much than 8,000 fans.

Also debuting successful the apical tier is Cardi B‘s sophomore workplace album, Am I The Drama? (Atlantic/Warner), caller astatine No. 8. Drama is the followup to the Bronx rapper’s 2018, Invasion Of Privacy, which peaked astatine No. 5.

Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails bags a apical 10 with the soundtrack to TRON: Ares (Interscope/Universal). It’s caller astatine No. 10 for the American concern stone act’s sixth apical tier effort successful Australia, a tally that includes a champion of No. 2 for 1999’s The Fragile. Daft Punk’s soundtrack to TRON: Legacy reached No. 17 successful 2011.

Lola Young conscionable misses retired connected a apical 10 berth with I’m Only F—ing Myself (Island/Universal), her 3rd album. It’s caller astatine No. 12, for the British singer’s archetypal ARIA Albums Chart appearance.

Further down the list, published precocious Friday, September 26th, Brisbane set Platonic Sex ace the apical 40 with their debut medium Face To The Flywire (Orchard). It’s caller astatine No. 31.