It’s Sabrina Carpenter for the win on Australia’s charts as Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds enjoy the top album debut.
Carpenter’s sixth studio album and first leader, Short n’ Sweet (via Island/Universal), extends its stay at the ARIA Chart summit for a second week, in doing so denying Nick Cave a homegrown leader with Wild God, new at No. 2.
It’s the alternative lock legends’ 14th ARIA top 10 album, and the followup to Ghosteen, which peaked at No. 2 in 2019. Cave’s 2021 collaboration with Dirty Three leader Warren Ellis, Carnage, also reached No. 2.
Cave has collected eight ARIA Awards for his solo or group work, took out top spot in 2013 with Push The Sky Away, and was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2007. Wild God is Cave’s first release in these parts through a new deal with PIAS/Inertia.
Meanwhile, Billie Eilish completes the podium with Hit Me Hard And Soft (Interscope/Universal), up 4-3.
Oasis’s hyped 2025 reunion tour has been a hot story in Australia, where live dates have yet to be announced. That excitement spilled over with the 30th anniversary edition of the Britpop-era heavyweights’ debut album Definitely Maybe (Big Brother/Orchard), which enters the top 10 for the first time, at No. 10. Definitely Maybe peaked at No. 23 in 1994, according to ARIA.
Also, the Manchester rockers’ sophomore album from 1995, (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?, blasts back into the top 40, flying 71-27.
Oasis has impacted the ARIA Albums Chart Top 50 with nine titles, including a five-week stretch at No. 1 in 1996 for Morning Glory and for one week in 1997 with Be Here Now. Their last studio album, 2008’s Dig Out Your Soul, peaked at No. 5 in Australia.
Carpenter completes the chart double as “Taste” reigns for a second week on the ARIA Singles Chart, published Friday, Sept. 6. “Espresso,” meanwhile, stays hot at No. 2; “Please Please Please” is at No. 4, and Carpenters lands a fourth top 10 on the latest frame, as “Bed Chem” improves 11-10.
With the chart-topping successes of “Espresso,” “Please Please Please” and “Taste,” the U.S. singer and actor has logged five total weeks at No. 1 so far in 2024, more than any other female artist.
