Deadbeat does good

The long-awaited fifth album from Tame Impala, Deadbeat, arrives at the top of the ARIA Australian Albums Chart and the Vinyl Chart this week, clocking in at #2 behind Taylor Swift on the main Albums Chart. 

The winner of 13 ARIA Awards, one BRIT Award and one GRAMMY, Tame Impala has landed in the top five with all of his studio albums. Innerspeak and Lonerism peaked at #4 in 2010 and 2012 respectively, while Currents hit #1 in 2015 and The Slow Rush topped the chart in 2020. The Slow Rush also reached #3 in both the UK and the US. 

Dracula, the lead single from the album, also tops the Australian Singles Chart and sits at #40 on the main Singles Chart, a new peak. He has now reached the top 50 three times: The Less I Know The Better hit #17 in 2015 and New Gold by Gorillaz featuring Tame Impala and Bootie Brown got to #44 in 2022. 

Taylor Swift’s The Life Of A Showgirl holds at #1 for the third week in a row. Nine of her 14 chart-toppers have spent three or more weeks at #1: Red (three weeks), 1989 (nine weeks), Lover (three weeks), Folklore (four weeks), Evermore (four weeks), Midnights (16 weeks), 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (14 weeks), The Tortured Poets Department (eight weeks) and now The Life Of A Showgirl.

ARIA Award winner Ruel debuts at #6 with Kicking My Feet, which also lands at #3 on the Vinyl Chart and #2 on the Australian Albums Chart. It’s his third visit to the ARIA Albums Chart Top 50: his EP Free Time peaked at #3 in 2019 and his debut full-length album 4th Wall also reached #3 in 2023. 

The Last Dinner Party are new at #7 with their second album, From The Pyre. The London-based rock band reached #35 last year with Prelude To Ecstacy. 

The Southern River Band are new at #16 with Easier Said Than Done, their first time on the chart. The WA band will be one of the support acts for AC/DC’s Perth concerts in December.

Melbourne rock band Camp Cope’s Live At Sydney Opera House lands at #20. It’s their fourth visit to the Albums Chart: Camp Cope got to #36 in 2016, How To Socialise & Make Friends peaked at #6 in 2018 and Running With The Hurricane hit #11 in 2022. 

Elsewhere in the top 50, Melbourne’s Wilsn debuts at #31 with Bloom, and Aussie country singer Andrew Swift comes in at #33 with Lucky Stars.

Taylor Swift’s The Fate Of Ophelia holds at #1 on the Singles Chart for a third week, while Olivia Dean’s Man I Need returns to its #2 peak Olivia also scores a third top 10 hits this year, as So Easy (To Fall In Love) darts from #22 to #10. 

As tracks from Taylor’s new album slip down the chart, several songs return to the top 10 including Alex Warren’s Ordinary (back up from #11 to #5), Disco Lines and Tinsha’s No Broke Boys (from #12 to #6) and Sombr’s 12 To 12 (from #16 to #9). 

No change on the On Replay Charts, with Teddy Swims staying at #1 on the Singles Chart with Lose Control and Fleetwood Mac’s 13-times platinum Rumours topping the Albums Chart. There is speculation that the surviving members of Fleetwood Mac are in talks for a one-off show in 2027 to mark the 50th anniversary of the release of Rumours. The last show with all the Rumours-era band members was in January 2018, four years before the death of Christine McVie.