Grentperez backflips into a top 3 debut

Sydney songwriter Grentperez’s debut album, Backflips In A Restaurant, breaks into the ARIA Albums Chart at #3 this week. He has released four EPs since 2021 and scored three top 40 hits in New Zealand. 

The release of a new version of Ariana Grande’s Eternal Sunshine – Eternal Sunshine Deluxe: Brighter Days Ahead – sees the album roar back from #79 back to #1. It’s the biggest leap to #1 from inside the top 100 since September 2020, when the charity concert album Music From The Home Front soared from #83 to the top spot.

Ariana’s original album spent three weeks at #1 in March and April last year and became her fifth chart topper here, following My Everything in 2014, Dangerous Woman in 2016, Sweetener in 2018 and Thank U, Next in 2019. 

A 52-week gap between stints at #1 isn’t a record: Meatloaf’s Bat Out Of Hell was #1 in early August 1978 and returned to the top in January 2022 following his death, a gap of 2,269 weeks! 

Mumford & Sons land at #7 with Rushmere, their first album in nearly seven years and the first since the exit of founding member Winston Marshall in 2021. The British folk rock band hit #1 here in 2009 with Sigh No More, #2 in 2012 with Babel, #1 in 2015 with Wilder Mind and #5 in 2018 with Delta. 

The Darkness debut at #45 with their eighth studio album, Dreams On Toast. They have cracked the top 20 three times: Permission To Land reached #17 in 2003, Hot Cakes peaked at #15 in 2012 and Pinewood Smile topped out at #17 in 2017. 

On the Singles Chart, Alex Warren’s Ordinary holds at #1 for the second week in a row, while Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club rises to a new high of #4, matching the peak of her breakthrough hit Good Luck, Babe! last year.