The Jungle Giants experience joy

Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide holds at #1 on the ARIA Albums Chart for the third consecutive week.

The Jungle Giants are new at #3 on the Albums Chart and #1 on the Australian Albums Chart with Experiencing Feelings Of Joy. It’s the Brisbane band’s fifth studio album and the follow up to Love Signs, which reached #1 in 2021. 

Black Veil Brides are new at #19 with Vindicate. It’s the US rock band’s seventh studio album; their best result has been Vale, which peaked at #13 in 2018. 

Australian singer and guitarist Katherine Halloran makes her chart debut with her first album, Nobody’s Baby, coming in at #26 on the Albums Chart and #2 on the Australian Albums Chart.

Neil Diamond’s Wild At Heart debuts at #29. He released his first album, The Feel Of Neil Diamond, in 1966 and has racked up 20 top albums here. Recorded in 2007, Wild At Heart is his 35th studio album and the final in a trilogy of collaborations with producer Rick Rubin. 

New at #43 is Australian contemporary jazz singer Simone Waddell with Unforgettable, her sixth studio album and first appearance in the top 50. Unforgettable is also at #5 on the Australian Albums Chart.

At #50, Brisbane band Beddy Rays debut with their new EP Sunday Slowdown. It also lands at #7 on the Australian Albums Chart and #8 on the Vinyl Chart.

After six months on the chart, American country singer Ella Langley climbs to #1 with Choosin’ Texas. She is also at #28 with the follow up single Be Her. The tracks currently hold the #1 and #2 spots on the Billboard 100 in the US. Choosin’ Texas is the first song by a female country singer to top the singles chart here since Taylor Swift’s All Too Well (Taylor’s Version) landed in the penthouse in 2021. 

Tame Impala’s Dracula returns to its #4 peak, up from #5 last week. Last week the track, including the remix featuring Jennie from BLACKPINK, jumped into the top 10 on the Billboard chart. It has peaked at #2 in the UK. 

Michael Jackson rules the On Replay Charts, with Thriller the #1 album again this week, Bad at #2 and Billie Jean stepping up from #2 to #1 on the singles chart while Beat It sits at #2. Billie Jean was the first single from Thriller and spent five weeks at #1 on the main ARIA Singles Chart in 1983.