Tim Minchin and Michael Clifford score top 10 debuts

It’s four consecutive weeks at #1 for the soundtrack to KPop Demon Hunters, which has reached the top 10 in more than 20 countries, while the triple J Aussie Hottest 100 sees several favourites fly back up the Singles Chart.

Actor, writer, comedian and singer Tim Minchin scores his second ARIA-charted album as Time Machine debuts at #4. He reached #3 in 2020 with Apart Together. 

5 Seconds of Summer’s Michael Clifford is new at #10 with his debut album Sidequest. He is the second 5SOS member to hit the albums chart this year: Calum Hood went to #1 in June with Order Chaos Order.

5SOS has won six ARIA Awards and all five of their studio albums have gone to #1: 5 Seconds of Summer in 2014, Sounds Good Feels Good in 2015, Youngblood in 2018, Calm in 2020 and 5SOS5 in 2022. 

Veteran American rock band Alice Cooper returns at #12 with The Revenge Of Alice Cooper, its first studio album since Muscle Of Love in 1973. The album reunites Alice Cooper the singer with band members Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway and Neal Smith for the first time in over five decades. 

The band has released eight albums, reaching #5 here in 1972 with School’s Out and #4 in 1973 with Billion Dollar Babies. As a solo act, Cooper has released 22 studio albums, landing in the top five with Welcome To My Nightmare in 1975, Alice Cooper Goes To Hell in 1976, Lace And Whiskey in 1977, Trash in 1989, Paranormal in 2018 and Detroit Stories in 2021. 

Aussie group Folk B***h Trio land at #19 with their debut album, Now Would Be A Good Time. 

The Dreggs arrive at #63 with their second album, The Art Of Uncommon Practice. The Queensland folk-pop duo of Paddy Macrae and Zane Harris got to #29 last year with Caught In A Reverie. 

On the Singles Chart, Golden, the lead track from the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, climbs from #2 to finally claim the #1 spot. Three more tracks from the album are in the top seven, with Your Idol at #4, Soda Pop at #5 and How It’s Done at #7.

Golden is the fourth track by a Korean artist or group to land at #1. Psy’s Gangnam Style spent six weeks on top in 2012, BLACKPINK’s Pink Venom was #1 for one week in 2022, and Rose and Bruno Mars’ APT. ruled for 14 weeks in 2024-25. 

Rounding things out, triple J’s recent Hottest 100 Australian Songs countdown sparks new interest in several classic tracks:

• Crowded House’s Don’t Dream It’s Over (#5 on the countdown) climbs from #57 to #22; it peaked at #8 in 1986. 
• The top song on the Hottest 100, INXS’ Never Tear Us Apart, returns to the chart at #28; it peaked at #11 in 1988.
• The runner up on the countdown, Hilltop Hoods’ The Nosebleed Section, is back, scoring a new peak of #31. Until now, it had been as high as #75 in 2003.
• AC/DC’s Thunderstruck (#13 on the list) jumps from #80 to #37; it peaked at #4 in 1990. 
• The Temper Trap’s Sweet Disposition (#11 on the list) re-enters at #39; it peaked at #14 in 2008. 
• Powderfinger’s My Happiness (#6 on the list) returns at #45; it peaked at #4 in 2000.
• Gotye and Kimbra’s Somebody That I Used To Know (#10 on the Hottest 100) re-enters at #46; it spent eight weeks at #1 in 2011.