Ariana Grande’s Eternal Sunshine is beaming on the ARIA Chart, once again.
The US pop superstar’s 2024 LP flies 79-1 following the release of a new, extended version, Eternal Sunshine Deluxe: Brighter Days Ahead.
That’s the biggest bounce to the summit from inside the top 100 since September 2020, when Mushroom Group’s pandemic-era fundraising triple-album Music From the Home Front powered 83-1.
Eternal Sunshine logged three weeks at No. 1 in March and April last year for Grande’s fifth leader here, following My Everything in 2014, Dangerous Woman in 2016, Sweetener in 2018, and Thank U, Next in 2019, ARIA reports.
Meanwhile, it’s a podium finish for grentperez, whose debut LP Backflips in a Restaurant opens its account at No. 3 on the ARIA Albums Chart, published Friday, April 4th. The Western Sydney songwriter has released four EPs in as many years, though Backflips is his first full-length album.
Backflips inaA Restaurant houses the singles “fuzzy feeling”, “2DK”, and his collaboration with Ruel, “Dandelion”, which dropped in January.
Everything is tracking up for grentperez, who was nominated for the 2023 Michael Gudinski breakthrough artist ARIA Award; won the APRA emerging songwriter of the year trophy in 2024; has supported likes of Laufey, Wallows and Rex Orange County, and had his songs covered by members of NewJeans.
In the past two years the 23-year-old rising artist has sold-out multiple headline tours across Australia, SE Asia, Europe, the UK and US, where he has shifted over 20,000 tickets and performed at Lollapalooza.
Also new to the national tally is Mumford & Sons’ Rushmere, at No. 7. Rushmere is the British folk rock outfit’s first album in nearly seven years and the first since the exit of founding member Winston Marshall in 2021.
It’s the fifth top 10 album for Mumford & Sons, which led the chart in 2009 with Sigh No More, and in 2015 with Wilder Mind and, of course, took out triple j’s Hottest 100 for 2009 with “Little Lion Man”.
Australian country singer-songwriter and guitarist Travis Collins lassos a top 40 with The Band Album, new at No. 29. Collins, who hails from Tamworth, is one of just two homegrown talents impacting the top 50.
British rockers The Darkness miss out on a top 40 spot with Dreams on Toast, their eighth studio album. It’s new at No. 45 on the ARIA Chart. The Darkness have three top 20 appearances under their collective belts with Permission to Land (No. 17 in 2003), Hot Cakes (No. 15 in 2012), and Pinewood Smile (No. 17 in 2017).
Over on the ARIA Singles Chart, Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” retains top spot for a second week, ahead of Rosé and Bruno Mars’ “APT.” (unchanged at No. 2) and Gracie Abrams’ “That’s So True” (up 4-3).
Smoking hot US artist Chappell Roan nabs a new high with “Pink Pony Club”, up 5-4. That matches the chart best of her breakthrough hit from 2024, “Good Luck, Babe!”.
The only Australian-made single in the ARIA Top 50 belongs to Vance Joy, with his 2013 hit “Riptide”, up 44-36.
