It’s official: Calum Hood is the new king of the ARIA Albums Chart.
The 5 Seconds of Summer bass player debuts at No. 1 on the national tally with ORDER Chaos ORDER, for his first solo leader.
As a member 5SOS, Hood owns six ARIA Awards and a long list of chart crowns.
All five of the pop-punk band’s studio albums have topped the chart: 5 Seconds of Summer (in 2014), Sounds Good Feels Good (2015), Youngblood (2018), CALM (2020) and 5SOS5 (2022).
The 29-year-old songwriter and musician features in the latest issue of Rolling Stone AU/NZ. “We’re always planning. The 5SOS cog in the music world never stops,” he says of the world-beating Sydney band. “In fact, it’s probably the hardest-working cog.”
There’s “always conversations going,” he continues. “There’s always people dreaming up things – ‘What if we do this, what if we do that?’ So fear not, because there’s always something going on.”
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It’s a rare homegrown 1-2 on the latest survey, published late Friday, June 20th, as Western Sydney drill act ONEFOUR opens at No. 2 with Look At Me Now, their debut full-length collection.
Hood and ONEFOUR both hail from Mount Druitt, making this week’s chart one for the history books.
Another homegrown group, the prolific prog-rock outfit King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard closes out with top 5 with Phantom Island, new at No. 5.
Since 2010, King Gizz have released 27 studio albums, 56 live albums, four compilation albums, one remix album and three EPs. From that towering tally, they’ve nailed 19 top 10 albums, five of which peaked at No. 2. A No. 1, however, continues to elude them.
“Three Aussie debuts in the Top 5 is an absolutely massive result,” comments ARIA CEO Annabelle Herd. “Congratulations to ONEFOUR and King Gizz, but particularly to our new No. 1 Calum and his team for delivering a breakthrough hit album and proving that new Australian music absolutely can cut through.”
Spacey Jane’s third album If That Makes Sense is on the rise, lifting 21-13 in its sixth week on the chart. The Perth indie rockers are currently working their way around the country in support of the album, one of five domestic titles in the latest top 50. Last week’s chart juggernaut, Jimmy Barnes’s DEFIANT, slips 1-35.
Over on the ARIA Singles Chart, Alex Warren‘s “Ordinary” continues its extraordinary run. “Ordinary” logs a lucky 13th consecutive week at No. 1, for the the equal fifth longest reign in chart history, ARIA reports. The California artist is still well-off the pace set by Tones And I, whose 2019 smash “Dance Monkey” logged an unprecedented 24 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1.
The barren spell continues for domestic talent on the singles chart. No Australian releases impact the top 50.
