Chart Analysis December 21, 2017

Chart Predictions: Foo Fighters on track for sixth straight ARIA #1 album

Charts & New Music Editor

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Back with their ninth studio album, Foo Fighters are poised to make it six consecutive #1 albums in Australia with Concrete and Gold. One By One started the streak in 2002, with the most successful being 2005’s In Your Honour (3x Platinum).

Fighting for the top spot will be a strong debut effort from Angus & Julia Stone. Snow follows on from Down The Way and the Stone’s self-titled album, which both debuted at the top. If not for the Fooeys, it would be a shoo-in for this week’s #1.

Last week, supergroup Prophets of Rage droppedtheir debut self-titled album, and it appears that Rage Against The Machine,Audioslave, Cypress Hill and Public Enemy fans have caught on.

The album looks likely to find a place in the upper tier this week, as does Gang of Youth’s Go Farther In Lightness, which currently sits at #10 four weeks after originally debuting at #1.

Dua Lipa and P!NK currently occupy #4 and #5 on the ARIA Singles Chart. That could change this week as both artists apply somepressure toSam Smith and Taylor Swift up the top.

Notable debuts on the chart this week come from Post Malone (‘Rockstar’ ft. 21 Savage) and Niall Horan’s ‘Too Much To Ask’, with the latter likely to hang on the fringes of the Top 20, for now.

OVERSEAS UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

Logic’s ‘1-800-273-8255’ has become the highest charting phone number in Billboard Hot 100 history as the Alessia Cara and Khalid-featured track moves up to #3. That beats Tommy Tutone’s ‘867-5309/Jenny’ which peaked at #4 back in 1982.

Meanwhile on the UK Albums Chart, Foo Fighters are on track for #1 with the only real competition coming from Gary Numan’s Savage (Songs From A Broken World) and Ed Sheeran’s Divide.