Irish rockers The Script have made the week's highest new entry on the ARIA Albums Chart, with their new album Freedom Child landing at #5 on debut.
It does mean that Ed Sheeran reassumes the top spot with the unkillable ÷ (Divide), leapfrogging past a steady Paul Kelly (Life Is Fine, #2 for a second week running) as last week's #1s, Queens Of The Stone Age (Villains), fall to #3. And, somehow, the Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 soundtrack has stayed at #4 for a second week.
The Script's nearest fellow fresh faces on the ladder are LCD Soundsystem, whose American Dream enters at #10, while Neil Finn's newest, Out Of Silence (the creation of which was documented on his Facebook page), enters at #12.
Debuts are scant throughout the remainder of the list, especially inside the Top 40, though both Dixie Chicks (DCX MMXVI Live, #20) and north Qld outfit King Social (In Colour, #40) manage to pull it off.
Just behind them, Jake Bugg's Hearts That Strain comes in at #44, while Cloud Control's Zone enters at #53, Motörhead's Under Cöver at #57, Mogwai's Every Country's Sun at #65 and Mr Grevis' Game Over at #71.
There have been some interesting movements and re-entries despite the underwhelming debut results; for example, seemingly apropos nothing, Vance Joy's Dream Your Life Away has shot up from #61 last week to land inside the top 10, at #8, this week.
Also, Ariana Grande has seen a significant climb for Dangerous Woman, up 28 spots to #21 this week, while The Very Best INXS (perhaps bolstered by news of an impending biopic about Michael Hutchence) rises nine places to #41. And, ahead of his upcoming Australian tour, Roger Waters' Is This The Life We Really Want? has re-entered the charts at #68.
There's less to report on the Singles chart, where Taylor Swift's Look What You Made Me Do remains at #1 for a second week, with Pink also steady at #2 with What About Us.
Swift's new single, ...Ready For It?, makes its landing at #3, knocking Macklemore's Glorious (ft. Skylar Grey) down to #4 and Justin Bieber & BloodPop's Friends down to #5.
Outside the Top 20 singles, Maroon 5's What Lovers Do (ft. SZA) makes its debut at #33, Jason Derulo's If I'm Lucky lands at #59, Guy Sebastian's High On Me enters at #73, Ricki-Lee's Not Too Late steps out at #83, and Galantis & ROZES' Girls On Boys closes out the new crop coming to the list at #96.
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