New Number Ones for this week’s ARIA Charts:

The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey and ‘Suicide Squad: The Album’ Soundtrack hit the peak!

Singles: Top 5: 1. The Chainsmokers Feat. Halsey ‘Closer’

2. Major Lazer Feat. Justin Bieber & MØ ‘Cold Water’

3. DJ Snake Feat. Justin Bieber ‘Let Me Love You’ (debut)

4. Illy Feat. Vera Blue ‘Papercuts’

5. Twenty One Pilots ‘Heathens’

Singles Chartifacts: #1: The Chainsmokers Feat. Halsey ‘Closer’ – After debuting at #2 last week, The Chainsmokers’ fourth top 50 single has moved up one spot to give the American duo their first #1 on the ARIA Charts. #3: DJ Snake Feat. Justin Bieber ‘Let Me Love You’ (debut) – French producer DJ Snake picks up his highest debut/peak on the ARIA Singles Chart with ‘Let Me Love You’. Featuring vocals from Justin Bieber, the track comes from DJ Snake’s debut album Encore (new at #10 this week). The producer’s previous best was with ‘Middle’ (#5 Dec. ’15). #5: Twenty One Pilots ‘Heathens’ – Featuring on Suicide Squad: The Album, a jump of 14 spots for ‘Heathens’ has given Twenty One Pilots a second top ten single. It’s the track’s eighth week in the top 50. #17: Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa & Imagine Dragons, X Ambassadors, Ty Dolla $ign, Logic ‘Sucker For Pain’ (debut) – In what has to be one of the most unique and diverse combination of artists, Lil Wayne and Wiz Khalifa have teamed up with the likes of Imagine Dragons, X Ambassadors, Ty Dolla $ign and Logic to deliver ‘Sucker For Pain’, a genre-bending anthem from this week’s #1 album, Suicide Squad: The Album. #39: Skrillex & Rick Ross ‘Purple Lamborghini’ (debut) – Also from Suicide Squad: The Album, ‘Purple Lamborghini’ brings together dubstep producer Skrillex and rapper Rick Ross.

Albums:

Top 5:

1. Soundtrack ‘Suicide Squad: The Album’ (debut)

2. Bernard Fanning ‘Civil Dusk’ (debut)

3. Human Nature ‘Gimme Some Lovin': Jukebox Vol. II’

4. Montaigne ‘Glorious Heights’ (debut)

5. Adele ‘25’

Albums Chartifacts: #1: Soundtrack ‘Suicide Squad: The Album’ (debut) – The soundtrack to the new film based on characters from the DC Comics universe. Suicide Squad: The Album includes Eminem’s ‘Without Me’ (#1 May ’02), Grace’s ‘You Don’t Own Me’ (#1 May ’15) and Twenty One Pilots’ ‘Heathens’ (#5 Aug. ’16). Two tracks from the album, ‘Sucker For Pain’ by Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa & Imagine Dragons, X Ambassadors, Ty Dolla $ign, Logic and ‘Purple Lamborghini’ by Skrillex & Rick Ross, have debuted at #17 and #39 respectively, this week. #2: Bernard Fanning ‘Civil Dusk’ (debut) – The third solo album from former Powderfinger front man Bernard Fanning. Civil Dusk is the follow-up to Departures (#1 Jun. ’13). Fanning’s debut solo album, Tea And Sympathy, debuted at #1 in November 2005. #4: Montaigne ‘Glorious Heights’ (debut) – Montaigne makes her ARIA Albums Chart debut with Glorious Heights. The Sydney singer-songwriter’s debut album comes two years on from her debut EP Life Of Montaigne. In March this year, Montaigne peaked at #2 on the ARIA Singles Chart as a featured artist on the Hilltop Hoods track ‘1955’. #7: Skillet ‘Unleashed’ (debut) – With their tenth studio album, American Christian rock band Skillet pick up their first appearance in the ARIA top 50. The group released their self-titled debut in 1996. Unleashed is the follow-up to 2013’s Rise. #9: Elvis Presley ‘Way Down In The Jungle Room’ (debut) – A new two-disc bringing together Elvis Presley’s final recordings. The tracks were recorded primarily in February and October of 1976 at Graceland. Presley reached #1 in November 2015 with the album If I Can Dream, which featured The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Streaming Singles:Top 5:

1. Major Lazer Feat. Justin Bieber & MØ ‘Cold Water’

2. The Chainsmokers Feat. Halsey ‘Closer’

3. Drake feat. Wizkid & Kyla ‘One Dance’

4. DJ Snake Feat. Justin Bieber ‘Let Me Love You’ (debut)

5. Illy Feat. Vera Blue ‘Papercuts’

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The national ARIA Chart is Australia's pre-eminent music chart representing a broad cross section of retail outlets. More than 1200 music retailers, including department stores, chain stores, independent retailers, streaming outlets, and digital providers contribute their data to ARIA to ensure that comprehensive charts are compiled across various genres and categories during any given week.