Australia’s best album for 2014….

Music in 2014 may seem foreign to you with the advent of pop and electronica but it’s interesting to find out what our number one album in Australia was this year….INXS’s The Very Best.

And it’s not a new album with new songs either – it was released in 2011 and features a collection of songs dating back to the 80s. It goes to show our country still has nostalgia for the rock group, no doubt reignited after the success of miniseries INXS: Never Tear Us Apart. 

Other albums for the year have not yet been released but the current ARIA top 10 albums for this week are below:

1. Taylor Swift – 1989
2. The Veronicas – The Veronicas
3. One Direction – Four
4. Ed Sheeran – x
5. Dean Ray – Dean Ray
6. Guy Sebastian – Madness
7. Nickelback – No Fixed Address
8. Foo Fighters – Sonic Fighters
9. Human Nature – Jukebox
10. Michael Buble – Christmas

Barbra Streisand’s Partners is currently at #20 and INXS’s The Very Best is #30.

The Very Best spent seven weeks at number one in 2014 and was just awarded quadruple platinum – making it the best-selling album by an Australian band in six years.

Tim Farriss told SMH, “It’s wonderful we are so popular in 2014, to so many young people…Michael [Hutchence] always said as long as we mattered, that’s what mattered to him”.

What do you think about INXS’s second coming? Do you love them or loathe them? What was your favourite album this year?