The Lorde ‘Heroine’ album has become the second fastest selling album of 2013 in Australia outselling the next three albums by Haim, Hunters & Collectors and Justin Timberlake.

Lorde ‘Heroine’ sold 20153 copies last week placing a long way behind Daft Punk ‘Random Access Memories’ and just in front of Bliss N Eso ‘Circus In The Sky’ which sold 20808 in the first week.

The top six albums on the ARIA chart were all debuts this week with Lorde outselling the combined efforts of Haim ‘Days Are Gone’ (8398), the Hunters & Collectors tribute album ‘Crucible’ (5800) and Justin Timberlake ‘The 20/20 Experience 2 of 2’ (5,751).

Next came Birdy ‘Fire Within’ with 5518 sales and Hillsong Young & Free ‘We Are Young & Free’ with 5,254.

The remainder of the Australian Top 10 was:

Drake ‘Nothing Was The Same’ (3613)
Jason Derulo ‘Tattoos’ (3327)
Keith Urban ‘Fuse’ (3314)
Kings of Leon ‘Mechanical Bull’ (3271)

not supried her song was a big hit in australia.

QUEEN

Lorde also outsold Drake's second week in Canada, his home country.

OMG Australian album sales!!1!1!!!!!1!

For those wondering what this would translate to if Australia had the same size market as the USA: 257k copies

only a warrior

Australia is here for the underground outspoken artists. i.e. Azealia Banks having a huge market there.

Edit: Lorde is not really that underground, but I think she can go under the indie category.

Azealia has no market here.

Queen of Australia

Lorde isn't really indie - she's never made her music "independently" of record label funding (although the label wasn't involved in the sound of her album) - she's been signed to Universal Music, the largest record label in the world, since she was 12 years old.

I'd classify her sound as more "pop alternative", which is definitely what Australia is here for.

And I'ma go out on a limb and say Azealia has a big fat zero market left in Australia nowadays. She's more popular in the UK.

a true queen

Didn't ADELE outsell the rest of the Top 100 combined in the Netherlands once?

LORDe living up to her name.

Yep, the first week sales was something like 120 k there

LORDe, the Legend Of Music.

Blimey this brings back fond memories! IIRC '21' sold 100,000 copies in its first week on sale in the Netherlands. Which would have equated to 1.9 million sales in the US.

PS Kudos to Lorde, her sales in Oz are great!