If there was ever any doubt that Courtney Barnett was going to be Australia’s next big musical export, our next Tame Impala if you will, the young Sydney-born, Tasmanian-raised singer-songwriter is currently sitting at the top of five US charts.

As The Music Network reports, the Melbourne-based rocker’s debut full-length, the acclaimed Sometimes I Sit and Think And Sometimes I Just Sit, has debuted at number one on the Rock, Alternative, Folk, Independent, and Vinyl charts.

Meanwhile, the album, which has garnered stellar reviews from such prestigious publications as Pitchfork, entered the Billboard Top 200 at number 20. The album sold 22,000 copies in its first week in the US, with 4,000 of those in vinyl format.

This was not Barnett’s first time in the US charts, either. The Barnett buzz had been building for some time, and last year, her extended play The Double EP: A Sea Of Split Peas, made it to a very respectable number 40 in the US Rock chart.

A little closer to home, Barnett’s debut entered the UK charts at number 16 but dropped to 39, though you can reasonably expect it to climb back up following her current UK tour, and entered the New Zealand chart at number 19.

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Here Down Under, the album saw a drop this week from its number four debut position to number 11, having shifted almost 9,000 units. It also debuted at number one on the Carlton Dry Independent Music charts in the 100% Independent section.

Barnett recently completed a tour of the US, which included appearances at SXSW and a performance on Ellen, which also featured an interview with First Lady Michelle Obama. This comes amid a slew of positive reviews for the album.

Writing for Tone Deaf, Denham Sadler dubbed the album an “instant Australian classic“. However, Anthony Fantano, who runs popular YouTube music review channel The Needle Drop, was less enthusiastic, giving the album one of its few lacklustre reviews.

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