INXS Hits A New Career Peak On Multiple Charts — A Decade After Splitting Up

Forbes

23-05-2025

INXS returns to the U.K. charts with Listen Like Thieves, which brings the band to new career peaks ... More on multiple lists — more than a decade after the group split up. INXS (Photo by Paul Natkin/WireImage)
It's been a little more than a decade since INXS officially disbanded, but the Australian rockers — known for blending dance, funk, and rock into a signature style that has not been replicated since the musicians came together many years ago — left behind a catalog filled with hits and popular albums.
The music the group created lives on, and this week, INXS returns to the charts in the United Kingdom – several of them at once, in fact. The band's album Listen Like Thieves appears on multiple rankings thanks to a special re-release, and the group is performing better than ever on at least one tally.
Listen Like Thieves lands on four separate rosters in the U.K., some of which didn't exist when the set was originally released decades ago. Although fans in the country were already familiar with the collection, and it had charted in the past, it's new to each of the lists on which it appears.
The set debuts at No. 16 on both the Official Albums Sales and Official Physical Albums charts. That's the title's highest placement in the U.K. this week, and a particularly special one on the list of top-selling collections across the nation.
As it arrives, Listen Like Thieves immediately becomes INXS's highest-charting effort ever on the Official Albums Sales chart. The band had never before reached the top 40, let alone the top 20. Prior to this frame, The Very Best, which debuted in early 2020, stood as the group's loftiest showing, though it peaked down at No. 60.
The same project brings INXS back to the Official Album Download chart for the first time in well over a decade. Listen Like Thieves marks the group's third placement on that list and its first since 2012. While the title ranks as the band's lowest-charting effort on that tally, the fact that the rockers can go so long without appearing and still return is noteworthy.
The bestseller also lands on the Official Vinyl Albums chart for the first time and, just like on the sales tally, it brings INXS to a new high point. The collection opens at No. 21, narrowly beating out the No. 25 peak of Kick, which debuted and peaked in November 2017.
Listen Like Thieves was originally released in October 1985. The set was recently re-released in celebration of its fortieth anniversary, and the updated take now includes bonus tracks and recordings from multiple concerts that took place around the time the album was first issued. When it was new, Listen Like Thieves peaked at No. 48 on the main U.K. albums chart and produced four charting singles: 'What You Need,' 'This Time,' 'Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain),' and the title track.