Home-grown musicians are fighting back, reasserting their dominance at the top of the Australian music charts.

For the first time in six years, two Australian bands have debuted at No.1 consecutively on the ARIA chart - Eskimo Joe with Black Fingernails, Red Wine and Something For Kate with Desert Lights - and there are expectations others will soon follow.

Evermore, the Kiwi band that relocated to Sydney three years ago, is a hot prospect for the No.1 spot on the ARIA chart tomorrow with their new album, Real Life.

Another much-anticipated album from Youth Group, Casino Twilight Dogs, was released to stores yesterday. It will enter the charts next week and is also a prospect for the top spot.

"It just shows that Australians are supporting Aussie music, which is fantastic because I don't know if it was always that way," Something For Kate bass player Stephanie Ashworth said.

The band's lead singer, Paul Dempsey, said: "This year it's like everyone's schedules just happened to align or something, but it's like practically every band in Australia is putting out an album this year.

"So hopefully it's going to continue to be a really strong year."

Dempsey said that despite Something For Kate's previous success in the industry, the band was surprised to debut at No.1.

"It was definitely a surprise because it's been three years since our last record. We've felt like we'd been away for a while, we hadn't [been] playing much or keeping up appearances . . . so we didn't assume anything and it was a really pleasant surprise, particularly because the Eskimo Joe record is going off."

Melbourne-based chart historian Gavin Ryan said the last time two Australian bands debuted at No.1 back to back was in May 2000. Killing Heidi's Reflector was knocked off by Bardot's self-titled album, he said.

"It does go in waves. It is a kind of trend. I've noticed every couple of years there is a glut of Australian acts at the top of the charts, then we'll have a lull . . . [but] this year is actually a year of [Australian] albums," Ryan told The Sun-Herald.

"This year [at No.1] there's already been the Living End, Human Nature and the Hilltop Hoods."

Such was the demand for the albums by Eskimo Joe and Something For Kate, they both instantly debuted at No.1, with sales reaching upwards of 35,000 units (gold sales) in the first few days of release.

Eskimo Joe have maintained the No.2 position behind Something For Kate and there are four Australian albums in the top 10, including Rogue Traders with Here Come The Drums and The Sleepy Jackson's Personality.

Aside from the current releases in the charts, perhaps the most anticipated Australian release of the year is the follow-up album by Melbourne band Jet, due out later this year.

Jet have been recording a range of songs in Los Angeles. They are expected to return home to perform their new material at an invitation-only showcase in Sydney next month.