ARIA Top 50 Singles weekending 4th January 2010

 

1 (2) Fireflies – Owl City

2 (1) Tik Tok - Kesha

3 (4) Bad Romance – Lady GaGa

4 (3) Black Box – Stan Walker

5 (6) Whatcha Say – Jason DeRulo

6 (8) Starstrukk – 3OH!3 ft Katy Perry

7 (5) Empire State Of Mind – Jay-Z ft Alicia Keys

8 (7) Down – Jay Sean

9 (9) Art Of Love – Guy Sabastian ft Jordin Sparks

10 (15) Replay – Iyaz

11 (11) Hotel Room Service – Pitbull

12 (10) Meet Me Halfway – Black Eyed Peas

13 (14) Sexy Chick – David Guetta ft Akon

14 (20) Party In The USA – Miley Cyrus

15 (22) I Gotta Feeling – Black Eyed Peas

16 (13) Haven’t Met You Yet – Michael Buble

17 (16) According To You - Orianthi

18 (18) Russian Roulette - Rihanna

19 (26) Like It Like That – Guy Sabastian

20 (19) Little Lion Man – Mumford & Sons

21 (25) I Can Transform Ya – Chris Brown

22 (24) Telephone – Lady GaGa ft Beyonce

23 (27) 3 – Britney Spears

24 (17) One Way Road – John Butler Trio

25 (23) This Is Who I Am – Vanessa Amorosi

26 (34) Good Girls Go Bad – Cobra Starship

27 (31) Rock That Body – Black Eyed Peas

28 (12) Good Day – Hayley Warner

29 (28) Bulletproof – La Roux

30 (33) Evacuate The Dancefloor - Cascada

31 (39) Boom Boom Pow – Black Eyed Peas

32 (32) I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) - Pitbull

33 (37) You Belong With Me – Taylor Swift

34 (29) Let Me Be Me – Jessica Mauboy

35 (45) Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) - Beyonce

36 (30) Sweet Disposition – The Temper Trap

37 (36) Run This Town – Jay-Z ft Rihanna & Kanye West

38 (43) Love Story – Taylor Swift

39 (Re) Funhouse – P!nk

40 (Re) Right Round – Flo Rida ft Kesha

41 (Re) New Divide – Linkin Park

42 (40) I’m In Miami Bitch - LMFAO

43 (New) Do You Remember? – Jay Sean

44 (50) Broken Leg - Bluejuice

45 (38) Caught In The Crowd – Kate Miller-Heidke

46 (Re) The Climb – Miley Cyrus

47 (21) Sweet December – Short Stack

48 (44) Walking On A Dream – Empire Of The Sun

49 (Re) Poker Face – Lady GaGa

50 (Re) Chase That Feeling – Hilltop Hoods

 

ARIA Top 50 Albums weekending 4th January 2010

 

1 (1) I Dreamed A Dream – Susan Boyle

2 (2) Crazy Love – Michael Buble

3 (5) The Fame Monster – Lady GaGa

4 (3) The End – Black Eyed Peas

5 (7) Fearless – Taylor Swift

6 (6) Greatest Hits – Foo Fighters

7 (4) Introducing – Stan Walker

8 (14) Glee: The Music Season 1 Vol.2 – Original Soundtrack

9 (13) Glee: The Music Season 1 Vol.1 – Original Soundtrack

10 (8) Funhouse – P!nk

11 (10) Golden Rule - Powderfinger

12 (15) It’s Not Me, It’s You – Lily Allen

13 (19) Sigh No More – Mumford & Sons

14 (22) Walking On A Dream – Empire Of The Sun

15 (9) Reality Killed The Video Star – Robbie Williams

16 (30) Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures

17 (12) Soulbook – Rod Stewart

18 (41) One Love – David Guetta

19 (26) As Day Follows Night – Sarah Blasko

20 (29) Rated R - Rihanna

21 (24) The Element Of Freedom – Alicia Keys

22 (11) This Is It – Michael Jackson

23 (28) Battle Studies – John Mayer

24 (20) The Twilight Saga: New Moon – Original Soundtrack

25 (31) Absolute Greatest - Queen

26 (47) The Resistance - Muse

27 (42) I Am Sasha Fierce – Beyonce

28 (23) Like It Like That – Guy Sabastian

29 (16) Cradlesong – Rob Thomas

30 (43) Curiouser – Kate Miller-Heidke

31 (Re) Conditions – The Temper Trap

32 (Re) Brand New Eyes - Paramore

33 (39) Been Waiting – Jessica Mauboy

34 (25) The Very Best Of – Fleetwood Mac

35 (Re) It’s Blitz! – The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

36 (Re) Relapse - Eminem

37 (38) Hazardous – Vanessa Amorosi

38 (Re) Shock Value II - Timbaland

39 (40) The Time Of Our Lives – Miley Cyrus

40 (Re) State Of The Art – Hilltop Hoods

41 (32) My Dream: Mio Visione – Mark Vincent

42 (Re) Only By The Night – Kings Of Leon

43 (33) The Very Best Of - Enya

44 (Re) Wonder – Lisa Mitchell

45 (35) Believe – Katherine Jenkins

46 (50) Cosmic Egg - Wolfmother

47 (Re) Graffiti – Chris Brown

48 (Re) I’m Not Dead – P!nk

49 (46) Dark Horse - Nickelback

50 (Re) Greatest Hits – Bruce Springsteen

 

Gavin Ryan's Chart Commentary

 

For the second time in the 70 year history of the Australian charts has

a new No.1 single occurred in the first week of the New Year, and for the

first time EVER, a new No.1 at the start of a new decade. "Fireflies" (DL: 1

hold) by Owl City climbs to the No.1 position on the ARIA Singles chart this

week, claiming the first new chart-topper for 2010 and the brand new No.1

song at the start of a new decade.

 

The last (and first) song to top the charts in the first week of the

year was back on 1-Jan-2007 when Beyonce claimed the top-spot with

"Irreplaceable", which stayed atop for three weeks. And now Owl City do the

same thing but on downloads alone for their track "Fireflies", which takes

over the top spot from Ke$ha's "Tik Tok" (DL: 2 hold, Phys: 3 to 2) which

last week claimed the longest running No.1 for 2009 by staying at the top

for eight consecutive weeks and is now down to No.2.

 

The Australian charts can be traced back to 1940, and every

turn-of-the-decade has seen the last song of the 9's retains it's pole

position, but that was mostly due to the fact that the charts from 1940 to

1997 were calculated from retail reports and radio station charts, which

during the end of year did not compile charts for two weeks over the

end-of-year period. But nowadays with everything being electronically

scanned, downloaded and brought online, the old ways of doing the charts has

changed dramatically. So for the first time ever, a new decade brings a new

No.1 in the very first survey of that decade. Here's a look at the previous

first new No.1's of each decade, and when they topped the charts.

 

1940s - South of the Border - Joe Loss (first No.1 in Australia)

 

1950s - "A" You're Adorable - Perry Como & The Fontane Sisters (4-Feb-50)

 

1960s - Boom Boom Baby - Crash Craddock (6-Feb-60)

 

1970s - Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head - Johnny Farnham (19-Jan-70)

 

1980s - Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson (21-Jan-80)

 

1990s - Janie's Got a Gun - Aerosmith (18-Feb-90)

 

2000s - I Try - Macy Gray (10-Jan-2000)

 

With the top two places swapping over, No.3 and No.4 also swap places

this week, with "Bad Romance" (DL: 3 to 4, Phys: 6 to 4) by Lady GaGa

climbing back up one place, and Stan Walker's "Black Box" (DL: 6 to 5, Phys:

1 hold) dropping to it's lowest placing so far of No.4. Jason DeRulo climbs

a place to No.5 for a new peak on his track "Whatcha Say" (DL: 5 to 3), and

also climbing back up the charts two places to No.6 is 3OH!3 and Katy Perry

on their track "Starstukk" (DL: 8 to 6). "Empire State of Mind" (DL: 4 to 7)

by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys is down two places to No.7, and continuing his

weekly one-place drop is Jay Sean on "Down" (DL: 7 to 8), which falls a

single place again, this time to No.8. Guy Sebastian's duet with Jordin

Sparks on "Art of Love" (DL: 9 hold, Phys: 8 to 7) holds at No.9 for a fifth

week in the Top 10, and last weeks highest debut claims a Top 10 placing

this week, as Iyaz and his track "Replay" (DL: 13 to 10) climbs five places

to No.10.

 

Pitbull stays just outside the Top 10 this week for a second week at

No.11 with his "Hotel Room Service" (DL: 11 hold, Phys: 36 to 37), but no

other track within the Top 20 makes a new peak. But there are three older

tracks that do claim a bulleted move up the charts. "Party in the USA" (DL:

17 to 13) by Miley Cyrus is up six places to No.14, and up seven places to

No.15 is The Black Eyed Peas' track "I Gotta Feeling" (DL: 19 to 15). Also

jumping back up the charts seven places is Guy Sebastian's former No.1

single "Like it Like That" (DL: 31 to 26), now back in the Top 20 at No.19.

 

There are three tracks scoring new peaks within the Top 30 section of

the chart this week, with Chris Brown's "I Can Transform Ya" (DL: 24 to 21,

Phys: 21 to 15) up four places to No.21, whilst right behind at No.22 is

Lady GaGa and Beyonce's "Telephone" (DL: 22 to 20). Last week's debut from

The Black Eyed Peas, "Rock That Body" (DL: 27 hold), climbs four places to a

new peak of No.27.

 

Other older tracks gaining bullets this week are "Single Ladies" by

Beyonce, up ten places to No.35. Up twenty-one spots to No.39 is P!nk's

"Funhouse", whilst "Right Round" by Flo Rida and Ke$ha jumps nineteen places

to No.40. The two big tracks from 'Transformers 2' leap back up the charts,

with Linkin Park's "New Divide" up twenty-four places to No.41 and Green

Day's "21 Guns" up thirty-four places from last week's No.89 to No.55 this

week (this could also be due to their recent tour here).

 

Up eleven places is another MIley Cyrus track, "The Climb" which is back

into the Top 50 at No.46, and also climbing back into the Top 50 is "Poker

Face" by Lady GaGa, up twelve places to No.49 and the ARIA Award winning

track "Chase That Feeling" by The Hilltop Hoods is up eighteen places to

No.50.

 

With Jay Sean entrenched in the Top 10 with his track "Down", he scores

the highest of two new entries to the Top 100 this week, coming in at No.43

with his second Australian hit, "Do You Remember". The single is already a

Top 10 hit in America, and is climbing the Canadian and New Zealand charts

at the moment, already both countries have made it a Top 20 hit.

 

Below Top 50:

 

Two new peaking tracks below the Top 50 this week, with teenage Canadian

Justin Bieber up twenty-two places to No.57 with his debut single "One

Time", and Beyonce's album version of "Video Phone" is up eighteen places to

a new peak of No.66, whilst her version with Lady GaGa falls out of the

chart this week.

 

The Rogue Traders score their twelfth ARIA Singles chart entry as they

debut at No.90 with "Love is a War", the first taste of their forthcoming

fourth album. The group were last on the charts in April 2008 with the track

"What You're On" which peaked at No.30.

 

With lots of download vouchers given out for Christmas, people have been

putting them to good use and buying up songs they might have missed during

the year, which in turn gives a whole heap of re-entries to the Top 100 this

week. Katy Perry's "Hot N' Cold" is back in at No.71, and she's also back in

at No.92 with "Waking Up in Vegas". Miley Cyrus fans had a busy week, with

two of her current songs climbing back up the charts, she also re-enters at

No.74 with "Hoedown Throwdown" and at No.95 with "Butterfly Fly Away". Flo

Rida is back in at No.79 with "Jump", and Dizzee Rascal also has two songs

re-enter, with "Bonkers" back in at No.86 and "Holiday" coming back at

No.97.

 

The Glee Cast re-enter at No.89 with "Halo/Walking on Sunshine", the

Kings of Leon are back in at No.91 with "Sex on Fire", 3OH!3's first big

single "Don't Trust Me" is back at No.96 and Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" makes

an reappearance at No.99.

 

Susan Boyle continues her run at the top of the Australian album charts

with her "I Dreamed a Dream" album, now for a sixth week. Although it didn't

sell over 100,000 units this past week, it did sell enough to be a clear

leader by a big sales margin. Which keeps Michael Buble's "Crazy Love" at

No.2, although Michael did jump over Susan in the UK album charts this week.

 

"The Fame Monster" by Lady GaGa claims the No.3 spot this week, the same

peak "The Fame" took in it's final week on the charts three weeks ago,

whilst the eight track "Monster" debuts at No.88 this week (for those who

don't want the complete package). The Black Eyed Peas and their album "The

E.N.D." are down a place to No.4, and soon to be tourist here, Taylor Swift,

and her album "Fearless" climb up two places to No.5.

 

The Foo Fighters "Greatest Hits" stays put at No.6, Stan Walker's

"Introducing" is down three places to No.7, P!nk's "Funhouse" holds on at

No.10, and for the first time in their chart careers, both Glee Cast albums

are in the Top 10 together. "Volume 2" jumps up six places to re-peak at

No.8, and "Volume 1" is up four places to No.9. And with Channel Ten

replaying the shows, these albums should stay in the Top 10 for some time

over summer.

 

The post Christmas sales have helped plenty of albums climb back up the

charts, and with some CD stores marking albums down to $15, plenty of people

were buying up the albums they might not have been given for Christmas.

Mumford and Sons "Sigh No More" is up six places to No.13, ARIA Award

winning album of the Year, Empire of the Sun's "Walking on a Dream" is up

eight places to No.14. The self-titled album for Them Crooked Vultures jumps

up fourteen places to No.16, and David Guetta's "One Love" is up

twenty-three places to No.18. Further ARIA Award winners and nominees see

their albums climb, with Sarah Blasko's "As Day Follows Night" is up seven

places to No.19, Kate Miller Heidke's "Curiouser" is up thirteen places to

No.30, The Temper Trap's "Conditions" is up twenty-three places to No.31 and

The Hilltop Hoods are up eleven places to No.40 with "State of the Art".

 

Rihanna's "Rated R" album climbs nine places to No.20, Muse will be here

for the Big Day Out concerts (they're the headlining act this year), and

their album "The Resistance" is up twenty-one places to No.26. Beyonce's "I

Am. Sacha Fierce" climbs fifteen places to No.27, and the former No.1 album

for Paramore, "Brand New Eyes" is up twenty-seven places to No.32. The Yeah

Yeah Yeah's re-enter the Top 100 at No.35 with their former No.8 album "It's

Blitz!". Up twenty places is the repackaged Eminem album "Relapse", now at

No.36. Timbaland scores a new peak as his "Shock Value II" album rebounds

thirty-two places this week to No.38, and the other album that debuted the

same week as him, Chris Brown's "Graffiti" is up twenty-four places to

No.47.

 

The first of the new album entries for the week comes in at No.61, and

is the album which contains the new No.1 single in the country, Owl City and

their album "Ocean Eyes". The soundtrack for "Alvin & The Chipmunks: The

Squeakquel" comes in at No.86, and as I mentioned above, Lady GaGa's

"Monster" debuts at No.88.

 

I still haven't heard this 'Fireflies' song. I'm more curious now at how this sounds like. :lol:

Edited January 3, 201015 yr by Riverside FM11