ARIA Top 50 Singles weekending 8th March 2010

 

1 (2) Rude Boy - Rihanna

2 (1) In My Head – Jason DeRulo

3 (6) Memories – David Guetta ft Kid Cudi

4 (5) Tik Tok – The Midnight Beast

5 (4) Fireflies – Owl City

6 (3) Replay - Iyaz

7 (16) Hey, Soul Sister - Train

8 (9) Blah, Blah, Blah - Kesha

9 (11) 3 Words – Cheryl Cole ft will.i.am

10 (7) Today Was A Fairytale – Taylor Swift

11 (8) Telephone – Lady GaGa ft Beyonce

12 (10) Do You Remember? – Jay Sean

13 (13) Tik Tok - Kesha

14 (15) Bad Romance – Lady GaGa

15 (14) Little Lion Man – Mumford & Sons

16 (26) If We Ever Meet Again – Timbaland ft Katy Perry

17 (12) Empire State Of Mind – Jay-Z ft Alicia Keys

18 (18) Rock That Body – Black Eyed Peas

19 (20) I Like That – Richard Vission & Static Revenger ft Luciana

20 (17) Whatcha Say – Jason DeRulo

21 (19) Haven’t Met You Yet – Michael Buble

22 (28) Shut It Down – Pitbull ft Akon

23 (21) On A Mission – Gabriella Cilmi

24 (29) Put It In A Love Song – Alicia Keys

25 (22) Undisclosed Desires - Muse

26 (25) Morning After Dark – Timbaland

27 (24) Sweet Disposition – The Temper Trap

28 (27) Down – Jay Sean

29 (23) Black Box – Stan Walker

30 (New) Imma Be – Black Eyed Peas

31 (35) You’ve Got The Love – Florence + The Machine

32 (30) Starstrukk – 3OH!3 ft Katy Perry

33 (41) Baby – Justin Bieber

34 (34) The Cave – Mumford & Sons

35 (31) One Time – Justin Bieber

36 (33) I Gotta Feeling – Black Eyed Peas

37 (32) Art Of Love – Guy Sabastian ft Jordin Sparks

38 (37) Sexy Chick – David Guetta ft Akon

39 (50) Young Forever – Jay-Z ft Mr. Hudson

40 (36) I’m In Miami Bitch - LMFAO

41 (43) One Way Road – John Butler Trio

42 (Re) Fever - Cascada

43 (39) Hotel Room Service - Pitbull

44 (38) Meet Me Halfway – Black Eyed Peas

45 (45) Party In The USA – Miley Cyrus

46 (42) Hallelujah – K.D. Lang

47 (47) Heartbreak Warfare – John Mayer

48 (New) Stylo - Gorillaz

49 (Re) Love Long Distance – The Gossip

50 (49) I Can Transform Ya – Chris Brown

 

ARIA Top 50 Albums weekending 8th March 2010

 

1 (2) Recollection – K.D. Lang

2 (1) Sigh No More – Mumford & Sons

3 (3) I Dreamed A Dream – Susan Boyle

4 (4) The Fame Monster – Lady GaGa

5 (5) Fearless – Taylor Swift

6 (6) Soldier Of Love - Sade

7 (21) One Love – David Guetta

8 (7) Crazy Love – Michael Buble

9 (24) Twenty Five – George Michael

10 (8) Lungs – Florence + The Machine

11 (10) The End – Black Eyed Peas

12 (13) Rated R - Rihanna

13 (9) The Resistance - Muse

14 (12) Animal - Kesha

15 (15) Ocean Eyes – Owl City

16 (14) Black Ice – AC/DC

17 (16) Conditions – The Temper Trap

18 (11) Before Too Long: Triple J’s Tribute To Paul Kelly – Various Artists

19 (23) It’s Not Me, It’s You – Lily Allen

20 (New) Good Gracious – M-Phrazes

21 (Re) Ladies & Gentlemen…The Best Of – George Michael

22 (18) Battle Studies – John Mayer

23 (35) I Am Sasha Fierce - Beyonce

24 (17) Cradlesong – Rob Thomas

25 (19) Contra – Vampire Weekend

26 (25) Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel – Alvin & The Chipmunks

27 (33) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix

28 (27) Funhouse – P!nk

29 (34) The Ultimate Collection – Whitney Houston

30 (22) American VI: Ain’t No Grave – Johnny Cash

31 (26) Wrapped Up Good – The McClymonts

32 (41) Music For Men – The Gossip

33 (36) Manners – Passion Pit

34 (47) A Book Like This – Angus & Julia Stone

35 (30) Absolute Greatest - Queen

36 (32) Greatest Hits – Foo Fighters

37 (29) Heligoland – Massive Attack

38 (New) Save Me, San Francisco - Train

39 (Re) Michael Buble – Michael Buble

40 (Re) This Is It – Michael Jackson

41 (31) The Element Of Freedom – Alicia Keys

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

43 (39) Golden Rule - Powderfinger

44 (20) Rush To Relax – Eddy Current Suppression Ring

45 (43) Walking On A Dream – Empire Of The Sun

46 (44) Back In Black – AC/DC

47 (38) Soulbook – Rod Stewart

48 (37) As Day Follows Night – Sarah Blasko

49 (Re) I’m Not Dead – P!nk

50 (45) Live – AC/DC

 

Gavin Ryan Chart Commentary

(Thanks to Gavin Ryan)

 

Rihanna scores her fourth No.1 single in Australia this week by taking

"Rude Boy" (DL: 4 to 1) to the top in it's sixth week in the Top 100. This

week two years ago she was atop the ARIA Singles Chart with "Don't Stop the

Music" (3rd of the four weeks at the top), and she becomes the first female

artist to top our charts this decade with the 961st No.1 in Australia

(1940-2010). It's the first time the word 'rude' has appeared in the No.1

spot (although there have been plenty of rude songs at the top), and only

the second time that a song title has featured the word 'boy', the other

being The Shadows' only chart-topper here "The Boys" (2 weeks from

2-Feb-1963).

 

So last weeks No.1 by Jason DeRulo, "In My Head" (DL: 1 to 2) falls down

to No.2, but climbing to a new peak of No.3 is current tourist to our shores

David Guetta and his track "Memories" (DL: 6 to 5) featuring Kid Cudi. And

right behind them scoring a new peak at No.4 is the parody version of "Tik

Tok" (DL: 5 to 3) by The Midnight Beast, which pushes Owl City and their

track "Fireflies" (DL: 3 to 4) down one position to No.5.

 

The fourth former/current No.1 single within the Top 10 is Iyaz and his

track "Replay" (DL: 2 to 6) which drops three places to No.6 this week,

whilst predicted future No.1 Train score their second ever Top 10 single by

jumping up nine places to No.7 with "Hey, Soul Sister" (DL: 15 to 7) (they

peaked at No.5 with "Drop of Jupiter" in August 2001). Ke$ha regains a place

with "Blah, Blah Blah" (DL: 10 to 11, Phys: 6 to 8) going back up to No.8,

and Cheryl Cole regains a Top 10 placing at No.9 with "3 Words" (DL: 12 to

8), and Taylor Swift holds on for a fourth week in the Top 10 by placing

"Today Was a Fairytale" (DL: 7 to 9) at No.10.

 

NEW PEAKS: Timbaland and Katy Perry leap ten places to No.16 with "If We

Ever Meet Again" (DL: 25 to 18), and Richard Vission is up one place to

No.19 with "I Like That" (DL: 24 to 26). Pitbull is up six places to No.22

with "Shut it Down" (DL: 28 to 23), and Alicia Keys and Beyonce are up five

places to No.24 with "Put it in a Love Song" (DL: 29 to 21). Last weeks

re-entry for The Black Eyed Peas track "Imma Be" (DL: 28 debut) is the

biggest climbing track of the week, up forty-one places to No.30, whilst

right behind them at No.31 is Florence + The Machine with their remake of

"You Got the Love" (DL: 34 to 31).

 

Justin Bieber takes his "Baby" (DL: 38 to 32) up to a new peak of No.33,

and Jay-Z is "Young Forever" (DL: 46 to 37) at No.39, up eleven places from

last weeks debut placing. Two acts that re-enter the Top 50 and also gain

new peaks are Cascada with their latest track "Fever" (DL: 39 debut) up

eleven places to No.42, and Gossip score a new peak of No.49 for their track

"Love Long Distance".

 

Gorillaz scores the highest new entry of the week by debuting at No.48

with "Stylo" the first track from their third album "Plastic Beach". The

track features guest vocals from Mos Def and Bobby Womack, whilst the video

features a cameo from Bruce Willis. It's the acts seventh Top 100 entry, and

first since they left the charts in September 2006 with "El Manana / Kids

with Guns"

 

Below Top 50:

 

Two local acts make big jumps up the charts to land just outside the Top

50 and score new peaks in the process. KissChasy and their new track

"Dinosaur" are up twenty-six places to No.51 this week, and Evermore climb

seventeen places to No.53 with "Underground" ahead of next week's release of

their greatest hits collection. After a slight slip back down the charts

last week, k-os regain seven places this week to score a new peak of No.56

with their track "I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman". Two R&B artists also score

new peaks, T-Pain is up five places to No.76 with his latest "Take Your

Shirt Off", and Guy Sebastian is up seven places to No.92 with his latest

"All to Myself" (Phys: 7 debut).

 

Lifehouse debut at No.63 with "Halfway Gone", their sixth ARIA Top 100

appearance, and the first single from their fifth album "Smoke and Mirrors"

(released this week). The song achieved its best chart performance on the

Dutch Charts where it peaked at No.14, and in New Zealand it reached No.34.

It has also charted in Canada (No.67) and the US (No.53). In other Lifehouse

chart action, they jump up thirty-seven places with their May 2005 No.30

song "You And Me".

 

Two acts who score new entries with the third release from the current

albums are Muse at No.72 with the title track from "The Resistance", and Rob

Thomas debuts at No.73 with "Mockingbird" from his "cradlesong" album (No.24

this week). A remix of the current No.9 single for Cheryl Cole, "3 Words"

enters at No.75, the remix done by Steve Angelo.

 

The new Tim Burton film Alice in Wonderland has one song performed in

the end credits, "Alice" by Avril Lavigne, which debuts at No.78 this week.

The track can be found on the compilation album 'Almost Alice' which

features a collection of current acts performing music inspired by the new

film. Acts on the set include 3OH!3, All-American Rejects, Owl City, Metro

Station, Tokio Hotel, Plain White T's and Wolfmother.

 

2009's American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert was in the country the past

week, performing on So You Think You Can Dance on Thursday night, which

should help his entry at No.87 for "Whataya Want from Me" jump up the charts

next week.

 

Serbian DJ Marko Milicevic debuts at No.100 under the name

Gramophonedzie with the song "Why Don't You". The song samples Peggy Lee's

vocals from the song "Why Don't You Do Right" (HP-12, January 1945) which

she performed as guest vocalist along with Benny Goodman. The song was first

recorded as "The Weed Smokers Dream" in 1936 and written by Kansas Joe McCoy

as twelve-bar blues song. He later re-wrote the song as "Why Don't You Do

Right" and it was recorded by Lil Green in 1941. It's most recent

incarnation was in the film 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' (1988) by the animated

characted Jessica Rabbit, whose voice was done by Kathleen Turner, but the

vocals for that version were done by actress Amy Irving.

 

Lady GaGa also makes history this week by racking up her 80th week in

the Top 100 with her first single "Just Dance", which now becomes the

longest charting single in ARIA's history.

 

k.d. Lang scores her second No.1 album on the ARIA Album Charts by

climbing one place to the summit with her best of set "Recollection". And by

scoring her second No.1 here she equals her New Zealand tally of two

chart-topping albums ("Ingenue" and "All You Can Eat"), with ourselves and

NZ being the only countries in the world to even give her chart topping

success on the album charts. Her first No.1 here was "Watershed"

(14-April-2009 for one week), and she now does what every other Canadian has

done before in Australia, topped the charts with more than one album. Celine

Dion (5 albums), Michael Buble (3 albums), Bryan Adams, Alanis Morissette,

Shania Twain, Avril Lavigne and now k.d. Lang (2 albums each) are the

Canadian chart-topping acts, all of which have amassed eighteen No.1 albums

here.

 

It's the first time that the word "Recollection" has appeared in a No.1

album in Australia (1965-2010), and this is the 56th Best of/Greatest Hits

set to top our charts. It's also the 80th No.1 by a solo female artist to

hit No.1, the last being by same-aged (48 years old) Susan Boyle at the turn

of the decade (the first was "Pearl" by Janis Joplin in May 1971).

 

With Mumford and Sons dropping down to No.2 with their

three-week-running No.1 album "Sigh No More" the rest of the Top 6 stays

stable, with Susan Boyle at No.3, Lady GaGa at No.4, Taylor Swift at No.5

and Sade's "Soldier of Love" steady at No.6. David Guetta is touring

Australia at the moment, plus a new tour edition of his album has been

issued, and his current No.3 single "Memories", all of which helps it jump

back up the charts fourteen places to No.7, having not been in the Top 10

since last October. Also currently touring the country is George Michael,

who lands his first Top 10 album in six years ("Patience" hit No.2 in March

2004), as the former No.23 album from December 2006 "Twenty Five" jumps up

fifteen places to reach a new peak and give George sixth Top 10 album. He

also re-enters at No.21 with his first best of collection "Ladies &

Gentlemen. The Best of" (No.2, November 1998).

 

Rihanna scores a new peak of No.12 for her "Rated R" album, and Whitney

Houston's "Ultimate Collection" is up five places to a new peak of No.29.

Jumping back up the charts twelve places is Beyonce's "I Am. Sacha Fierce".

Recent tourists Gossip take their "Music for Men" back up nine places to

No.32, and ahead of next weeks new album by Angus and Julia Stone, their

first effort "A Book Like This" is up thirteen places to No.34. And with the

DVD release the past week of Michael Jackson's "This is it" music doco, the

parent album jumps back sixteen places to land at No.40.

 

Three new album entries to the Top 100 start with the highest new entry

at No.20 for local rapper M-Phazes and his debut album "Good Gracious".

Train debut at No.38 with "Save Me, San Francisco", and lower down at No.79

is Marina & The Diamonds with "The Family Jewels".

 

Yay for RiRi. That Rihanna reign just won't let up.

 

Nice gain for Alicia and Beyonce.