ARIA Top 50 Singles weekending 3rd January 2011

 

1 (2) Grenade – Bruno Mars

2 (1) Who’s That Girl? – Guy Sebastian ft Eve

3 (3) The Time (Dirty Bit) – Black Eyed Peas

4 (5) Firework – Katy Perry

5 (4) Yeah 3x – Chris Brown

6 (6) We R Who We R – Ke$ha

7 (7) Saturday Night – Jessica Mauboy

8 (8) Who’s That Chick? – David Guetta ft Rihanna

9 (10) Raise Your Glass – P!nk

10 (9) Like A G6 – Far East Movement

11 (11) Only Girl (In The World) - Rihanna

12 (13) Just The Way You Are – Bruno Mars

13 (14) Hey Baby (Drop It To The Floor) – Pitbull

14 (18) Dirty Talk – Wynter Gordon

15 (21) Dynamite – Taio Cruz

16 (17) F U – Cee-Lo Green

17 (12) Just A Dream – Nelly

18 (22) Whip My Hair – Willow Smith

19 (23) Cooler Than Me – Mike Posner

20 (16) Heartbeat – Enrique Iglesias ft Nicole Scherzinger

21 (25) Turn Around (5,4.3.2.1) – Flo Rida

22 (19) F**kin’ Perfect – P!nk

23 (15) Stay The Night – James Blunt

24 (24) Happiness – Alexis Jordan

25 (39) Higher – Taio Cruz ft Kylie Minogue

26 (29) Sex On The Radio – Good Charlotte

27 (20) What’s My Name? – Rihanna ft Drake

28 (28) Teenage Dream – Katy Perry

29 (26) DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love - Usher

30 (34) Barbra Streisand – Duck Sauce

31 (31) Friday To Sunday – Justice Crew

32 (36) Planets – Short Stack

33 (42) Magic – B.O.B. ft Rivers Cuomo

34 (45) California Gurls – Katy Perry

35 (35) Plans – Birds Of Tokyo

36 (32) Miami 2 Ibiza – Swedish House Mafia

37 (38) Love The Way You Lie – Eminem ft Rihanna

38 (30) Take Over Control – Afrojack ft Eva Simons

39 (33) Hello – Martin Solveig ft Dragonette

40 (44) Written In The Stars – Tinie Tempah

41 (37) Rapunzel - Drapht

42 (40) Club Can’t Handle Me – Flo Rida

43 (Re) Take It Off – Ke$ha

44 (27) Somewhere In The World – Altiyan Childs

45 (Re) Like It’s Her Birthday – Good Charlotte

46 (43) Sing – My Chemical Romance

47 (46) Freefallin’ – Zoe Badwi

48 (48) Animal – Neon Trees

49 (Re) Big Jet Plane – Angus & Julia Stone

50 (Re) We Dance To A Different Disco, Honey – Short Stack

 

 

ARIA Top 50 Albums weekending 3rd January 2011

 

1 (1) Greatest Hits…So Far! – P!nk

2 (3) Greatest Hits – Bon Jovi

3 (4) Altiyan Childs – Altiyan Childs

4 (2) The Gift – Susan Boyle

5 (8) Teenage Dream – Katy Perry

6 (6) Twenty Ten – Guy Sebastian

7 (5) Volume 4 – Glee Cast

8 (12) Loud - Rihanna

9 (9) The Beginning – Black Eyed Peas

10 (13) Doo-Wops & Hooligans – Bruno Mars

11 (7) Duet – Ronan Keating

12 (11) Speak Now – Taylor Swift

13 (10) Some Kind Of Trouble – James Blunt

14 (16) Animal – Ke$ha

15 (14) Come Around Sundown – Kings Of Leon

16 (18) Down The Way – Angus & Julia Stone

17 (27) My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy – Kanye West

18 (23) My Worlds – Justin Bieber

19 (15) Celebrating 50 Glorious Years – Hamish & Andy

20 (17) Michael – Michael Jackson

21 (22) He Will Have His Way: The Songs Of Tim & Neil Finn – Various Artists

22 (34) Recovery - Eminem

23 (20) Get Closer – Keith Urban

24 (29) Tron Legacy OST – Daft Punk

25 (33) I Believe You Liar - Washington

26 (24) Fly Me To The Moon: Great American Songbook Vol. 5 – Rod Stewart

27 (19) Glee The Music: The Christmas Album – Glee Cast

28 (37) Birds Of Tokyo – Birds Of Tokyo

29 (21) Illuminations – Josh Groban

30 (25) The Great Tenor Songbook – Mark Vincent

31 (39) Get ‘Em Girls – Jessica Mauboy

32 (36) Triple J’s Like A Version 6 – Various Artists

33 (26) Vegas Songs From Sin City – Human Nature

34 (43) Danger Days: True Lives Of Fabulous Killjoys – My Chemical Romance

35 (38) This Is Bat Country – Short Stack

36 (49) 5.0 - Nelly

37 (31) Crazy Love – Michael Buble

38 (30) I Dreamed A Dream – Susan Boyle

39 (45) Euphoria – Enrique Iglesias

40 (Re) Running On Air – Bliss N Eso

41 (41) Science & Faith – The Script

42 (40) A Thousand Suns – Linkin Park

43 (Re) Rokstarr – Taio Cruz

44 (Re) Lungs – Florence + The Machine

45 (New) Glee The Music: The Complete Season 1 – Glee Cast

46 (48) Cardiology – Good Charlotte

47 (28) Jack – John Farnham

48 (Re) We Are Born - Sia

49 (42) Guitar Heaven - Santana

50 (50) The Complete Greatest Hits – The Eagles

 

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Singles

 

The first chart of the year used to traditionally be a held-over chart where not much movement occurred and the No.1 would hold on due to lack of competition and new product. But the first chart of last year produced the tenth No.1 in Australian Chart History (1940-2010) to be a new No.1 on the first chart of the year, the second one for the century, that track being Owl City with “Fireflies”. The other more obscure first-chart-of-the-year No.1 is the chart-topping track that regains the top spot, and this week that has happened for the second time in Oz Chart History. “Grenade” by Bruno Mars goes back to No.1 for a third week, knocking the Christmas No.1 for Guy Sebastian with “Who’s That Girl” which drops back to No.2 this week.

 

The last time this chart-anomaly happened was back on January 7th, 1967 when Normie Rowe’s “Ooh La La” / “Ain’t Nobody Home” regained the No.1 spot from The Easybeats’ “Friday on My Mind”, his song having already spent a week at the top on the 17th of December chart. So now for the second time in our chart history, this has happened again on the first chart of the year, congrats Bruno.

 

Most of the Top 10 only moves one place up or down, with four tracks all staying steady. The stable of stables features The Black Eyed Peas at No.3 with “The Time (Dirty Bit)”, Ke$ha at No.6 with “We R Who We R”, Jessica Mauboy at No.7 with her “Saturday Night” and “David Guetta and Rihanna at No.8 with “Who’s That Chick”.

 

Katy Perry’s “Firework” and Chris Brown’s “Yeah 3x” swap places at No.4 and No.5 respectively, and the other swappers are at No.9 and No.10 with P!nk’s “Raise Your Glass” up to No.9 and “Like a G6” for Far East Movement down a place to No.10.

 

MOVERS & PEAKERS: Wynter Gordon moves up again for a fifth week with her track “Dirty Talk”, which this week is at No.14. Willow (Smith) is again up to her original peak of No.18 (13-Dec-10) with “Whip My Hair”, and Flo Rida climbs four places to No.21 with his new track “Turn Around (5,4,3,2,1)”. The biggest climbing track within the Top 50 this week is the new one for Taio Cruz, joined by Kylie Minogue on “Higher”, which flies high to No.25, up fourteen places this week. Good Charlotte are up three places to No.26 with “Sex on the Radio”, plus their previous hit “Like it’s Her Birthday” climbs back into the Top 50 at No.45 (up from No.59). Finally Tinie Tempah and Eric Turner score a Top 40 position, as “Written in the Stars” is up four places to land at No.40.

 

A lot of people get iTunes and download vouchers for Christmas presents, and put them to good use by downloading some of the biggest hits of the year, and this week those older hits are climbing back up the charts. Firstly the former No.1 “Dynamite” by Taio Cruz is up six places to No.15. “Magic” by B.o.B and Rivers Cuomo is up nine places to No.33, and right behind them is Katy Perry’s “California Girls”, up eleven places to No.34.

 

The only new entry to the entire Top 100 this week is the third single from Enrique Iglesias’ “Euphoria” album (TW-39), the song is entitled “Tonight (I’m Lovin’ You)” and it debuts at No.61. It gives him three singles inside the Top 100, with “Heartbeat” at No.20 and “I Like it” at No.82 this week.

 

And two songs in the lower 100 score new peaks this week, first is Justin Bieber’s “Pray” which is up eleven places to No.72, and re-entering at No.78 and scoring an instant new peak is Selena Gomez & The Scene with their former No.100 single from October, “A Year Without Rain”.

 

Albums

 

Unlike the singles chart, the album chart is a bit more volatile with its movements this week, although not at the top, where P!nk’s “Greatest Hits… So Far” retains its lead for a seventh week, making her GH collection the equal fifth longest runner Best of/Greatest Hits collection in Australian Chart History (1965 to 2010). And with no possible new threat to her run, she could possibly be at the top for up to ten weeks or more. Here is a list of the longest running Greatest Hits Collections…

 

Wks Album – Artists

17 The Seeker’s Greatest Hits – The Seekers (1968)

16 The Best of Abba – ABBA (1976)

10 Recurring Dream – Crowded House (1996)

09 #1’s – The Beatles (2000)

09 Greatest Hits – Robbie Williams (2004)

07 The Beatles Ballads – The Beatles (1981)

07 Greatest Hits – Eurythmics (1991)

07 The Essential – Michael Jackson (2009)

07 Greatest Hits… So Far – P!nk (2010)

06 The Very Best of – Toni Childs (1996)

 

Bon Jovi’s “Greatest Hits” climbs back up to No.2, but the only new peaking album in the Top 10 is right behind him, X-Factor winner Altiyan Childs is up one place to No.3 with his self-titled debut album, due possibly to the seasonal excess of Susan Boyle’s “The Gift” album dropping down to No.4. Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream” climbs back into the Top 5 at No.5, up from No.8 last week, which puts a hold on Guy Sebastian’s weekly climbs, as his GH set “Twenty Ten” is at its No.6 peak again, in its sixth week. Glee The Music Volume 4 had been dropping one place a week for the past four weeks, but this week it drops two places to No.7. The two re-entries to the Top 10 this week come from Rihanna and her “Loud” album, up four places to No.8, and Bruno Mars climbs three places to No.10 with his former No.7 album “Doo-Wops and Hooligans”. In between those two re-entries is The Black Eyed Peas’ “The Beginning”, holding steady at No.9 this week.

 

MOVERS & PEAKERS: With Kanye West and Rihanna’s new track “All of the Lights” playing on radio, it has helped his album “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” to climb back up ten places to No.17 this week. One of the biggest albums of the year, Eminem’s “Recovery” album climbs back up twelve places to No.22, and ARIA Award Winners Washington and Birds of Tokyo see their albums “I Believe You, Liar” up eight places to No.25 and “Birds of Tokyo” move up nine places to No.28 this week.

 

The “Tron: Legacy” Soundtrack by Daft Punk hits a new peak of No.24 this week, and My Chemical Romance enjoy their first upward movement for their latest album “Danger Days”, which turns-around and heads back up nine places this week to land at No.34. Nelly’s “5.0” is up thirteen places to No.36 this week, and breaking back into the Top 50 at No.40 is Bliss N’ Eso’s “Running on Air” which up fifteen places to No.40. Plus another local act, Gypsy and the Cat climb twenty-one places to No.60 with their “Gilgamesh” album.

 

“Glee: The Music-The Complete Season 1” Soundtrack is up twenty places to a new peak of No.45, and the final new peaking album in the Top 100 this week is “The Hits Collection Volume One” for Jay-Z, which is up six places to No.83 this week. Greatest Hits collections from Guns N’ Roses (72 to 52), Red Hot Chili Peppers (R/E at 54) and Phil Collins (99 to 58) all climb up the charts.