ARIA Top 50 Singles weekending 21st February 2011

 

1 (New) Born This Way – Lady GaGa

2 (1) S&M - Rihanna

3 (3) Just Can’t Get Enough – Black Eyed Peas

4 (2) Dirty Talk – Wynter Gordon

5 (5) Happiness – Alexis Jordan

6 (8) What The Hell – Avril Lavigne

7 (7) More - Usher

8 (6) E.T. – Katy Perry

9 (4) Tonight (I’m Lovin’ You) – Enrique Iglesias

10 (9) Yeah 3x – Chris Brown

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

12 (11) I Just Had Sex – The Lonely Island ft Akon

13 (25) Coming Home – Diddy Dirty Money

14 (12) Grenade – Bruno Mars

15 (13) Hello – Martin Solveig ft Dragonette

16 (15) Turn Around (5,4,3,2,1) – Flo Rida

17 (New) Thriller/Heads Will Roll – Glee Cast

18 (18) Rocketeer – Far East Movement

19 (14) Who’s That Girl? – Guy Sebastian ft Eve

20 (19) Friday To Sunday – Justice Crew

21 (17) Take Over Control – Afrojack ft Eva Simons

22 (22) Firework – Katy Perry

23 (16) The Time (Dirty Bit) – Black Eyed Peas

24 (New) Blow – Ke$ha

25 (36) Animal – Neon Trees

26 (21) Hold It Against Me – Britney Spears

27 (20) Rapunzel – Drapht

28 (24) Only Girl (In The World) - Rihanna

29 (23) F**kin’ Perfect – P!nk

30 (32) The Show Goes On – Lupe Fiasco

31 (Re) Need You Now – Lady Antebellum

32 (27) All Of The Lights – Kanye West

33 (29) Just The Way You Are – Bruno Mars

34 (39) Forget You – Cee-Lo Green

35 (28) We R Who We R – Ke$ha

36 (31) Like A G6 – Far East Movement

37 (41) Seek Bromance – Tim Berg

38 (34) Stay The Night – James Blunt

39 (26) Young Blood – The Naked And Famous

40 (30) Saturday Night – Jessica Mauboy

41 (35) Raise Your Glass – P!nk

42 (33) Hey Baby (Drop It To The Floor) – Pitbull ft T-Pain

43 (47) Love The Way You Lie – Eminem ft Rihanna

44 (40) Miami 2 Ibiza – Swedish House Mafia vs Tinie Tempah

45 (43) I Need A Doctor – Dr Dre ft Eminem

46 (New) Need You Now – Glee Cast

47 (New) Last Night – Ian Carey ft Snoop Dogg & Bobby Anthony

48 (37) Big Jet Plane – Angus & Julia Stone

49 (45) Just A Dream - Nelly

50 (48) What’s My Name? – Rihanna

 

ARIA Top 50 Albums weekending 21st February 2011

 

1 (6) Crazy Love – Michael Buble

2 (1) Greatest Hits…So Far! – P!nk

3 (2) Loud - Rihanna

4 (New) Aftermath – Hillsong United

5 (5) Doo-wops & Hooligans – Bruno Mars

6 (7) Greatest Hits – Bon Jovi

7 (4) Burlesque – Original Soundtrack

8 (10) Down The Way – Angus & Julia Stone

9 (9) 21 - Adele

10 (11) The Beginning – Black Eyed Peas

11 (8) Twenty Ten – Guy Sebastian

12 (12) Teenage Dream – Katy Perry

13 (3) Zonoscope – Cut Copy

14 (Re) Need You Now – Lady Antebellum

15 (13) My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy – Kanye West

16 (17) Some Kind Of Trouble – James Blunt

17 (16) Birds Of Tokyo – Birds Of Tokyo

18 (28) Recovery - Eminem

19 (15) Volume 4 – Glee Cast

20 (14) Altiyan Childs – Altiyan Childs

21 (22) Come Around Sundown – Kings Of Leon

22 (45) Raymond V Raymond - Usher

23 (20) Speak Now – Taylor Swift

24 (21) Animal – Ke$ha

25 (27) Running On Air – Bliss N Eso

26 (19) Save Me, San Francisco - Train

27 (29) Passive Me Aggressive You – The Naked And Famous

28 (23) Lungs – Florence + The Machine

29 (18) Mine Is Yours – Cold War Kids

30 (Re) The Suburbs – Arcade Fire

31 (37) My Worlds – Justin Bieber

32 (25) The Defamation Of Strickland Banks – Plan B

33 (32) Get Closer – Keith Urban

34 (26) Gilgamesh – Gypsy and the Cat

35 (Re) Sigh No More – Mumford & Sons

36 (33) Immersion - Pendulum

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

38 (31) Live On Ten Legs – Pearl Jam

39 (41) Jersey Boys – Original Soundtrack

40 (36) Midnight Remember – Little Red

41 (47) Asylum - Disturbed

42 (40) Euphoria – Enrique Iglesias

43 (39) I Believe You Liar - Washington

44 (50) The Essential – Bob Dylan

45 (35) Duet – Ronan Keating

46 (48) April Uprising – John Butler Trio

47 (43) Science & Faith – The Script

48 (Re) The Fame Monster – Lady GaGa

49 (New) Charm School - Roxette

50 (44) Tourist History – Two Door Cinema Club

 

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Gavin Ryan's Chartifacts

(Thanks to Gavin Ryan)

 

Singles

 

Blasting into the No.1 spot and picking up a Gold certification first week (35,000+ units) is Lady GaGa's new single "Born This Way", and this is after only six days of download sales. The track debuted at No.3 in the UK after one day of sales, and blasted into the No.1 spot in the US, helped also by her performance of the track at the Grammy Awards last weekend and her media blitzing.

 

This is GaGa's third No.1 single in Australia after "Just Dance"(1 wk, 15-Sep-08) and "Poker Face" (8 broken weeks from 17-Nov-2008), plus it's the lead and title track from her forthcoming third album due in late May. This new debut and Grammy wins this past week also helps her previous two albums to jump up the charts this week, with "The Fame Monster" jumping fifty-one places to No.48, and the first set "The Fame" re-enters at No.84.

 

In the US this song became the 1000th Hot 100 No.1 single (1958-2011), but here it is our 977th No.1 (1940-2011), plus it's helps GaGa to accumulate her tenth week at No.1, placing her in historical terms with previous ten week accumulators, at equal 70th alongside such acts as Nelly, Suzi Quatro, Roxette, The Seekers and Del Shannon amongst others. “Born This Way” is the third song to feature ‘Born’ in it’s title, the previous two being 1979’s “Born to Be Alive” by Patrick Hernandez and the last was Delta Goodrem’s “Born to Try” (December 2002). It’s also the 12th ‘Way’ to top our charts, the first being the very FIRST No.1 single in Australia, “South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)” from January 1940, and the last being last in October last year, Bruno Mars’ “Just the Way You Are” (TW-33).

 

After two weeks at No.1 Rihanna's fetish-filled single "S&M" falls to the less dominant No.2 spot, whilst last weeks leaper to No.3 stays put this week, The Black Eyed Peas' "Just Can't Get Enough". After two weeks at No.2 after falling from the top for Rihanna, Wynter Gordon's "Dirty Talk" is down two places to No.4, but holding at No.5 is Alexis Jordan's "Happiness".

 

Avril Lavigne scores the only new peak within the Top 10, as her new single "What the Hell" climbs two places to No.6. Usher holds his peak of No.7 for a second week with "More", and Katy Perry's "E.T." swaps places with Avril, falling down two spots to No.8 this week. Enrique Iglesias' "Tonight" and Chris Brown's "Yeah 3x" hold down the No.9 and No.10 position respectively.

 

MOVERS & PEAKERS: Sean Coombes (Diddy) has not been in the Top 10 since June 2004, that's when appeared as guest vocalist on Mario Winan's No.2 single "I Don't Wanna Know" (also featuring Enya in her last Top 10 appearance), but now he looks to return to the Top 10 as his new track as Diddy-Dirty Money, "Coming Home" leaps twelve places from No.25 to No.13 this week. Touring around the country and appearing on the new Adam Hills Tonight show this past week was Neon Trees, which has helped their single "Animal" climb eleven places to land at No.25. Lupe Fiasco is up two places to a new peak of No.30, and Tim Berg climbs four places to land inside the Top 40 at No.37 with his track "Seek Bromance".

 

GLEE REPORT: The first new Glee episode of Season 2.2 screened last Monday night (the High School Football play-off edition), and bursting into the charts at No.17 first week is the medley of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" with the Yeah Yeah Yeah's "Heads Will Roll". Also from that same episode and debuting at No.46 is their version of Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now", and thirdly is the Dalton Academy's version of the second single for Destinys Child "Bills, Bills, Bills" (HP-26, Sep 1999), which debuts at No.71.

 

Ke$ha debuts at No.24 with her new single entitled "Blow", the follow-up to her second solo No.1 single "We R Who We R" (TW-35), and it's her ninth ARIA Singles Chart appearance.

 

GRAMMY'S: Big winner of this year’s Grammy Awards was country act Lady Antebellum, who won five Grammy's in total, and that has helped their winning song "Need You Now" to reappear in the charts at No.31 this week (four places lower than its previous peak of No.27 {peaked 9-Aug-2010}). Eminem won two awards, and some of his tracks climb back up this week, but more-so his album, but I'll discuss more Grammy Awards in the albums section below.

 

Over the summer of 2008/2009, dance artist Ian Carey took his first ARIA Chart entry "Get Shaky" to a peak of No.2 (Feb 2009), and this week he debuts at No.47 with his new dance track "Last Night", featuring guest vocals from Snoop Dogg.

 

Below Top 50: Michael Buble's tour has resulted in lots of singles and album action this week. "Hollywood" leaps thirty-four places from last week’s re-entry of No.93 to a new peak of No.59 this week, plus his former single "Haven't Met You Yet" comes back in at No.93. We the Kings move twenty-seven places from No.89 to No.62 with their song featured in the new Disney film ‘Gnomeo and Julet’, "Check Yes Juliet (Run Baby Run)". And two local acts score new lower peaks, as John Butler Trio's "I'd Do Anything" is up fourteen places to No.77, and dance act Bag Raiders climb eleven places with their new track "Sunlight", which also helps their self-titled album to re-enter at No.75 this week.

 

The Wombats score their third ARIA Singles Chart entry by debuting at No.63 with their new track "Jump into the Fog". 24 weeks ago they entered with their first Top 50 entry here, "Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves)" which peaked at No.33 and is at No.75 this week.

 

Pitbull has been guest vocalist on three tracks, and scored six solo singles, and this week his tally rises to ten ARIA Chart entries as his new solo single "Bon Bon" debuts at No.72. His teaming with J Lo on her new single “On the Floor” is due out next week, so he should be joined on the chart by that new one, plus his two current chart appearances, "Hey Baby" (TW-42) and "DJ Got us Fallin' in Love" (TW-54) with Usher.

 

Local act Jebediah have been absent from our charts for six years, and make a return after their Bob Evans period with a new single, their fifteenth, "She's Like a Comet", taken from their forthcoming fifth album "Kosciuszko" (due April 2011). Their entire ARIA Singles Chart history is listed below…

Entry Date No. HP WI/Tally Titles

18-Aug-96 1 61 3 Twitch (EP)

12-Jan-97 2 62 17 Jerks of Attention

13-Jul-97 3 48 20 Leaving Home

23-Nov-97 4 65 10 Miltary Strongmen

30-Mar-98 5 41 10 Teflon

29-Jun-98 6 46 13 Harpoon

23-Aug-99 7 16 12a Animal

29-Nov-99 8 73 8 Feet Touch the Ground

20-Mar-00 9 53 8 Please Leave

5-Nov-01 10 24 10a Fall Down

25-Feb-02 11 50 6 Nothing Lasts Forever

8-Jul-02 12 92 1 NDC

31-May-04 13 50 5 First Time

4-Jul-05 14 86 2 Anniversary (EP)

21-Feb-11 15 81 1* She's Like a Comet

 

L.A. electro house artist Sonny Moore is better known as the artist Skrillex, and the lead track off the same-titled album "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" becomes his first ARIA Singles Chart entry by debuting at No.89 this week. Also making his ARIA Chart debut is U.S. rapper Cameron Thomaz better known as Wiz Khalifa, and he enters at No.95 with his former US No.1 single "Black and Yellow".

 

Albums

 

After 13 weeks at the top, P!nk's "Greatest Hits... So Far" drops a single place to No.2 this week making way for a returning album to the No.1 position. Michael Buble's "Crazy Love (Hollywood Edition)" returns to the top of the ARIA Albums Chart after an absence of 69 weeks (2-Nov-09) to now claim its 4th week at the No.1 spot. Making it the fourth longest gap between returning No.1 albums in Australian chart history. The first and second positions are held by the same album, the “Grease” Soundtrack, which originally hit the No.1 position for seven weeks on 14-Aug-1978, last appearing their on for an extra two weeks on the 20th and 27th of November, 1978. Then 654 weeks later (12 ½ years) it reclaimed the top spot for a further 3 weeks. 369 weeks later (7 years and 1 month) it again reached No.1, this time for a single week (16-Aug-1998). The third longest gap between reclaiming the No.1 spot was achieved by Michael Jackson’s “HIStory” album, which had a span of 72 weeks (3 weeks off Buble’s span), and Michael jump back to the top was also helped by a national tour here.

 

Michael's return to the top is helped by his current national tour which started in Brisbane on the 12th of February, and it has also helped his back catalogue to come back into the Top 100. "It's Time" is back in at No.66, and his self-titled debut album is back at No.88. His live albums could also re-enter next week.

 

So with P!nk now at No.2 (her lowest placing ever!!) with her "GH...So Far", it pushes last weeks No.2 album, "Loud" by Rihanna, down to No.3, whilst making a huge debut at No.4 is the 20th album for Hillsong United, "Aftermath" which is their 10th Top 10 entry from a total of 52 albums released.

 

Bruno Mars stays put at No.5 with his "Doo-Wops and Hooligans" album, and Bon Jovi's "Greatest Hits" climbs back up one place to No.6. The "Burlesque" Soundtrack drops three places to No.7 this week, and up two spots to No.8 is the ever present "Down the Way" from Angus & Julia Stone. Adele's "21" spent two weeks at No.3 initially, now it's spending its second week at No.9, and returning to the Top 10 at No.10 is The Black Eyed Peas with "The Beginning".

 

MOVERS & PEAKERS: Lady Antebellum had re-entered several weeks ago with their album "Need You Now" due to their upcoming tour here. But winning five Grammys last weekend has helped the album to zoom forty-six places (from #60) to land at No.14 this week, two places lower than its initail peak of No.12 in September 2010. Eminem won two Grammy's and his album "Recovery" is up ten places to No.18, but the Grammy for "Album of the Year" went to Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs" which leaps fifty-seven places (from #87) to land at No.30, its first time in the Top 50 since the end of September last year. Lady GaGa not only released her new single this week, she also grabbed a couple of Grammy's, and both the new song and her wins has helped catapult her album "The Fame Monster" back up the charts fifty-one places to No.48.

Usher's pending tour and new Top 10 single has helped his "Raymond V Raymond" back up the charts twenty-three places to No.22 this week, and up nineteen places to No.35 is Mumford & Sons' "Sigh No More" album. Whilst the only new peaking album in the Top 50 this week is NZ's The Naked and Famous with their debut set "Passive Me, Aggressive You", up a couple of places to No.27.

 

With Hillsong United claiming the highest new entry of the week, the next new album to chart this week is the eighth album for Sweden's Roxette, debuting at No.49 is "Charm School". Their ARIA Album chart history is listed below...

Entry Date No. (WA) HP WI Titles

3-Jul-89 A2 (4) 2 72 LOOK SHARP!

21-Apr-91 A3 (2) 2 56 JOYRIDE

20-Sep-92 A4 3 21a TOURISM

29-May-94 A5 3 11a CRASH! BOOM! BANG!

29-Jan-95 A5 55 4 CRASH! BOOM! BANG! ®

3-Dec-95 G1 52 10 DON'T BORE US - GET TO THE CHORUS! / TOURISM

30-Jun-96 G1 10 21 DON'T BORE US - GET TO THE CHORUS ®

26-Apr-99 A6 62 2 HAVE A NICE DAY

12-Mar-07 G5 (3) 68 5 A COLLECTION OF HITS: THEIR 20 GREATEST SONGS!

21-Feb-11 A8 49 1* CHARM SCHOOL

 

Below Top 50: Skrillex debuts on the singles and album charts this week with the same named item, "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" is supposed to be an EP, but with nine tracks, its classed as an album in my book, and this is his fourth release, but first to chart here in Australia, debuting at No.55 this week.

 

The seventh album for Scottish band Mogwai debuts at No.79 entitled "Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will", their only other chart album entry was their fifth album from 2006, “Mr. Beast” which spent a week in the charts at No.95 (March 2006). And the last new entry of the week is the former UK No.1 album for Tinie Tempah, "Disc-Overy" which enters the ARIA Album Charts at No.96 this week.