ARIA Top 50 Singles weekending 12th March 2012

 

1 (6) We Are Young - Fun ft Janelle Monae

2 (1) Ass Back Home - Gym Class Heroes

3 (2) Wild Ones - Flo Rida ft Sia

4 (10) Starships - Nicki Minaj

5 (4) Boys Like You - 360

6 (3) Throw Your Hands Up - Qwote ft Pitbull

7 (5) Fight For You - Jason Derulo

8 (9) One Thing - One Direction

9 (12) Bangarang - Skrillex

10 (7) Turn Up The Music - Chris Brown

11 (38) Troublemaker - Taio Cruz

12 (8) Part Of Me - Katy Perry

13 (16) Into The Flame EP - Matt Corby

14 (14) What Makes You Beautiful - One Direction

15 (11) Hey Hey Hey - Laurent Wery

16 (20) Drive By - Train

17 (13) I Love It - Hilltop Hoods ft Sia

18 (19) Lonely Boy - The Black Keys

19 (21) Take Care - Drake ft Rihanna

20 (15) Turn Me On - David Guetta ft Nicki Minaj

21 (18) Paradise - Coldplay

22 (22) Summer Paradise - Simple Plan

23 (25) Sexy And I Know It - LMFAO

24 (17) Set It Off - Timomatic

25 (24) Count On Me - Bruno Mars

26 (26) Levels - Avicii

27 (23) International Love - Pitbull ft Chris Brown

28 (29) Earthquake - Labrinth ft Tinie Tempah

29 (42) Live My Life - Far East Movement ft Justin Bieber

30 (27) Young, Wild & Free - Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa ft Bruno Mars

31 (28) Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People

32 (50) 100% No Modern Talking EP - Knife Party

33 (31) Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye ft Kimbra

34 (30) Don't Worry Be Happy - Guy Sebastian

35 (34) Read All About It - Professor Green ft Emeli Sande

36 (37) Climax - Usher

37 (45) Mirror - Lil Wayne

38 (35) A Thousand Years - Christina Perri

39 (New) Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepson

40 (33) Talk Like That - Rihanna

41 (32) Hangover - Taio Cruz

42 (43) I Like It Like That - Hot Chelle Rae

43 (36) Good Feeling - Flo Rida

44 (39) We Found Love - Rihanna

45 (41) Dedication To My Ex (Miss That) - Lloyd

46 (49) Feel So Close - Calvin Harris

47 (40) What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) - Kelly Clarkson

48 (47) Party Rock Anthem - LMFAO

49 (46) She Doesn't Mind - Sean Paul

50 (44) Rolling In The Deep - Adele

 

ARIA Top 50 Albums weekending 12th March 2012

 

1 (1) 21 - Adele

2 (6) Up All Night - One Direction

3 (2) Born To Die - Lana Del Rey

4 (5) Bangarang - Skrillex

5 (3) The Ultimate Collection - Whitney Houston

6 (7) Falling & Flying - 360

7 (4) Doo-wops & Hooligans - Bruno Mars

8 (New) In A Million Years - Last Dinosaurs

9 (New) Home - Troy Cassar-Daley

10 (10) El Camino - The Black Keys

11 (8) The Essential - Whitney Houston

12 (12) Mylo Xyloto - Coldplay

13 (11) Torches - Foster The People

14 (13) Storyteller: The Complete Anthology 1964-1990 - Rod Stewart

15 (14) Sorry For Party Rocking - LMFAO

16 (16) Ashes & Fire - Ryan Adams

17 (36) Bon Iver - Bon Iver

18 (New) Ultimate Hits: Rock And Roll Never Forgets - Bob Seger

19 (38) Speak Now - Taylor Swift

20 (Re) Speak Now World Tour Live - Taylor Swift

21 (17) Triple J's Like A Version 7 - Various Artists

22 (21) Here And Now - Nickelback

23 (24) Vows - Kimbra

24 (22) + - Ed Sheeran

25 (23) Making Mirrors - Gotye

26 (18) Moonfire - Boy & Bear

27 (28) Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites - Skrillex

28 (15) The Greatest Hits - Whitney Houston

29 (27) Nothing But The Beat - David Guetta

30 (19) Old Ideas - Leonard Cohen

31 (25) A Foot In The Door: The Best Of - Pink Floyd

32 (29) 19 - Adele

33 (32) Ceremonials - Florence + The Machine

34 (34) Emotional Traffic - Tim McGraw

35 (26) Hits - Phil Collins

36 (Re) Who You Are - Jessie J

37 (30) The Story Of My Life: The Ultimate Collection - Michael Crawford

38 (35) Talk That Talk - Rihanna

39 (31) Toward The Low Sun - Dirty Three

40 (40) All For You: The Best Of - Cold Chisel

41 (20) The Wall - Pink Floyd

42 (9) All Of The Lights - Kanye West

43 (Re) This Modern Glitch - The Wombats

44 (37) Stronger - Kelly Clarkson

45 (41) Wasting Light - Foo Fighters

46 (New) Ex Lives - Every Time I Die

47 (Re) Greatest Hits - Foo Fighters

48 (Re) Prisoner - The Jezabels

49 (Re) Fearless - Taylor Swift

50 (New) Balls Out - Steel Panther

 

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Gavin Ryan's Chartifacts

(Thanks to Gavin Ryan)

 

Singles

 

American indie pop band Fun. have taken only four weeks to climb to the No.1 spot on the ARIA Singles Chart with the first single from their second album "Some Night", jumping up from No.6 to the top spot is "We are Young", plus the song also went to the top of the US Billboard charts this past week.

 

“We Are Young” becomes the 989th No.1 in Australia (1940 to 2012), and the 423rd on the ARIA Singles Chart (1983 to 2012). It becomes the sixth song with ‘Young’ in its title, the last being “Forever Young” by Youth Group from April 2006. Plus last week I mentioned about Flo Rida being deposed from the top by another Atlantic label artist in Gym Class Heroes, well it’s happened again this week, as Fun are also on the Atlantic label, so that’s three Atlantic released No.1’s in a row, and this new No.1 become the labels eighteenth No.1 in Australia, and lastly, Fun. become the 392nd American act with the 648th American performed song to hit No.1 in Australia (1940 to 2012).

 

So after only one week at the top (so far), Gym Class Heroes fall back to No.2 with "Ass Back Home", and also down a spot to No.3 is former No.1 "Wild Ones" for Flo Rida and Sia, meaning the top three tracks are all No.1 singles and Atlantic artists too.

 

Nicki Minaj jumps up six places to No.4 with "Starships", becoming her second highest charting single in Australia, as "Turn Me On" (David Guetta feat..., TW-20) hit No.3 back in late January. Nicki's jump up pushes down 360 and Gossling with "Boys like You" to No.5. Qwote and Pitbull drop three places to No.6 with "Throw Your Hands Up" and dropping two places to No.7 is Jason DeRulo's "Fight for You".

 

One Direction climb to a new peak of No.8 with "One Thing", as their album hits a new height this week too. Joining the Top 10 for the first time (and his first time too) is Skrillex with "Bangarang", up three places to No.9 thanks to his current Future Music Festival tour, and the Top 10 is rounded out by Chris Brown with "Turn Up the Music", dropping three places to No.10 this week.

 

NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: Taio Cruz's visit to our shores has helped his latest single "Troublemaker" to leap up twenty-seven places to land at No.11 this week. Train move up four places to No.16 with "Drive By", whilst the next new peak is not until No.28, where Labrinth and Tinie Tempah climb up a place to No.28 with their collaboration "Earthquake".

 

Last weeks debut for Far East Movement, "Live My Life" featuring Justin Bieber jumps up thirteen places to No.29, and also Future Music Festival tourists Knife Party see their "100% No Modern Talking" EP leap up eighteen places to No.32. Usher's "Climax" climbs a single place to No.36, and up eight spots to No.37 is Lil' Wayne's "Mirror". And joining the Top 50 for the first time (and in only its second T100 week), is Canadian Carly Rae Jepsen with "Call Me Maybe", which leaps forty places to No.39.

 

Lower 50: With Taylor Swift touring the country at the moment, her latest singles chart entry "Safe & Sound" from The Hunger Games soundtrack leaps up forty-one places to No.54. We Are King are up fifteen places to No.55 with their latest track "Say you like Me". The Skrillex visit also helps his other latest track "Kyoto", which is up four places to a new peak of No.57, and right behind at No.58 (and up fourteen places) is Outasight with "Tonight is the Night". Last new height hitter goes to Jay-Z and Kanye West with “Ni**as in Paris” up six to No.71.

 

Re-entries come this week from The Monkees with their Feb 1968 peaking No.2 single "Daydream Believer", back in at No.69 due to lead singer Davy Jones' passing on February 29th. Jason Mraz is back in at No.72 with "I Won't Give Up", Christina Perri's "Jar of Hearts" gets back in at No.76, helped by her Graham Norton Show appearance and performance last Saturday night, whilst Lifehouse return at No.79 with "You and Me", and lastly The Naked & Famous are back in at No.98 with their former Top 30 hit "Young Blood".

 

With The Monkees being the highest entry of the week (albiet a re-entry), Sydney female singer Elen Levon has the highest new material of the week, debuting at No.74 with her second ARIA Singles Chart entry "Like a Girl in Love". Her previous chart entry was "Naughty" which hit No.60 in October 2011.

 

British singer Jasmine van den Bogaerde is better know simply as Birdy, and she scores her first chart entry this week by debuting at No.85 with her version of the Bon Iver track "Skinny Love". Also from the UK and making their first singles chart appearance are Passenger, who debut at No.90 with "Let Her Go", from the album "All the Little Lights", which debuted at No.9 last week, and falls to No.42 this week.

 

Also keeping with the British entries is Coldplay at No.94 with the third single from their "Mylo Xyloto" (TW-12) album entitled "Charlie Brown", and former UK No.1 single "Hot Right Now" for British dub-step act DJ Fresh and Rita Ora debuts at No.99. He has previously charted in Australia with the 2011 track "Louder" (HP-96, August).

 

Albums

 

Adele has achieved a record-breaking thirty-one weeks at the top of the ARIA Albums Chart with her second album "21", now becoming ARIA's second longest running album behind "Brothers in Arms" for Dire Straits (1985, 34 weeks), and is now the outright third longest running No.1 album in Australian Album chart history (1965 to 2012). She now surpasses The Beatles 30 weeks achieved for "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" album from August 1967.

 

Jumping up four places to a new peak of No.2 is April tourists One Direction and their debut set "Up All Night", which pushes Lana Del Rey's "Born to Die" down to No.3 after three weeks at No.2 (and one week at No.1). The other new peaking album of the week is Skrillex and his "Bangarang" EP, which thanks to his current visit to our shores moves up to a new height of No.4 this week.

 

After two weeks at No.3, Whitney Houston's "The Ultimate Collection" falls back two places to No.5, but back up one place to No.6 is 360 with his "Falling & Flying" album. Bruno Mars falls three spots to No.7 with "Doo-Wops and Hooligans", and The Black Keys hold at No.10 with their "El Camino" album.

 

Two debuts within the Top 10 this week, and both are from local artists. Debuting at No.8 to score the highest new entry of the week is Brisbane four piece band Last Dinosaurs with their debut album "In a Million Years".

 

The second Top 10 entry comes from country singer Troy Cassar-Daley, entering at No.9 with his ninth studio album, and now his first EVER Top 10 entry with "Home". Troy's full Australian chart history is listed below...

 

Entry Date No HP WI/Tally Acc Titles

23-Feb-97 A3 53 14a TRUE BELIEVER

15-Feb-98 A3 53 8a / 22 ● TRUE BELIEVER ®

6-Sep-99 A4 49 3 ● BIG RIVER

3-Jun-02 A5 77 2 ● LONG WAY HOME

26-Apr-04 A6 80 4 BORROWED AND BLUE

17-Oct-05 A7 46 2 BRIGHTER DAY

6-Feb-06 A7 91 1 / 3 BRIGHTER DAY ®

23-Jul-07 G1 18 13a ● BORN TO SURVIVE: THE BEST OF

27-Apr-09 A8 34 6 I LOVE THIS PLACE

1-Feb-10 A8 62 1 / 7 I LOVE THIS PLACE ®

12-Mar-12 A9 9 1* HOME

 

NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: With Grammy winner Bon Iver in the country touring at the moment, his two albums benefit from his visit, with the self-titled album "Bon Iver" (HP-2, July 2011) jumping up nineteen places to No.17, and their first album "For Emma, Forever Ago" jumping up twenty places to No.80.

Also on tour at the moment is Taylor Swift, whose latest album "Speak Now" halves its last week position by jumping nineteen places to No.19, whilst the live edition of the album "Speak Now World Tour Live" re-enters at No.20. She also is back into the Top 50 at No.49, up thirty-three places with her former No.2 album "Fearless".

Further tourist, Skrillex not only scores a new peak from his new album, but his previous set "Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites" lands a new peak of No.27 this week, former peak of No.28 came in July 2011. Skrillex is joined at the Future Music Festival tour by Jessie J, whose album "Who You Are" re-enters the top 50, up seventeen places, to No.36, plus The Wombats are a part of the tour, so their latest album "This Modern Glitch" jumps back up sixteen places to No.43.

Also re-entering the Top 50 are The Jezabels with "Prisoner", up twenty-seven places to No.48, and Steel Panther score a new peak of No.50 with their album "Balls Out", up fourteen places from last week.

 

Bob Seger debuts at No.18 with his latest collection called "Ultimate Hits: Rock & Roll Never Forgets". This is his third greatest hits package to chart here, having previously reached in with “The Bob Seger Collection” which hit No.1 for two weeks at the end of May in 1979, and then with “Greatest Hits” which made it to No.5 in September of 1995.

 

The sixth album from Buffalo, New York metal band Every Time I Die debuts at No.46 entitled "Ex Lives". It's their first Top 50 entry here in Australia, having previously charted with their fifth album “New Junk Aesthetic” which spent a week in the charts and made it to No.81.

 

Lower 50: Lady GaGa's "Born This Way" jumps back up seventeen places to No.51, Christina Perri's "lovestrong" set is back up twenty-seven places to No.57, and "Planet Pitbull" for Pitbull jumps back up eleven places to No.61.

Re-entries come from Hot Chelle Rae with "Whatever", a new peak for them at No.55 helped by them being the support act for Taylor Swift. Pete Murray's "Blue Sky Blue" has a new single "Let Me Go" released (last Friday), and it was performed on the chat show 'Adam Hills in Gordon Street Tonight', which has helped the album to come back in at No.67.

 

With Monkees lead singer Davy Jones passing away on February 29th, it has helped the recently released "Monkeemania: The Very Best of The Monkees" to enter at No.54 this week. Also new to the lower half of the Top 100 is Pond with "Beard, Wives, Denim" at No.64. Alfie Boe is in at No.74 with "Alfie", and the Bleeding Knees Club debut at No.82 with "Nothing to Do".