ARIA Top 50 Singles weekending 18th March 2012

 

1 (1) We Are Young - Fun feat. Janelle Monae

2 (4) Starships - Nicki Minaj

3 (3) Wild Ones - Flo Rida ft Sia

4 (2) Ass Back Home - Gym Class Heroes

5 (9) Bangarang - Skrillex

6 (5) Boys Like You - 360

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

8 (7) Fight For You - Jason Derulo

9 (10) Turn Up The Music - Chris Brown

10 (11) Troublemaker - Taio Cruz

11 (13) Into The Flame EP - Matt Corby

12 (8) One Thing - One Direction

13 (12) Part Of Me - Katy Perry

14 (16) Drive By - Train

15 (39) Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepson

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

17 (14) What Makes You Beautiful - One Direction

18 (15) Hey Hey Hey - Laurent Wery

19 (19) Take Care - Drake ft Rihanna

20 (18) Lonely Boy - The Black Keys

21 (28) Earthquake - Labrinth ft Tinie Tempah

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

23 (21) Paradise - Coldplay

24 (26) Levels - Avicii

25 (25) Count On Me - Bruno Mars

26 (22) Summer Paradise - Simple Plan

27 (23) Sexy And I Know It - LMFAO

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

29 (24) Set It Off - Timomatic

30 (27) International Love - Pitbull ft Chris Brown

31 (32) 100% No Modern Talking EP - Knife Party

32 (37) Mirror - Lil Wayne

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

34 (36) Climax - Usher

35 (31) Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People

36 (25) Read All About It - Professor Green ft Emeli Sande

37 (New) Tonight Is The Night - Outasight

38 (New) Safe & Sound - Taylor Swift ft The Civil Wars

39 (38) A Thousand Years - Christina Perri

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

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

42 (50) Rolling In The Deep - Adele

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

44 (Re) Someone Like You - Adele

45 (New) Say You Like Me - We The Kings

46 (43) Good Feeling - Flo Rida

47 (40) Talk That Talk - Rihanna

48 (44) We Found Love - Rihanna

49 (New) Lego House - Ed Sheeran

50 (46) Feel So Close - Calvin Harris

 

ARIA Top 50 Albums weekending 18th March 2012

 

1 (New) Drinking From The Sun - Hilltop Hoods

2 (New) Wrecking Ball - Bruce Springsteen

3 (1) 21 - Adele

4 (4) Bangarang - Skrillex

5 (2) Up All Night - One Direction

6 (6) Falling & Flying - 360

7 (3) Born To Die - Lana Del Rey

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

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

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

11 (10) El Camino - The Black Keys

12 (17) Bon Iver - Bon Iver

13 (5) The Ultimate Collection - Whitney Houston

14 (12) Mylo Xyloto - Coldplay

15 (11) The Essential - Whitney Houston

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

17 (24) + - Ed Sheeran

18 (13) Torches - Foster The People

19 (15) Sorry For Party Rocking - LMFAO

20 (19) Speak Now - Taylor Swift

21 (32) 19 - Adele

22 (22) Here And Now - Nickelback

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

24 (27) Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites - Skrillex

25 (New) Whatever - Hot Chelle Rae

26 (23) Vows - Kimbra

27 (9) Home - Troy Cassar-Daley

28 (25) Making Mirrors - Gotye

29 (29) Nothing But The Beat - David Guetta

30 (26) Moonfire - Boy & Bear

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

32 (8) In A Million Years - Last Dinosaurs

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

34 (28) The Greatest Hits - Whitney Houston

35 (New) Some Nights - Fun

36 (33) Ceremonials - Florence + The Machine

37 (34) Emotional Traffic - Tim McGraw

38 (36) Who You Are - Jessie J

39 (43) This Modern Glitch - The Wombats

40 (New) Enslaved - Soulfly

41 (30) Old Ideas - Leonard Cohen

42 (38) Talk That Talk - Rihanna

43 (48) Prisoner - The Jezabels

44 (Re) For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver

45 (Re) The Lion's Roar - First Aid Kit

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

47 (49) Fearless - Taylor Swift

48 (35) Hits - Roxette

49 (Re) The Hard Road - Hilltop Hoods

50 (New) The Calling - Hilltop Hoods

 

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Singles

 

ARIA scores their 500th No.1 album

 

fun and Janelle Monae stay at No.1 for a second week with "We Are Young”, now picking up a platinum certification (last week it didn't have anything at all). Nicki Minaj scores her highest charting single in Australia, as "Starships" climbs two places to No.2, swapping places with former No.1 and last weeks No.2 "Ass Back Home" for the Gym Class Heroes and Neon Hitch. Stuck between the swappers are Flo Rida and Sia at No.3 for another week with "Wild Ones".

 

Helped no doubt by his shows around Australia recently, helps him four place jump (and new peak) to No.5 for Skrillex and the track "Bangarang". 360 and Gossling again take one step down the chart, this week to No.6 with "Boys Like You"(3-4-5-6). Qwote and Pitbull's "Throw Your Hands Up" and Jason DeRulo's "Fight for You" are also down one place each to No.7 and No.8 respectively. And climbing one place each is Chris Brown with "Turn up the Music" and entering the Top 10 for the first time is Taio Cruz (his fourth overall) with "Troublemaker" at No.9 and No.10 respectively.

 

NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: Matt Corby looks set to re-enter the Top 10 again with his "Into the Flames" (EP) moving back up two places to No.11, and climbing to a new peak of No.14 are Train with "Drive By". Leaping twenty-four spots to No.15 is Carly Rae Jepsen with her debut single here "Call Me Maybe", and up seven places to No.21 are Labrinth and Tinie Tempah with "Earthquake".

After three non-consecutive weeks at No.26, Avicii breaks away and moves up two places to No.24 with "Levels", and up one place to a new peak of No.28 are the Far East Movement and Justin Bieber with "Live My Life".

Knife Party's "100% No Modern Talkking" EP is up a place to No.31, and up five spots to No.32 is Lil' Wayne and "Mirror". Usher is taking a slow climb up the charts, last week his "Climax" moved up one place, this week it's up two spots to a new peak of No.34.

Jumping into the Top 50 this week is Outasight with "Tonight is the Night", up twenty-one places to No.37, and up sixteen spots to No.38 is current tourist Taylor Swift with the track from 'The Hunger Games' soundtrack "Safe & Sound". Also joining the Top 50 this week are We the Kings and their new track "Say You Like Me", up ten places to No.45.

 

Ed Sheeran scores the highest new entry of the week, coming in at No.49 is "Lego House" the third single from his "+" album (TW-17 up from No.24). His former No.2 track "The A Team" is sitting at No.55 this week.

 

Lower 50: Skrillex and Sirah climb to a new peak of No.52 with "Kyoto", but leaping thirty-four places to No.65 is former UK No.1 "Hot Right Now" for DJ Fresh and Rita Ora. Coldplay's "Charlie Brown" jumps sixteen spots to No.78, and thanks to their support on Taylor Swift's tour, Hot Chelle Rae re-enter at No.82 with "Tonight Tonight".

 

The Hilltop Hoods take the No.1 spot on the ARIA Albums chart this week with their sixth album, and the new track from that album "Rattling the Keys to the Kingdom" debuts at No.64, whilst their other currently charting single "I Love it" (HP-6) rises back up one place to No.16.

 

"Stereo Hearts" for the Gym Class Heroes leaps back up thirteen places to No.76 helped by the Glee version which debuts this week at No.80. And right behind them at No.81 is M.I.A. with her new track "Bad Girls". Final new entry is in at No.100, "Antidote" by the Swedish House Mafia vs Knife Party.

 

Albums

 

The sixth studio album from Adelaide hip-hop outfit The Hilltop Hoods becomes the fourth to chart and the band’s third No.1 album in Australia, as "Drinking from the Sun" debuts at the top of the ARIA Albums chart on Gold sales. They also re-enter with their three previous studio albums, "The Hard Road" (HP-1 for 1 week, April 2006) is in at No.49, "The Calling" (New Peak, HP No.53 from April 2003) is in at No.50, and "State of the Art" returns at No.62 (HP-1 for two weeks, June 2009).

 

“Drinking from the Sun” is the 641st No.1 in Australia (1965 to 2012) and the 500th No.1 for ARIA (1983 to 2012). It’s the sixth album with ‘Sun’ in its title, the last one being “Come Around Sundown” for Kings of Leon (Oct. 2010), and it’s the album with ‘Drinking’ or even ‘Drink’ to make it to No.1 in Australia. The album is the 148th Australian performed No.1 album, the second No.1 this year performed by a group (the other was Foster the People) and the 305th No.1 by a group, plus it takes the tally of weeks accumulated by The Hilltop Hoods to four weeks

 

We have a one-two debut this week, with Bruce Springsteen's seventeenth album "Wrecking Ball" coming in at No.2. His 2007 album "Magic" also made it to No.2, and this becomes his fourteenth Top 10 album here in Australia, with his entire chart history listed below...

 

Entry Date No (WA)HP WI/Tally Acc Titles

13-Oct-75 A3 7 23 BORN TO RUN

26-Jun-78 A4 9 20 DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN

20-Oct-80 A5 8 26 THE RIVER

25-Oct-82 A6 8 14 NEBRASKA

18-Jun-84 A7 (8) 1 100 BORN IN THE U.S.A.

18-Mar-85 A5 15 18 / 44 THE RIVER ®

25-Mar-85 A3 14 17 / 40 BORN TO RUN ®

25-Mar-85 A4 36 9 / 29 DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN ®

8-Apr-85 A6 42 7 / 21 NEBRASKA ®

15-Apr-85 A2 60 5 THE WILD, THE INNOCENT & THE E-STREET SHUFFLE

15-Apr-85 A1 71 5 GREETINGS FROM ASHBURY PARK, NJ

24-Nov-86 L1 (2) 3 15 LIVE 1975-85

26-Oct-87 A8 5 28 TUNNEL OF LOVE

8-Dec-91 A7 80 9 / 109 ▲9 BORN IN THE U.S.A. ®

12-Apr-92 A9 3 18 ● HUMAN TOUCH

12-Apr-92 A10 (2) 6 12 ● LUCKY TOWN

12-Mar-95 G1 (1) 1 22 ▲ GREATEST HITS VOLUME 1

3-Dec-95 A11 27 6 THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD

9-Feb-97 G1 (2) 31 32/ 54 ▲2 GREATEST HITS VOLUME 1 ®

16-Feb-97 A11 29 7 / 13 ● THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD ®

16-Nov-98 G2 97 1 TRACKS

26-Apr-99 G3 98 1 18 TRACKS

16-Apr-01 L3 30 4 LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY

5-Aug-02 A12 4 13 ● THE RISING

6-Jan-03 A7 83 1 / 110 ▲12 BORN IN THE U.S.A. ®

10-Feb-03 A12 15 11 / 24 ▲ THE RISING ®

17-Nov-03 G4 43 8 THE ESSENTIAL BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

2-May-05 A13 10 10 ● DEVILS AND DUST

17-Apr-06 G4 94 1 / 9 ● THE ESSENTIAL BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ®

8-May-06 A14 21 14 WE SHALL OVERCOME - THE SEEGER SESSIONS

3-Jul-06 G4 63 4 / 13 ▲ THE ESSENTIAL BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ®

18-Jun-07 L5 40 3 LIVE IN DUBLIN

15-Oct-07 A15 2 15 MAGIC

9-Jun-08 G1 68 2 / 56 ▲4 GREATEST HITS VOLUME 1 ®

15-Dec-08 G1 54 17 / 73 GREATEST HITS VOLUME 1 ®

2-Feb-09 A16 (2) 3 11 WORKING ON A DREAM

2-Feb-09 G4.1 83 4 THE ESSENTIAL 3.0

9-Feb-09 A7 96 1 / 111 BORN IN THE U.S.A. ®

27-Jul-09 G1 87 4 / 77 GREATEST HITS VOLUME 1 ®

9-Nov-09 G1 29 42 / 119 ▲9 GREATEST HITS VOLUME 1 ®

23-Aug-10 G5 17 6 GREATEST HITS (with The E-Street Band)

29-Nov-10 G6 22 7 THE PROMISE

19-Mar-12 A17 2 1* WRECKING BALL

 

Adele's "21" drops back to No.3 after its thirty-one broken week run at the top, but we shouldn't dismiss it from going back to No.1 again, plus her first album “19” jumps back up eleven places to No.21. Adele also celebrates a one year anniversary on the singles chart with her former No.1 single “Someone Like You”, which jumps back up eighteen places to No.44. Skrillex and his "Bangarang" EP holds at No.4 for a second week, plus his other charting album “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites” scores a new peak of No.24. Then comes One Direction's "Up All Night" falls back three places to No.5, but will probably hang around until their tour in April.

 

360's "Falling and Flying" album holds at No.6, whilst former No.1 "Born to Die" for Lana Del Rey takes its biggest tumble so far, down four places to No.7. Bruno Mars' "Doo-Wops and Hooligans" drops a place to No.8, but entering the Top 10 for the first time are two collections; "The Story of My Life - Ultimate Collection" for Michael Crawford who visited our shores recently, jumping up twenty-eight places to land at No.9, and last weeks debut for Bob Seger, "Ultimate Hits" jumps up eight places to land at No.10 and becomes his third Top 10 Greatest Hits entry.

 

NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: Bon Iver's national tour again helps his two albums to climb this week, with former No.2 set "Bon Iver" up five places to No.12, and their previous album "For Emma, Forever Ago" jumps up thirty-six places to No.44. Ed Sheeran's "+" is up seven places and back into the Top 20 at No.17, and Adele's "19" is back up eleven places to No.21.

Taylor Swift's tour is still progressing around the country, and her "Speak Now" albums are at No.16 (Live) and No.20 (Studio), whilst her "Fearless" album is up slightly to No.47, but her self-titled first album re-enters at No.88. Her tour support act Hot Chelle Rae see their "Whatever" album jumps up thirty places to a new peak of No.25 this week, and its first week ever inside the Top 50.

 

Helped by the current No.1 single in the country with "We Are Young", fun. debuts at No.35 with the parent album "Some Nights", their second studio album and first to chart here. And the eighth studio album for hard rock band Soulfly debuts at No.40 entitled "Enslaved", and this album becoming their eighth Top 50 entry.

 

Lower 50: Die Antwoord's "Ten$ion" leaps back up thirty-seven places to No.56, and Pete Murray's "Blue Sky Blue" is back up nine places to No.58. Jason DeRulo's "Future History" jumps back up eighteen places to No.60 and Damien Leith's "Roy" rebounds twenty-one spots to No.71.

 

Adelaide folk group The Beards debut at No.63 with their third album "Having a Beard is the New Not Having a Beard", which is their first ARIA Albums Chart entry. And the other lower fifty debut comes in at No.83; "Breakfast" the first album for rap duo Chiddy Bang.