ARIA Top 50 Singles weekending 9th April 2012

 

1 (1) Call My Name - Carly Rae Jepsen

2 (2) Starships - Nicki Minaj

3 (3) We Are Young - Fun ft Janelle Monae

4 (4) Earthquake - Labrinth ft Tinie Tempah

5 (14) Lego House - Ed Sheeran

6 (18) One Thing - One Direction

7 (6) Bangarang - Skrillex

8 (16) If Looks Could Kill - Timomatic

9 (7) Ass Back Home - Gym Class Heroes

10 (9) Fight For You - Jason Derulo

11 (12) Part Of Me - Katy Perry

12 (8) Wild Ones - Flo Rida ft Sia

13 (5) Boyfriend - Justin Bieber

14 (13) Into The Flame EP - Matt Corby

15 (10) Throw Your Hands Up - Qwote ft Pitbull

16 (15) Drive By - Train

17 (11) Boys Like You - 360

18 (17) Turn Up The Music - Chris Brown

19 (23) What Makes You Beautiful - One Direction

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

21 (New) So Good - B.O.B.

22 (19) Never Let Me Go - Florence + The Machine

23 (22) Set It Off - Timomatic

24 (21) Troublemaker - Taio Cruz

25 (35) Music Won't Break Your Heart - Stan Walker

26 (25) Tonight Is The Night - Outasight

27 (26) Mirror - Lil Wayne

28 (24) Take Care - Drake ft Rihanna

29 (33) Turn Me On - David Guetta ft Nicki Minaj

30 (32) Levels - Avicii

31 (31) Turn All The Lights On - T-Pain ft Ne-Yo

32 (28) Lonely Boy - The Black Keys

33 (34) Sexy And I Know It - LMFAO

34 (37) 100% No Modern Talking EP - Knife Party

35 (29) Climax - Usher

36 (39) Say You Like Me - We The Kings

37 (27) Hey Hey Hey - Laurent Wery

38 (30) Paradise - Coldplay

39 (New) Rock The Boat - Bob Sinclar

40 (36) I Love It - Hilltop Hoods ft Sia

41 (40) Count On Me - Bruno Mars

42 (New) Back In Time - Pitbull

43 (New) Nothing's Real But Love - Rebecca Ferguson

44 (44) A Thousand Years - Christina Perri

45 (41) Summer Paradise - Simple Plan

46 (38) What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) - Kelly Clarkson

47 (45) International Love - Pitbull ft Chris Brown

48 (48) Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People

49 (New) Next To Me - Emeli Sande

50 (New) Child - 360

 

ARIA Top 50 Albums weekending 9th April 2012

 

1 (2) Up All Night - One Direction

2 (36) Tuskegee - Lionel Richie

3 (3) Drinking From The Sun - Hilltop Hoods

4 (4) 21 - Adele

5 (New) Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded - Nicki Minaj

6 (5) Bangarang - Skrillex

7 (6) Ultimate Hits: Rock And Roll Never Forgets - Bob Seger

8 (8) + - Ed Sheeran

9 (1) MDNA - Madonna

10 (12) El Camino - The Black Keys

11 (14) The Ultimate Collection - Creedance Clearwater Revival

12 (7) Born To Die - Lana Del Rey

13 (11) Falling & Flying - 360

14 (10) Doo-wops & Hooligans - Bruno Mars

15 (17) Nothing But The Beat - David Guetta

16 (15) Ceremonials - Florence + The Machine

17 (40) Heaven - Rebecca Ferguson

18 (New) Vulnerable - The Used

19 (Re) The Definitive Collection - Lionel Richie

20 (9) Wrecking Ball - Bruce Springsteen

21 (19) Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection - Katy Perry

22 (26) Sorry For Party Rocking - LMFAO

23 (24) The Story Of My Life: The Ultimate Collection - Michael Crawford

24 (23) Mylo Xyloto - Coldplay

25 (48) Duets: An American Classic & Duets II - Tony Bennett

26 (27) The Essential - Whitney Houston

27 (22) The Hunger Games: Songs From District 12 - Original Soundtrack

28 (13) Port Of Morrow - The Shins

29 (28) Here And Now - Nickelback

30 (New) The Best Of - Sia

31 (29) Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites - Skrillex

32 (30) 19 - Adele

33 (25) Evanescence - Evanescence

34 (37) Moonfire - Boy & Bear

35 (21) Vows - Kimbra

36 (43) Koloss - Meshuggah

37 (31) Torches - Foster The People

38 (32) Making Mirrors - Gotye

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

40 (49) Greatest Hits - Foo Fighters

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

42 (47) Stronger - Kelly Clarkson

43 (42) Chronicle: 20 Greatest Hits - Creedance Clearwater Revival

44 (16) Emotional Traffic - Tim McGraw

45 (Re) Between Two Lungs - Florence + The Machine

46 (33) The Ultimate Collection - Whitney Houston

47 (Re) Future History - Jason Derulo

48 (Re) Pink Friday - Nicki Minaj

49 (Re) Hits - Phil Collins

50 (20) Happy To You - Miike Snow

 

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Gavin Ryan's Chartifacts

(Thanks to Gavin Ryan)

 

Singles

 

Carly Rae Jepsen spends a second week at No.1 with her first hit here "Call

Me Maybe", whilst Nicki Minaj spends a fourth consecutive week sitting in

her "Starships" at No.2. The top four tracks are all stable this week, with

former No.1 "We Are Young" for fun holding at No.3 and last weeks

leap-into-the-ten of "Earthquake" for Labrinth and Tinie Tempah holds at

No.4 for a second week.

 

This week we have three songs that leap into the Top 10, the first at No.5

(up nine places) is the second Top 10 hit for Ed Sheeran, "Lego House". His

first "The A Team" took five weeks to reach the Top 10, eventually peaking

at No.2; this new hit has taken four weeks to reach the ten. Next up at

No.6, rising twelve places, is former No.8 track "One Thing" (formerly

peaked in mid-March) for One Direction ahead of their national tour. And

after debuting at No.16 last week, Timomatic lands his second consecutive

Top 10 entry with "If Looks Could Kill", up eight places to No.8 this week.

His first hit took six weeks to climb into the Top 10.

 

Skrillex drops a place back down to No.7 with his "Bangarang" track, and

down two spots to No.9 is former No.1 "Ass Back Home" for Gym Class Heroes",

and dropping a place to No.10 is Jason DeRulo's "Fight for You" in its

seventh week inside the Top 10.

 

NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: Katy Perry edges back up one place to No.11 with her

former No.5 hit "Part of Me", and returning to the Top 20 at No.19 for a

22nd week within the Top 20 are One Direction and their first hit "What

Makes You Beautiful", whilst holding for a third week at their No.20 peak is

Far East Movement and Justin Bieber with "Live My Life".

 

Zooming up fifty places from last weeks No.71 debut to No.21 this week is

the new track for B.o.B entitled "So Good", and jumping up ten places to

No.25 is Stan Walker's latest single "Music Won't Break Your Heart".

 

We the Kings edge up again with "Say You Like Me", now at No.36, and the

next four new peaks are all first-time Top 50 entrants. Bob Sinclar and his

gang jump up twenty-one places to No.39 with "Rock the Boat"; Up thirty

places to No.43 is Rebecca Ferguson and her track "Nothing's Real But Love",

who came second on the 2010 UK X-Factor, whilst One Direction came third

that year, and another UK songstress Emeli Sande scores her second Top 50

appearance by jumping thirteen places to No.49 with "Next to Me", and lastly

360 is up twenty-seven places to No.50 with his new single "Child".

 

The highest new entry of the week comes in at No.42 entitled "Back in Time"

for prolific chart-entrant Pitbull. This is theme tune from the late May due

'Men in Black 3D' movie, and the song features a sample of Mickey & Sylvia's

song "Love is Strange" (1956) which was featured on the 'Dirty Dancing'

soundtrack back in 1988.

 

Lower 50: The only new peaking track this week is returnee Xavier Rudd's

first chart entry "Follow the Sun", which is back in at No.66. Also

returning is former No.46 single (first charted as album track in Dec 2011)

"Where Have You Been" back in at No.67 for Rihanna which is the official new

single from her "Talk That Talk" album.

 

Brian McFadden debuts at No.70 with his new single "Wrap My Arms", and The

Temper Trap returns to the charts at No.74 with "Need Your Love", the first

taste from their May due self-titled second album. Two more local acts also

debut this week, with The Hilltop Hoods and Chali 2na debuting at No.88 with

"Speaking in Tongues", and songstress Lisa Mitchell enters at No.91 with

"Spiritus".

 

Further entries come from Azealia Banks and Lazy Jay at No.90 with "212",

New Zealand act The Babysitters Club debut at No.92 with their first chart

entry "Everything's Gonna Be Alright", and last new entry of the week comes

in at No.100, "Default" for Django Django.

 

Albums

 

Ahead of their Australian tour, British boy-band One Direction take out the

No.1 spot on the ARIA Albums Chart this week with their debut album "Up All

Night" in its 19th week within the Top 100, and twelfth week inside the Top

10. It's gives Australia two former X-Factor contestants who occupy the

No.1's here, as One Direction came third in the UK 2010 edition, and Carly

came third in the 2007 Canadian X-Factor series.

 

The last time we had a vocal-boy-band at No.1 was twice within 2006 when

Westlife took their album "Face to Face" to the top for three weeks during

March, and then in October and November of that year Human Nature spent four

broken weeks at the top with "Dancing in the Streets: The Songs of Motown

II".

 

"Up All Night" is the 502nd ARIA No.1 album (1983 to 2012), and the 643rd in

Australia (1965 to 2012), and is the fifth No.1 here for the Syco label,

having previously topped the charts with il Divo, Leona Lewis and two Susan

Boyle albums.

 

It's the third 'Up' to appear in a No.1 album, with Bryan Adams's "Waking Up

the Neighbors" (4 weeks from 20-Oct-91) and "Up" for Shania Twain (1 week,

25-Nov-02). It's the ninth 'All' album and the eleventh 'Night' album to

reach the top.

 

One Direction are the 35th English group and the 63rd English act to reach

No.1 here in Australia, the last being Florence + the Machine back in

November of 2011. They're also the 306th group to have a No.1 album here and

"Up All Night" is the 128th album by an English act.

 

Last week Lionel Richie's tenth studio album "Tuskegee" made a modest No.36

debut, but this week it leaps up to No.2 helped no doubt by his 'Sunday

Night' appearance and many interviews during the last week. This becomes his

fourth album to reach the Top 10, plus he re-enters at No.19 with his set

"The Definitive Collection".

 

The Hilltop Hoods hold at No.3 for a second with their two-running No.1

album "Drinking from the Sun", and Adele also holds again at No.4 with her

"21" set. Skrillex and Bob Seger drop a place each to No.6 and No.7

respectively, and holding at No.8 for another week is Ed Sheeran's "+"

album. Madonna's tenth No.1 album here "MDNA" falls from last week's

top-spot-debut to No.9 this week, and returning to the Top 10 up from No.12

to No.10 are The Black Keys and their "El Camino" album.

 

Scoring the highest new entry of the week is Nicki Minaj and her second

album "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded", which debuts at No.5, whilst her first

album "Pink Friday" returns to the Top 50 at No.48 (up from No.55). The new

set contains the current No.2 single "Starships", plus the deluxe edition

contains her David Guetta collaboration "Turn Me On" (TW-29).

 

NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: Creedence move up three places to a new peak of No.11

with their new set "The Ultimate Collection", and Rebecca Ferguson's

"Heaven" album leaps twenty-three places to No.17 in its third week within

the Top 100. Tony Bennett's national tour is in full-swing, and his "Duets 1

& 2" set benefits by jumping twenty-three places to No.25. Last week's debut

for Meshuggah, "Koloss" is up seven places to a new peak of No.36, and

leaping up twenty-one places to No.48 is Jason DeRulo's "Future History"

album.

 

US rock band The Used debut at No.18 with their fifth album "Vulnerable". It

becomes their third Top 20 entry, and all five albums have reached the Top

40 plus they've also charted in Australia with their Feb. 2007 live album

"Berth" (HP-39). Previous album "Artwork" debuted and peaked at No.17 in

September of 2009.

 

With the current singles chart influx of local singer Sia, and her fifteen

years of recording in this country, she releases her first greatest hits

package simply entitled "Best of", which enters at No.30 this week.

 

Lower 50: With INXS announcing a winter tour of Australia, it has helped

their "The Very Best of" to jump up forty-seven places to No.51 this week.

Django Django's self-titled album leaps up twenty-two places to a new peak

of No.60, Christina Perri's "lovestrong" album reclaims twenty-six places to

land at No.63 this week. Pete Murray's "Sky Blue Sky" is back up to No.68

(up 25 spots), and John Fogerty's "Long Road Home: The Ultimate" is up

twenty-two spots to No.78.

 

There are plenty of re-entries this week, with "The Ultimate" for The Bee

Gees returning at No.73. Angus and Julia Stone are set to release separate

solo albums in late April/early May, but their previous album "Down the Way"

is back in at No.75. Amy Winehouse with "Back in Black" and Guy Sebastian's

"Twenty Ten" return at No.79 and No.80 respectively, and "The Ultimate

Collection" for Sade is back in at No.85.

 

Greatest Hits sets for Alan Jackson, Crowded House and P!nk are back in at

No.93, No.94 and No.100 respectively, and new collections for Mariah Carey,

Celine Dion and Carole King (all entitled "The Essential") debut at No.86,

No.91 and No.99.