ARIA Top 50 Singles weekending 25th September 2006

 

1 (1) I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker – Sandi Thom

2 (2) SexyBack – Justin Timberlake

3 (New) Taller, Stronger, Better – Guy Sabastian

4 (3) London Bridge - Fergie

5 (New) Call Me When You’re Sober - Evanescence

6 (New) Maneater – Nelly Furtado

7 (4) Mistake – Stephanie McIntosh

8 (5) Buttons – Pussycat Dolls

9 (8) I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ – Scissor Sisters

10 (7) Unfaithful - Rihanna

11 (10) Lonely – Shannon Noll

12 (6) Hips Don’t Lie – Shakira ft Wyclef Jean

13 (9) Promiscuous – Nelly Furtado

14 (New) Sarah – Eskimo Joe

15 (17) Me and You - Cassie

16 (12) Who Knew - Pink

17 (11) Ain’t No Other Man – Christina Aguilera

18 (New) Come On Come On – Little Birdy

19 (15) Rudebox – Robbie Williams

20 (13) What’s Left Of Me – Nick Lachey

21 (16) This Time I Know It’s For Real – Young Divas

22 (14) Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is - Jet

23 (18) Miss Murder - AFI

24 (29) Somebody Out There – Kate Alexa

25 (19) Smile – Lily Allen

26 (21) Bossy - Kelis

27 (24) Revolution – The Veronicas

28 (38) Ridin’ - Chamillionaire

29 (32) Right Where You Want Me – Jesse McCartney

30 (22) Tell Me Baby – Red Hot Chili Peppers

31 (20) Déjà vu - Beyonce

32 (36) I’m Not Missing You – Stacie Orrico

33 (25) Over My Head (Cable Car) – The Fray

34 (26) For You I Will (Confidence) – Teddy Geiger

35 (27) We Run This – Missy Elliott

36 (23) Sexy Love – Ne-Yo

37 (30) Running - Evermore

38 (31) Animals – Nickelback

39 (33) A Public Affair – Jessica Simpson

40 (New) Something That My Heart Does – The McClymonts

41 (35) Pullin’ Me Back - Chingy

42 (New) Young Folks – Peter, Bjorn & John

43 (28) Stars Are Blind – Paris Hilton

44 (37) Black Fingernails, Red Wine – Eskimo Joe

45 (40) In Love With You - Freestylers

46 (42) Breaking Free – Troy & Gabriella

47 (43) Stoned In Love – Chicane ft Tom Jones

48 (39) I Love My Chick – Busta Rhymes

49 (New) Borderline – Michael Gray ft Shelley Poole

50 (34) Apple Of The Eye (Lay Me Down) – Something With Numbers

 

 

 

ARIA Top 50 Albums weekending 25th September 2006

 

1 (New) Ta Dah! – Scissor Sisters

2 (2) I’m Not Dead - Pink

3 (1) Future Sex/Love Sounds – Justin Timberlake

4 (4) Tightrope – Stephanie McIntosh

5 (7) Black Fingernails, Red Wine – Eskimo Joe

6 (3) Revelations - Audioslave

7 (11) High School Musical – Original Soundtrack

8 (10) Loose – Nelly Furtado

9 (5) Modern Times – Bob Dylan

10 (9) Back To Basics – Christina Aguilera

11 (23) Smile It Confuses People – Sandi Thom

12 (12) Continuum – John Mayer

13 (New) The Duchess - Fergie

14 (8) Carnival – Kasey Chambers

15 (14) A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out – Panic! At The Disco

16 (20) Here Come The Drums – Rogue Traders

17 (15) Stadium Arcadium – Red Hot Chili Peppers

18 (18) Life Summer 2003 – Robbie Williams

19 (31) Real Life - Evermore

20 (21) Wolfmother - Wolfmother

21 (17) Taking The Long Way – Dixie Chicks

22 (13) B’Day - Beyonce

23 (16) The Best Of – Chris Isaak

24 (24) Sing When You’re Winning – Robbie Williams

25 (47) The Platinum Collection – John Williamson

26 (32) Respect M.E. – Missy Elliott

27 (19) PCD – Pussycat Dolls

28 (Re) Escapology – Robbie Williams

29 (6) Amputechture – The Mars Volta

30 (New) Factory Girls – Dallas Crane

31 (25) See The Sun – Pete Murray

32 (22) The Secret Life Of… - The Veronicas

33 (30) Boy From Oz – Hugh Jackman

34 (26) Here’s To The Heroes – The Ten Tenors

35 (28) From This Moment On – Diana Krall

36 (29) Back To Bedlam – James Blunt

37 (35) Life Thru A Lens – Robbie Williams

38 (27) Le Fil - Camille

39 (33) All The Right Reasons - Nickelback

40 (New) Forever Diamondz - Bratz

41 (36) St. Elsewhere – Gnarls Barkley

42 (45) Monkey Business – Black Eyed Peas

43 (42) Lift – Shannon Noll

44 (New) The Outsider – DJ Shadow

45 (37) Alright, Still – Lily Allen

46 (40) Black Holes & Revelations - Muse

47 (41) A Girl Like Me - Rihanna

48 (Re) Tea and Sympathy – Bernard Fanning

49 (New) Right Where You Want Me – Jesse McCartney

50 (48) Switch - INXS

 

 

 

ARIA Chart Commentary

 

Credit: Gavin Ryan

 

Now in it's fourth week at the top of the Australian charts, Sandi Thom's "I

Wish I Was a Punk Rocker" stays firm, also keeping Justin Timberlake's

"Sexyback" at No.2 for it's fourth week. The success of the single has helped

her album "Smile... it Confuses People" to climb from No.23 to No.11, it's

highest placing so far.

 

There are three new entries to the Top 10 this week, and the highest comes

in at No.3. Guy Sebastian was the winner of the first Australian Idol in 2003,

and he had three back-to-back No.1 singles, "Angels Brought Me Here", "All I

Need is You" and "Out With My Baby". His sixth Australian chart single this week

debuts at No.3, "Taller, Stronger, Better", and is the lead track off of his

forthcoming third album, due for release in late October.

 

Another artist who first made their mark on the charts in 2003 was

Evanescence, and they are back this week debuting at No.5 with the track "Call

Me When You're Sober". Their biggest track was the No.1 single from May 2003

"Bring Me to Life", plus the other Top 5 track "My Immortal" from January 2004.

There new album "The Open Door" comes out September 30th.

 

The third Top 10 debut of the week comes in at No.6, and is the fourth Top

10 single for Nelly Furtado, "Maneater".

Her other charting single "Promiscuous" falls out of the Top 10 this week,

having peaked at No.2. This is a similar trend to her first two Top 10 singles

here in Australia. "I'm Like a Bird" reached No.2, and it's follow-up "Turn off

the Lights" reached No.7. Although I can probably guess that "Maneater" will

probably go higher up the charts, as it has already spent 3 weeks at No.1 in the

UK, where it was the first single off the album, as opposed to the rest of the

world who got "Promiscuous" as the first single.

 

Two big Perth groups debut within the Top 20 this week. Firstly at No.14 is

"Sarah" by Eskimo Joe, the follow-up to the No.6 single "Black Fingernails, Red

Wine", which is just within the Top 50 this week at No.44. The other WA'ians

come in at No.18 in the form of Little Birdy and their track "Come On, Come On".

This is their first ever Top 20 single, having previously peaked at No.22 with

the EP "This is a Love Song" back in March 2004. The single also features their

version of the Split Enz classic from 1982 "Six Months in a Leaky Boat", and

it's the first single from their second album "Hollywood" which is due out

October 14th.

 

Six weeks in a row that a new No.1 album has debuted at the top of the

albums chart. This week it's the Scissor Sisters with their second album, and

current UK No.1, "Ta-Dah". It features the current No.9 single "I Don't Feel

Like Dancin'", and it screams into the No.1 position on Gold Sales Status. Their

previous self-titled album reached No.7 in February 2005, and achieved Platinum

status during it's 20 weeks in the Top 50.

Ta-Dah is the 534rd No.1 album in Australia, and of the past six single-week

No.1 albums, five of those have belonged to American Performers. Talking of

American's, this is the 191st American Performed No.1 album in Australia, by the

112th American Artist. It's also the 253rd by a Group, and the 51st by an

American Group.

It's also the first time that the words 'Ta-Dah', 'Scissor' and 'Sisters'

have appeared in a No.1 album.

 

Last week's highest debuting single was "London Bridge" by Black Eyed Peas

member Fergie, well the accompanying album this week debuts at No.13 on the

albums chart, "The Duchess".

 

Last week I also mentioned that Robbie Williams had three albums all within

the Top 50 albums, well this week his 2002 "Escapology" album re-enters the

albums chart to give Robbie four albums in the Top 50. The last person or group

to have this many albums on the chart at the one time was Johnny Cash earlier

this year during the "Walk the Line" Soundtrack period of February.

 

 

Here is a list of the No.1 songs this week on the Australian charts for the past

66 years...

 

2006 - I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (with Flowers in My Hair) - Sandi Thom (4th

week)

2005 - Don't Cha - The Pussycat Dolls (5th of 5 weeks)

2004 - She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5 (4th of 4 weeks)

2003 - Not Me, Not I - Delta Goodrem (1 week only)

2002 - Complicated - Avril Lavigne (6th of 6 weeks)

2001 - Can't Get You Out of My Head - Kylie Minogue (2nd of 4 weeks)

2000 - Music - Madonna (4th of 4 weeks) Return to the Top

1999 - Mambo No.5 - Lou Bega (3rd of 8 weeks)

1998 - I Don't Want to Miss a Thing - Aerosmith (3rd of 8 weeks)

1997 - Men in Black - Will Smith (4th of 4 weeks)

1996 - Macarena - Los Del Rio (4th of 9 weeks) 10 YEARS AGO

1995 - Kiss from a Rose - Seal (5th of 6 weeks)

1994 - Confide in Me - Kylie Minogue (2nd of 4 weeks)

1993 - I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) - Meat Loaf (4th of 8

weeks)

1992 - Humpin' Around - Bobby Brown (1 week only)

1991 - (Everything I Do) I Do it for You - Bryan Adams (9th of 11 weeks)

1990 - Blaze of Glory - Jon Bon Jovi (2nd of 6 weeks)

1989 - Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx (3rd of 6 weeks)

1988 - Simply Irresistable - Robert Palmer (2nd of 5 weeks)

1987 - La Bamba - Los Lobos (1st of 7 weeks)

1986 - Venus - Bananarama (2nd of 7 weeks) 20 YEARS AGO

1985 - Power of Love - Huey Lewis & The News (1st of 2 weeks)

1984 - Careless Whisper - George Michael (2nd of 4 weeks)

1983 - Australiana - Austen Tayshus (5th of 8 weeks)

1982 - Eye of the Tiger - Survivor (2nd of 6 weeks)

1981 - You Drive Me Crazy - Shakin' Stevens (3rd of 3 weeks)

1980 - Moscow - Genghis Khan (6th of 6 weeks)

1979 - My Sharona - The Knack (4th of 5 weeks)

1978 - You're the One That I Want - Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta (8th of 9

weeks)

1977 - You're Moving Out Today - Carole Bayer-Sager (3rd of 4 weeks)

1976 - Dancing Queen - Abba (4th of 8 weeks) 30 YEARS AGO

1975 - Love Will Keep us Together - The Captain & Tennille (2nd of 4 weeks)

1974 - The Night Chicago Died - Paper Lace (1st of 8 weeks)

1973 - Never, Never, Never - Shirley Bassey (2nd of 2 weeks)

1972 - Rock and Roll (Part 2) - Gary Glitter (1 week only)

1971 - Daddy Cool - Drummond (4th of 7 weeks)

1970 - In the Summertime - The Mixtures (4th of 6 weeks)

1969 - Honky Tonk Woman / You Can't Always Get What You Want - The Rolling

Stones (4th of 5 weeks)

1968 - Harper Valley PTA - Jeannie C. Riley (1 week only)

1967 - Don't Sleep in the Subway - Petula Clark (2nd of 2 weeks)

1966 - Yellow Submarine / Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles (4th of 8 weeks) 40 YEARS

AGO

1965 - Help! / I'm Down - The Beatles (7th of 8 weeks)

1964 - I Should Have Known Better / If I Fell - The Beatles (4th of 5 weeks)

1963 - Bombora - The Atlantics (2nd of 2 weeks)

1962 - Sheila - Tommy Roe (1st of 3 weeks)

1961 - Michael - The Highwaymen (1 week only)

1960 - Walk - Don't Run - The Ventures (2nd of 2 weeks)

1959 - The Three Bells - The Browns (1st of 5 weeks)

1958 - Patricia - Perez Prado (1 week only)

1957 - Love Letters in the Sand - Pat Boone (2nd of 5 weeks)

1956 - Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera) - Doris Day (2nd of 8 weeks)

50 YEARS AGO

1955 - (We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets (6th of 6

weeks)

1954 - Three Coins in the Fountain - Frank Sinatra / Four Aces (1st of 2 weeks)

1953 - Song from Moulin Rouge (Where is Your Heart) - Percy Faith (6th of 6

weeks)

1952 - Walkin' My Baby Back Home - Johnnie Ray / Nat 'King' Cole (2nd of 2

weeks)

1951 - Too Young - Nat 'King' Cole / Toni Arden (3rd of 9 weeks)

1950 - Quicksilver - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters (3rd of 8 weeks)

1949 - Powder Your Face With Sunshine - Evelyn Knight / Sammy Kaye (1st of 2

weeks)

1948 - Serenade of the Bells - Sammy Kaye (1 Month only)

1947 - The Anniversy Song - Bing Crosby / Al Jolson (1 Month only)

1946 - On the Atcheson, Topeka and Santa Fe - Bing Crosby / Judy Garland (2nd of

2 Months) 60 YEARS AGO

1945 - Don't Fence Me in - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters (1st of 3 Months)

1944 - Vict'ry Polka - Bing Corsby & The Andrews Sisters (1 Month only)

1943 - White Christmas - Bing Crosby (4th of 5 Months)

1942 - (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover - Vera Lynn (3rd

of 3 Months)

1941 - Down Argentina Way - Shep Fields / West End Players (1 Month only)

1940 - Till the Lights of London Shine Again - Joe Loss (2nd of 3 Months)

 

Thanks to Gavin Ryan