ARIA Top 50 Singles weekending 12th March 2007

 

1 (1) Lips Of An Angel - Hinder

2 (2) The Sweet Escape – Gwen Stefani

3 (3) How To Save A Life – The Fray

4 (4) This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race – Fallout Boy

5 (7) Keep Your Hands Off My Girl – Good Charlotte

6 (5) Say It Right – Nelly Furtado

7 (8) I Wanna Love You – Akon ft Snoop Dogg

8 (6) Rock This Party – Bob Sinclar

9 (15) Suddenly I See – KT Tunstall

10 (10) Hit Me Up – Gia Farrell

11 (9) Put Your Hands Up (For Detroit) – Fedde Le Grande

12 (11) Fergalicious – Fergie

13 (12) Light Surrounding You - Evermore

14 (14) Smack That – Akon ft Eminem

15 (18) Tell Me – P. Diddy ft Christina Aguilera

16 (16) Wait A Minute – Pussycat Dolls

17 (17) Irreplaceable - Beyonce

18 (13) Don’t Give Up – Shannon Noll & Natalie Bassingthwaighte

19 (New) Something About You - Jamelia

20 (New) Proper Education – Eric Prydz vs Floyd

21 (19) My Love – Justin Timberlake

22 (20) Welcome To The Black Parade – My Chemical Romance

23 (23) Famous Last Words – My Chemical Romance

24 (21) Too Little Too Late - JoJo

25 (22) I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ – Scissor Sisters

26 (25) Pictures – Sneaky Sound System

27 (29) Joker & The Thief – Wolfmother

28 (27) Over My Head (Cable Car) – The Fray

29 (24) Long Way 2 Go - Cassie

30 (26) SexyBack – Justin Timberlake

31 (30) The Kill (Bury Me) – 30 Seconds To Mars

32 (28) Funky Tonight – John Butler Trio

33 (New) Lines On Palms – Josh Pyke

34 (31) Wind It Up – Gwen Stefani

35 (New) So Do I Say Sorry First? – Stephanie McIntosh

36 (39) New York – Eskimo Joe

37 (33) Lying Is The Most Fun – Panic! At The Disco

38 (35) Bones – The Killers

39 (New) She’s My Man – Scissor Sisters

40 (43) Beautiful As You – The Whitlams

41 (32) Not Ready To Make Nice – Dixie Chicks

42 (49) Gallery – Mario Vasquez

43 (34) Elevator Love – Guy Sabastian

44 (38) All Night Long – Joel Turner

45 (42) If Everyone Cared - Nickelback

46 (36) Nobody Knows - Pink

47 (44) Moonlight Party – Fonzerelli

48 (41) I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker – Sandi Thom

49 (37) Lithium - Evanescence

50 (40) Night Of My Life – Damien Leith

 

 

ARIA Top 50 Albums weekending 12th March 2007

 

1 (1) How To Save A Life – The Fray

2 (2) Eyes Open – Snow Patrol

3 (3) Extreme Behaviour - Hinder

4 (5) Future Sex/Love Sounds – Justin Timberlake

5 (4) The Journey – Damien Leith

6 (7) I’m Not Dead - Pink

7 (New) Neon Bible – Arcade Fire

8 (8) Infinity On High – Fallout Boy

9 (6) Not Too Late – Norah Jones

10 (12) The Sweet Escape – Gwen Stefani

11 (11) Loose – Nelly Furtado

12 (10) The Black Parade – My Chemical Romance

13 (13) Real Life - Evermore

14 (New) Grinderman - Grinderman

15 (9) Yours Truly, Angry Mob – Kaiser Chiefs

16 (18) Black Fingernails, Red Wine – Eskimo Joe

17 (16) Wolfmother - Wolfmother

18 (14) Taking The Long Way – Dixie Chicks

19 (20) Back To Black – Amy Winehouse

20 (15) A Weekend In The City – Bloc Party

21 (17) Sam’s Town – The Killers

22 (27) A Beautiful Lie – 30 Seconds To Mars

23 (19) The Winner’s Journey – Damien Leith

24 (21) Sneaky Sound System – Sneaky Sound System

25 (24) U218: Singles – U2

26 (43) Love, Pain & The Whole Crazy Thing – Keith Urban

27 (37) Konvicted - Akon

28 (25) Happy Feet – Original Soundtrack

29 (38) Here Come The Drums – Rogue Traders

30 (28) Hot Fuss – The Killers

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

32 (29) At The Movies – Van Morrison

33 (New) Pocket Symphony - Air

34 (36) Stadium Arcadium – Red Hot Chili Peppers

35 (33) Back To Bedlam – James Blunt

36 (23) The Open Door - Evanescence

37 (26) Siempre – Il Divo

38 (30) Ta-Dah! – Scissor Sisters

39 (35) Grace – Jeff Buckley

40 (32) Black Holes & Revelations - Muse

41 (42) PCD – Pussycat Dolls

42 (22) The Love Album - Westlife

43 (40) Alright, Still – Lily Allen

44 (45) Continuum – John Mayer

45 (31) Boned! – The 12th Man

46 (34) Dreamgirls – Original Soundtrack

47 (New) Lunatico – Gotan Project

48 (Re) The Dutchess - Fergie

49 (47) Love – The Beatles

50 (49) Cannot Buy My Soul: The Songs Of Kev Carmody – Various Artists

 

 

ARIA Chart Commentary

 

(Thanks to Gavin Ryan)

 

This week could possibly be the last week for Hinder at the top of the charts, but they do retain the No.1 spot for a seventh week with "Lips of an Angel", and in doing so they move to equal fifth placing for Most Weeks at No.1 this Decade. They are now tied with The Pussycat Dolls' August-October 2005 No.1 single "Don't Cha". The reason that they most likely won't be at the top next week is that Silverchair's new single "Straight Lines" is out in shops this week, and it has been No.1 on the Download charts for the past two weeks.

 

The Top 4 are stable this week, only one new entry is to the Top 10 this week. KT Tunstall's "Suddenly I See" track jumps from 15 to 9 this week to finally crack the Top 10 after the song was initially released back in January 2006. It is still being used as the theme for "Ugly Betty", and this week was also shown in an episode of "Medium".

 

This very week in 2004 (8-March), Jamelia was claiming the No.1 spot for a single week with her first Aussie hit, "Superstar". Now her fifth Top 50 single is this week's highest new entry at No.19. "Something About You" was originally a Top 10 single in the UK late last year, and she's had two more since then in the UK, but the track finally charts here this week. Her other hits include "Thank You" (No.7, April 2004), "See it in a Boy's Eyes" (No.35, August 2004) and "DJ"/"Stop" (No.37, January 2005), the B-Side of which was a cover of the 1989 Sam Brown single which was included on the Bridget Jones's Diary 2 Soundtrack.

 

Right behind Jamelia at No.20 is the second single for Swedish DJ/Remixer/Produced Eric Prydz, "Proper Education". His first single was the No.2 track "Call on Me" which sample Steve Winwood's 1982 & 1988 track "Valerie", whilst this one samples Pink Floyd's No.2 single from March 1980, "Another Brick in the Wall". This is the second song this decade to sample this track, there was also 2000's "Brick Track vs Gitty Up" by Salt-N-Pepa.

 

New at No.33 is the second Top 50 single for Josh Pyke entitled "Lines on Palms". Josh hit No.39 with the track "Memories and Dust" last October, and that is the name of his forthcoming album in two weeks.

 

Last year Neighbors starlet Stephanie McIntosh hit No.3 with her first single "Mistake", then she followed that up with the title track of her album "Tightrope" which made it to No.16. Now the third single from her debut album "So Do I Say Sorry First?" debuts at No.35.

 

And the fifth new entry this week is the follow-up to the November 2006 No.1 single "I Don't Feel Like Dancing" (No.25 this week), "She's My Man" by The Scissor Sisters which comes in at No.39.

 

Australia is the first country around the world that has made The Fray's album "How to Save a Life" a No.1, and this week it stays for a second week at the top of our charts.

 

With the Top 5 almost the same order as last week (4 and 5 swap places), the highest new entry to the charts is the expected No.1 album in the UK next week, "Neon Bible" by Arcade Fire. The Canadian group's second album (their first was 2004's "Funeral") was recorded in a small church outside of Montreal during much of 2006.

 

The top 3 new entries this week are all EMI Product, and the second of these comes in at No.14, the self-titled album by Grinderman (aka Nick Cave). The idea for the project came around 2004 when Nick was working on his "Abattoir Blues" album, and instead of Nick presenting song to The Bad Seeds, he took a few of the musicians and workshopped songs together with them to come up with the Grinderman project. They took their sessions to a London recording studio last February, and issued the lead track off the album in October last year, "No p**** Blues".

 

New at No.33 is "Pocket Symphony" by Air. It's the follow-up to the February 2004 album "Talkie Walkie" which reached No.18.

 

 

This is a list of the No.1 albums in Australia for the past 42 years.

 

13-Mar-65 - Beatles for Sale - The Beatles (6th of 11 weeks)

 

12-Mar-66 - Rubber Soul - The Beatles (3rd of 10 weeks)

 

11-Mar-67 - Sound of Music - Soundtrack (73rd of 76 weeks)

 

9-Mar-68 - Their Satanic Majesties Reuqest - The Rolling Stones (2nd of 3 weeks)

 

8-Mar-69 - The Beatles (White Album) - The Beatles (12th of 16 weeks)

 

9-Mar-70 - Led Zeppelin II - Led Zeppelin (2nd of 5 weeks)

 

8-Mar-71 - Pendulum - Creedence Clearwater Revival (2nd of 3 weeks)

 

13-Mar-72 - Teaser and the Firecat - Cat Stevens (13th of 15 weeks)

 

12-Mar-73 - Slayed? - Slade (6th of 6 weeks)

 

11-Mar-74 - Hot August Night - Neil Diamond (29th of 29 weeks)

 

10-Mar-75 - Living in the 70's - Skyhooks (3rd of 16 weeks)

 

8-Mar-76 - Desire - Bob Dylan (3rd of 3 weeks)

 

14-Mar-77 - Hotel California - The Eagles (9th of 12 weeks)

 

13-Mar-78 - Simple Dreams - Linda Ronstadt (5th of 5 weeks)

 

12-Mar-79 - Spirits Having Flown - The Bee Gees (1st of 5 weeks)

 

10-Mar-80 - The Wall - Pink Floyd (2nd of 4 weeks)

 

9-Mar-81 - Back in Black - AC/DC (1 week only)

 

8-Mar-82 - Love Songs - Cliff Richard (1st of 2 weeks)

 

14-Mar-83 - 25 Years of Gold - Cliff Richard (1st of 3 weeks)

 

12-Mar-84 - Shakin' 1984 - Various Artists (2nd of 2 weeks)

 

11-Mar-85 - 1985 Comes Alive - Various Artists (2nd of 4 weeks)

 

10-Mar-86 - Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits (29th of 34 weeks)

 

9-Mar-87 - Whispering Jack - John Farnham (15th of 18 weeks)

 

14-Mar-88 - Dirty Dancing - Soundtrack (5th of 8 weeks)

 

9-Mar-89 - Mystery Girl - Roy Orbison (2nd of 4 weeks)

 

11-Mar-90 - Blue Sky Mining - Midnight Oil (1st of 2 weeks)

 

10-Mar-91 - Home - Hothouse Flowers (1 week only)

 

8-Mar-92 - Baby Animals - Baby Animals (6th of 6 weeks)

 

14-Mar-93 - Unplugged - Eric Clapton (2nd of 6 weeks)

 

13-Mar-94 - One Thing - Michael Bolton (1st of 2 weeks)

 

12-Mar-95 - Greatest Hits - Bruce Springsteen (1 week only)

 

10-Mar-96 - Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette (1st of 2 weeks)

 

9-Mar-97 - Romeo & Juliet - Soundtrack (7th of 7 weeks)

 

8-Mar-98 - Titanic - Soundtrack (5th of 5 weeks)

 

8-Mar-99 - Come on Over - Shania Twain (5th of 5 weeks)

 

13-Mar-00 - Reflector - Killing Heidi (1st of 4 weeks)

 

12-Mar-01 - No Angel - Dido (1st of 8 weeks)

 

11-Mar-02 - Polyserana - George (1st of 2 weeks)

 

10-Mar-03 - Come Away With Me - Norah Jones (5th of 7 weeks)

 

8-Mar-04 - That's What I'm Talking About - Shannon Noll (4th of 4 weeks)

 

14-Mar-05 - In Between Days - Jack Johnson (2nd of 4 weeks)

 

13-Mar-06 - Face to Face - Westlife (2nd of 3 weeks)

 

12-Mar-07 - How to Save a Life - The Fray (2nd week)

 

 

Thanks to Gavin Ryan