ARIA Top 50 Singles weekending 14th May 2007

 

1 (1) Girlfriend – Avril Lavigne

2 (2) Candyman – Christina Aguilera

3 (4) Glamorous - Fergie

4 (3) Grace Kelly - Mika

5 (11) Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely) - Pink

6 (5) Straight Lines - Silverchair

7 (New) Makes Me Wonder – Maroon 5

8 (6) 20 Good Reasons – Thirsty Merc

9 (9) The Sweet Escape – Gwen Stefani

10 (7) Beautiful Liar – Beyonce & Shakira

11 (New) If You Don’t Mean It – Dean Geyer

12 (8) Steer – Missy Higgins

13 (New) What I’ve Done – Linkin Park

14 (10) Suddenly I See – KT Tunstall

15 (13) What Goes Around (Comes Around) – Justin Timberlake

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

17 (15) Keep Your Hands Off My Girl – Good Charlotte

18 (16) All Good Things (Come To An End) – Nelly Furtado

19 (17) The Others – TV Rock vs Dukes Of Windsor

20 (18) UFO – Sneaky Sound System

21 (14) Cupid’s Chokehold – Gym Class Heroes

22 (20) Little Wonders – Rob Thomas

23 (19) Give It To Me – Timbaland ft Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake

24 (22) It’s Not Over - Daughtry

25 (21) I Wanna Love You – Akon ft Snoop Dogg

26 (28) Everything – Michael Buble

27 (24) Put Your Hands Up (For Detroit) – Fedde Le Grande

28 (23) Because Of You – Ne-Yo

29 (25) How To Save A Life – The Fray

30 (26) Rock This Party – Bob Sinclar

31 (29) Before You Go – Candice Alley

32 (27) Hump De Bump – Red Hot Chili Peppers

33 (35) Get Down – Groove Armada

34 (30) Say It Right – Nelly Furtado

35 (36) Wait A Minute – Pussycat Dolls

36 (New) Ice Box - Omarion

37 (33) From Yesterday – 30 Seconds To Mars

38 (31) Lips Of An Angel - Hinder

39 (New) The Bird and the Worm – The Used

40 (32) Pictures – Sneaky Sound System

41 (37) Joker & The Thief - Wolfmother

42 (38) Fergalicious - Fergie

43 (40) The Kill (Bury Me) – 30 Seconds To Mars

44 (34) Hit Me Up – Gia Farrell

45 (41) Light Surrounding You - Evermore

46 (43) Jenny Don’t Be Hasty – Paolo Nutini

47 (46) Irreplaceable - Beyonce

48 (50) Not Ready To Make Nice – Dixie Chicks

49 (47) Smack That – Akon ft Eminem

50 (Re) U & Ur Hand - Pink

 

 

ARIA Top 50 Albums weekending 14th May 2007

 

1 (New) Call Me Irresponsible – Michael Buble

2 (1) On A Clear Night – Missy Higgins

3 (3) I’m Not Dead - Pink

4 (5) Nine Lime Avenue – Kate Ceberano

5 (12) Awake – Josh Groban

6 (4) The Best Damn Thing – Avril Lavigne

7 (2) Young Modern - Silverchair

8 (10) So I Am – Belinda Emmett

9 (42) Dancing In The Streets: The Songs Of Motown II – Human Nature

10 (6) Grand National – John Butler Trio

11 (17) Back To Basics – Christina Aguilera

12 (14) The Sweet Escape – Gwen Stefani

13 (7) Slideshows – Thirsty Merc

14 (13) Future Sex/Love Sounds – Justin Timberlake

15 (9) Standing On The Outside: The Songs Of Cold Chisel – Various Artists

16 (11) Loose – Nelly Furtado

17 (Re) It’s Time – Michael Buble

18 (8) Favourite Worst Nightmare – Arctic Monkeys

19 (18) Eyes Open – Snow Patrol

20 (22) Rocket Man: The Definitive Hits – Elton John

21 (15) Extreme Behaviour - Hinder

22 (New) The Magic Of – Doris Day

23 (27) Not Too Late – Norah Jones

24 (19) Solo: The Last Recordings – Billy Thorpe

25 (16) Because Of The Times – Kings Of Leon

26 (Re) Undiscovered – James Morrison

27 (25) Sneaky Sound System – Sneaky Sound System

28 (Re) Closer – Josh Groban

29 (Re) Forever Begins Tonight – Patrizio Buanne

30 (New) Soundboy Rock – Groove Armada

31 (23) Life In Cartoon Motion - Mika

32 (26) How To Save A Life – The Fray

33 (37) Taking The Long Way – Dixie Chicks

34 (Re) The Swing Sessions – David Campbell

35 (35) The Dutchess - Fergie

36 (24) Year Zero – Nine Inch Nails

37 (31) Pubs, Trucks & Plains – Slim Dusty

38 (New) The Very Best Of – Dolly Parton

39 (21) B’Day - Beyonce

40 (New) Oh We Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside – The Vasco Era

41 (29) Stadium Arcadium – Red Hot Chili Peppers

42 (Re) Siempre – Il Divo

43 (32) Good Morning Revival – Good Charlotte

44 (43) PCD – Pussycat Dolls

45 (Re) Josh Groban – Josh Groban

46 (40) A Beautiful Lie – 30 Seconds To Mars

47 (30) Infinity On High – Fallout Boy

48 (28) These Streets – Paolo Nutini

49 (50) Love, Pain & The Whole Crazy Thing – Keith Urban

50 (33) Sam’s Town – The Killers

 

Chartifacts

 

Avril Lavigne keeps her "Girlfriend" at the top of the singles chart in Australia for a fourth week, but also creates a piece of history with the albums chart. Avril is from Napanee in Ontario, Canada, and the new No.1 album this week is by Vancouver, Canada native Michael Buble, thus creating a first for the Australian charts, in that two different Canadian's are at the top of our charts. Previously Bryan Adams (from November 1993 for 8 weeks) and Celine Dion (August 1996 for 1 week) had occupied both the top of the singles and album charts with their releases, but this week is the first time that two different Canadians have occupied the top spots.

 

Last week's highest new entry by Pink "Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely)" becomes the biggest climbing single this week moving from 11 to 5, and thus becomes her fourth Top 5 single from this weeks No.3 album "I'm Not Dead". She has also just announced three more shows for her current national tour, one more each for Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane. So expect this single and the album to be around a lot longer.

 

The highest of five new entries this week comes in at No.7, and is this week's No.1 single in the U.S., "Makes Me Wonder" by Maroon 5. It's first track off their forthcoming album "It Won't be Soon Before Long" which is out in Australia on May 21st, and is their first track since "Sunday Morning" hit No.27 in January 2005. They have previously had a total of four Top 50 singles, including the two Top 10 singles ""This Love" (No.8, March 2004) and the No.1 single for five weeks "She Will Be Loved" (August 2004).

 

Dean Geyer (pronounced Guy-er, as opposed to Renee Geyer who was pronounced Gay-er) came fourth in the 2006 Australian Idol competition, and this week his debut single "If You Don't Mean it" enters the charts at No.11. It's from his forthcoming album "Rush" which is out at the end of the month.

 

Another act who haven't been on the charts since January 2005 are Linkin Park, who debuts this week with their new track "What I've Done" at No.13. It's from their new album "Minutes to Midnight" which is out on Monday, and becomes their 10th Top 50 single since they first graced our charts back in 2001 with the Top 5 single "One Step Closer". That last track back in January 2005 was the No.3 double A-Side single "Numb"/"Encore", and if their album debuts at No.1 next week it will be their first in Australia.

 

Former lead singer of B2K Omarion has his first Australian solo single debut at No.36 this week, "Ice Box", which is taken from his second album "21". He has hit the charts before as guest vocalist on Bow Wow's 2005 No.14 single "Let Me Hold You", but this is his first solo outing on our charts.

 

Not far behind at No.39 is the third Top 50 single for The Used, from Orem, Utah. "The Bird and the Worm" is the first track from their fifth album "Lies for the Liars" which is out next week, and they have previously graced the charts with the tracks "All That I've Got" (No.35, May 2005) and "I Caught Fire (in Your Eyes)" (No.43. October 2005).

 

Mother's Day week charts' are always an upheaval from the previous and following weeks, and this year's is no exception, with 13 bullets/debuts/re-entries come from Mother's Day promoted/targeted releases. For other Mother's Day No.1's, check out this weeks album No.1 listings.

 

Debuting at No.1 is the new album by Canadian crooner Michael Buble. As I mentioned above both himself and Avril make it a Canadian double at the top of the charts, and this new album "Call Me Irresponsible" becomes his second chart topping album, the first being his self-titled debut from 2003, which hit the top of the charts May 2004 (Mothers Day week). It's his fifth charting album in total, and his third album "It's Time" also comes back into the Top 50 this week at No.17, whilst the lead single off the "Call Me Irresponsible" album, "Everything", climbs two places to No.26 on the singles chart this week.

 

Michael now equals the only other Canadian Male to top the album charts twice, Bryan Adams, and he becomes the first solo male artist since December 2006 to top the charts, back then it was Damian Leith's "The Winner's Journey". It's the 155th Solo Male Performed album, and the 15th Canadian Performed album. All of the Canadians who have topped the album charts have now had two or more No.1's, being Bryan Adams (2), Alanis Morissette (2), Avril Lavigne (2), Shania Twain (2) and Celine Dion (5).

 

"Call Me Irresponsible" is the 548th No.1 album in Australia, and is the second album with the word 'Call' in it's title, the other being "Curtain Call" by Eminem ( ) and is the third album with 'M' in it's title, the other two being "Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player", Elton John (April 1973) and "Come Away With Me", Norah Jones (February 2003). There have been no 'Irresponsible' No.1's (sic!). And one last thing, the last four albums by Canadian acts have gone Avril Lavigne, Michael Buble, Avril Lavigne and now Michael Buble.

 

Josh Groban has been in Australia the past two weeks doing promotions for his new album "Awake", and this week it climbs from 12 to 5, plus thanks to Mother's Day and the promotional tour, he has two other albums within the Top 50 this week, "Closer" (No.28) and "Josh Groban" (No.45).

 

Also doing a National tour, and also a tie-in with Mother's Day is Human Nature on their "Motown Tour", which sees their second Motown albums FLY back up the charts, "Dancing in the Street: The Songs of Motown II" from No.42 to No.9, as this week last year their first Motown album re-peaked at No.1.

 

Other Mother's Day influenced titles that charge up the charts this week are "The Magic of Doris Day" (No.22), "Undiscovered" by James Morrison (No.26, he's also in the country this past week), "Forever Begins to Tonight", Patrizio Buanne (No.27), and "The Very Best of Dolly Parton" (No.38).

 

Groove Armada debut at No.30 this week with "Soundboy Rock", their first album since their October 2004 No.26 "The Best of", and this album features their current single "Get Down" which is at No.33 this week.

 

Thanks to Gavin Ryan

 

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

 

15-May-65 - The Sound of Music - Soundtrack (4th of 21 weeks)

14-May-66 - Rubber Soul - The Beatles (11th of 11 weeks) Return to the Top

 

13-May-67 - Going Places - Herb Alpert & The Tijauana Brass (6th of 17 weeks)

 

11-May-68 - A Man and a Woman (un Homme et une Femme) - Soundtrack (5th of 9 weeks)

 

10-May-69 - Hair - Original Broadway Cast (5th of 28 weeks)

 

11-May-70 - Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel (6th of 6 weeks)

 

10-May-71 - All Things Must Pass - George Harrison (8th of 8 weeks)

 

15-May-72 - American Pie - Don McLean (7th of 11 weeks)

 

14-May-73 - Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player - Elton John (3rd of 3 weeks)

 

13-May-74 - Band on the Run - Paul McCartney & Wings (6th of 6 weeks)

 

12-May-75 - Living in the 70's - Skyhooks (12th of 16 weeks)

 

11-May-76 - The Best of Abba - Abba (7th of 16 weeks)

 

16-May-77 - A New World Record - Electric Light Orchestra (5th of 8 weeks)

 

15-May-78 - Saturday Night Fever - Soundtrack (9th of 13 weeks)

 

14-May-79 - Breakfast in America - Supertramp (5th of 6 weeks)

 

12-May-80 - True Colours - Split Enz (5th of 10 weeks)

 

11-May-81 - Corroboree - Split Enz (3rd of 3 weeks)

 

10-May-82 - Circus Animals - Cold Chisel (1 week only)

 

16-May-83 - 1983 The Hot Ones - Various Artists (1st of 4 weeks)

 

14-May-84 - Throbbin' 84 - Various Artists (1st of 5 weeks)

 

13-May-85 - No Jacket Required - Phil Collins (2ndt of 3 weeks)

 

12-May-86 - 1986 The Way to Go - Various Artists (1st of 3 weeks)

 

11-May-87 - Whispering Jack - John Farnham (21st of 24 weeks) Return to the Top

 

16-May-88 - Introducing the Hardline According to... - Terence Trent D'Arby (3rd of 5 weeks)

 

15-May-89 - ...ish - 1927 (2nd of 3 weeks)

 

13-May-90 - Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul (1 week only)

 

12-May-91 - Greatest Hits - Eurythmics (5th of 7 weeks)

 

10-May-92 - Wish - The Cure (1 week only)

 

16-May-93 - Breathless - Kenny G (1 week only)

 

15-May-94 - Music Box - Mariah Carey (4th of 9 weeks)

 

14-May-95 - Colour of Love - Celine Dion (1st of 4 weeks)

 

12-May-96 - To the Faithful Departed - The Cranberries (1 week only)

 

11-May-97 - Savage Garden - Savage Garden (6th of 12 weeks)

 

10-May-98 - Wedding Singer - Soundtrack (1 week only)

 

10-May-99 - One Night Only - The Bee Gees (7th of 7 weeks) Return to the Top

 

15-May-00 - Affirmation - Savage Garden (5th of 5 weeks) Return to the Top

 

14-May-01 - The Disney Album - Michael Crawford (2nd of 2 weeks)

 

13-May-02 - A New Day Has Come - Celine Dion (5th of 5 weeks) Return to the Top

 

12-May-03 - Come Away With Me - Norah Jones (8th of 9 weeks) Return to the Top

 

10-May-04 - Michael Buble - Michael Buble (1 week only)

 

16-May-05 - il Divo - il Divo (2nd of 2 weeks)

 

15-May-06 - Reach Out: The Motown Record - Human Nature (3rd of 3 weeks) Return to the Top

 

14-May-07 - Call Me Irresponsible - Michael Buble (1st week)

 

Thanks to Gavin Ryan

 

Australia have the right idea...these mediocre comebacks are going mid to low top 10 over there yet topping our chart for the sake of them being a comeback

good to see pink doing so well while shes over there :)