ARIA Top 50 Singles weekending 24th April 2006

 

1 (New) SOS - Rihanna

2 (1) Forever Young – Youth Group

3 (2) Flaunt It – TV Rock

4 (3) Beep – Pussycat Dolls

5 (4) Together We Are One – Delta Goodrem

6 (5) You Raise Me Up - Westlife

7 (8) So Sick – Ne-Yo

8 (7) When It All Falls Apart – The Veronicas

9 (6) Love Generation – Bob Sinclar

10 (9) Stupid Girls - Pink

11 (11) Pump It – Black Eyed Peas

12 (10) Touch The Sky – Kanye West

13 (12) Grillz - Nelly

14 (New) Wisemen – James Blunt

15 (14) Goodbye My Lover – James Blunt

16 (15) L.O.V.E. – Ashlee Simpson

17 (19) Thunder In My Heart Again – Meck ft Leo Sayer

18 (13) All I Hear – Kate Alexa

19 (17) Watching You – Rogue Traders

20 (18) Faded – Kate DeAraugo

21 (16) Nasty Girl – Notorious B.I.G.

22 (New) Unpredictable – Jamie Foxx

23 (23) Anything For You – Lee Harding

24 (21) Sorry - Madonna

25 (24) Like You – Bow Wow ft Ciara

26 (22) Never Say Never - Vandalism

27 (20) Gasolina – Daddy Yankee

28 (25) Just Feel Better – Santana ft Steven Tyler

29 (26) They Don’t Know – Savage

30 (31) Lift – Shannon Noll

31 (27) Walk Away – Kelly Clarkson

32 (34) Wasabi – Lee Harding

33 (35) Get Your Number – Mariah Carey

34 (28) Big City Life - Mattafix

35 (32) Opportunity – Pete Murray

36 (48) Get Up Outta The Dirt - Butterfingers

37 (37) Far Away - Nickelback

38 (43) One Crowded Hour – Augie March

39 (29) Run It! – Chris Brown

40 (40) Wake Up – The Living End

41 (30) If It’s Lovin’ That You Want - Rihanna

42 (39) Is It Just Me? – The Darkness

43 (New) Dirty South – Dirty South

44 (41) Sunshine Of Your Love – Cream vs Hoxtons

45 (42) The River - Live

46 (46) Don’t Listen To The Radio – The Vines

47 (Re) Everything I’m Not – The Veronicas

48 (38) Put Your Records On – Corinne Bailey Rae

49 (New) Where’d You Go – Fort Minor

50 (New) One Wish – Ray J

 

ARIA Top 50 Albums weekending 24th April 2006

 

1 (1) Back To Bedlam – James Blunt

2 (3) The Secret Life Of… - The Veronicas

3 (2) Here Comes The Drums – Rogue Traders

4 (New) Songs From Black Mountain - Live

5 (4) Face To Face - Westlife

6 (6) All The Right Reasons - Nickelback

7 (7) Tea and Sympathy – Bernard Fanning

8 (11) See The Sun – Pete Murray

9 (5) The Hard Road – Hilltop Hoods

10 (10) Reach Out: The Motown Record – Human Nature

11 (13) Monkey Business – Black Eyed Peas

12 (8) Both Sides Of The Gun – Ben Harper

13 (15) Wolfmother - Wolfmother

14 (12) I’m Not Dead - Pink

15 (34) Lift – Shannon Noll

16 (9) Gravity Won’t Get You High – The Grates

17 (14) Confessions On A Dance Floor - Madonna

18 (18) Late Registration – Kanye West

19 (19) Curious George (OST) – Jack Johnson

20 (16) Little Cloud – The Whitlams

21 (21) Whatever People Say I Am – Arctic Monkeys

22 (17) Cities: The Cat Empire Project – The Cat Empire

23 (New) Wolves In Wolves’ Clothing - Nofx

24 (22) Walk The Line – Original Soundtrack

25 (26) Switch - INXS

26 (25) Ancora – Il Divo

27 (28) X and Y - Coldplay

28 (27) Breakaway – Kelly Clarkson

29 (29) Demon Days - Gorillaz

30 (42) Tranquilita - Alfio

31 (20) At War With The Mystics – The Flaming Lips

32 (23) Collected: The Best Of – Massive Attack

33 (32) What’s Wrong With This Picture? – Lee Harding

34 (37) The Very Best Of – Fleetwood Mac

35 (36) Moo, You Bloody Choir – Augie March

36 (39) Life In Slow Motion – David Gray

37 (44) PCD – Pussycat Dolls

38 (35) State Of Emergency – The Living End

39 (24) Show Your Bones – The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

40 (31) 3121 - Prince

41 (43) Il Divo – Il Divo

42 (49) Curtain Call: The Hits - Eminem

43 (30) Vision Valley – The Vines

44 (Re) Intensive Care – Robbie Williams

45 (41) She Will Have Her Way: The Songs Of Tim & Neil Finn – Various Artists

46 (Re) Greatest Hits – Robbie Williams

47 (46) The Essential – Johnny Cash

48 (47) Ring Of Fire: The Legend Of – Johnny Cash

49 (38) On An Island – David Gilmour

50 (Re) The O.C. Mix 5 – Original Soundtrack

 

Chart Commentary from Gavin Ryan @ musicworldonline.com.au

 

A new No.1 single, and the second only song of the year to debut at No.1, and they were both by teenager's.

18 year old Robyn Rihanna Fenty from Barbados, better know as Rihanna takes her third single straight in to the No.1 spot this week with "SOS". Her first single "Pon de Replay" hit No.6 in October 2005, whilst her second single debuted and peaked at No.9 in the last week of January 2006, "If it's Lovin' That You Want (No.41 this week).

 

She becomes the first ever Barbadian (?) to reach No.1 in Australia, and is the first solo female artist to debut or be at No.1 single Kate DeAraugo was aloft in December 2005 with "Maybe Tonight".

Also the female at No.1 before Kate has a tie-in with this week's No.1. The previous female to debut at No.1 before Kate was Madonna with "Hung Up" (Nov 14, 2005), and she used a sample in that tune from Abba. Well this weeks No.1 also uses a sample, that of Soft Cell's February 1982 No.1, "Tainted Love".

This is the fifth time that a different song, with the same title, has been to No.1 in Australia. Previously SOS was a No.1 on January 12, 1976 for one week for Abba, the other four songs are "Angel" (Shaggy / Madonna), "I Should Have Known Better" (Beatles / Jim Diamond), "Power of Love (Huey Lewis & The News / Jennifer Rush; Celine Dion), and Venus (Frankie Avalon / Shocking Blue; Bananarama).

The song "SOS" is at No.2 on this week's U.K. charts after debuting at No.5 last week, and on the Billboard charts, it sits at No.32.

 

The next highest new entry comes in at No.14. The fourth single from this week's No.1 album "Back to Bedlam" is James Blunt's "Wiseman". His first single from the album "High" failed to make the Top 50 nationally when releases in June 2005, but it's follow-up's did make some impact on the charts, "You're Beautiful" made No.2, and the third single "Goodbye My Lover" reached No.3. (this week at No.15).

 

The first solo single for Oscar Award winning actor Jamie Foxx comes in at No.22 "Unpredictable", which features guest vocalist Ludacris. Jamie won the Best Male Lead Actor for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the biopic "Ray" in 2004. But he has also been on the charts previously as guest vocalist on "Slow Jamz" with Twista (No.26, April 2004),and the No.1 single from late October 2005, "Gold Digger" with Kanye West. This track is taken from his second solo album "Unpredictable", his first was the 1994 "Peep This".

Jamie was first a musician before he was an actor. His Grandmother got him started on the piano at the age of 3, and he only stopped playing in his teens when he realised that he was better at sports than music. But he always dabbled in the music. The single peaked at No.8 on the U.S. Billboard charts.

 

Coming in at No.42 is an EP by remixes Dirty South, which features the song that has been at No.1 for the past month on the ARIA Club Charts, "It's Too Late" by Dirty South and Evermore.

 

Equalling the eleven week stretch set by the "Moulin Rouge" Soundtrack back in mid 2001, this week sees James Blunt's "Back to Bedlam" obtain it's 11th non-consecutive week at No.1. It's not likely to fall off anytime soon, as he's touring the country at the moment, so next week he'll probably take over as the second longest running No.1 this decade. Delta Goodrem's 29 weeks at No.1 with "Innocent Eyes" is in first place.

 

The highest new entry on the albums chart comes in at No.4. "Songs from Black Mountain" is the first studio album from Live since 2003, and their last charting album was the No.4 hit "Awake: The Best of Live" from November 2004. And the second new entry onto the charts comes in at No.23, Nofx's "Wolves in Wolves' Clothing".

 

Making a giant leap up the charts, Shannon Noll's "Lift" goes from 34 to 15, and another local artist, albeit different in many ways to Nollsy, Alfio's debut album "Tranquilita" goes from 42 to 30 this week. Australian born to Italian parents, he sings in Italian, Spanish and English and was classically trained.

 

 

Edited April 24, 200619 yr by Mark

Thanks to Gavin Ryan @ musicworldonline.com.au

 

Here is a list of the No.1 songs this week on the Australian charts for the past 66 years...

 

2006 - SOS - Rihanna (1st week at No.1)

2005 - Beautiful Soul - Jesse McCartney (4th week of 4 weeks)

2004 - F**k it (I Don't Want You Back) - Eamon (4th of 4 weeks)

2003 - In da Club - 50 Cent (4th of 5 weeks)

2002 - Hey Baby - DJ Otzi (2nd of 4 weeks)

2001 - Me, Myself and I - Scandal'us (1st of 3 weeks)

2000 - Poison - Bardot (2nd of 2 weeks)

1999 - No Scrubs - TLC (1st of 7 weeks)

1998 - Never Ever - All Saints (6th of 7 weeks)

1997 - Truly, Madly, Deeply - Savage Garden (4th of 8 weeks)

1996 - How Bizarre - OMC (2nd of 5 weeks) 10 YEARS AGO

1995 - Here's Johnny - Hocus Pocus (5th of 6 weeks)

1994 - The Power of Love - Celine Dion (1 week only)

1993 - Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz (4th of 6 weeks)

1992 - Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers (2nd of 4 weeks)

1991 - Joyride - Roxette (2nd of 3 weeks)

1990 - Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor (8th of 8 weeks)

1989 - She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals (5th of 5 weeks)

1988 - Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car - Billy Ocean (1st of 5 weeks)

1987 - Boom Boom (Let's Go Back to My Room) - Paul Lekakis (3rd of 5 weeks)

1986 - Chain Reaction - Diana Ross (1st of 3 weeks) 20 YEARS AGO

1985 - We Are the World - USA For Africa (3rd of 9 weeks)

1984 - 99 Luftballoons - Nena (4th of 5 weeks)

1983 - Billie Jean - Michael Jackson (3rd of 5 weeks)

1982 - What About Me - Moving Pictures (6th of 6 weeks)

1981 - 9 to 5 (Morning Train) - Sheena Easton (1st of 2 weeks)

1980 - I Got You - Split Enz (2nd of 8 weeks)

1979 - Heart of Glass - Blondie (4th of 5 weeks)

1978 - Stayin' Alive - The Bee Gees (4th of 7 weeks)

1977 - Don't Give Up on Us - David Soul (2nd of 3 weeks)

1976 - Fernando - Abba (4th of 14 weeks) 30 YEARS AGO

1975 - Newcastle Song - Bob Hudson (4rd of 4 weeks)

1974 - My Coo Ca Choo - Alvin Stardust (7th of 7 weeks)

1973 - Top of the World - The Carpenters (1st of 4 weeks)

1972 - Without You - Nilsson (3rd of 5 weeks)

1971 - Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson (4th of 4 weeks)

1970 - Let it Be - The Beatles (3th of 6 weeks)

1969 - Where Do You Go to (My Lovely) - Peter Sarstedt (2nd of 4 weeks)

1968 - Lady Madonna / The Inner Light - The Beatles (1st of 2 weeks)

1967 - Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles (4th of 5 weeks)

1966 - These Boots are Made for Walkin' - Nancy Sinatra (8th of 8 weeks) 40 YEARS AGO

1965 - Rock and Roll Music / Honey Don't - The Beatles (4th of 4 weeks)

1964 - All My Loving (EP) - The Beatles (2nd of 3 weeks)

1963 - Pipeline - The Chantays (1st of 4 weeks)

1962 - Good Luck Charm / Anything That's Part of You - Elvis Presley (2nd of 6 weeks)

1961 - Surrender - Elvis Presley (1st of 3 weeks)

1960 - He'll Have to Go - Jim Reeves (1st of 4 weeks)

1959 - Venus - Frankie Avalon (1st of 2 weeks)

1958 - Catch a Falling Star - Perry Como (4th of 8 weeks)

1957 - Cindy Oh Cindy - Eddie Fisher (2nd of 2 weeks)

1956 - Memories are Made of This - Dean Martin (2nd of 5 weeks) 50 YEARS AGO

1955 - Mr. Sandman - The Chordettes (4th of 4 weeks)

1954 - That's Amore - Dean Martin (2nd of 3 weeks)

1953 - Takes Two to Tango - Louis Armstrong (1st of 2 weeks)

1952 - Down Yonder - Champ Butler / Joe "Fingers" Carr (1st of 2 weeks)

1951 - Nevertheless (I'm in Love With You) - Paul Weston & Normon Luboff Choir (2nd of 3 weeks)

1950 - I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts - Freddy Martin / Sammy Kaye (2nd of 3 weeks)

1949 - Rambling Rose - Perry Como (3rd of 5 weeks)

1948 - Near You - The Andrews Sisters (1 Month only)

1947 - To Each His Own - The Ink Spots (1 Month only)

1946 - Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall - The Ink Spots & Ella Fitzgerald (1 Month only) 60 YEARS AGO

1945 - Swinging on a Star - Bing Crosby (1 Month only)

1944 - You'll Never Know - Vera Lynn / Joe Loss (3rd of 3 Months)

1943 - I Don't Want to Walk Without You - Kate Smith / Bing Crosby (3rd of 4 Months)

1942 - In the Mood - Glenn Miller / Joe Loss (4th of 5 Months)

1941 - Ferryboat Serenade - The Tic-Toc Rhythm Orchestra / Dick Robertson (1 Month only)

1940 - Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out the Barrel) - The Andrews Sisters / Joe Loss (1 Month only)

 

 

OMG, Veronicas up to a new peak of #2 in the albums! I'm well happy for them. :D

OMG, Veronicas up to a new peak of #2 in the albums! I'm well happy for them. :D

 

 

They got it a few weeks ago, but have re-climbed :D Hope either them or the Rogues can finally snatch #1 :cheer: