ARIA Top 50 Singles weekending 11th June 2007

 

1 (1) Umbrella - Rihanna

2 (2) Girlfriend – Avril Lavigne

3 (4) Glamorous - Fergie

4 (3) Candyman – Christina Aguilera

5 (6) Grace Kelly - Mika

6 (5) Never Again – Kelly Clarkson

7 (7) Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely) - Pink

8 (9) Makes Me Wonder – Maroon 5

9 (8) 20 Good Reasons – Thirsty Merc

10 (12) If You Don’t Mean It – Dean Geyer

11 (New) Better Than Me - Hinder

12 (11) Lost And Running - Powderfinger

13 (10) The Others – TV Rock vs Dukes Of Windsor

14 (15) All Good Things (Come To An End) – Nelly Furtado

15 (17) UFO – Sneaky Sound System

16 (13) Beautiful Liar – Beyonce & Shakira

17 (New) Destination Calabria – Alex Gaudino ft Crystal Waters

18 (19) The Creeps – Camille Jones vs Fedde Le Grande

19 (14) The Sweet Escape – Gwen Stefani

20 (18) What I’ve Done – Linkin Park

21 (16) Straight Lines - Silverchair

22 (22) Little Wonders – Rob Thomas

23 (25) It’s Not Over - Daughtry

24 (29) Signal Fire – Snow Patrol

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

26 (21) What Goes Around…Comes Around – Justin Timberlake

27 (26) Keep Your Hands Off My Girl – Good Charlotte

28 (New) Don’t Miss You – Amy Pearson

29 (24) Cupid’s Chokehold – Gym Class Heroes

30 (27) This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race – Fall Out Boy

31 (28) Steer – Missy Higgins

32 (20) Suddenly I See – KT Tunstall

33 (30) Because Of You – Ne-Yo

34 (33) This Is Why I’m Hot - Mims

35 (31) I Wanna Love You – Akon ft Snoop Dogg

36 (New) Buy U A Drank – T-Pain

37 (32) How To Save A Life – The Fray

38 (34) Put Your Hands Up (For Detroit) – Fedde Le Grande

39 (New) Truly Madly Deeply - Cascada

40 (36) Rock This Party – Bob Sinclar

41 (37) Everything – Michael Buble

42 (40) The Bird And The Worm – The Used

43 (42) Pictures – Sneaky Sound System

44 (41) Ice Box - Omarion

45 (38) Get Down – Groove Armada

46 (39) Say It Right – Nelly Furtado

47 (43) Lips Of An Angel - Hinder

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

49 (45) Hump De Bump – Red Hot Chili Peppers

50 (35) Before You Go – Candice Alley

 

ARIA Top 50 Albums weekending 11th June 2007

 

1 (New) Dream Days At The Hotel Existence - Powderfinger

2 (1) I’m Not Dead - Pink

3 (2) Minutes To Midnight – Linkin Park

4 (3) Call Me Irresponsible – Michael Buble

5 (4) On A Clear Night – Missy Higgins

6 (New) White Moth – Xavier Rudd

7 (6) The Best Damn Thing – Avril Lavigne

8 (5) It Won’t Be Soon Before Long – Maroon 5

9 (New) Eat Me, Drink Me – Marilyn Manson

10 (18) Life In Cartoon Motion - Mika

11 (10) Back To Basics – Christina Aguilera

12 (12) Future Sex/Love Sounds – Justin Timberlake

13 (9) Nine Lime Avenue – Kate Ceberano

14 (13) Grand National – John Butler Trio

15 (11) Young Modern – Silverchair

16 (8) Lies For The Liars – The Used

17 (15) Loose – Nelly Furtado

18 (7) Rush – Dean Geyer

19 (14) Slideshows – Thirsty Merc

20 (16) The Sweet Escape – Gwen Stefani

21 (28) Choir Of Hard Knocks – Choir Of Hard Knocks

22 (20) Sneaky Sound System – Sneaky Sound System

23 (21) The Dutchess - Fergie

24 (23) Good Morning Revival – Good Charlotte

25 (17) The Hard Road Restrung – Hilltop Hoods

26 (19) Extreme Behaviour - Hinder

27 (22) Standing On The Outside: The Songs Of Cold Chisel – Various Artists

28 (29) Infinity On High – Fall Out Boy

29 (48) Piano Man: The Very Best Of – Billy Joel

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

31 (33) Eyes Open – Snow Patrol

32 (26) So Real: Songs From Jeff Buckley – Jeff Buckley

33 (New) Memory Almost Full – Paul McCartney

34 (32) Solo: The Last Recordings – Billy Thorpe

35 (31) Favourite Worst Nightmare – Arctic Monkeys

36 (24) So I Am – Belinda Emmett

37 (New) Shrek The Third – Original Soundtrack

38 (35) Ziggurats – The Beautiful Girls

39 (Re) Closer – Josh Groban

40 (30) Dancing In The Streets: The Songs Of Motown II – Human Nature

41 (27) Carry On – Chris Cornell

42 (36) Awake – Josh Groban

43 (Re) Bat Out Of Hell – Meat Loaf

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

45 (43) Konvicted - Akon

46 (Re) Cross Road: The Best Of – Bon Jovi

47 (Re) Why Try Harder: The Greatest Hits – Fatboy Slim

48 (39) Soundboy Rock – Groove Armada

49 (Re) Still The Same: Great Rock Classics – Rod Stewart

50 (45) Back To Black – Amy Winehouse

 

Chartifacts

 

(Thanks to Gavin Ryan)

 

Rihanna remains for a second week the No.1 single in Australia with

"Umbrella", and this week her third album in three years is also released, "Good

Girl Gone Bad", so that should join the single on the charts next week. I have

added an extra feature to the Chartifacts column this week with the singles and

albums that will be released this upcoming week, so expect to see this feature

each week from now on.

 

Most things within the Top 10 swap places this week, with only one new

single entering the Top 10 itself. Last week Dean Geyer's new album "Rush"

debuted within the Top 10 on the album charts (this week it drops quickly to

No.18), but his single which initially debuted at No.11 four weeks ago, and has

gone 12-14-12 this week finally makes it to No.10.

 

Right behind Dean is the highest new entry on the charts, coming in at No.11

is Hinder's second Australian single "Better Than Me". It was 20 weeks ago

(29-Jan) that their debut single entered at No.1, that being "Lips of an Angel"

which stayed at the top for seven straight weeks, and is down to No.47 this

week. The parent album that both of these songs belongs to was the former No.1

(26-Feb) "Extreme Behavior" which is currently at No.26.

 

In 2004 Italian DJ Alex Gaudino released a track called "Destination

Unknown" which featured 90's diva Crystal Waters on vocals. During the summer of

2006, another DJ mixed it together with a song called "Calabria" by Rune (which

is mostly the saxophone part of the song), and thus was born "Destination

Calabria" which enters the Australian charts at No.17 this week. It's Alex's

first chart single, but becomes Crystal's fourth Top 40 single, having had two

in the 90's with "Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless) (No.11, Aug. 1991) and "100% Pure

Love" (No.2, July 1994), and the last time that she was on our charts was back

in January 2004 when the single "My Time" went to No.18, on that she was a guest

vocalist with DJ/producer Dutch.

 

Coming in at No.28 is the debut single for Amy Pearson, "Don't Miss You".

Amy is originally from Birmingham in the UK, and was signed to Sony/BMG three

years ago after being discovered by Gary Barlow (Take That), having been in

Australia working on her debut album since 2004.

 

In 2006 T-Pain (Faheem Najm) had two Top 50 singles with "I'm Sprung"

(No.37, March 2006) and "I'm N Luv (With a Stripper)" (No.24, July 2006). This

week he comes in at No.36 with his former U.S. No.1 single (May 2007, No.3 this

week) "Buy You a Drank (Shawty Snappin')" which features rapper Yung Joc.

 

In 1997 Savage Garden spent eight weeks at the top of the Australian charts

with their second No.1 single "Truly, Madly, Deeply"(April 1997), and this week

sees German trio Cascada debut at No.39 with their dance version of the

aforementioned song. Cascada is made up of producers DJ Manian and Yanou (ex-DJ

Sammy), plus vocalist Natalie Horler who is the blond-blue-eyed lead singer.

 

Powderfinger was expected to top the album charts in Australia this week

with their sixth studio album (8th album overall-one live and one greatest

hits), and they haven't disappointed as the album "Dream Days at the Hotel

Existence" debuts with Platinum status at the No.1 spot.

 

Powderfinger become the fourth Australian's to debut at the top of the

charts this year (Silverchair, John Butler Trio and Missy Higgins were the other

three), and as this is only the ninth No.1 album of the year, it means that

almost half of the years No.1 debuts have been by local acts. "Dream Days..." is

now the 550th No.1 album in Australia, and other feats it creates include being

the 126th No.1 by an Australian Performer, the 263rd by a Group, and it also

brings Powderfinger into a very elite group of No.1's.

Earlier this year Silverchair became the only Australian Group to have five No.1

albums, leaving Cold Chisel and Midnight Oil sitting in second place with 4

albums apiece. Now that Powderfinger have another No.1 album, it brings their

tally also up to 4 chart-toppers, thus placing them in equal second place

alongside The Oil's and 'Chisel for 'Australian Group with the Most No.1's'.

 

Their three previous chart toppers were "Internationalist" (1 week, Sept

1998), "Odyssey No.5 (3 weeks, Sept 2000) and their last No.1 was "Vulture

Street" (3 weeks, July 2003). They were last on the charts with two No.2 albums

in 2004, being "These Days: Powderfinger Live" (13-Sept-2004) and "Fingerprints:

The Best of" (8-Nov-2004), although lead singer Bernard Fanning did have his

solo album "Tea and Sympathy" reach the top of the charts (7-Nov-2005) for a

single week.

 

"Dream Days at the Hotel Existence" is the seventh No.1 album in Australia

with the word 'Dream' in it's title (the last one was Crowded House's "Recurring

Dream-Best of" in July 1996), whilst it's the 11th album to have the word 'Day'

(last one was 10,000 Days by Tool - May 2006), and it's the first time since

January 1977 that 'Hotel' has been in a No.1 album, back then it was the classic

album "Hotel California" by The Eagles (12 weeks at No.1), and lastly it's the

first time that 'Existence' has existed in a chart-topping album title.

 

The first ever Top 10 album for local lad Xavier Rudd debuts this week at

No.6, "White Moth" and it's his fourth Top 50 album overall. He was last in our

charts back in late October 2005 with the No.16 album "Food in the Belly".

 

Also debuting in the Top 10 at No.9 is Marilyn Manson's latest set "Eat Me,

Drink Me", and like Powderfinger, it's their first studio album in four years.

Their last charting studio album was back in May 2003 with the No.5 "Golden Age

of the Grotesque", which was followed in 2004 by their last charting album, the

Best of compilation "Lest We Forget" which hit No.15 in mid-October.

 

Coming in at No.33 is the latest studio album for Paul McCartney, "Memory

Almost Full", which is exactly the same place his last studio album "Chaos and

Creation in the Backyard" debuted and peaked at back in September 2005.

 

The first 'Shrek's soundtrack hit the Top 10 back in July 2001, whilst the

second installment reached the No.1 spot on 26-July in 2004, so maybe the third

one will also climb into the Top 10 by the time July comes around, but this week

the new Soundtrack debuts at No.37, the same week that it opens in cinemas.

 

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

 

12-Jun-65 - The Sound of Music - Soundtrack (8th of 21 weeks)

11-Jun-66 - The Sound of Music - Soundtrack (38th of 42 weeks)

 

10-Jun-67 - Going Places - Herb Alpert & The Tijauana Brass (10th of 17 weeks)

 

8-Jun-68 - A Man and a Woman (un Homme et une Femme) - Soundtrack (9th of 9

weeks)

 

7-Jun-69 - Hair - Original Broadway Cast (9th of 28 weeks)

 

8-Jun-70 - Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel (9th of 9 weeks)

 

7-Jun-71 - Pearl - Janis Joplin (4th of 5 weeks)

 

12-Jun-72 - American Pie - Don McLean (11th of 11 weeks)

 

11-Jun-73 - Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin (2nd of 3 weeks)

 

10-Jun-74 - Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield (4th of 4 weeks)

 

9-Jun-75 - Living in the 70's - Skyhooks (16th of 16 weeks)

 

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

 

13-Jun-77 - Silk Degrees - Boz Scaggs (1st of 18 weeks)

 

12-Jun-78 - Saturday Night Fever - Soundtrack (13th of 13 weeks)

 

11-Jun-79 - Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones (1st of 6 weeks)

 

9-Jun-80 - True Colours - Split Enz (9th of 10 weeks)

 

8-Jun-81 - The Beatles Ballads - The Beatles (4th of 7 weeks)

 

7-Jun-82 - 1982 With a Bullet - Various Artists (4th of 5 weeks)

 

13-Jun-83 - Thriller - Michael Jackson (1 week only)

 

11-Jun-84 - Throbbin' 84 - Various Artists (5th of 5 weeks)

 

10-Jun-85 - Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits (3rd of 5 weeks)

 

9-Jun-86 - Whitney - Whitney Houston (2nd of 9 weeks)

 

8-Jun-87 - Crowded House - Crowded House (1 week only)

 

13-Jun-88 - Good Morning Vietnam - Soundtrack (2nd of 3 weeks)

 

12-Jun-89 - Edge - Daryl Braithwaite (3rd of 3 weeks)

 

10-Jun-90 - I'm Breathless - Madonna (2nd of 3 weeks)

 

9-Jun-91 - Blind Love - Ratcat (2nd of 2 weeks)

 

7-Jun-92 - Michael Crawford Performs Andrew Lloyd Webber - Michael Crawford (2nd

of 3 weeks)

 

13-Jun-93 - Pocketful of Kryptonite - Spin Doctors (2nd of 2 weeks)

 

12-Jun-94 - Music Box - Mariah Carey (8th of 9 weeks)

 

11-Jun-95 - Tuesday Night Music Club - Sheryl Crow (1st of 2 weeks)

 

9-Jun-96 - Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette (10th of 10 weeks) Return to

the Top

 

8-Jun-97 - Savage Garden - Savage Garden (10th of 12 weeks)

 

7-Jun-98 - You Am I's #4 Record - You Am I (1 week only)

 

7-Jun-99 - Songs from Dawson's Creek - Soundtrack (2nd of 2 weeks)

 

12-Jun-00 - Mad Season - Matchbox 20 (2nd of 5 weeks) Return to the Top

 

11-Jun-01 - Moulin Rouge - Soundtrack (3rd of 11 weeks)

 

10-Jun-02 - The Eminem Show - Eminem (2nd of 6 weeks)

 

9-Jun-03 - Innocent Eyes - Delta Goodrem (9th of 9 weeks)

 

7-Jun-04 - Wayward Angel - Kasey Chambers (1st of 5 weeks)

 

13-Jun-05 - X & Y - Coldplay (1 week only)

 

12-Jun-06 - Best of - Chris Isaak (1 week only)

 

11-Jun-07 - Dream Days at the Hotel Existence - Powderfinger (1st week)

 

 

Thanks to Gavin Ryan

 

Interesting that Crystal Waters had a No.2 hit over there with 100% Pure Love which only got to No.15 here while Gypsy Woman got to No.11 only over there but No.2 here where it is regarded as a 90s classic :-0

well we all know which is the best single *cough* 100% Pure Love :D

Well Australians do seem to have a good taste in music with Delta and Missy doing so well lol!!! But moreso, all of these big comebacks that are quite average but reaching No.1 or No.2 over here, reach a low top 10 in Australia which is about what some of them deserve...

All good things keeps going up- very slowly though!