ARIA Top 50 Singles weekending 18th June 2007

 

1 (1) Umbrella - Rihanna

2 (2) Girlfriend – Avril Lavigne

3 (4) Candyman – Christina Aguilera

4 (3) Glamorous - Fergie

5 (5) Grace Kelly - Mika

6 (6) Never Again – Kelly Clarkson

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

8 (9) 20 Good Reasons – Thirsty Merc

9 (8) Makes Me Wonder – Maroon 5

10 (New) Opinions Won’t Keep You Warm At Night - Kisschasy

11 (New) Thnks Fr Th Mmrs – Fall Out Boy

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

13 (11) Better Than Me - Hinder

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

15 (15) UFO – Sneaky Sound System

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

17 (16) Beautiful Liar – Beyonce & Shakira

18 (12) Lost And Running - Powderfinger

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

20 (18) The Others – Camille Jones vs Fedde Le Grand

21 (21) Straight Lines - Silverchair

22 (19) The Sweet Escape – Gwen Stefani

23 (20) What I’ve Done – Linkin Park

24 (22) Little Wonders – Rob Thomas

25 (24) Signal Fire – Snow Patrol

26 (23) It’s Not Over - Daughtry

27 (28) Don’t Miss You – Amy Pearson

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

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

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

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

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

33 (34) This Is Why I’m Hot - Mims

34 (33) Because Of You – Ne-Yo

35 (31) Steer – Missy Higgins

36 (32) Suddenly I See – KT Tunstall

37 (36) Buy U A Drank – T-Pain

38 (New) Innocent – Small Mercies

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

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

41 (41) Everything – Michael Buble

42 (37) How To Save A Life – The Fray

43 (39) Truly Madly Deeply - Cascada

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

45 (40) Rock This Party – Bob Sinclar

46 (New) Icky Thump – The White Stripes

47 (43) Pictures – Sneaky Sound System

48 (47) Lips Of An Angel - Hinder

49 (46) Say It Right – Nelly Furtado

50 (45) Get Down – Groove Armada

 

ARIA Top 50 Albums weekending 18th June 2007

 

1 (New) The Collection – The Travelling Wilburys

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

3 (2) I’m Not Dead - Pink

4 (New) Era Vulgaris – Queens Of The Stone Age

5 (New) Lost Highway – Bon Jovi

6 (New) Good Girl Gone Bad - Rihanna

7 (4) Call Me Irresponsible – Michael Buble

8 (3) Minutes To Midnight – Linkin Park

9 (5) On A Clear Night – Missy Higgins

10 (7) The Best Damn Thing – Avril Lavigne

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

12 (10) Life In Cartoon Motion - Mika

13 (11) Back To Basics – Christina Aguilera

14 (6) White Moth – Xavier Rudd

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

16 (23) The Dutchess - Fergie

17 (13) Nine Lime Avenue – Kate Ceberano

18 (14) Grand National – John Butler Trio

19 (15) Young Modern - Silverchair

20 (17) Loose – Nelly Furtado

21 (20) The Sweet Escape – Gwen Stefani

22 (31) Eyes Open – Snow Patrol

23 (New) Systematic Chaos – Dream Theater

24 (24) Good Morning Revival – Good Charlotte

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

26 (28) Infinity On High – Fall Out Boy

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

28 (16) Lies For The Liars – The Used

29 (22) Sneaky Sound System – Sneaky Sound System

30 (19) Slideshows – Thirsty Merc

31 (26) Extreme Behaviour - Hinder

32 (37) Shrek The Third – Original Soundtrack

33 (18) Rush – Dean Geyer

34 (25) The Hard Road Restrung – Hilltop Hoods

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

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

37 (43) Bat Out Of Hell – Meat Loaf

38 (35) Favourite Worst Nightmare – Arctic Monkeys

39 (33) Memory Almost Full – Paul McCartney

40 (New) Live In Dublin – Bruce Springsteen

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

42 (Re) High Times: Singles 1992-2006 - Jamiroquai

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

44 (New) Insomniac – Enrique Iglesias

45 (39) Closer – Josh Groban

46 (38) Ziggurats – The Beautiful Girls

47 (45) Konvicted – Akon

48 (50) Back To Black – Amy Winehouse

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

50 (New) Crystal Visions: The Very Best Of – Stevie Nicks

 

Chartifacts

 

(Thanks to Gavin Ryan)

 

An "Umbrella" has come to rest in the same place on the three corners of the

world musical map. Rihanna's lead single from her "Good Girl Gone Bad" album is

No.1 in Australia for it's third week, also spending it's third week at the top

of the U.S. Charts, plus a fourth week at the summit in the UK. It has now also

become No.1 in New Zealand (second week there), and moves from No.5 to No.1 on

the European Charts. It is climbing in Asia (up to No.4, source Malaysian Top

20) and at No.17 and climbing in South Africa (source 5FM Top 40).

 

Mostly everything in the Top 10 swaps places one spot, the only upset coming

from this week's highest new entry at No.10 in the form of Australia's Kisschasy

with their fourth single and now first Top 10'er "Opinions Won't Keep You Warm

at Night". Their previous efforts three chart entries were "Do-Do's and Wah

Wah's" (No.25, July 2005), "Face Without a Name" (No.41, October 2005) and last

years "The Shake" (No.25, March 2006). This new tracks comes from their

forthcoming album "Hymns for the Non Believer", out July 21st.

 

One position lower on the charts at No.11 comes the second of four new

entries this week, and it's the second single for Fall Out Boy, "Thnks fr th

Mmrs". It's SMS speak for 'Thanks for the Memories', and now becomes the Chicago

four-piece's second single in Australia, following on from the No.6 single "This

Ain't a Scene, it's an Arms Race", which is still charting and is back up one

spot to No.29 this week. It's parent album "Infinity on High" is this week at

No.26, and they have just had tickets go on sale this past week for the second

tour of Australia this year (previous one was in February), which is scheduled

for some 'memories' in late September.

 

The second new Aussie track to make the charts this week is the first Top 50

entry for the Brisbane four-piece band Small Mercies. The track "Innocent"

enters the charts this week at No.38, and is taken from their debut album

"Beautiful Hum" which is due soon.

 

Exactly four years ago this week (chart dated June 16th), The White Stripes

were in the charts with their highest placed song in Australia, the No.17 hit

"Seven Nation Army". Well this week they are back at No.46 with "Icky Thump",

also the title of their latest album which hits our stores this week.

 

This week's sees something happen to the top of the Australian Album charts

that has only happened once before, that being that a previous No.1 album goes

back to the top of the charts. This week's new No.1 is "The Traveling Wilbury's

Collection" by the 1989 studio group The Traveling Wilbury's, who consisted of

George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne. Their first

album "Volume One" hit the top of the Australian album charts for two weeks from

the 20th of February, 1989, and became the 212th No.1 album in this country.

They followed that album up in 1990 with "Volume 3" which managed to crack the

Top 20, although original member Roy had departed this existence in between

album's.

 

These two albums have been out of circulation since their initial release,

and have been sort-after as the CD has never been re-issued in the ensuing

years. Thus the two albums were re-released this past week, and with a bonus DVD

(possibly now this could be called Volume 2 as it has their video clips and a

doco about the making of Volume 1, as there has never been a Vol.2). Which means

that "Volume 1" has gone back to the top of the charts (albeit in a box set),

giving it a gap of 18 years and 18 weeks away from the top of the charts.

 

But as I mentioned at the start of this section, this is the second time

that this has happened, and even then it has been done three times, confused,

here I'll explain. The No.1 album for 9 weeks from August 14th, 1978 was the

"Grease" Soundtrack. When the CD for "Grease" was finally released in 1991, plus

the "Grease Megamix" hitting the top of the charts, it helped put the album back

at the top of the Australian charts again, staying put for three weeks from the

30th of June. That was a gap of 12 years and 41 weeks, but then the movie was

issued on DVD for the first time in 1998 along with it being the 20th

anniversary of the initial release of the film, thus the "Grease" Soundtrack

went back to the top of the charts for one more week, exactly 20 years later,

August 16th, 1998. And now the Traveling Wilbury's set could qualify in second

place for "The Biggest Gap Between a Return to the Top of the Charts".

 

There are three more new entries to the Top 10 this week, and coming in at

No.4 is "Era Vulgaris" by Queens of the Stone Age. This is their third album,

and now their third Top 10 achievement in Australia. First album "Songs for the

Deaf" reached No.7 in September 2002, and then 2005's "Lullabies to Paralyze"

debuted at No.2 at the end of March. The lead single off this album is entitled

"3's and 7's" and debuted on the UK charts this week at No.19.

 

In the middle of three new entries at No.5 is "Lost Highway" the new album

for Bon Jovi. This is their fourth Studio album this decade, and it's their

lowest placed album since 2002's "Bounce" which also debuted and peaked at No.5.

Their other efforts this decade have seen those two albums reach No.1, 2000's

"Crush" (5-June, 1 week) and 2005's "Have a Nice Day" (26-Sept, 1 week).

 

Coming in at No.6 is "Good Girl Gone Bad", the third album in three years

for this week's No.1 singles artist, Rihanna. Her first album "Music of the Sun"

failed to make the Top 50, but her second "A Girl Like Me" eventually reached

No.9 (31st July, 2006), and spawned her previous No.1 single "SOS" plus

"Unfaithful" (No.2) and "We Ride" (No.24).

 

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

 

19-Jun-65 - The Sound of Music - Soundtrack (9th of 21 weeks)

18-Jun-66 - The Sound of Music - Soundtrack (39th of 42 weeks)

 

17-Jun-67 - Going Places - Herb Alpert & The Tijauana Brass (11th of 17 weeks)

 

15-Jun-68 - Blooming Hearts - Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra (1st of 2 weeks)

 

14-Jun-69 - Hair - Original Broadway Cast (10th of 28 weeks)

 

15-Jun-70 - Let it Be - The Beatles (1st of 4 weeks)

 

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

 

19-Jun-72 - Harvest - Neil Young (1 week only)

 

18-Jun-73 - Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin (3rd of 3 weeks)

 

17Jun-74 - The Sting - Soundtrack (1st of 6 weeks)

 

16-Jun-75 - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy - Elton John (1st of 5

weeks)

 

14-Jun-76 - The Best of Abba - Abba (12th of 16 weeks)

 

20-Jun-77 - Silk Degrees - Boz Scaggs (2nd of 18 weeks)

 

19-Jun-78 - Bat Out of Hell - Meat Loaf (1st of 8 weeks)

 

18-Jun-79 - Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones (2nd of 6 weeks)

 

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

 

15-Jun-81 - The Beatles Ballads - The Beatles (5th of 7 weeks)

 

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

 

20-Jun-83 - The Number Ones - The Beatles (1 week only)

 

18-Jun-84 - Can't Slow Down - Lionel Richie (1st of 3 weeks)

 

17-Jun-85 - Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits (4th of 5 weeks)

 

16-Jun-86 - Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston (3rd of 9 weeks)

 

15-Jun-87 - Whispering Jack - John Farnham (25th of 25 weeks) Return to the Top

 

20-Jun-88 - Good Morning Vietnam - Soundtrack (3rd of 3 weeks)

 

19-Jun-89 - Big Daddy - John Mellencamp (1 week only)

 

17-Jun-90 - I'm Breathless - Madonna (3rd of 3 weeks)

 

16-Jun-91 - Two Fires - Jimmy Barnes (5th of 5 weeks) Return to the Top

 

14-Jun-92 - Michael Crawford Performs Andrew Lloyd Webber - Michael Crawford

(3rd of 3 weeks)

 

20-Jun-93 - Janet - Janet Jackson (1st of 3 weeks)

 

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

 

18-Jun-95 - Tuesday Night Music Club - Sheryl Crow (2nd of 2 weeks)

 

16-Jun-96 - Load - Metallica (1st of 2 weeks)

 

15-Jun-97 - Savage Garden - Savage Garden (11th of 12 weeks)

 

14-Jun-98 - Adore - Smashing Pumpkins ( 1 week only)

 

14-Jun-99 - Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers (1 week only)

 

19-Jun-00 - Mad Season - Matchbox 20 (3rd of 5 weeks)

 

18-Jun-01 - Moulin Rouge - Soundtrack (4th of 11 weeks)

 

17-Jun-02 - The Eminem Show - Eminem (3rd of 6 weeks)

 

16-Jun-03 - St. Anger - Metallica (1st of 2 weeks)

 

14-Jun-04 - Wayward Angel - Kasey Chambers (2nd of 5 weeks)

 

20-Jun-05 - In Your Honour - Foo Fighters (1st of 5 weeks)

 

19-Jun-06 - Black Fingernails, Red Wine - Eskimo Joe (1st of 3 weeks)

 

18-Jun-07 - The Traveling Wilbury's Collection - Traveling Wilburys (1st week)

 

 

Thanks to Gavin Ryan