ARIA Top 50 Singles weekending 16th July 2007

 

1 (New) Big Girls Don’t Cry - Fergie

2 (1) Umbrella - Rihanna

3 (2) Dance Floor Anthem – Good Charlotte

4 (3) Destination Calabria – Alex Gaudino ft Crystal Waters

5 (4) Girlfriend – Avril Lavigne

6 (New) Dear Mr. President - Pink

7 (6) Thnks Fr Th Mmrs – Fall Out Boy

8 (5) Candyman – Christina Aguilera

9 (7) Never Again – Kelly Clarkson

10 (13) Don’t Matter - Akon

11 (New) Love Stoned – Justin Timberlake

12 (16) UFO – Sneaky Sound System

13 (15) What I’ve Done – Linkin Park

14 (12) 4 In The Morning – Gwen Stefani

15 (9) Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely) - Pink

16 (8) Glamorous - Fergie

17 (19) Like This – Kelly Rowland ft Eve

18 (14) Better Than Me - Hinder

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

20 (10) Makes Me Wonder – Maroon 5

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

22 (22) Don’t Miss You – Amy Pearson

23 (21) 20 Good Reasons – Thirsty Merc

24 (20) Grace Kelly - Mika

25 (25) Straight Lines - Silverchair

26 (23) Lost and Running - Powderfinger

27 (24) Everything – Michael Buble

28 (26) Opinions Won’t Keep You Warm At Night - Kisschasy

29 (28) It’s Not Over - Daughtry

30 (29) Little Wonders – Rob Thomas

31 (27) The Others – TV Rock vs Dukes Of Windsor

32 (32) The Sweet Escape – Gwen Stefani

33 (30) Beautiful Liar – Beyonce & Shakira

34 (31) If You Don’t Mean It – Dean Geyer

35 (33) How Do I Breathe – Mario

36 (11) Spirit Of The Bush – Lee Kernaghan, Adam Brand & Steve Forde

37 (36) What Goes Around…Comes Around – Justin Timberlake

38 (34) Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin’) – T-Pain

39 (48) Don’t Stop Now – Crowded House

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

41 (42) This Is Why I’m Hot - Mims

42 (37) Never Let You Go - Evermore

43 (38) Keep Your Hands Off My Girl – Good Charlotte

44 (39) Cupid’s Chokehold – Gym Class Heroes

45 (New) NYC Beat – Armand Van Helden

46 (40) Give It To Me – Timbaland ft Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake

47 (49) Innocent – Small Mercies

48 (47) How To Save A Life – The Fray

49 (41) Time To Begin – Katie Noonan

50 (Re) Pictures – Sneaky Sound System

 

ARIA Top 50 Albums weekending 16th July 2007

 

1 (2) Time On Earth – Crowded House

2 (1) Call Me Irresponsible – Michael Buble

3 (5) Dream Days At The Hotel Existence - Powderfinger

4 (4) I’m Not Dead - Pink

5 (3) The Collection – Travelling Wilburys

6 (8) The Dutchess - Fergie

7 (7) My December – Kelly Clarkson

8 (New) Stolen Apples – Paul Kelly

9 (6) Saviour King - Hillsong

10 (9) Good Girl Gone Bad - Rihanna

11 (14) On A Clear Night – Missy Higgins

12 (11) Minutes To Midnight – Linkin Park

13 (16) Grand National – John Butler Trio

14 (New) Our Love To Admire - Interpol

15 (17) Life In Cartoon Motion – Mika

16 (13) The Best Damn Thing – Avril Lavigne

17 (19) Back To Basics – Christina Aguilera

18 (12) Icky Thump – The White Stripes

19 (22) Young Modern - Silverchair

20 (29) Sneaky Sound System – Sneaky Sound System

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

22 (24) The Sweet Escape – Gwen Stefani

23 (20) Lost Highway – Bon Jovi

24 (26) Good Morning Revival – Good Charlotte

25 (10) Libertad – Velvet Revolver

26 (23) Infinity On High – Fall Out Boy

27 (21) Future Sex/Love Sounds – Justin Timberlake

28 (18) We Are The Night – Chemical Brothers

29 (25) Loose – Nelly Furtado

30 (27) White Moth – Xavier Rudd

31 (34) Eyes Open – Snow Patrol

32 (31) Extreme Behaviour - Hinder

33 (28) Transformers – Original Soundtrack

34 (36) Nine Lime Avenue – Kate Ceberano

35 (28) Era Vulgaris – Queens Of The Stone Age

36 (32) Runnin’ Wild - Airbourne

37 (33) Little Eve – Kate Miller-Heidke

38 (44) Bat Out Of Hell – Meat Loaf

39 (37) Choir Of Hard Knocks – Choir Of Hard Knocks

40 (Re) Eat Me, Drink Me – Marilyn Manson

41 (35) Hannah Montana – Original Soundtrack

42 (Re) All The Right Reasons – Thirsty Merc

43 (30) Wow! – Hi-5

44 (Re) Recurring Dream:The Very Best Of – Crowded House

45 (New) Begin To Hope – Regina Spektor

46 (48) Back To Black – Amy Winehouse

47 (Re) Awake – Josh Groban

48 (New) Make Some Noise – Various Artists

49 (39) It’s Time – Michael Buble

50 (40) Slideshows – Thirsty Merc

 

Chartifacts

(Thanks to Gavin Ryan)

 

5-4-3-2-1! The countdown to this weeks new No.1 single in Australia began back in September 2006 when the female singer from the group The Black Eyed Peas, Fergie, debuted with her debut solo single "London Bridge", which debuted and peaked at No.3. She then followed that up in December with "Fergalicious" which eventually peaked at No.4 in January 2007. Single number three was the recent No.2 hit "Glamorous" which entered the charts in April, and peaked in May for a week. Now the fourth single from her album "The Duchess" (up to a new peak of No.6 this week), "Big Girls Don't Cry" enters the charts at No.1.

 

She's now had a chart placing at No.4, No.3, No.2 and No.1, plus the 5 comes in the form of it being her fifth appearance in a No.1 song. She has been at the top of the Australian charts with The Black Eyes Peas on four previous occasions, with "Where is the Love" (Aug 2003, 6 weeks), "Shut Up" (Dec 2003, 3 weeks), "Don't Phunk With My Heart" (May 2005, 3 weeks) and "My Humps" (Nov 2005, 2 weeks).

 

Another chart feat has also been broken, something which hasn't happened since July to October 2000. With Fergie hitting the top, she becomes the fourth female in a row to top the Australian singles chart, previous three were Rihanna, Missy Higgins and Avril Lavigne. Well back in July 2000, Anastacia hit the top with "I'm Outta Love" for 5 weeks, followed by "Music" by Madonna, then "On a Night Like This" by Kylie Minogue and the fourth was Pink with her first No.1, "Most Girls". So not since then have we had a four females at the top.

 

"Big Girls Don't Cry" now becomes the 924th No.1 single in Australia, and it's the second time that that song title has been to the top of the charts. Back in January 1963 the Four Seasons took a different song/same title to the top for a single week. This has happened five times before, there's been "Angel" by Madonna (1985) and Shaggy (2001), "I Should Have Known Better" by The Beatles (1964) and Jim Diamond (1985), "Power of Love" by Huey Lewis & The News (1985) and Jennifer Rush (1985)/Celine Dion (1994), "SOS" by Abba (1976) and Rihanna (2006), and "Venus" by Frankie Avalon (1959) and Shocking Blue (1970)/Bananarama (1986).

 

To release six singles off an album is a rare feat, but to have five of those reach the Top 10 is a rare feat, as generally when an album has reached 7xPlatinum it's exhausted it's single selling power, and they don't climb very high. That 7xPlatinum selling album is Pink's "I'm Not Dead" which is still sitting at No.4 this week, and the sixth single debuts at No.6 on the charts, being "Dear Mr. President". Her previous tracks from the album are listed below...

 

Entry Date No. Songs (WA)

HP WI TT EP

20-Mar-06 1 STUPID GIRLS (2) 4 20 6 4

19-Jun-06 2 WHO KNEW (2) 2 32 13 6

9-Oct-06 3 U + UR HAND (4) 5 23 9 6

22-Jan-07 4 NOBODY KNOWS 27 9 - 27

7-May-07 5 LEAVE ME ALONE (I'M LONELY) (2) 5 11* 9 11

16-Jul-07 6 DEAR MR. PRESIDENT 6 1* 1 6

* still charting

 

The third new entry comes in at No.11, "Love Stoned" by Justin Timberlake. It's the eighth solo Top 40 single in Australia for JT, and his first non-Top 10 solo single, but he has previously climbed up the charts after debuting, so next week it could be his eighth Top 10 single also. It's the fourth single taken from his "FutureSex/LoveSound" album (No.27 this week), the previous three being "SexyBack" (No.1 for two weeks, Aug. 2006), "My Love" (No.3, Nov 2006) and "What Goes Around.. Comes Around" (No.3, March 2007), which is still charting, this week it's at No.37.

 

Akon debuted at No.13 last week with "Don't Matter", and this week he climbs three places to gain his third consecutive Top 10 single, now giving him a total of four Top 10's.

 

The fourth new entry of the week is at No.45, and it's is a former No.1 Club single in Australia, "NYC Beat" by Armand Van Helden. He was last on our charts back in 2005 when "Into Your Eyes" reached No.28, whilst his biggest track is the No.6 single "My, My, My" from November 2004.

 

Crowded House have been doing a heap of publicity the past week for the new album "Time on Earth", plus appearing at Live Earth has helped push their new album to the top of the Australian Album charts this week. It now becomes their fourth No.1 album, and puts them in a unique group of acts that have reached No.1 in the past three decades. The others have been Jimmy Barnes, Bon Jovi, John Farnham, Michael Jackson, Madonna, U2 and The Twelfth Man, all having No.1's in the 80's 90's and noughties. There are two acts who have achieved more that three decades, with The Rolling Stones doing it in four, and The Beatles doing it over the past five decades.

 

It seems that this time of year is ideal for Crowded House or Neil, as they have appeared at No.1 either during June or July every time that have hit No.1. This week in 1988 (19 years ago) they spent a single week at the top with their second album "Temple of Low Men" (18-July), plus their debut album stayed atop for a single week (8-June-1987), then "Recurring Dream-The Best of" was No.1 for 10 weeks from July 21st, 1996 (next week 11 years ago), and finally there was Neil's solo album "Try Whistling This" which was spending it's second week at the top last week nine years ago (from June-28th, 1998). Of the three Split Enz albums, one hit the top during, whilst the other two were April No.1's.

 

Date No. Wks Amt. Titles / Artists

14-Apr-80 108 10 1 True Colours - SPLIT ENZ

27-Apr-81 118 3 2 Corroboree - SPLIT ENZ

21-Jun-82 133 2 3 Time and Tide - SPLIT ENZ

8-Jun-87 190 1 4 Crowded House - CROWDED HOUSE

18-Jul-88 204 1 5 Temple of Low Men - CROWDED HOUSE

21-Jul-96 347 10 6 Recurring Dream - Best of - CROWDED HOUSE

28-Jun-98 380 2 7 Try Whistling This - NEIL FINN

15-Jul-07 552 1* 8 Time on Earth - CROWDED HOUSE

 

"Time on Earth" becomes the 552nd No.1 album in Australia, and the eighth that Neil Finn has appeared on. He is now only the second artist to have reached No.1 whilst appearing in three different guises/groups. He's done it Solo, and in two groups; Split Enz and Crowded House. The other person to do this is Paul McCartney, who hit No.1 as a solo act, with The Beatles and with Wings.

 

It's the fifth appearance at No.1 for the word 'Time', and also the second one for Neil, as Split Enz had an album in 1982 called "Time and Tide", whilst it's the first time that the word 'Earth' has taken the top spot. It's the eighth New Zealand performed album to reach No.1, all the previous one's have been containing Neil Finn, Crowded House, Split Enz and his solo album, and "Time on Earth" also becomes the 265th No.1 album by a group.

 

The highest new entry this week comes in at No.8, the latest album by Paul Kelly, "Stolen Apples". It's his first Top 10 since 2001's "...Nothing But a Dream", and he was last on the album charts back in June 2005 when "Foggy Mountain" (which featured The Stormwater Boys) reached No.22.

 

In 2004 Interpol took their debut album "Antics" to No.21 (4-Oct-2004), and this week their second album to hit the Australian Top 50 debuts at No.14, "Our Love to Admire".

 

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

 

17-Jul-65 - The Sound of Music - Soundtrack (13th of 21 weeks)

16-Jul-66 - What Now My Love - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass (1 week only)

 

15-Jul-67 - Going Places - Herb Alpert & The Tijauana Brass (15th of 17 weeks)

 

13-Jul-68 - A Man and a Woman - Soundtrack (12th of 13 weeks)

 

12-Jul-69 - Hair - Original Broadway Cast (14th of 28 weeks)

 

13-Jul-70 - Deja Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (1st of 2 weeks)

 

12-Jul-71 - Cocker Happy - Joe Cocker (2nd of 3 weeks)

 

17-Jul-72 - Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull (2nd of 11 weeks)

 

16-Jul-73 - Red Rose Speedway - Paul McCartney & Wings (2nd of 3 weeks)

 

15-Jul-74 - The Sting - Soundtrack (5th of 6 weeks)

 

14-Jul-75 - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy - Elton John (5th of 5 weeks)

 

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

 

18-Jul-77 - Silk Degrees - Boz Scaggs (6th of 18 weeks)

 

17-Jul-78 - Bat Out of Hell - Meat Loaf (5th of 8 weeks)

 

16-Jul-79 - Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones (6th of 6 weeks)

 

14-Jul-80 - Can't Stop the Music - Soundtrack / Village People (4th of 9 weeks)

 

13-Jul-81 - Bad Habits - Billy Field (2nd of 2 weeks)

 

12-Jul-82 - Avalon - Roxy Music (1st of 3 weeks)

 

18-Jul-83 - Synchronicity - The Police (2nd of 3 weeks)

 

16-Jul-84 - Breaking Hearts - Elton John (2nd of 3 weeks)

 

15-Jul-85 - Be Yourself Tonight - Eurythmics (3rd of 4 weeks)

 

14-Jul-86 - Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston (7th of 9 weeks)

 

13-Jul-87 - Slippery When Wet - Bon Jovi (1st of 6 weeks)

 

18-Jul-88 - Temple of Low Men - Crowded House (1 week only)

 

17-Jul-89 - The Raw and the Cooked - Fine Young Cannibals (1 week only)

 

15-Jul-90 - Pretty Woman - Soundtrack (2nd of 4 weeks)

 

14-Jul-91 - Grease - Soundtrack (12th of 12 weeks)

 

12-Jul-92 - Back to Front - Lionel Richie (4th of 6 weeks)

 

18-Jul-93 - Zooropa - U2 (1st of 4 weeks)

 

17-Jul-94 - Music Box - Mariah Carey (12th of 13 weeks)

 

16-Jul-95 - These Days - Bon Jovi (1st of 2 weeks)

 

14-Jul-96 - Falling into You - Celine Dion (3rd of 3 weeks) Return to the Top

 

13-Jul-97 - Fat of the Land - The Prodigy (1 week only)

 

12-Jul-98 - City of Angels - Soundtrack (2nd of 2 weeks) Return to the Top

 

12-Jul-99 - Songs from Dawson's Creek - Soundtrack (5th of 6 weeks)

 

17-Jul-00 - In Blue - The Corrs (1 week only)

 

16-Jul-01 - Moulin Rouge - Soundtrack (8th of 11 weeks)

 

15-Jul-02 - By the Way - Red Hot Chili Peppers (1st of 2 weeks)

 

14-Jul-03 - Vulture Street - Powderfinger (1st of 3 weeks)

 

12-Jul-04 - For All You've Done - Hillsong Church (1 week only)

 

18-Jul-05 - In Your Honour - Foo Fighters (5th of 5 weeks)

 

17-Jul-06 - Black Holes and Relevations - Muse (1 week only)

 

16-Jul-07 - Time on Earth - Crowded House (1st week)

 

 

Thanks to Gavin Ryan