CHART WATCH

It’s a big week on the ARIA charts this week, what with a brand new No.1 single and a brand new No.1 album, so let’s get into it and check out who finished up where…
SINGLES : After six weeks and rumours that lead singer Nicole Scherzinger has quit the band, the Pussycat Dolls have teamed up with AH Rahman to finally hit the number one position on the ARIA singles chart this week, selling 10,295 copies of ‘Jai Ho’ to reach the top spot. Former No.1 Flo Rida drops down to No.3, while Taylor Swift maintains a steady position at No.2. The return of rapper Eminem is on in earnest with his new single ‘We Made You’. It’s raced up into the top ten this week, coming in at No.6 on digital sales alone on the back of 7078 sales. Lady Gaga is into the top ten for the third time with fourth single ‘LoveGame’, while Miley Cyrus does what the title of her single suggests, climbing up 11 places to No.16 (3696 copies). Lonely Island is on a boat (apparently) at No.25 with 2590 sales, with Pink debuting with Australian-only fourth single ‘Bad Influence’ coming in at No.28 with 2120 sales. Pitbull is in at No.38 with ‘Krazy’ at No.1649 sales. Outside the top 50, there are debuts for Little Birdy (‘Summarize’ at No.54), Katy Perry (‘Waking Up In Vegas’ at No.56), Calvin Harris (‘I’m Not Alone’) at No.76 and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (‘Zero’) at No.99!
PHYSICAL SINGLES : With no physical single for Jai Ho forthcoming, Flo Rida holds the top spot on the physical singles chart this week, selling 1394 physical singles. 3OH!3 joins the top ten brigade here too, moving up to No.7 with single ‘Don’t Trust Me’ bagging 532 physical sales for the week. Two more new entries in the top ten come courtesy of Nickelback (No.8 – 420 copies) and Little Birdy (No.10 – 367 copies). Further down the chart, you’ll find dance artist Rudenko in at No.40 with ‘Everybody’.
DIGITAL TRACKS : It’s the Pussycat Dolls on the digital pole position for the week – as we mentioned before – 10,295 digital copies of the track were sold last week to get them there. Eminem makes a big 15 place leap up to No.6 this week with ‘We Made You’ (7078 copies). Miley Cyrus is up to No.14 here (3696 copies) before the physical single is released. There are debuts at No.23, No.26 and No.35 from Lonely Island, Pink and Pitbull respectively (as mentioned in the ‘singles’ section, but Green Day is in at No.40 with new single ‘Know Your Enemy’ selling 1530 copies (though strangely, the song doesn’t appear in the top 100 singles chart).
ALBUMS : So many debuts, so little time – there was plenty going on over on the album chart this week with Boyzone frontman Ronan Keating benefiting from a little promo tour last week to debut in the No.1 post with his album ‘Songs For My Mother’. The album sold just shy of 11,000 copies (10,986 copies) to hit the top, so we know there are going to be a number of mums waking up to Ronan this Mother’s Day (it’s May 10, by the way). With vampire flick ‘Twilight’ now available on DVD in Australia, the soundtrack makes it’s way into the top 10 – at No.7 with 3960 sales. 2007 Britain’s Got Talent winner Paul Potts debuts in the No.8 position with new album ‘Passione’. It scores 3876 sales for the week. Silversun Pickups debut at No.18 with 2107 sales, Andre Rieu’s ‘Masterpieces’ debuts in the top 50 at No.24 (1617 copies). Outside the top 30, there’s a No.33 debut for Troy Cassar-Daley (1351 sales), Depeche Mode’s new album ‘Sounds Of The Universe’ sells 1142 copies to debut at No.36 and the soundtrack to the latest in the Fast And The Furious franchise comes in at No.43 with 929 copies in the bag.

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