CHART WATCH

Now with Mother’s Day over and done with for another year, there are some big movers over on the albums chart this week, with some albums almost dropping out of the top 50 after last week being in the top ten!
SINGLES : Singles-wise, it’s another week on top for the Black Eyed Peas, with their new single ‘Boom Boom Pow’ selling a further 13,663 copies to stay in place. Almost 4000 copies behind in second place is Eminem’s ‘We Made You’ (9807 copies), with the number three place getter, The Script, almost 2000 copies behind him (7526 copies). Tween starlet Miley Cyrus continues to make inroads on the Aussie charts – her single ‘The Climb’ continues to do as it’s name suggests, rising a further three places this week to move to No.7, while with her Aussie tour now underway, US superstar Pink scores another top ten his with her Aussie single ‘Bad Influence’ rising to No.9 (5271 copies). New into the chart at No.30 this week is the latest from Flo Rida. ‘Sugar’ debuts there with a sweet 2179 sales under it’s belt first week in. Melbourne boy Daniel Merriweather also pOps into the charts at No.48 with his single ‘Change’. It sold 1329 copies for it’s first week in. Just outside the top 50, the winner of Eurovision, Alexander Rybak, sees his single ‘Fairytale’ enter the Aussie top 100 – at No.68 to be precise – with 960 copies sold locally on the back of his Eurovision triumph.
PHYSICAL SINGLES : On the physical side of things, it’s still Eminem holding all the cards in the No.1 position with 1229 physical copies of the single ‘We Made You’ sailing out of stores in the past week. Rocketing into the No.2 position here, however, is the Black Eyed Peas, with ‘Boom Boom Pow’ finally getting it’s physical release. Metallica is in at No.5 here with new single ‘Broken, Beat & Scarred’, while it’s a ‘Sugar’ rush into the No.18 position for Flo Rida’s new single. Further down, there are debuts for Daniel Merriweather and for the Hilltop Hoods (Nos.36 & 47 respectively).
DIGITAL TRACKS : Digitally there’s not much change at the pointy end of the charts this week, with the Black Eyed Peas holding onto the top spot. Pink leapfrogs Miley Cyrus to hit the No.7 position, while Miley has to settle for No.8. Look a little lower down and it’s clear the David Guetta/Kelly Rowland juggernaut is about to hit, the single ‘When Love Takes Over’ splashing into the No.26 position on downloads, while Linkin Park debuts at No.37.
ALBUMS : Last week’s No.1, Ronan Keating, has suffered a post-Mother’s Day plunge down the charts. It’s not often an artist drops from No.1 to No.11, but that’s precisely what’s happened. Last week, Ronan sold 19,110 copies of his ‘Songs For My Mother’ set. This week, that number’s down to just 3496, though the album has now been certified platinum (for sales of 70,000 copies of more). The top spot now belongs to Eminem, whose new album ‘Relapse’ sold an impressive 27,971 copies in it’s first few days on sale to reach the position. Incredibly, not far behind was Green Day. Their new album ’21st Century Breakdown’ bagged an equally impressive 23,892 sales to make it into the No.2 slot. And it was a long way back to No.3 in sales figures, with Lily Allen’s ‘It’s Not Me, It’s You’ selling just 6722 in comparison. New for Passion Pit at No.19 was their new album ‘Manners’, selling 2150 copies in it’s first week, while Tori Amos sold 1450 copies of her newie ‘Abnormally Attracted To Sin’ to debut in the No.28 position. But back to those massive post-Mother’s Day sales drops. Ronan Keating drops from No.1 to No.11, Andre Rieu drops from No.2 to No.8, Duffy drops from No.8 to No.18, Annie Lennox drops from No.10 to No.23. Sony labelmates The Priests plummet 18 places to No.32, Andre Rieu ‘Masterpieces’ package drops 26 places to No.35, Natalie Bassingthwaighte drops 20 places to No.45 and Paul Potts drops from No.7 last week to No.47 this week. Spare a thought too for Carl Riseley – his classy new album ‘The Stillest Hour’ which was at No.29 last week has sunk like a stone to No.94 this week on the back of just 444 sales. Youch.

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