Another week, another new number one on the Australian albums chart. Meanwhile over on the singles side of things, a French DJ reclaims the top spot from an Aussie favourite.
SINGLES : Yes, French DJ David Guetta hasn’t let a couple of weeks on top by the original Australian Idol Guy Sebastian trouble him at all – he’s back on top this week with ‘Sexy Bitch’, helped along by a rather impressive 18,652 sales. Guy’s back to the No.2 position almost 4000 copies behind on 14,924 copies.
Cascada continues their march towards the top with ‘Evacuate The Dancefloor’ now placing at No.4 – a one place improvement on last week’s chart, with a further 9496 copies sold, while the Black Eyed Peas notch up yet another top ten success with their new single ‘Meet Me Halfway’. It’s bulleted into the top ten (at No.8) on the back of 6178 sales.
Taylor Swift benefits from her MTV VMAs bagging by Kanye West by placing back inside the top ten at No.9 with ‘You Belong With Me’ (5220 copies), while Alesha Dixon drops to No.10 with ‘The Boy Does Nothing’ (5178 copies).
A big move on from Jay-Z’s new single ‘Run This Town’ – it’s up from No.25 last week to No.13 this week (3847 copies). Upward moves too for the All American Rejects (No.21 to No.17 with ‘I Wanna’ – 3078 copies) and Flo Rida (No.23 to No.18 with ‘Jump’ – 3053 copies), while Miley Cyrus suffers a ten place plummet with ‘Party In The U.S.A.’ (2959 copies).
Fresh from their visit to Australian shores, the cast of Channel 10’s hit new TV show ‘Glee’ pops into the top 50 at a rather respectable No.21 (2888 copies) – but expect a higher chart next week after sales from both instores are factored in.
La Roux finally gets some chart love too – their single ‘Bulletproof’ makes a rapid ascent to No.26 this week with 2461 sales in the bag, while Beyonce does more of the same with ‘Broken Hearted Girl’ – up from No.57 last week to No.28 this week (2326 sales).
With a big debut on the albums chart (more about that shortly), Muse also make some noise on the singles chart – their single ‘Uprising’ makes a 29 place jump to No.32 this week with 2000 sales, Pearl Jam’s up to No.35 with ‘The Fixer’ (1918 sales) and Grinspoon makes a ‘Comeback’ to the charts at No.48 (1474 copies).
Outside the top 50, Agnes continues to impress, getting her highest chart placing yet with ‘Release Me’ (1385 copies). It’s up 11 places this week to No.53 and with a little bit of luck could be inside the top 50 next week.
Shinedown rises from No.93 to No.55 with ‘Second Chance’ (1369 sales), Bon Jovi’s up inside the top 100 for the first time with ‘We Weren’t Born To Follow’ placing at No.62 (1138), while there’s a debut for Pitbull (‘Hotel Room Service’ at No.79 – 801 sales) and after a No.54 debut last week, a big drop for the new Backstreet Boys single ‘Straight Through My Heart’ – down to No.99 this week with 631 sales.
Local artist Marc Collis debuts at No.97 on the top 100 with ‘I Miss Everything’ (631 copies).
ALBUMS : Muse scores a massive No.1 debut with their new album ‘The Resistance’. How massive? They outsold the Black Eyed Peas’ album ‘The E.N.D.’ in No.2 by almost four to one. ‘The Resistance’ chalked up a rather impressive 23,135 first week sales, leaving the Peas in No.2 on 5941 copies looking a little stale.
Kate Miller Heidke misses out on hanging onto the No.3 position by the skin of her teeth – ‘Curiouser’ was just seven copies behind Jimmy Barnes’ ‘The Rhythm And The Blues’ this week (5776 to Jimmy’s 5783) and she was less than 200 copies off the Black Eyed Peas.
Grinspoon debuts at No.6 with their new album ‘Six To Midnight’ bagging 5197 sales, with Jay-Z making up a second Warner Music top ten debut this week – at No.9 following 3601 sales – a long way off the top.
Megadeth’s ‘Endgame’ debuts at No.11 with 3297 sales and at No.12 is the first in a long line of Beatles re-releases that are garnering some chart love. ‘Abbey Road’ is up 32 places to No.12 with 3077 sales, ‘The Beatles’ is up 26 places to No.15 with 2899 sales and ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ is up 31 places to No.16 with 2805 sales.
Jamie T’s in at No.17 with ‘Kings And Queens’ (2565 copies), Patrizio Buanne benefits from a little promo visit – his album ‘Patrizio’ moves up from No.26 to No.20 (2174 sales) and David Gray’s new album ‘Draw The Line’ comes in at No.26 with 1809 copies sold in it’s first week.
Big drops this week come from Rob Thomas (‘Cradlesong’ from No.8 to No.18), John Farnham (‘The Essential 3.0’ from No.6 to No.19), Lisa Mitchell (‘Wonder’ from No.15 to No.25) and Jet (‘Shaka Rock’ from No.12 to No.27).
La Roux’s album continues to move upwards – No.33 this week (1413 sales), while Porcupine Tree debuts at No.35 with ‘The Incident’ (1403 sales) and Mark Knopfler debuts at No.47 with ‘Get Lucky’ (1139).
Outside the top 50 and we find debuts for Every Time I Die at No.81 (656 copies of ‘New Junk Aesthetic’), Brooks And Dunn at No.85 (603 copies of ‘#1s…And Then Some’) and Boys Like Girls at No.95 (549 copies of ‘Love Drunk’).
And on The Beatles side of things, here are the charts places this week (’cause there’s a lot of them);
No.12 : Abbey Road
No.15 : The Beatles
No.16 : Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
No.34 : Past Masters (Volumes 1 & 2)
No.36 : Revolver
No.41 : Rubber Soul
No.52 : Let It Be
No.57 : A Hard Day’s Night
No.58 : Help
No.60 : Magical Mystery Tour
No.73 : 1
No.80 : Please Please Me
No.84 : The Beatles For Sale
No.89 : With The Beatles
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auspOp says
And for Hector,
Whitney’s ‘I Look To You’ in it’s second week bagged another 2090 copies.
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auspOp says
One for ‘Anonymous’ #64ish,
Pink’s singles details (since March 23);
SO WHAT – 32,515 copies
SOBER – 14,498 copies (it’s been in and out of the top 100 and we don’t get sales once it’s out of the top 100).
BAD INFLUENCE – 67,240
FUNHOUSE – 47,234
Hector says
Whitney Houston, “I Look To You” sales, please auspop?
Anonymous says
Hey Ausp0p!
Thanks so much for all the figures you have given us this week.
If i could, can you please tell me how much have all of P!nks singles from Funhouse sold in total from March 23rd and if you know how much they have sold before that, that would be awesome.
(except PDLM as you already gave figures for that)
Much appreciated :)
Anonymous says
Muse new album is great! Listening to it all the time, hope it will get to be 1st!
BTW, you can listen to all the songs in the charts at top20tube.com!
Anonymous says
As long as the record company register the video with ARIA, digital video sales count towards a single’s overall chart position, so that easily explains the difference between Jess Mauboy and Taylor Swift this week.
Thanks for the Madonna sales figure, auspOp!
(Cartone – still can’t sign in properly!!).
auspOp says
One for Petro,
Yes, we’ve been told by Sony that they “may” go back on ‘Caught In The Crowd’ after ‘The Last Day On Earth’. It’s still charting this week – at No.72 – and since it’s debut on June 09, it’s bagged a total of 11,779 copies.
(it disappeared from the top 100 between June 29 and July 27, so we don’t have figures for those weeks).
The auspOp team
#4 says
Might have an answer for Joel AuspOp. From reading around the place it seems it up to the record company whether to count all digital sales together or have some chart seperately. I think you may be right about the video. It appears to me that Talyor may have had 2 digital chart positons. One for the song download inside the digital Top 40 and one for the video download outside the Top 40. The highest one is below Jessica’s digital chart position, but add in the other one and Taylor comes in ahead in digital downloads and the overall chart. Taylor’s video is currently the #1 video on itunes so it would have sold a reasonable amount.
Petro says
Hey Auspop
Is Kate Miller-Heidke’s “Caught In The Crowd” still charting? Any idea what its total sales to date are?
Apparently it is being re-released following the success of LDOE.
xo
auspOp says
Hey Billbeast,
Cassie’s single ‘Differently’ has disappeared from the top 100 for the first time this week, but up to last week, it had sold 29,673 copies. Given it’s now out of the top 100, it’s going to need another eight weeks or so to clock over to gold status.
Since March 23, Pink’s ‘Please Don’t Leave Me’ has sold 34,330 copies – it disappeared from the top 100 on August 17.
Britney’s ‘If U Seek Amy’ since March 23 (it left the chart on June 22) sold 33,795 copies.
Re: Jessica Mauboy, we’ve been getting consistent requests for total sales for her over the past eight weeks or so.
Check here;
http://auspop.blogspot.com/2009/07/chart-watch_27.html
And check with the comments sections for our subsequent Chart Watch segments – we’ve updated Jess Mauboy sales figures each week since.
The auspOp team
Joel says
Thank you for the figures Auspop.
I think the ARIA people may have made an error in the digital charts or as you said the music videos may have been included.
Thank you for Jessica’s sales figures for albums/singles and thanks for answering my questions.
Muchly Appreciated.
Billbeast says
Hey Auspop, I was wondering what the total sales of “Differently” (single” by “Cassie Davis” is to-date, I hope it can certify GOLD soon. Also can you tell me the to-date sales of “Please Don’t Leave Me” by “P!Nk”, “If U Seek Amy” by “Britney” and Al Jessica Mauboy releases.
Thank-you so much, you guys are great,
auspOp says
One for Joel,
This is according to ARIA’s figures;
Jessica’s single ‘Up/Down’ sold 4671 digital singles and 314 physical singles.
Taylor’s ‘You Belong With Me’ sold 5050 digital singles and 170 physical singles.
And for Taz and #4, our pleasure.
The auspOp team
#4 says
Thanks Auspop. It certainly has solved my puzzlement. And has given me a few ideas about how things may play out over the coming months. Thank you very much for going to the trouble of getting those figures for me. I really do appreciate it.
Taz says
Hi AuspOp.
No question to ask, just a thankyou for all the information you share. It’s great to be able to see all the sales and positions, ta!! :)
Joel says
Can we please know Jessica Mauboy’s (Up/Down) and Taylor Swift’s (You Belong With Me)physical sales and digital sales?
auspOp says
And for #4,
‘The Last Day On Earth’ (which notched up platinum status late last week for sales of more than 70,000 copies) has sold 81,696 copies so far.
Evermore’s ‘Hey Boys And Girls’ has disappeared from the top 100 this week for the first time. Since March 23, it’s bagged 86,323 copies.
Lady Gaga’s LoveGame debuted on the charts on March 23. It disappeared from the top 100 a couple of weeks ago. In that time, it bagged 84,586 sales.
Hope things make a little more sense now!
The auspOp team
auspOp says
For Anonymous No.2,
Alesha Dixon’s single ‘The Boy Does Nothing’ has now sold 37,048 copies in Australia since her debut. It will now be classified GOLD for sales of 35,000 or more.
No more news on the new single at this stage, but there’s a repackage of her album ‘The Alesha Show’ due later in the year in the UK.
It would therefore make sense for Warner Music to follow suit in Australia and relaunch the project.
The auspOp team
auspOp says
Hey Anonymous,
Eva Simons’ ‘Silly Boy’ is at No.88 this week (11 points higher than last week) with 696 sales.
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auspOp says
Hey Joel,
That completely doesn’t make sense to us either – but through some strange twist of fate or error in counting, Taylor’s trumped Jess on the official ARIA charts. Perhaps Taylor’s video has come into the equation…?
Beatlefan says
I haven’t even seen copies of Please Please Me, With The Beatles and Beatles For Sale in JB. The poor chart placing reflects their availability or lack of it.
#4 says
Hi AuspOp. Was wondering if you could give me Kate’s total figures for Last Day On Earth since it has been charting. Also this one is a little more out of left field and may not be possible as they have been out of the charts for a while, but are you able to give me the total figures for Evermore’s Hey Boys And Girls and Lady Ga Ga’s LoveGame. Am trying to figure out something I saw around the net which at the moment does not make a lot of sense to me.
Anonymous says
thanks again for adding Alesha Dixon could you please tell me the total numbers sold of her single The boy does nothing
and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
information about an upcoming single Black Cloud by Alesha Dixon any info at all
Many Please and Thank-you
Anonymous says
Hey, could I please know the sale numbers for Eva Simons – Silly Boy.
Thank you.
Joel says
Hey Auspop…
i have a question which is rather long, hope it’s okay to ask.
On the ARIA Physical Singles Chart Jessica Mauboy’s “Up/Down” is at No.10 whilst Taylor Swift’s “You Belong With Me” is at No.13.
On the ARIA Digital Singles Chart Jessica Mauboy’s “Up/Down” is at No.10 whilst Taylor Swift’s “You Belong With Me” is at No.15.
So with Jessica Mauboy higher than Taylor Swift on both physical and digital, why is Taylor Swift at No.9 on the ARIA Singles Chart and Jessica Mauboy is at No.11?
auspOp says
And once more for the regulars…
Beyonce
ALBUM No.07 : I Am… Sasha Fierce (4723)
SINGLE No.12 : Sweet Dreams (4551)
SINGLE No.28 : Broken Hearted Girl (2326)
SINGLE No.37 : Halo (1814)
SINGLE No.41 : Single Ladies (1714)
Black Eyed Peas
ALBUM No.02 : The E.N.D. (5941)
SINGLE No.05 : I Gotta Feeling (8870)
SINGLE No.08 : Meet Me Halfway (6178)
SINGLE No.16 : Boom Boom Pow (3092)
Mariah Carey
SINGLE No.39 : Obsessed (1764)
Alesha Dixon
SINGLE No.10 : The Boy Does Nothing (5178)
Michael Jackson
ALBUM No.14 : The Essential (2906)
ALBUM No.24 : #1s (1884)
ALBUM No.42 : The King Of Pop (1246)
ALBUM No.49 : Thriller (1117)
ALBUM No.97 : The Collection (539)
SINGLE No.78 : Thriller (806)
Kings Of Leon
ALBUM No.43 : Only By The Night (1238)
SINGLE No.94 : Sex On Fire (641)
SINGLE No.98 : Use Somebody (631)
Lady Gaga
ALBUM No.30 : The Fame (1535)
SINGLE No.27 : Paparazzi (2399)
SINGLE No.59 : Poker Face (1243)
SINGLE No.92 : Just Dance (682)
Madonna
SINGLE No.76 : Celebration (821)
Jessica Mauboy
ALBUM No.31 : Been Waiting (1430)
SINGLE No.11 : Up/Down (4985)
SINGLE No.69 : Because (934)
Mika
SINGLE No.31 : We Are Golden (2130)
Pink
ALBUM No.08 : Funhouse (3627)
ALBUM No.50 : I’m Not Dead (1116)
ALBUM No.69 : Missundaztood (754)
SINGLE No.25 : Funhouse (2610)
SINGLE No.84 : Bad Influence (726)
SINGLE No.87 : So What (708)
Shakira
SINGLE No.40 : She Wolf (1751)