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CHART WATCH

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Plenty of bulleting into the top fives on both charts this week, but on the top, things are looking altogether familiar. Let’s check out who’s where on this week’s ARIA singles and albums charts with our weekly Chart Watch.

SINGLES
Singles-wise, there’s seemingly no budging Flo Rida and Sia for the time being, with their single ‘Wild Ones’ maintaining its No.1 heading again this week for a sixth week. Positions two and three stay stagnant, but there’s plenty of movement elsewhere in the top ten. Racing up a further seven positions this week is Qwote’s single ‘Throw Your Hands Up’ featuring Pitbull – in the process notching up a platinum accreditation.
Also posting healthy rises this week are Katy Perry’s ‘Part Of Me’ (up 17 places to No.5), Chris Brown’s ‘Turn Up The Music’ (No.13 to No.6) and Jason Derulo’s ‘Fight For You’ (No.27 to No.7).
Coldplay’s ‘Paradise’ is down five spots to No.10, but records a fourth platinum accreditation.
Hilltop Hoods with Sia get a second platinum gong for ‘I Love It’, while One Direction’s ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ makes another leap for the top after their tour announcement – up six places to No.13.
Biggest jump of the week, however, must come from Nicki MInaj, whose single ‘Starships’ rocketed from No.72 on debut last week to No.14 this week – impressive in anyone’s books.
The new Fun. single featuring Janelle Monae continues to climb – posting an 18 place jump on its No.41 debut last week, while Train’s ‘Drive By’ edges a little higher – up seven spots to No.29.
Labrinth and Tinie Tempah’s single ‘Earthquake’ pops into the top 50 for the first time – up 16 places to No.41 – while LMFAO’s former chart-topper ‘Party Rock Anthem’ trickles back over the top 50 line.
Outside the top 50, Rizzle Kicks’ ‘Mama Do The Hump’ is higher – up 14 spots to No.56 and Lil Wayne’s ‘Mirror’ surges from No.79 to No.57.
Madonna’s ‘Give Me All Your Luvin’ slides from No.44 to No.61,
Highest debut of the week comes courtesy of the Glee Cast and their cover of ‘Without You’, premiering at No.62, with Sean Paul’s ‘She Doesn’t Mind’ entering at No.63 right behind them.
Emeli Sande’s ‘Next To Me’ is higher – up 23 positions to No.77, the Glee Cast debut again – this time with ‘We Found Love’ – at No.79, Taylor Swift & The Civil Wars are in at No.92 with ‘Safe & Sound’ and Bruno Mars’ tracks ‘Marry You’, ‘Just The Way You Are’ and ‘The Lazy Song’ rejoin ‘Grenade’ in the top 100.

ALBUMS
Remote Control Records tells us Adele’s album ’21’ is now 12 times platinum. However, the album’s chart placing fails to reflect the new accreditation. No matter, ’21’ is still leaving the rest of the top 100 in its wake – maintaining its hold on the No.1 spot.
Bruno Mars’ ‘Doo Wops & Hooligans’ surges to No.4, almost matching its original peak of No.2, while The Black Keys, Coldplay and Leonard Cohen all fall.
Up on the back of their Australian tour, however, is Roxette’s best-of ‘Hits’, which hits a new peak of No.17.
Also higher this week is Kelly Clarkson’s album ‘Stronger’, which improves to No.19 and is now certified platinum.
Skrillex’ ‘Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites’ surges ten places to No.31, Emeli Sande’s album ‘Our Version Of Events’ is up 16 spots on last week’s No.46 debut and the week’s highest new entry comes courtesy of Band Of Skulls and their long player ‘Sweet Sour’ (No.35 debut).
Outside the top 50, Bon Iver’s self-titled set is up 21 places to No.58, Taylor Swift’s ‘Speak Now’ chimes back in to the top 100 at No.71 and Jimmy Barnes’ ‘Hits’ makes some noise, re-entering at No.84.
Further down, there are re-emergences for Disturbed, Glee Cast, David Campbell, Busby Marou, the ‘Burlesque’ soundtrack, City & Colour and Amy Winehouse.

* We’ve once again omitted Whitney Houston’s chart placings for the week and will publish a separate ‘Whitney Chart Watch’ shortly…

For a full run down of the ARIA top 50s, head over to www.ariacharts.com.au each and every Sunday.

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Comments

  1. Hey Anonymous #7 (again),

    ‘Up All Night’ only went platinum six weeks ago, so we’d say it’d still be a month or so away.
    ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ went triple platinum only on February 06 after just over a month on double platinum. On that sales rate, perhaps another week or two.

    The auspOp team

  2. I totally agree with Ian and Kal. I know this has happened to Shakira from 2009. Australian radios snubbed her from the beginning. From 2009, she’s released about 6-7 english singles and only 2 of them have officially been released here. :@

  3. Hey Anonymous #7,

    We’ll have to take a look at the song’s and album’s history and do a very haphazard guess from there.
    Give us a few hours and we’ll come back.

    The auspOp team

  4. Are most One Direction fans very, very young, because their spelling is astonishingly bad. Not even basic upper primary school level. Doesn’t give me much confidence in our school system if they are teenagers.

  6. Auspop how long do you think it would take for 1D’s album to go 2x platinum and WMYB to go 4x platinum? if they continue their current positions

  7. Hey Ian and auspop,

    I think it really comes down to the quality of the material being issued. While I’ve never been a mad Madonna fan I do have her Celebration compilation, as she has had some good songs through the years, but I think GAYL is just a bad song!

    As for Kylie I feel the same. I have been a huge fan forever and have purchased all her albums, however I listened to Aphrodite in full only once, and it’s sat on the shelf ever since. Only GOMW made it to my iPod!! While I still regularly dig out and play her earlier album depending on the mood (PWL years wins that!)

    I don’t know why the music dosent appeal to me that much anymore, without being neagtive it probably has something to do with the fact that they are both trying to find a style/visual direction that suits them as they grow older. Kylie’s Aphrodite perhaps suits her “age” better than Maddona and GAYL. I see it as trying to appeal to the younger generation more than their established long time fans and that can only alienate some people

    Anyways. That’s just my opinion!!
    Thanks guys

  8. Thanks guys. Obviously, I mean to say “Madonna & Interscope CAN’T be happy with the performance of “Gimme All Your Luvin'”…

    Thanks for your thoughts…it will be interesting to see what tact the powers that be will take from here, and also if the project isn’t massively successful whether she WILL actually tour Australia, as promised. She’s changed her mind before…

  12. Hey Anonymous #4,

    One Direction details this week…;

    #13 : What Makes You Beautiful (3x)
    #20 : One Thing (gold)

    #13 : Up All Night (platinum)

    * And a heads-up… A One Direction competition coming this week on the site! Oooh!

    The auspOp team

  13. Hey Ian,

    We don’t think that Interscope will be happy with the performance of Madge’s single. For a much-hyped comeback, it’s faltered – particularly on the Aussie charts. And people wonder why Madonna doesn’t tour Australia… Commercial radio must take some blame – as they tend to shun the older, more established artists these days in favour of the hot new thing peddling more of the same R&B/dance hybrid that’s saturated our charts of late.
    Once upon a time, a new Madonna or Kylie single was an instant add. Now, it’s much harder.

    The auspOp team

  15. Is it possible for you, auspOp, to do a piece on the relative failure of Madonna’s new single?

    This is her first lead single from a studio album not to reach the Aussie Top 10 since Burning Up back in 1983. Is this going to be a trend for “traditional/old school” artists? The other artist who comes to mind straight away is Kylie – aside from All The Lovers (which didn’t actually make the Top 10 either), all of her Aphrodite singles suffered the same fate.

    Are these and similar artists’ broader fanbase so against purchasing digitally that we will see poor singles chart positions like these, while physical albums sales will continue to be an attractive item to those of us who have followed these artists since the 80s and earlier?

    I’m trying to get my head around all this, but surely Madonna and Interscope can be happy with the performance (or lack thereof) of “Gimme Your All Your Luvin'”.

    Your thoughts/opinion on this would be quite enlightening and most appreciated…

  16. Hey Anonymous #3,

    Sure thing – here’s where they sit this week;

    #37 : Rihanna ftg. Jay-Z – Talk That Talk
    #47 : Foster The People – Call It What You Want
    #60 : San Cisco – Awkward
    #69 : Grouplove – Tongue Tied

    The auspOp team

  17. Hey Anonymous #2,

    You JUST scraped in! Beyonce’s ‘Love On Top’ looks like leaving the top 100 next week – it’s down to No.97 and is platinum.

    The auspOp team

  19. Good Morning auspOp :-)

    Can i have the following chart positions?

    Rihanna & Jay-Z – Talk That Talk.
    San Cisco – Awkward.
    Grouplove – Tongue Tied.
    Foster The People – Call It What You Want.

    Many Thanks.