• Pet Shop Boys have announced that the second single release from their new album ‘Electric’ will be fan favourite ‘Love Is A Bourgeois Construct’. They’ve announced two digital bundles (one including b-sides ‘Entschuldigung!’ and ‘Get It Online’ and the other featuring a swag of remixes from the likes of Little Boots and Dave Aude), as well as a physical CD single featuring nine tracks. The digital bundles are due on September 01 with the CD single to follow on September 30. A vinyl is also planned.
• The Ricki-Lee single campaign has got off to a cracking start, with radio all over her new single ‘Come & Get In Trouble With Me’, her 15 second video teaser notching up in excess of 100,000 views collectively in less than a week and a confirmed performance of the track on ‘The X Factor’ on Monday September 02. The track is out digitally this Friday, followed by the video on Tuesday September 03.
• Aussie country duo McAlister Kemp will release their new album ‘Harder To Tame’ early next year. The lead single (and title track) from the new album was serviced to media yesterday and provides a mainstream first tease of the new LP, which is due at retail on Friday January 17.
• The new Hook N Sling single ‘Magnet’ is also doing the rounds at media this week. Not to be confused with the new Kate Ceberano single of the same name, this one features regular David Guetta collaborator Chris Willis on vocals. It follows on from his NERVO collaboration ‘Reason’ and will be released digitally on Friday September 06.
• Paul Dempsey’s forthcoming ‘Shotgun Karaoke’ tour is selling rather well. So much so that the Something For Kate frontman has been forced to add extra dates in Melbourne and Newcastle, as well as a date in Canberra (at Zierholz on October 23). Tickets for all except Canberra on sale now, while the Canberra show is on sale this Monday from 9am.
• The Delta Riggs have announced two new shows for their upcoming tour, which kicks off with an appearance at Brisbane’s BIGSOUND. They’ve added a show at the Beach Road Hotel in Bondi on September 26 and one at The Den in Wollongong on the following night. Tickets are on sale now.
• Despite bulleting an extraordinary 83 positions and selling 557,000 copies in the past week, Katy Perry’s ‘Roar’ still can’t quite top Robin Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’, which holds in the No.1 spot for an extraordinary 11th week on the Billboard singles chart. But with radio starting to embrace Katy’s new tune, could it be all over for Robin next week? Only time will tell. Despite an attempt to rack up YouTube views later in the chart week, Lady Gaga can only manage a No.6 debut with her new single ‘Applause’. It sold 218,000 copies in its debut week, a long way behind Ms Perry – and behind Robin’s 291,000 copies of ‘Blurred Lines’.
• Luke Bryan’s ‘Crash My Party’ crashes the No.1 spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart this week, debuting in the top spot ahead of K.Michelle’s ‘Rebellious Soul’ at No.2. Last week’s No.1 (The Civil Wars’ self-titled set) drops to No.5.
• And as always, you can swing by the site at 7pm AEST tonight to sink your teeth into all the goings-on on our own top 100 charts. It’s Chart Watch! It’s weekly! And it’s back tonight from seven.
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auspOp says
Ooh play nicely, Anonymous #1!
Kate’s ‘Magnet’ might have had a chance if radio would in turn give her one.
The auspOp team
Anonymous says
I like the way you subtly referred to Lady Gaga’s “attempt to rack up YouTube views”… :-) She quickly took down the link to the “dodgy” site, but it had already been brought to Billboard’s attention and they commented publicly about their disappointment over Lady Gaga’s promotion of a “playlist” site (a site that allows a user to loop a video so that it plays 150 times without the user even being in front of the computer, thus racking up chart points). Billboard has no qualms about a rabid fan watching the same video multiple times and earning chart points for the song, but they do object to automated programs that generate inaccurate data (fair enough!). Having said that, Gaga’s sales are impressive…just nowhere near as impressive as Katy’s (which are truly outstanding).
Anonymous says
“Not to be confused with the new Kate Cebrano single of the same name”
So?.. you mean this one might actually chart!
;P