CONTENTS:
1. Australian artist chart performance overseas
2. Number one singles from this time of year since 1989
3. Top 50 singles chart: Big Movers
4. Top 50 singles chart: Veteran Single
5. Top 50 singles chart: New Entries
6. Top 50 singles chart: Singles leaving the chart
7. Top 50 singles chart: Number 1 to 50
8. Top 50 albums chart
1. How Australian acts are doing overseas this week.
`TW' = this week's chart position
`HP' = highest chart position ever reached on that chart
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Country Week TW HP TITLE/ARTIST
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Austria 4/06/2008 52 #16 IN MY ARMS - Kylie Minogue
Czech Rep. 4/06/2008 13 #11 IN MY ARMS - Kylie Minogue
France 31/05/2008 50 #10 IN MY ARMS - Kylie Minogue
France 31/05/2008 89 #15 2 HEARTS - Kylie Minogue
France 31/05/2008 98 #10 ENTENDS-TU LE MONDE - Tina Arena
Ireland 5/06/2008 36 #15 IN MY ARMS - Kylie Minogue
New Zealand 2/06/2008 7 #7 SWEET ABOUT ME - Gabriella Cilmi
New Zealand 2/06/2008 19 #9 UNTOUCHED - The Veronicas
New Zealand 2/06/2008 30 #17 DON'T HOLD BACK - The Potbelleez
Sweden 8/06/2008 26 #26 WOW - Kylie Minogue
Switzerland 8/06/2008 27 #10 IN MY ARMS - Kylie Minogue
Switzerland 8/06/2008 29 #29 SWEET ABOUT ME - Gabriella Cilmi
U.K. 9/06/2008 7 #7 SWEET ABOUT ME - Gabriella Cilmi
U.K. 9/06/2008 61 #10 IN MY ARMS - Kylie Minogue
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Charts referenced above for the following countries are compiled
using a significant airplay component: Japan, U.S.
2. Number one singles at this time of year from past years:
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| 1989: WIND BENEATH MY WINGS - Bette Midler |
| 1990: ALL I WANNA DO IS MAKE LOVE TO YOU - Heart |
| 1991: GREASE MEGAMIX - Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta |
| 1992: TAKE IT FROM ME - Girlfriend * |
| 1993: INFORMER - Snow |
| 1994: MMM MMM MMM MMM - Crash Test Dummies |
| 1995: MOUTH - Merril Bainbridge * |
| 1996: FASTLOVE - George Michael |
| 1997: MMM BOP - Hanson |
| 1998: ALL MY LIFE - K-Ci and JoJo |
| 1999: NO SCRUBS - T.L.C. |
| 2000: WHO THE HELL ARE YOU - Madison Avenue * |
| 2001: ANGEL - Shaggy featuring Rayvon |
| 2002: KISS KISS - Holly Valance * |
| 2003: BRING ME TO LIFE - Evanescence |
| 2004: BLACK BETTY - Spiderbait * |
| 2005: DON'T PHUNK WITH MY HEART - Black Eyed Peas |
| 2006: SOS - Rihanna |
| 2007: UMBRELLA - Rihanna featuring Jay-Z |
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3. This week's big movers:
Moving up the chart...
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| Number 31 to 23: THIS BOY'S IN LOVE - The Presets * |
| Number 35 to 26: MERCY - Duffy |
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Moving down the chart...
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| Number 9 to 14: BETTER IN TIME - Leona Lewis |
| Number 21 to 31: PARTY PEOPLE - Nelly featuring Fergie |
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TW LW
Total positions moved up the chart by singles: 45 ( 78)
Total positions moved down the chart by singles: 87 ( 73)
Number of singles that did not move this week: 6 ( 11)
Overall chart movement (movements up + movements down): 132 (151)
4. This week's veteran single:
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| Number 46: DON'T HOLD BACK - The Potbelleez * |
| Debut date: 21/10/2007 |
| Peak position: number 5 |
| Weeks at peak: 1 week |
| Weeks in chart: 33 weeks |
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5. New records into the top 50 Australian singles chart this week:
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| 18. ELEVATOR - Flo Rida featuring Timbaland |
| 28. LABELS OR LOVE - Fergie |
| 45. (RE) WHEN WE WERE KIDS - The Galvatrons * |
| 49. LEAVIN' - Jesse McCartney |
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6. Records leaving the top 50 Australian singles chart this week:
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| (41) TOUCH MY BODY - Mariah Carey |
| (42) STAY BEAUTIFUL - The Last Goodnight |
| (49) APOLOGIZE - Timbaland featuring OneRepublic |
| (50) KISS KISS - Chris Brown featuring T-Pain |
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7. This week's top 50:
Still no movement at number one. The biggest selling song across
the country is Gabriella Cilmi's "Sweet About Me", which has
notched up 5 weeks in the top spot. Meanwhile, her debut album,
"Lessons To Be Learned", spends its third week at number 2 on
the albusm chart.
"Sweet About Me" heralds an interesting period with music at the
moment where we have a few songs having titles that are taken
completely out of context from the song's lyrics to create a
different meaning. "Sweet About Me" implies Gabriella is singing
about something that is sweet about her, however the title actually
comes from the line "nothing sweet about me" which conveys the
totally opposite meaning. Another top 10 single at the moment
that does a similar thing is Usher's "Love In This Club". The
title perhaps implyies he is singing about finding romance in
a nightclub. However, closer examination of the lyrics reveals
a much more ***ually explicit meaning with the actual line the
title is taken from being "I wanna make love in this club".
Moving up to number 2 this week is Jordin Sparks' duet with
Chris Brown titled "No Air". This song is already the biggest
selling CD single in record shops across the nation and with
digital sales increasing, this might be Australia's new number
one shortly.
Estelle and Kanye West move up one spot and score a top 3
hit with "American Boy", however the song is not so popular
in record shops as it's been hanging around the bottom end
of the top 10 on the CD singles chart.
With Usher re-entering the top 10 with "Love In This Club", we
say goodbye this week to Leona Lewis's former number 6 hit,
"Better In Time", which tumbles out of the top 10 and down to
number 14 this week.
Three new entries into this week's top 50, but with yet another
bunch of low-debuting hits, we've now gone for a month without
seeing a top 10 debut. In fact, high flying debuts are now
a rare chart occurance, no doubt due to the new chart rules
that kicked in during late 2007 which meant that songs could
chart on digital sales alone and thus earlier than when the
CD single hits the shops. So you often see a gradual build-up
to a song's popularity rather than hype surrounding a release
date and the frantic rush to secure that single during that
week. So given that 2008 is almost half over, let's see how the
number of high-flying debuts has changed over the last 10 years.
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TOP 10 TOP 5 TOP 3 No. 1
YEAR DEBUTS DEBUTS DEBUTS DEBUTS
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1999 19 13 8 0
2000 28 16 12 8
2001 36 19 12 3
2002 53 32 21 9
2003 50 33 22 9
2004 64 45 28 16
2005 70 40 28 17
2006 56 26 18 6
2007 47 26 17 8
2008 (so far...) 6 3 2 0
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It's almost incomprehensible to imagine that just 3 years ago in
2005, we were seeing a song debut at number one around every
three weeks. But with almost half of 2008 gone, we are yet to
see a single song debut at the top. Also back in 2005, top 5
debuts were almost a weekly occurance, yet in 2008, we are lucky
to have one once every 2 months.
18. ELEVATOR - Flo Rida featuring Timbaland
CD singles chart: #10
Digital track chart: #27
28 year-old American rapper Tramar Dillard goes by the
recording name of Flo Rida. His massive international hit
"Low" spent 3 weeks at number one earlier this year in
Australia and is still in the top 10 after 19 charting weeks.
Not only has "Low" hung around in the charts for so long, but
it has done so spending the vast majority of its time at the
very upper end of the singles chart. 13 out of the 19 charting
weeks of "Low" have been incredibly spent within the top 3.
To find a single that has spent more than 13 weeks in the top
3, we have go to back to 2006 when TV Rock's "Flaunt It"
clocked up a 14 week stint in the top 3.
Back to the present, and sales of Flo Rida's album "Mail
On Sunday" haven't been that spectacular, with the album
peaking recently at number 24. The latest single off that
album is the track "Elevator" which features and is produced
by Timbaland. It debuts at number 18 this week.
Web site: www.officialflo.com
www.timbalandmusic.com
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8WFG_cxUWA
Lyrics: www.tinyurl.com/6p3jc3
28. LABELS OR LOVE - Fergie
CD singles chart: (not released yet)
Digital track chart: #21
The new movie "*** and the City" comes with a music sountrack
and for that soundtrack Fergie has contributed the song "Labels
Or Love", which debuts at number 28 this week on digital sales
alone. Fergie has just re-released her first solo album, the
triple-platinum selling "The Dutchess", and this special
"deluxe" edition features 4 bonus tracks including "Labels Or
Love" plus her current duet with Nelly, "Party People".
Although it remains to be seen if the addition of 4 bonus
tracks can push many more sales, as the re-issued album
results in "The Dutchess" re-entering the albums chart only
at number 33 this week.
Web site: www.fergie.com
Lyrics: www.tinyurl.com/69vuyn
49. LEAVIN' - Jesse McCartney
CD singles chart: #36
Digital track chart: (not in top 40)
Back in early 2005, the then 17 year-old Jesse McCartney was
a big hit on TV in Australia thanks to his role as surfer
Bradin Westerly in the American series "Summerland". His debut
single, "Beautiful Soul", was then released, which spent 4
weeks at number one in Australia and was followed up by the
top 10 smash "She's No You". Both singles were lifted from his
platinum-selling top 5 album "Beautiful Soul". 2006 saw him
release his second album, "Right Where You Want Me", which
peaked at a poor number 49 and spawned just one top 50
single, that being the number 20 hit also titled "Right Where
You Want Me". However, in the meantime, Jesse had been
developing his song-writing skills and he co-wrote the song
"Bleeding Love" which was a huge international hit for British
singer Leona Lewis that went to number one in over 20 countries
including Australia. Now at the age of 21, Jesse has completed
his third solo album which is titled "Departure". A lot of the
material on the album was apparently inspired by his breakup
last year with girlfriend Katie Cassidy. The album's first
single, "Leavin'", which has been on sale in record stores for
several weeks now, finally ac***ulates enough purchases to
sneak into the top 50 at number 49 this week.
Web site: www.jessemac.com
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYMDXK9ZpxQ
Lyrics: www.tinyurl.com/588mxp
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The top 50 Australian singles chart
Week beginning 9th June 2008
Week ending 15th June 2008
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TW LW HP WI ACCR TITLE - ARTIST
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1. ( 1) #1 12w <P> SWEET ABOUT ME - Gabriella Cilmi *
2. ( 3) #2 4w NO AIR - Jordin Sparks duet with Chris Brown
3. ( 4) #3 5w AMERICAN BOY - Estelle featuring Kanye West
4. ( 2) #1 9w <P> 4 MINUTES
- Madonna featuring Justin Timberlake
5. ( 6) #5 5w TAKE A BOW - Rihanna
6. ( 5) #1 19w <P> LOW - Flo Rida featuring T-Pain
7. ( 7) #7 9w PERFECT - Vanessa Amorosi *
8. ( 8) #5 13w DREAM CATCH ME - Newton Faulkner
9. (11) #8 13w LOVE IN THIS CLUB
- Usher featuring Young Jeezy
10. (10) #10 7w LOVE SONG - Sara Bareilles
11. (12) #10 8w THIS LOVE - The Veronicas *
12. (15) #12 10w PARALYZER - Finger Eleven
13. (16) #6 14w <G> WORK - Kelly Rowland
14. ( 9) #6 8w BETTER IN TIME - Leona Lewis
15. (13) #1 16w <G> BUBBLY - Colbie Caillat
16. (20) #16 4w VIOLET HILL - Coldplay
17. (14) #5 14w <G> WITH YOU - Chris Brown
18. (--) #18 1w ELEVATOR - Flo Rida featuring Timbaland
19. (17) #13 12w LIKE ONLY A WOMAN CAN - Brian McFadden
20. (18) #5 16w <G> TATTOO - Jordin Sparks
21. (25) #21 3w IF I NEVER SEE YOUR FACE AGAIN
- Maroon 5 featuring Rihanna
22. (19) #9 21w <G> THIS HEART ATTACK - Faker *
23. (31) #23 6w THIS BOY'S IN LOVE - The Presets *
24. (23) #1 20w <P> DON'T STOP THE MUSIC - Rihanna
25. (26) #23 6w BREAK THE ICE - Britney Spears
26. (35) #26 5w MERCY - Duffy
27. (22) #1 25w <P> BLEEDING LOVE - Leona Lewis
28. (--) #28 1w LABELS OR LOVE - Fergie
29. (24) #3 21w <P> PICTURES OF YOU - The Last Goodnight
30. (28) #28 5w SWEETEST GIRL (DOLLAR BILL) - Wyclef Jean
featuring Akon, Lil Wayne & introducing Niia
31. (21) #21 4w PARTY PEOPLE - Nelly featuring Fergie
32. (33) #32 3w BLACK AND GOLD - Sam Sparro
33. (27) #23 15w BIG GIRL (YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL) - Mika
34. (30) #19 20w <G> MY PEOPLE - The Presets *
35. (29) #27 8w I DON'T THINK SO - Kelis
36. (32) #3 24w <P> CRANK THAT (SOULJA BOY) - Soulja Boy Tell 'Em
37. (37) #11 18w <G> STOP AND STARE - OneRepublic
38. (34) #2 26w UNTOUCHED - The Veronicas *
39. (38) #2 19w <P> PIECE OF ME - Britney Spears
40. (40) #33 7w YOUR LOVE IS A LIE - Simple Plan
41. (43) #13 10w BEAT IT - Fall Out Boy featuring John Mayer
42. (44) #8 13w <G> I DON'T DO SURPRISES - Axle Whitehead *
43. (39) #35 5w YAHHH! - Soulja Boy Tell 'Em featuring Arab
44. (36) #36 4w YOU PICK ME UP - Pete Murray *
45. (RE) #39 4w WHEN WE WERE KIDS - The Galvatrons *
46. (48) #5 33w <P> DON'T HOLD BACK - The Potbelleez *
47. (46) #41 5w SHAWTY GET LOOSE
- Lil Mama featuring Chris Brown and T-Pain
48. (45) #30 7w WHAT YOU'RE ON - Rogue Traders *
49. (--) #49 1w LEAVIN' - Jesse McCartney
50. (47) #19 13w NINE IN THE AFTERNOON - Panic At The Disco
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* - Denotes Australian/New Zealand Artist
Australian/New Zealand content: 12/50 singles (24%)
TW - Denotes chart position this week
LW - Denotes chart position last week
HP - Denotes highest position ever reached on the chart
WI - Denotes the total weeks spent in the chart
RE - Denotes a single that has re-entered the chart this week
ACCR - Sales accreditation: <G> = Gold = 35,000
<P> = Platinum = 70,000
<PN> = N x Platinum = N x 70,000
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8. Australian top 50 albums chart (09/06/2008 - 15/06/2008)
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TW LW HP WI ACCR TITLE - ARTIST
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1. ( 1) #1 2w HERE I STAND - Usher
2. ( 2) #2 4w <G> LESSONS TO BE LEARNED - Gabriella Cilmi *
3. ( 3) #1 3w <G> SUMMER AT EUREKA - Pete Murray *
4. ( 4) #4 2w SOMEWHERE IN THE REAL WORLD
- Vanessa Amorosi *
5. ( 5) #1 8w <G> APOCALYPSO - The Presets *
6. ( 6) #1 6w <P> WALTZING MATILDA - Andre Rieu & Mirusia
7. (--) #7 1w WATERSHED - Opeth
8. (20) #8 2w *** AND THE CITY - Soundtrack
9. ( 8) #1 19w <G> SPIRIT - Leona Lewis
10. (--) #10 1w THE BEST OF - Radiohead
11. (25) #1 50w <P5> CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE - Michael Buble
12. (12) #2 31w <P2> HOOK ME UP - The Veronicas *
13. (10) #2 6w <G> CATCH THE WIND: SONGS OF A GENERATION
- Damien Leith *
14. (--) #14 1w READY II FLY - Naturally 7
15. (15) #12 10w ROCKFERRY - Duffy
16. ( 7) #7 2w SUMMERLAND - The Herd *
17. ( 9) #1 6w <G> HARD CANDY - Madonna
18. (13) #1 7w <G> RATTLIN' BONES
- Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson *
19. (11) #5 13w <G> HAND BUILT BY ROBOTS - Newton Faulkner
20. (16) #13 10w <G> COCO - Colbie Caillat
21. (19) #6 29w <G> EXCLUSIVE - Chris Brown
22. (21) #4 63w <P2> BACK TO BLACK - Amy Winehouse
23. (--) #23 1w POSTCARDS - Sparkadia *
24. (--) #24 1w NEW MANIC ART - Trial Kennedy *
25. (17) #6 3w NARROW STAIRS - Death Cab For Cutie
26. (22) #22 2w WE STARTED NOTHING - The Ting Tings
27. (RE) #27 ?w <G> CHRONICLE: THE 20 GREATEST HITS
- Creedence Clearwater Revival
28. (29) #24 11w MAIL ON SUNDAY - Flo Rida
29. (18) #9 4w IN SILICO - Pendulum *
30. (23) #1 36w <P3> EXILE ON MAINSTREAM - Matchbox Twenty
31. (RE) #14 ?w HIGH VOLTAGE - AC/DC *
32. (26) #26 5w ORACULAR SPECTACULAR - MGMT
33. (RE) #1 ?w <P3> THE DUTCHESS - Fergie
34. (14) #9 5w HOME BEFORE DARK - Neil Diamond
35. (24) #3 14w <G> STEP UP 2: THE STREETS - Soundtrack
36. (RE) #32 ?w 18 HITS - ABBA
37. (27) #3 42w <P2> GOOD GIRL GONE BAD - Rihanna
38. (46) #15 20w <G> CAUGHT IN THE ACT - Michael Buble
39. (--) #39 1w JORDIN SPARKS - Jordin Sparks
40. (41) #40 3w FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS
- Flight Of The Conchords
41. (38) #34 6w HANNAH MONTANA & MILEY CYRUS: BEST OF
BOTH WORLDS CONCERT - Miley Cyrus
42. (RE) #6 ?w <P3> #1'S - Michael Jackson
43. (30) #2 8w SHARING SPACE - Cog *
44. (--) #44 1w MS. KELLY - Kelly Rowland
45. (28) #5 7w SET IN STONE - Brian McFadden
46. (39) #2 7w <G> E=MC2 - Mariah Carey
47. (43) #6 29w <G> A BOOK LIKE THIS - Angus & Julia Stone *
48. (40) #10 6w FLYING COLOURS - Bliss N Eso *
49. (37) #37 3w THEM VS. YOU VS. ME - Finger Eleven
50. (33) #28 3w WE SING. WE DANCE. WE STEAL THINGS
- Jason Mraz
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* - Denotes Australian/New Zealand Artist
TW - Denotes chart position this week
LW - Denotes chart position last week
HP - Denotes highest position ever reached on the chart
WI - Denotes the total weeks spent in the chart
RE - Denotes an album that has re-entered the chart this week
ACCR - Sales accreditation: <G> = Gold = 35,000
<P> = Platinum = 70,000
<PN> = N x Platinum = N x 70,000
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