Official NZ Music Chart & Chartbitz - June 14 '06
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Chartbitz
Wednesday June 14, 2006
By Andrew Miller
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Take a #1 single (Don’t Cha) then another (Stickwitu) and add a third (Beep) and what do you get? A #1 album.
Former LA burlesque troupe-turned- girl-group Pussycat Dolls take their self-titled debut PCD to the top this week, a shade over six months after it first charted. In doing so, the Dolls become the first girl-group to top our Albums chart in over six years.
Aussie Popstars Bardot were the last to do it. Their self-titled set debuted on top for one week in May 2000, following the lead of their sole New Zealand single Poison which also hit #1 in May 2000.
Plans to launch a range of real-life sexy dolls based on the PCDs have been scrapped by Toymaker Hasbro, following pressure from parent groups in the US…Back to the music though... Could the Dolls make it four from four? The album’s fourth single is Buttons a collaboration with Snoop Dogg, currently #60 and rising on the RadioScope100.
In a #1 link this week, the Pussycat Dolls' first NZ #1 Don't Cha from August last year, was written by Cee-Lo Green, who along with Brian ‘Danger Mouse’ Burton make up Gnarls Barkley, who notch up a third chart-topping week with Crazy.
From Te Awamutu and Fielding
Te Awamutu’s in the Waikato, Fielding in the Manawatu - and both towns have given us band-mate brothers.
Most will pick Tim and Neil Finn as the siblings from Te Awamutu, not so many will instantly recognize Jon, Peter and Dann Hume (aka Evermore) from Fielding. That may yet change. Both are doing very well in Australia this week.
Spit Enz’s Extravagenza an album recorded live during their 20th Anniversary tour of New Zealand in 1993 and was remastered by keyboardist Eddie Rayner last year. Late in 2005 it peaked at #7 on the Heatseekers Chart, just outside the main Top 40 and this week on the back of their reunion tour it cracks the Australian Top 5 Albums.
Tim and Neil, along
with Eddie, Noel Crombie, Nigel Griggs and Malcolm Green
from the True Colours-era Enz, are in the middle of their
come-back Aussie tour.
No dates have been announced for
us - yet.
Evermore are supporting the tour, while Running the debut single from their sophomore album Real Life enters the Aussie Singles chart at #7. We’re finally catching onto the trio as well - it’s new at #31 in our Singles list as well being one of the most-played tracks on New Zealand radio this week.
Along with Extravagenza selling well in Oz, the Split Enz back catalogue has been remastered and repackaged with some bonus tracks added to coincide with the tour. There’s still no word on local availability - yet.
World Cup Byte
The Soccer World Cup in Germany is now five days-old and the Socceroos have beaten Japan. Back in 1982 Australia didn’t make it to Spain for the cup. We did.
The Aussies did something the All Blacks
have yet to do – score a hit record.
As part of the
build-up for the World Cup in ’82, they recorded Heading For
The Top which spent 14 weeks on the on the Official NZ Music
Chart, peaking at #10.
The ABs did rate a mention in the
early ’60s when the Howard Morrison Quartet adapted Lonnie
Donegan’s My Old Man’s A Dustman to My Old Man’s An All
Black.
There’s a plethora of World Cup tunes this year
and the one that might chart here is a remake of Queen’s
1978 #8 We Are The Champions. It’s already Top 20 in
Australia and the UK, and it’s by none other than, yes,
Crazy Frog.
The New Singles
#23 Christina
Milian featuring Young Jeezy - Say I
Twenty-four year-old
Christina Milian teams-up with rapper Young Jeezy on the
highest new entry at #23. The track’s lifted from her new
album So Amazin'.
#31 Evermore - Running
#35 4
Corners featuring Maia Rata - By My Side
H-town’s 4
Corners follow last year’s #32 hit On The Downlow by
collaborating with Maia Rata on By My Side, another slice of
Kiwi hip hop making its debut at #35.
#36 Raconteurs -
Steady As She Goes
They may be called Saboteurs in Oz,
but here and the in rest of the world they’re The
Raconteurs. The band gains its first hit single this week as
Steady As She Goes comes in at #36. The song is lifted from
the quartet’s debut long-player Broken Boy Soldiers which
moves up to #14 on the Albums list. Steady is also #35 on
the RadioScope100 for members Brendan Benson, Jack White,
Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler.
The New Albums
#20
AFI - December Underground
Americans Davey Havok (no
relation to Mikey), Jade Puget, Hunter and Adam Carson are
AFI. The band had its beginnings in 1991 and December
Underground is their seventh set, taking highest new entry
honours this week at #20.
#23 Various - High School
Musical OST
It’s the first ever #1 television soundtrack
in the US and the actual TV movie is due here on Sky
Digital’s Disney Channel this month. High School Musical
opened its North American account at #1 and still sits in
their Top 10. This week the R&B based soundtrack is new at
#23. The lead single Breaking Free is new at retail.
#24
Julian Lloyd Webber - Unexpected Songs
Cellist Julian
Webber shows there’s nothing like having a recent concert to
put an album in the chart. The Englishman’s Unexpected Songs
is new at #24. He collaborates with harpist Catrin Finch and
pianist John Lenehan. The title track is composed by his
brother, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and is from the musical
Song & Dance.
#32 Daniel Powter - Daniel
Powter
He’s finally topped the charts in his homeland
with Bad Day after making it big here and around the globe.
The song is on his self-titled debut album, produced by
Mitchell Froom (who’s worked his magic with the likes of
Crowded House and Elvis Costello). He finally makes our
Albums Chart some six months after the set’s release. It
also includes Free Loop which is #37 on the Singles Chart
and #10 on the RadioScope100 this week.
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Top 40 Albums - Week To Sunday, 11 June 2006
This Last Weeks
Week Week In Title Artist Label
1 3 28 PCD The
Pussycat Dolls Universal
2 2 4 Stadium Arcadium Red Hot
Chili Peppers WEA/Warner
3 1 2 End The
Silence Blindspott Capitol/EMI
4 4 36 All The Right
Reasons Nickelback Roadrunner/Universal
5 5 18 Eye To The
Telescope KT Tunstall Virgin/EMI
6 7 3 Taking The Long
Way Dixie Chicks SBME
7 6 6 10,000
Days Tool SBME
8 9 6 The Italian Patrizio
Buanne Universal
9 8 7 The Very Best Of Roy
Orbison SBME
10 10 46 Back To Bedlam James
Blunt WEA/Warner
11 14 58 Based On A True Story Fat
Freddy's Drop TheDrop/Rhythmethod
12 11 6 Pearl Jam Pearl
Jam SBME
13 16 2 Move By Yourself Donavon
Frankenreiter Universal
14 23 4 Broken Boy
Soldiers Raconteurs XL/Rhythmethod
15 18 19 Ring Of Fire:
The Legend Of Johnny Cash Universal
16 15 16 Sing-Alongs
And Lullabies Jack Johnson Universal
17 12 12 Both Sides
Of The Gun Ben Harper Virgin/EMI
18 27 16 Walk The Line
OST Various SBME
19 13 17 Chris Brown Chris
Brown SBME
20 new 1 December
Underground AFI Universal
21 20 4 Warm Hand Don
McGlashan ArchHill/Rhythmethod
22 19 5 All The
Roadrunning Mark Knopfler And Emmylou
Harris Universal
23 new 1 High School Musical
OST Various EMI
24 new 1 Unexpected Songs Julian Lloyd
Webber Capitol/EMI
25 24 10 Montage Yulia SBME
26 17 25 Pipeline
Under The Ocean Pluto Capitol/EMI
27 25 6 Freshmen Nesian
Mystik Bounce/Universal
28 28 5 I Love
You Aaradhna DawnRaid/Universal
29 reentry 3 A Girl Like
Me Rihanna Universal
30 22 11 See The Sun Pete
Murray SBME
31 26 28 Switch INXS SBME
32 new 1 Daniel
Powter Daniel
Powter WEA/Warner
33 reentry 5 Lunatico Gotan
Project XL/Rhythmethod
34 21 3 Personal File Johnny
Cash SBME
35 34 10 I'm Not
Dead Pink SBME
36 30 29 Confessions On A
Dancefloor Madonna WEA/Warner
37 reentry 15 Veneer Jose
Gonzalez Shock/Border
38 reentry 3 Remixes And Radio
Cuts Salmonella Dub DubCon/Rhythmethod
39 40 15 Tea And
Sympathy Bernard
Fanning DewProcess/Universal
40 31 19 Secret Life Of The
Veronicas WEA/Warner
Chart compiled by Media Sauce Ltd.
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