Official NZ Music Chart 24 August 2009 1683

Official New Zealand Music Chart 24 August 2009 1683

Chartbitz:
Wednesday, August 26 2009
by Andrew Miller

Pretties Fly, Souls Open

Independent Kiwi acts provide the upward sales momentum this week, two local acts gaining their highest chart placing and first Top 10 result in the process.

Firstly Fly My Pretties soar higher than ever before, staking their claim for the penthouse spot with their third album and just the second to chart. A Story is New Zealand’s #1 album, displacing the Black Eyed Peas’ The E.N.D. which is forced into the runner-up position.

Fly My Pretties stalwart Barnaby Weir is no stranger to #1 as his band The Black Seeds have been there before (with 2006’s Into The Dojo).
The original Pretties issue Live At Bats arrived in October 2004 but didn’t chart. However, the aptly named sophomore The Return Of Fly My Pretties debuted in its #14 peak position in November 2005. Now three years and nine months later A Story gives the current Fly My Pretties shares in a #1 album.

This year’s Pretties set collects together takes from their Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin gigs with a new line-up.
A little further down the chart, Auckland based Opensouls join the Pretties in a career-high follow-up out of the box as well. Standing In The Rain lands at #8 for Bjorn Petersen, Tyra Hammond, Jeremy Toy, Julien Dyne, Chip Mathews, Steph Brown, Scott Towers, Isaac Aesili and Harlin Davey, blitzing the solitary #29 placing of their March 2006 Kaleidoscope debut.

Peas Near Double Figures
Although the Black Eyed Peas don’t three-peat their triple crown, I Gotta Feeling maintains its Singles/Airplay reign for a third straight week. It logs a ninth week at the Singles Chart summit and a third atop the RadioScope100 airplay chart. It’s the second-longest run by a #1 singles this year and in the all-time longevity stakes it draws level with previous nine-weekers by All Of Us, Abba, Avril Lavigne, Elton John and Kiki Dee and Coolio.
The BEPs cut still has a sizeable lead over closest rival Beyonce’s Sweet Dreams which moves into the runners-up slot and hits the Airplay Top 10 at #10 for the first time.

The New Singles
#21 Gin - Oh My

Gin Wigmore’s Extended Play debut EP went Top 10 in July last year, and thanks to Telethon and other recent TV exposure it returned to the list three weeks back (currently at #39). Now Oh My, the lead track of her US-recorded Holy Smoke debut long player opens at #21 for the girl from Devonport. The now Sydney-based singer has three appearances in this week’s Singles Chart, the two aforementioned releases joined by Smashproof’s 12-week chart-topper Brother which included Gin’s vocals and rests this week at #40. Her album is due out in October.

#28 Lily Allen - 22

Fresh from duetting with David Cassidy and celebrating England regaining the Ashes, West London-born 24-year-old Lily Allen makes it a half dozen New Zealand hits this week. Fresh at #28, 22 is the third track extracted from Lily’s #9 sophomore It’s Not Me, It’s You (#24 this week in its 28th frame)

#35 Kid Cudi featuring Kanye West - Make Her Say

Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi takes a second hit bow in 2009. Under his Kid Cudi stagename, he follows his #11 Day N Nite debut hit from earlier in the year with Make Her Say at #35. The song features on the forthcoming Man On The Moon: End Of The Day album. This time Cudi’s helped out by Kanye West who inks his 14th hit overall, four of which had him in a featured guest role.

#38 Demi Lovato - Here We Go Again

Last week Disney star Demi Lovato took her former US #1 album Here We Go Again into the Albums list at #10. It slips to #14 this time around but the title track opens the Camp Rock star’s singles account at #38.

The New Albums

#1 Fly My Pretties - A Story
See story above.

#8 Opensouls - Standing In The Rain
See story above.

#18 Cobra Starship - Hot Mess
New Yorkers Cobra Starship, buoyed by Good Girls Go Bad’s #2 success, land their first New Zealand album charter Hot Mess at #18.

#30 Various - Woodstock 40
Forty years after the event that launched countless other music festivals comes Woodstock’s 40th. The original album never charted as it predated New Zealand’s albums listings, and of course the movie predated even VHS let alone DVD or Blu-Ray! Now the Woodstock floodgates open with the remastered soundtrack and movie variants. The audio enters the Albums chart at #30 this week while the celluloid makeover joins the DVD list at #6. There are also numerous single artist Woodstock sets due in the coming months.

ENDS

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