Official New Zealand Music Chart 28 February 2011
"The Official NZ Top 40 premieres on Drew & Shannon Live Thursdays at 4.30 on FOUR"
Chartbitz:
Wednesday, March 2
2011
by Andrew Miller
Another #1
It’s busy
on top of the Singles pile in 2011 - eight weeks into the
year and we've had seven #1s. Hyped straight to the top,
Lady Gaga’s Born This Way stemmed the tide
of solitary sojourns by reigning two frames but a week later
new English talent Jessie J bows straight into to the
premier position.
Straight out of the box, Price Tag outsells all comers and is the new #1 in the land. It’s Jessie’s second appearance in the Top40, the first being Do It Like A Dude which climbs to #8.
Born
Jessica Ellen Cornish, the Redbridge London-born
singer-songwriter recorded an album in 2008 that’s never
been issued as her original record company went bust.
Previously she’s co-composed the Miley Cyrus hit Party
In The USA among other tunes.
Price Tag has
also made #1 in her native UK and Ireland while Jessie’s
just won a Brit Award as the Critics' Choice. Her first
album to be made available publicly, Who Are You?,
drops in two weeks.
We mustn’t neglect B.O.B.
who features on Price Tag, upping his chart tally to
four and making it to the top spot for a second time.
Airplanes with Paramore’s Hayley Williams was #1
for five weeks last year.
Hot Ones
Neil
Diamond and Hot August Night return to #1 in New
Zealand this week, three decades after he last did so. This
time he’s switched formats and gone from the West Coast to
the East Coast.
The original Hot August Night was
recorded live at the Greek Theatre in LA in 1972 and it made
the top of the Albums Chart here in February 1976. This time
it’s the DVD recorded at Madison Square Garden which
ascends to the summit.
The New
Singles
#1 Jessie J featuring B.O.B. - Price
Tag
See story above.
#26 Bruno Mars
- The Lazy Song
The third hit out of Doo-Wops And
Hooligans (#5 this week) is The Lazy Song giving
Hawaiian native Bruno Mars his fifth time in the Top40 in
under a year. All four prior hits have peaked Top5 and the
Doo Wop threesome all feature this week. Bruno’s
live at Vector Arena April 18.
#30 Wiz
Khalifa - Black And Yellow
Former US #1 Black And
Yellow by rapper Wiz Khalifa becomes his debut hit here
at #30. Twenty-three-year-old Khalifa (real name Cameron
Jibril Thomaz) has recorded three albums since 2006, the
third being Rolling Papers which contains Black
And Yellow. It is due to be released here soon.
#31 Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull - Out On The
Floor
Replacing Kara DioGuardi and Ellen Degeneres as
the sole female judge on the tenth season of American
Idol has helped Jennifer Lopez over a near five-year hit
drought. Fresh at #31 Out On The Floor returns
41-year-old J-Lo for a 15th New Zealand hit. She’s scored
a trio of #1s, If You Had My Love (1999), Love
Don’t Cost A Thing (2001) and All I Have
(2003). Collaborator is the rather busy Pitbull who ups his
tally to nine, two of which feature this week.
#38 Black Eyed Peas - Just Can’t Get
Enough
Making a more modest start with the second
sojourn from The Beginning, the Black Eyed Peas
arrive at #38 with Just Can’t Get Enough. It’s
Top10 across the ditch and follows chart-topping The Time
(Dirty Bit). They’ve amassed 15 hits here now, six of
those topping the charts.
#39 Mumford And
Sons - The Cave Song
Mumford And Sons’ platinum #1
debut Sigh No More won British Album of the Year at
last week’s Brits in London. The album holds at #2 and
yields a second hit at #39 this week in the form of The
Cave. First ink Little Lion Man is at #25 in a
21st appearance.
The New Albums
#6
Elizabeth Marvelly - Home
Rotorua-born Elizabeth
Marvelly was discovered by the late Sir Howard Morrison. At
17, her self-titled debut collection peaked at #8. The past
three years Marvelly has been touring the world and now her
sophomore set Home arrives at #6 for the 21-year-old
whom Prime Minister John Key describes as 'a national
treasure'.
#12 PJ Harvey - Let England
Shake
Let England Shake is the 10th studio
album by Englishwoman PJ Harvey (PJ stands for Polly Jean)
and it becomes her fourth to chart here. In a stroke its #12
start point gives PJ her highest chart showing here to date.
Her chart span is now 15 years 11 months.
#26 The Cranberries - Icon Series: The
Cranberries
Irish rock band The Cranberries led by
vocalist Dolores O’Riordan reformed in 2009. A chart
mainstay in the '90s, amassing nine hit singles and four
chart albums, the notched up two #1 albums (No Need To
Argue and To The Faithful Departed). Their first
hits compile Stars: The Best Of 1992-2002 reached
#18, nine years back. They return this week with another hit
set, Icon Series: The Cranberries at #26.
ENDS