Official NZ Music Chart & Chartbitz May 9 2007

Chartbitz:

May Madness Continues
We’re a week into NZ Music Month 2007 and the three most played songs on the airwaves are by local acts.
OpShop’s Maybe leads the RadioScope100 for a second week, with Brooke Fraser back up to #2 with her former chart-topper Shadowfeet, while the former Singles #1 Crawl by Atlas dips one to #3.
Airplay has helped album sales for OpShop who regain three points to #6 with Second Hand Planet and Brooke’s former #1 triple-platinum Albertine also gains three to #11.
With Mother’s Day looming on Sunday, Hayley Westenra easily outsells all-comers with her Treasure album racking up another week on top and should have the legs to remain there next week.
There are new locals into the Albums list as well. Fly My Pretties member Adi Dick places his solo debut Our Place new at #37. (The Return Of Fly My Pretties peaked at #14 in 2005). And from the capital to Htown, Hamiltonians 48May drop in at #39 with sophomore Streetfights And Shadows, the follow-up to 2006’s #14 Mad Love.
And after 104 weeks, Fat Freddy’s Drop have left the building.

Avril’s Second
Lightning strikes twice for Canadian Avril Lavigne as she forces Atlas from the Singles pole position with Girlfriend gaining two points to rule the roost this week.
The cut has got big shoes to fill as Avril’s debut single racked up nine weeks on top back in 2002. Complicated was lifted from her debut Let Go, which also topped the Albums list that year.
This time round, the #1 is lifted from The Best Damn Thing, which peaked at #2 on debut, slipping to #7 this week.
Avril can claim a Transtasman #1 double as Girlfriend is on top across the ditch as well.

The New Singles
#14 Pink - Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely)
Counting down to her Vector Arena gig at month’s end, Pink sees the tour edition of I’m Not Dead move up to #3 on the Albums Chart and lands a #14 debut on the Singles list with Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely). It’s all good for 27-year-old Alecia Moore who as Pink can lay claim to 15 hit singles here including a trio of chart-toppers – Lady Marmalade, Don’t Let Me Get Me and Get The Party Started.

#22 Hinder - Better Than Me
It’s a good start for Hinder’s follow-up to Lips Of An Angel (#17 this week) from their #9 peaking debut Extreme Behaviour (#40 this week). Better Than Me slots in at #22, while airplay sees it at #26 on the RadioScope100.

#23 Ludacris featuring Mary J Blige - Runaway Love
It seems somewhat ridiculous that Ludacris (aka Christopher Bridges) has yet to have a charting album here. His current, Release Therapy, dropped last September. And now it yields his ninth hit single with the set’s Runaway Love new at #23. It’s a collaboration with Mary J Blige and provides the diva with her 14th hit. In fact seven of Ludacris’ hits are collabs, including this week’s #9 Glamorous with Black Eyed Pea Fergie.

#38 The Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger
Glaswegian trio The Fratellis go one point higher than the #39 peak of their Costello Music album a few weeks back with lead single Chelsea Dagger, new at #38.

The New Albums
#4 Human Nature - Reach Out: The Motown Record
Sydneyside brothers Andrew and Michael Tierney along with Toby Allen and Phil Burton formed Human Nature back in 1989. To date they’ve had a sole #30 hit, Got It Goin’ On in 1996 here. That all changes this week though as Reach Out: The Motown Record takes highest new entry honours on the Albums Chart at #4. The five times platinum record (in Oz) is helped a tad by their Dancing With The Stars TV guest appearance last Tuesday and Mother’s Day shopping. Reach Out also earned the quartet an ARIA #1 Chart Awards gong back in February.

#16 Michael Buble - Call Me Irresponsible
Twenty-nine-year-old Canadian crooner Michael Buble was raised on the music he sings, but with his own take nabs his fourth New Zealand hit album as Call Me Irresponsible drops in at #16. His 2003 self-titled debut remains Michael’s biggest to date, hitting #1 and going double platinum in the process.

#37 Adi Dick - Our Place
See story above.

#39 48May - Streetfights And Shadows
See story above.

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Top 40 Albums - Week To Sunday, 6 May 2007

This Last Weeks
Week Week In Title Artist Label

1 1 7 Treasure Hayley Westenra Universal
2 2 24 Konvicted Akon Universal
3 5 25 I'm Not Dead: Tour Edition Pink SBME
4 new 1 Reach Out: The Motown Record Human Nature SBME
5 8 35 The Sound Of Bread Bread WEA/Warner
6 9 3 Second Hand Planet OpShop Siren/EMI
7 3 3 The Best Damn Thing Avril Lavigne SBME
8 6 5 Because Of The Times Kings Of Leon SBME
9 22 2 Portrait Of A Legend: 1951-1964 Sam Cooke Universal
10 10 34 FutureSex / LoveSounds Justin Timberlake SBME
11 14 22 Albertine Brooke Fraser SBME
12 12 36 Loose Nelly Furtado Universal
13 7 13 Infinity On High Fall Out Boy Universal
14 4 2 Favourite Worst Nightmare Arctic Monkeys Domino/EMI
15 11 3 Begin To Hope Regina Spektor WEA/Warner
16 13 6 Rocket Man: The Definitive Hits Elton John Universal
17 15 5 Shock Value Timbaland Universal
18 17 16 B'Day: Deluxe Edition Beyonce SBME
19 new 1 Call Me Irresponsible Michael Buble WEA/Warner
20 16 51 Stadium Arcadium Red Hot Chili Peppers WEA/Warner
21 19 10 Life In Cartoon Motion Mika Universal
22 18 3 Grand National John Butler Trio Jarrah/EMI
23 24 15 Back To Black Amy Winehouse Universal
24 20 2 Year Zero Nine Inch Nails Universal
25 21 7 Good Morning Revival Good Charlotte SBME
26 27 40 Real Life Evermore WEA/Warner
27 reentry 11 Back To Basics Christina Aguilera SBME
28 30 6 A Beautiful Lie 30 Seconds To Mars Virgin/EMI
29 25 43 Eyes Open Snow Patrol Universal
30 32 22 The Sweet Escape Gwen Stefani Universal
31 28 14 Not Too Late Norah Jones BlueNote/EMI
32 23 5 The Very Best Of: 40th Anniversary The Doors Rhino/Warner
33 reentry 24 Undiscovered James Morrison Universal
34 34 4 The Evolution Ciara SBME
35 26 5 Young Modern silverchair Eleven/EMI
36 33 31 Sam's Town The Killers Universal
37 new 1 Our Place Adi Dick Loop/Border
38 39 24 18 Singles U2 Universal
39 new 1 Streetlights And Shadows 48May Mushroom/Warner
40 29 23 Extreme Behaviour Hinder Universal

Chart compiled by Media Sauce Ltd.

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