Official NZ Music Chart & Chartbitz May 30 2007

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Digital With A Capital D
The Official New Zealand Music Survey embraces downloads this week with the first major chart re-jig in over three years and the most significant since airplay was first included in the mix in 1999.
Now the mix is 75 per cent sales and 25 per cent airplay, rather than the 50:50 split previously, and a song has to be available for sale (in either digital or physical form) in order to chart.
As well, single sales accreditations have been changed. A song now has to sell 7500 copies to be certified gold and 15,000 to be platinum, which puts singles back on a par with album certifications for units sold. But there is a significant difference in how accreditations are now determined, with single tracks being across-the-counter (or across-the-net) sales, whereas albums remain a count of units shipped to retail.
Now, to the brand new Singles Chart. Downloads make an immediate impact with 11 new entries. Similarly, 11 tracks in this week’s Top 40 are only available as downloads at this stage, with physical CD singles likely to follow.
The brand new #1 is the first penthouse dweller for Ne-Yo, the title track to his sophomore release Because Of You, and makes it on a mix of digital, physical and airplay.
Biting at Ne-Yo's heels comes Buy You A Drank (Shawty Snappin') by T-Pain featuring Yung Joc which charts purely on downloads at #2. More on the other new entries below.
The other major difference on this week’s chart is the number of sales certifications. The first platinum singles award goes to Akon and Snoop Dogg's I Wanna Love You, and there're a half dozen gold singles in the chart - Akon with two (one solo, the other with Gwen Stefani), and one each for Nelly Furtado, Hinder and Justin Timberlake.
The former six-week #1 Crawl by locals Atlas also goes gold and is the only track on this week's chart not available digitally.

The New Singles
#2 T-Pain featuring Yung Joc - Buy You A Drank (Shawty Snappin')
T-Pain has top billing as the highest ranking digital-only single to crash the Singles Chart. Straight into the new chart at #2 on downloads alone comes Faheem Najim with collaborator Yung Joc. Buy You A Drank matches his other biggest hit to date, I'm In Luv (Wit A Stripper) with Mike Jones from a year back. Now T's (the T stands for his Florida hometown Tallahassee) hit tally reaches five here. Three of them are in this week's survey, two of which are new this week. The second is the second highest new entry of the week...

#7 Bow Wow featuring T-Pain and Johnta Austin - Outta My System
Twenty-two-year-old T-Pain helps out his 20-year-old buddy Bow Wow (named by Dr Dre) on Outta My System at #7. Shad Gregory Moss is Bow's given name and he's had hits here since the introductory Bow Wow That's My Name in 2001. Also his second hook up with Johnta Austin, as they shared duties on Shortie Like Mine with Chris Brown at the start of the year.

#13 Fall Out Boy - Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
Patrick Stump, Joseph Trohman, Peter Wantz and Andrew Hurley follow their #1 debut New Zealand hit single form their chart-topping Infinity On High with a second hit culled from that set. Thnks Fr Th Mmrs is straight in at #13 for the recent visitors to our shores.

#15 Bone Thugs N Harmony featuring Akon - I Tried
As rapstas Bone Thugs N Harmony comeback album Strength And Loyalty (#28 last week) drops out of the Albums list, in pops I Tried to the Singles with the help of Akon. It becomes the trio's 11th New Zealand hit and the first in four years, the biggest being 1996's six-week platinum chart-topper Tha Crossroads. And it also gives collaborator Akon double figures (his 10th New Zealand chart hit).

#16 Regina Spektor - Fidelity
YahooXtra + Greys Anatomy + Digital + Radio = a #16 debut for Moscow-born, New York-based singer-songwriter Regina Spektor. Fidelity is lifted from her gold-certified Begin To Hope debut which is also at #16 but on the Albums list.

#24 Jibbs featuring Melody Thornton - Go Too Far
Collaborating with Jibbs, gives Melody Thornton her first New Zealand hit and the aforementioned Jibbs his second, following the #3 Chain Hang Low from late last year.

#28 Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry
Not to be confused with the Dirty Dancing-featured early ‘60s 4 Seasons oldie, Fergie gets a little mellow with her third solo outing Big Girls Don't Cry, following on from the two Top 10ers for the Black Eyed Peas vocalist.

#29 Kings Of Leon - On Call
A #1 album, Because Of The Times (#8 this week), and now the Followill brothers and cousin rack up a first chart single thanks to digital sales as On Call enters at #29.

#34 Mika - Love Today
Grace Kelly gave London-based Mika a #2 single first time out from his #3 gold-certified debut album Life In Cartoon Motion (currently #23). Now at #34 comes hit #2, Love Today.

#37 Robin Thicke - Lost Without You
Adding his first name Robin to his surname Thicke (as graced his 2003 #8 When I Get You Alone), young Robin is a digital beneficiary as Lost Without You debuts at #37. It's lifted from his US million seller, The Evolution Of Robin Thicke.

#39 Daughtry - Home
Season 5 American Idol finalist Chris Daughtry drops in with Home at #39 following on from his #8 debut hit It's Not Over (#34 this week). Both feature on the self-titled debut album that hit #16 a few weeks back.

The New Albums
#2 Maroon 5 - It Won't Be Soon Before Long
Straight out of the blocks and into the runner-up position first week comes LA quintet Adam Levine, James Valentine, Jesse Carmichael, Mickey Madden and Ryan Dusick and their sophomore studio album, It Won't Be Soon Before Long. Its #2 entry betters their Songs About Jane start point which started at a more modest #30, taking 14 weeks to reach the Top 10 and a further 20 to eventually top it for six straight weeks. Lead single Makes Me Wonder moves to #5 on the RadioScope100 and #14 on the Singles chart ahead of a physical single out this week.

#10 Ozzy Osbourne - Black Rain
Former Black Sabbath member and reality TV show celeb Englishman Ozzy Osbourne gains his first ever New Zealand Top 10 album fresh at #10. It becomes the 59-year-old Birmingham-born rocker's 11th chart set since his 1986 #21 debut Ultimate Sin. 1992's platinum-selling No More Tears is the closest he's come previously, peaking at #12. Black Rain's lead track is I Don't Wanna Stop.

#14 Missy Higgins - On A Clear Night
Steer is the lead track on Aussie songstress Missy Higgins's sophomore chart set here On A Clear Night, her second chart-topper in her homeland.

#25 Jeff Buckley - So Real: The Songs Of Jeff Buckley
Just on 10 years back American singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley drowned aged 30. This week his second posthumous hit album opens at #25. So Real: The Songs Of Jeff Buckley complies his best work and follows his only other chart success here, 1998's #5 Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk.

#32 Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
A solitary week at #33 in 2004 is the sole taste of Kiwi chart action for Chicago quartet Wilco with A Ghost Is Born. Until now. They go one place better with Sky Blue Sky, dropping in at #32.

#37 8 Foot Sativa - Poison Of Ages
It's heavy metal from the wilds of West Auckland, via Sweden. In the last full week of NZ Music month 2007 the only locals new to the Albums Chart this week are 8 Foot Sativa with their fourth slab (third to chart). Last time out, a shade under four years ago, Season For Assault debuted at #6. That set was recorded in Sweden, as is this week's #37 new entry Poison Of Ages.

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Top 40 Singles - Week To Sunday, 27 May 2007

This Last Weeks
Week Week In Title Artist Label
1 4 5 Because Of You Ne-Yo Universal
2 new 1 Buy You A Drank (Shawty Snappin') T-Pain feat. Yung Joc SBME
3 1 5 Don't Matter Akon Universal
4 3 9 Give It To Me Timbaland feat. Nelly And Justin Universal
5 7 4 Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely) Pink SBME
6 2 5 Candyman Christina Aguilera SBME
7 new 1 Outta My System Bow Wow feat. T-Pain SBME
8 11 12 Maybe OpShop Siren/EMI
9 10 3 What I've Done Linkin Park WEA/Warner
10 9 7 Glamorous Fergie feat. Ludacris Universal
11 13 9 Girlfriend Avril Lavigne SBME
12 5 6 Beautiful Liar Beyonce feat. Shakira SBME
13 new 1 Thnks Fr Th Mmrs Fall Out Boy Universal
14 37 4 Makes Me Wonder Maroon 5 Universal
15 new 1 I Tried Bone Thugs N Harmony feat. Akon Universal
16 new 1 Fidelity Regina Spektor WEA/Warner
17 8 13 The Sweet Escape Gwen Stefani feat. Akon Universal
18 14 2 From Yesterday 30 Seconds To Mars Virgin/EMI
19 12 14 Grace Kelly Mika Universal
20 22 3 I'm A Flirt R Kelly feat. T-Pain SBME
21 17 15 I Wanna Love You Akon feat. Snoop Dogg Universal
22 20 14 What Goes Around Justin Timberlake SBME
23 18 12 Straight Lines silverchair Eleven/EMI
24 new 1 Go Too Far Jibbs feat. Melody Thornton Universal
25 15 10 Cupid's Chokehold / Breakfast In America Gym Class Heroes WEA/Warner
26 6 13 Crawl Atlas Elements/Warner
27 23 33 Lips Of An Angel Hinder Universal
28 new 1 Big Girls Don't Cry Fergie Universal
29 new 1 On Call Kings Of Leon SBME
30 26 7 Read My Mind The Killers Universal
31 25 12 Shadowfeet Brooke Fraser SBME
32 16 7 All Good Things (Come To An End) Nelly Furtado Universal
33 35 3 Umbrella Rihanna feat. Jay Z Universal
34 new 1 Love Today Mika Universal
35 32 15 It's Not Over Daughtry SBME
36 29 8 Ruby Kaiser Chiefs Universal
37 new 1 Lost Without You Robin Thicke Universal
38 19 15 This Ain't A Scene (It's An Arms Race) Fall Out Boy Universal
39 new 1 Home Daughtry SBME
40 31 24 Say It Right Nelly Furtado Universal

Chart compiled by Media Sauce Ltd.

Top 10 Airplay - Week To Sunday, 27 May 2007
NZ artist
This Last Weeks
Week Week In Title Artist Label NZ Catalogue Cert
1 1 10 Maybe OpShop Siren/EMI + 3899250
2 5 3 Umbrella Rihanna feat. Jay Z Universal 1735491
3 6 3 Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely) Pink SBME 88697093962
4 3 11 Straight Lines silverchair Eleven/EMI 3902552
5 8 3 Makes Me Wonder Maroon 5 Universal 1734497
6 2 9 Give It To Me Timbaland feat. Nelly And Justin Universal 1732202
7 7 14 The Sweet Escape Gwen Stefani feat. Akon Universal 1724449 gold x1
8 4 14 Shadowfeet Brooke Fraser SBME + 88697086352
9 9 2 What I've Done Linkin Park WEA/Warner 9362499701
10 reentry 2 Beautiful Liar Beyonce feat. Shakira SBME 88697091242

Chart compiled by Media Sauce Ltd.

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