Official NZ Music Chart & Chartbitz June 6 2007

Chartbitz:

A Week Into Digital
Here we are a week into the new-look Singles Chart and if you were expecting a raft of changes similar to last week's inaugural digital-inclusive survey you'll be disappointed.
There are just two changes as the dust settles after the methodology revamp. Rihanna makes the major leap, all the way to the top, with a winning mix of all three chart components (digital sales, physical sales and airplay).
This week, nine tracks in the list are only available by download. Last week's highest new entry, Buy You a Drank (Shawty Snappin') by T-Pain, holds in the runner-up spot but is now available as a CD single as well.
The big digital winners are Bone Thugs N Harmony whose I Tried track speeds 11 places to #4 without the aid of a physical single. The sales activity on the track has also helped Strength And Loyalty back into the Albums survey at #40.

Hollie's #1 Player
It may come as no surprise that Hollie Smith outsells all-comers and takes top Albums honours out of the box with Long Player in its first week of release.
2006 was a good year for the North Shore-raised, Wellington-based R&B singer. An independently released gold-selling EP, which peaked at #18 during a 19-week run on the Singles Chart, and then there was that movie song.
Last year's biggest-selling local single, the Don McGlashan-penned #2 Bathe In The River (from the No.2 movie soundtrack), was a big hit and now extends its chart run by another week as it returns to the Singles list at #35.
The Mt Raskil Preservation Society song, featuring Hollie on lead vocals, isn't on her album, which seems to have prompted fans to download it separately and push it back into the spotlight.
2007's shaping up to be bigger for Hollie as her struggles to get the debut album out are vindicated by an immediate sales impact. The record is already gold (7500 sales) and well on the way to platinum. The songstress has her freshly inked deal with Blue Note Records in the US to think about now, with her first album under that deal due in 2008.

Rihanna’s Umbrella
A super combo of digital sales, physical sales and airplay send Barbados-born Rihanna hurtling 32 places from #33 last week to the penthouse on the Singles Chart.
Umbrella is the cut that has given the now 18-year-old her second Kiwi chart-topper and augers well for her third long player, Nice Girl Gone Bad, which has just hit stores. The track is #3 on the RadioScope100 this week as well.
Ms ‘Robyn Rihanna Fenty’ hit paydirt first time out with Pon De Replay two years back, the cut spending one week on top.
Now with a half dozen Top 10 hits, her latest is shaping up to be the biggest worldwide. It's also #1 in the US, UK and Ireland and opens on top across the ditch this week as well.

The New Singles
#29 Kelly Clarkson - Never Again
We never saw the first American Idol series, but thanks to Breakaway (featured in Disney's The Princess Bride 2) and a good deal of radio play, Kelly Clarkson opened her hit account here 33 months back, eventually reaching #12 with that song. Her sophomore release took the same title as Kelly's breakthrough single, charting a week shy of a full year and peaking at #5. Five was also the number of hits culled from Breakaway as well. Besides the title track there was Since U Been Gone (#11), Behind These Hazel Eyes (#7), Because Of You (#19) and Walk Away (#19). Her third set, My December, is due late June.

The New Albums
#1 Hollie Smith - Long Player
See story above.

#34 Lucid 3 - Dawn Planes
Taranaki's given us Midge Marsden, Sticky Filth and more recently, Victoria Girling-Butcher. Third time out, and now signed with EMI she along with Marcus Lawson and Derek Metivier, gain their first hit album as Lucid 3. Dawn Planes is the second Kiwi new entry of the week, in at #34. The trio first got together in Auckland back in 1999 with the latest set taking shape over the past two years.

#38 The Used - Lies For The Liars
The Used have never made the New Zealand Albums chart until now. It's taken five years since their self-titled debut, but now their third studio release Lies For The Liars gives the Utah band a chart debut at #38. The album entered their native US survey at #5 last week.

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Top 40 Albums - Week To Sunday, 3 June 2007

This Last Weeks
Week Week In Title Artist Label

1 new 1 Long Player Hollie Smith Soundsmith/EMI
2 1 3 Minutes To Midnight Linkin Park WEA/Warner
3 3 29 I'm Not Dead: Tour Edition Pink SBME
4 6 15 Back To Basics Christina Aguilera SBME
5 5 28 Konvicted Akon Universal
6 2 2 It Won't Be Soon Before Long Maroon 5 Octone/Universal
7 4 11 Treasure Hayley Westenra Universal
8 7 7 The Best Damn Thing Avril Lavigne SBME
9 10 2 Black Rain Ozzy Osbourne SBME
10 9 9 Because Of The Times Kings Of Leon SBME
11 13 26 Albertine Brooke Fraser SBME
12 11 5 Call Me Irresponsible Michael Buble WEA/Warner
13 8 6 Portrait Of A Legend: 1951-1964 Sam Cooke Universal
14 20 5 Reach Out: The Motown Record Human Nature SBME
15 12 40 Loose Nelly Furtado Universal
16 16 17 Infinity On High Fall Out Boy Universal
17 19 38 FutureSex / LoveSounds Justin Timberlake SBME
18 15 7 Second Hand Planet OpShop Siren/EMI
19 23 14 Life In Cartoon Motion Mika Universal
20 17 39 The Sound Of Bread Bread WEA/Warner
21 33 36 Greatest Hits Guns N Roses Universal
22 21 20 B'Day: Deluxe Edition Beyonce SBME
23 14 2 On A Clear Night Missy Higgins Virgin/EMI
24 18 7 Begin To Hope Regina Spektor WEA/Warner
25 26 19 Back To Black Amy Winehouse Universal
26 27 9 Shock Value Timbaland Universal
27 25 2 So Real: The Songs Of Jeff Buckley Jeff Buckley SBME
28 22 10 A Beautiful Lie 30 Seconds To Mars Virgin/EMI
29 31 26 The Sweet Escape Gwen Stefani Universal
30 reentry 14 Van At The Movies Van Morrison EMI
31 24 4 Soundboy Rock Groove Armada SBME
32 reentry 105 Based On A True Story Fat Freddy's Drop TheDrop/Rhythmethod
33 29 6 Favourite Worst Nightmare Arctic Monkeys Domino/EMI
34 new 1 Dawn Planes Lucid 3 Lupin/EMI
35 38 7 Grand National John Butler Trio Jarrah/EMI
36 reentry 24 Black Holes And Revelations Muse WEA/Warner
37 28 44 Real Life Evermore WEA/Warner
38 new 1 Lies For The Liars The Used WEA/Warner
39 30 11 Good Morning Revival Good Charlotte SBME
40 reentry 3 Strength And Loyalty Bone Thugs N Harmony Universal

Chart compiled by Media Sauce Ltd.

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