Official NZ Music Chart & Chartbitz August 29 2007

Chartbitz:

The Kingston Trio
Sean Kingston looks to be the first major phenomena of the new digital regime here, chalking up three hits on this week’s Singles Chart – all of them on digital sales.
This is pretty much the type of pattern expected once the age of the download took hold, based on the consumers ability to buy an album bundle or cherry pick the tracks they want without having to wait for the record company to decide if or when to drip feed the next tune.
In the case of 17-year-old Sean, Beautiful Girl led out in much the way a traditional single might, gaining radio and television exposure alongside download sales, mainly to phones. Now the fans are looking for more.
Last week Me Love joined the list and this week makes the biggest Singles jump of the week, up 20 places to #9. And joining the Top40 also comes There's Nothin', a further cut from the album.
None of the songs are available physically outside of the album.

Live Shifters
Another week and another local act take out Albums highest new entry honours.
Last week Katchafire, this week Shapeshifter. Straight in at #6, which is particularly creditable for a live recording, comes the album recorded in their hometown Christchurch Town Hall at the end of September last year with Marc Taddei and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.
Shapeshifter Live opens two places lower than last year's #4 Soulstice but gives the band back-to-back Top 10 entries and their third chart set in total.

The New Singles
#33 Sean Kingston - There's Nothin'
See story above.

#35 Justin Timberlake - Summer Love
It may be winter outside but spring is just around the corner as Justin Timberlake's Summer Love drops in at #35, promising sun at the end of the rainy stuff. It's one of two hits this week lifted from his #4 sophomore solo Future Sex/Love Sounds which is into its 50th week on the Albums list, back up to #13. Justin's hit tally now stands at an even dozen.



The New Albums
#6 Shapeshifter - Shapeshifter Live
See story above.

#16 The Angels - Wasted Sleepless Nights
Aussie hard rockers The Angels began their New Zealand chart career a shade over 27 years back in July 1980 with The Dark Room. The last time they graced our list was nearly 13 years back when the best of, Evidence, brushed in for a week at #44. Now Wasted Sleepless Nights, a comp of all their hits and more, gives them their highest chart placing since Beyond Salvation hit #3 in 1990. Their hit tally for the band that featured former Citizen Band drummer Kiwi Brent Eccles is 10 albums and 7 singles.

#19 The Eagles - Complete Greatest Hits
The current Eagles line-up (Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B Schmit) have their first complete album of new material out late in October, but in the meantime the group who've charted more compilation and live sets than studio albums add another comp to the list. Complete Greatest Hits boasts digitally remastered versions of all the group's hits thus far and although originally released back in November 2003 it makes the chart for the very first time this week at #19 thanks to recent TV advertising in the lead-up to Father’s Day. It gives the group a dozen charted albums here, including two #1s. The Eagles' other New Zealand chart hit compiles are: Their Greatest Hits:1971-1975 (#2 in 1976), Greatest Hits Volume 2 (#2 in 1982), The Best Of The Eagles (#1 in 1995), The Very Best Of The Eagles (#3 in 1994) and then The Very Best Of The Eagles again (#9 2001 with a very similar but not identical album to the earlier version).

#39 TI - TI vs TIP
Tip was a childhood nickname, but when he signed to Arista Records he dropped the P to avoid confusion with Q-Tip – hence we find Clifford Joseph Harris Jr (aka TI) making his Album debut in New Zealand. The rapper who turns 27 on the 25th of next month has had a trio of hits on the Singles Chart. The 2005 #4 Soldier collaboration with Destiny's Child and Lil Wayne, last year's chart topping My Love with Justin Timberlake and the #7 Big Things Poppin' from TI vs TIP, still sitting at #12 this week.

#40 Annabel Fay - Annabel Fay
The daughter of expat merchant banker Michael Fay, 19-year-old Annabel Fay follows last December's #9 peaking single Lovin' You Baby with her self-titled debut set taking out the anchor position first week at #40. The album is out on Tracy Magan’s Siren label, home to OpShop and Goldenhorse.

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Top 40 Albums - Week To Sunday, 26 August 2007

This Last Weeks
Week Week In Title Artist Label/Dist

1 1 4 One Chance Paul Potts SBME
2 2 4 The King Elvis Presley SBME
3 4 11 The Traveling Wilburys Collection The Traveling Wilburys Rhino/Warner
4 3 2 High School Musical 2 OST High School Musical Cast Disney/EMI
5 6 4 Sean Kingston Sean Kingston SBME
6 new 1 Shapeshifter Live Shapeshifter Truetone/Rhythmethod
7 9 21 Shock Value Timbaland Universal
8 5 2 Say What You're Thinking Katchafire EMI
9 8 15 Minutes To Midnight Linkin Park WEA/Warner
10 7 5 The Police The Police Universal
11 11 17 The Dutchess Fergie Universal
12 10 41 I'm Not Dead: Tour Edition Pink SBME
13 18 50 FutureSex / LoveSounds Justin Timberlake SBME
14 13 12 Good Girl Gone Bad Rihanna Universal
15 12 13 Long Player Hollie Smith Soundsmith/EMI
16 new 1 Wasted Sleepless Nights The Angels Liberation/Universal
17 16 4 Untitled KoRn Virgin/EMI
18 15 38 The Sweet Escape Gwen Stefani Universal
19 new 1 Complete Greatest Hits The Eagles WEA/Warner
20 19 11 Epiphany T-Pain SBME
21 17 5 I'll Be Lightning Liam Finn Liberation/Universal
22 14 38 Albertine Brooke Fraser SBME
23 27 7 Zeitgeist Smashing Pumpkins WEA/Warner
24 20 10 Icky Thump The White Stripes XL/Rhythmethod
25 28 48 Greatest Hits Guns N Roses Universal
26 29 19 The Best Damn Thing Avril Lavigne SBME
27 24 8 Time On Earth Crowded House Parlophone/EMI
28 21 27 Back To Basics Christina Aguilera SBME
29 22 2 Headstrong Ashley Tisdale WEA/Warner
30 25 38 The Black Parade My Chemical Romance WEA/Warner
31 39 17 Call Me Irresponsible Michael Buble WEA/Warner
32 26 29 Infinity On High: Platinum Edition Fall Out Boy Universal
33 40 21 Treasure Hayley Westenra Universal
34 30 26 Life In Cartoon Motion Mika Universal
35 34 7 Coco Colbie Caillat Universal
36 35 14 It Won't Be Soon Before Long Maroon 5 Octone/Universal
37 reentry 14 Second Hand Planet OpShop Siren/EMI
38 23 9 Easy Tiger Ryan Adams LostHighway/Universal
39 new 1 TI vs TIP TI WEA/Warner
40 new 1 Annabel Fay Annabel Fay Siren/EMI

Chart compiled by Media Sauce Ltd.

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