New Zealand Music Chart 29 June 2009

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Chartbitz:
Wednesday, July 1 2009
by Andrew Miller

The King Of Pop’s NZ HIStory
Born 29 August 1958 in Gary, Indiana, died 25 June 2009 Los Angeles, California.

Love him or hate him, Michael Joseph Jackson leaves behind a true musical legacy. From an early age he was entertaining and, thanks to Diana Ross and Berry Gordy, first came to fame with his brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine and Marlon as The Jackson 5.

In 1970 the brothers became the first act to have its first four singles top the American charts in a calendar year (with I Want You Back, ABC, The Love You Save and I’ll Be There).

This week his Godzone chart career clocks in at 36 years 10 months and 3 weeks with the remarkable re-inking of six singles and four albums. He last charted on the 22nd of August just under a year ago.

I Want You Back with the Jackson 5 began Michael’s New Zealand chart career in March 1970, peaking at #12. Later that year his first Top10 taste came with his brothers on the festive I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus making #3 in December.

Jacko’s solo debut happened two years later as the remake Rockin’ Robin reached #16 here in May 1972 and #2 in his US homeland. The follow-up, Ben, about a pet rat featuring in the movie of the same name gave him a US chart-topper and a #12 peak in New Zealand in 1973.

1973 saw the first of his two tours here, the Jackson 5 playing the Christchurch Town Hall soon after it opened in their only concert here.
It was after leaving Tamla Motown and signing with Epic that the hits really began for Jacko and his siblings here though.

Blame It On The Boogie in 1978 gave the brothers their biggest hit collectively here, now billed simply as The Jacksons as Motown still owned the Jackson 5 name. Selling platinum it peaked at #2.

Following his appearance in the The Wiz remake of The Wizard Of Oz with Diana Ross the floodgates for the newly turned 21 year-old Jackson opened. 1979 gave Michael the first of eight solo chart-toppers here. Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough spent a month on top, while its host album Off The Wall made #2 and became his first chart album.

January ’83 began the 83-week run of what’s credited as being the world’s biggest selling album ever! For 11 weeks Thriller ruled the top of our charts yielding five hit singles in the process including its only #1 here Beat It featuring the electric guitar of Eddie Van Halen.

There was a four-year gap until Bad, Jackson’s next studio album, which went to #1 in 1987, although surprisingly none of its tracks became #1 singles here. Both Bad and The Way You Make Me Feel came close reaching #2, and in all Bad contained no fewer than nine charting hits.

The 1990s proved to be Jackson’s decade here with six #1 singles and three further #1 albums taking his chart-topping album tally to five.

Along with his solo material, Jackson also recorded hits with other acts, most notably two Top10ers with Paul McCartney (The Girl Is Mine and Say, Say, Say), 1983’s Muscles with Diana Ross and older sister Rebbie’s Top 10er Centipede.

And of course many of his tunes have been covered. Weird Al Yankovic parodied Jacko twice and made the Top10 each time (Eat It and Fat). Alien Ant Farm’s Smooth Criminal made #4 in 2001.

Jackson is one of the top five artists of all time, here amassing a total 45 hit singles and 12 charting albums by himself. A further 12 hit singles and five album placings with his brothers boost this total. He made #1 on the Singles Chart eight times, 13 times Stateside and seven time in the UK.
Album wise he had five #1 albums here and in the US, with four in the UK.

He also made #2 five times and #3 four times on the Singles Chart.

And then there’s We Are The World. Michael and longtime producer Quincy Jones took the all-star charity tune concept pioneered by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure with Do They Know It’s Christmas? and came up with USA For Africa. We Are The World spent seven weeks at #1 here and was New Zealand’s biggest selling single of 1985.

Having already sold around one million units here Michael Jackson returns to our charts on three days’ sales this week and posthumously gains his first #1 DVD.

Michael Jackson’s New Zealand #1 Singles
1979 Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough (4 weeks)
1983 Beat It (5 weeks)
1991 Black Or White (5 weeks)
1992 Remember The Time (2 weeks)
1993 Give In To Me (4 weeks)
1995 Scream with Janet Jackson (4 weeks)
1995 You Are Not Alone (3 weeks)
1997 Blood On The Dance Floor (1 week)

Michael Jackson’s New Zealand #1 Albums
1983 Thriller (11 weeks)
1987 Bad (2 weeks)
1991 Dangerous (2 weeks)
1995 HIStory: Past, Present And Future (7 weeks)
1997 Blood On The Dance Floor (1 week)

Elsewhere…
The Black Eyed Peas land their fifth New Zealand #1 single I Gotta Feeling. December tourists Green Day ink their 16th hit 21 Days at #23, the sole brand new Singles entry of the week.

Isla Grant equals her highest peaking album Special To Me with her highest debut as Movin’ On drops in first week at #3. It brings her chart tally to six in all (five of which have been this year!).

Linkin Park’s New Divide leaps to #6 and takes the soundtrack to #1 Box Office hit Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen straight in to #10.

There are three more new Albums entries as well – Michael Buble scores a fourth with Meets Madison Square Garden at #22, English newcomers Gossip’s Music For Men bows at #28 while Pendulum rounds out the debutants at #32 with Live At Brixton Academy.

ENDS

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