Official New Zealand Music Chart 24 January 2011

"The Official New Zealand Top 40 will return to C4 in early February 2011"

Wednesday, January 26 2011
Six60's Five Month Rise
The fourth chart of 2011 sees the fourth different #1 single of the year. This week sees the very first local chart-topper, scored by Dunedin-formed five-piece Six60 whose Rise Up 2.0 ascends one spot to knock Britney Spears out of #1.

Matiu Walters, Eli Paewai, Ji Fraser, Marlon Oerbes and Chris Mac formed the band following a KORA concert in 2006 and collectively become just the second local act to debut, fall off the charts and then subsequently ascend to #1 upon re-entry.

The track debuted at #5 back in September last year and enjoyed an initial three-week run. By mid-December and the track was back, #26 hitting the Top 10 two weeks ago, and now it’s the biggest selling song in New Zealand. In all it’s taken 10 chart weeks (spread over a five-month period) to claim the penthouse.

Previously Deane Waretini’s The Bridge in 1981 was the only other song to arrive, leave and make #1 on its return. That tune was only off the list two weeks in its run.

Six60 also have the first local #1 single to be available in physical CD form since Atlas’ Crawl back in 2007.
The New Singles
#3 Adele - Rolling In The Deep
Twenty-two-year-old English singer-songwriter Adele Adkins won two Grammys in 2009 with her debut 19 album and its singles. Here she made little chart impact, but that’s due to change with her sophomore 21 album just out. It’s preceded by Adele’s debut hit single here with that album’s lead cut Rolling In The Deep crashing in at #3. The tune enters her native UK listings one spot higher at #2. She looks on the verge of scoring a chart-topping debut with 21 next week.

#17 Katy Perry - E.T.
Brit comic Russell Brand’s other half Katy Perry begins 2011 with the fifth hit featured on her sophomore album Teenage Dream (#6 this week) inking at #17. Three of the album’s singles topped the charts, however Circle The Drain dragged the chain somewhat slipping in for a lone frame at #36. E.T. is Perry’s 11th hit overall here.

#38 Brooke Fraser - Betty
Heading out in February on the More FM Winery Tour with OPSHOP and Midnight Youth, Brooke Fraser lifts the second hit from her third #1 set Flags (#3 this week). New at #38 Betty becomes her ninth hit single since her July 2003 #3 debut with Better. She claims two positions on this week's Singles Chart as her first chart-topper Something In The Water slips to #34.

The New Albums
#25 Jayson Norris - Freedom Twenty Eight
From Kaitaia to London to the New Zealand Charts comes Jayson Norris and his sophomore Freedom Twenty Eight release. It is his week’s highest new entry at #25 and his first chart entry. Singer-songwriter Norris is currently gigging around the country playing as part of Fly My Pretties summer tour prior to shows throughout the next few months.

#30 The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
Colin Meloy, Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee, Nate Query and John Moen are Portland Oregon-based indie folk rock band The Decemberists. Together since 2000 their debut chart appearance here is The King Is Dead, new at #30. They are just the third act featuring a calendar month in their name to date a place in our Albums chart, the other two being Augustino (One Day Out, #40 in 2003) and Blue October (Foiled, #40 in 2006).

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