Official New Zealand Music Chart 28 March 2011
Official New Zealand Music Chart 28 March 2011
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Chartbitz:
Wednesday, March 30 2011
by
Andrew Miller
Songs For Japan
In a first
for the Compilations Chart, and any of the longer format
surveys in fact, Songs For Japan, a 38-track
collection jointly issued by Universal and Sony, goes to #1
purely on digital sales.
Currently exclusive to iTunes,
the set takes the compilations penthouse suite this week.
There’s a 2CD physical issue due early April with proceeds
from the sales of both versions going toward the earthquake
recovery in Japan.
Hawaiian Reggae
Returns
Hailing from Honolulu, capital of the 50th
state, Roman, Noah, Jasmine, Jordan, Warren, Ko and Luke are
Kolohe Kai. The reggae act has just wrapped a
six-date week-long North Island tour and in its wake their
sophomore Love Town album rebounds into the chart
garnering an impressive #3 placing.
Its initial one-week
run was two weeks ago with a solitary week at #31 thanks to
digital sales. Now the physical CD is on sale and the jump
to #3 this week gives the group two simultaneously charting
albums as their 2009 debut This Is The Life inches back up
to #19 in its 10th week.
The band’s initial local
exposure was primarily via airplay on local iwi radio
stations.
The New Singles
#17 Snoop
Dogg vs David Guetta - Sweat
Cali rapper + French
producer = hit. Sweat, teaming Snoop Dogg and David
Guetta new at #17, notches 24 hits for Snoop and eight for
Guetta. Inner Circle leads the perspiration survey as their
Sweat (A La La La La Long) is the sole transudation
tune to top the survey, which it did for four consecutive
frames in 1992.
#25 Selena Gomez & the
Scene - Who Says?
Disney Diva Selena Gomez and her
group The Scene drop a second hit, Who Says? new at
#25. It’s from their forthcoming third album.
#39 Lupe Fiasco - The Show Goes On
In the
wake of charting his #11 Lazers set (it drops out
this week) American Lupe Fiasco lands his second New Zealand
hit and first as lead act. The Show Goes On is in at
#39. Teaming with Kanye West he reached #16 with Touch
The Sky five years back.
The New
Albums
#5 Green Day - Awesome As F**k
The
rather modest Californian trio Green Day (Billie Joe
Armstrong, Mike Dimt and Tre Cool) total 16 hit singles and
now nine hit albums here since 1994. Two sets topped the
list, Dookie their first and 21st Century
Breakdown their most recent two years back. The highest
new album of the week at #5 this week is Awesome As
F**k, their second live set among their tally. Bullet
In A Bible six years ago is the other, also peaking at
#5.
#6 The Strokes - Angles
After a
five-year hiatus, New York band The Strokes return equaling
the entry and high point of previous chart set Room On
Fire, new at #6. Angles opens on top in Oz and at
#3 in the UK. It gives the band four from four chart albums
here since their 2001 debut. It’s rumoured that The
Strokes are already set to commence recording the
Angles follow-up in April.
#8 Chris
Brown - F.A.M.E.
Chris Brown turns 22 in May and
makes his fourth Albums Chart appearance and very first
Top10 entry point at #8 with F.A.M.E (which stands
for Fans Are My Everything or Forgiving All My Enemies,
depending which reference you read). It peaks 32 places
higher than his last album Graffiti 15 months ago.
And it matches the high mark of 2007’s Exclusive
with his eponymous debut the biggest thus far making #3.
Singles-wise he rates six chart-toppers among his tally of
18.
#10 Shapeshifter - System
Remix
Shapeshifter are one of the acts confirmed for
the Free Chch Show on April 15. The acts are confirmed but
the council have yet to be convinced so all that’s
required is venue. In the meantime the Chch drum n bass
outfit revisit their #1 The System Is A Vampire with
a fifth chart entry and fourth straight Top10er at #10.
Nick, Sam, P Digsss, Devin and Johny are currently taking a
break prior to UK dates in May.
#14 Adam
Lambert - Glam Nation Live
Being American Idol
runner-up is no hurdle to Adam Lambert who scores a second
hit album, Glam Nation, at #14. Previous charter
#5 For Your Entertainment was around nearly a year
and provided five hit singles.
#21 Panic!
At The Disco - Vices And Virtues
Emo faves Panic! At
The Disco end a three-year absence to log a third hit album
in Vices And Virtues at #21. What was formerly a
group is now a duo – only Spencer Smith and Brendon Urie
remain.
#40 Shane - Full
Circle
It’s a shade less than 29 years since Shane
Hale last charted, Starting Out All Over Again making
#39 in December 1982. Best remembered for the 1969 Loxene
Gold Disc smash St Paul, the veteran local act who
has never stopped gigging finally inks an Albums Chart entry
at #40 with the aptly titled Full
Circle.
ENDS