Holiday hits
Posted Wed 7 Jan 2009 1:45PM NZDT by Andrew Miller in Chartalec
Happy holidays and the peak-selling season are over.
Unit totals have fallen somewhat, but not for our Billy T James. "The Comic Genius Of Billy T James" makes it a fourth week as the best-selling album in New Zealand.
It's steady as she goes on the compilations and DVD lists as well. "Now 28" and Andre Rieu's "Live In Australia" respectively rule those charts.
Both of last week's new albums entries make impressive jumps in their second week. Movie soundtrack "Twilight" leaps 25 places to stand just outside the Top 10 at number 11.
Swede DJ Basshunter's "Now You're Gone" making a solid 17 place gain to number 16.
There're a couple weeks before release schedules are back to normal.
It's all steady on the singles front with Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" getting close to double figures at the lead of the Top 40.
It heads into a ninth frame in the penthouse with minimal movement reflecting the holiday mode of the market.
The biggest upward movement for a new track is the five point climb for Nesian Mystik's "Mr Mista" making it to number 11, and looking set to give them a ninth Top 10 hit next week.
But there's not a single new entry as last year's biggest seller "No Air" by Jordin Sparks with Chris Brown reappears in the anchor number 40 slot.
NY duo MGMT's "Electric Feel" also pops back in for a 20th time at number 39.
Two new entries make the first albums list of 2009.
As predicted last week 26-year old Virginian Jason Mraz places "We Dance, We Sing, We Steal Things" into the albums 40.
In fact, Jase takes out highest new entry honours at number 31. The set's success is being driven by lead single "I'm Yours". It spends a second frame as the most played song on the radio remaining number one on the Radioscope 100, and moves into the runners-up spot on the singles 40 as well.
It marks the second time a Mraz set has charted here and in a single week betters the number 35 peak of 2003's "Waiting For My Rocket To Come".
Third chart album for Akon, "Freedom" opens at number 36, featuring his 18th Singles chart appearance "Right Now (Na Na Na)". That cut holds at number five for a second time.
"Freedom" has big shoes to fill for the Senegalese-born singer. His debut "Trouble" opened at number 39 in 2005 before making number 2 in its seventh week on the survey.
It peaked at number two for three non-consecutive weeks in a 26-week chart run. Sophomore "Konvicted" (2006) set the benchmark however. Its first week was spent at number 15, and it went all the way to the top of the albums list for two weeks.
It did take 21 weeks to get there and stayed around for 40 weeks in all.
As a collaborator or by himself Akon has placed a third of his impressive 18 hits at the head of the survey in a career that started with P-Money on "Keep On Callin' "(number 23 in 2005).
The full Akon number one list is: 2005 - "Lonely" and "Moonshine" (with Savage), 2006 "Smack That" (with Eminem), 2007 "Don't Matter", "The Sweet Escape" (with Gwen Stefani) and "Bartender" (with T-Pain).
Unit totals have fallen somewhat, but not for our Billy T James. "The Comic Genius Of Billy T James" makes it a fourth week as the best-selling album in New Zealand.
It's steady as she goes on the compilations and DVD lists as well. "Now 28" and Andre Rieu's "Live In Australia" respectively rule those charts.
Both of last week's new albums entries make impressive jumps in their second week. Movie soundtrack "Twilight" leaps 25 places to stand just outside the Top 10 at number 11.
Swede DJ Basshunter's "Now You're Gone" making a solid 17 place gain to number 16.
There're a couple weeks before release schedules are back to normal.
It's all steady on the singles front with Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" getting close to double figures at the lead of the Top 40.
It heads into a ninth frame in the penthouse with minimal movement reflecting the holiday mode of the market.
The biggest upward movement for a new track is the five point climb for Nesian Mystik's "Mr Mista" making it to number 11, and looking set to give them a ninth Top 10 hit next week.
But there's not a single new entry as last year's biggest seller "No Air" by Jordin Sparks with Chris Brown reappears in the anchor number 40 slot.
NY duo MGMT's "Electric Feel" also pops back in for a 20th time at number 39.
Two new entries make the first albums list of 2009.
As predicted last week 26-year old Virginian Jason Mraz places "We Dance, We Sing, We Steal Things" into the albums 40.
In fact, Jase takes out highest new entry honours at number 31. The set's success is being driven by lead single "I'm Yours". It spends a second frame as the most played song on the radio remaining number one on the Radioscope 100, and moves into the runners-up spot on the singles 40 as well.
It marks the second time a Mraz set has charted here and in a single week betters the number 35 peak of 2003's "Waiting For My Rocket To Come".
Third chart album for Akon, "Freedom" opens at number 36, featuring his 18th Singles chart appearance "Right Now (Na Na Na)". That cut holds at number five for a second time.
"Freedom" has big shoes to fill for the Senegalese-born singer. His debut "Trouble" opened at number 39 in 2005 before making number 2 in its seventh week on the survey.
It peaked at number two for three non-consecutive weeks in a 26-week chart run. Sophomore "Konvicted" (2006) set the benchmark however. Its first week was spent at number 15, and it went all the way to the top of the albums list for two weeks.
It did take 21 weeks to get there and stayed around for 40 weeks in all.
As a collaborator or by himself Akon has placed a third of his impressive 18 hits at the head of the survey in a career that started with P-Money on "Keep On Callin' "(number 23 in 2005).
The full Akon number one list is: 2005 - "Lonely" and "Moonshine" (with Savage), 2006 "Smack That" (with Eminem), 2007 "Don't Matter", "The Sweet Escape" (with Gwen Stefani) and "Bartender" (with T-Pain).
