Official NZ Top 40 & Chartbitz April 24 2006

Chartbitz:

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Nickel’s Back

You play to more than 100,000 Kiwis two nights over Easter and you score a #1 album. Which is exactly what Canadian band Nickelback have done, even if they were just the support act for the Rolling Stones!

All The Right Reasons has taken seven months to top the chart and becomes the quartet’s second New Zealand #1 Album, the first being the debut charting set Silver Side Up, which re-entered our chart at #1 on February 3, 2002.

The support gig and associated publicity were enough to tip the scales in Nickelback’s favour this week, but some major radio play has helped as well. The set’s lead single Photograph hit #1 on the RadioScope100 Airplay Chart, while the follow-up, Far Away peaked in the runners-up position. This week both Far Away and the latest track, Saving Me, are Top 10 on the airplay charts – at #6 and #7 respectively.

The Easter shows have been kind to the Stones as well. Forty Licks, their former hits #1, moves up to #6 and A Bigger Bang sits at #27.

Nesian’s Cool

Te Awanui 'Awa' Reeder (vocals), Feleti 'Sabre' Strickson-Pua (raps), Donald 'MC Old' McNulty (raps), Junior 'Gee' Rikiau (raps, drums), David 'Dmon Finguz' Atai (guitar, vocals) and Heath 'Notiq' (turntables) are Nesian Mystik – the local outfit that notch up a seventh Top 40 single this week.

If It’s Cool is taken from the forthcoming album and new at #38 this week.

The six-member group formed at Auckland’s Western Springs College in 1999 and went on to win two gongs at the 2003 New Zealand Music Awards for the multi-platinum #1 debut set Polysaturated. They were for Best Urban Album and the

'People's Choice' Award, and the guys also picked up the APRA Silver Scroll for songwriting, among numerous other awards.

The group’s sophomore set Freshmen drops next Monday – May 1, a fitting start to NZ Music Month. Nesian Mystik could well be headed for back-to-back chart-toppers too, which would really give the month a great kick start.

The group’s biggest hit single to date is 2002’s gold-certified #2 It's On.

The New Singles
#24 Fort Minor - Where’d You Go?
The Rising Tied, the debut set for Fort Minor charted last November, and now nearly six months later the project led by Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda gains its first hit single as Where’d You Go? (featuring Holly Brook and Jonah Matranga) takes highest new entry honours at #24.

#31 KoRn - Coming Undone
Next Monday night KoRn is live in concert at Auckland’s Supertop at Ericsson Stadium. As a lead-in, the second single from the platinum-selling former Top 10 album See You On The Other Side debuts at #31.

#37 Nickelback - Saving Me
See story above.

#38 Nesian Mystik - If It’s Cool
See story above.

The New Albums
#37 The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
American alt-rockers The Flaming Lips’ At War With The Mystics is the only brand new entry on this week’s Albums chart – featuring lead single The YeahYeahYeah Song.

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Top 10 Heatseekers - Week To Sunday, 23 April 2006

This Last Weeks
Week Week In Title Artist Label NZ Catalogue Cert

1 5 11 Wolfmother Wolfmother Modular/Universal MODCD036
2 2 12 Rappa Ternt Sanga T-Pain SBME 82876770432
3 reentry 2 Takk Sigur Ros Virgin/EMI 3372522
4 9 2 Be Here Keith Urban Capitol/EMI 3333522
5 1 2 Ringleader Of The Tormentors Morrissey Shock ATKCD016
6 7 6 Welcome To Jamrock Damian Marley Universal 9885125
7 3 3 Show Your Bones Yeah Yeah Yeahs Modular/Universal MODCD042
8 8 5 Greatest Songs Of The Fifties Barry Manilow SBME 82876745092
9 10 8 Awake At Dawn dDub Vunderchick/Border * VC001
10 6 3 3121 Prince Universal 9852072

Chart compiled by Media Sauce Ltd.

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