Official NZ Music Chart & Chartbitz March 14 2007

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The Kiwi Class Of ‘07
It looked like things were drying up locally on the Official New Zealand Top 40 Singles Chart for a while there - but that’s all changed! Newcomers Atlas lead the charge by claiming the top slot with their debut Crawl and are joined by new entries from OpShop, Evermore and Brooke Fraser to give New Zealand acts 20% of the Singles Chart this week.
Atlas are Ben and Beth Campbell, Andy Lynch and Sean Cunningham and they have the country’s #1 song - the first local chart-topper of 2007 and the first since NZ Idol winner Matt Saunoa’s Hold Out (#33 this week) debuted in the pole position in November last year. It gives former Zed-ers Ben and Andy their first taste of a #1 single.
OpShop claim the week’s highest new entry and their biggest hit to date as Maybe debuts at #18 (another local Maybe made it to #12 in 1981, that one by Sharon O’Neill). OpShop have had two previous chart hits, both taken from their 2004 debut You Are Here - No Ordinary Thing (#22) and Saturated (#39).
The Hume brothers nab the third straight hit from their #5 Real Life set as Unbreakable enters at #28 and is their fourth hit in total, following up their Oz #1 Light Surrounding You (#35 here this week)
World Vision spokes person Brooke Fraser lands her seventh hit and the second from her sophomore Albertine, which celebrates its 14th week in the Albums Top 5. Shadowfeet is new at #39, while its predecessor Deciphering Me remains at #30.

Ferry, Dylan And Parsons
Roxy Music look set to join the reunion bandwagon shortly but first lead singer Bryan Ferry returns to the New Zealand Albums list as his Bob Dylan tribute Dylanesque drops in at #29.
It gives the 61-year-old a chart span of 31 years, 11 months and 2 weeks since Another Time, Another Place spent a solitary week at #39 on the very first NZ Albums Chart in May 1975. Now Dylanesque gives him his 14th.
Three are co-credited with Roxy Music. In fact, Bryan’s biggest hit, the 1986 #1 Street Life, was one of them.
Alan Parsons has a career stretching back 40 years. He engineered The Beatles’ Abbey Road and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon, and put together The Alan Parsons Project in the mid ‘70s.
Just short of Mr Ferry, Alan’s chart span comes in at 30 years 6 months and 7 days since Tales Of Mystery And Imagination hit the chart in September 1976, right up to this week’s #40 debut for The Essential Alan Parsons Project.
Tales peaked at #7 but the 1977 # 2 I Robot remains the highest charting of the Project’s 11 hit albums to date. Essential is the second hits collection following on from 1983’s #20 The Best Of The Alan Parsons Project. Lyrics and vocals are handled by Eric Woolfson. Eye In The Sky (#6 in 1982) remains the combo’s sole Top 10 single.

The New Singles
#18 OpShop - Maybe
See story above.

#20 Good Charlotte - Keep Your Hands Off My Girl
Good Charlotte kick off the release of Good Morning Revival next week with lead single Keep Your Hands Off My Girl, new at #20. It’s their first hit in two years following their biggest hit here I Just Wanna Live which made #6 two year back in 2005. It brings their tally to seven hits since September 2001’s #28 The Motivation Proclamation.

#28 Evermore - Unbreakable
See story above.

#36 silverchair - Straight Lines
At the ripe old ages of 27 Australians Daniel Johns, Chris Joannou and Ben Gilles return to the NZ Singles list for the first time in five years landing at #36 with Straight Lines, the lead single from the forthcoming Young Modern, their fourth studio album. It all began in January 1995 when their debut song Tomorrow spent three weeks at #1 and its parent album Frogstomp hit #2 when the lads were just 14.

#39 Brooke Fraser - Shadowfeet
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The New Albums
#20 Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Canadian-based husband and wife Win Butler and Regine Chassagne are the nucleus of Arcade Fire who claim the Albums chart highest new entry at #20 with their sophomore Neon Bible. The set was recorded in a church just outside Montreal. The group’s critically acclaimed Funeral debut album came out two years back but didn’t chart here.

#28 Original Soundtrack - Hannah Montana
Fifteen years back Billy Ray Cyrus’s Achey Breaky Heart spent six weeks at #1 with the help of line dancers everywhere. Now Billy’s back playing a Dad in Disney’s Hannah Montana movie. Only it’s Billy playing support to his real life daughter Miley Cyrus. Now Miley, whose character is also named Miley, plays a teenager with a double life, one normal and one pop star Hannah Montana. The soundtrack features eight songs sung by Miley along with a duet with Dad Billy.

#29 Bryan Ferry - Dylanesque
See story above.

#38 Grinderman - Grinderman
Australian Nick Cave turns 50 in September and the self-titled first album by his new outfit Grinderman is new at #38. Nick’s joined on the set by fellow Bad Seeds Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos. It gives Grinderman their first chart set and follows Nick’s seven New Zealand chart sets, starting with 1992’s #47 Henry’s Dream, the biggest being 1997’s #4 The Boatman’s Call.

#40 Alan Parsons Project - The Essential Alan Parsons Project
See story above.

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Top 40 Albums - Week To Sunday, 11 March 2007

This Last Weeks
Week Week In Title Artist Label

1 1 5 Infinity On High Fall Out Boy Universal
2 3 28 Loose Nelly Furtado Universal
3 2 35 Eyes Open Snow Patrol Universal
4 10 2 Life In Cartoon Motion Mika Universal
5 5 14 Albertine Brooke Fraser SBME
6 7 26 FutureSex / LoveSounds Justin Timberlake SBME
7 4 7 How To Save A Life The Fray SBME
8 14 43 Stadium Arcadium Red Hot Chili Peppers WEA/Warner
9 23 32 Real Life Evermore WEA/Warner
10 16 7 Back To Black Amy Winehouse Universal
11 11 4 Van At The Movies Van Morrison EMI
12 15 17 Black Holes And Revelations Muse WEA/Warner
13 8 6 Not Too Late Norah Jones BlueNote/EMI
14 13 15 Extreme Behaviour Hinder Universal
15 9 17 The Road To Escondido JJ Cale And Eric Clapton WEA/Warner
16 12 20 The Black Parade My Chemical Romance WEA/Warner
17 6 4 Greatest Hits Crosby, Stills And Nash WEA/Warner
18 18 7 Greatest Hits: The Atlantic Years POD WEA/Warner
19 19 4 Daughtry Daughtry SBME
20 new 1 Neon Bible Arcade Fire Spunk/EMI
21 20 23 Sam's Town The Killers Universal
22 21 16 18 Singles U2 Universal
23 17 14 Boned! 12th Man EMI
24 28 18 Alright, Still Lily Allen Capitol/EMI
25 31 97 Based On A True Story Fat Freddy's Drop TheDrop/Rhythmethod
26 27 14 The Sweet Escape Gwen Stefani Universal
27 33 16 Konvicted Akon Universal
28 new 1 Hannah Montana OST Various Disney/EMI
29 new 1 Dylanesque Bryan Ferry Virgin/EMI
30 22 4 The Singles: 1996-2006 Staind WEA/Warner
31 34 15 Inside In / Inside Out The Kooks Virgin/EMI
32 36 4 The Cheetah Girls 2 OST Various Disney/EMI
33 29 7 Don't You Fake It Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Virgin/EMI
34 24 10 Number Ones ABBA Universal
35 25 5 A Weekend In The City Bloc Party Wichita/Shock
36 38 8 Empire Kasabian SBME
37 26 3 The Confessions Tour Madonna WEA/Warner
38 new 1 Grinderman Grinderman Mute/EMI
39 30 14 Eminem Presents The Re-Up Eminem Universal
40 new 1 The Essential Alan Parsons Project Alan Parsons Project SBME

Chart compiled by Media Sauce Ltd.

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