Official NZ Music Chart & Chartbitz March 21 2007

Chartbitz:

The Race For #1
New local quartet Atlas become the first Kiwis to rack up a second week at #1 since October 2005, when second NZ Idol winner Rosita Vai made All I Ask a two-weeker. Both 2006 New Zealand #1s – Boyband’s You Really Got Me and third Idol Matt Saunoa were short stay penthouse dwellers, although Matt’s still charting and is #36 this week.
Crawl by Atlas is the 61st local #1 since the Official NZ Music Survey started in May 1975 (and the 80th since the first NZ Top 20 began in mid 1966).
It looks set to be a three-way race for chart-topping honours next week though as Atlas gun for a third appearance, up against newcomer Mika’s fast-rising Grace Kelly (up 29 places to #2 this week) and the on-form Justin Timberlake looking for a sophomore hat-trick from his Future Sex / Love Sounds album with What Goes Around.
All three have equally strong airplay, all currently rating inside the RadioScope100 Top 6 and sales to match. Who’s got the most momentum?

Six From One
It’s a rare feat to rack up five hit singles from the same album, but culling six is even more of a rarity. Take into account it’s the only six tracks a group has even released, all from your debut set, and you’ve made NZ Chart history.
That’s what happens this week as LA’s Pussycat Dolls team up with Timbaland and score the highest new entry with Wait A Minute. The track follows four #1s: Don’t Cha, Stickwitu, Beep and Buttons, and the slightly less successful I Don’t Need A Man (which peaked at #7).
The most successful debut album in producing hits here had been Canadian Alanis Morisette’s 1996 chart-topper Jagged Little Pill with five tracks. It now draws the girls into 2nd equal with Michael Jackson’s Thriller and Bruce Springsteen’s Born In The USA which have also both yielded a half dozen hits.
The man who shares 2nd spot also holds the top spot, in a tie with himself. Jacko racked up nine hits from his 1987 release Bad set and proved lightning sometimes does strike twice by repeating the feat with 1991’s Dangerous.

Unplugged Replugged
The band from Bakersfield, California, KoRn rack up their 11th New Zealand chart set since their 1996 #10 self-titled debut.
The only Albums new entry this week is fresh at #11 and returns the Unplugged franchise to the chart. KoRn’s MTV Unplugged is the 14th unplugged to register here, surpassing the #28 peak of the last one, Alicia Keys’ Unplugged from October 2005.
The first ever unplugged off the rank was veteran crooner Tony Bennett’s 1984 #23, with the majority since released owing their existence to MTV’s Unplugged TV show.
The biggest belongs to ‘Slowhand’ and recent Mission concert player Eric Clapton who spent 15 weeks at #1 with Unplugged in 1992 while Nirvana and Mariah Carey have also both had chart-toppers with the plug out.
There’s even been a compile, the Unplugged Collection, which peaked at #24 in 1995.
Other Unplugged charters have been Lauryn Hill, The Corrs, Arrested Development, Bob Dylan, Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Neil Young.

The New Singles
#24 The Pussycat Dolls featuring Timbaland - Wait A Minute
See story above.

#37 Mims - This Is Why I’m Hot
Former US #1 This Is Why I’m Hot gives the nearly-26-year-old (his birthday’s on Thursday) Manhattan-born Sean Mims his first New Zealand hit. He plays bass and raps, his parents are Jamaican and his debut album Music Is My Saviour drops in the next few weeks.

The New Albums
#11 KoRn - MTV Unplugged
See story above.

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Top 40 Albums - Week To Sunday, 18 March 2007

This Last Weeks
Week Week In Title Artist Label

1 1 6 Infinity On High Fall Out Boy Universal
2 5 15 Albertine Brooke Fraser SBME
3 2 29 Loose Nelly Furtado Universal
4 8 44 Stadium Arcadium Red Hot Chili Peppers WEA/Warner
5 4 3 Life In Cartoon Motion Mika Universal
6 6 27 FutureSex / LoveSounds Justin Timberlake SBME
7 3 36 Eyes Open Snow Patrol Universal
8 7 8 How To Save A Life The Fray SBME
9 10 8 Back To Black Amy Winehouse Universal
10 9 33 Real Life Evermore WEA/Warner
11 new 1 MTV Unplugged KoRn Virgin/EMI
12 13 7 Not Too Late Norah Jones BlueNote/EMI
13 11 5 Van At The Movies Van Morrison EMI
14 14 16 Extreme Behaviour Hinder Universal
15 16 21 The Black Parade My Chemical Romance WEA/Warner
16 15 18 The Road To Escondido JJ Cale And Eric Clapton WEA/Warner
17 12 18 Black Holes And Revelations Muse WEA/Warner
18 21 24 Sam's Town The Killers Universal
19 19 5 Daughtry Daughtry SBME
20 29 2 Dylanesque Bryan Ferry Virgin/EMI
21 22 17 18 Singles U2 Universal
22 26 15 The Sweet Escape Gwen Stefani Universal
23 18 8 Greatest Hits: The Atlantic Years POD WEA/Warner
24 25 98 Based On A True Story Fat Freddy's Drop TheDrop/Rhythmethod
25 17 5 Greatest Hits Crosby, Stills And Nash WEA/Warner
26 27 17 Konvicted Akon Universal
27 20 2 Neon Bible Arcade Fire Spunk/EMI
28 33 8 Don't You Fake It Red Jumpsuit Apparatus Virgin/EMI
29 28 2 Hannah Montana OST Various Disney/EMI
30 31 16 Inside In / Inside Out The Kooks Virgin/EMI
31 23 15 Boned! 12th Man EMI
32 24 19 Alright, Still Lily Allen Capitol/EMI
33 reentry 2 West Lucinda Williams Universal
34 34 11 Number Ones ABBA Universal
35 40 2 The Essential Alan Parsons Project Alan Parsons Project SBME
36 35 6 A Weekend In The City Bloc Party Wichita/Shock
37 30 5 The Singles: 1996-2006 Staind WEA/Warner
38 32 5 The Cheetah Girls 2 OST Various Disney/EMI
39 reentry 22 Undiscovered James Morrison Universal
40 reentry 34 Taking The Long Way Dixie Chicks SBME

Chart compiled by Media Sauce Ltd.

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