Official NZ Music Chart & Chartbitz May 2 2007

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Chartbitz:

A Great Start To NZ Music Month
A pinch and a punch and a great start to the 7th Annual May New Zealand Music Month as the Kiwis come out to play, taking #1 slots and setting new records!
Both the Singles and Albums lists are headed by locals as Hayley Westenra’s Treasure and Atlas’ Crawl move back to the pole positions on the Albums and Singles lists for third and seventh weeks respectively.
This extends Hayley’s lead as the local having spent the most weeks at #1 to 28 weeks across her four albums. Those four albums see her as the most capped solo artist and in a tie with Split Enz as the local act with the most #1 albums.
Ben and Beth Campbell, Andy Lynch and Sean Cunningham are Atlas and as Crawl reigns supreme on the singles throne for a seventh non-consecutive week, they match the 2004 run of Idol Ben Lummis’s They Can’t Take That Away and also have the longest local group run at the top since 1987 and the eight-week run by Dave Dobbyn and Herbs with their Footrot Flats movie hook-up Slice Of Heaven.
Atlas move a point to #2 on the RadioScope100, just behind OpShop’s Maybe as that track becomes the 19th local airplay chart-topper.
Meanwhile former RadioScope100 #1, Shadowfeet by Brooke Fraser sits at #5 on that chart to give Kiwi artists three of the top five most played songs on our airwaves. Brooke is the chart champ when it comes to airplay, able to lay claim to a half dozen RadioScope100 #1s, the most by any local artist ahead of two #1s each by Bic Runga and Anika Moa.
Longevity-wise Fat Freddy’s Drop celebrate two consecutive years in the Albums Chart this week – that’s 104 weeks all up since it was certified gold on its first day of release back in 2005!
Based On A True Story is now 7 times platinum and spent 11 weeks in the lead spot. It also provided the boys with an airplay crown, Wandering Eye being one of the 19 local songs to top the RadioScope100.
And finally, the third NZ Idol Matt Saunoa racks up a 21st frame in the Singles Chart with the former #1 Hold On – making it the longest charting local Idol hit.
And May’s just beginning!

The New Singles
#4 Christina Aguilera - Candyman
Auckland’s Vector Arena hosts Christina Aguilera’s first and only gig, part of the Back To Basics tour. Candyman is the second hit lifted from her latest album and takes out highest new entry honours this week at #4. It follows the #5 Ain’t No Other Man and takes Christina’s hit tally to 15 since her 1999 #2 debut hit Genie In A Bottle. Eleven have gone Top 10, four peaking at #2 and four hitting the pop slot.

#12 Ne-Yo - Because Of You
The lead single and title track to Ne-Yo’s sophomore album Because Of You drops into the Singles survey at #12 and should follow his previous Top 10ers – So Sick (#2) and Sexy Love (#8) from his #35 album In My Own Words released last year.

#39 All American Rejects - It Ends Tonight
Oklahoma’s All American Rejects finally gain a New Zealand hit single as It Ends Tonight slides in at #39.

#40 Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder
LA quintet Adam Levine, James Valentine, Jesse Carmichael, Mickey Madden and Ryan Dusick sold a shade over 100,000 copies of their six-week #1 set Songs About Jane three years back in 2004. It yielded five hits, the biggest being the #4 This Love. Airplay drives the lead single Makes Me Wonder from their sophomore It Won’t Be Soon Before... to round out the Top 40 at #40. The new album drops in a couple of weeks with the retail single to follow.

The New Albums
#4 Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
It’s the biggest selling album in the UK so far this year. Favourite Worst Nightmare, the sophomore set for England’s Arctic Monkeys opens one point higher than the two- week #5 opening peak of their Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not debut just on 14 months back.

*#8 Bread - The Sound Of Bread
This is a record indeed. Not strictly a new entry, but a reentry of some note as The Sound Of Bread last graced our charts at the tail end of the 1970s when vinyl ruled. Among its 20 tracks, 11 have made an impact on our Singles Chart over the decades. Twenty-nine years after it first charted here the album has finally been repackaged on CD, allowing it to return at #8 this week. First time out, it charted for 33 weeks including four weeks at #2 – the highest placed of the band’s half dozen albums here (five of which have been greatest hits collections).

#20 Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Forty-two-year-old Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails rack up their fourth New Zealand hit album, new at #20. Back in 1994 Downward Spiral opened their chart account, rising to #23. Their biggest, With Teeth, hit #13 two years back. In terms of singles, 1999’s #15 The Day The World Went Away is their biggest hit to date.

#22 Sam Cooke - Portrait Of A Legend: 1951-1964
Some 43 years after his death, Mississippi-born, Chicago-raised soul singer Sam Cooke posthumously scores his first New Zealand Chart album, new at #22. Sam’s songs have been covered by numerous artists and he has influenced many. Sam was shot dead in an LA motel at the age of 33. Several of his songs have been hits for other acts: Cat Stevens (Another Saturday Night, #10 in 1974), Dr Hook (Only Sixteen, #9 in 1976) and Johnny Nash (What A Wonderful World, #17 in 1976), while Cupid has been a hit for both Tony Orlando & Dawn (#22 in 1976) and the Spinners (#7 in 1980).

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Top 40 Albums - Week To Sunday, 29 April 2007

This Last Weeks
Week Week In Title Artist Label

1 4 6 Treasure Hayley Westenra Universal
2 1 23 Konvicted Akon Universal
3 2 2 The Best Damn Thing Avril Lavigne SBME
4 new 1 Favourite Worst Nightmare Arctic Monkeys Domino/EMI
5 6 24 I'm Not Dead: Tour Edition Pink SBME
6 5 4 Because Of The Times Kings Of Leon SBME
7 10 12 Infinity On High Fall Out Boy Universal
8 new 34 The Sound Of Bread Bread WEA/Warner
9 3 2 Second Hand Planet OpShop Siren/EMI
10 15 33 FutureSex / LoveSounds Justin Timberlake SBME
11 32 2 Begin To Hope Regina Spektor WEA/Warner
12 7 35 Loose Nelly Furtado Universal
13 9 5 Rocket Man: The Definitive Hits Elton John Universal
14 11 21 Albertine Brooke Fraser SBME
15 12 4 Shock Value Timbaland Universal
16 8 50 Stadium Arcadium Red Hot Chili Peppers WEA/Warner
17 13 15 B'Day: Deluxe Edition Beyonce SBME
18 14 2 Grand National John Butler Trio Jarrah/EMI
19 17 9 Life In Cartoon Motion Mika Universal
20 new 1 Year Zero Nine Inch Nails Universal
21 16 6 Good Morning Revival Good Charlotte SBME
22 new 1 Portrait Of A Legend: 1951-1964 Sam Cooke Universal
23 19 4 The Very Best Of: 40th Anniversary The Doors Rhino/Warner
24 18 14 Back To Black Amy Winehouse Universal
25 23 42 Eyes Open Snow Patrol Universal
26 20 4 Young Modern silverchair Eleven/EMI
27 22 39 Real Life Evermore WEA/Warner
28 31 13 Not Too Late Norah Jones BlueNote/EMI
29 28 22 Extreme Behaviour Hinder Universal
30 26 5 A Beautiful Lie 30 Seconds To Mars Virgin/EMI
31 25 27 The Black Parade My Chemical Romance WEA/Warner
32 33 21 The Sweet Escape Gwen Stefani Universal
33 27 30 Sam's Town The Killers Universal
34 21 3 The Evolution Ciara SBME
35 40 11 Van At The Movies Van Morrison EMI
36 38 104 Based On A True Story Fat Freddy's Drop TheDrop/Rhythmethod
37 29 14 How To Save A Life The Fray SBME
38 reentry 10 Daughtry Daughtry SBME
39 34 23 18 Singles U2 Universal
40 37 24 The Road To Escondido JJ Cale And Eric Clapton WEA/Warner

Chart compiled by Media Sauce Ltd.

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