Official New Zealand Music Chart

Official New Zealand Music Chart

Won’t Stop Till They Get Enough

The momentum and New Zealand’s appetite for the music of Michael Jackson continues to grow.

This week’s chart sales period includes last Wednesday’s Memorial in Los Angeles, and the various CD, DVD and single track downloads sold see Michael move well over the equivalent of double platinum (30,000 units) in a little over three weeks. There has been nothing quite like it before in the history of the Official New Zealand Music Chart.

This week Number Ones moves to its namesake position on the Albums Chart, giving Jackson his sixth chart-topping set here. It took the album five years and eight months to make the summit, first charting in November 2003. In the process he replaces himself in the pole position with Thriller falling to #5.

Replacing himself at #1 is a feat he repeats on the DVD list, gaining his third #1 in as many weeks. Live In Bucharest replaces Number Ones at the head of that survey.

Over on the Singles Chart, Man In The Mirror becomes the first Jackson track to return to the Top 10, making it to #9. He still holds a quarter of the slots in this week’s Top40.

The Jackson presence on the Albums Chart is now more marked too, accounting for four of the Top10 positions, with three of those four making significant upward movements. And although the Visionary box set only lasted a single frame, three further Michael-associated collections return.

One set, The Very Best Of The Jacksons And The Jackson 5 containing the Motown singles and Michael’s initial solo outings along with The Jacksons’s later Epic material, re-enters at #18.

Rounding out his seven chart placings this week come two of his half dozen solo chart-toppers returning – HIStory: Past, Present And Future is at #29, while Dangerous drops in at #39.

It seems the demand for Michael Jackson’s music is a long way from being satisfied.

The New Single

#34 Eminem - Beautiful
Beautiful brings Eminem’s hit tally to 19 here and is his third of 2009, lifted from the #1 album Relapse (#14 this week). His previous hit We Made You meanwhile falls to #35 this week. It’s the sixth hit titled simply Beautiful to chart in New Zealand. The most recent was by Akon earlier in the year, while the biggest came from Christina Aguilera in 2003 when her take topped the chart.

The New Albums

#11 Tiki Taane - Flux
The BNZ pigs helped revive Tiki Taane’s #1 double-platinum Always On My Mind back into the Singles list (it’s currently #25 this time around, and was on top exactly a year ago). Now a complete remix of his Past, Present, Future solo debut gives him a second chart album as a solo artist and this week’s highest new entry at #11. Tiki’s now three gigs into a 23-date nationwide tour that continues until September.

#22 Hillsong - Faith + Hope + Love
Sydney’s Hillsong Church reaches double digits chartwise here with Faith + Hope + Love opening at #22. It follows May’s #21 a Cross//the_Earth: Tear Down The Walls and again features Brooke Ligertwood (better known locally by her maiden name, Brooke Fraser).

#31 Ashley Tisdale - Guilty Pleasure
Two years back the then-blonde High School Musical starlet Ashley Tisdale had a three-week run peaking at #22 with her Headstrong debut. Now brunette, her sophomore solo Guilty Pleasure opens at #31.

#40 Daughtry - Leave This Town
The sophomore effort of former American Idol finalist Chris Daughtry’s band Daughtry anchors the Albums Chart at #40. Lead single No Surprise meanwhile sits at #24 on the RadioScope100. The February 2007 self-titled debut Daughtry charted for 15 weeks over a seven-month period, peaking at #16 and yielding three hit singles.

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