Official New Zealand Music Chart 17 August 2009

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Chartbitz:
Wednesday, August 19 2009
by Andrew Miller

Doubling The Triple
Black Eyed Peas prove that last week’s triple crown was no one-off. In fact, such is their lead on the Albums, Singles and Airplay charts that they look set to ‘threepeat’ it next week.
I Gotta Feeling holds the Singles Chart summit for a ninth frame and a second heading airplay on the RadioScope100 while The E.N.D. cements the Albums apex for a second time. The band is due here in just under eight weeks for a Vector Arena performance.

Elsewhere
Michael Jackson continues his reign over the DVD list. The King Of Pop holds the top two spots for a seventh time, comfortably outselling the rest of the list with Live In Bucharest and Number Ones respectively. Both sets hold at #1 and #2 for six straight frames.

Pearl Jam fever comes ahead of ticket sales for their dual November gigs. Their Rearview Mirror compile bounces back into the Albums Top 10 at #7 after a four-year, four-month absence. And veteran charter Roger Whittaker returns to the upper levels of that list as Greatest Hits: The Golden Age bounds 11 spots to #8. It’s been 28 years since he’s done it.
And just who will replace the Black Eyed Peas on the Singles throne is anyone’s guess. Last week’s gainers all drop back while Cobra Starship’s Good Girls Go Bad to return to runners-up slot. Beyonce makes a play for her fourth #1 crown though. Sweet Dreams leaps 18 places to third. Of Ms Knowles’s previous crowns, only 2006’s Check On It has lasted longer than a solitary week. It made two weeks on top.

The New Singles
#21 La Roux - Bulletproof
Former UK #1 Bulletproof gives English duo La Roux highest new entry honours this week. Singer Elly Jackson and producer Ben Langmaid have been together around three years. Their self-titled former UK #1 debut album La Roux joins the Albums Chart at #33.

#39 Shakira - She Wolf
The last hit here for Shakira was the chart-topping collaboration Beautiful Liar supporting Beyonce two years back. The 32 year-old Colombian returns with She Wolf at #39. In all, Ms Ripoli’s landed seven hits here including three #1s.

The New Albums
#10 Demi Lovato - Here We Go Again
Former US #1 album Here We Go Again, the sophomore issue for Camp Rock star Demi Lovato, opens Top 10 at #10 here for the Disney star. The set’s title track is the lead single. Demetria turns 17 on Thursday and reprises her Mitchie Torres role in Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam due next year.

#12 Willie Nelson - American Classic
Seventy-six-year-old Willie Nelson is the oldest act on this week’s Albums chart. (Roger Whittaker’s only 73!) Willie was one of the pioneers of the standards-cover type albums. His Stardust album led the genre to give Nelson a four-week, quadruple platinum chart start here in 1979. In the past 30 years he’s landed nine charters. The latest, American Classic, is another standards-inspired effort. Last year was his most prolific chart year here with two of his total tally charting. Legend: The Best Of returned him to the Top 10 at #3, while his Two Men With The Blues Wynton Marsalis hook-up made #13.

#33 La Roux - La Roux
See above.

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