Michael Buble “To Be Loved” has remained for a fifth week at No.1 in Australia.
Michael Buble To Be Loved
This puts the album on par with “Call Me Irresponsible” as his equal third longest run at the top here, but with the new Daft Punk album out this week, it could knock him off the top spot next week.
This week in 1999 (May 17th) Ricky Martin scored his first (and only) No.1 album here in Australia with his self-titled fifth album (which featured “Livin’ La Vida Loca”). He had previously climbed to No.2 with his first chart entry here “Vuelve” (peaked mid-June 1998 for three weeks), and this week he scores his second No.2 album as his “Greatest Hits” collection is up two places to No.2, helped by his judging on The Voice, Mothers Day and his appearances around the countries shopping centers for signings and CD selling.
Landing her highest charting solo album in Australia, and her first Top 10 entry, is former ABBA lead singer Agnetha Faltskog who debuts at No.3 with her album “A”. She has previously charted three of her album here before, with her first post-ABBA set “Wrap Your Arms Around Me” making it to No.49 in early October of 1983. Five years later she charted again with “I Stand Alone” (HP-96, June 1988), but her next entry (and album) was not until May 2004 when her covers album “My Colouring Book” debuted and peaked at No.50. The recent promotion of her new album also brought back two ABBA collections last week, and this week “18 Hits” is up one place to No.41 and “Abba Gold” is down twenty places to No.65.
The fifth film by Australian director Baz Luhrmann is “The Great Gatsby” remake, which sees its soundtrack debut at No.4 this week. Featuring music from current stars doing 1920’s infused songs, the soundtrack features such acts as Jay-Z, Beyonce, Amy Winehouse, Will.i.am, Andre 3000, Lana Del Rey, Bryan Ferry, Florence + the Machine, Emeli Sande, The XX, Gotye and Jack White. Lead single “Young and Beautiful” (HP-37) by Lana Del Rey is at No.50 this week. All of the previous charting soundtracks for Baz are listed below, and its worth noting that they all debuted high and reached their peaks within two or three weeks, so with the film opening at the end of May, the soundtrack could be No.1 in early June (BTW: His fourth film “Australia” did not chart a soundtrack).
Entry Date|HP|WI|Titles
30-Aug-92|6|29|Strictly Ballroom (two weeks at No.6)
12-Jan-97|1|73|Romeo + Juliet (9 broken weeks at No.1)
18-May-97|2|23|Romeo + Juliet Volume 2
21-May-01|1|58|Moulin Rouge (11 weeks at No.1)
08-Apr-02|18|9|Moulin Rouge Volume 2
20-May-13|4|1*|The Great Gatsby
Bruno Mars drops two places to No.5 with “Unorthodox Jukebox” whilst Pink is down one place to No.6 with “The Truth About Love”. Vampire Weekend debut at No.7 with their third album “Modern Vampires of the City”, becoming their third Top 40 album and second Top 10, as their January 2010 second album “Contra” debuted and peaked at No.2. Talking of debuts, last weeks three Top 10 entries still hold within this week’s Top 10, with “Golden” by Lady Antebellum stable at its entry position of No.8, whilst “Time” by Rod Stewart is down three places to No.6 and “Home” by Rudimental suffers an eight place drop from its debut of No.2 to No.10 this week.
NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: With Mothers Day falling over two chart weeks, some more rises from mum-inspired music this week, with Andre Rieu moving up five places to a new peak of No.16 with “Mother & Child”, and helped by their tour and then the unfortunate hospitalization of Judith Durham, The Seekers “Golden Jubilee Album” is back up to No.17 this week. Bon Jovi’s tour for later in the year helps their two currently charting albums back up again this week, “What About Now” up a couple of spots to No.27, and their “Greatest Hits” set jumps back up twelve places to No.28. Olly Murs yo-yo’s again with his third album “Right Place Right Time”, it’s up thirty places to No.31 this week, and the “Greatest Hits… So Far” for Pink is back up seven spots to No.36. Josh Groban is up nine places to No.43 with “All That Echoes” and jumping back up twenty-four places to No.44 is the self-titled album for Birdy.
DOWN DOWN: After nine broken weeks inside the Top 10 (one week initially, then eight recently) Passenger sees his “All the Little Lights” album drop a couple of places to No.11 this week, whilst after two weeks inside the ten, Jason Owen is down five spots to No.12 with “Life is a Highway”, whilst another former Voice S1 contestant Rachael Leahcar drops from No.10 to No.15 with “Romantique”, having spent a single week inside the Top 10.
“Flume” by Flume falls eight spots to No.20, and also down eight places are Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with “The Heist”, and Russell Morris’ “Sharkmouth” to No.23 and No.26 respectively this week. Paramore’s self-titled album drops eleven places to No.33, and The Steve Miller Band’s “Complete Greatest Hits” falls thirteen places to No.37. “#WillPower” for Will.i.am falls to No.40 and Anthony Callea’s “Thirty” tumbles nineteen places to No.45.
ShockOne debuted at No.2 three weeks ago, now their “Universus” album is down thirty-one places to No.56 this week, whilst Fall Out Boy can’t “Save Rock and Roll”, as that album drops twenty-five places to No.71 after five weeks in the Top 100. After leaping back up last week to No.36, “Lonerism” for Tame Impala falls back thirty-seven places to No.73 this week, and down forty places to No.93 is She & Him with “Volume 3”. Falling out of the Top 100 from last weeks Top 50 debuts are Yiruma with “The Best – Reminiscent” from No.31 and Kenny Chesney with “Life on a Rock” from No.47.
Demi Lovato debuts at No.14 with her fourth album (third to chart here) entitled “Demi”. Each successive album entry for Demi has debuted and peaked higher than the previous, with her second set “Here We Go Again” making it to No.40 in August 2009, and then in October 2011 her third album “Unbroken” debuted and peaked at No.20. She currently has two charting singles with the albums first hit “Heart Attack” (HP-41) at No.61 this week, and debuting at No.81 is “Really Don’t’ Care”.
New York duo Ms Mr sees their debut album “Secondhand Rapture” debut at No.22, whilst Voice Season 2 contestant Emma Pask debuts at No.32 with her 2008 album “Some Other Spring”. Actor, comedian and musician Hugh Laurie (‘House’) debuts at No.35 with his second album “Didn’t it Rain”. By debuting so high, it surpasses the No.37 peak that his first album “Let Them Talk” climbed to in its third week in early June 2011. And sneaking in at No.50 is the debut album for Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines entitled “Mother”.
Lower 50: Keith Urban jumps up twenty-three places to No.52 with “The Story So Far”, and with Renee Geyer on tour for her “Swing” album, its back up five places to No.55 this week. “DNA” for Little Mix climbs sixteen places to No.64 thanks to the fourth single from the album now charting, and the “Jersey Boys” current season of shows helps the cast recording back up sixteen spots to No.74 this week. Returning albums this week come from Alicia Keys with “Girl on Fire” at No.82, “Fearless” for Taylor Swift at No.90, the box set “Collection” for Michael Buble at No.96 and Katy Perry returns at No.98 with “Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection”.
The fourth studio album for English band Noah & The Whale is entitled “Heart of Nowhere”, and it debuts at No.62 this week, beating the previous effort of their third album “Last Night on Earth” (HP-86, April 2011). And also debuting with their second chart entry (and actual second album) is local singer Abbe May, who enters at No.76 with “Kiss My Apocalypse”. Her first entry was July 2011’s “Design Desire” which made it to No.66. The final new entry comes in at No.84, “Annie Up”, which is the second album (and first to chart here) for American female country trio Pistol Annies.
Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
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