With Mothers Day on Sunday the 11th of May, it seems as though quite a lot of Mums will be receiving the Michael Buble album “To Be Loved”.
Michael Buble To Be Loved
The album sits atop the ARIA Albums Chart for a fourth straight week, becoming the longest running No.1 album for 2013 so far, with the last album to hold the top spot for four weeks being Michael’s repackaged “Christmas” album which stayed atop for all of December 2012.
Michael also accumulates his 26th week at the top of the ARIA Album Charts moving him up to thirteenth on the list for ‘Most Accumulated Weeks at No.1: Albums’ right behind Skyhooks with 27 weeks and one ahead of both U2 and Savage Garden. And with “To Be Loved” at the top for a fourth week, it is Mr Buble’s fourth (of five) longest running No.1’s in Australia, as “Christmas” (9 weeks total), “Crazy Love” (6 weeks total) and “Call Me Irresponsible” (5 weeks) are ahead of this current album.
Just missing out on the top spot this week is the debut album for UK dance act Rudimental and their album “Home”, which comes in at No.2. The album has landed three Top 20 hit so far with “Feel the Love” (HP-3, TW-85), “Not Giving in” (HP-12) and current No.11 single “Waiting All Night”.
Bruno Mars holds at No.3 with “Unorthodox Jukebox”, whilst Ricky Martin and his “Greatest Hits” climb a couple of places to a new peak of No.4, with the album now Gold (●) in sales, whilst Pink is also up two spots to No.5 with “The Truth About Love”. Jason Owen drops two places to No.7 with “Life is a Highway”, whilst another former Voice Season 1 contestant Rachael Leahcar rises three places to No.10 with “Romantique” becoming her second Top 10 album in the process. In between at No.9, down a place, is Passenger with “All the Little Lights”.
Rod Stewart lands at No.6 with “Time”, his 27th studio album, and the first with new material since June 1995’s “A Spanner in the Works” (HP-28) {“Human” in 2001 was all cover songs}. “Time” becomes his twentieth Top 10 entry in Australia (since 1970), with his last being in December of last year when “Merry Christmas, Baby” (HP-3) spent eight of it’s nine weeks on the chart within the Top 10.
The fourth studio album for US country trio Lady Antebellum is entitled “Golden”, and it debuts at No.8 this week, becoming their third Top 10 hit here. Their first album to chart here was their second release “Need You Now”, which first charted here in February of 2010, hitting its No.5 peak April 2011, whilst their next album “Own the Night” debuted and peaked at No.5 in September 2011. They last charted in November 2012 with their Christmas album “On This Winter’s Night” (HP-71).
NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: Taylor Swift announced her “Red” tour of Australia for the end of the year, which has helped her album to leap back up thirty-eight places to No.13 this week, whilst The Bee Gees “Mythology” set is back up thirteen places to No.14. The Seekers “Golden Jubilee Album” is back up nineteen places to No.20 and Andre Rieu sees his “Mother & Child – Lullabies the Whole World Loves” fly up thirty-one places to No.21 this week.
After falling out of the Top 100 last week from No.19, the Steve Miller Band “Complete Greatest Hits” returns at No.24, with another future tourist Bon Jovi, who see their latest album “What About Now” rebound twenty-four places to No.29, whilst their “Greatest Hits” is back up twelve places to No.40 and is now re-certified 5x▲ in sales. Also a new certification for “The Sapphires” soundtrack (now 2x▲), which is back up thirteen places to No.30, and Emeli Sande’s “Our Version of Events” is back up ten places to No.35. There’s a thirty-seven place leap for Tame Impala whose “Lonerism” is back up to No.36 this week, and Imagine Dragons leap twenty-three places to No.49 with “Night Visions” (HP-28) helped by a new Top 50 hit in “Radioactive” (TW-47).
Last Sunday (5th May) on Channel 7’s ‘Sunday Night’ program they had an interview with former ABBA singer Agnetha Faltskog ahead of her new album “A” being released this week. This has helped two ABBA compilations to return to the Top 100 this week, with “18 Hits” (HP-32) back in at No.42 and their December 1992 No.1 album “ABBA Gold” back in at No.45.
DOWN DOWN: ShockOne may have debuted at No.2 last week, but his debut album “Universus” tumbles this week to No.25, with other Top 10 evacuees being “Flume” by Flume (4 to 12), “The 20/20 Experience” for Justin Timberlake (9 to 16) and “Babel” for Mumford & Sons (10 to 23). Anthony Callea’s “Thirty” is down eight places to No.26 with Bryan Adams’ “His Greatest Hits” down nine spots to No.28.
Calvin Harris is down ten places to No.39 with “18 Months”, with the self-titled set for The Lumineers down nineteen places to No.44. Fall Out Boy tumble twenty-four places to No.46 with “Save Rock and Roll”, Birds of Tokyo see “March Fires” fall down thirteen places to No.48 and Bring Me the Horizon drop twenty-seven places to No.51 with “Sempiternal”. “The Essential” for the Divinyls is down thirty-seven places to No.58, Frank Ocean drops his “Channel Orange” down twenty-six places to No.63, Major Lazer falls thirty-four places to No.63 with “Free the Universe”, Phoenix fall forty-four spots to No.78 with “Bankrupt!”, Snoop Lion’s “Reincarnated” is down sixty-one places to No.84, and leaving the Top 100 from last weeks debut of No.26 are OneRepublic with “Native”.
South Korean pianist and composer Yiruma (Lee Ru-ma) scores two debuts this week, his first coming in at No.33 with “The Best – Reminiscent 10th Anniversary” and then at No.71 is his ninth studio album (and most recent) “Stay in Memory”. Debuting at No.34 is the compilation of contestants for “The Voice 2013: Final 32”. Last years edition debuted at No.26 in early June, and a month later the album had climbed as high as No.13. The final Top 50 entry of the week is the fourteenth studio album for US Country singer Kenny Chesney, “Life on a Rock”, which debuts at No.47 becoming his third album to chart here. His 2012 album “Welcome to the Fishbowl” debuted and peaked at No.34 in July 2012, whilst his previous entry was with album number twelve “Hemingway’s Whiskey” (HP-73, Oct 2010).
Lower 50: Josh Groban’s recent tour keeps helping for Mother’s Day sales, as “All That Echoes” is up ten places to No.52, with Kelly Clarkson’s “Greatest Hits – Chapter One” back up twelve spots to No.54. “Ceremonials” (TW-65) for Florence + The Machine is now 3x▲ in sales, whilst also getting a re-certification of 7x▲ are Guns N’ Roses’ “Greatest Hits”, which is at No.69 in it’s 228th accumulated week in the Top 100. Bastille keep climbing with their debut album “Bad Blood”, it’s up eight places to a new peak of No.73, and the three re-entries for the week are “The Greatest Hits” for il Divo at No.88, “Two Lanes of Freedom” for Tim McGraw at No.94 and “This was Tomorrow” for Seth Sentry at No.98.
Zooey Deschanel (actress from ‘New Girl’) and M.Ward (Band of Horses) make up the duo She & Him, whose third studio album “Volume 3” debuts at No.53. They have previously charted with “Volume 2” (HP-49, March 2010) and “A Very She & Him Christmas” (HP-91, Dec 2011). Dutch DJ Armin van Buuren debuts at No.71 with his second entry here and fifth studio album “Intense”. His previous charting album was in September 2010 with his fourth set “Mirage” (HP-53).
Melbourne metalcore/hardcore band Storm the Sky take their debut album “Vigilance” into the charts at No.74, followed a little lower down at No.79 by Michael Bolton with his nineteenth studio album, this time a covers set entitled “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough: Tribute to Hitsville USA”. Joe Satriani debuts at No.81 with “Unstoppable Momentum”, his fourteenth studio album and is his eighth album to chart here in Australia.
Australian classical flautist Jane Rutter sees her eleventh studio album “French Kiss” debut at No.87 this week, becoming her sixth album to chart locally (five studio and one Greatest Hits set), and the last new entry of the week is a second Top 100 placing for Andre Rieu who debuts at No.95 with “Rieu Royale”.
Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-Charts.com
The ARIA chart is updated every Sunday at 6pm
