Passenger ‘Let Her Go’ stays atop the ARIA Singles Chart for a fifth week, becoming the longest running No.1 single for 2013 (so far).
Passenger
NEW – #2- Get Lucky by Daft Punk featuring Pharrell
Knocking on the door this week with a debut at No.2 is Daft Punk with “Get Lucky” featuring Pharrell Williams as guest vocalist, which instantly becomes both the group and Pharrell’s highest charting single in Australia. Daft Punk graced the Top 10 for a single week in early April 2001 with “One More Time” (HP-10) and Pharrell has been the guest on two No.4 singles for Snoop Dogg “Beautiful” (peaked mid-May 2003) and “Drop it Like it’s Hot” (peaked Jan 2005). It’s the eighth charted single for Daft Punk and the eleventh for Pharrell (his twelfth also debuts this week at No.19), and the track is taken from Daft Punk’s May 17th due new album “Random Access Memories”.
“I Need Your Love” for Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding climbs two places to a new peak of No.3, pushing Macklemore & Ryan Lewis down a place to No.4 with “Can’t Hold Us”. A second Top 10 debut for the week sees Jason DeRulo enter at No.5 with “The Other Side”, the first taste from his forthcoming album, which instantly becomes his twelfth Top 100 entry, his eighth Top 10 and seventh Top 5 hit.
NEW – #5 – The Other Side by Jason DeRulo
Paramore land their first Top 10 entry here in Australia as their latest track “Still into You” leaps eight places to No.6 and also picks up a Gold (●) sales accreditation. Lead singer Hayley Williams has previously been inside the Top 10 on the B.o.B track “Airplanes” (HP-2×6, peaked mid-May 2010), and the bands previous highest charting single was “Decode” which made it to No.12 in late January 2009.
After three weeks at No.2, MKTO drop back five places to No.7 with “Thank You”, which is now 2x▲ Platinum in sales, whilst moving up two places to a new peak of No.8 are Bastille with “Pompeii”. The Stafford Brothers spent the past two weeks at No.4 with “Hello” which also drops five places this week, down to No.9 and Little Mix are down one place to No.10 with “Change Your Life”, the track now ▲ in sales.
NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: Avril Lavigne’s debut from last week for “Here’s to Never Growing Up” moves up one place to a new peak of No.15, but leaping up twenty-five places to a new peak of No.23 is Emeli Sande with “Next to Me”. Outdoing that jump are Rudimental who zoom up forty places to No.24 with “Waiting all Night”, the new No.1 single in the UK this past week. Robert De Long is back up five places to No.34 with “Global Concepts” (HP-33), and rebounding a couple of places to No.36 are The Script and “If You Could See Me Now” (HP-34)
DOWN DOWN: Leaving the Top 10 this week are “Hey Porsche” (HP-6, TW – 11) by Nelly, former No.1 for Pink and Nate Ruess, “Just Give Me a Reason” (TW – 12), which is now 4x▲ in sales, and James Arthur is down six places to No.14 with “Impossible” (HP-2×3). Another Pink collaboration, this time with T.I. on “Guns and Roses” (HP-18) falls a couple of places to No.20 but is now ● in sales and Flume is “Holdin’ On” at No.25 this week (down from #23), and picks up a ▲ sales certification. One Direction tumble twelve places to No.38 with “One Way or Another” and Bruno Mars is down fifteen places to No.39 with “Locked Out of Heaven”. Former No.3 singles “Lanterns” for Birds of Tokyo and “Ho Hey” by The Lumineers fall to No.41 and No.42 respectively, whilst Rihanna’s “Diamonds” are down fourteen places to No.48. “Higher Love” by James Vincent McMorrow is down twenty-nine places to No.64 and Michael Buble has retained the No.1 album in the country, but the lead single from the album “It’s a Beautiful Day” drops forty-one places to No.74. Also down forty-one places are Flo Rida and Jennifer Lopez with “Sweet Spot”, down to No.85 this week.
THE VOICE (Week 3 Blinds/Battles): Celia Pavey’s winning battle with “A Thousand Years” sees her version debut at No.33 this week, helping the original by Christina Perri (HP-13) back into the Top 100 at No.31. Harrison Craig battled and won with “You Raise Me Up” (Westlife/Josh Groban), his version debuting at No.40 this week, whilst the original version of “Even When I’m Sleeping” (HP-4) for Leonardo’s Bride returns to the Top 100 at No.45 after being performed in the show last week.
In the battle rounds, Adele’s “Skyfall” (HP-5) was covered, helping the original back into the Top 100 at No.62, this also applies to Pink and “Try” (HP-6), which jumps back up twenty-four places to No.66 this week. Imogen Brough’s rendition of “Never Let Me Go” is down twenty places to No.63, with the original sitting at No.55 for Florence + The Machine this week. Celia Pavey sees her second entry this week, “Scarborough Fair/Canticle” down twenty-three places to No.68, whilst Kaity Dunstan and “Brand New Key” drop forty places to No.86. Harrison Craig also has two tracks inside the Top 100 with his former No.18 version of “Broken Vow” dropping thirty places to No.90 this week.
NEW – #19 – Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke featuring Pharrell
Almost ten years ago Robin Thicke (then just going by Thicke) had his first hit here in Australia with “When I Get You Alone” (HP-17×2, peaked mid-August 2003). Since then he has had many hits overseas, but until this week was a one-hit-wonder on the ARIA Singles Chart. But this week he debuts at No.19 to instantly land his second Top 20 hit with the song “Blurred Lines” featuring Pharrell Williams as guest vocalist, making that two entries for Pharrell this week, as he also debuted at No.2 with Daft Punk.
NEW – #47 – Fall Down by Will.i.am featuring Miley Cyrus
Will.i.am debuts in the Top 10 albums with his latest album “#WillPower”, and the fourth single to chart from that album enters at No.47 this week, “Fall Down” featuring Miley Cyrus as guest vocalist. Currently in the Top 50 from the albums, Will is at No.16 with Justin Bieber on “#ThatPower” (HP-11) and jumping back up eight places to No.43 is “Scream and Shout” (HP-2×6) with Britney Spears.
RETURNING – #49 – I Touch Myself by Divinyls
Lead singer of the Divinyls Chrissie Amphlett passed away this past week in New York at the age of 53, and this has returned three of the groups songs to the Top 100 this week, the highest of which is their biggest charting single “I Touch Myself” at No.49. This track hit No.1 in the last week of January in 1991, staying atop the ARIA Singles chart for two weeks. Also back in the chart this week for the group are “Pleasure and Pain” (HP-11, peaked mid-Nov 1985) and their first single “Boys in Town” (HP-8, peaked late Nov 1981), with both Boys and Touch being the bands only two Top 10 hits in Australia. A collection of the bands hits, “The Essential” enters at No.14 on the albums chart this week too.
Lower 50: From the “Pitch Perfect” soundtrack this week, “Cups” (HP-48) by Anna Kendrick jumps back up thirty places to No.54 and “Bella’s Finals Medley” is up two places to a new peak of No.57. RuFus jumps up eight places to a new peak of No.84 with “Take Me”, and apart from the above mentioned Divinyls and Voice S2 covered returnees the only other track back is a third Emeli Sande track inside the Top 100, “Read All About it” (Part III) (HP-58) at No.94.
Prior to the current Rudimental track being No.1 in the UK, Duke Dumont and A*M*E with “Need U (100%)” spent two weeks at the top of their charts, which becomes their first chart entry here in Australia, debuting at No.60 this week. Empire of the Sun enter at No.71 with “Alive”, their first new material five years, with their last single and album (both entitled “Walking on a Dream”) winning ARIA Awards for ‘Single of the Year’ and ‘Album of the Year’.
Vance Joy debut at No.75 with “Riptide” and one place lower at No.76 is 2012 Voice contestant Prinnie Stevens with “Don’t Wake Me Up”. Brisbane band Sheppard sees their self-titled EP debut at No.92 and finally coming in at No.100 is Walk off the Earth and their first chart entry entitled “Red Hands”.
Gavin Ryan reports with thanks for Australian-Charts.com
