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This Weeks Top Twenty Albums

September 25th 2006 23:39
Stephanie McIntosh leads the way again for locals as six make it into the Twenty.

ARIA Album Chart Report- 25th September
Local Content Score- 6 of top 20

If you’re looking for proof of the marketability of soapie stars then the latest effort from Ms McIntosh wouldn’t be a bad place to start. Also goes to show you that to become a pop star you should consider becoming an actor on Neighbours- they’ve become really good at turning their actors into singers. Ms McIntosh was in at fourth.
Wolfmother
Wolfmother back in The Twenty with the ARIAs in their sites.


Black Fingernails, Red Wine was back in at fifth, making it fifteen weeks in the Top Ten. The holding power of this one has been fairly impressive, with many other albums falling by the wayside in much shorter periods of time, but The Eskimos just quietly hang around, doing their thing. Why this particular album has managed to last so long is a mystery but all credit to them.

Kasey Chambers was in at fourteenth after a steep fall from eighth. It’s only been five weeks since this one debuted and it’s already on the way down which is a bit disappointing.

Rogue Traders were in at sixteenth, up form twentieth, and Evermore made it back into the Twenty in at nineteenth, a jump of twelve spots.

Finally, another album to make it back into the Twenty was Wolfmother’s self titled album. With the ARIA’s being advertised already we’ll probably be seeing more of these guys over the next little while. And that’s not a bad thing.


As always head over to the ARIA site to see the whole chart.
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This Weeks Top Twenty Albums

September 19th 2006 02:13
Not a very exciting week with a new local debut the only thing of note.

ARIA Album Chart Report- 18th September
Local Content Score- 4 of top 20

Locals have gone very quiet on the ARIA Charts this week with only four making an appearance.

The only significant thing to happen this week was yet another debut from a soap princess trying to make it in music land. They may be getting their bogan rear ends handed to them in the ratings war with the crew from Summer Bay but Neighbours dominates when it comes to getting their stars a piece of pop stardom. If it’s not Kylie it’s Danni or Delta (anyone seen her lately?) or a certain spunky Rogue Trader or that chick who got a gig on that terrible DOA movie or.... The list just goes on.
stephanie mcintosh tightrope album
Yet another Neighbours star going popstar

This week it’s Ms Stephanie McIntosh’s turn and she hasn’t done too bad, her album Tightrope debuting at fourth. Whether this will continue beyond the first week is unknown but they (soap stars pretending to be singers) usually have an impressive media machine behind them. It should be around for a few weeks at least.

The second local on the chart was the Eskimos who improved their position by two, making it to seventh. Black Fingernails, Red Wine has been in the Top Ten for fourteen weeks now, which is a good solid run, but isn’t it about time that translated to another platinum? Why does it take a few weeks to get one, and then three or four months to get the second?

Kasey Chambers was doing well in at eighth but it was a steep fall from third. Could be a sign of things to come.

From eighth it was all the way down to twentieth where the next local, the Rogue Traders, was book ending The Twenty. It was a fairly steep fall of six places for the Rogues but with their first full tour of Australia underway they should be back soon.

Finally, they weren’t in The Twenty, but The Veronicas, in at twenty two, just went to their fourth platinum. Not a bad haul...

As always head over to the ARIA site to see the whole chart.
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This Weeks Top Twenty Albums

September 12th 2006 01:59
Seven locals in the Top Twenty this week after a few return from the lower-than-twenty wilderness.

ARIA Album Chart Report- 11th September
Local Content Score- 7 of top 20

Another weird one on the charts this week with albums refusing to go away when they quite rightfully should.

The top local was Kasey Chambers again who was in at third, down one spot. Not a bad effort so far from the former Deadringer but with some tough import competition it will be interesting to see if she can outlast them for a good solid run at the top. On precedence, folk/country music has been a really good genre in the last eighteen months, with albums from Pete Murray and Bernard Fanning doing really well, so Carnival could very well replicate their performance. Only time will tell.
pete murray see the sun
See The Sun is a fortnight away from celebrating 52 weeks on the ARIA Charts.

The next local was all the way down in ninth where the Eskimoes are performing the way a ‘normal’ album should. After the last couple of weeks Black Fingernails, Red Wine has been the only album that has aged gracefully with a slow, dignified drop through the charts. Other albums on the other hand have decided to go for the plucky, yet scrappy, battler title with bizarre chart revivals and volatile falls back to the lower end of The Twenty (see Rogue Traders). Knowing why this happens is probably one of the darker arts of cultural economics, and it makes ARIA predictions almost impossible. Maybe one day I’ll be an all knowing ARIA Master...

In at eighth was the Ten Tenors, doing fairly well for ten blokes who make a living from singing loudly together. Haven’t broken gold status yet (35,000 sales) but hopefully that’s not too far off.

The erratic Rogue Traders improved their position by two this to get to fourteenth. I’ve given up trying to work out what’s happening with this album. It makes my head hurt.

It looks like Pete Murray’s album See the Sun could be looking for a fifty two week anniversary in the Top Twenty. There’s no other explanation for it being back in at eighteenth.

In at nineteenth Hugh Jackman returned to the Twenty with The Boy From Oz Soundtrack. With the rave reviews the show has been getting, at least this album’s return to The Twenty has an explanation.

Finally The Veronicas were back in at twenty after climbing three spots. Where they’ll be next week who knows.

As always head over to the ARIA site to see the whole chart.
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This Weeks Top Twenty Albums

September 4th 2006 21:58
Some big movers this week but mostly downwards.

ARIA Album Chart Report- 4th September

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This Weeks Top Twenty Albums

August 28th 2006 23:44
Brand new local in at number one this week as Aussies prove that we don’t mind a bit of country music every now and then. Apart from that it was real quiet...

ARIA Album Chart Report- 28th August

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This Weeks Top Twenty Albums

August 21st 2006 23:34
A shake up at the top this week as a local movie star makes it into the Top Twenty.

ARIA Album Chart Report- 21st August

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This Weeks Top Twenty Albums

August 15th 2006 00:25
Someone should tell The Rogue Traders and The Veronicas that what they’re doing is defying the Law of Sales.

ARIA Album Chart Report- 14th August

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This Weeks Top Twenty Albums

August 8th 2006 00:07
NOT happy.

ARIA Album Chart Report- 31st July

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This weeks top twenty albums

August 1st 2006 00:08
Insanity prevails as Eskimo Joe is knocked from the top spot by an American high school musical soundtrack, Rogue Traders and The Veronicas make it forty weeks in the Top Twenty and Evermore decide they’re not Kiwis after all.

ARIA Album Chart Report- 31st July

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This Weeks Top Twenty Albums

July 26th 2006 06:01
A local back in number one, a local who is defying chart gravity and a local debut this week make it a good week for the local scene.


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This weeks Top Twenty Albums

July 18th 2006 01:14
Excuse the dodgy grammar this week- I’m kinda in a hurry- but it was a shocking week for locals as import debuts regain the top two positions and only three locals manage to stay in the top twenty.

ARIA Album Chart Report- 17th July
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This weeks Top Twenty Music Albums

July 11th 2006 01:35
To kick off the second week of reports we have the music charts top twenty where two new Aussie debuts have made a splash with Something for Kate’s Desert Lights finally knocking Eskimo Joe from the number one position and The Sleepy Jacksons latest coming in at number 10.

ARIA Album Chart Report- 10th July
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Local Content Score- 6 of top 20
Report Card- The Eskimos continue their run at the top while some longer term residents refuse to leave.

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