damianThis 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
Local Content Score- 5 of top 20
Usually this weekly report is for looking at how well local albums are doing on the Top Twenty chart and see how much Australian stuff Australians actually buy/consume/whatever but this week we’re making a detour...
WHY IS High School Musical AT THE TOP OF THE CHARTS!?!?!
Why is an American high school musical soundtrack the most purchased music album of this or any other week? What is wrong with us?! I know tweens have spending power out of all proportion to any contribution they make to the nation but even with all the parental guilt money they get there surely has to be something better to spend it on than the soundtrack to an American high school musical. It’s a musical about an American high school! A really fake, so-safe-and-prissy-it-makes-you-want-to-puke, this-movie-was-funded-by-the-American-foundation-for-family-values, bad musical!!! Are the youth of Australia really that far gone or is there just a rather large mob of jaded parents trying to relive some sort of highschool-was-the-best-days-of-my-life fantasy by buying this rubbish for their children? What is going on here?
The worst part is that it knocked off a local to get there. Yep, that’s right, Eskimo Joe were knocked back to third spot by a group of hyper active, over make-upped American highschoolers pretending to go through teenage angst all to a movie script written by someone who obviously hasn’t been to high school in over two decades. The only thing preventing this from being truly crushing is that the Eskimos were also beaten by Chris Isaaks Best of compilation which (thankfully) suggests that tweens don’t completely govern the market. He’s not a local but at least he’s an established artist who relies on talent, not whatever is fueling the sales of the previously mentioned, warbling brats.
From Eskimo Joe in third it was down to sixth for The Rogue Traders. Yep, they’re still here as they make it forty weeks in the Top Twenty. Insane.
Behind them was an interesting story in at fourteenth. From the looks of it ARIA has exercised the (not so) constitutional right of Terra Nullius by declaring New Zealand empty- probably because they all live over here. The Shaky Isles are therefore not a proper country in their own right, which by extension means that all residents of what was known as the sovereign state of New Zealand are in fact the property of all Australians everywhere.
That’s right, Evermore are now Australian and can proudly join the list of things we’ve stolen from them like Crowded House, Phar Lap, pavlova, etc. To be honest though there probably hasn’t been a worse time to do it with the way we’ve been getting belted by the Kiwis in sport at the moment. What is wrong with us at the moment?
This all of course vindicates me no end (see last weeks album report) but puts paid to my argument that they were not quite honourary Australians. Because now they are. Which means there’s a local in at fourteenth.
But that was the excitement for the week. Down in sixteenth were The Veronicas- still- and beyond them were Youth Group who’ve slipped to nineteenth (which I’m a little surprised by) but that pretty much sums up the week that was.
As for ‘the week that will be’ there should be some well needed changes in the works. I’m going to be very unhappy if the number one spot hasn’t changed. Very, very unhappy...
Head over to ARIA to view this weeks chart for yourself.
ARIA Album Chart Report- 31st July
Local Content Score- 5 of top 20
Usually this weekly report is for looking at how well local albums are doing on the Top Twenty chart and see how much Australian stuff Australians actually buy/consume/whatever but this week we’re making a detour...
WHY IS High School Musical AT THE TOP OF THE CHARTS!?!?!
Why is an American high school musical soundtrack the most purchased music album of this or any other week? What is wrong with us?! I know tweens have spending power out of all proportion to any contribution they make to the nation but even with all the parental guilt money they get there surely has to be something better to spend it on than the soundtrack to an American high school musical. It’s a musical about an American high school! A really fake, so-safe-and-prissy-it-makes-you-want-to-puke, this-movie-was-funded-by-the-American-foundation-for-family-values, bad musical!!! Are the youth of Australia really that far gone or is there just a rather large mob of jaded parents trying to relive some sort of highschool-was-the-best-days-of-my-life fantasy by buying this rubbish for their children? What is going on here?
Evil incarnate
From Eskimo Joe in third it was down to sixth for The Rogue Traders. Yep, they’re still here as they make it forty weeks in the Top Twenty. Insane.
Behind them was an interesting story in at fourteenth. From the looks of it ARIA has exercised the (not so) constitutional right of Terra Nullius by declaring New Zealand empty- probably because they all live over here. The Shaky Isles are therefore not a proper country in their own right, which by extension means that all residents of what was known as the sovereign state of New Zealand are in fact the property of all Australians everywhere.
That’s right, Evermore are now Australian and can proudly join the list of things we’ve stolen from them like Crowded House, Phar Lap, pavlova, etc. To be honest though there probably hasn’t been a worse time to do it with the way we’ve been getting belted by the Kiwis in sport at the moment. What is wrong with us at the moment?
Evermore- apparently they've just become Australians
This all of course vindicates me no end (see last weeks album report) but puts paid to my argument that they were not quite honourary Australians. Because now they are. Which means there’s a local in at fourteenth.
But that was the excitement for the week. Down in sixteenth were The Veronicas- still- and beyond them were Youth Group who’ve slipped to nineteenth (which I’m a little surprised by) but that pretty much sums up the week that was.
As for ‘the week that will be’ there should be some well needed changes in the works. I’m going to be very unhappy if the number one spot hasn’t changed. Very, very unhappy...
Head over to ARIA to view this weeks chart for yourself.
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