Chart wrap-up: Adele, three weeks of ARIA chart domination

11 July 2011

by Thomas Gilmore

Adele just keeps on going. It's been three consecutive weeks of total ARIA Chart domination —holding #1 on both ARIA Charts— while an all out assault is in progress for the #1 Airplay position. Can Adele be on top of all three charts at once?

TMN HOT 100 AIRPLAY CHART

Katy Perry has hung on for another week with Last Friday (T.G.I.F), although her competition is creeping closer. Adele’s followup to Rolling In The Deep – which hit #1 on the Hot 100 – Someone Like You, has jumped from #7 to #2. Meanwhile, Bruno Mars has seen even greater movement, darting up to #3 from #10 with Marry You.

It looks good for Aussie boy, Pete Murray as well. He started the race a week later than both Adele and Mars, but after only four weeks on the chart, he is already inside the Top 10 with Always A Winner.

The Top 40 welcomes some familiar faces back this week; Eskimo Joe, the fastest mover of the week, blasted up the chart. Last week, Love Is A Drug sat at #72. This week it sits at #25. Just below, in at #29, is the highest new addition we have had in a long-while; Maroon 5’s Moves Like Jagger, featuring Christina Aguilera just slips in with a straight face, while the additions keep flowing in.

These two familiar friends of the Top 40 are accompanied by a fresh face. Nicki Minaj’s Super Bass marks the first time that Minaj has entered the Top 40 with one of her own singles. And what style she has done it in, flying from #61 to #35.

ARIA TOP 50 SINGLES CHART

Adele, LMFAO and Christina Perri have held steady this week, at numbers 1, 2 and 3 with the singles Someone Like You, Party Rock Anthem and Jar Of Hearts. Below the static trio of tracks sits Adele's relentless hit, Rolling In The Deep, which crept up one position, trading places with Pitbulls' Give Me Everything, (which fell from #4 to #5 this week).

The standings outside the Top 5 follow a similar pattern, with Katy Perry's Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F) and Jason Derulo's Don't Wanna Go Home sticking at #6 and #7. Below, Bruno Mars' Marry You and Havana Brown's We Run The Night switched spots, seeing last week's #9 (Mars) hit #8.

A little lower, there was some movement. Just as she has done on the Hot 100, Nicki Minaj has made some notable progress this week. Super Bass made the leap from #18 to #13, besting David Guetta's Little Bad Girl, which jumped from #40, but landed at #15.

Lower again fell the highest addition of the week; Chris Brown's Next To You featuring Justin Bieber, at #34. Two positions lower at #36, Maroon 5's Moves Like Jagger (featuring Christina Aguilera) chalked up week one.

ARIA TOP 50 ALBUMS CHART

If this ARIA Album chart is anything to go by, Adele and LMFAO are bigger than God. Sitting at #1 and #2, 21 and Sorry For Party Rocking show no signs of fading, holding the debut of Hillsong's God Is Able from the #1 position. Beyonce's 4 fell two positions, to the apt position of #4, while Lady Gaga's Born This Way takes #5, Adele's 19, #6 and Australia trio, Seeker Lover Keeper's self-titled record sticks at #10, no doubt bolstered by the start of their national tour.

Nine positions below Hillsong's God Is Able came the second new addition for the week. Limp Bizkit's Gold Cobra slipped in at #12, two positions above Selina Gomez and the Scene's album, When The Sun Goes Down, which clocked in at #14. Rounding out the Top 20 is a debut from Syndicate's self-titled record, bang on #20.

Kaiser Chiefs' The Future Is Medieval, the Transformers: Dark Of The Moon OST, Digitalism's I Love You, Dude and Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday also entered this week, at #25, #31, #41 and #48.

For more ARIA Chart news, go to ariacharts.com.au