Chart wrap-up: Big Day Out takes to the ARIA charts

30 January 2012

by Thomas Gilmore

The Big Day Out effect is showing itself on the charts this week, with The Hoods, Foster The People and Boy & Bear feeling the love.

TMN HOT 100 AIRPLAY CHART

Sticking it out at #1 for a second consecutive week is Coldplay's Paradise. If they can hold out at #1 for one more week, it will mark the tenth week that Coldplay has spent atop the TMN Hot 100 Airplay Chart. The longest the group has spent at #1 with one song before is four weeks, with Speed Of Sound. Can they manage it again?

Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg's Young, Wild & Free, featuring Bruno Mars, has held onto #2, while Timomatic's Set It Off has crept up to a new highest position (for the song and in his career) of #3. Taio Cruz's Hangover falls from #3 to #10, in order to make way for his new single, Troublemaker.

The highest debut for the week comes from Nickelback. Lullaby enters the Hot 100 at #44, making it the fourth single to enter inside the Top 50 for the band. Even without the help of Nickelback's latest inside the Top 40, WMA have taken the largest slice of the pie in Top 40 market share and with eleven songs inside the Top 40 (with for of those eleven being in the Top 10) it is no surprise. How long can the WMA camp hold onto this glorious prize? To round out the other debuts for the week, Grouplove's Tongue Tied has made it into the Hot 100, entering at #69, Sneaky Sound System's Really Want To See You Again chalked up #69, one position below, and ya boy 360 also made it in at #100 with Boys Like You, featuring Gossling.

ARIA TOP 50 SINGLES CHART

Wild Ones made it to #1 last week for Flo Rida and has stuck around for a second, besting Laurent Weary's Hey Hey Hey (featuring Swiftkid), which charged up the ARIA Singles chart from #10 to #2 this week, just missing out on the gold medal.

Simple Plan's Paradise slithered up from #6 to #4, edging in on David Guetta's Turn Me On, featuring Nicki Minaj, which sits once again at #3, after it moved up from #14 last week.

There is still some exciting Australian singles up at the business end of the chart. Timomatic's Set It Off did fall a little, from #2 to #6, though it still holds out in the Top 10. However, Matt Corby's Into The Flame jumped over 30 positions from #42 to #8. Hilltop Hoods, with some credit to their well received performances at Big Day Out, are charging towards the Top 10 with I Love It, featuring Sia. The track moved from #19 to #11 this week.

ARIA TOP 50 ALBUMS CHART

The only thing left to talk about with Adele's run on the ARIA Album chart is who she is competing with from the past. ARIA has pointed out that Adele's 27 non-consecutive stint at #1 is closing in on Delta Goodrem's 29 weeks at #1 with Innocent Eyes in 2003. If Adele cuts through that barrier, her last target will be Dire Strait's Brothers In Arms which clocked a monstrous 34 weeks in 1985 and 1986.

With all of this in mind, touring act Foster The People (who are doing a lap of the country as part of the Big Day Out lineup) are quite happy to reach their new high position on the ARIA Albums chart with Torches (not Platinum yet!) reaching #2 behind Adele. One position below, Roadrunner's latest release - Lamb Of God's Resolution - entered the chart at #3.

Foster The People are not the only BDO act to see a rise in sales. Boy & Bear's Moonfire jumped from #16 to #9 this week, while Kasabian's Velociraptor! shuffled from #45 to #27.

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