Aussie charts w/c 19th Jan '04: Hey Ya Delta

[Sean]

Delta Goodrem spends week 29 at #1 on the albums chart.

Debuts:
#16 Honey - Soundtrack
#39 1200 Techniques
#44 The Darkness

Delta may be #1 overall, but she is only #1 outright on 1 out of 5 individual state charts. Other states have Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Dido or Evanescence at #1.... so the numbers must be pretty close with Delta winning overall. I hope this isn't her last week at #1! She is now equal 2nd in terms of longest running #1 albums ever.

Over on the singles chart, Outkast move up a spot to knock Black Eyed Peas from #1.

Debuts:
#2 Milkshake - Kelis
#4 My Immortal - Evanescence
#16 Don't Ask My Why - Heli Simpson
#17 Superstar - Jamelia
#28 Good Luck - Basement Jaxx
#49 Always - The Butterfly Effect

The singles chart also has a mixture of various #1's which include Outkast, Kelis, Black Eyed Peas and Evanescence. Very strange to have the state charts looking like that.... they're normally the same as the national chart with maybe 1 state only having a different #1. ???

[jond7699]

I was hoping MI was going to debut at #1

[strong4PMB!]

Go "HONEY" and Jamelia! Hi-yah!

[Sean]

Whipping up a storm in the charts this week is Kelis who debuts at number two with her sultry single Milkshake, four years since she beat up a cheating boyfriend and led an angry pack of screaming women down a street in the video for her debut, Caught Out There.

Meanwhile, Outkast's Hey Ya takes top spot, knocking off last week's number one, Black Eyed Peas, whose Shut Up slips to third spot.

In the albums chart, Australia's Pete Murray jumps 10 spots from 20 with Feeler.

The top two positions remain unchanged, with Delta Goodrem's Innocent Eyes staying at number one and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers' Greatest Hits at two.

Album sales were down 28% this week with a very humble total of 60,478 units making up those top positions.

Although Delta Goodrem came in at number one she only sold 8,390 copies, or units. The week before Christmas she was at number two with sales of 60,019 units.

The good news is that those 8,390 units were enough to officially push Innocent Eyes past the one million sold mark, a benchmark in Australian music.

Guy Sebastian sold 5,479 copies as Just As I Am; a 48% drop-off in sales for him from last week.

The album slid to number seven. Likewise, his single Angels Brought Me Here dropped out of the Top 20 after eight weeks and sold just 1,714 units.

Kylie's Body Language album fell out of the Top 40 this week, selling only 1,392 units.

In Australia this week, you could have had the Number 100 album if you sold 513 units and a number 100 single on national sales of 116 units.

Australian singles chart

1(2) Hey Ya - Outkast (ARI/BMG)
2(-) Milkshake - Kelis (VIR/EMI)
3(1) Shut Up - Black Eyed Peas (UMA)
4(-) My Immortal - Evanescence (EPI/SONY)
5(4) Behind Blue Eyes - Limp Bizkit (INR/UMA)
6(3) Predictable - Delta Goodrem (EPI/SONY)
7(5) Be Faithful - Fatman Scoop (MUK/UMA)
8(8) Baby Boy - Big Brovaz (EPI/SONY)
9(7) It's My Life - No Doubt (INR/UMA)
10(13) Numb - Linkin Park (WARNER)

Australian albums chart

1(1) Innocent Eyes - Delta Goodrem (EPI/SONY)
2(2) Greatest Hits - Red Hot Chili Peppers (WARNER)
3(6) Fallen - Evanescence (EPI/SONY)
4(4) Life For Rent - Dido (CHE/BMG)
5(8) Elephunk - Black Eyed Peas (A&M/UMA)
6(5) Vulture Street - Powderfinger (UMA)
7(3) Just As I Am - Guy Sebastian (BMG)
8(10) Get Born - Jet (CAP/EMI)
9(13) Love Actually - Soundtrack (ISL/UMA)
10(20) Feeler - Pete Murray (COL/SONY)

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