Aussie Chart update w/c 26 Jan 04

[Sean]

#1 on the albums chart this week is Evanescence with Fallen. #2 is Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Delta Goodrem has slipped to #3 after 29 (non-consecutive) weeks at #1. I'm thinking she's seen the last of her weeks at #1 now, we'll see. As it stands this week, her album has spent 44 weeks on the chart and has never gone below #3... amazing!

No new album entries.

On the singles chart, Outkast stay at #1 with Hey Ya.

New entries:

#2 Here Without You - 3 Doors Down
#9 The Voice Within - Christina Aguilera
#11 Me, Myself and I - Beyonce
#14 Holidae In - Chingy
#17 Come Clean - Hilary Duff
#19 So Beautiful - Pete Murray
#20 5 Years From Now - Mercruy4
#22 If I Can't - 50 Cent
#24 Figured You Out - Nickelback
#25 Jump - Girls Aloud
#32 Stunt 101 - G-Unit
#33 Stand Up - Ludacris
#36 Rollover DJ - Jet
#39 Life For Rent - Dido
#44 Ladies Night - Atomic Kitten
#48 Change Clothes - Jay-Z

Phew! That's a LOT of debuts, way more than usual.

[Zander]

Ludacris should at least be getting a boost because they play 'Stand Up' during all those ads for "Honey" starring Jessica Alba.

[Crushcrushchris]

Sean said:

#1 on the albums chart this week is Evanescence with Fallen. #2 is Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Delta Goodrem has slipped to #3 after 29 (non-consecutive) weeks at #1. I'm thinking she's seen the last of her weeks at #1 now, we'll see. As it stands this week, her album has spent 44 weeks on the chart and has never gone below #3... amazing!

I've been following this chart recently because I'm trying to track how Ev is doing around the world and Delta hasn't dropped below 3?! Is this her first week at #3? Wow. No wonder she's FOURTEEN times platinum over there. Geez. Is that some sort of record or is it even close? I would think it is. I had checked the ARIA Awards website and noticed she had 3 songs nominated in the SAME category :o

Don't call me a rocket scientist, but I think Austrailians like her ;)

Ev hit their peak after 37 weeks on the chart and from what I remember last week, their last peak was #3 which they also hit last week.

[Sean]

Delta's had a few weeks at #3 in the past, and a bunch at #2 and 29 at #1! She has never been below 3 but I think she's heading downwards soon after so long. Absolutely amazing though... I mean she's sold over 1 million copies now in Australia alone and there are only 20 million people in the country (so 1 in 20 own her album!).

She did have 3 songs nominated in one category although that category is kinda dumb 'cos it's just highest selling single so of course she's going to get a lot of nominations. She'll likely have more in the same category next year ("Not Me, Not I" and "Predictable".

Even more impressive is that each of her 5 singles have all hit #1, and she had 5 out of the top 20 highest selling singles overall in 2003.