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Michael Buble Christmas Is Australia’s Biggest Selling Album

by Gavin Ryan on December 16, 2012

in News,Noise Pro

It’s beginning to look a lot like a Michael Buble “Christmas” again this year, as his 2011 No.1 album is at the top again this week.

Michael Buble Christmas

Michael Buble Christmas

Michael Buble ‘Christmas’ is racking up a seventh week accumulated week at the top of the ARIA Albums chart, and pushing his tally of total weeks at the top (for his four No.1 albums) to 20 weeks.

This ties Michael with Mariah Carey’s twenty weeks which she racked up from three No.1 albums, and if he stays at the top again next week, he will tie at equal second with Shania Twain for ‘Most Accumulated Weeks at No.1: Albums (Canadian)’, as she currently sits on 21 weeks, with Celine Dion in the lead with 24 weeks from her five No.1 albums.

Pink rises back up to No.2 with “The Truth About Love” and scoring the highest new entry of the week is Samantha Jade with her self-titled album, which debuts at No.3 with gold sales status, and right behind her at No.4 is her X-Factor mentor Guy Sebastian with his “Armageddon” album, with One Direction down three places to No.5 with their second No.1 album “Take Me Home”.

Taylor Swift encounters her lowest chart placing for “Red” so far as it drops three places to No.6, and down one spot to No.7 is Rod Stewart with “Merry Christmas, Baby”. The Bee Gees are up one place to No.9 with their “Mythology” box set, and after three weeks at No.7, The Rolling Stones’ “GRRR!” compilation is down three places to No.10.

In between those four albums and debuting at No.8 is the second album for Bruno Mars entitled “Unorthodox Jukebox”. His debut album “Doo-Wops and Hooligans” debuted at No.7 in late October of 2010, reaching its No.2 peak by late January of 2011, and this week it drops out of the Top 100 after accumulating 111 weeks within the Top 100. This new album’s first single “Locked Out of Heaven” (HP-4) is back up to No.5 this week, and two further tracks from this new album debut, “When I Was Your Man” at No.44 and “Young Girls” at No.62.

NEW PEAKS & MOVERS: “The Heist” for Macklemore and Ryan Lewis is up thirteen places to a new peak of No.17, and the “Pitch Perfect” soundtrack leaps up thirty-one places to No.23 this week. John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John’s festive album “This Christmas” jumps up ten places to No.33, and due to a third re-packing, David Guetta’s “Nothing But the Beat” is back up thirteen places to No.39.

DOWN DOWN: Susan Boyle slips two places to No.11 with “Standing Ovation” and Led Zeppelin’s “Celebration Day” is down five places to No.13, both having spent three weeks inside the Top 10. “DNA” for Little Mix drops eleven places to No.29, but last weeks highest new entry, “Warrior” by Ke$ha falls twenty places to No.32. Alicia Keys sees her “Girl on Fire” album fall fourteen places to No.41, and ARIA Award winner 360 and his album “Falling & Flying” is falling this week, down thirty-four places to No.60.

ARIA Award winner for ‘Song of the Year’ was Matt Corby who sees his ‘iTunes Session” debut at No.19 this week, whilst the third album this year from Green Day debuts at No.22 entitled “Tre!”. The previous two albums were “Uno” which hit No.3 in October and “Dos” debuted and peaked at No.10 in November. The 19th album from the TV series Glee debuts at No.46 entitled “The Music, Season 4 Volume 1”, with a new Xmas album just released this week, expect their twentieth to enter soon.

Lower 50: Justin Bieber’s “Believe” is back up ten places to No.52, and Frank Ocean jumps up twenty-two places to No.56 with his “CHANNEL Orange” (HP-18). Andre Rieu hits a new peak of No.61 with his “December Lights”, and the self-titled debut album for The Lumineers is up eighteen spots to a new chart height of No.65. Karise Eden and “My Journey” (HP-1×6) rises up fifteen places to No.74 and Hillsong’s seasonal album “We Have a Saviour” is up to a new peak of No.82.

With Jennifer Lopez in the country on a tour, her best of “Dance Again… The Hits” (HP-20) re-enters at No.87, with other returning albums from Lady Antebellum and their Christmas album “On This Winters Night” (HP-71) at No.92, “Songs from the South Vol.1 & 2” for Paul Kelly at No.96 and Kendrick Lamar’s “Good Kid…” (HP-23) album back in at No.98.

When the soundtracks to the first three ‘Lord of the Rings’ films were released, they initially all debuted within the Top 70 before the films opened, and then climbed up the charts once the movies started screening, and the new series of films by Peter Jackson around ‘The Hobbit’ story look like the might do the same, as debuting at No.77 is “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”, below are the three previous soundtracks chart positions…

Entry Date|HP|WI|Titles
03-Dec-01|08|27|The Fellowship of the Rings – peaked Jan 2002
16-Dec-02|31|11|The Two Towers – peaked Jan 2003
15-Dec-03|33|16|Return of the King – peaked Jan 2004

Four piece a cappella group The Idea of North hail from Canberra, and score their first ARIA Albums chart entry this week with their eleventh album “This Christmas”, which debuts at No.80, whilst right behind at No.81 is the Michael Crawford album “Christmas: O Holy Night”. The final new entry of the week is the fourth album for Wiz Khalifa, “O.N.I.F.C.” coming in at No.99, his second album to chart here, as his third set “Rolling Papers” reached No.77 in May 2011.

Gavin Ryan reports with thanks to Australian-charts.com

The ARIA chart is updated every Sunday at 6pm

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