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Wishing for a punk rocker earns ARIA's top spot
The Age
Daniel Ziffer
January 5, 2007
www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/wishing-for-a-punk-rocker-earns-arias-top-spot/2007/01/04/1167777218449.html
LOCAL artists produced a quarter of the most popular songs and a third of the highest-selling albums last year.
Sandi Thom's infectious I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair) sat on top of the singles charts for 10 weeks and was an unsurprising No. 1 in figures released yesterday by industry body ARIA. But the Scottish singer could manage to hit only 78th spot in album sales.
Melbourne dance duo TV Rock had the second highest-selling single, with Flaunt It, their collaboration with Seany B, beating out international artists Shakira and Wyclef Jean's Hips Don't Lie, Justin Timberlake's SexyBack and the Scissor Sisters' I Don't Feel Like Dancin' in the top five.
Australian Idol graduates Young Divas and Lee Harding were among locals whose singles charted well, alongside Youth Group's cover of Forever Young.
Shannon Noll had three singles in the top 100, while The Veronicas, Evermore, Eskimo Joe and others had two.
The release of the figures comes a day after radio released its list of 2006's most-played songs, demonstrating the gap between what station programmers think listeners want to hear and what people are willing to pay for.
The top five singles sold are, in order, at position numbers 45, 68, 79, 41 and 53 on the list of what Australian radio stations played.
Ballad-filled Back to Bedlam from British singer James Blunt sold more than 560,000 copies to easily be the top-selling album of the year. Australian artists took seven of the top 10 positions.
P!nk, who is playing three nights at Rod Laver Arena in April, was in second spot with I'm Not Dead.
Thirty-three Australian artists made the top albums chart. But six of the those in the top half were cover albums.
Idol's Damien Leith and Young Divas were represented with Human Nature's two popular LPs of Motown covers coming in at No. 3 and No. 14, having sold more than half-a-million copies in total.
The Age
Daniel Ziffer
January 5, 2007
www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/wishing-for-a-punk-rocker-earns-arias-top-spot/2007/01/04/1167777218449.html
LOCAL artists produced a quarter of the most popular songs and a third of the highest-selling albums last year.
Sandi Thom's infectious I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair) sat on top of the singles charts for 10 weeks and was an unsurprising No. 1 in figures released yesterday by industry body ARIA. But the Scottish singer could manage to hit only 78th spot in album sales.
Melbourne dance duo TV Rock had the second highest-selling single, with Flaunt It, their collaboration with Seany B, beating out international artists Shakira and Wyclef Jean's Hips Don't Lie, Justin Timberlake's SexyBack and the Scissor Sisters' I Don't Feel Like Dancin' in the top five.
Australian Idol graduates Young Divas and Lee Harding were among locals whose singles charted well, alongside Youth Group's cover of Forever Young.
Shannon Noll had three singles in the top 100, while The Veronicas, Evermore, Eskimo Joe and others had two.
The release of the figures comes a day after radio released its list of 2006's most-played songs, demonstrating the gap between what station programmers think listeners want to hear and what people are willing to pay for.
The top five singles sold are, in order, at position numbers 45, 68, 79, 41 and 53 on the list of what Australian radio stations played.
Ballad-filled Back to Bedlam from British singer James Blunt sold more than 560,000 copies to easily be the top-selling album of the year. Australian artists took seven of the top 10 positions.
P!nk, who is playing three nights at Rod Laver Arena in April, was in second spot with I'm Not Dead.
Thirty-three Australian artists made the top albums chart. But six of the those in the top half were cover albums.
Idol's Damien Leith and Young Divas were represented with Human Nature's two popular LPs of Motown covers coming in at No. 3 and No. 14, having sold more than half-a-million copies in total.