"Punk spunk tops pops" Herald Sun - 5/1/07
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Punk spunk tops pops
Cameron Adams
January 05, 2007 12:00am
www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21012388-2902,00.html
SANDI Thom and James Blunt were the most popular artists with Australian music fans last year.
But Aussies also showed a patriotic streak, with seven albums in the year's top 10 by local acts.
Human Nature, heavy rock trio Wolfmother, Melbourne band Rogue Traders, Perth rockers Eskimo Joe, comedian the 12th Man and pop twins the Veronicas all secured top 10 spots.
Thom narrowly nudged out Melbourne dance act TV Rock, whose single Flaunt It was the second highest seller of the year.
Thom's novelty hit I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in my Hair) was the year's highest selling single, after spending a colossal 10 weeks at No. 1.
Fellow Brit Blunt's album Back to Bedlam, released in 2005, sold in such quantities it was 2006's highest seller.
Blunt's album has gone eight times platinum in Australia, racking up more than 400,000 sales.
Back to Bedlam was the ninth highest seller in Australia's 2005 end-of-year chart.
ARIA released the 2006 end-of-year sales figures yesterday.
No. 1 hits Shakira's Hips Don't Lie, Justin Timberlake's SexyBack and the Scissor Sisters I Don't Feel Like Dancin' rounded out the year's top 5 biggest sellers.
This year's top 100 singles chart is the first to combine CD sales with legal downloads.
Sydney band Youth Group's Forever Young was the most downloaded song of 2006.
The download chart also includes Snow Patrol's Chasing Cars at No. 8; a song which isn't available to buy as a single. Their album Eyes Open was the year's 15th biggest seller.
Irish Australian Idol winner Damien Leith made a late but strong run towards 2006's top sellers chart.
Leith's album The Winner's Journey – which has sold 250,000 copies in just four weeks of release – was 2006's fifth biggest seller.
His single Night of my Life was the 11th highest seller of the year, beaten by fellow Idols Young Divas (at No. 6 with This Time I Know It's For Real) and Lee Harding's Wasabi at No. 8.
Harding's album doesn't surface in the top 100, and 2005's Idol winner Kate DeAraugo (now part of Young Divas) sees her album A Place I've Never Been scrape in at No. 90 in the list of the year's biggest sellers.
Her solo singles Maybe Tonight and Faded made No. 49 and No. 66.
US singer Pink enjoyed a stellar year in 2006 – selling 350,000 copies of her album I'm Not Dead, while the album's three singles – Who Knew, Stupid Girls and U + UR Hand all place in the year end top 40.
Human Nature lodged two albums in the top 20 biggest sellers of 2006 – Reach Out: The Motown Record at No. 3 and the sequel Dancing in the Street at No. 14.
The Motown covers albums have sold 400,000 copies between them without the support of commercial radio.
The 12th Man, aka cricket comedian Billy Birmingham, stormed into the year end top 10 at No. 9 with Boned! – clocking up more than 200,000 sales in less than four weeks.
Cameron Adams
January 05, 2007 12:00am
www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21012388-2902,00.html
SANDI Thom and James Blunt were the most popular artists with Australian music fans last year.
But Aussies also showed a patriotic streak, with seven albums in the year's top 10 by local acts.
Human Nature, heavy rock trio Wolfmother, Melbourne band Rogue Traders, Perth rockers Eskimo Joe, comedian the 12th Man and pop twins the Veronicas all secured top 10 spots.
Thom narrowly nudged out Melbourne dance act TV Rock, whose single Flaunt It was the second highest seller of the year.
Thom's novelty hit I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in my Hair) was the year's highest selling single, after spending a colossal 10 weeks at No. 1.
Fellow Brit Blunt's album Back to Bedlam, released in 2005, sold in such quantities it was 2006's highest seller.
Blunt's album has gone eight times platinum in Australia, racking up more than 400,000 sales.
Back to Bedlam was the ninth highest seller in Australia's 2005 end-of-year chart.
ARIA released the 2006 end-of-year sales figures yesterday.
No. 1 hits Shakira's Hips Don't Lie, Justin Timberlake's SexyBack and the Scissor Sisters I Don't Feel Like Dancin' rounded out the year's top 5 biggest sellers.
This year's top 100 singles chart is the first to combine CD sales with legal downloads.
Sydney band Youth Group's Forever Young was the most downloaded song of 2006.
The download chart also includes Snow Patrol's Chasing Cars at No. 8; a song which isn't available to buy as a single. Their album Eyes Open was the year's 15th biggest seller.
Irish Australian Idol winner Damien Leith made a late but strong run towards 2006's top sellers chart.
Leith's album The Winner's Journey – which has sold 250,000 copies in just four weeks of release – was 2006's fifth biggest seller.
His single Night of my Life was the 11th highest seller of the year, beaten by fellow Idols Young Divas (at No. 6 with This Time I Know It's For Real) and Lee Harding's Wasabi at No. 8.
Harding's album doesn't surface in the top 100, and 2005's Idol winner Kate DeAraugo (now part of Young Divas) sees her album A Place I've Never Been scrape in at No. 90 in the list of the year's biggest sellers.
Her solo singles Maybe Tonight and Faded made No. 49 and No. 66.
US singer Pink enjoyed a stellar year in 2006 – selling 350,000 copies of her album I'm Not Dead, while the album's three singles – Who Knew, Stupid Girls and U + UR Hand all place in the year end top 40.
Human Nature lodged two albums in the top 20 biggest sellers of 2006 – Reach Out: The Motown Record at No. 3 and the sequel Dancing in the Street at No. 14.
The Motown covers albums have sold 400,000 copies between them without the support of commercial radio.
The 12th Man, aka cricket comedian Billy Birmingham, stormed into the year end top 10 at No. 9 with Boned! – clocking up more than 200,000 sales in less than four weeks.
