Robin Thicke and his “Blurred Lines” spend a fifth week at No.1 in Australia, the song also picking up a double Platinum sales certification (2x), plus the track also becomes the equal longest running No.1 for 2013 in Australia, tying with this weeks No.2 song “Let Her Go” by Passenger, which climbs back up a place after four weeks at No.3, swapping with another former No.1, “Get Lucky” for Daft Punk which drops down a place.
NEW - #4 – Bayini (Live) – Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu & Delta Goodrem
Last week in Australia was indigenous awareness week, and at the start of that week on The Voice Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu and Delta Goodrem performed his song on the show featuring the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. The duet debuts at No.4 this week becoming his first singles chart entry and Delta’s 21st Top 100 entry and 14th Top 10. Gurrumul also becomes the fifth aboriginal artist to land a Top 10 single in this country, after Jimmy Little (“Royal Telephone” #10 in Dec 1963), Lionel Rose (“I Thank You” #2 in March 1970), Casey Donovan (“Listen with Your Heart” #1 in Dec 2004) and Jessica Mouboy (first of many was “Running Back” #3, Oct 2008). For further aboriginal artists see this list. Also this week we lost the lead singer from Yothu Yindi and their highest charting single “Treaty” (HP-11) which returns to the Top 100 this week.
Bastille move back one place to No.5 with “Pompeii” after their two weeks at No.4, and climbing three places to a new peak of No.6 is Mariah Carey with “#Beautiful”, which pushes Rudimental’s “Waiting All Night” to No.7. After blasting into the Top 10 last week, Matt Corby and “Resolution” is down three places to No.8 and also down three is Jason DeRulo to No.10 with “The Other Side”. In between those two is the first Top 10 single in Australia for Lana Del Rey, as “Young and Beautiful” jumps up thirteen places to No.9. Her previous best effort was “Video Games” which reached No.23 in February 2012.
Leaping up into the Top 40 at No.11 is Jessie J with her new single “Wild”, with Olly Murs also jumping into the Top 20 at No.18 with “Dear Darlin’”. Imagine Dragons pick up a Gold () sales certification and move up four places to a new peak of No.16. From the Fast & Furious 6 soundtrack, 2 Chainz and Wiz Khalifa take their track “We Own It” into the Top 40 to No.22. And blasting through them all and debuting at No.27 is Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with “Wing$”.
Little Mix holds their No.29 peak with “How Ya Doin?”, whilst Empire of the Sun move back into the Top 40 to a new peak of No.37 with “Alive”. Right behind them are Sheppard with their self-titled EP, which debuts at No.38, and features the radio hit “Let Me Down Easy”.
After two weeks at No.10, “Treasure” for Bruno Mars is down two places to No.12, whilst Paramore are the other Top 10 evacuee, their track “Still Into You” is down five spots to No.13 after six weeks inside the ten, peaking at No.5. The Stafford Brothers fall seven places to No.25 with “Hello” (now 2x) and falling eleven spots to No.28 are MKTO with “Thank You” (now 3x). Pink and Nate Ruess fall nine places to No.30 with “Just Give Me a Reason”, with James Arthur down eight spots to No.39 with “Impossible”.
NEW - #19 – Threads of Silence – Karise Eden
The winner of The Voice Season one was Karise Eden, who sang her new song “Threads of Silence” on the show last Monday (3-June) night. This becomes her ninth chart entry, all of which have landed within the Top 40, her highest being the No.1 song “Stay With Me Baby” (June 2012).
The VOICE Season 2 (The Finals): Celia Pavey lands the highest contestant new entry as her version of “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” (Carole King penned, Shirelles performed HP-4, peaked March 1961) debuts at No.23 becoming the fifth version of the song to chart in Australia (4 Seasons-1968, Linda Ronstadt-1970 and Melanie-1974). Right behind her at No.24 is Harrison Craig with “If” (Bread HP-41, July 1971) charting higher than the original from 42 years ago. Miss Murphy lands at No.32 with The Miracles song “You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me” (HP-8 in USA, 1962), and Luke Kennedy debuts at No.35 with “Overjoyed” (Stevie Wonder 1986).
Written by Gavin Ryan
Source: Take40.com
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