Check out this weeks official NZ Music Chart. This week includes a big week for Eminem, Katy Perryand a whole lot of new singles. The Official New Zealand Top 40 premieres Saturday nights at 6:00pm on C4
Eminem’s Big Week
It’s been a big week for Eminem as Recovery outsells its nearest rivals to arrive at #1. It gives Marshall Mathers his seventh chart-topping album here and his fourth to open at the top.
Meanwhile, second single Love You The Way You Lie featuring Rihanna gains top Singles Chart entry honours at #6, outperforming lead track Not Afraid which got as high as #8.
Overall the new hit gives Eminem the key to the charts as his 21st New Zealand inking since his May 1999 #4 Hi My Name Is… debut. Among the 21 have been four #1s.
Just one of Eminem’s eight chart albums, 1999 debut The Slim Shady LP, has not reached the pinnacle, peaking instead at #23.
Recovery moves Eminem into a clear fourth on the list of acts with the most #1 albums here, just one set shy of Michael Jackson at #3 with eight chart-toppers. Pink Floyd has one more with nine, while all-time chart champs U2 have 13.
Katy Rules The World
Kathryn Elizabeth Hudson (better known by her stage name Katy Perry) has the biggest song in the English-speaking world this week. California Gurls moves to the Singles Chart throne here in its seventh week on the list. New Zealand is just the latest market to send the song to #1, a place it has already occupied in Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK and her native US as well.
It bodes well for her forthcoming album Teenage Dream, due out in a couple of months. It gives the soon-to-turn-26-year-old a third New Zealand chart-topper following on from 2008 debut I Kissed A Girl and her Timbaland hook-up If We Ever Meet Again, which spent four weeks in the pole position earlier in the year.
On California Gurls the future Mrs Russell Brand shares billing with 38-year-old Snoop Dogg (real name Cordozar Calvin Broadus). It also brings Snoop’s #1 tally to three and gives the pair the Singles / Airplay double as well.
The New Singles
#6 Eminem featuring Rihanna – Love You The Way You Lie
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#28 Young Sid featuring Stan Walker – Stuck In A Box
Individually they were at the Singles summit for 21 weeks of the past 16 months. Together they gain Young Sid his first hit outside of his Smashproof #1 and Stan his fourth as Stuck In A Box arrives at #28. The track features on Sid’s sophomore #11 What Doesn’t Kill Me which holds at #37 this week.
#38 Justin Bieber featuring Usher – Somebody To Love
It seems hard to stop 2010’s Bieber Fever as the 17-year-old Canadian lands another hit from his former #1 My Worlds, this time remixed with backing vocals from mentor Usher. Slipping in at #38, Somebody To Love was co-written by Bieber with Heather Bright and The Stereotypes and is not to be confused with the Queen tune of the same name that made #8 in 1993 when recorded live by George Michael and Queen following the death of Freddie Mercury.
The New Albums
#1 Eminem – Recovery
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#2 Miley Cyrus – Can’t Be Tamed
The new grown-up non-Hannah Montana Miley Cyrus blasts to her highest entry place in a stroke as Can’t Be Tamed opens as runner-up this week. The title track is Miley’s highest single charter, making #6 a couple of weeks back and sitting at #17 this week. In all, Cyrus now has six New Zealand chart albums including #1 Hannah Montana OST and #2 Breakout in her two-and-a-half-year chart career.
#34 Pieter T – Love, Life And Lessons
The latest local R&B male vocalist to chart is Auckland’s Pieter T. He charted his Something Else single at #37 in February. Now comes the debut Love, Life And Lessons issue at #34 on which Pieter not only sings but also wrote and produced.
