Oh would you look at that? It's the Australian ARIA Singles and Albums charts. For the first time in exactly 36 years, both of the charts are almost interesting enough to discuss this week. Let's take a look at some of the more, er, notable entries...

SINGLES

#01 - SILVERCHAIR - STRAIGHT LINES
Debuting at number #1 this week, and easily Silverchair's (Chris Joannou, bassist, pictured right) strongest single to date. First studio album in over 5 years is on its way this month... March 31st could not come any quicker.

#03 - HINDER - LIPS OF AN ANGEL
Australia, what is going on here?

#06 - MIKA - GRACE KELLY
Australia catches onto the Mika craze. Album out this week - will it find a spot on the top 40?

#13 - GIA FARREL - HIT ME UP
As if Rihanna's "Pon De Replay" wasn't tedious enough the first time around, Gia Farrel's here to provide us all with an extremely watered down poor man's version of the song.

#17 - JAMELIA - SOMETHING ABOUT YOU
Something Jamelia's not used to these days, her single's managed to rise up 2 places from 19 to 17 this week. "Beware Of The Dog" is already being played on Nova.

#27 - SNEAKY SOUND SYSTEM - PICTURES
New single please!

#29 - TAKE THAT - PATIENCE
Debuting at Number 29 thanks to their (somewhat) extensive promo tour of Australia last week. Most radio stations across the country have decided to start playing this even though it was originally released here in November last year - four whole months ago. Melbourne radio were quite happy to interview the boys last week on their top-rating programs, but the song's still not good enough for the airwaves of Melbourne, with neither Fox or Nova adding "Patience" to their playlists. Even though they had the boys in last week. Go figure. The Hit lift-out in tomorrows Herald Sun Newspaper is going to have an alarmingly telling figure as to what peoples thoughts are in relation to Take That's lack of airplay in Melbourne. Keep an eye out for it...

#34 - STEPHANIE MCINTOSH - SO DO I SAY SORRY FIRST
Up one spot after a disappointing debut last week, Steph's strongest song and single to date barely cuts the lower end of the charts. Pity, both the song and clip have been the first real indication of McIntosh actually being quite serious about this whole pop thing. Time for a new album then...

#41 - DIXIE CHICKS - NOT READY TO MAKE NICE
Hanging around on downloads alone, this is quite probably the 13th greatest song of all time.


ALBUMS

#12 - JESSICA MAUBOY - THE JOURNEY
Guess who got this from work to review this week? SonyBMG have been a bit tight on providing any press with the DVD particle of the package, obviously quite aware that no one wishes to relive Australian Idol 2006 with visual aid at all.

#16 - DIXIE CHICKS - TAKING THE LONG WAY
I have a lot of time for the Dixie Chicks. They're very clever young women with an incredibly strong back catalogue worthy of further praise on this website. You have been warned.

#21 - AMY WINEHOUSE - BACK TO BLACK
Down two spots this week after spending its second week at Number #19, Amy's got her album in the wanted parts of the chart without having an active single on radio or without any promo on her part. Apparently we should be expecting her down under quite soon though.

#26 - ROGUE TRADERS - HERE COME THE DRUMS
68 weeks in the top 50 and counting. Natalie Bassingthwaighte revives her Neighbours character of Izzy Hoyland this week on Australian television

#27 - SNEAKY SOUND SYSTEM - SNEAKY SOUND SYSTEM
Vocalist Miss Connie's musical background includes fronting defunct ace Pop/Rock/Alternative outfit Primal in the late 90's.

#32 - TAKE THAT - BEAUTIFUL WORLD
Is this going to rise next week? The boys pretty much confirmed that the only reason we're not getting a tour in 2007 is because they want to test the waters here first. A stupidly cancelled appearance on Channel 7's Dancing With The Stars could have been their meal ticket into the homes and hearts of the nation again. If singing one lousy song on that show got Westlife to Number 1 here, Take That would have had not a problem at all in doing so. But apparently due to confusion on managements part (No!?), the schedule was changed to fit in more radio interviews (pfft) and Dancing With The Stars was given the boot. Even though the night of Dancing With the Stars the boys were lounging in their hotel lobby, rather than doing any radio interviews. Universal Music Australia waving that magical wand of incompetence all over again it seems.

#35 - JEFF BUCKLEY - GRACE
Unbelievable. Surely everyone (who would want it) owns this by now?

#41 - XTINA - BACK TO BASICS
Christina's very boring, serious and funless album manages to climb back into the albums top 50 with thanks to radio playing "Candyman", the albums only strong point.

#45 - KORN - MTV UNPLUGGED
Let's hope their cover of "Word Up" was forgotten about for this one.

#46 - YOUNG DIVAS - YOUNG DIVAS
Everyone's favourite homegrown(ish) dairy farmers are going on tour in May. Without Ricki-Lee. Who will be Lee's replacement? AND - more importantly - when do we get a new album of covers? I insist that Sabrina's "Boys Boys Boys" gets a go on the next record.

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• 2:17 PM |  Poster Girl said...
  It's so strange to see you mention the Dixie Chicks! I finally got a chance to see Shut Up & Sing only a few days ago and have been going through a bit of a Dixie Chicks revival, as well as wondering why on Earth I have not bought their new album yet.
  
  It's sad to see Australia is not immune to whatever the charms of Hinder must be :(

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