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Fat Freddy's Drop
15 December 2005 - 0 Comments
Kiwi musicians appear to be more and more confident about doing their own thing if the 2005 charts are anything to go by.
The Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ) has just released The Official Chart sales data for the year to December 11.
The figures are for across-the-counter sales to consumers.
Leading the way are Fat Freddy’s Drop and Kiwi Hip Hop star Savage in the top 10 album and singles charts respectively.
The only Kiwi album to climb into 2005’s top 10, FFD’s Based on a True Story is the third most popular disc of the year behind a couple of blockbusters, Jack Johnson’s In Between Dreams and X&Y from Coldplay.
Meanwhile Savage muscles his way into the Top 10 singles for the year with Moonshine, featuring Akon at #3 and Swing at #8 most popular. The two biggest singles of 2005 are Crazy Frog’s Axel F and Das Kleine Krokodil by Schnappi.
The year-to-date figures may change before the final results at the end of the year. RIANZ chief executive Campbell Smith says the final three weeks are high-volume periods.
“With the way Fat Freddy's Drop is currently going, we could still yet see a local artist have the highest-selling album of the year.
“Should that happen, it would be the third year running that New Zealand artists have topped the sales stats after Brooke Fraser's What To Do With Daylight did it in 2004 and Bic Runga's Beautiful Collision in 2003.
Paul Kennedy from chart compiler Media Sauce Ltd says it has been another great year for local music, helped again by continuing high local content rates on radio.
"Fat Freddy's Drop has been the number one success story of the year, reflected not just in the band’s award recognition and album sales, but the fact that hard work and patience do pay off.
"Seeing Savage appear twice in the Top 10 Singles of the year is a deserved reflection of his success too, and that of the Dawn Raid label which just notched up its 10th Top 10 hit in succession – an unprecedented feat for any label, local or international."
“While high volume sales mean novelty songs get noticed atop the Singles Chart, the year on radio has been dominated by the likes of Breaks Co-Op, which had the most-played song on New Zealand radio this year with The Other Side.”
The Official New Zealand Chart this year celebrated its 30th anniversary. On May 2, 1975 the first New Zealand Top 40 chart was published listing the 40 biggest selling singles and albums for the week.
The first chart was numbered 1 and Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks was the first # 1 album and Helen Reddy’s Free and Easy was the country’s first top single. The number 1458 chart released on May 4 marked the 30th anniversary.
The chart is also nearing another milestone with the 500th #1 single expected to be reached in the next few months.
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