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Fat Freddy's Drop
25 January 2006 - 0 Comments
Fat Freddy’s Drop’s stellar year continues with the Wellington seven-piece group the most successful New Zealand act on the album charts in 2005.
Based On A True Story is the second best selling album of the year, just pipped at the post by James Blunt whose album Back To Bedlam was a December favourite.
And to Fat Freddy’s four Tuis at the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards you can add a second triumph – the album has been six weeks at top of the Chart, equalling Split Enz’ Time And Tide which set the benchmark in 1982.
The only other ‘local’ album by a band to spend longer on top is Crowded House’s Recurring Dream which stayed at number one for eight weeks in 1996, a feat FFD may yet reach.
The figures are compiled by Media Sauce Ltd. for the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ) which has just released The Official Chart sales data for the year to December 31 for across-the-counter sales to consumers.
Hayley Westenra’s Odyssey capped off another high-selling year climbing into the top 10 at eighth most popular album for the 12 months. Westenra’s Pure was the seventh highest selling album in 2004.
Hayley is the only Kiwi act featuring in December’s and the year’s most popular 10 DVDs with Live In Concert in at number nine for the month and 10 for the year.
On the singles front, Savage had a great year and was the only local act to make it into the Top 10 Singles Chart - and with two entries.
Moonshine, featuring US rapper Akon, was the third highest selling single for 2005. Meanwhile Swing, the first single from Savage’s debut album Moonshine, came in at number eight on the end of year charts.
RIANZ chief executive Campbell Smith says 2004 was a hard act to follow when New Zealand artists produced seven of the top 20 singles and eight of the top 20 albums.
“Fat Freddy’s hard work has paid off and the band’s number two position is a well deserved success for a group that works so hard and does things on its own terms,” Smith says.
“By spending six weeks at the top of the chart the group has this week stamped its place in New Zealand music history.”
Altogether 20 New Zealand artists featured in the top 100 chart albums for 2005 including the feelers at number 16 with Playground Battle and Bic Runga at 20 with Birds. There were 23 locals in the top 100 albums in 2004. There were 16 NZ artists in the top 100 singles chart in both years.
The top 20 selling albums for 2005 were:
1 Back To Bedlam - James Blunt
2 Based On A True Story - Fat Freddy's Drop
3 X&Y - Coldplay
4 In Between Dreams - Jack Johnson
5 Monkey Business - Black Eyed Peas
6 In Your Honor - Foo Fighters
7 Curtain Call: The Hits - Eminem
8 Odyssey - Hayley Westenra
9 Breakaway - Kelly Clarkson
10 Crazy Hits - Crazy Frog
11 Demon Days - Gorillaz
12 American Idiot - Green Day
13 Songs About Jane - Maroon 5
14 Love, Angel, Music, Baby - Gwen Stefani
15 Trouble: Deluxe Edition - Akon
16 Playground Battle - The Feelers
17 The Massacre - 50 Cent
18 Il Divo - Il Divo
19 Ancora - Il Divo
20 Birds - Bic Runga
The top 20 selling singles for 2005 were:
1 Axel F - Crazy Frog
2 Das Kleine Krokodil - Schnappi
3 Moonshine - Savage feat. Akon
4 Popcorn - Crazy Frog
5 Don't Cha - The Pussycat Dolls
6 Let Me Love You - Mario
7 Don't Phunk With My Heart - Black Eyed Peas
8 Switch - Will Smith
9 Swing - Savage
10 Jingle Bells - Crazy Frog
11 Ghetto Gospel - 2Pac feat. Elton John
12 Candy Shop - 50 Cent feat. Olivia
13 Beautiful Soul - Jesse McCartney
14 Pon De Replay - Rihanna
15 Lonely - Akon
16 Big City Life - Mattafix
17 1, 2, Step - Ciara feat. Missy Elliott
18 Feel Good Inc - Gorillaz
19 Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani
20 Gold Digger - Kanye West feat. Jamie Foxx
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