The Official End of Year ARIA Charts have just been released.

Here’s how Vanessa placed:

#35 - ‘Perfect’ / Singles
#69 - ‘Somewhere In The Real World’ / Albums

Read this full post if you wish to see the full press release from ARIA, as well as all the results.

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Just when I thought I had seen it all, Vanessa toped all her other gigs so far by an extremely powerful performance on New Year’s Eve @ Riva St Kilda in Melbourne. There wasn’t a nano second when I regreted flying all the way to Melbourne and missing my oh so loved Sydney fireworks. Just as the clock stroke 11pm Vanessa was welcome on the stage by a screaming crowd. She was placed on a rather too high from the ground stage but not even that was going to keep this girl away from the fans; she was a regular visitor ‘downstairs’ joining the fans in celebrations. Unfortunately apart from the first two songs I cannot recall the order of the songs she performed but here they are as follows: Have A Look, The Power, Absolutely Everybody, Shine, Start It, I Thought We’d Stay Together, Fire, Perfect, Kiss Your Mama, Back In Black, Long Way To The Top, 19 Turning Point and a final song was a remix of Kiss Your Mama, Turn To Me, Perfect and Have a Look. The Remix had an incredible beat and totally toped the whole night up. Then she obviously led the countdown to midnight when the time was right. Even though she didn’t offically ‘come out’ after the show, she still didn’t mind meeting the most stubborn fans who couldn’t leave without a photo We also got to meet the whole Amorosi Squad, which exclusively included her boyfriend Mac. Yet again, a night with Vanessa brought no disappointement. Happy New Year absolutely everybody!

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After two months of being out of the ARIA charts, ‘Perfect’ has smashed it’s way back into the Top 50 Physical Singles and Top 20 Australian Singles Charts this week.

Here’s the re-entry positions:

Physical Singles: 18

Australian Singles: 15

We’re guessing it might have something to do with Vanessa’s amazing performance at Carols By Candlelight.

In related news, ‘Perfect’ came in at #3 on the Take40 end of year charts. Sydney radio station 2dayFM counted down their top 100 songs of 2008 yesterday, with ‘Perfect’ coming in at #30. And the song also came in at #14 on SAFM’s Top 50 of ‘08.

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[December 29, 2008 - The Daily Telegraph]

VANESSA Amorosi hit some high notes in 2008 with her single Perfect the most-played Aussie song on radio.

Now she hopes to top that by teaming with one of popular music’s most successful and oddest stars.

Amorosi is teaming up with Prince for a songwriting session. She met the diminutive pop star at LA venue The Viper Room in August.

Vanessa burst on to the airwaves with hits like Absolutely Everybody and Shine when she was 19, but was first discovered singing in a Russian restaurant by Mark Holden when she was 16.

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This is the next post in our FLASHBACK series, where we are uploading a lot of old footage onto youtube previously unavailable online. We are currently looking for a few things also, so please check out my request at the end of this post.

The Power (NYE Live - 31/12/2000)

Another Peice (NYE Live - 31/12/2000)

Time Filler (NYE Live - 31/12/2000)

Black Dog (NYE Live - 31/12/2000)

Long Way To The Top (NYE Live - 31/12/2000)

Turn To Me (NYE Live - 31/12/2000)

Interview (NYE Live - 31/12/2000)

Have A Look (NYE Live - 31/12/2000)

Absolutely Everybody (NYE Live - 31/12/2000)

REQUEST::::

+Behind The Scene’s of the ‘Have A Look’ AUS Music Video which was shown back in 1999 on an entertainment program called E! News.

+ ‘Turn To Me’ performed on channel [V] ‘by demand/whatuwant’. Also ‘Tent By The Sea’ performed acoustically during this TV appearance.

+ ‘Spin’ & ‘Dream’ performed on channel [V] ‘whatuwant’.

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Last week we posted the press release from Universal Music, celebrating that Vanessa snagged the #1 spot for the most played Australian song on Australian radio.

Here’s the full list of the top 10 songs played on Australian Radio, to see how ‘Perfect’ compared with both International and other Domestic tracks:

01/ The Last Goodnight - Pictures Of You
02/ Matchbox 20 - All Your Reasons
03/ Newton Faulkner - Dream Catch Me
04/ One Republic - Stop & Stare
05/ Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
06/ Santana ftg. Chad Kroeger - Into The Night
07/ Maroon 5 - Won’t Go Home Without You
08/ Vanessa Amorosi - Perfect
09/ The Potbelleez - Don’t Hold Back
10/ Faker -This Heart Attack

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So… while I was sitting here and doing nothing, our hero - Matt has been working hard to provide us with some super exclusive media. Well, my library probably isn’t as exclusive, as it doesn’t reach back to 2000, etc BUT I’m sure it’s as valuable to fans. I have been uploading some of the recent performances from this year on YouTube so please do enjoy! Also, a big credit to Justin who actually recorded them in the first place, thanks a bunch!

Friday Night Download

This Is Your Life

Helpmann Awards 2008, the performance AND the award presentation

ARIA Awards, Vanessa presents the award

ARIA Awards, Gabriella Cilmi knicks Vanessa’s license

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In what has got to be the best christmas present they could have thought of, Vanessa’s team surprised everybody this evening by including the following in the latest newsletter from her mailing list:

See the hot new video, ‘My House’ here!
Check out the exclusive video for My House, here! The song is a cheeky one from Vanessa, full of innuendo and get-down grooves. Let Vanessa know what you think of the new video by posting a review on her website www.vanessaamorosi.com

The page they direct us to confirms that ‘My House’ will be the new single. No other details are known as yet, so far we have not seen any word of a physical single release, this may just be a digital/radio release. If you hear ‘My House’ on radio please let us know! The version used in the music video only has half of the second chorus, the chorus is repeated in the version found on the album. It also features Vanessa’s sister, Mellissa, as well as band members Paul, Johnny & Rod.

The e-newsletter also confirmed that Vanessa will be returning to LA in 2009, where she will write material for her next album.

[UPDATE: Tom from the Amorosi.org fan community found the following written in industry newsletter 'Portfolio & Reel' back in July 2008:

"Simon Bookallil has been busy shooting the gorgeous Vanessa Amorosi's new music clip for her next song "My House" shot in an amazing location in Maroubra the result is truly outstanding.."

Simon is mostly known for shooting TV spots for Fashion and Publications. If this information is correct, the My House video was shot prior to deciding to release 'The Simple Things' as a single. You can read the newsletter for yourself here.]

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Universal Music issued the following press release today:

THE #1 MOST PLAYED SONG BY AN AUSTRALIAN ARTIST ON RADIO IN 2008 IS “PERFECT”
Vanessa’s soulful, heartfelt hit single ‘Perfect’ was the most played song by an Australian Artist on the 2008 National Airplay Chart (The Music Network - 22 December 2008).
‘Perfect’ peaked at #4 on the Motorola ARIA Singles Chart as well as achieving Platinum status.
Vanessa will be performing at Carols by Candlelight on Christmas Eve.

It then goes on to provide details of Vanessa’s upcoming appearances, as well as promotes ‘The Simple Things’.  While this would have been a great opportunity, Universal have still not confirmed any further releases next year.

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This is the next post in our FLASHBACK series, where we are uploading a lot of old footage onto youtube previously unavailable online. We are currently looking for a few things also, so please check out my request at the end of this post.

Home For Christmas (Live @ Carols In The Domain - 18/12/1999)



Home For Christmas (Live @ Carols By Candlelight - 24/12/2000)


Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Live @ Carols By Candlelight - 24/12/2000)

‘The Power’ Album & Single Television Commercial - 2000

Absolutely Everybody (Latino Version performed Live on ‘House of Hits’ 2000)

REQUEST:::: We are currently looking for a copy of Behind The Scene’s of the Have A Look Music Video which was shown back in 1999 on an entertainment program called E!

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Here’s the next post in our series of live acoustics, ‘I Thought We’d Stay Together’. Enjoy!

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We’re coming up to the end of the year, and we thought it would be interesting to take a look at what success Vanessa and Universal had with ‘Somewhere In The Real World’. We’ve been crunching the numbers and won’t go into too many details, but I should let you know briefly how we worked this data out.

We looked at all Australian Album releases in 2008, as well as all Australian Album releases in 2007 that  charted in 2008. Based on what we were comparing, for some data we included these 07 releases, and others we excluded. We also worked out each releases chart performance using a point system. For eg, if a title had position 1 on the Album Charts for one week, it was awarded 50 points. Number 2 would then get 49 points etc etc. We then added up all the points based on each week a title was in the charts to give a total point score for it’s ‘08 chart performance.

Okay lets get into some of the figures:

Top 10 Australian Releases in 2008 (by Points) incl 07 releases

01/ The Presets - Apocalypso (1320)
02/ The Veronicas - Hook Me Up (1247)
03/ Gabriella Cilmi - Lessons To Be Learned (965)
04/ Pete Murray - Summer at Eureka (817)
05/ The John Butler Trio - Grand National (495)
06/ The Living End - White Noise (456)
07/ Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicolson - Rattlin Bones (452)
08/ Geoffrey Yunupingu - Gurrumul (418)
09/ Damian Leith - Catch The Wind (392)
10/ Vanessa Amorosi - Somewhere In The Real World (372)

Top 10 Australian Releases in 2008 (by # of Wks Charted) exl 07 releases

01/ The Presets - Apocalypso (33)
02/ Gabriella Cilmi - Lessons To Be Learned (29)
03/ Pete Murray - Summer at Eureka (21)
04/ Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicolson - Rattlin Bones (19)
05/ Geoffrey Yunupingu - Gurrumul (18)
06/ The Living End - White Noise (16)
07/ Birds of Tokyo - Universes (12)
08/ Faker - Be The Twilight (12)
09/ Vanessa Amorosi - Somewhere In The Real World (11)
10/ Damian Leith - Catch The Wind (11)

Top 10 Australian Female Releases in 2008 (by Points) incl 07 releases

01/ Gabriella Cilmi - Lessons To Be Learned (965)
02/ Vanessa Amorosi - Somewhere In The Real World (372)
03/ Delta Goodrem - Delta (324)
04/ Tina Arena - Songs of Love and Loss (219)
05/ Kate Ceberano - So Much Beauty (161)
06/ Kylie Minogue - X (121)
07/ Natalie Gauci - The Winners Journey (94)
08/ Kate Miller-Heidke - Curiouser (81)
09/ Tina Arena - Songs of Love and Loss 2 (73)
10/ Missy Higgins - On A Clear Night (64)

Top Australian Releases in 2008 (by Accred Selling) excl 07 releases

01/ ACDC - Black Ice (210000)
02/ The Presets - Apocalypso (70000)
03/ Gabriella Cilmi - Lessons To Be Learned (70000)
04/ Pete Murray - Summer at Eureka (70000)
05/ The Living End - White Noise (35000)
06/ Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicolson - Rattlin Bones (35000)
07/ Geoffrey Yunupingu - Gurrumul (35000)
08/ Damian Leith - Catch The Wind (35000)
09/ Vanessa Amorosi - Somewhere In The Real World (35000)
10/ The Whitlams - Truth, Beauty and a Picture of You (35000)
11/ Sneaky Sound System - 2 (35000)
12/ Faker - Be The Twilight (35000)

Here’s how the labels are fairing based on the performance of their Australian releases this year:

Top 5 Aus Release Distributors in 2008 (by Points) incl 07 releases

01/ WAR (4048)
02/ UMA (3926)
03/ SBME (3461)
04/ EMI (2189)
05/ MGM (1820)

Top 5 Aus Release Distributors in 2008 (by # of Wks Charted) excl 07 releases

01/ UMA (124)
02/ WAR (95)
03/ SBME (79)
04/ EMI (56)
05/ MGM (43)

Top 5 Aus Release Distributors in 2008 (by Accred Selling) excl 07 releases

01/ SBME (315000)
02/ WAR (140000) & UMA (140000) {tied 2nd place}
04/ MGM (70000)
05/ EMI (35000)

And finally lets look at some data specific to releases that Universal distributed:

Top 5 UMA Distributed Aus Releases in 2008 (by Points) incl 07 releases

01/ The Presets - Apocalypso (label-MOD) (1320)
02/ The Living End - White Noise (label-DEW) (456)
03/ Vanessa Amorosi - Somewhere In The Real World (label-UMA) (372)
04/ Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (label-MOD) (242)
05/ Cog - Sharing Space (label-DIF) (227)

Top 5 UMA Distributed Aus Releases in 2008 (by # of Wks Charted) excl 07 releases

01/ The Presets - Apocalypso (label-MOD) (33)
02/ The Living End - White Noise (label-DEW) (16)
03/ Vanessa Amorosi - Somewhere In The Real World (label-UMA) (11)
04/ Cog - Sharing Space (label-DIF) (9)
05/ Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (label-MOD) (7)

Universal Music as a record label only had success with 2 other Australian Album releases this year.

Here is how they compared:

Vanessa Amorosi - Somewhere In The Real World
Label: UMA Distribution: UMA
Weeks on chart (in 08): 11
Highest position (in 08): 4
Points: 372
Certification: 35,000

Xavier Rudd - Dark Shades of Blue
Label: UMA Distribution: UMA
Weeks on chart (in 08): 6
Highest position (in 08): 5
Points: 186
Certification: 0

Pnau - S/T
Label: UMA Distribution: UMA
Weeks on chart (in 08): 5
Highest position (in 08): 31
Points: 52
Certification: 0

ARIA will release official sales figures for 2008 in the New Year.

Also in related news, iTunes Australia has released their top selling releases chart for 2008.

‘Perfect’ came in at #30 for ‘Top Overall Songs’, and #17 for ‘Top Selling Pop Songs’.

Removing all international acts and it is the #5 Top Selling Single by an Australian artist this year on iTunes.

The album ‘Somewhere In The Real World’ came in at #47 for ‘Top Overall Albums’, as well as appearing in the ‘Top Ten Best Local Releases’ (picked by iTunes).

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Rock legend Jimmy Barnes will take centre stage at Vision Australia’s Carols By Candlelight live from 8.00pm Wednesday, December 24 on Channel Nine.

It will be a family affair for the Barnes clan this year as Jimmy’s son and Carols ambassador, multi-platinum artist David Campbell, will perform a duet with his father which will bring the house down.

Jimmy’s daughter, Mahalia Barnes, will also be performing, singing solo at her first Carols By Candlelight appearance.

It’s a year of new faces for the 71st edition of Vision Australia’s Carols By Candlelight, with TODAY hosts Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson hosting the traditional Christmas Eve show from the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne.

“Carols has always been a big part of my family’s Christmas ritual and I am honoured to be part of the celebration,” Wilkinson said.

“To be hosting Carols is a real honour and I am looking forward to being part of such an amazing show that raises money for a very deserving charity,” Stefanovic said.

The three Billy Elliots (Josh Denyer, Rhys Kosakowski and Josh Waiss-Gates) from the Broadway smash hit, Billy Elliot The Musical, will sing their way around the stage in their first appearance at Carols.

The critically acclaimed cast of Wicked The Musical will perform with their newest cast member, Bert Newton, headlining as The Wizard of Oz.

Play School veteran Jay Laga’aia will do a duet with the host of Animal Emergency, Georgie Parker, who is also making her début at Carols By Candlelight, a performance she regards as a career highlight.

“I am beside myself, but my family is probably even more excited. Watching Carols is how we spend our Christmas Eve and now my family will be able to see me participate. I can’t wait,” Parker said.

Another newcomer to Carols this year is Tim Campbell. After enjoying the success of Channel Nine’s Celebrity Singing Bee, Campbell is turning his talents to the stage and will perform a festive favourite.

A spectacular lineup including multi-platinum-selling artist Vanessa Amorosi, ARIA-nominated group The McClymonts, 3AW announcer and Nine News weather presenter Denis Walter, Carols favourite Anthony Callea, first lady of song Marina Prior, plus Guys and Dolls performer and star of Sea Patrol, Ian Stenlake, will also take to the stage.

Under the baton of Musical Director John Foreman, other drawcards for this year’s Carols By Candlelight include family favourites Hi-5 and Humphrey, Gorgi Quill, inspirational blind singer and guitarist Lorin Nicholson, double ARIA winner Katie Noonan, the National Boys Choir and the Australian Girls Choir.

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FLASHBACK is a new series of posts that we will occasionally do over the coming months as we upload a lot of old footage to YouTube, that has previously been unavailable online. We hope you enjoy the nostalgia of these posts and welcome your feedback. We are currently looking for a few things also, so please check out my request at the end of this post.


Absolutely Everybody (Live @ An Australian Christmas - 19/12/1999)


Have A Look (Live at the ARIA Awards 12/10/1999)


100% Pure Love (Ground Zero: Celebrity Karaoke - 2000)


Video Hits Intro ID 1 - 1999


The Power (Live @ Paralympics Opening Ceremony - 18/10/2000)



REQUEST:::: We are currently looking for a copy of Behind The Scene’s of the Have A Look Music Video which was shown back in 1999 on an entertainment program called E!

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