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Charts – 25 February 2022

Posted on Saturday, February 26, 2022 by Paul in Music

We talk about him incessantly, I think you’ll find.

1. Carolina Gaitan, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero & Stephanie Beatriz – “We Don’t Talk About Bruno”

That’s six weeks. As for the other Encanto songs, “Surface Pressure” returns to 3 this week – it’s spent six weeks now hovering between 3 and 5 – while “The Family Madrigal” is still at 8.

6. Mimi Webb – “House On Fire”

Presumably the first single from her next album. This becomes her highest placing single, beating last year’s “Good Without” (which got to number 8). The singles from the last album were mostly mid paced ballads, so this is a bit of a shift, positioning her more as an 80s pop act. It’s not subtle, but I like the hook.

21. Tion Wayne & M24 – “Knock Knock”

This week’s mid-table UK rap track. Tion Wayne is a chart regular, and had a number 1 last year alongside Russ Millions with “Body”. M24’s only previous hit single was in 2020, when he got to number 32 with “London”… featuring Tion Wayne. Since we last saw him, he’s spent a few months in jail for possession of a knife. He’s also the only mainstream rapper to make a record with the improbable septuagenarian duo Pete & Bas, who go viral every so often when a new audience stumbles upon them.

Pete & Bas are a very strange proposition who just get stranger when you start looking into them. They started as a spin-off from SindhuWorld, a comedy Instagram account about a London corner shop which went modestly viral in 2017. In that continuity, Pete was a trading standards officer and Bas was a piano teacher, personas long since phased out in favour of being ageing gangsters. While journalists tend to turn a blind eye to this (or just never spot it), it isn’t a secret – their earliest YouTube video still calls them “Pete and Bas from SindhuWorld” in the description, and on Spotify, their records carry a SindhuWorld copyright notice. SindhuWorld also have a credit on Frank & Maury, who are essentially the same concept but American. There’s a casting call for that project, which could certainly be read as suggesting that it’s a lip synch role. But (unlike the Americans) Pete & Bas play live shows, and they’ve done extended interviews. It’s all quite odd. A lot of the records are genuinely good on their own merits, anyhow.

34. Cat Burns – “Go”

Debut hit. This has been hovering in the 40s for the last month. She’s from London and she’s an alumni of the Brits School. Quite nice, this.

39. Wilkinson & Issey Cross – “Used to This”

I can never quite get my head around someone thinking “Wilkinson” was a good name to release dance records under, even if it is his name. He had a few hits in 2013-4 – the biggest being “Afterglow”, which made the top 10 – but it’s the first we’ve heard of him since then. Issey Cross gets her first hit.

40. Bad Boy Chiller Crew – “BMW”

Their second hit, following last year’s endearingly gormless “Don’t You Worry About Me”, which got to numbe 31. Their debut album “Disrespectful” enters at number 2 this week. They’re an odd proposition; the name is a hangover from an earlier incarnation as a comedy prank outfit.

This week’s climbers:

  • “Where Are You Now” by Lost Frequencies & Calum Scott climbs to 4 after three weeks at 5.
  • “Make Me Feel Good” by Belters Only featuring Jazzy climbs 7-5.
  • “Down Under” by Luude featuring Colin Hay climbs 10-9.
  • “Bad Habits” by Ed Sheeran rebounds from 18-11 because they released a new version with Bring Me The Horizon.
  • “Make You Smile” by D-Block Europe featuring AJ Tracey re-enters at 19 for no obvious reason; it peaked at 15 previously
  • “Where Did You Go” by Jax Jones featuring MNEK climbs 30-23.
  • “Anyone For You” by George Ezra climbs 26-25.
  • “Light Switch” by Charlie Puth climbs 40-31, so it’s got some momentum after all.
  • “Numb Little Bug” by Em Beihold re-enters at 36, two places above its previous peak.

There are five new entries, plus the two re-entries. The records that leave to make way for them:

  • “Stay” by Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber… again. This hovers around the 40 mark.
  • “Khabib” by Central Cee, after a single week at number 22.
  • “Reggae & Calypso” by Russ Millions, Buni & YV, after a single week at number 32. The official chart listing seems to have changed the title to “One of a Kind Music presents Reggae and Calypso”, which… god, no.
  • “Coming for You” by SwitchOTR featuring A1 & J1, which spent 15 weeks in the top 40 and peaked at 5.
  • “Ghost” by Justin Bieber, which must have hit the downweighting rule, since it falls 21-56.
  • “Everything’s Electric” by Liam Gallagher, which peaked at 18 and actually scraped a second week in the top 40.
  • “Cold Shoulder” by Central Cee, after three weeks peaking at 25.

On the album chart, Ed Sheeran’s “=” returns to number 1 for a fourth week. It’s been out since November and has never dropped below 4. The Bad Boy Chiller Crew are number 2, as already mentioned.

4. Sea Power – “Everything Was Forever”

The band formerly known as British Sea Power, who changed their name last year as a repudiation of nationalism. It’s their highest placed album, and returns them to the top 10 for the first time since 2008.

According to the YouTube description, the video above is “[a]n ambiguous and open-minded exploration of footage from around the world. Both celebratory and fearful. A collage of moving images striving to overcome a narrative free emptiness.” So now you know.

7. Metronomy – “Small World”

Their joint highest placed album, matching 2014’s “Love Letters”.

14. White Lies – “As I Try Not To Fall Apart”

Exactly the same position as their previous album, from 2019. It’s their sixth album and they’ve yet to miss the top 20.

33. Goodbye June – “See Where The Night Goes”

They’re a rock band from Nashville. It’s their third album and the first to chart in the UK.

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