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Charts – 10 March 2023

Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2023 by Paul in Music

It’s another week of holding pattern on the singles chart, to be honest. The album chart is busier, but first…

1. Miley Cyrus – “Flowers”

That’s eight weeks – by the skin of its teeth, since its lead over “Boy’s a Liar” at number 2 equates to 1,200 sales. But it’s eight weeks nonetheless, which matches LF System’s “Afraid To Feel”. In theory, the next target is ten weeks, which is what Harry Styles managed with “As It Was” last spring. The album is out this week, which could well push her there.

The top ten isn’t entirely static, but it might as well be – it’s all non-movers or records shuffling up or down a place, aside from Libianca’s “People” at number 8, which climbs a mighty three places. For our highest new entry we head all the way down to…

30. Nicki Minaj – “Red Ruby Da Sleeze”

This is apparently a promotional single from her upcoming fifth album, which has been upcoming for a very long time now – it’s been six years since her last album. The sample is from Lumidee’s “Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh)”, which reached number 2 in 2003 as her only UK hit. In fact, Lumidee was basically a one-hit wonder everywhere – except in Belgium, where she had a number 1 hit in 2007. The Lumidee record in turn was based on the widely used Diwali Riddim.

32. JayO – “22”

Debut hit. Apparently he’s a London rapper, but it’s remarkably hard to find out much about him – partly because most of the obvious things you might search bring up information about the unrelated American rapper Jayo Felony.

34. Jax Jones & Calum Scott – “Whistle”

This has been out for a few weeks, but it’s been making reasonably rapid progress from outside the top 100 to get to this point. Calum Scott is a Britain’s Got Talent alumnus with two previous hits to his name – a maudlin cover of “Dancing On My Own” which reached number 2 in 2016, and a guest vocal on Lost Frequencies’ “Where Are You Now”, which was a big hit in 2021/22.

Jax Jones’ last hit was “Where Did You Go”, which reached the top 10 last year – but he’s had two other singles that missed the top 40 since then.

35. Nathan Dawe & Bru-C featuring bshp & Issey Cross – “Oh Baby”

A sixth top 40 hit for producer Nathan Dawe, whose last single missed the top 40. Bru-C gets his second hit, following “No Excuses”, which reached 14. Singer bshp gets her first hit. Her real name is Gabrielle Bishop, and if you think bshp is a questionable choice of stage name, bear in mind that she used to go by Gabrielle Vixen. Issey Cross has had one previous hit, guesting on a Wilkinson track that reached number 33 last year.

37. J-Hope & J Cole – “On The Street”

This is the first solo hit for J-Hope, but he’s a member of BTS. J Cole guests, making his first chart appearance in two years. Quite good, actually.

This week’s climbers:

  • “Die For You” by the Weeknd climbs 4-3.
  • “People” by Libianca climbs 11-8.
  • “Us Against The World” by Strandz climbs 13-12.
  • “Red Flags” by Mimi Webb climbs 17-13.
  • “If We Ever Broke Up” by Mae Stephens climbs 20-18.
  • “Lavender Haze” by Taylor Swift climbs 27-25.
  • “Pretty Boys” by Caity Baser climbs 35-26 – the only significant climber this week. Still feels like a novelty record to me, but I can see a gap in the market for it.
  • “Rush” by Ayra Starr climbs 29-28.
  • “Snooze” by SZA climbs 40-36.

Well, that wasn’t interesting. There are five new entries this week, plus a re-entry for Tom Odell at 40. The six records leaving:

  • “Forget Me” by Lewis Capaldi, which has been in and out of the top 40 several times now.
  • “Let Go” by Central Cee, peaking at 6 and getting six weeks in the top 10.
  • “Martin’s Sofa” by Headie One, which entered at 9 and lasted six weeks in total.
  • “Weekends” by Freya Ridings after a single week at 31.
  • “Painting Pictures” by Superstar Pride, after a single week at 33.
  • “Here With Me” by D4VD, which managed three weeks in the top 40, peaking at 34.

On the album chart:

1. The Lathums – “From Nothing to a Little Bit More”

Their third album and their second number one. Trad indie rock, basically.

2. Slowthai – “Ugly”

His third album; the last one got to number 1, but this is close enough. No hit singles from this one, though, so he’s definitely transferred to the album market.

4. Mimi Webb – “Amelia”

Officially her debut album, but her 2021 EP “Seven Shades of Heartbreak” reached number 9. The current single “Red Flags” is at number 13, though the bigger hit from this album was “House on Fire”, which made the top 10 last year.

9. Eva Cassidy – “I Can Only Be Me”

Eva Cassidy died in 1996, before her first hit – so how to keep refreshing her limited back catalogue? Well, it’s been a while since he had one of those “with the London Symphony Orchestra” albums… and here’s another.

12. De La Soul – “3 Feet High And Rising”

Reissued following Trugoy’s death last month. This is actually it’s highest ever position – it reached number 27 on released in 1989, and got to number 13 the following year.

13. Tide Lines – “An Ocean Full of Islands”

Follow up to 2020’s “Eye of the Storm”, which peaked at 12 – so little change.

23. Genesis – “BBC Broadcasts”

Genesis don’t do YouTube, but this is a box set of various live shows and sessions.

40. Morgan Wallen – “One Thing at a Time”

Country. It’s his first appearance in the albums top 40, but his previous two albums did well in the US.

Bring on the comments

  1. Douglas says:

    J-Hope becomes the first member of BTS to chart in the Top 40 as a soloist – although Jungkook came very close, with #41 as a feature on a Charlie Puth song last year. This also makes him the second K-Pop act to chart in the Top 40 as a soloist (after Psy).

    “On the Street”‘s high position can be attributed to some combination of (a) it’s really good, (b) J-Hope is about to enlist for his compulsory military service and this is a farewell song and (c) the J. Cole feature.

    Jimin – one of BTS’s vocalists – has a pre-album single coming out on Friday and an album coming out next week. There’s a good chance they’ll chart well.

  2. Alex says:

    For the record – it was announced a while back that De La Soul’s back catalogue would finally be streaming as of 3/3 (the magic number!), after various long-term rights issues keeping it off the services had been resolved. It was just terribly unfortunate that Trugoy went right before he got to see it.

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