{"id":10051,"date":"2024-04-28T13:36:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T12:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10051"},"modified":"2024-04-28T13:36:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T12:36:03","slug":"charts-26-april-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10051","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 26 April 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this is not going to surprise anyone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Taylor Swift featuring Post Malone &#8211; &#8220;Fortnight&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RQMz4JDbtmI\">3. Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;The Tortured Poets Department&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EVbtjaWXQVg\">4. Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;Down Bad&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q3zqJs7JUCQ?si=Zz6e1eUSfeLaajI7\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the maximum three tracks from <strong>&#8220;The Tortured Poets Department&#8221;<\/strong>, which enters the album chart at number 1. Taylor Swift hasn&#8217;t missed number 1 with a studio album since 2010 &#8211; and yes, that&#8217;s counting the &#8220;Taylor&#8217;s Version&#8221; releases. She doesn&#8217;t manage a clean sweep of the top 3, with Hozier hanging in at number 2.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fortnight&#8221; is both the official single and the opening track, and so gets the most streams. It&#8217;s only her \u00a0fourth number one single &#8211; more a sign of bad luck than anything else, since she&#8217;s had five number 2s. Her other number 1s are &#8220;Look What You Made Me Do&#8221; (2017), &#8220;Anti-Hero&#8221; (2022) and &#8220;Is It Over Now? (Taylor&#8217;s Version)&#8221; (2023). Post Malone gets a featured artist credit, even though he&#8217;s more noticeable in the video than on the record &#8211; finally giving him a second number 1 to follow &#8220;Rockstar&#8221; (2017).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably the weakest of these three songs, but musically they&#8217;re all very similar. Even the original release of the album is an hour long, and the second disc expands it to two &#8211; usually a red flag that someone needs an editor. I&#8217;ve always found Taylor Swift less interesting the more self-absorbed she gets, and nothing about these tracks makes me want to hear the rest of the album.<\/p>\n<p><strong>14. Drake &#8211; &#8220;Push Ups&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HKH9p19PRLA?si=kB5KUBw9wb4rIAti\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the latest instalment in Drake&#8217;s feud with&#8230; (checks notes) Metro Boomin, Future and Kendrick Lamar, apparently. It&#8217;s a rare outing in the singles chart for Drake actually rapping, and it has more energy than most of his music these days, but there&#8217;s a ceiling on diss tracks beyond the core audience. At least, let&#8217;s give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that that&#8217;s why a new Drake track is entering outside the top 10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>16. Shaboozey &#8211; &#8220;A Bar Song (Tipsy)&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t7bQwwqW-Hc?si=ffjGoV0a8JbbnAaX\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This was number 41 last week, so it&#8217;s got momentum. Based on the name and title I was braced for this to be a novelty record, but it turns out to be another instalment in the country influx. It&#8217;s from the end of country that&#8217;s within shouting distance of Mumford &amp; Sons, so not quite as unusual a sighting on the UK singles chart.\u00a0It&#8217;s the debut hit for Collins Chibueze &#8211; &#8220;Shaboozey&#8221; is meant to be an American mangling of his Nigerian surname.<\/p>\n<p><strong>33. Headie One featuring Stormzy &amp; Tay Keith &#8211; &#8220;Cry No More&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bBbdsM42VTk?si=z3dQOjvIDPAJ723F\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Headie One had a top 10 hit last year with &#8220;Martin&#8217;s Sofa&#8221;, but that was an outlier &#8211; down in the 30s is more typical for him. I&#8217;m a bit more surprised to see a Stormzy appearance this far down, but he didn&#8217;t make the top 10 with any of his singles last year, so maybe I shouldn&#8217;t be.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for new entries &#8211; understandably, not many people fancy going up against a Taylor Swift album. This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Espresso&#8221; by Sabrina Carpenter<\/strong> climbs 6-5, the first time she&#8217;s made the top 5.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Belong Together&#8221; by Mark Ambor<\/strong> climbs 13-12.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Tell Ur Girlfriend&#8221; by Lay Bankz<\/strong> climbs 31-18, so it looks like it&#8217;s on its way to the top 10.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Good Luck Babe&#8221; by Chappell Roan<\/strong> climbs 33-22, also well deserved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, um, yes, that&#8217;s it. The six tracks leaving the top 40 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Greedy&#8221; by Tate McRae<\/strong>, which peaked at number 3 but has been around since last September and spend four months in the top 10.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;What Was I Made For&#8221; by Billie Eilish<\/strong>, which peaked at 16 and had five weeks on its latest run.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Jolene&#8221; by Beyonc\u00e9<\/strong>, which peaked at 8 and lasted three weeks, but then it&#8217;s an album track. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5i7aeWCdxyg\">Todd in the Shadows has a good video on this cover.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;II Most Wanted&#8221; by Beyonc\u00e9 &amp; Miley Cyrus<\/strong>, which peaked at 9 and is in a similar position.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Training Season&#8221; by Dua Lipa<\/strong>, which peaked at 4 and lasted 9 weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Whatever&#8221; by Kygo &amp; Ava Max<\/strong>, which peaked at 15 but lasted a decent 13 weeks for some unfathomable reason.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The longest-running track in the top 40&#8230; is no longer &#8220;Greedy&#8221; by Tate McRae. It&#8217;s now\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Stick Season&#8221; by Noah Kahan<\/strong>, celebrating 29 gloriously uninterrupted weeks in the top 40, and still placed at number 15. (&#8220;Prada&#8221; has actually been around for longer, but it was out of the top 40 for three weeks over Christmas. So not uninterrupted.)<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart, we&#8217;ve already covered Taylor Swift at number 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Pearl Jam &#8211; &#8220;Dark Matter&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Fx8LprPMIU?si=9U2DQv8RlBx_rA4p\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Pearl Jam normally place in the middle of the top 10 with a studio album, so this is on the good side for them. They&#8217;ve never had a number one album, but they&#8217;ve had two previous number 2 albums &#8211; 2013&#8217;s &#8220;Lightning Bolt&#8221; came in behind John Newman&#8217;s &#8220;Tribute&#8221;, and 1993&#8217;s &#8220;Versus&#8221; was released in the same week as &#8220;Everything Changes&#8221; by Take That.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. UB40 &#8211; &#8220;UB45&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PhVeLBkTawg?si=_znuhpnohDxMZpU9\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their 21st album. If you&#8217;re thinking &#8220;isn&#8217;t their singer awfully young&#8221;, that&#8217;s Matt Doyle, who replaced Duncan Campbell in 2021. Number 5 is their highest chart position since 2009.<\/p>\n<p><strong>15. Bruce Springsteen &#8211; &#8220;Best Of Bruce Springsteen&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IxuThNgl3YA?si=EqSGgmjuyzzn__4x\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Exactly what it sounds like. It&#8217;s the eighth compilation album he&#8217;s put out, whatever the point of that is in the digital era.<\/p>\n<p><strong>16. Blur &#8211; &#8220;Parklife&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YSuHrTfcikU?si=kTouTOoQrmWWCIWn\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>30th anniversary reissue &#8211; it&#8217;s also Record Store Day, hence a bunch of vinyl reissues showing up here. It had a single week at number 1 on release in 1994, but it did spend 36 weeks in the top 10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>21. Pink Floyd &#8211; &#8220;Dark Side of the Moon&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-0kcet4aPpQ?si=UXm-t6hNpx4ALYHd\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Clear vinyl reissue to celebrate (checks notes) the 50th anniversary of the album&#8217;s release. Which was last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>31. Orbital &#8211; &#8220;Orbital&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tg5eTjqefHM?si=WuE0nwzsCaN_SZk9\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a re-issue of debut album from 1991 (sometimes called &#8220;the Green Album&#8221;), not the 1993 follow-up of the same name (&#8220;the Brown Album&#8221;), which the OCC website wrongly lists as the same record. The 1991 album has never actually made the top 40 before.<\/p>\n<p>There is no official video for the single &#8220;Chime&#8221;, but this is their debut appearance on\u00a0<em>Top of the Pops,\u00a0<\/em>where they made the bare minimum of effort to pretend that they were doing anything, and weren&#8217;t invited back for six years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>32. The 1975 &#8211; &#8220;Live From Gorilla&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Live performance of their debut album from 2023, released on vinyl for Record Store Day. There aren&#8217;t any official videos for this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>39. David Bowie &#8211; &#8220;Waiting in the Sky (Before the Starman Came to Earth)&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another Record Store Day release. It&#8217;s an alternate version of &#8220;The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars&#8221; with unreleased tracks and rarities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this is not going to surprise anyone. 1. Taylor Swift featuring Post Malone &#8211; &#8220;Fortnight&#8221; 3. Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;The Tortured Poets Department&#8221; 4. Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;Down Bad&#8221; That&#8217;s the maximum three tracks from &#8220;The Tortured Poets Department&#8221;, which enters the album chart at number 1. Taylor Swift hasn&#8217;t missed number 1 with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10053,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10051\/revisions\/10053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}