{"id":10062,"date":"2024-05-04T17:31:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T16:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10062"},"modified":"2024-05-04T17:31:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T16:31:20","slug":"charts-3-may-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10062","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 3 May 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s mostly a quiet week on the singles chart, but hey, we&#8217;ve got a new number one!<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Sabrina Carpenter &#8211; &#8220;Espresso&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eVli-tstM5E?si=8l428S0Wx6e3Pw31\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By a razor thin margin &#8211; the equivalent of 484 sales &#8211; but it&#8217;s still number one. I&#8217;m not hugely surprised that Taylor Swift only managed a single week, since &#8220;Fortnight&#8221; isn&#8217;t the most instant thing she&#8217;s ever released. I&#8217;m more surprised that it&#8217;s Sabrina Carpenter who replaces her, rather than Hozier returning to the top. The song itself is perfectly good; it&#8217;s the sort of thing you can see Dua Lipa having a big hit with. But Sabrina Carpenter has never got above number 19 before, and while she&#8217;s not a one-hit wonder, this is miles bigger than anything else she&#8217;s released. We&#8217;ll see if she can follow it up &#8211; her persona might be the sort of thing that only makes sense once she becomes a star.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>8. Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;I Can Do It With A Broken Heart&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i8_w_m6HLJ0?si=SoXLMXwV6SUdUKTG\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Technically this week&#8217;s highest new entry, but it&#8217;s an artefact of the chart rules &#8211; only the top three songs from the album can count for the chart. So &#8220;Tortured Poets Department&#8221; drops out of that top three and gets disqualified from the chart, to be replaced by &#8220;I Can Do it With A Broken Heart&#8221;. By the standards of the album, this is an upbeat one, but it&#8217;s ironically upbeat. Still, it does have more obvious singles potential than the three that charted last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fortnight&#8221; drops to 2 in its second week, and &#8220;Down Bad&#8221; drops to 10. The album &#8220;Tortured Poets Department&#8221; gets a seocnd week at number 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>31. Tommy Richman &#8211; &#8220;Million Dollar Baby&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bUX8MDNQda4?si=uSCzdJ1QvCYFq6nn\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The other new entry on this week&#8217;s top 40 &#8211; arguably the only <em>proper<\/em> new entry &#8211; is a debut hit for Tommy Richman. He&#8217;s been around for a few years and he&#8217;s picked up some critical attention, but this is the first time he&#8217;s released a single that made the top 100. It&#8217;s good, though, and ought to go further.<\/p>\n<p><strong>38. Mark Ronson featuring Amy Winehouse &#8211; &#8220;Valerie&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TJAfLE39ZZ8\"><strong>39. Amy Winehouse &#8211; &#8220;Black to Black&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bixuI_GV5I0?si=SBdHUq4QDkSznXCP\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finally, two back catalogue tracks from Amy Winehouse, re-entering because of the release of the not especially well reviewed biopic. Ironically, the higher placing one isn&#8217;t even credited to her as lead artist &#8211; the credit reflects its origin as a track from Ronson&#8217;s album of cover collaborations, &#8220;Version&#8221;. &#8220;Valerie&#8221; reached number 2 on release in 2007 and was her biggest hit single. &#8220;Back to Black&#8221; only got to number 25 in 2007, but reached number 8 in 2011 in the immediate aftermath of her death.<\/p>\n<p>She had one other top 10 hit &#8211; &#8220;Rehab&#8221;, which reached number 7 in 2006 &#8211; but maybe people aren&#8217;t leaving a film about Amy Winehouse wanting to think too hard about that. It&#8217;s not hovering just outside the top 40 &#8211; instead, &#8220;Tears Dry On Their Own&#8221; is down at 49.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;A Bar Song (Tipsy)&#8221; by Shaboozey<\/strong> climbs 16-6 in its second week.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Belong Together&#8221; by Mark Ambor<\/strong> climbs 1 place for the third week running, to reach 11.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Tell Ur Girlfriend&#8221; by Lay Bankz<\/strong> climbs 18-15.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Good Luck Babe&#8221; by Chappell Roan<\/strong> climbs 21-18.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;I Don&#8217;t Wanna Wait&#8221; by David Guetta &amp; OneRepublic<\/strong> rebounds 27-20, which is a new peak. I suppose that obliges me to point out that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dSDbwfXX5_I\">it has a proper video now<\/a>, but I assure you that you have better things to do with your time than watch it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;These Words&#8221; by Badger &amp; Natasha Bedingfield<\/strong> climbs 35-22, for some reason &#8211; it was a non-mover last week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The four tracks leaving the top 40 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Tortured Poets Department&#8221; by Taylor Swift<\/strong>, after a single week at number 3, but with the excuse that it was disqualified on a technicality.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Lovers in a Past Life&#8221; by Calvin Harris &amp; Rag&#8217;n&#8217;Bone Man<\/strong>, which lasted 10 weeks and peaked at 13.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Obsessed&#8221; by Olivia Rodrigo<\/strong>, which peaked at 10 and lasted five weeks &#8211; not a great performance by her standards.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Jump&#8221; by Tyla, Gunna &amp; Skillibeng<\/strong>, after two weeks at number 38.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The longest running track in the top 40 is still <strong>&#8220;Stick Season&#8221; by Noah Kahan<\/strong>, as it will be for quite some time to come, because it&#8217;s back up one place to number 14 this week. It&#8217;s been with us for 30 uninterrupted weeks.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart, <strong>&#8220;The Tortured Poets Department&#8221; by Taylor Swift<\/strong> gets a second week at number 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Pet Shop Boys &#8211; &#8220;Nonetheless&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dUVfoybVqIg?si=wqlSZBqnXlV7s6cA\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Still the most successful band ever to be formed by a former Marvel editor. This is their 15th studio album (officially, there&#8217;s no &#8220;the&#8221; in the name), and they still always place near the top &#8211; their last three studio albums all placed at number 3. Oddly, they haven&#8217;t made it to number 2 since 1995, with their B-sides compilation &#8220;Alternative&#8221;. In total, they&#8217;ve had five number 2 albums and five number 3s, but only a single number one &#8211; &#8220;Very&#8221;, from the tail end of their imperial phase. (It&#8217;s the one with &#8220;Go West&#8221; on it.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. St Vincent &#8211; &#8220;All Born Screaming&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RYJxPg6quL4?si=Q6HDCKPG-CxEO7JV\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One place below the previous album. One place above the album before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Jess Glynne &#8211; &#8220;Jess&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F8RrLXvr2nw?si=Zib7O87CHp8Kq6lc\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Her third album, the first to miss number 1, and the first to produce no hit singles &#8211; a six year gap seems to have done her no favours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. The Zutons &#8211; &#8220;The Big Decider&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7qHsONa0XOg?si=7FR3IbHUpYIVU-_n\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Zutons re-formed for live shows before the pandemic, but this is their first album since 2008, when &#8220;You Can Do Anything&#8221; got to&#8230; number 6. Well, that&#8217;s picking up where you left off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>13. Laufey &#8211; &#8220;Bewitched&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u4VwzWu4P8I?si=GcOp77l2uOHZaw8z\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Icelandic jazz singer. She had a minor hit single with &#8220;Winter Wonderland&#8221; at Christmas, but this is the first time we&#8217;ve seen her in the album chart. It&#8217;s actually the deluxe re-issue of her second album, which came out last year and got to number 89.<\/p>\n<p><strong>22. Luke Hemmings &#8211; &#8220;Boy&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6W7ksJ-3YNY?si=odOdq2zkd4FnILXO\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Officially an EP, but it qualifies for the album chart. Luke Hemmings is the lead singer of 5 Seconds of Summer; this is the first time we&#8217;ve seen in on the singles or album chart as a solo artist. He released a solo album in 2021, but it didn&#8217;t do anything in the UK. (It reached number 1 in Australia, though.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>26. Partynextdoor &#8211; &#8220;Partynextdoor 4 (P4)&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4oAUuzX_owA?si=CZAfHgSxUxJU6sie\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Confusingly, this is officially his fourth studio album, and the other three are <em>not<\/em> parts 1, 2 and 3. Part 1, officially, is an EP; parts 2 and 3 are albums, but part 3 came out way back in 2016, and he released an entire album called &#8220;Partymobile&#8221; in 2020. Anyway, the last two albums reached 11 and 7 respectively and produced actual hit singles, so, uh, yeah. The cover art of this, which features a naked woman on all fours, is extremely Spinal Tap and seems to have provoked a bit of eye-rolling even among his fans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>34. Justice &#8211; &#8220;Hyperdrama&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/47YNsf-7Y7c?si=Wl_ci1Xu7vn8i7oq\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I remember this French duo being bigger in this country than they apparently were &#8211; their only hit single was &#8220;We Are Your Friends&#8221; (which reached number 20 in 2006), and their only previous appearance in the album chart was in 2011 when &#8220;Audio Video Disco&#8221; reached number 35. So this is an all-time high for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s mostly a quiet week on the singles chart, but hey, we&#8217;ve got a new number one! 1. Sabrina Carpenter &#8211; &#8220;Espresso&#8221; By a razor thin margin &#8211; the equivalent of 484 sales &#8211; but it&#8217;s still number one. I&#8217;m not hugely surprised that Taylor Swift only managed a single week, since &#8220;Fortnight&#8221; isn&#8217;t the [&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-10062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062","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=10062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10063,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062\/revisions\/10063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}