{"id":10117,"date":"2024-05-25T16:39:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T15:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10117"},"modified":"2024-05-25T16:39:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T15:39:50","slug":"charts-24-may-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10117","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 24 May 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Billie Eilish has an album out, and nobody&#8217;s going up against that. But that doesn&#8217;t mean she&#8217;s going to number one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eVli-tstM5E\"><strong>1. Sabrina Carpenter &#8211; &#8220;Espresso&#8221;<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s four weeks, in the face of a major release. Her biggest British hit by a mile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Billie Eilish &#8211; &#8220;Lunch&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e_AZJzYe7CU\"><strong>7. Billie Eilish &#8211; &#8220;Chihiro&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d5gf9dXbPi0\"><strong>9. Billie Eilish &#8211; &#8220;Birds of a Feather&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MB3VkzPdgLA?si=T7KTbmlJ91vABNua\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Three tracks from her album <strong>&#8220;Hit Me Hard and Soft&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; officially her third album, though her 2018 EP &#8220;Don&#8217;t Smile at Me&#8221; also qualified for the album chart. All three official albums have gone to number one, so this is not a surprise in the slightest. For what it&#8217;s worth, the first album hung around a lot longer than the second, but both had very respectable chart runs.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Billie Eilish is in the unusual position of having had two number one singles, both of which came from movie soundtracks rather than her regular releases: &#8220;No Time To Die&#8221; in 2020, and &#8220;What Was I Made For&#8221; last year. This is the third time that she&#8217;s got to number 2, though, after &#8220;Bad Guy&#8221; in 2019 and &#8220;Therefore I Am&#8221; in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lunch&#8221; is the official single, and the other two songs are, um, the next two tracks on the album after it. &#8220;Chihiro&#8221; is really good, though. I&#8217;m not sure why &#8220;Birds of a Feather&#8221; is getting singled out &#8211; I thought it was one of the weaker tracks on the album &#8211; but I suppose it&#8217;s somewhat single-friendly. If it hadn&#8217;t been for the three-song rule, everything else on the album would have placed within the top 25.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty much nothing else is happening on the singles chart this week, but down at the bottom end we do have&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>32. Gunna &#8211; &#8220;One of Wun&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ot8t8IPXZro?si=0xXc1m5I0o5X5oBJ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Climbing from 55 last week. Gunna had a top 10 hit last year with &#8220;Fukumean&#8221;, and has a number 1 to his credit as one of the artists on Internet Money&#8217;s &#8220;Lemonade&#8221; from 2020, but the 30s and 40s is more his normal stomping grounds. The parent album of the same name placed at number 4 last week, making this an unusual case of a delayed hit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>36. Tems &#8211; &#8220;Love Me Jeje&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y_NTooezadU?si=EjO8AYn3YlqR1nka\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This has been climbing from the lower reaches for four weeks. Tems also had a minor hit last year with &#8220;Me and U&#8221;, and had hits as a guest singer with Future in 2022 and Wizkid in 2021, so she&#8217;s an infrequent but persistent singles chart presence. The track interpolates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bi33GuzaY6g\">Seyi Sodumu&#8217;s song of the same name<\/a>, which was a hit in Nigeria in the late 90s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>39. Disturbed &#8211; &#8220;The Sound of Silence&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uIBJJ3M76Mg?si=bvi8DTok3kCUt5e3\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Officially, this is a re-entry for the Disturbed&#8217;s cover of &#8220;The Sound of Silence&#8221;, which reached number 29 in 2016. However, the reason it&#8217;s reappeared in 2024 is the dance mix above, which has unusually been released under the original artist credit, and thus gets lumped in with the original for chart purpose. It&#8217;s terrible.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers&#8230; um, there aren&#8217;t any. Just records rebounding on their way out, and a few returning to peaks that they already reached a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>The six tracks leaving the top 40 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Home&#8221; by Good Neighbours<\/strong>, which only got to 26 but lasted 15 weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Family Matters&#8221; by Drake<\/strong>, which entered at 17 and lasted two weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Europapa&#8221; by Joost<\/strong>, after a week at 37.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Rim Tim Tagi Dim&#8221; by Baby Lasagna<\/strong>, after a week at 36.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Saturn&#8221; by SZA<\/strong>, which peaked at 15 and lasted 12 weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Whatever She Wants&#8221; by Bryson Tiller<\/strong>, which peaked at 16 and lasted 12 weeks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The longest running track on the singles chart is still <strong>&#8220;Stick Season&#8221; by Noah Kahan<\/strong>, at 33 weeks and counting. It&#8217;s currently at number 22.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart, <strong>&#8220;Hit Me Hard and Soft&#8221; by Billie Eilish<\/strong> is number 1, in case you missed that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Zayn &#8211; &#8220;Room Under the Stairs&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ohB4TUhcc_0?si=H2HkbYKwWVZ2DMFD\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The fourth solo album by Zayn Malik, formerly of One Direction. He (or his label) will be very happy with a number 3. His solo debut was a number 1 album in 2016, but he followed that up with an album that missed the top 75 entirely, and then released a third album called &#8220;Nobody is Listening&#8221; which actually did rather better &#8211; it got to number 17 &#8211; but still got him dropped by RCA. He&#8217;s now in his thirties and has understandably tacked to country-ish MOR.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. Beth Gibbons &#8211; &#8220;Lives Outgrown&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sXRJWVvSGIs?si=bqWPHlNQrdtMdjZE\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Technically the first solo album from the former lead singer of Portishead. She has released a couple of collaboration albums outside Portishead, though: &#8220;Out of Season&#8221;, with Rustin Man, reached number 28 in 2002 and did okay internationally; and she reached number 35 in 2019 with a live recording of Henryk G\u00f3recki&#8217;s Symphony No 3 alongside the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. That album was recorded in 2014, and she seems to have done very little else since then, aside from guesting on a Kendrick Lamar album track.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. Slash &#8211; &#8220;Orgy of the Damned&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y9F14ZuwC94?si=OdrcH0ZlO5QjhV3k\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of those &#8220;covers of standards with guest singers&#8221; records. Technically this is the second solo album credited simply to &#8220;Slash&#8221; &#8211; the first being a self-titled album that reached number 17 in 2010 &#8211; but he&#8217;s also released multiple albums as &#8220;Slash&#8217;s Snakepit&#8221; and &#8220;Slash featuring Myles Kennedy &amp; The Conspirators&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10. Michael Head and the Red Elastic Band &#8211; &#8220;Loophole&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5xFZRAwF6b0?si=QlZf9Ona4p684SNE\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the third album by Michael Head &amp; The Red Elastic Band, though Head also released a 1997 album as &#8220;Michael Head introducing the Strands&#8221;, two albums in the mid-1980s with the Pale Fountains, and another five with Shack. The previous album got to number 6 in 2022, far and away the highest chart position of his career, and this isn&#8217;t too far behind.<\/p>\n<p><strong>30. Clavish &#8211; &#8220;Chapter 16&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YcD4CW9X3sA?si=ls7J_44d2yiNNtuv\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Clavish is a UK rapper who&#8217;s had the occasional hit single, usually as a guest with bigger names like D-Block Europe. His previous mixtape, 2023&#8217;s &#8220;Rap Game Awful&#8221;, reached number 4 &#8211; this is obviously way, way lower.<\/p>\n<p><strong>39. Girls Aloud &#8211; &#8220;Ten&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V9Wv4SCBiTE?si=kwxGTbuJ058TFbij\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is their 2012 career retrospective. It&#8217;s here because of the publicity for the reunion tour of the remaining four members (Sarah Harding having died in 2021).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Billie Eilish has an album out, and nobody&#8217;s going up against that. But that doesn&#8217;t mean she&#8217;s going to number one&#8230; 1. Sabrina Carpenter &#8211; &#8220;Espresso&#8221; That&#8217;s four weeks, in the face of a major release. Her biggest British hit by a mile. 2. Billie Eilish &#8211; &#8220;Lunch&#8221; 7. Billie Eilish &#8211; &#8220;Chihiro&#8221; 9. 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