{"id":10157,"date":"2024-06-15T14:28:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T13:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10157"},"modified":"2024-06-15T14:28:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T13:28:44","slug":"charts-14-june-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10157","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 14 June 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have we wandered into the album chart or something?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=22tVWwmTie8\"><strong>1. Eminem &#8211; &#8220;Houdini&#8221;<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks. Which is surprising in itself from a man in his fifties who ought to be a legacy act by this point. But it&#8217;s even more surprising when you realise that none of his other ten number ones made it past a single week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Sabrina Carpenter &#8211; &#8220;Please Please Please&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cF1Na4AIecM?si=o77w_Pt54SS9rhIs\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, there you go &#8211; &#8220;Espresso&#8221; wasn&#8217;t a one-off, and Sabrina Carpenter is a star now. Remember, she&#8217;d never made it past number 19 until &#8220;Espresso&#8221; became a number one. In fact, &#8220;Espresso&#8221; is still there at number 2, so she has a majority of the top 3.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please Please Please&#8221; is an interesting choice of follow-up single &#8211; technically I suppose it counts as a ballad, of a sort? I like it, but I doubt she could have got a hit out of it before &#8220;Espresso&#8221;. She has a persona that only really makes sense that you accept the premise that she&#8217;s a star &#8211; which is obviously a lot easier once the public agree with her.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ic8j13piAhQ\"><strong>17. Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;Cruel Summer&#8221;<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Again?!?! I know she&#8217;s in the country with her tour but&#8230; again?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cruel Summer&#8221; reached number 27 on release in 2019, but seems now to be Taylor Swift&#8217;s equivalent of &#8220;Mr Brightside&#8221;, a record that just won&#8217;t go away. It re-entered in June 2023 and it stuck around until April 2024 &#8211; other than over Christmas, and for a single week when it was DQ&#8217;d because there were three higher-placing Taylor Swift records on the chart. It had just dropped out of the top 40 in the week before &#8220;Tortured Poets Department&#8221; came out, at which point it would have been starred out anyway. Evidently it&#8217;s now overtaken &#8220;Down Bad&#8221; and reclaims its place on the chart thanks to the tour hype.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fortnight&#8221; is still on the chart at number 11, and &#8220;I Can Do It With a Broken Heart&#8221; is at 19.<\/p>\n<p><strong>22. Raye &#8211; &#8220;Genesis&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aOX8gyc27K4?si=nwh0zKZlpKzsUbCh\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Raye&#8217;s chart positions can be hit and miss, so it&#8217;s nice to see her getting a reasonably decent position for this well reviewed but doggedly uncommercial seven-minute, three-act, genre-shifting oddity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>27. Charli XCX &#8211; &#8220;360&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WJW-VvmRKsE?si=LIUzaZ3o8NsAq5fO\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The follow-up to &#8220;Von Dutch&#8221; has been floating around the lower reaches for several weeks, with the misfortune to spend two weeks at number 41. The parent album &#8220;Brat&#8221; enters at number 2 this week, which pushes it into the top 40. The previous album got to number 1, and she&#8217;s up against Taylor Swift in UK tour week, so this isn&#8217;t a surprise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>35. Gracie Abrams &#8211; &#8220;Close To You&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PmJuMNGp5YE?si=i_Tva-WxzY1ofMrz\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Gracie Abrams had a number 3 album last year with &#8220;Good Riddance&#8221;, but this is her first appearance on the singles chart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. Flex (UK) featuring Nate Dogg &#8211; &#8220;6 in the Morning&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FgtRHlRCMS4?si=2vBXE5X6V5IFnv-6\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nate Dogg died in 2011, so you won&#8217;t be surprised to learn that this is a sample. Flex (UK) is a teenage producer, apparently &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure if the &#8220;(UK)&#8221; is even part of his name, or just there to distinguish him from someone else. Curiously, there&#8217;s another track at number 54 remixing the same Nate Dogg track &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Gp03sjth0yo\">&#8220;Pick Up the Phone&#8221; by PAWSA featuring Nate Dogg<\/a> &#8211; and it&#8217;s not a rival version but a completely different mix. The original, &#8220;Gangsta Walk&#8221;, was never released during his lifetime, and only seems to exist as an acapella; it first surfaced as the basis for a track by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JvX2NT62fgU\">SNBRN released several years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Birds of a Feather&#8221; by Billie Eilish<\/strong> climbs 5-4. This is a bit odd, since it&#8217;s an album track. The lead single &#8220;Lunch&#8221; is still at number 8, but the current single is <em>meant<\/em> to be &#8220;Chihiro&#8221;, which falls to 13 this week.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Stargazing&#8221; by Myles Smith<\/strong> climbs 8-7.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Without Me&#8221; by Eminem<\/strong> climbs 38-37. Really.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The six tracks leaving the top 40 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;One of Wun&#8221; by Gunna<\/strong>, which peaked at 30 but managed three weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Sound of Silence&#8221; by the Disturbed<\/strong>, following three thrilling weeks at number 39.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Valerie&#8221; by Mark Ronson featuring Amy Winehouse<\/strong>, after six weeks hovering between 36 and 39.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Green &amp; Gold&#8221; by Rudimental &amp; Skepsis featuring Charlotte Plank &amp; Riko Dan<\/strong>, which only got to 29 but lasted 11 weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Hell N Back&#8221; by Bakar<\/strong>, after a nine-week run that peaked at 21.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Down Bad&#8221; by Taylor Swift<\/strong>, which is eliminated under the 3-song rule after being overtaken by &#8220;Cruel Summer&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Stick Season&#8221; by Noah Kahan<\/strong> is obviously still the longest running track on the top 40, currently at 28.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart, <strong>&#8220;The Tortured Poets Department&#8221; by Taylor Swift<\/strong> is number 1 for a sixth non-consecutive week. It&#8217;s being kept on top by physical sales of variant collectible editions, it should be said, so there must be a limit to how long that can be kept up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Charli XCX &#8211; &#8220;Brat&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve covered that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Bon Jovi &#8211; &#8220;Forever&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g83Y19JezCM?si=O8zyHcwY3RZZ0BLP\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Standard for Bon Jovi. It&#8217;s their highest position since 2015, but they haven&#8217;t missed the top 5 with a studio album since 1986.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. Aurora &#8211; &#8220;What Happened to the Heart&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y1YTg6SEed8?si=GsYaEajDu3B3vXK1\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Her fourth album; it matches the position of its predecessor. That&#8217;s a good position considering that this isn&#8217;t exactly easy listening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>12. Meghan Trainor &#8211; &#8220;Timeless&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The single &#8220;Been Like This&#8221; scraped the singles chart at number 40. Number 12 is unusually high for a Meghan Trainor album &#8211; she hasn&#8217;t been this high since 2016, despite having hit singles in that time.<\/p>\n<p>Chappell Roan&#8217;s &#8220;The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess&#8221; is still climbing, and reaches number 15 this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>23. Seasick Steve &#8211; &#8220;A Trip A Stumble A Fall Down on Your Knees&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lYj13UevFK0?si=sJvi48xET-fLyOuw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>No, there aren&#8217;t any commas in the album title. It&#8217;s his 14th album and his highest position since 2016 (when he was making the top 10).<\/p>\n<p><strong>26. Tems &#8211; &#8220;Born in the Wild&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The singles &#8220;Me &amp; U&#8221; and &#8220;Love Me Jeje&#8221; both charted in the 30s. It&#8217;s her first album.<\/p>\n<p><strong>39. Peggy Gou &#8211; &#8220;I Hear You&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Debut album. It includes the single &#8220;(It Goes Like) Nanana&#8221; which reached number 5 last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have we wandered into the album chart or something? 1. Eminem &#8211; &#8220;Houdini&#8221; Two weeks. Which is surprising in itself from a man in his fifties who ought to be a legacy act by this point. But it&#8217;s even more surprising when you realise that none of his other ten number ones made it past [&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-10157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157","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=10157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10159,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157\/revisions\/10159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}