{"id":10282,"date":"2024-08-10T11:44:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T10:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10282"},"modified":"2024-08-10T11:44:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T10:44:24","slug":"charts-9-august-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10282","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 9 August 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just one major new entry this week, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Charli XCX featuring Billie Eilish &#8211; &#8220;Guess&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/huGd4efgdPA?si=_HsYSvHKfeTLxMrH\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Technically this is Charli XCX&#8217;s second number one, because she had a featured artist credit on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UxxajLWwzqY\">Icona Pop&#8217;s &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Care&#8221;<\/a>. That&#8217;s an odd one, since she doesn&#8217;t actually feature on the record in any normal sense &#8211; apparently she&#8217;s doing backing vocals somewhere, but the credit mainly relates to her writing the song. Anyway, that was in 2013. Since then, she&#8217;s been a steady presence in the singles chart, mostly in the mid range and with the occasional bigger hit, but her peak as a lead artist was number 6 (with &#8220;Boom Clap&#8221;, over a decade ago).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It obviously helps that &#8220;Guess&#8221; has a big name guest star with a separate audience, but this has also been the best year of Charli XCX&#8217;s career, at least in chart terms. She has two other singles on the chart this week: &#8220;Apple&#8221; climbs to number 8, and &#8220;360&#8221; to number 11. The album &#8220;Brat&#8221; climbs back to its entry point of number 2, in its ninth week on release. While Billie Eilish is more of a regular at the top end of the chart, this is still only her third number one &#8211; the others being &#8220;No Time to Die&#8221; in 2020 and &#8220;What Was I Made For&#8221; in 2023. So she maintains her bizarre track record of never getting to number 1 with the singles from her own albums.<\/p>\n<p>The radio edit used by the BBC is particularly bizarre &#8211; apparently, references to removing underwear with ones mouth are unacceptable, but the line &#8220;pull it to the side and get right up in it&#8221; is absolutely fine.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and this is the first number one of the year by a British artist. Took long enough.<\/p>\n<p><strong>31. Sonny Fodera, Jazzy and D.O.D. &#8211; &#8220;Somedays&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dX8orLrVwtY?si=JxPhlSmpPC0HtPMN\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s competent. The video director&#8217;s done a good job of showing Margate in the best light, though.<\/p>\n<p>This is Sonny Fodera&#8217;s third hit single, all of which have been collaborations. He and MK got to number 7 with &#8220;Asking&#8221; in 2023, and a single with Becky Hill reached number 23 last year. Jazzy had two top 5 hits in 2022 and 2023 (plus a track that got to 35 later that year). And D.O.D. had a couple of mid-table hits in 2023, the bigger one being &#8220;So Much In Love&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>35. Hanumankind featuring Kalmi &#8211; &#8220;Big Dawgs&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hOHKltAiKXQ?si=YErnQEhb7AFK1T7g\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Indian rap, and that&#8217;s not something we see much of. Admittedly, Hanumankind grew up in Texas, but he was born in India and lives there now. Kalmi&#8217;s the producer. It&#8217;s the debut hit for both.<\/p>\n<p><strong>37. Billie Eilish &#8211; &#8220;Wildflower&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xAWDqdpOlu8?si=R-aditOGrPP1cV0g\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An album track which has been rising from the lower reaches for a couple of weeks; I assume it&#8217;s been boosted by the Amazon Music performance above.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Apple&#8221; by Charli XCX<\/strong> climbs 14-8.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Kehlani&#8221; by Jordan Adetunji<\/strong> climbs 15-9.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;360&#8221; by Charli XCX<\/strong> climbs 12-11.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Bye Bye Bye&#8221; by NSync <\/strong>climbs 30-12. Really. It does.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Hot to Go&#8221; by Chappell Roan<\/strong> rebounds to a new peak of 15. More of her in a bit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Move&#8221; by Adam Port, Stryv, Keinemusik, Orso &amp; Malachiii<\/strong> climbs 18-16.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Door&#8221; by Teddy Swims<\/strong> climbs 24-23.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Red Wine Supernova&#8221; by Chappell Roan<\/strong> climbs 38-32.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The four tracks leaving the top 40 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Misses&#8221; by Dominic Fike<\/strong>, which peaked at 34 and lasted two weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Not Like Us&#8221; by Kendrick Lamar<\/strong>, which peaked at 6 and lasted 13 weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Set My Heart on Fire&#8221; by Majestic, Jammin Kid &amp; Celine Dion<\/strong>, after two weeks peaking at 39.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Gen Z Luv&#8221; by Central Cee<\/strong> after a single week at 34. He still has two other singles in the top 40 though.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Stick Season&#8221; by Noah Kahan<\/strong> remains the longest running top 40 single, at 44 weeks and counting. It&#8217;s at 33 this week.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Chappell Roan &#8211; &#8220;The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xaPNR-_Cfn0?si=jrsED4jJl0m0COHM\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A climber to number 1? On the <em>album chart<\/em>? After months on release? It&#8217;s unheard of. There&#8217;s a special edition out to push it over the edge, but still, it was up here anyway. The single &#8220;Good Luck Babe&#8221; (peaked at 2) isn&#8217;t on it, but &#8220;Hot to Go&#8221; and &#8220;Red Wine Supernova&#8221; have both made the chart.<\/p>\n<p>Also reaching a new peak this week after a slow climb is <strong>&#8220;Nursery Rhymes by Cocomelon&#8221; by Cocomelon<\/strong>, which doesn&#8217;t seem to be going away and reaches number 28 this wek.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. Kanye West &amp; Ty Dolla Sign &#8211; &#8220;Vulture 2&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C8v7e4MUreA?si=FO8zicBsfUkWsO-y\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s on the low side for a Kanye West album, even a collaboration &#8211; though his album with Kid Cudi got to number 7. The reviews haven&#8217;t been good for this one at all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>33. Jack White &#8211; &#8220;No Name&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ozv5moXP3YA?si=g4fOBsg4NhQ2xRGC\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s weird. Jack White has never placed a solo studio album below the top 5 before &#8211; his previous low of any sort was a collection of acoustic rarities in 2016, which still reached number 12. There was a weird promotion for this album which involved giving it away as an anonymous release from some US indie stores in July, and it doesn&#8217;t seem to have worked in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just one major new entry this week, but&#8230; 1. Charli XCX featuring Billie Eilish &#8211; &#8220;Guess&#8221; Technically this is Charli XCX&#8217;s second number one, because she had a featured artist credit on Icona Pop&#8217;s &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Care&#8221;. That&#8217;s an odd one, since she doesn&#8217;t actually feature on the record in any normal sense &#8211; apparently [&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-10282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10282","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=10282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10284,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10282\/revisions\/10284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}