{"id":10677,"date":"2025-01-04T20:51:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T20:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10677"},"modified":"2025-01-05T17:34:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T17:34:00","slug":"charts-3-january-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10677","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 3 January 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the annual dead chart. The Christmas songs are all gone (well, aside from Tom Grennan at number 30) and a torrent of re-entries replace them, without much in the way of actual new music just yet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Gracie Abrams &#8211; &#8220;That&#8217;s So True&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qVl0AuoWukM?si=2mMW_rY0kwRAePml\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So, Gracie Abrams again. This was number 1 for five weeks before Christmas, spent three weeks being shunted down the chart, and now rebounds from number 21 to claim a sixth week at number 1. She also has &#8220;I Love You I&#8217;m Sorry&#8221; at 36 and &#8220;Close to You&#8221; at 37.<\/p>\n<p><strong>20. PAWSA &amp; The Adventures of Stevie V &#8211; &#8220;Dirty Cash (Money Talks)&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vP-Z0VEC0RA?si=CBYTv-slE0iszb7h\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This <em>is <\/em>a new entry, though it&#8217;s been floating around the lower reaches of the chart since November. PAWSA is a London producer, though he&#8217;s shown remarkable negotiating skills in getting a co-artist credit on this record, which is a fairly straight remix of the Adventures of Stevie V track which reached number 2 in 1990.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9o0rAvZtM7w?si=vS2JJKL3mLfMMz1X\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always found this track rather depressing, though to be fair, I suppose that&#8217;s kind of the point. And hey, nobody listens to verse lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>The Adventures of Stevie V was basically a vehicle for producer Steve Vincent. He was from Bedfordshire; the singer on this track is Melody Washington, who was apparently working on a US air force base in the UK at the time. &#8220;Dirty Cash&#8221; was far and away his biggest UK hit, though a follow-up single &#8220;Body Language&#8221; also made it to number 29.<\/p>\n<p><strong>34. Tyla &#8211; &#8220;Push 2 Start&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uLK2r3sG4lE?si=Iu_0iCOGAd1Jnlld\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This came out in November, and got a single week at number 74 for its troubles. Apparently it&#8217;s been waiting out the Christmas period and gives Tyla her third top 40 hit. The video is Significantly Unsubtle, but the track&#8217;s actually pretty good on its own merits.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s your lot. There&#8217;s no point listing all of the tracks leaving the top 40 &#8211; it&#8217;s all of the Christmas tracks apart from Tom Grennan and there are tons of them. The tracks reaching new peaks are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Messy&#8221; by Lola Young<\/strong>, which reached 7 in the week before Christmas and now rebounds to 3.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Days&#8221; by Chrystal<\/strong>, which peaked at 24 before Christmas and now jumps to 5. It was out of the top 40 for a single week but the fact that it hung in until then shows that it was bound to do well in the new year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it. There are no new entries on the album chart; the number one is\u00a0<strong>&#8220;+ &#8211; =\u00f7 x Tour Collection&#8221; by Ed Sheeran<\/strong>, which has been hanging around the top ten for all but a couple of weeks since October, but only now gets its first week at number 1. It&#8217;s his eighth number 1 album, and means that once again he has a clean sweep of number 1s for every album he&#8217;s released since &#8220;+&#8221; in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the annual dead chart. The Christmas songs are all gone (well, aside from Tom Grennan at number 30) and a torrent of re-entries replace them, without much in the way of actual new music just yet. 1. Gracie Abrams &#8211; &#8220;That&#8217;s So True&#8221; So, Gracie Abrams again. 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