{"id":10761,"date":"2025-02-01T15:44:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T15:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10761"},"modified":"2025-02-01T15:44:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T15:44:42","slug":"charts-31-january-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10761","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 31 January 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My god, a busy week on the singles chart. It&#8217;s been so long.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k-k2_Liofy8\"><strong>1. Lola Young &#8211; &#8220;Messy&#8221;<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks. Her other credited single &#8211; as a guest on Tyler, The Creator&#8217;s &#8220;Like Him&#8221; &#8211; is at 36.<\/p>\n<p>And one thing hasn&#8217;t changed &#8211; the top five is entirely non-movers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Central Cee &amp; Dave &#8211; &#8220;Sailor Song&#8221;<br \/>\n13. Central Cee &amp; Lil Durk &#8211; &#8220;Truth in the Lies&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UqWzwXqLU4w?si=55RphGz_jZPpA77d\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BOBS4eEAAVs?si=q40r-0Qh_xFEEMni\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Central Cee&#8217;s album <strong>&#8220;Can&#8217;t Rush Greatness&#8221;<\/strong> is officially his first studio album, but it&#8217;s his second number one, because the album chart doesn&#8217;t care if you call it a mixtape. It gets the maximum three singles, with last week&#8217;s &#8220;GBP&#8221; hanging in there at number 7.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dave gets his biggest hit since &#8220;Sprinter&#8221;, also with Central Cee, was a number 1 in 2023 &#8211; mind you, he hasn&#8217;t actually had any hits as a lead artist since that collaboration. The Lil Durk track is the official release week single; he&#8217;s had a handful of hits over the years, the biggest being a guest shot on a Drake track that reached number 4. He&#8217;s only had one hit as the credited lead artist &#8211; &#8220;All My Life&#8221;, which reached number 14 in 2023 (but that had J Cole on it).<\/p>\n<p>The sample in &#8220;Truth in the Lie&#8221; is, of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IxszlJppRQI\">&#8220;So Sick&#8221; by Ne-Yo<\/a>, a number 1 in 2006.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. Tate McRae &#8211; &#8220;Sports Car&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7InTkBxPtK4?si=QHAOQkTEL7RtHQus\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Huh, that&#8217;s not bad, actually. Tate McRae&#8217;s videos are still trying a bit too hard, but this one&#8217;s rather nicely shot, too, in a fashion shoot kind of way. It matches the peak of her previous single &#8220;2 Hands&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>14. Sam Fender &#8211; &#8220;Arm&#8217;s Length&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-jcpbmED1D8?si=M02s8ul7fF11SDyE\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the third single from his upcoming album, due at the end of the February. The previous two singles made the top 10, but hey, getting three pre-release singles into the top 20 is a pretty consistent performance for a singer-songwriter these days. He&#8217;s not exactly breaking new ground with this one, mind. His previous single &#8220;People Watching&#8221; is still at number 18.<\/p>\n<p><strong>23. Travis Scott &#8211; &#8220;4&#215;4&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LkIS4DpRPHY?si=XGsJAlP9QqZKUzNy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is, um, the new theme tune for WWE Raw following its move to Netflix. Okay then. It matches the position of his last hit, a collab with 21 Savage and Metro Boomin from last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25. Aitch &#8211; &#8220;A Guy Called&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1yE1wEJIx74?si=f5tM7yp1WHR81DWD\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a diss track directed at Central Cee, responding to a track where Central Cee whines about Aitch beating him to a Brit Award, of all things. Aitch hasn&#8217;t had a top 40 hit since 2022, and it&#8217;s not for want of trying. But it&#8217;s hard to argue his point that (at least when he can be bothered) Aitch is a vastly better rapper than Central Cee. Maybe he should commit more to this sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>32. Sexxy Red &amp; Bruno Mars &#8211; &#8220;Fat Juicy &amp; Wet&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d7OROxsW5ZY?si=TAJDXkARipuLzx4w\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Only the second time Sexyy Red has made the top 40 &#8211; the other was a guest shot on Drake&#8217;s &#8220;Rich Baby Daddy&#8221;, which reached number 10 in 2023. Bruno Mars still has Ros\u00e9&#8217;s &#8220;APT&#8221; up at number 2. This is some way removed from his normal territory, though. The radio edit of this track is interesting &#8211; they&#8217;ve re-recorded some of the lyrics where it&#8217;s absolutely essential to avoid stretches of silence, but otherwise they&#8217;ve deliberately opted for echo effects to keep the rhythm while sending a clear This Is Censored signal.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers&#8230; oh, there aren&#8217;t any. Not unless you count a couple of records with small rebounds on their way down the chart. There&#8217;s a re-entry at 37 for Tate McRae&#8217;s &#8220;It&#8217;s OK I&#8217;m OK&#8221; &#8211; which is actually a significant climb, since it was at 51 last week &#8211; so there are 8 records leaving the chart:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Taste&#8221; by Sabrina Carpenter <\/strong>was a 9-week number 1 back before Christmas, though it had a month long gap in its run due to the festive back catalogue.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Popular&#8221; by Ariana Grande<\/strong> peaked at 13 before Christmas and, again, had a two week interruption.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;DTMF&#8221; by Bad Bunny<\/strong> had a single week at number 26.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;BFM&#8221; by SZA <\/strong>had three weeks, peaking at 21.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Too Sweet&#8221; by Hozier<\/strong> had a five week re-entry run after Christmas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Beautiful Things&#8221; by Benson Boone<\/strong> had two weeks at number 1 last March and, aside from a 4-week interruption over Christmas, it&#8217;s been around ever since.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;What is this Feeling&#8221; by Ariana Grande &amp; Cynthia Erivo<\/strong> peaked at 16 before Christmas, with a one-week interruption in its run. The third <em>Wicked <\/em>soundtrack song, &#8220;Defying Gravity&#8221;, is still up at number 17.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;I Love You I&#8217;m Sorry&#8221; by Gracie<\/strong> <strong>Abrams<\/strong> was a re-entry at 38 last week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart, <strong>Central Cee&#8217;s &#8220;Can&#8217;t Rush Greatness&#8221; <\/strong>is number 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Teddy Swims &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;ve Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 2)&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His second album, following 2023&#8217;s &#8220;I&#8217;ve Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 1)&#8221;, which didn&#8217;t chart until 2024 and only got to number 2. The single &#8220;Bad Dreams&#8221; reached number 6 and is still in the top 10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. FKA Twigs &#8211; &#8220;Eusexua&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KnGSVIZGkQo?si=MKs7eFfQEjXgSII2\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Her third album and far and away the highest placing &#8211; her previous peak was number 16 with her debut back in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Mogwai &#8211; &#8220;The Bad Fire&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/msqM3QGU92A?si=43Oh2bEGZi11rytU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their eleventh album. Its predecessor, &#8220;As the Love Continues&#8221;, reached number 1 in 2021 (admittedly, it dropped out of the top 100 after a fortnight). But that was an outlier &#8211; somewhere in the top 10 seems to be their standard for a studio album.<\/p>\n<p><strong>22. Matt Berry &#8211; &#8220;Heard Noises&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mifxRIvnaR8?si=ONlXnvA2QUeYc3lj\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>His eleventh album, the third (and highest) to make the top 40. His previous two albums didn&#8217;t make the top 40, so that&#8217;s a slightly surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My god, a busy week on the singles chart. It&#8217;s been so long. 1. Lola Young &#8211; &#8220;Messy&#8221; Two weeks. Her other credited single &#8211; as a guest on Tyler, The Creator&#8217;s &#8220;Like Him&#8221; &#8211; is at 36. And one thing hasn&#8217;t changed &#8211; the top five is entirely non-movers. 6. 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