{"id":10799,"date":"2025-02-17T20:20:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T20:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10799"},"modified":"2025-02-17T20:20:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T20:20:52","slug":"charts-14-february-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10799","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 14 February 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently we&#8217;re paying attention to the Superbowl half time show now, are we?<\/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>Four weeks. The logjammed top five which we&#8217;ve had of late is finally broken as a result of most of the tracks involved being hit by the downweighting rule, which was to be expected. We&#8217;ll come to their replacements in a bit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. Alex Warren &#8211; &#8220;Ordinary&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A8dH4cKGa6s?si=7vlKOd_62FJ8vgIk\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is his first top 10 hit; his previous best was number 23 for &#8220;Carry You Home&#8221;, which rebounds to 28 this week. It&#8217;s a heartfelt ballad built to a familiar template, but pretty well done if you like that sort of thing. His other previous hit, &#8220;Burning Down&#8221;, re-enters at number 34.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>11. Kendrick Lamar &amp; SZA &#8211; &#8220;All the Stars&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NEnephbahLA\"><strong>39. SZA featuring Kendrick Lamar &#8211; &#8220;30 for 30&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JQbjS0_ZfJ0?si=QLBwLh2WhIzhWgB7\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Kendrick Lamar already had some tracks in the top 40 last week thanks to the Grammys, but the Superbowl has put a rocket under them. <strong>&#8220;Not Like Us&#8221;<\/strong> climbs from 27 to 2, which is a new peak &#8211; it only got to number 6 on its first release. It&#8217;s now his biggest hit single; his previous peak was number 4, held jointly by his own &#8220;Squabble Up&#8221; and a guest appearance on Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8220;Bad Blood&#8221;. The midweeks have it climbing to number 1, which, in the week of a new Drake album, might well be seen as the final victory. (The Drake album will place multiple tracks in the top 40 singles, but it&#8217;s not even in contention for number 1 on the album chart. The midweeks have it placing below a Wombats album.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Luther&#8221;<\/strong> jumps from number 34 to number 10, and we also have two re-entries. &#8220;All the Stars&#8221; is a track from the <em>Black Panther<\/em> soundtrack, which peaked at number 5 in 2018. &#8220;30 for 30&#8221;, meanwhile, is a SZA album track which has been hanging around in the 60s and 70s since the new year. Since he&#8217;s only credited as a featured guest on that track, it allows him a rare fourth song on the top 40.<\/p>\n<p><strong>13. Lisa featuring Doja Cat &amp; Raye &#8211; &#8220;Born Again&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kbEC-AGr9n0?si=SgNwkdux59A-wvHm\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Lisa from Blackpink, of course. This is her first appearance in the top 40 outside the band. With &#8220;APT&#8221; having set up shop at number 2 for an extended run &#8211; it&#8217;s still inside the top 10 now &#8211; you might think that Blackpink are finally breaking through as solo acts in the UK. The picture&#8217;s more mixed than that, though. This track has big name guest stars, after all, and both Ros\u00e9 and Lisa have released other solo singles that failed to chart. (Ros\u00e9&#8217;s follow-up, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eA0lHNZ1KCA\">&#8220;Toxic Till the End&#8221;<\/a>, was quite good but only got to number 72. Admittedly, releasing it in the week before Christmas can&#8217;t have helped.) The midweeks also have this swandiving to number 35.<\/p>\n<p><strong>32. Chappell Roan &#8211; &#8220;Red Wine Supernova&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VS6ixn2berk?si=Y0axrvHkGCLq7QGW\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a re-entry from outside the top 100. I <em>think<\/em> what&#8217;s happened here is that it had enough of a surge of sales last week following the Grammys to trigger an automatic reset on the downweighting rule, causing a delayed re-entry. Meanwhile, <strong>&#8220;Pink Pony Club&#8221;<\/strong> climbs from 14-4 to become her third top 5 hit, a mere five\u00a0 years after it was originally released, and <strong>&#8220;Good Luck Babe&#8221;<\/strong> climbs 28-22.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Not Like Us&#8221; by Kendrick Lamar<\/strong> climbs 27-2.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Abracadabra&#8221; by Lady Gaga<\/strong> climbs 6-3.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Pink Pony Club&#8221; by Chappell Roan<\/strong> climbs 14-4.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Beautiful Things&#8221; by Benson Boone<\/strong> climbs 33-6, which looks like another delayed reaction to the Grammys.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Denial is a River&#8221; by Doechii<\/strong> climbs 16-9 to enter the top ten.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Luther&#8221; by Kendrick Lamar &amp; SZA<\/strong> climbs 34-10.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Guess&#8221; by Charli XCX featuring Billie Eilish<\/strong>, which re-entered last week at 31, climbs to 21.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a re-entry for &#8220;Like Him&#8221; by Tyler, The Creator at 39 (a rebound from 41), so we have nine tracks leaving the top 40:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Door&#8221; by Teddy Swims<\/strong> peaked at 5 before Christmas and has been in the top 10 since the new year, but drops straight out of the top 40 on being downweighted. He still has &#8220;Bad Dreams&#8221; in the top 20.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Please to Meet You&#8221; by Myles Smith<\/strong> has been around since November with the obligatory Christmas interruption, and peaked at 6 a month ago.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Sao Paolo&#8221; by the Weeknd &amp; Anitta<\/strong> was a re-entry at 21 last week with the release of the Weeknd&#8217;s album. &#8220;Timeless&#8221; is still in the top 20.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Defying Gravity&#8221; by Cynthia Erivo &amp; Ariana Grande<\/strong> peaked with two weeks at number 7 in December.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Truth in the Lies&#8221; by Central Cee &amp; Lil Durk<\/strong> had two weeks, peaking at 13. &#8220;CRG&#8221;, also from the Central Cee album, is at 24.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Push 2 Start&#8221; by Tyla<\/strong> had five weeks in the top 40, peaking at 23.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Raving in the Studio&#8221; by Aitch &amp; Bou<\/strong> got a single week at number 40.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;Lover (Live From Paris)&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a4iTHPwioEc?si=ZTDh7QVuNN2Etn6I\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is an eight track live album first released in limited quantities in 2023 (when it didn&#8217;t chart because there weren&#8217;t enough copies available). It&#8217;s been reissued as a collectible for Valentine&#8217;s Day and becomes a rare number 1 album entirely on physical sales. It&#8217;s her 13th number 1 album, the others being&#8230; well, literally everything she&#8217;s released since 2012, except for &#8220;Folklore &#8211; The Long Pond Studio Sessions&#8221; (2023), which somehow only got to number 4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Inhaler &#8211; &#8220;Open Wide&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hU05EA7YxEc?si=1nXm76UaIf-WIhM1\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the band fronted by Bono&#8217;s son. It&#8217;s their third album and their third to make the top 2 (their debut was a number 1).<\/p>\n<p><strong>17. Olly Alexander &#8211; &#8220;Polari&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lLNUj7kvn2w?si=2WaLzfb6QQOXKffh\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nTechnically a debut album, although the final Years &amp; Years album was basically an Olly Alexander solo project. That album got to number 1 in 2022. This doesn&#8217;t do as well &#8211; Years &amp; Years never missed the top 3, in fact. It includes &#8220;Dizzy&#8221;, his Eurovision track, which just missed the top 40 on release.<\/p>\n<p><strong>23. Dream Theater &#8211; &#8220;Parasomnia&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2IPT60hvGw4?si=CeYyponX-XdyHrEK\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their 16th studio album, but only their eighth appearance on the albums top 40. It more or less matches the number 21 position of their previous album, &#8220;A View From the Top of the World&#8221; (2021)&#8230; but they were just missing the top 10 in the late 2010s, so things have dropped off a bit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>24. Block 33 &#8211; &#8220;The Promised Land&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WjwHw79nDfk?si=dHdW2LyQWRunNA0w\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Self-described mod revivalists. It&#8217;s their first album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently we&#8217;re paying attention to the Superbowl half time show now, are we? 1. Lola Young &#8211; &#8220;Messy&#8221; Four weeks. The logjammed top five which we&#8217;ve had of late is finally broken as a result of most of the tracks involved being hit by the downweighting rule, which was to be expected. 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