{"id":10979,"date":"2025-04-13T11:38:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T10:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10979"},"modified":"2025-04-13T11:38:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T10:38:37","slug":"charts-11-april-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10979","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 11 April 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I was expecting a new number one, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u2ah9tWTkmk\"><strong>1. Alex Warren &#8211; &#8220;Ordinary&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Four weeks, and still growing (slightly). It has a massive lead &#8211; beating the number 2 and 3 singles combined. Which is all the more surprising, since&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Ed Sheeran &#8211; &#8220;Azizam&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q_48vyHWls4?si=WV0ETmrj4Pmc7-uQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is the lead single from Sheeran&#8217;s next album &#8220;Play&#8221;, and you&#8217;d have thought it ought to walk to number 1, but no. It&#8217;s still his 42nd top 10 hit, mind you, and it&#8217;s actually his highest placing single since &#8220;Eyes Closed&#8221; was a number 1 in 2023. His side project &#8220;Autumn Variations&#8221; later that year didn&#8217;t produce any big hits, and his 2024 Christmas single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nBCkXe3ZfoI\">&#8220;Under the Tree&#8221;<\/a> missed the top 40. Still, they weren&#8217;t fully promoted. &#8220;Azizam&#8221; is a full scale release.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s something of a break for him to go with an upbeat pop track for the lead single, though it feels like song with a strong chorus that&#8217;s killing time during the verses. Not sure this is the time to be releasing a video about what a great time he had holidaying in the USA, either, to be honest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10. Sleep Token &#8211; &#8220;Caramel&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4iSvoQNfrrk?si=qw1SIzNPvUA2bgi8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, this is a surprise. Sleep Token had their first hit single with &#8220;Emergence&#8221;, which reached number 17 a few weeks back. It dropped out of the top 40 after two weeks so presumably there was a lot of week-one fanbase interest. But here&#8217;s the follow-up &#8220;Caramel&#8221; in the top 10. It seems there&#8217;s a gap in the market for a prog Linkin Park.<\/p>\n<p><strong>23. Miley Cyrus &#8211; &#8220;End of the World&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CXBFU97X61I?si=8H3mkYDuEmlXrB_q\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the lead single from her ninth album. It&#8217;s very soft rock, but &#8220;Let&#8217;s pretend it&#8217;s not the end of the world&#8221; seems like a good theme if you&#8217;re wanting to do upbeat in 2025. Number 23 is quite low for the lead single on a Miley Cyrus album &#8211; &#8220;Flowers&#8221; was the lead single from the last album, and it went straight to number 1 for ten weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>31. Morgan Seatree &#8211; &#8220;Say My Name&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TUESca2pF3k?si=Djhj30ORQFxKRkHJ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Debut hit. He&#8217;s a DJ from Manchester, and this has been climbing from the lower reaches for several months. God only know how he got a solo credit on it, because it&#8217;s a remix of &#8220;Spectrum&#8221; by Florence and the Machine &#8211; which previously reached number 1 in 2012 in a remix by Calvin Harris. Normally I&#8217;d say that this indicated that the sample had been re-created for the commercial release, but the official YouTube video <em>does<\/em> credit Florence, and for some reason the charts don&#8217;t. I\u00a0<em>think<\/em> it may be something to do with the fact that there are some remixes available which only credit Seatree, even though they still seem to contain the same vocal sample.<\/p>\n<p><strong>34. PinkPantheress &#8211; &#8220;Tonight&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IrEFKJnl1H8?si=GI6VInfXB_rq6kiy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the lead single from her upcoming mixtape. She has a patchy chart record &#8211; occasional big hits, a few tracks that land about here and quite a few that just vanish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>36. Nathan Dawe &amp; Abi Flynn &#8211; &#8220;Here In Your Arms&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S7tYY3DsSlU?si=zV_qPhO5UA44SlpS\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We haven&#8217;t seen Nathan Dawe since 2023, when he reached the top 10 alongside Joel Corry and Ella Henderson. Abi Flynn gets her debut hit. This is another track that&#8217;s been climbing from the lower reaches for a couple of months &#8211; it was at 54 last week.<\/p>\n<p>Sabrina Carpenter has re-entries with &#8220;Juno&#8221; at 34 and &#8220;Taste&#8221; at 37 &#8211; that&#8217;s because they were previously disqualified under the three-song limit, but &#8220;Please Please Please&#8221; and &#8220;Bed Chem&#8221; both get downweighted this week and drop below them.<\/p>\n<p>There are quite a few climbers this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Show Me Love&#8221; by WizTheMC and bees &amp; honey<\/strong> climbs 14-8.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Love Me Not&#8221; by Ravyn Lenae<\/strong> climbs 15-14.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Mutt&#8221; by Leon Thomas<\/strong> climbs 22-19.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Sorry I&#8217;m Here for Someone Else&#8221; by Benson Boone<\/strong> climbs 28-21.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Back to Friends&#8221; by sombr<\/strong> climbs 35-25.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Tell Me&#8221; by Sonny Fodera &amp; Clementine Douglas<\/strong> climbs 36-26.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Undressed&#8221; by sombr<\/strong> climbs 37-28.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Running Around&#8221; by Ely Oaks<\/strong> climbs 38-32.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The eight tracks leaving the top 40 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Please Please Please&#8221; <\/strong>and <strong>&#8220;Bed Chem&#8221; by Sabrina Carpenter<\/strong>, both of which get DQd as explained above.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Door&#8221; by Teddy Swims<\/strong>, which re-entered at 37 two weeks ago.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Abracadabra&#8221; by Lady Gaga<\/strong>, which lasted 9 weeks and peaked at 3.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Sailor Song&#8221; by Gigi Perez<\/strong>, which re-entered at 33 two weeks ago.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Dandelion&#8221; <\/strong>and <strong>&#8220;Intro (End of the World)&#8221; by Ariana Grande<\/strong>, album tracks which placed at 19 and 26 respectively last week; her third track, &#8220;Twilight Zone&#8221;, drops from 5 to 16.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Dilemma&#8221; by Nemzzz featuring Central Cee<\/strong>, after a single week at 39.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just three new entries on the album chart:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Elton John &amp; Brandi Carlile &#8211; &#8220;Who Believes in Angels?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i69w56ulpLA?si=LpOtKpFHPEwL-PCK\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is Elton John&#8217;s tenth number one album. The others are &#8220;Don&#8217;t Shoot Me I&#8217;m Only the Piano Player&#8221; (1973), &#8220;Goodbye Yellow Brick Road&#8221; (1973), &#8220;Caribou&#8221; (1974), &#8220;Elton John&#8217;s Greatest Hits&#8221; (1974), &#8220;Sleeping With the Past&#8221; (1989), &#8220;The Very Best of Elton John&#8221; (1990), &#8220;Good Morning to the Night&#8221; with Pnau (2012), &#8220;Diamonds&#8221; (2017) and &#8220;The Lockdown Sessions&#8221; (2021). Brandi Carlile has eleven Grammy awards to her credit but has never previously charted in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Black Country, New Road &#8211; &#8220;Forever Howlong&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_fOdb4STQow?si=v0uyI2POZ9DPAR91\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Matching the position of their previous studio album &#8220;Ants From Up There&#8221; in 2022. It&#8217;s had very good reviews.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10. Ethel Cain &#8211; &#8220;Preacher&#8217;s Daughter&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Ed_WWmFy9I?si=JdlHHgrZdzoGebVw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Chart debut. This came out in 2022 but has built some interest in anticipation of a second album due out later this year. It&#8217;s here because of a vinyl re-issue which accounts for almost all of its chart points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I was expecting a new number one, but&#8230; 1. Alex Warren &#8211; &#8220;Ordinary&#8221; Four weeks, and still growing (slightly). It has a massive lead &#8211; beating the number 2 and 3 singles combined. Which is all the more surprising, since&#8230; 3. 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