{"id":11038,"date":"2025-05-03T21:08:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T20:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11038"},"modified":"2025-05-03T21:08:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T20:08:25","slug":"charts-2-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11038","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 2 May 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A decent range of new entries this week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u2ah9tWTkmk&amp;list=RDu2ah9tWTkmk&amp;start_radio=1\"><strong>1. Alex Warren &#8211; &#8220;Ordinary&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seven weeks. And its streams are up this week (a bit). This is the longest run at number 1 since &#8220;Stick Season&#8221; last year, though &#8220;Stick Season&#8221; is obviously the more interesting record. It still has a massive lead over the number 2 single &#8220;Pink Pony Club&#8221; &#8211; a margin of over 80%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11. Lorde &#8211; &#8220;What Was That&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1UpoZpMBM9Y?si=AkKrkdyhiE15lCB4\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the lead single from her upcoming album, and she&#8217;s electropop now. It works, though. Lorde is not a consistent presence in the singles chart &#8211; she can usually get a lead single into the top 40 but the follow-ups tend not to. Number 11 is high for her, though &#8211; she hasn&#8217;t been this high since her debut, &#8220;Royals&#8221;, reached number 1 in 2013. The flashmob performance in Washington Square Park at the end of the video is apparently legit &#8211; those are actual fans turning up for the shoot.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>17. Benson Boone &#8211; &#8220;Mystical Magical&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U8QhB8_0t2g?si=aPZT3VtiJfDeHANt\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Beautiful Things&#8221; continues to overshadow Benson Boone&#8217;s later singles &#8211; it&#8217;s currently at number 7, and celebrating a ludicrous 29 weeks in the top 10. Still, it&#8217;s not stopping the other singles from charting, and they do show that he&#8217;s got some range. &#8220;Sorry I&#8217;m Here for Someone Else&#8221; peaked at 21 and is still around at 22. &#8220;Mystical Magical&#8221; is&#8230; I don&#8217;t know, 70s Eurovision? It probably lands differently for listeners in North America.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25. Sleep Token &#8211; &#8220;Damocles&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0NDqYZVbpho?si=mP1uAq8O8WlG0uXU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A third hit for Sleep Token, who seem to be the only modern rock band in the UK with the ability to consistently place tracks in the top 10. They&#8217;re heavily reliant on the fanbase &#8211; their tracks all drop quickly after week one &#8211; but there&#8217;s some variation in the places too. The previous single, &#8220;Caramel&#8221;, reached number 10. While they&#8217;re often positioned as prog, this is a fairly straight rock ballad &#8211; basically a Snow Patrol song with a heavier arrangement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>34. Charli XCX &#8211; &#8220;Party 4U&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fKrTCGGEiWY?si=8gsAUm6n6M3MQWSL\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a back catalogue track from 2020, charting on the back of some tour dates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>39. Skye Newman &#8211; &#8220;Hairdresser&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dCbk0idfI-4?si=1KM9_nbddfVNXfaI\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Her debut hit. This has been climbing from the lower reaches for five weeks. Her agents describe her as a &#8220;raw and unapologetically authentic voice emerging from the UK music scene&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamwass.com\/music\/skye-newman\/\">really, they do<\/a>. She also offers &#8220;poetic lyricism, raw emotion, and a fearless approach to honesty&#8221;. And she &#8220;isn&#8217;t just making music, she&#8217;s creating a movement&#8221;. Someone got paid to ask ChatGPT to write that.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the actual record is rather good. Her background is a bit tricky to pin down &#8211; she&#8217;s from London, she&#8217;s on Columbia, and if she has a discography before this record, it seems to have disappeared. It doesn&#8217;t help that her search results are overshadowed by a character called Skye Newman from <em>The Young and the Restless<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Show Me Love&#8221; by WizTheMC and bees &amp; honey<\/strong> climbs 4-3.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Love Me Not&#8221; by Ravyn Lenae<\/strong> climbs 9-5.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Steve&#8217;s Lava Chicken&#8221; by Jack Black<\/strong> climbs 11-9, and thus sets a new record for the shortest top ten hit of all time. The previous record holder was &#8220;Ding-Dong The Witch Is Dead&#8221; from the <em>Wizard of Oz <\/em>soundtrack, which is also less than a minute long. It reached number 2 in 2013 after Margaret Thatcher died. That was a download campaign, though. Download campaigns don&#8217;t really work in the modern era. What &#8220;Steve&#8217;s Lava Chicken&#8221; has going for it is that it&#8217;s <em>so<\/em> short that anyone minded to listen to it is probably going to listen to it more than once.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The five records leaving the top 40:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Door&#8221; by Teddy Swims<\/strong> re-entered at 37 last week. He still has &#8220;Bad Dreams&#8221; at number 12.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Taste&#8221; by Sabrina Carpenter<\/strong> had a 3-week re-entry run, peaking at 37.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Juno&#8221; by Sabrina Carpenter\u00a0<\/strong>also had a 3-week re-entry run, peaking at 34. Her current single &#8220;Busy Woman&#8221; is at number 10.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Abracadabra&#8221; by Lady Gaga<\/strong> re-entered at 36 last week. &#8220;Die With A Smile&#8221; is still just inside the top 40.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Burning Down&#8221; by Alex Warren<\/strong> spent eight weeks in chart on its most second run, peaking at 23.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. The Stereophonics &#8211; &#8220;Make &#8216;Em Laugh, Make &#8216;Em Cry, Make &#8216;Em Wait&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OWX91QkUOIQ?si=s2iYxxJ9kARK6_Wh\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A ninth number 1 for the Stereophonics. All of their studio albums have reached number 1 except their 1997 debut &#8220;Word Gets Around&#8221; (number 6), 2009&#8217;s &#8220;Keep Calm and Carry On&#8221; (number 11, and a bizarre outlier), its 2013 follow-up &#8220;Graffiti on the Train&#8221; (number 3), and 2017&#8217;s &#8220;Scream Above the Sounds&#8221; (number 2, because they released it in the same week as a Michael Ball &amp; Alfie Boe album). It&#8217;s very much a week one fan base record &#8211; 92% of its chart points come from physical sales.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Ghost &#8211; &#8220;Skelet\u00e1&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mGR2M2mBJXU?si=hNrPxgPukcOPcutw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their sixth studio album, matching the position of its 2022 predecessor &#8220;Impera&#8221;. They&#8217;ve had two other album chart entries since then with lower positions, but &#8220;Phantomime&#8221; is an 24 minute EP, and &#8220;Rite Here Rite Now&#8221; is a live album. And both of them still made the top 10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. James Arthur &#8211; &#8220;Pisces&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V1CApxCi03U?si=cgWW3EQPbRwE_66U\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>His sixth studio album. The last one got to number 1, but this is a busier week. His last two albums both disappeared from the chart rather quickly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Self Esteem &#8211; &#8220;A Complicated Woman&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DgVqgud0L1c?si=z_T34WzwetSZqTvq\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Her third album, after a four year gap. Its predecessor, &#8220;Prioritise Pleasure&#8221;, was her chart debut and reached number 11, so she&#8217;s still climbing. Not sure about the single above, to be honest. Bit <em>X Factor<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10. Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra &#8211; &#8220;Still Blooming&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f8VukIWd190?si=RpaWDW_OHWREaZP0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>His fourth album of jazz standards, the third to chart, and the highest position yet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11. Tide Lines &#8211; &#8220;Glasgow Love Story&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vQ_N-A088FM?si=HG33Zs7ik7W16XRd\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scottish folk music. They&#8217;re remarkably consistent in terms of chart positions &#8211; their previous two albums reached 12 and 13.<\/p>\n<p><strong>20. Simple Minds &#8211; &#8220;Live in the City of Diamonds&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4SZUjuQUcg8?si=sQmnl9D0RgqqmTX4\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Live album, obviously. It forms a triptych with 1987&#8217;s &#8220;Live in the City of Light&#8221; (Paris) and 2019&#8217;s &#8220;Live in the City of Angels&#8221; (Los Angeles). Simple Minds have released a ton of live albums over the years, but these three are apparently distinguished by being recordings of a single show rather than being tour highlights (and being full releases rather than completist-only releases of entire tours). The City of Diamonds is Amsterdam, if you were wondering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decent range of new entries this week&#8230; 1. Alex Warren &#8211; &#8220;Ordinary&#8221; Seven weeks. And its streams are up this week (a bit). This is the longest run at number 1 since &#8220;Stick Season&#8221; last year, though &#8220;Stick Season&#8221; is obviously the more interesting record. 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