{"id":11280,"date":"2025-08-01T22:42:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11280"},"modified":"2025-08-01T22:42:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:42:44","slug":"charts-1-august-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11280","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 1 August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just one week for Justin Bieber, then.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. HUNTR\/X, EJAE, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami &amp; The\u00a0<em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em> Cast &#8211; &#8220;Golden&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yebNIHKAC4A?si=1gt_f5S_Rz4HpJux\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Climbing to number 1 in its fifth week on the top 40, and with two other soundtrack songs not so far behind &#8211; &#8220;Your Idol&#8221; is at 10 and &#8220;Soda Pop&#8221; at 11, though both of those are Saja Boys tracks. As I&#8217;ve explained before, the convoluted chart credit is actually listing the same people three times: the fictional band, the real singers (on this track, mostly EJAE), and a generic cast credit because that&#8217;s how the overall album is credited.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Golden&#8221; really is very good &#8211; it works as a regular pop song, but fits the plot requirement of being unreasonably difficult to sing. This thing requires a two and a half octave range, and the top end is really high.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You can maybe argue about whether this really qualifies as true KPop, given that it was made for an American-backed film. But it&#8217;s written and performed by people working in KPop, and it certainly qualifies as only the second UK number 1 by a South Korean artist. The first, obviously, was Psy&#8217;s &#8220;Gangnam Style&#8221;. By the way, if you&#8217;re wondering how Psy&#8217;s career is doing these days, here&#8217;s Ros\u00e9 making a guest appearance on his current tour.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XIKz-AyYPCw?si=YFLEaWErQ6U_-hi1\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So I think he&#8217;s doing okay.<\/p>\n<p>HUNTR\/X&#8217;s credit also puts them on the curious list of number 1 hits by fictional artists, but most of those are novelty records credited to TV characters like Bob the Builder or the Teletubbies. Number 1 records credited to explicitly fictional musicians are much rarer, though there&#8217;s always this, from 1969.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j3plj_Xplus?si=WM4aJHWMhF7V3Dgr\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I feel obliged to attach the caveat that, if it wasn&#8217;t for the downweighting rule, Alex Warren&#8217;s &#8220;Ordinary&#8221; would still be number 1, and by a margin of over 15%, at that. &#8220;Ordinary&#8221; is still in the top 10 despite its streams effectively being halved by the chart rules. The <em>new<\/em> Alex Warren track, &#8220;Eternity&#8221;, entered at number 3 last week but drops straight to 14, which took me by surprise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Drake &amp; Central Cee &#8211; &#8220;Which One&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bQ4GAMx1fJc?si=PdhPCbDRSBWozKxm\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Oh, Drake&#8217;s still doing his dance music dirges, is he? To be honest, Central Cee may be the bigger draw here for a UK audience &#8211; he&#8217;s had two top 10 hits already this year, and a number 3 record last year. Still, this is Drake&#8217;s biggest hit since 2023, so he&#8217;s clearly alive and kicking despite coming off worse against Kendrick Lamar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25. Ozzy Osbourne &#8211; &#8220;Crazy Train&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FVovq9TGBw0?si=dPv60w1eq6i5rWQu\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Ozzy Osbourne tribute streams are holding up better than you might have expected. Black Sabbath&#8217;s &#8220;Paranoid&#8221; climbs from 32 to 20 this week, while his debut solo single from 1980 makes the top 40 for the time. (It got to number 49 on release.) It wasn&#8217;t a particular surprise to see &#8220;Paranoid&#8221; chart, but that&#8217;s a timeless record. &#8220;Crazy Time&#8221; is much more a period piece &#8211; let&#8217;s be honest, it&#8217;s an example of a commercially defunct genre &#8211; and so it&#8217;s interesting to see it show up here.<\/p>\n<p>Black Sabbath&#8217;s &#8220;Ultimate Collection&#8221; compilation is at 14 on the album chart (up from 22 last week), which is the highest it&#8217;s ever been &#8211; it got to 20 on release in 2016. His 2014 solo album &#8220;Memoirs of a Madman&#8221; also re-enters the album chart at 32; it got to 23 on release.<\/p>\n<p><strong>31. Sombr &#8211; &#8220;12 to 12&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cZgUiR31m-Y?si=nmZpdC-R2sbvP5ky\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A fourth top 40 hit for Sombr &#8211; &#8220;Undressed&#8221; and &#8220;Back to Friends&#8221; happen to be placed at 32 and 33, giving him a run of three straight chart positions. He&#8217;s disco this time!<\/p>\n<p><strong>34. Lola Young &#8211; &#8220;Dealer&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G-sshRFAzBQ?si=v-1WDaXKFGdr52Bz\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lola Young remains in the awkward position of not being a one hit wonder, but having a big gap between her number 1, &#8220;Messy&#8221;, and everything else. That track finally leaves the top 40 this week, after a 34 week run. The immediate followup &#8220;Conceited&#8221; didn&#8217;t make the top 40. &#8220;One Thing&#8221; has had a respectable 11 week run on the chart, but it peaked at 18. It also entered higher than this, though it did climb a bit from its starting point.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, the version on YouTube seems to be the radio edit. Removing the word &#8220;drugs&#8221; from a song called &#8220;Dealer&#8221; is, um, a choice.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Well,\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Golden&#8221;<\/strong>, obviously.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;No Broke Boys&#8221; by Disco Lines &amp; Tinashe<\/strong> climbs 12-8, giving Tinashe a second top 10 hit, a decade after the first one.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Your Idol&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Soda Pop&#8221; by Saja Boys<\/strong> climbs 14-10 and 17-11.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Paranoid&#8221; by Black Sabbath<\/strong> climbs 32-20.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are four new entries, plus &#8220;Sparks&#8221; by Coldplay re-entering at 39. The five tracks leaving the top 40 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Messy&#8221; by Lola Young<\/strong>, as previously mentioned.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Glen&#8221; by Levi Heron<\/strong>, with 8 weeks in the top 40 and a peak of 24.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Cops &amp; Robbers&#8221; by Sammy Virji &amp; Skepta<\/strong>, which was a re-entry at 39 last week.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;APT&#8221; by Ros\u00e9 &amp; Bruno Mars<\/strong>, which re-entered at 40 last week.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Can&#8217;t Decide&#8221; by Max Dean, Locky &amp; Luke Dean,\u00a0<\/strong>with nine weeks, peaking at 13.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. The K&#8217;s &#8211; &#8220;Pretty On The Internet&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ed0V_C5lO7Q?si=0APIx8sXA-vXd8D8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Indie guitar pop. It&#8217;s their second album &#8211; the first one reached number 3. It&#8217;s here overwhelmingly on physical sales, with streaming accounting for less than 4% of its chart posts &#8211; which doesn&#8217;t bode well for it sticking around.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Paul Weller &#8211; &#8220;Find El Dorado&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G2F6tpnLa7Y?si=OtkcRhIqXw2Css2T\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Covers album, although he&#8217;s not exactly going for the obvious candidates here. &#8220;Lawdy Rolla&#8221; by the Guerillas? (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=doJVBV9rNKA&amp;list=RDdoJVBV9rNKA&amp;start_radio=1\">Here&#8217;s the original<\/a> &#8211; they were a French band, apparently.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. Alice Cooper &#8211; &#8220;The Revenge of Alice Cooper&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jgbkuJo1ifU?si=vYOMt1KxfpgbtH_Z\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Alice Cooper the band, not Alice Cooper the stage name for the front man of Alice Cooper the band. Got that? So if you&#8217;re just counting albums by the band, it&#8217;s only their eighth album.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11. Tim Minchin &#8211; &#8220;Time Machine&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BQDDbesNPJ4?si=nzUpFDx5_z5NDh1g\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yes, the Australian comedian. He had a previous album hit in 2020 with &#8220;Apart Together&#8221;, which reached number 27.<\/p>\n<p><strong>23. Madonna &#8211; &#8220;Veronica Electronica&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y_HRcmAwV4k?si=fMF5kPX5hgrHSYXc\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get too excited by the chart position &#8211; &#8220;Veronica Electronica&#8221; is a shelved remix album from the &#8220;Ray of Light&#8221; period, with this unreleased demo added to get it above 40 minutes. So something of a release for the hardcore fans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>28. Freddie Gibbs &amp; The Alchemist &#8211; &#8220;Alfredo 2&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r8-YsU0Xn9o?si=f8Cd0WwFlbfM-gQr\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their third collaborative album, the first to chart in the UK. Neither of them has charted individually, either.<\/p>\n<p><strong>34. Gary Numan &#8211; &#8220;A Perfect Circle&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y0ZEdij7Nos?si=mwcNnMDsHZDPDU0a\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>His studio albums still get near the top, but this is a live album, recorded in London in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just one week for Justin Bieber, then. 1. HUNTR\/X, EJAE, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami &amp; The\u00a0KPop Demon Hunters Cast &#8211; &#8220;Golden&#8221; Climbing to number 1 in its fifth week on the top 40, and with two other soundtrack songs not so far behind &#8211; &#8220;Your Idol&#8221; is at 10 and &#8220;Soda Pop&#8221; at 11, though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11281,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11280\/revisions\/11281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}