{"id":11432,"date":"2025-09-27T14:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11432"},"modified":"2025-09-27T14:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:33:13","slug":"charts-26-september-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11432","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 26 September 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week with two high new entries and&#8230; yeah, pretty much nothing else.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yebNIHKAC4A&amp;list=RDyebNIHKAC4A&amp;start_radio=1\"><strong>1. HUNTR\/X &#8211; &#8220;Golden&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eight weeks total. Last week I said that this track had peaked and Olivia Dean&#8217;s &#8220;Man I Need&#8221; was in track to overtake it. Well, it&#8217;s started growing again &#8211; <em>just<\/em> enough to avoid being overtaken, with a margin of victory of fractionally over 1%. The Olivia Dean track is still growing faster, so there&#8217;s still a strong chance that this week will be it, but&#8230; who knows.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Lewis Capaldi &#8211; &#8220;Something in the Heavens&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aVUuXuzd7nY\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Why yes, that\u00a0<em>is<\/em> an AI-generated video &#8211; perhaps the highest-profile example I&#8217;ve seen to date. To be fair, it&#8217;s one of the better examples I&#8217;ve seen, but that&#8217;s because it leans into the dreamlike vibe that leverages the uncanny valley effect. I&#8217;ve yet to see a successful AI video that wasn&#8217;t in some way trying to turn the technology&#8217;s weaknesses into advantages by building around them. You&#8217;ll notice nobody wanted to take their chances with putting the actual Lewis Capaldi into the video.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is the second single from his upcoming album. Capaldi is unusual in having a fanbase who behave like K-pop fans and pre-order the physical single &#8211; he has form for timing the release of those singles to try and push a single over the edge, and holding them back if he looks like he&#8217;s getting to number 1 without them. His previous single, &#8220;Survive&#8221;, did get to number 1, and lasted four weeks in the top 10, but departed the top 40 after nine weeks. This one <em>did<\/em> ship the CDs in the first week and it was number 1 in the midweeks thanks to those pre-ordered singles all registering in the opening days. In practice, nearly 60% of its chart points comes from sales (the overwhelming majority from CD singles), and so by the end of the week it tails off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Raye &#8211; &#8220;Where Is My Husband!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rK5TyISxZ_M\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is officially the lead single from her next album &#8211; good, isn&#8217;t it? It&#8217;s her highest placing single since&#8230; well, casso&#8217;s &#8220;Prada&#8221;, but that&#8217;s a sample of her vocal. So in practice it&#8217;s her highest placing single since her commercial breakthrough single <strong>&#8220;Escapism&#8221;<\/strong> became her sole number 1 at the start of 2023. A spillover effect leads to that track re-entering at number 37.<\/p>\n<p>A bunch of non-album singles have placed significantly lower than this &#8211; &#8220;Suzanne&#8221; with Mark Ronson reached number 34 earlier in the year &#8211; so the strength of the track is a big part of the position.<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230; um, yes, that&#8217;s it. There&#8217;s also a re-entry for\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Dealer&#8221; by Lola Young<\/strong> at 35, but that&#8217;s just a rebound from 43. This week&#8217;s climbers, then:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Breakin&#8217; Dishes&#8221; by Rihanna<\/strong> climbs 21-19, which makes it her 42nd top 20 hit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Sugar on my Tongue&#8221; by Tyler, The Creator<\/strong> climbs to 29 after three weeks hovering in the 35-37 range.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Folded&#8221; by Kehlani<\/strong>\u00a0 climbs 33-30.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s literally it. And the four tracks leaving the top 40 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Dior&#8221; by MK featuring Chrystal<\/strong>, a former number 1 which lasted 15 weeks in the chart.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Jealous Type&#8221; by Doja Cat<\/strong>, which entered at 13 but only took four weeks to drop out of the chart &#8211; by modern standards, not a success.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Messy&#8221; by Lola Young<\/strong>, which was a re-entry at 40 last week.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;A Little More&#8221; by Ed Sheeran<\/strong>, which was a re-entry at 32 last week due to his album release.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh well. Let&#8217;s see if the album chart has anything more interesting going.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Biffy Clyro &#8211; &#8220;Futique&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tAaWvvQqRgQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their tenth album (not counting a soundtrack album they did as a side project a few years back) and their fourth number one. The others were &#8220;Opposites&#8221; in 2013, &#8220;Ellipsis&#8221; in 2016, and &#8220;A Celebration of Endings&#8221; in 2020. Their previous album only got to number 4, but it was released in a busy week &#8211; it got stuck behind three other new entries, by Elton John, Lana Del Rey and Duran Duran. Biffy Clyro albums tend not to stick around long &#8211; one or two weeks is usually their limit these days. They have a comfortable lead over Sabrina Carpenter at number 2, but she&#8217;s going to be around for the long haul.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Lola Young &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m Only F**king Myself&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is her third album, and the singles &#8220;One Thing&#8221; and &#8220;Dealer&#8221; both made the top 40. Her previous album only to to number 16 (and vanished after a week), so this is a step up. Oh, and just so we&#8217;re clear, the asterisks are in the official title.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. The Divine Comedy &#8211; &#8220;Rainy Sunday Afternoon&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jJ6N59FZ-6g\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is Neil Hannon&#8217;s thirteenth studio album as The Divine Comedy (which has sometimes had other members too). The last one was &#8220;Office Politics&#8221; back before the pandemic; he seems to be in a rather less gimmicky mood this time round.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Buckingham Nicks &#8211; &#8220;Buckingham Nicks&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QQZy7MqDfSA\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a re-issue of an album released by Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks in 1973, before they joined Fleetwood Mac. As such, it failed to chart at the time. It&#8217;s remained unavailable outside bootlegs ever since, and hasn&#8217;t even been released to streaming services until this week. That would normally make you wonder if there was some sort of legal issue, but supposedly it just hasn&#8217;t been a high enough priority for anyone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>12. Nine Inch Nails &#8211; &#8220;Tron: Ares &#8211; OST&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SnMyroAH0rg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Exactly the same position as their last commercially released studio album, 2018&#8217;s &#8220;Bad Witch&#8221;. So evidently fans aren&#8217;t seeing this as a side project. The clip above is Nine Inch Nails&#8217; version of the video &#8211; there&#8217;s also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rrd6JniMI3U&amp;list=RDRrd6JniMI3U&amp;start_radio=1\">a Disney edit which is more obviously dsigned to advertise the film<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>13. Joy Crookes &#8211; &#8220;Juniper&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CDTAyyKsjiE\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Her second album &#8211; the first one reached number 5 in 2021, so this is a step down. Mind you, you&#8217;d struggle to say that the lead single above was aiming to be especially commercial.<\/p>\n<p><strong>21. Sammy Virji &#8211; &#8220;Same Day Cleaning&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Debut album. It includes the single &#8220;Cops &amp; Robbers&#8221;, which reached number 36.<\/p>\n<p><strong>26. Cardi B &#8211; &#8220;Am I The Drama&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Her second album after a seven year gap. In a rather desperate attempt to get some actual hits on it, it includes &#8220;WAP&#8221; (number 1 in 2020) and &#8220;Up&#8221; (number 16 in 2021) &#8211; several other tracks were released as singles this year, but didn&#8217;t make the top 40.<\/p>\n<p><strong>27. Newton Faulkner &#8211; &#8220;Octopus&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PzJlSW0mJfM\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When the hell did Newton Faulkner start sounding like this? Anyway, this is the first time we&#8217;ve seen him in the album top 40 since 2017, when &#8220;Hit the Ground Running&#8221; reached number 13. He has released analbum since then &#8211; 2021&#8217;s &#8220;Interference (Of Light)&#8221; &#8211; but it only got to number 91. So relatively speaking this is a big turn around. Mind you, his 2015 album &#8220;Human Love&#8221; also missed the top 40, so his chart performance in the last decade just seems to be wildly variable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week with two high new entries and&#8230; yeah, pretty much nothing else. 1. HUNTR\/X &#8211; &#8220;Golden&#8221; Eight weeks total. Last week I said that this track had peaked and Olivia Dean&#8217;s &#8220;Man I Need&#8221; was in track to overtake it. 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