{"id":11477,"date":"2025-10-18T11:34:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11477"},"modified":"2025-10-18T11:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:34:17","slug":"charts-17-october-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11477","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 17 October 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, she&#8217;s\u00a0<em>slightly<\/em> less dominant this week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ko70cExuzZM&amp;list=RDko70cExuzZM&amp;start_radio=1\"><strong>1. Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;The Fate of Ophelia&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks. The album\u00a0<strong>&#8220;The Life of a Showgirl&#8221;<\/strong> also gets a second week at number 1. There&#8217;s a significant second week drop in streaming, but that still leaves her with a very comfortable lead on both charts. Obviously, the enormous physical album sales from her first week aren&#8217;t repeated, and she&#8217;s now working mainly on streaming numbers. But that&#8217;s still enough to beat the number 2, 3 and 4 albums combined.<\/p>\n<p>On the singles chart, the other tracks from the album do tail off a little bit more. Last week she locked up the top three, but this time &#8220;Opalite&#8221; is at 4 and &#8220;Elizabeth Taylor&#8221; at 6. She&#8217;d still be swamping the chart if it wasn&#8217;t for the three-song rule.<\/p>\n<p><strong>12. HUNTR\/X &#8211; &#8220;How It&#8217;s Done&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QGsevnbItdU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This had three weeks on the chart in July, and got as far as number 29 before getting overtaken by &#8220;Soda Pop&#8221; and disqualified under the three song rule. &#8220;Soda Pop&#8221; gets hit by the downweighting rule this week, and so &#8220;How It&#8217;s Done&#8221; escapes disqualification and re-enters.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>25. Sienna Spiro &#8211; &#8220;Die on this Hill&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pxC9NhXv_1M\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Chart debut. She&#8217;s twenty and apparently has a following from TikTok, but this is an original song and she really does have a good voice. And this track certainly isn&#8217;t here solely on the basis of her online following &#8211; she&#8217;s released seven previous singles, only one of which made the top 100. &#8220;Die On This Hill&#8221; seems to have activated some interest in her back catalogue, with two of those tracks appearing in the lower reaches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>37. Jisoo &amp; Zayn &#8211; &#8220;Eyes Closed&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EN1tMeXQii0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is an odd combination. Jisoo is a member of Blackpink. Her only previous solo appearance on the top 40 was in 2023 when &#8220;Flower&#8221; reached number 38. Zayn Malik is&#8230; well, he was in One Direction. He basically stopped having hit singles after 2018, aside from a track in 2023 that got to number 36. So it&#8217;s a bit surprising to see him show up on a mainstream pop song like this in 2025. It&#8217;s a decent enough track, though.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;So Easy (To Fall In Love)&#8221; by Olivia Dean<\/strong> rebounds 12-8 in its third week to reach a new peak. She also has two other singles in the top 10: &#8220;Man I Need&#8221; at 2 and &#8220;Nice To Each Other&#8221; at 7. Even with the three song rule, the top 20 features three tracks from Taylor Swift, three from Olivia Dean (four if you count her guest appearance on a Sam Fender track), three from the <em>KPop Demon Hunters<\/em> soundtrack, two from Sabrina Carpenter and two from Alex Warren. This doesn&#8217;t feel very healthy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;WGFT&#8221; by Gunna &amp; Burna Boy<\/strong> climbs 28-22, overtaking a previous peak of 25 from a month ago.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Now or Never&#8221; by Tkandz &amp; Cxsper\u00a0<\/strong>climbs 30-28.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Phantom&#8221; by EsDeeKid &amp; Rico Ace<\/strong> climbs 36-29.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Gabriela&#8221; by Katseye<\/strong> climbs to 38 after spending four weeks hovering between 39 and 40.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Dracula&#8221; by Tame Impala<\/strong> climbs 40-39.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s a re-entry at 40 for &#8220;Lose Control&#8221; by Teddy Swims, of all things. That track has been out for 102 weeks. It was last in the chart in June, but it hasn&#8217;t fallen below 59 since leaving. Anyway, that means we have four tracks leaving the top 40:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Soda Pop&#8221; by the Saja<\/strong> <strong>Boys\u00a0<\/strong>is disqualified under the 3-song rule. It had a 12-week run, peaking at 3.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Jealous Type&#8221; by Doja Cat<\/strong> re-entered at 30 two weeks ago on the back of the album release. It peaked at 13 on release week in September.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Camera&#8221; by Ed Sheeran<\/strong> entered at 16 and lasted four weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Escapism&#8221; by Raye featuring 070 Shake<\/strong> had a three-week run as a re-entry, peaking at 24.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart,\u00a0<strong>&#8220;The Life of a Showgirl&#8221; by Taylor Swift<\/strong> is still number 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Richard Ashcroft &#8211; &#8220;Lovin&#8217; You&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a0jxbliRYg0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is his seventh solo album; they&#8217;ve all made the top 5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>29. EsDeeKid &#8211; &#8220;Rebel&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This actually entered at number 36 last week, climbing from the lower reaches &#8211; a very unusual thing to happen on the album charts. It includes the current single &#8220;Phantom&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>31. Calum Scott &#8211; &#8220;Avenoir&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mHg8Kdt18kw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a\u00a0<em>Britain&#8217;s Got Talent<\/em> alumnus, and this is his third album. The first one made number 4 on the back of the show, the second missed the top 40. The single above is, um, a remix of\u00a0 Whitney Houston&#8217;s &#8220;I Wanna Dance With Somebody&#8221;, with the original vocals turned into a piano ballad. It works better than you might think, to be fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, she&#8217;s\u00a0slightly less dominant this week. 1. Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;The Fate of Ophelia&#8221; Two weeks. The album\u00a0&#8220;The Life of a Showgirl&#8221; also gets a second week at number 1. There&#8217;s a significant second week drop in streaming, but that still leaves her with a very comfortable lead on both charts. Obviously, the enormous physical [&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-11477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11477","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=11477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11479,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11477\/revisions\/11479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}