{"id":11680,"date":"2026-01-10T10:47:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11680"},"modified":"2026-01-10T10:47:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:47:46","slug":"charts-9-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11680","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 9 January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re past Christmas, but we only have a couple of new releases for 2026. What can fill the gap? Well, there&#8217;s the season finale of\u00a0<em>Stranger Things<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to 1980s week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Djo &#8211; &#8220;End of Beginning&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oXSw8DGjf5E\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t from the soundtrack of\u00a0<em>Stranger Things<\/em>, but it is by one of the cast. It kind of counts as back catalogue itself, though, because it was already a hit last year, and got to number 4 then. He hasn&#8217;t had any other top 40 hits, so for now he goes onto the list of pure one-hit wonders. &#8220;End of Beginning&#8221; has a 5% lead over Taylor Swift at number 2, though again there&#8217;s an asterisk: if it wasn&#8217;t on ACR, Olivia Dean&#8217;s &#8220;Man I Need&#8221; would be number 1 by a comfortable margin.<\/p>\n<p>There are six back catalogue entries this week, thanks to <em>Stranger Things<\/em>, and they join the Kate Bush and Tiffany tracks from last week. It&#8217;s like early December, but with <em>Now That&#8217;s What I Call 80s\u00a0<\/em>instead of with Christmas songs. One difference is that, because they&#8217;re\u00a0<em>not<\/em> Christmas songs, these tracks are eligible for an ACR reset &#8211; they come off downweighting if they have a big enough week-on-week climb, so they&#8217;re on an equal footing with new releases.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>12. Prince &amp; The Revolution &#8211; &#8220;Purple<\/strong> <strong>Rain&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uW1UIDYmYyI\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Oddly, the only official video available for this seems to be the placeholder graphic above. &#8220;Purple Rain&#8221; reached number 8 on release in 1984, but its all time peak was number 6 following Prince&#8217;s death in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>17. The Police &#8211; &#8220;Every Breath You Take&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OMOGaugKpzs\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Number 1 for four weeks in 1983, this was the lead single from their final album. It&#8217;s supposed to be mildly sinister, but gets widely misread as a straightforward love song. Puff Daddy rather missed the point in sampling it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>20. Fleetwood Mac &#8211; &#8220;Landslide&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WM7-PYtXtJM\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This was a track from their self-titled 1975 album, and so it makes its first appearance in the singles chart. It becomes Fleetwood Mac&#8217;s 19th top 40 hit; the last one was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YF1R0hc5Q2I&amp;list=RDYF1R0hc5Q2I&amp;start_radio=1\">&#8220;Everywhere&#8221;<\/a>, which got to number 4 back in 1987.<\/p>\n<p><strong>22. James Marriott &#8211; &#8220;California Rain&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KgI1P-W1_s4\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not all\u00a0<em>Stranger Things<\/em>! James Marriott had a number 1 album last year with his second album &#8220;Don&#8217;t Tell The Dog&#8221;, but this is his first appearance on the singles chart. It&#8217;s substantially boosted by fanbase sales of physical copies which registered at the start of the chart week and won&#8217;t be sustained &#8211; but it would have made the top 40 on streaming alone. It&#8217;s a bit of an anomaly in the current singles chart, though I guess Benson Boone isn&#8217;t miles off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>24. Katseye &#8211; &#8220;Internet Girl&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5q9EjSUovc4\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Brought to you in association with the Zucchini Marketing Board.<\/p>\n<p>Katseye are the product of a collaboration between Hybe and Geffen to internationalise the K-pop girl group model, and they had their first UK hit last year when the relatively normal &#8220;Gabriela&#8221; reached the dizzy heights of number 38. This is obviously a step up for them. The record is&#8230; uh&#8230; well, play it and you&#8217;ll see.\u00a0This track seems to be remarkably divisive among their fanbase, some of whom just think it&#8217;s a terrible song, and others of whom think it&#8217;s an overproduced mess compared to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GFE4FYlCftc&amp;list=RDGFE4FYlCftc&amp;start_radio=1\">the live version<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s\u00a0<em>catchy<\/em>, to be sure, but it&#8217;s also a shameless bid for viral territory that borders on outright trolling. They must know the emoji is an aubergine, right? They must know that some of the lyrics sound like they&#8217;ve been in a drafts folder since Al Gore? Much depends on whether you think this is knowing irony or just a spectacular trainwreck.<\/p>\n<p>Right, back to\u00a0<em>Stranger Things.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>26. Diana Ross &#8211; &#8220;Upside Down&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Po0BbGMSX4g\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This was number 2 for two weeks in 1980 &#8211; it was kept off number 1 by Abba&#8217;s &#8220;The Winner Takes It All&#8221;, which seems fair enough. She did have two other UK number 1s: &#8220;I&#8217;m Still Waiting&#8221; (1971) and &#8220;Chain Reaction&#8221; (1986). She was still having hits into the 1990s, although regrettably her final chart hit was a guest appearance on a Westlife track in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The record sleeve which the Official Charts website has chosen to illustrate this track is the compilation album &#8220;Smooth FM presents Music For Mum 2016&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>34. David Bowie &#8211; &#8220;Heroes&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lXgkuM2NhYI\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This reached number 24 on release in 1977, but its all time peak was number 12 on his death in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>37. Sienna Spiro &#8211; &#8220;You Stole the Show&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bRlBQQHSXv0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This came out last October and has been floating around the lower reaches ever since, but finally makes the top 40 on the back of &#8220;Die on This Hill&#8221; making the top 10. That track is at number 11 this week. It&#8217;s not an obvious single, but nice to have here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. The Clash &#8211; &#8220;Should I Stay or Should I Go&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xMaE6toi4mk\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Should I stay or should I go now? \/ If I go there will be trouble \/ And if I stay it will be double.&#8221; Well, go then. There&#8217;ll be half as much trouble. Not sure what the dilemma is here, really.<\/p>\n<p>This track reached number 17 on release in 1982 (as a double A-side with &#8220;Straight to Hell&#8221;), but it was a number 1 on re-release in 1991 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gN4fkh-NHLc&amp;list=RDgN4fkh-NHLc&amp;start_radio=1\">after being used in a Levi&#8217;s advert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;End of Beginning&#8221; by Djo<\/strong> climbs to number 1, obviously.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Lush Life&#8221; by Zara Larrson<\/strong> climbs 9-8.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;I Run&#8221; by HAVEN. featuring Kaitlin Aragon<\/strong> climbs 10-9.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Running Up That Hill&#8221; by Kate Bush\u00a0<\/strong>climbs 16-14.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;I Think We&#8217;re Alone Now&#8221; by Tiffany<\/strong> climbs 29-27.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Stateside&#8221; by PinkPantheress<\/strong> climbs 40-35<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The nine tracks leaving the chart this week are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Last Christmas&#8221; by Wham!<\/strong>, which had two weeks at number 1.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;XMAS&#8221; by Kylie Minogue<\/strong>, the 2025 Christmas Number One.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;All I Want for Christmas is You&#8221; by Mariah Carey<\/strong>, which peaked at number 2 in 2025, as if did in the two preceding years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Rockin&#8217; Around the Christmas Tree&#8221; by Brenda Lee<\/strong>, which reached a new all-time peak of number 3 this year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Turn the Lights Off&#8221; by Kato featuring Jon<\/strong> after a single week at 33.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Manchild&#8221; by Sabrina Carpenter<\/strong>, which was a re-entry at 36 last week.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Such a Funny Way&#8221; by Sabrina Carpenter<\/strong>, after a single week at number 37<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Pink Pony Club&#8221; by Chappell Roan<\/strong>, which was a re-entry at 38 last week.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;People Watching&#8221; by Sam Fender<\/strong>, which was a re-entry at 39 last week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart,\u00a0<strong>&#8220;The Art of Loving&#8221; by Olivia Dean<\/strong> remains at number 1, for a fourth non-consecutive week. 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