{"id":11721,"date":"2026-01-24T17:06:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T17:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11721"},"modified":"2026-01-24T17:06:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T17:06:54","slug":"charts-23-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11721","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 23 January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think more people would see the lack of competition in January as an opportunity. But no.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, seriously, brace yourself for anticlimax after the fold.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Dave &amp; Tems &#8211; &#8220;Raindance&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SOJpE1KMUbo\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We do have a new number one, although it&#8217;s hardly a new record. This track entered at number 5 alongside the release of the parent album back at the start of November, and has never dropped out of the top 30, even during the Christmas deluge. It&#8217;s now being promoted as an actual single, hence the video above, but it&#8217;s basically the same record that&#8217;s been hanging around the top 10 for the better part of three months. Dave&#8217;s romantic ballads never do much for me, honestly, and this strikes me as Just Fine.<\/p>\n<p>It also carries the same asterisk that I&#8217;ve repeated for the last few weeks: if it wasn&#8217;t being downweighted under the ACR rules, Olivia Dean&#8217;s &#8220;Man I Need&#8221; would be number one. Admittedly, it&#8217;s quite impressive that &#8220;Raindance&#8221; has been out for thirteen weeks\u00a0<em>without<\/em> getting hit by ACR.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The eminently searchable Dave gets his fourth number 1, following &#8220;Funky Friday&#8221; (2018), &#8220;Starlight&#8221; (2022) and &#8220;Sprinter&#8221; (2023).\u00a0Tems gets her first UK number 1; her previous best was number 8 guesting on Future&#8217;s &#8220;Wait For U&#8221; in 2022. Technically she&#8217;s given equal billing here rather than being a featured artists, but it&#8217;s a track from Dave&#8217;s album at the end of the day. She&#8217;s had a couple of minor hits on her own, but neither got above number 34.<\/p>\n<p><strong>39. The Cure &#8211; &#8220;Boys Don&#8217;t Cry&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9GkVhgIeGJQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yes, seriously. I mean, there&#8217;s also a re-entry for &#8220;WGFT&#8221; by Gunna &amp; Burna Boy, but aside from that, this is it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Boys Don&#8217;t Cry&#8221; has attracted some attention by becoming their first track to pass a billion streams on Spotify, plus an upcoming physical re-issue. It failed to chart on release in 1979 &#8211; the Cure didn&#8217;t have their first hit single until &#8220;A Forest&#8221; reached number 31 in 1980 &#8211; but got a re-release in 1986, when it reached number 22. Obviously, it&#8217;s a much better known track than that chart record would suggest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The video above comes from the 1986 re-release, but the adult band seen in silhouette behind the curtain are the actual 1979 line-up.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;I Just Might&#8221; by Bruno Mars<\/strong> climbs 6-5. His two back catalogue tracks also climb, with\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Die With a Smile&#8221;<\/strong> (with Lady Gaga) climbing 28-23, and\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Locked Out of Heaven&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>climbing 36-28.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Lush Life&#8221; by Zara Larsson<\/strong> climbs 9-7, still a way short of its original peak of number 3. Her not-exactly-current-but-at-least-quite-recent single <strong>&#8220;Midnight Sun&#8221;<\/strong> climbs 39-29.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Stateside&#8221; by PinkPantheress<\/strong> &#8211; also being driven heavily by the Zara Larsson mix &#8211; climbs 23-12. That&#8217;s PinkPantheress&#8217;s biggest hit since &#8220;Boy&#8217;s A Liar&#8221; reached number 2in 2022.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Think About Us&#8221; by Sonny Fodera, D.o.D. &amp; Poppy Baskcomb<\/strong> climbs 22-18.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The two tracks leaving the top 40 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Upside Down&#8221; by Diana Ross<\/strong>, with two weeks and a peak of 26.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;I Think We&#8217;re Alone Now&#8221; by Tiffany<\/strong>, with three weeks and a peak of 27.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you might have picked up, in the absence of any real competition, the\u00a0<em>Stranger Things<\/em> back catalogue material is still clogging up the top 40: Djo&#8217;s &#8220;End of Beginning&#8221; is 2, &#8220;Purple Rain&#8221; is 15, &#8220;Every Breath You Take&#8221; is 19, &#8220;Running Up That Hill&#8221; is 22, and &#8220;Landslide&#8221; at 34. On top of that, we&#8217;ve got a decade-old Zara Larsson track in the top 10, two Bruno Mars archive tracks, and the Cure.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart, things are busier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Robbie Williams &#8211; &#8220;Britpop&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G8U-n-5HTOM\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is Robbie Williams&#8217; 16th number 1 album, which means that he now holds the record for the most number 1 albums by one artist &#8211; breaking his tie with the Beatles. If that seems absurd, then bear in mind that we&#8217;re talk about the\u00a0<em>most<\/em> number 1 albums. The Beatles were a going concern on the charts for less than a decade, in which time they only released twelve studio albums &#8211; Robbie Williams has been releasing solo albums for nearly 30 years now, and all but two of them went to number 1.<\/p>\n<p>The video above is a remarkably accurate re-creation of <em>The Word.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Madison Beer &#8211; &#8220;Locket&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YcpMVsvK8pk\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Her third album, and a huge step up &#8211; her two previous albums, released in 2021 and 2023, only reached number 28. Her songs seem pretty radio friendly, but her only singles hit in the UK remains a guest vocal on a Jax Jones track, &#8220;All Day and Night&#8221;, that reached number 10 in 2019. According to her Wikipedia discography, she seems to be weirdly popular in New Zealand, where she has regular top 10 hits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Nathan Evans &amp; The Saint Phnx Band &#8211; &#8220;Angel&#8217;s Share&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2F4VCeuV898\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yes, this is the same Nathan Evans who had a novelty number 1 with a dance mix of the sea shanty &#8220;Wellerman&#8221; in 2021. A solo album in 2024 reached number 26. This is a collaboration with St Phnx, a folk duo whose album &#8220;Happy Place&#8221; reached number 39 in 2022. Since it&#8217;s basically a folk-rock album, I&#8217;ve generously opted for one of the sensible singles above, and passed up their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2LERc8wp7MI\">cover of &#8220;Cotton Eye Joe&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Sleaford Mods &#8211; &#8220;The Demise of Planet X&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SyVICFIQlDg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their fifth top 10 album &#8211; slightly lower than the last two but not by much. They&#8217;re as minimal as ever. The single above is worth a listen if only for Gwendoline Christie&#8217;s verse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. A$AP Rocky &#8211; &#8220;Don&#8217;t Be Dumb&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g1-46Nu3HxQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>His fourth album. The single above marginally missed the top 40, but as it is, he hasn&#8217;t had a hit single since 2018. In album terms, though, all of his albums have placed between 7 and 11. He certainly makes a good video.<\/p>\n<p><strong>14. Elles Bailey &#8211; &#8220;Can&#8217;t Take My Story Away&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uYWC6BIYRoU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>English blues rock. Her seventh album, the third to chart. The last one got to 12, so no real change here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think more people would see the lack of competition in January as an opportunity. But no. I mean, seriously, brace yourself for anticlimax after the fold. 1. Dave &amp; Tems &#8211; &#8220;Raindance&#8221;\u00a0 We do have a new number one, although it&#8217;s hardly a new record. 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