{"id":11841,"date":"2026-03-07T17:32:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11841"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:32:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:32:01","slug":"charts-6-march-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11841","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 6 March 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, we&#8217;re into March and the singles chart is finally starting to pick up a bit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3triLkS0nq4\"><strong>1. Sam Fender &amp; Olivia Dean &#8211; &#8220;Rein Me In&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three weeks. &#8220;Rein Me In&#8221; has been on the top 40 for 37 consecutive weeks, and it&#8217;s not that unusual for big tracks to hang around that long. But it&#8217;s actually growing &#8211; this is as big a weekly score as it&#8217;s ever had. It&#8217;s still only number one because &#8220;Man I Need&#8221; is on ACR, but even that is now marginal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Alex Warren &#8211; &#8220;Fever Dream&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hkUSnrHQJHg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The previous Alex Warren single, &#8220;Eternity&#8221;, also entered at number 3. This is certainly a change of tack from his previous singles, since at least it&#8217;s an upbeat track. The video is very much Trying Too Hard, but the single itself is acceptable in a Maroon 5 kind of way.\u00a0&#8220;Ordinary&#8221; is still hanging around at number 16, which is insane.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>15. Bruno Mars &#8211; &#8220;Risk It All&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lY5V4hSLWY8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the release week single from his fourth album <strong>&#8220;The Romantic&#8221;<\/strong>, which enters the album chart at number 3. All of his solo albums have gone to 1 or 3.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I Just Might&#8221; also climbs back to 6, and there&#8217;s a third track from the album outside the top 40. He also appears on Lady Gaga&#8217;s &#8220;Die With a Smile&#8221; at number 34. &#8220;Risk it All&#8221; is a Latin romantic ballad, if you like that sort of thing. My main problem with Bruno Mars is that he often feels like he&#8217;s doing genre pastiches, or at least genre homages, in a way that feels weirdly insincere to me &#8211; they express emotion because that&#8217;s what you do in this genre &#8211; and this one falls squarely into that territory. There&#8217;s a problem with this sort of track when it registers to you as an exercise in reproduction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>19. Olivia Dean &#8211; &#8220;The Hardest Part&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/72p1VhZhlMU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rein Me In&#8221; doesn&#8217;t count towards Olivia Dean&#8217;s three-song limit because technically it&#8217;s a guest appearance on a Sam Fender track. Hence, she gets a total of four appearances on the chart: &#8220;So Easy (To Fall in Love)&#8221; is number 5, and &#8220;Man I Need&#8221; is number 8. The album track &#8220;A Couple Minutes&#8221; has been taking up the remaining slot, but this week it finally falls below &#8220;The Hardest Part&#8221;, which has been racking up streams for a while. This was the lead single from her second album, and it came out in August 2020 &#8211; which presumably accounts for the minimal, social-distancing-compliant video.<\/p>\n<p><strong>20. Raye &#8211; &#8220;Nightingale Lane&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ZKywzRJa_Y\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the second single from her upcoming album and not exactly an obvious choice, being a five minute ballad. Mind you, it makes more sense as an album trailer in conjunction with\u00a0&#8220;Where is My Husband&#8221;, which\u00a0 is still at 13. And it&#8217;s certainly a vocal showcase.<\/p>\n<p><strong>27. Dominic Fike &#8211; &#8220;White Keys&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9uQH2snq0EE\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This seems to be a spillover effect from the surge of interest in his 2023 track &#8220;Babydoll&#8221;, currently sitting at number 14. It&#8217;s a single from the tail end of last year which has been climbing from the lower reaches for a few weeks now. Meanwhile, &#8220;Babydoll&#8221; has acquired a fairly rudimentary video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KqMOKCRgvD8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>38. Ewan McVicar &#8211; &#8220;Share the House&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2bFcXp7DYB0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This has also been climbing from the lower reaches for a few weeks. It&#8217;s a much-delayed second hit for Ewan McVicar, a Scottish DJ who previously reached number 15 with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yA_KCHCkwCo\">&#8220;Tell Me Something Good&#8221;<\/a> in 2021. The source material this time is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6qK9vkkE0hM\">&#8220;Share This House&#8221; by Members of the House<\/a>, which did have a convenient acapella on the B-side of the 12&#8243;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. Madonna &#8211; &#8220;Get Into the Groove&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/52iW3lcpK5M\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Viral interest, apparently. It was number 1 for 4 weeks in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;iloveitiloveitiloveit&#8221; by Bella Kay<\/strong> climbs 4-2. Her earlier single &#8220;The Sick&#8221; climbs to 41 and seems likely to chart next week. Another track, &#8220;Steady&#8221;, has also appeared lower down the chart.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Babydoll&#8221; by Dominic Fike<\/strong> climbs 18-14.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are eight new or re-entries this week (the other one being a re-entry for Sombr&#8217;s &#8220;Back to Friends&#8221; at 36). The eight tracks leaving the top 40 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;A Couple Minutes&#8221; by Olivia Dean<\/strong>, disqualified under the three song rule, which has been hanging around between 16 and 20 since the start of the year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Drive Safe&#8221; by Myles Smith &amp; Niall Horan<\/strong>, which entered at 27 three weeks ago.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Drag Path&#8221; by Twenty One Pilots<\/strong>, after a single week at 43.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Tit\u00ed Me Pregunto&#8221; by Bad Bunny<\/strong>, which entered at 18 two weeks ago. He still has &#8220;DTMF&#8221; at 18 and &#8220;Nuevayol&#8221; at 37.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Wuthering Heights&#8221; by Kate Bush<\/strong> after a single week at 40.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Always Everywhere&#8221; by Charli XCX<\/strong>, which entered at 33 two weeks ago.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;You Stole the Show&#8221; by Sienna Spiro<\/strong> had a seven week run peaking at 26, in the shadow of &#8220;Die on This Hill&#8221;, currently at 32.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Folded&#8221; by Kehlani<\/strong>, which has been around since September aside from a Christmas break, though it never got above 20.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Gorillaz &#8211; &#8220;The Mountain&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ucRulNQsuYQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Only their third number 1 &#8211; the others were &#8220;Demon Days&#8221; at their commercial peak in 2005, and the previous album &#8220;Cracker Island&#8221; in 2023. It&#8217;s number 1 by a very comfortable margin, but then again they\u00a0<em>did<\/em> release it in 25 variant editions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Bruno Mars &#8211; &#8220;The Romantic&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>See above.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Mitski &#8211; &#8220;Nothing&#8217;s About to Happen To Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1mOGviDFRQU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Her eighth album, the third to chart in the UK. It matches the peak of its predecessor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. PinkPantheress &#8211; &#8220;Fancy That&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ostensibly a reissue of the EP that reached number 3 last May, except it&#8217;s now more than four times the length. It includes the current single &#8220;Stateside&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11. Blackpink &#8211; &#8220;3rd Mini Album (Deadline)&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is one of those 15 minutes EPs that lands on the album chart for want of anywhere better to put it. The single &#8220;Jump&#8221; reached number 18 last year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2GJfWMYCWY0\">The release-week single &#8220;Go&#8221;<\/a> missed the top 40.<\/p>\n<p><strong>35. Paul McCartney &amp; Wings &#8211; &#8220;Man on the Run &#8211; OST&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Eff0qkeEC3I\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Soundtrack album for the documentary about McCartney&#8217;s 1970s post-Beatles phase. Most of it is previously released material, though it does have three new tracks, if &#8220;new&#8221; is the right word for something recorded over 50 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, we&#8217;re into March and the singles chart is finally starting to pick up a bit. 1. Sam Fender &amp; Olivia Dean &#8211; &#8220;Rein Me In&#8221; Three weeks. &#8220;Rein Me In&#8221; has been on the top 40 for 37 consecutive weeks, and it&#8217;s not that unusual for big tracks to hang around that long. 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