{"id":11967,"date":"2026-04-25T21:07:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11967"},"modified":"2026-04-25T21:07:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:07:56","slug":"charts-24-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11967","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 24 April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At last, a big new release to liberate us from Sam Fender and Olivia Dean.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Olivia Rodrigo &#8211; &#8220;Drop Dead&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/78wrful9cVU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the lead single from the upcoming album &#8220;You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So In Love&#8221;.\u00a0 It has a fairly substantial margin over &#8220;Rein Me In&#8221; at number 2, though that comes mostly from first-week physical sales. Without them, &#8220;Drop Dead&#8221; would still have been number 1 but it would have been a lot closer. It&#8217;s her fourth UK number 1 single after &#8220;Drivers Licence&#8221; (2021), &#8220;Good 4 U&#8221; (2021) and &#8220;Vampire&#8221; (2023).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure about the video, which fixes on a passing reference to Versailles in the lyrics, and pretty much just decides that getting permission to film there is enough, without actually doing anything much on arrival. There&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kxqeX_2FUs0\">an alternative video<\/a> based on a passing reference to the Eurostar, although the one above is the &#8220;official&#8221;. I like the song, though &#8211; she&#8217;s still obsessed with relationship songs, but she seems in a better mood about them this time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>14. Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;Elizabeth Taylor&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WqbJT_vC0rs\" 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>This is supposed to be the third single from &#8220;The Life of a Showgirl&#8221;, but it already reached number 3 and spent seven weeks in the top 10 last autumn, and the UK public haven&#8217;t shown much interest in going back to it just because it happens to have a video now. Not least because that video actually consists of clips from Elizabeth Taylor films. What&#8217;s\u00a0<em>actually\u00a0<\/em>put it in the top 40 is a 7-inch glitter vinyl edition that was released for Record Store Day, and sold over 15,000 copies. It wouldn&#8217;t be anywhere close to the top 40 without those sales, and so we can be fairly sure that it&#8217;ll be gone next week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>31. Sombr &#8211; &#8220;Potential&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KoBUE6I4R9I\" 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>That&#8217;s a surprisingly low debut, given that &#8220;Homewrecker&#8221; debuted at 14. The trouble is that it&#8217;s still at number 7 &#8211; in its tenth week in the top 10 &#8211; and &#8220;Potential&#8221; is struggling to make headway against it. I expect it&#8217;ll climb, though.<\/p>\n<p><strong>32. Sean Kingston &amp; Justin Bieber &#8211; &#8220;Eenie Meenie&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/prmmCg5bKxA\" 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>Originally a number 9 hit in 2010. Has there ever been a worse opening lyric than &#8220;She&#8217;s indecisive \/ She can&#8217;t decide&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is another Justin Bieber back catalogue track reactivated thanks to Coachella. There&#8217;s a chart technicality here, because for the purposes of the three-song rule it&#8217;s classed as a Sean Kingston song. As such, it allows him a fourth track in the top 40. He also has &#8220;Beauty and a Beat&#8221; at 3, &#8220;Daisies&#8221; at 5, and &#8220;Baby&#8221; at 17. I&#8217;m not sure quite what it says about Justin Bieber that &#8211; aside from &#8220;Daisies&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s the really early bubblegum pop that&#8217;s getting the plays, not the material he actually performed at Coachella.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. Tyla &amp; Zara Larsson &#8211; &#8220;She Did It Again&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rtwpk9rb1Dc\" 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>Zara Larsson has been around for over a decade but her career outside Scandinavia has really seen a resurgence over the last year. She still has her 2016 single &#8220;Lush Life&#8221; in the top 10 &#8211; where it&#8217;s been almost without interruption since the start of the year &#8211; and &#8220;Midnight Sun&#8221; remains inside the top 20.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Beauty and a Beat&#8221; by Justin Bieber featuring Nicki Minaj<\/strong> climbs 11-3. As a result, it belatedly becomes Justin Bieber&#8217;s 29th top 10 hit, fourteen years after\u00a0 release &#8211; it only got to number 16 the first time around.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Daisies&#8221; by Justin Bieber<\/strong> climbs 15-5. In contrast, this one has been a number 1 before.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Earrings&#8221; by Malcolm Todd<\/strong> climbs 37-29.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Free Your Mind&#8221; by Prospa &amp; Cloonee\u00a0<\/strong>climbs 39-30.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The five tracks leaving the top 40 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;12 to 12&#8221; by Sombr<\/strong>, which has been around as a re-entry since the start of the year, and aside from a few weeks over Christmas has been with us since last August. It peaked at number 7 last year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Porch Light&#8221; by Noah Kahan<\/strong>, which re-entered at 40 last week.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;End of Beginning&#8221; by Djo<\/strong>, which had two weeks at number 1 at the start of the year and has been around ever since.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Ready, Steady, Go!&#8221; by Harry Styles<\/strong>, an album track which entered at 5 and lasted six weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Runway&#8221; by Lady Gaga &amp; Doechii<\/strong>, which got a single week at number 32 and drops straight to number 91. Told you it wasn&#8217;t their best work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Skindred- &#8220;You Got This&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PwNnlNnu3s8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Welsh metal fusion act. It&#8217;s their ninth album and their first number 1, though its predecessor came within a razor thin margin (the equivalent of less than 150 sales). As you&#8217;d expect, it&#8217;s number 1 almost entirely on the strength of physical sales &#8211; its streaming only added the equivalent of 355 sales &#8211; so it&#8217;ll be gone next week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Jessie Ware &#8211; &#8220;Superbloom&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RV-ONO_Ok5c\" 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 sixth album &#8211; all six have made the top 10, and the last two made number 3, but this is her highest position to date.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Zayn &#8211; &#8220;Konnakol&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LoElk8clGVg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Konnakol is a type of vocal percussion from South Indian music. This is Zayn&#8217;s fifth solo album, coming in one place lower than its predecessor. Still pretty respectable, although his albums are consistently first-week fanbase affairs &#8211; he&#8217;s yet to release an album that managed a second week in the top 100. The single&#8217;s really not bad, but he doesn&#8217;t seem to attract the same interest as other One Direction alumni; obviously Harry Styles has graduated to A-lister territory, but Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson have no trouble picking up airplay for their singles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>16. Tomora &#8211; &#8220;Come Closer&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JL-b1cfFwLU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Debut album, sort of &#8211; it&#8217;s their first release as a duo, but Tomora consists of the Norwegian singer Aurora and Tom Rowlands from the Chemical Brothers. The name is simply a mix of &#8220;Tom&#8221; and &#8220;Aurora&#8221;, and has nothing to do with the area of Mali of the same name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last, a big new release to liberate us from Sam Fender and Olivia Dean. 1. 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