{"id":12216,"date":"2026-08-07T23:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=12216"},"modified":"2026-08-07T23:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:21:09","slug":"charts-7-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=12216","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 7 August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh god, it&#8217;s going to be here forever.<\/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>Twenty weeks. Last week, it set an all time record for the longest run at number one; the publicity from that has resulted in a sales boost, and so once again it&#8217;s off the hook for potential downweighting for another few weeks. It continues to have 20% lead over the number 2 single, and it simply can&#8217;t be stopped.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s maybe worth mentioning that while this sort of rein is unheard of on the singles chart, it&#8217;s not so exceptional where the album chart is concerned. Adele&#8217;s &#8220;21&#8221; had 23 weeks as the album number 1, and the\u00a0<em>South Pacific<\/em> soundtrack was number 1 for the entirety of 1959.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Ariana Grande &#8211; &#8220;Petal&#8221;<br \/>\n15. Ariana Grande &#8211; &#8220;Kiss Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/afSgBNwmZrQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b-9gJ1Gc8rE\" 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>Along with &#8220;Hate That I Made You Love Me&#8221;, which rebounds to number 3, these are the maximum three tracks from her eighth album <strong>&#8220;Petal&#8221;<\/strong>, which enters the album chart as her sixth consecutive number one.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the album launch, Grande has announced a &#8220;step back&#8221; from public appearances, and pulled out of a musical that she was due to appear in next year. &#8220;Petal&#8221; is itself a song about the stresses of fame, insisting that &#8220;This is not a cry for help&#8221; and &#8220;I am not a victim&#8221;. The video consists of her being auditioned by unsympathetic industry execs who she eventually kills with a chainsaw. However, the YouTube comments are mostly people expressing concern for her health and it&#8217;s hard to look at, say, 2:23 and disagree. If you can set that aside, the song itself is a decent track, though not an obvious single with its off-kilter loping.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kiss Me&#8221; is the opening track, and in some ways a more natural single, but the production choices are curious &#8211; it sounds awfully muffled to me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>27. Tame Impala &#8211; &#8220;Loser&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s3a4OQR-10M\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Originally released last September as the second single from his current album, this didn&#8217;t chart at the time. It&#8217;s back now because it&#8217;s in\u00a0<em>Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/em>. This makes it Tame Impala&#8217;s third top 40 hit in the last 12 months, something no one would have predicated a year ago &#8211; particularly in a context where it seems to be ever harder for new music to break into the top 40.<\/p>\n<p><strong>32. Ad\u00e9la &#8211; &#8220;Ain&#8217;t In LA&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0ijm2Xui5N8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Debut hit for Ad\u00e9la Jergov\u00e1, whose previous claim to fame was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hZgwMVNRkSs\">not making it into Katseye<\/a>. This is really good, though. It&#8217;s one of those cases where someone who moved to LA in pursuit of fame releases a track putting over her unglamorous hometown &#8211; or rather, unglamorous hometowns in general, at least in the lyrics. The video, however, is more specifically about Bratislava, a town <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S-OgkNgxm3k\">more usually mentioned in the west as a punchline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While there&#8217;s a degree of generic &#8220;you go girl&#8221; in there, she seems to have a genuine fascination with eastern Europe&#8217;s outsider relationship to American culture. This is the third single from her upcoming album &#8211; the first two did nothing in the UK, but they&#8217;re pretty good too.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zxs0N9_94Zs\" 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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>37. Luke Combs &#8211; &#8220;Where The Wild Things Are&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aoJwvnDuAR0\" 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 a 2023 single which hasn&#8217;t charted before; it&#8217;s here because he&#8217;s touring at the moment. It&#8217;s his third UK top 40 single, though one of those was a guest appearance on a Post Malone track and the other was his cover of &#8220;Fast Car&#8221; &#8211; so this is his first hit with one of his own songs.<\/p>\n<p>His 2023 album\u00a0<strong>&#8220;This One&#8217;s For You&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>also climbs into the album top 40 for the first time, at number 32.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Great Expectation&#8221; by Sienna Spiro<\/strong> climbs 15-10.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;On 2Nite&#8221; by Silva Bumpa<\/strong> climbs 17-13.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Self-Aware&#8221; by Temper City<\/strong> climbs 27-26 &#8211; continuing to make glacially slow progress in its 14th week on the top 40.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Sue Me&#8221; by Audrey Hobert<\/strong> climbs 40-33.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Unwritten&#8221; by Natasha Bedingfield<\/strong> climbs 39-36.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The five tracks leaving the top 40 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Orbiter&#8221; by Noah Kahan<\/strong>, which had two weeks and peaked at number 36.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Honeybee&#8221; by Olivia Rodrigo<\/strong>, which lasted three weeks and peaked at number 30.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Camera&#8221; by Charli XCX<\/strong>, after a single week at number 22.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Stop Believin'&#8221; by Journey<\/strong>, after a three week run peaking at 27.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;On The Floor&#8221; by Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull<\/strong>, which hung around in the 30s for six weeks but appears to have now fallen back onto downweighting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As for the album chart, there are just the two new entries this week &#8211; Ariana Grande and Luke Combs &#8211; and we&#8217;ve covered them already.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh god, it&#8217;s going to be here forever. 1. 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