{"id":12409,"date":"2026-10-06T18:55:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T17:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=12409"},"modified":"2026-10-06T18:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T17:55:02","slug":"charts-2-october-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=12409","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 2 October 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In which Taylor Swift releases the special edition of her last album and everyone else stays out of her way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;Patient Zero&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jfVVXYTZykw\">3. Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;Cleveland&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tZnNLoPKriU\">4. Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;Babylon&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mw3kSNIxjqo\" 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>These are from the special edition of <strong>&#8220;The Life of a Showgirl&#8221;<\/strong>, which duly returns to number 1 for a fifth week. There are four new tracks on the album, but the three song limit excludes &#8220;Pink Clouding&#8221;. &#8220;Patient Zero&#8221; is the official single. It&#8217;s decent enough for a midtempo Taylor Swift track that didn&#8217;t make the main album, though I could live without that bridge section.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cleveland&#8221; is the home town of Travis Kelce, and it&#8217;s as cutesy as that might suggest. The lyric video makes it look like an 80s sitcom theme. &#8220;Babylon&#8221; is Swift at her most Ed Sheeran. The midweek chart suggests that these two aren&#8217;t going to stick around, but that &#8220;Patient Zero&#8221; is on course for a second week.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, &#8220;Patient Zero&#8221; is a number 1 that actually did beat &#8220;Rein Me In&#8221; outright, even before allowing for ACR downweighting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>22. Madonna &#8211; &#8220;Danceteria&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cUzhLWbvmic\" 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 previously managed a week at number 38 in July. It&#8217;s back because of the remix above, featuring Charli XCX, although officially the original is still the lead version, so she doesn&#8217;t get a chart credit for it. Judging from the midweeks, it&#8217;ll be gone next week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>36. DJ Goja, Jason Derulo &amp; Melody &#8211; &#8220;Mi Chico&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6Db-cEgbmC4\" 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 track has been floating around the lower reaches since July but hasn&#8217;t previously got above number 76, so I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s suddenly prompted it to leap into the top 40 now. DJ Goja is a Romanian producer who has sole credit on the original version, released about six months ago. The original has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mWaHmKOchs0\">a fairly obviously AI-generated video<\/a> and I&#8217;d assume that the uncredited original vocal is also AI-generated<em>. <\/em>Either way, the international release is essentially the same record with new vocals by Jason Derulo and the Brazilian singer Melody.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Babydoll&#8221; by Jamie Miller<\/strong> climbs 8-6.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Look Back in Anger&#8221; by Oasis<\/strong> climbs 31-29.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s it. And the five tracks leaving the top 40:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Jamaican (Bam Bam)&#8221; by Hugel &amp; Solto<\/strong>, which re-entered at 37 last week.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Hate That I Made You Love Me&#8221; by Ariana Grande<\/strong>, a one-week number 1 that lasted 17 weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Be Her&#8221; by Ella Langley<\/strong>, after a seven week run peaking at number 28. She still has &#8220;Choosin&#8217; Texas&#8221; at number 5.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;9 to 5&#8221;<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Jolene&#8221;<\/strong><strong> by Dolly Parton<\/strong>, after a five week run that peaked at numbers 5 and 6.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart,\u00a0<strong>&#8220;The Life of a Showgirl&#8221; by Taylor Swift<\/strong> is number 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Keo &#8211; &#8220;Put a Smile On For Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gCOc-aWn158\" 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>I suppose grunge revivalists were bound to show up at some point. It&#8217;s their debut album and they&#8217;re from London.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Nothing But Thieves &#8211; &#8220;Stray Dogs&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZUfAUd3StjM\" 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>It&#8217;s their fifth album, all of which have made the top 10. The last one was a number 1, but then they didn&#8217;t release it against Taylor Swift. (They\u00a0<em>did<\/em> release it against Olivia Dean, but that was before her commercial breakthrough.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>26. Soft Cell &#8211; &#8220;Danceteria&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P4kE8CNvoOw\" 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>I was going to say there&#8217;s no connection to the Madonna single of the same name, but there is &#8211; they&#8217;re both named after the same New York nightclub. It&#8217;s their sixth studio album; the last one, in 2022, made the top 10, so this is on the low side. It was recorded shortly before Dave Ball&#8217;s death last year. Honestly, I think I prefer their &#8220;Danceteria&#8221; title track to Madonna&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>30. Europe &#8211; &#8220;Come This Madness&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eqHCiWEDC1o\" 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 their twelfth studio album, after a nine year gap. Only two of their previous albums made the top 40 in the UK &#8211; &#8220;The Final Countdown&#8221; reached number 9 in 1986, and its follow-up &#8220;Out of This World&#8221; got to number 12 in 1988.<\/p>\n<p><strong>35. Tinashe &#8211; &#8220;Popstar&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6a2g12aE8kI?\" 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>&#8220;No Broke Boys&#8221; may have hung around the singles chart for months, but it was a remix of a track from her previous album, and it hasn&#8217;t done anything for the singles for this album. That&#8217;s a shame, because the track above is really rather good. On the bright side, she does at least get her first top 40 album in the UK, at the eighth attempt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which Taylor Swift releases the special edition of her last album and everyone else stays out of her way. 1. Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;Patient Zero&#8221; 3. Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;Cleveland&#8221; 4. 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