{"id":4508,"date":"2019-02-24T16:32:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T16:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=4508"},"modified":"2019-02-24T16:32:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T16:32:45","slug":"charts-22-february-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=4508","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 22 February 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ariana Grande is going nowhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Ariana Grande &#8211; &#8220;7 Rings&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back at number 1 for a fourth week after being interrupted last week by, um, the other Ariana Grade single, &#8220;Break Up With Your Girlfriend I&#8217;m Bored&#8221; &#8211; though it&#8217;s close to a tie between the two tracks. \u00a0Technically that makes Ariana Grande the first artist ever to replace themselves at number one twice in a row, but it&#8217;s the streaming era and this sort of thing is a lot easier than it ever was in the past.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Break Up&#8221; is at number 2, and &#8220;Needy&#8221; drops to number 11; regular readers will be well aware that the chart rules only allow three tracks from the album to chart. \u00a0The album itself gets a second week at number one. \u00a0I don&#8217;t think any of these tracks are especially good material, but there&#8217;s no denying her A-list status.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Giant&#8221; by Calvin Harris &amp; Rag&#8217;N&#8217;Bone Man<\/strong> climbs 6-4. \u00a0<strong>&#8220;Options&#8221; by NSG featuring Tion Wayne<\/strong> climbs 12-9, giving all involved their first top 10 hit.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>12. \u00a0Cardi B &amp; Bruno Mars &#8211; &#8220;Please Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4FitbJ3oqww\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the second time that Cardi B and Bruno Mars have collaborated on a single, after &#8220;Finesse&#8221; reached number 5 last year. \u00a0I don&#8217;t generally like Bruno Mars records &#8211; he&#8217;s a bit too obvious in re-enacting his influences &#8211; but Cardi B seems to help take the edge off that, so she&#8217;s a good fit for him. \u00a0This isn&#8217;t bad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Advice&#8221; by Cadet &amp; Deno Driz<\/strong> climbs 36-14, easily beating its previous peak of 27 from a month ago. \u00a0This re-entered the top 40 last week following Cadet&#8217;s death in a car crash; the reason we&#8217;re getting a bigger climb now is to do with a quirk of the chart rules. \u00a0The record has been out since October, so the rule that downgrades the streams for older singles had kicked in. \u00a0For records that are still relatively new, this can be cancelled out if the track starts gaining sales again (something which was mainly intended to cover album tracks later being promoted to singles). \u00a0But for some reason the cancellation only takes effect in the\u00a0<em>following<\/em> week &#8211; hence the big climb here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>16. \u00a0D-Block Europe &#8211; &#8220;Kitchen Kings&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DWda8jGk2Do\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is D-Block Europe&#8217;s second appearance on the singles chart after &#8220;Nassty&#8221; reached number 35 last year. \u00a0They&#8217;re not an act so much as a collective; the actual members on this track are Young Adz and Dirtbike LB, who were also on the previous single. \u00a0The track is from their album &#8211; sorry, mixtape &#8211; &#8220;Home Alone&#8221;, which enters on the album chart at number 6. \u00a0Their previous album &#8220;Any Minute Now&#8221; reached number 14 last year, but that was a collaboration with Yxng Bane, who&#8217;s a bigger name, so it didn&#8217;t necessarily imply that their own album would do better.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kitchen Kings&#8221; is&#8230; a record? \u00a0It leaves me kind of cold, but let&#8217;s not pretend I&#8217;m the target demographic for this. \u00a0I&#8217;m going to hazard a guess that their interest in kitchen equipment may not be entirely gastronomical.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Just You And I&#8221; by Tom Walker<\/strong> climbs 30-19, and\u00a0<strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m So Tired&#8221; by Lauv &amp; Troye Sivan<\/strong> climbs 33-22.<\/p>\n<p><strong>23. \u00a0Blueface &#8211; &#8220;Thotiana&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V6EpIABAKKo\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Climbing from 40 last week, which might not be entirely unconnected with the release of the mix above which has as much of Cardi B than it does of Blueface. \u00a0But officially it&#8217;s not the lead version, so the chart credit still goes solely to him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>26. \u00a0Little Mix featuring Ty Dolla Sign &#8211; &#8220;Think About Us&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ygiz-CPVrcM\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This had a week at number 34 at the start of the month, but it re-enters now that the single version is available. \u00a0It&#8217;s growing on me &#8211; the opening is an awkward mix of bombastic and Latin, but it picks up in the second half.<\/p>\n<p><strong>37. \u00a0Zedd featuring Katy Perry &#8211; &#8220;365&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YrbgUtCfnC0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finally for this week&#8230; well, not a bad video there, though the product placement is absurdly blatant. \u00a0Are Absolut meant to be sponsoring this experiment? \u00a0Katy Perry has now had top 40 hits in ten different calendar years. \u00a0She actually had her first hit in 2008, but she didn&#8217;t release anything in 2015, so&#8230; ten different years.<\/p>\n<p>Over on the album chart,\u00a0<strong>Ariana Grande&#8217;s &#8220;Thank U Next&#8221;<\/strong> is still number 1, and we&#8217;ve also mentioned\u00a0<strong>D-Block Europe&#8217;s &#8220;Home Alone&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>entering at 6.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10. \u00a0Avril Lavigne &#8211; &#8220;Head Above Water&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EKF6ghfcQic\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Avril Lavigne&#8217;s first album was back in 2002, and the last was in 2013. \u00a0The long gap is mainly due to Lyme&#8217;s disease, and she duly returns with an album about triumphing over the odds &#8211; in America, the single above was promoted not just to mainstream adult contemporary stations, but also to\u00a0Christian radio. \u00a0It&#8217;s going big and it carries it off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>18. \u00a0Chaka Khan &#8211; &#8220;Hello Happiness&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JG6D59k9U8Q\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And you thought it was a long time between Avril Lavigne albums. \u00a0Chaka Khan&#8217;s last studio album was released in 2007 &#8211; not that she&#8217;s previously had much impact on the album chart. \u00a0Her only previous top 40 albums in the UK were &#8220;I Feel For You&#8221; in 1984, and a remix album in 1989. \u00a0Looks to be another example of a veteran act holding up against the general decline of the album market.<\/p>\n<p><strong>24. \u00a0Drake &#8211; &#8220;So Far Gone&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j5DySYu5Bfw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a Drake mixtape from 2009, before he was having hits in this country. \u00a0It&#8217;s finally been released to streaming services f0r its tenth anniversary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>38. \u00a0Avantasia &#8211; &#8220;Moonglow&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mk0FTHqmO9o\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Making its first appearance in the album top 40, Avantasia is an operatic metal side project of Tobias Sammet, the singer from German metal band Edguy. \u00a0The name is a combination of &#8220;Avalon&#8221; and &#8220;Fantasia&#8221;. \u00a0They&#8217;ve been around on and off since 1999, and they&#8217;re every bit as subtle as you might expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ariana Grande is going nowhere. 1. \u00a0Ariana Grande &#8211; &#8220;7 Rings&#8221; Back at number 1 for a fourth week after being interrupted last week by, um, the other Ariana Grade single, &#8220;Break Up With Your Girlfriend I&#8217;m Bored&#8221; &#8211; though it&#8217;s close to a tie between the two tracks. \u00a0Technically that makes Ariana Grande the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4510,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508\/revisions\/4510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}