{"id":5045,"date":"2020-01-26T21:14:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T21:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5045"},"modified":"2020-01-26T21:33:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T21:33:33","slug":"charts-24-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5045","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 24 January 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s our first major unannounced album release of the year, giving us an unexpected new number one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1. Eminem featuring Juice WRLD &#8211; &#8220;Godzilla&#8221;<\/strong><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_KZqsScB3ww\">12. Eminem featuring Ed Sheeran &#8211; &#8220;Those Kinda Nights&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RHQC4fAhcbU\">17. Eminem &#8211; &#8220;Darkness&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nbqMIBYJlvk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Eminem&#8217;s first chart appearance was nearly 20 years ago, in April 1999, with&#8221;My Name Is&#8221;. This week he releases his eleventh album, <strong>&#8220;Music to be Murdered By&#8221;<\/strong>, which enters the album chart at number 1. It&#8217;s his tenth consecutive number one album (his 1999 debut only got to number 10), and the reviews have been positive. It&#8217;s a throwback to a previous era of rap &#8211; &#8220;Godzilla&#8221; ends with an insanely high speed verse which is undeniably impressive, but is also in some ways the equivalent of a prog rocker showing his superiority over the next generation by doing a five minute guitar solo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The single from this album is <em>supposed <\/em>to be &#8220;Darkness&#8221;, which is about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, from the perspective of the shooter, and tries to draw a parallel between the sense of anticipation of the shooter and the performer. It&#8217;s based in part on Simon and Garfunkel&#8217;s &#8220;The Sound of Silence&#8221;. It&#8217;s&#8230; a bit of a downer, which might be why it lands at number 17, and the public instead focus on the two tracks with the most notable guest stars. There&#8217;s an Ed Sheeran track at number 12, and &#8220;Godzilla&#8221;, which features the late Juice WRLD &#8211; getting a posthumous first number one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Godzilla&#8221; is Eminem&#8217;s tenth number one &#8211; the others are &#8220;The Real Slim Shady&#8221; (2000), &#8220;Stan&#8221; (2000), &#8220;Without Me&#8221; (2002), &#8220;Lose Yourself&#8221; (2002), &#8220;Just Lose It&#8221; (2004), &#8220;Like Toy Soldiers&#8221; (2005), &#8220;Smack That&#8221; (2006, a guest appearance on an Akon track), &#8220;The Monster&#8221; (2013) and &#8220;River&#8221; (2017). So he&#8217;s not getting to number one as consistently as he did in the past, but he&#8217;s still adding to the total. Marginally, mind you &#8211; &#8220;Godzilla&#8221; leads <strong>&#8220;The Box&#8221; by Roddy Ricch<\/strong>, which climbs 5-2 this week, by the equivalent of just 93 sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Blinding Lights&#8221; by the Weeknd<\/strong> climbs 8-4. By a strange coincidence&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>9. DigDat featuring Aitch &#8211; &#8220;Ei8ht Mile&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/afA0JL-oXwI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>What a week to release a track named after an Eminem album. Aitch gets his fourth top 10 hit since last June; DigDat gets his first, after scoring three top 20 hits over the last couple of years. The biggest was &#8220;New Dior&#8221;, just before Christmas, but that had D-Block Europe on it. This is the title track of DigDat&#8217;s first album, which enters at number 12 this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;You Should Be Sad&#8221; by Halsey<\/strong> climbs 37-26, as the parent album <strong>&#8220;Manic&#8221;<\/strong> enters at number 6. (It&#8217;s a week of unusual overlap between the singles and albums chart.) This is her third album, and the highest placing &#8211; the others reached 9 and 12, so for a pop singer, Halsey&#8217;s unusually consistent on the album chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>33. The Jonas Brothers &#8211; &#8220;What A Man Gotta Do&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XejVB_fba04\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>When their comeback single &#8220;Sucker&#8221; reached number 4 last spring, it looked like the Jonas Brothers might be set to cross over to a wider audience. But the follow-ups didn&#8217;t do much &#8211; &#8220;Cool&#8221; was the highest placing, and it only got to number 39. This is the first single from their new album, and a number 33 debut isn&#8217;t spectacular. But this is 2020, and records can climb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>35. The 1975 &#8211; &#8220;Me &amp; You Together Song&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LS1b7Q--9Zs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, a real piece of throwback indie jangle from the 1975, the guitar band who can still get their records into the singles chart. This is not a genre I was betting on getting a revival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over on the album chart, we&#8217;ve already mentioned Eminem at number one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2. The Courteeners &#8211; &#8220;More. Again. Forever.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/he2zwSwTrK0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>One of those bands I completely forget about until the week they release an album, but they&#8217;ve been around since 2008 and this is their seventh straight top 10 album. (Actually, they&#8217;ve all placed at six or above.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>4. Bombay Bicycle Club &#8211; &#8220;Everything Else Has Gone Wrong&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZF0LF1gQZKs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Another set of hardy album chart perennials. It&#8217;s been six years since the last Bombay Bicycle Club record, but this still becomes their fourth consecutive top ten album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8. Mac Miller &#8211; &#8220;Circles&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aIHF7u9Wwiw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>The still really doesn&#8217;t convey how mad this video is. Miller made the UK album chart for the first time with 2018&#8217;s &#8220;Swimming&#8221;. He died that year; this posthumous album, completed after his death, is his first appearance in the top 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>11. Louise &#8211; &#8220;Heavy Love&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wUFYiUVrOwo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, a comeback solo album from Louise Redknapp, once of Eternal, who had a successful solo career in the late 90s. She hasn&#8217;t had a studio album out since 2000; her last release was a single in 2003 (which made the top 5). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Digdat<\/strong> album is at 12, but we&#8217;ve had that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>23. Mura Masa  &#8211; &#8220;R.Y.C.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F0uvt97Xn20\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>The follow-up to producer Mura Masa&#8217;s self-titled debut from 2017, which got to number 23. The single reminds me a bit of the Streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>24. Gabrielle Aplin &#8211; &#8220;Dear Happy&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ALjgwjvNevI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>You may remember her version of &#8220;The Power of Love&#8221;, which was a number 1 in 2012 after appearing in a John Lewis advert. This is her third charting album, but the previous two reached 2 and 14, so the trend isn&#8217;t great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>36. Magnum &#8211; &#8220;The Serpent Rings&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8UGgfhiJ-k8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, veteran 80s rock band Magnum, who are still around, and occasionally place an album at the bottom end of the chart (though mostly outside). 2018&#8217;s &#8220;Lost on the Road to Eternity&#8221; got to 15, but it looks like that was an outlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s our first major unannounced album release of the year, giving us an unexpected new number one. 1. Eminem featuring Juice WRLD &#8211; &#8220;Godzilla&#8221;12. Eminem featuring Ed Sheeran &#8211; &#8220;Those Kinda Nights&#8221;17. 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