{"id":5168,"date":"2020-03-01T21:16:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T21:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5168"},"modified":"2020-03-01T21:16:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T21:16:30","slug":"charts-28-february-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5168","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 28 February 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Billie Eilish got a week at number one with her Bond theme, but slips straight to number 2. So we&#8217;re back with&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1. The Weeknd &#8211; &#8220;Blinding Lights&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three weeks total. Bear in mind that this has been out since before Christmas, and it&#8217;s been in the top ten for a total of 8 weeks now. Its staying power is impressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s not much else going on in the upper reaches. <strong>&#8220;Roses&#8221; by Saint Jhn<\/strong> is now up to 4. <strong>&#8220;Lonely&#8221; by Joel Corry <\/strong>climbs 14-8 to give him a second top 10 hit (he needs to reach 6 to match his previous peak). <strong>&#8220;Intentions&#8221; by Justin Bieber featuring Quavo<\/strong> climbs 10-9. And after that, there&#8217;s a bit of milling around in the teens before we reach&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ygTZZpVkmKg\">20. The Weeknd &#8211; &#8220;After Hours&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;which doesn&#8217;t have a video because it&#8217;s a promotional single. It&#8217;s the title track of the upcoming album and, at six minutes long with an extended intro, considerably less radio friendly than the number one &#8211; though it&#8217;ll edit down nicely enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>21. BTS &#8211; &#8220;On&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mPVDGOVjRQ0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Korean boy band have this week&#8217;s number 1 album, with <strong>&#8220;Map of the Soul &#8211; 7&#8221;.<\/strong> It&#8217;s the companion to last year&#8217;s &#8220;Map of the Soul &#8211; Persona&#8221;, which also got to number 1. BTS are currently an old-style fanbase band &#8211; their album number 1 comes largely through sales at the start of the week, and while they can get singles into the top 40, they never stick around. They&#8217;ve had two previous hit singles &#8211; &#8220;Idol&#8221;, which reaches number 21 in 2018, and &#8220;Boy With Luv&#8221;, which got to 13 last year (but gave equal billing to English-language guest star Halsey).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s a version of this track which features Sia, but officially it&#8217;s the Korean-language original that&#8217;s being treated as the lead. I&#8217;m not sure I see it crossing over to a wider audience in that version; the non-specifically inspirational anthem genre feels to me like one where you need at least a vague grasp of the lyrics. (In translation, it&#8217;s basically the usual stuff about overcoming challenges.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;Better Off Without You&#8221; by Becky Hill featuring Shift K3y<\/strong> climbs 25-23. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>29. Harry Styles &#8211; &#8220;Falling&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/olGSAVOkkTI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This reached number 39 as an album track in the week of release, but it&#8217;s now being re-promoted as a single. It&#8217;s his pitch for the Lewis Capaldi audience, basically. An appearance at the Brit Awards pushes it into the top 40, and the video&#8217;s only just come out, so it could go further. On the other hand, it&#8217;s competing with previous single &#8220;Adore You&#8221;, which is still hanging around on the fringes of the top 10. By a weird coincidence, numbers 28 and 29 are both called &#8220;Falling&#8221; (the other one is the Trevor Daniel single), and have no connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>33. Pop Smoke &#8211; &#8220;Dior&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oorVWW9ywG0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pop Smoke got an album to number 22 a couple of weeks back, but this is his first appearance on the singles chart. Sadly, it&#8217;s here because he was murdered on 19 February in his home. He was 20. &#8220;Dior&#8221; featured in different versions on both of his mixtapes, so it&#8217;s a natural choice for the circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>34. Aitch &#8211; &#8220;Mice&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EVCyTpxIO4c\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a showcase track for the serious rap fans, without any pretence at a chorus; I&#8217;d be surprised if it went much further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OOmu1Yki-7g\">39. 24KGoldn &#8211; &#8220;City of Angels&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Debut hit. He&#8217;s from San Francisco and he&#8217;s a rapper, but this is more of an indie-pop thing, to be honest. Bit different, at least for the 2020 charts. I can see it going somewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>40. Ashe &#8211; &#8220;Moral of the Story&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WQq98YPV8yk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This has been out for a year, but it&#8217;s charting after being used in Netflix&#8217;s <em>To All The Boys: PS I Still Love You<\/em>. It also has the pedigree of being co-written and co-produced by Finneas, Billie Eilish&#8217;s brother and regular partner. It&#8217;s the first hit for Ashe, a Californian singer-songwriter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the album chart, BTS are number 1, but we&#8217;ve covered them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3. Ozzy Osbourne &#8211; &#8220;Ordinary Man&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iuzyA5gDa4E\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His first album in six years, and the highest position he&#8217;s ever reached with a solo album &#8211; his previous best was number 7 for his 1980 solo debut &#8220;Blizzard of Oz&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>10. Grimes &#8211; &#8220;Miss Anthropocene&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gvzC8MmC850\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grimes has been around for years, tipped as a future star and never actually making much commercial impact. Her previous album got to number 31 five years, but this does vastly better. Strangely, it doesn&#8217;t feature &#8220;We Appreciate Power&#8221;, which was billed as the lead single from this album when it came out a year ago, but winds up only qualifying for the Japanese edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>12. King Krule &#8211; &#8220;Man Alive&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i6CmLBKYrh8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Archy Marshall&#8217;s fourth album, and the second to chart. Not what you&#8217;d call commercial, but it still easily beats the number 23 place of its predecessor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>34. Agnes Obel &#8211; &#8220;Myopia&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R0-HVFEjOlE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, the fourth album from Agnes Obel, and the second to chart in this country. (Its predecessor got to 30.) Obel&#8217;s albums have made the top 10 in several European countries, including her native Denmark, but she&#8217;s yet to have the same impact here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billie Eilish got a week at number one with her Bond theme, but slips straight to number 2. So we&#8217;re back with&#8230; 1. The Weeknd &#8211; &#8220;Blinding Lights&#8221; Three weeks total. Bear in mind that this has been out since before Christmas, and it&#8217;s been in the top ten for a total of 8 weeks [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168","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=5168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5169,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5168\/revisions\/5169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}