{"id":5237,"date":"2020-04-03T22:42:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T21:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5237"},"modified":"2020-04-03T22:42:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T21:42:22","slug":"charts-3-april-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5237","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 3 April 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ll get to reviews in the coming days, but let&#8217;s cover the topical stuff first. The charts haven&#8217;t succumbed to weirdness <em>just<\/em> yet, but the number of cancelled releases is starting to mount up. It&#8217;s on the horizon&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4NRXx6U8ABQ\">1 The Weeknd &#8211; &#8220;Blinding Lights&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Swaps places with Saint JHN to return to number 1 for a sixth week. It&#8217;s now been displaced from number 1 twice, and it&#8217;s been out for a total of 18 weeks. It surely can&#8217;t keep this up much longer &#8211; can it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>6. Dua Lipa &#8211; &#8220;Break My Heart&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nj2U6rhnucI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dua Lipa <em>just<\/em> gets her album <strong>&#8220;Future Nostalgia&#8221;<\/strong> out before everything goes weird for an extended period, and it enters the album chart at 2. (Her self-titled debut reached 3 in 2017.) She&#8217;s rewarded with the maximum three singles, all in the top 5 &#8211; &#8220;Physical&#8221; is 3, and &#8220;Don&#8217;t Start Now&#8217; is 2. &#8220;Break My Heart&#8221; is the other single, complete with a proper video. I can&#8217;t quite make up my mind whether the &#8220;Stay &#8211; At &#8211; Home&#8221; chorus is perfectly suited to the moment, or rather unfortunate. I can see some playlisters having qualms. The riff is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whosampled.com\/sample\/729383\/Dua-Lipa-Break-My-Heart-INXS-Need-You-Tonight\/\">a credited lift from &#8220;Need You Tonight&#8221; by INXS<\/a> (number 2 in 1988).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;Intentions&#8221; by Justin Bieber featuring Quavo<\/strong> finally makes it to number 8, five weeks after it first reached number 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>9. Little Mix &#8211; &#8220;Break Up Song&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pa3C3blayWo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is <em>meant <\/em>to be the lead single from their sixth album, but surely the promotion for that is going to wind up being mothballed. It&#8217;s another eighties-retro track, which seems to be the default Optimism mode for pop in 2020. For some strange reason, the band has also just released a video for &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ee5aEU4XEnc\">Wasabi&#8221;, which is (checks notes) a track from the <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ee5aEU4XEnc\">previous <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ee5aEU4XEnc\">album that was never released as a single<\/a>. It&#8217;s much better than &#8220;Break Up Song.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;Boyfriend&#8221; by Mabel<\/strong> climbs 11-10, which makes it her fourth top 10 hit. <strong>&#8220;Blueberry Faygo&#8221; by Lil Mosey <\/strong>climbs 22-11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gejbbL1AaJk\">12. Partynextdoor &amp; Rihanna &#8211; &#8220;Believe It&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a track from Partynextdoor&#8217;s new album <strong>&#8220;Partymobile&#8221;<\/strong>, which enters at number 7 &#8211; his first top 10 album. The next-highest track to make the singles chart is down at number 99, so it&#8217;s pretty obvious that this one is here because of Rihanna. She hasn&#8217;t appeared on the singles chart since late 2017, when she guested on NERD&#8217;s &#8220;Lemon&#8221; &#8211; which only got to 31. It&#8217;s the one where she raps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>14. Powfu featuring Beabadoobee &#8211; &#8220;Death Bed&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jJPMnTXl63E\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Climbing from 19, but it&#8217;s got a video now and I rather like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>18. Skepta, Chip &amp; Young Adz &#8211; &#8220;Waze&#8221;<\/strong><br><strong>32. Skepta, Chip &amp; Young Adz &#8211; &#8220;Mains&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VpD29TcC7cU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tracks from the three-way collaboration album <strong>&#8220;Insomnia&#8221;<\/strong>, which enters at 3. Skepta presumably doesn&#8217;t need an introduction. Young Adz is one of D-Block Europe, and charts regularly under that name. Chip is the guy who used to be Chipmunk, and returned to the charts after a six year absence when he appeared with Roddy Ricch and Yxng Bane on &#8220;How It Is&#8221; a year ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eJEKHdvntPI\">28. Megan Thee Stallion &#8211; &#8220;Savage&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hmm. This is one of two promotional tracks from the upcoming album, and it&#8217;s <em>not <\/em>the one that has a proper video. Megan Thee Stallion previously had the ignominious chart record of a single week at number 40 (with &#8220;Hot Girl Summer&#8221; last year), so at least she strikes that off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>38. JP Saxe featuring Julia Michaels &#8211; &#8220;If the World was Ending&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1jO2wSpAoxA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;If the world was ending, you&#8217;d come over, right?&#8221; That&#8217;s, er, a song for the times. This has had some success internationally, though, so it&#8217;s not here solely for topical reasons. JP Saxe is a Canadian songwriter making his first chart appearance. Julia Michaels had a top ten hit with &#8220;Issues&#8221; in 2017, and followed it up by appearing on a Clean Bandit single later that year, but it&#8217;s the first we&#8217;ve seen of her since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the album chart&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1. 5 Seconds of Summer &#8211; &#8220;Calm&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their second number 1 album, after 2015&#8217;s &#8220;Sounds Good Feels Good.&#8221; The single &#8220;Easier&#8221; reached number 27 way back last June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Number 2 is Dua Lipa&#8217;s &#8220;Future Nostalgia&#8221;; 3 is &#8220;Insomnia&#8221; by Skepta and co. They were both on the singles chart, so we move on to&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>6. Pearl Jam &#8211; &#8220;Gigaton&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ymf7DZUeVow\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their eleventh studio album, their ninth top ten. The single&#8230; doesn&#8217;t sound that much like Pearl Jam, so they&#8217;re not going for the nostalgia angle, at least. It&#8217;s been seven years since they last released a studio album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Number 7 is the Partynextdoor album, and again, we&#8217;ve had that on the singles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>16. Joyner Lucas &#8211; &#8220;ADHD&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vpNUzNBw6FI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Debut album. He&#8217;s been on the singles chart before &#8211; he featured on Eminem&#8217;s &#8220;Lucky You&#8221;, which reached number 6 in 2018. And finally&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>32. Brian Fallon &#8211; &#8220;Local Honey&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zw2wNUZFI9o\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lead singer of Gaslight Anthem, with his third solo album. 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