{"id":5840,"date":"2020-11-06T22:48:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T22:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5840"},"modified":"2020-11-06T22:48:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T22:48:41","slug":"charts-6-november-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5840","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 6 November 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not many people want to take their chances against Ariana Grande on the singles chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1. Ariana Grande &#8211; &#8220;Positions&#8221;<\/strong><br><strong>9. Ariana Grande &#8211; &#8220;34+35&#8221;<\/strong><br><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lj4-SIa9bbk\">16. Ariana Grande featuring Doja Cat &#8211; &#8220;Motive&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cnyCcF20pRo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ariana Grande&#8217;s new album <strong>&#8220;Positions&#8221; <\/strong>enters at number 1, which is entirely unsurprising &#8211; it&#8217;s her fourth straight number 1 album, in a run extending back to 2016&#8217;s &#8220;Dangerous Woman&#8221;. She duly gets the maximum three album tracks in the singles chart. The current single &#8220;Positions&#8221; gets a second week at the top, and the other cherrypicked tracks are &#8220;34+35&#8221; (which does have a lyric video, and is exactly what you&#8217;d expect if you do the maths) and &#8220;Motive&#8221; (which is, um, the track immediately following &#8220;34+35&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the modern era, having simultaneous number ones on the singles and album charts isn&#8217;t <em>that<\/em> unusual &#8211; Drake, Eminem and Stormzy have all done it this year alone. Time will tell how long these tracks hang around beyond the first week surge that major albums always get; they&#8217;re all <em>fine<\/em>, but none of them feels to me like her best work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are no other new entries in the top 20, and not much going on in terms of climbers either. <strong>&#8220;See Nobody&#8221; by Wes Nelson &amp; Hardy Caprio<\/strong> climbs 4-3; <strong>&#8220;Diamonds&#8221; by Sam Smith <\/strong>climbs 17-11. (All the other apparent climbers in the top 20 are just rebounds.) <strong>&#8220;Train Wreck&#8221; by James Arthur<\/strong> climbs 24-23, so its second lease of life from TikTok isn&#8217;t fading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>26. Tion Wayne featuring MIST &#8211; &#8220;Deluded&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S3G-NfxWHJY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing unexpected here; it&#8217;s very efficient, but feels like it&#8217;s staying squarely within the genre lines. I can&#8217;t get worked up about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>32. Paul Harvey &amp; The BBC Philharmonic &#8211; &#8220;Four Notes &#8211; Paul&#8217;s Tune&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JS0q6AW35OM?start=118\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul Harvey is an 80-year-old former music teacher with dementia, and a video of him improvising a piano piece went viral. This is basically the BBC  Philharmonic in lockdown playing along with that recording, released as a charity single. (It&#8217;s number one on the sales chart, but that doesn&#8217;t mean an awful lot these days.) The point was to show that musical ability survived memory loss, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1l0tY9q1jAs\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1l0tY9q1jAs\">the original piano video makes that point better<\/a>; while it&#8217;s a curious thing to find in the singles chart, it does have a genuine charm to it over and above the back story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>35. Meduza featuring Dermot Kennedy &#8211; &#8220;Paradise&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e7HBypw4lhY?start=118\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kennedy&#8217;s own current single &#8220;Giants&#8221; is still at number 19. He&#8217;s not an obvious collaborator for Meduza, but it works nicely enough. Meduza clearly like finding interesting locations for their video shoots &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-3P2USPFDcE\">their previous single &#8220;Lose Control&#8221;<\/a> used the half-finished town of Burj Al Babas, which is entirely composed of miniature castles; this one is apparently somewhere in south Italy (their home country).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>40. Harry Styles &#8211; &#8220;Golden&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P3cffdsEXXw?start=118\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This entered at number 44 last week, and considering that it&#8217;s the fifth single from an album that came out last Christmas, I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s done well to make any headway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the album chart&#8230; <strong>&#8220;Positions&#8221; by Ariana Grande<\/strong> is number 1, and we&#8217;ve covered that. <strong>&#8220;Love Goes&#8221; by Sam Smith<\/strong> is number 2, and we&#8217;ve mentioned the current single for that too. It&#8217;s his third album and the first to miss number one &#8211; but coming in as runner up to Ariana Grande isn&#8217;t so bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3. Cliff Richard &#8211; &#8220;Music&#8230; The Air That I Breathe&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/glv6nkMW2co?start=118\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cliff Richard celebrates his 80th birthday with a new album. It&#8217;s his 66th appearance in the albums top 40, the earliest coming in 1959 &#8211; which means he&#8217;s now the first act to appear in the album chart in eight different calendar decades. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>5. Bring Me The Horizon &#8211; &#8220;Post Human &#8211; Survival Horror&#8221;<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their previous album got to number 1, but that was a quiet week (the main competition was a Rudimental album that got to number 5, and the &#8220;Greatest Showman&#8221; soundtrack album that had already been out for over a year). So number 5 in a busy week is fine. Three singles made the top 40 earlier in the year, including &#8220;Teardrops&#8221; last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>6. M Huncho &amp; Nafe Smallz &#8211; &#8220;DNA&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s roughly the same position as M Huncho&#8217;s solo album from earliest in the year (which got to 5); Nafe Smallz&#8217; 2020 solo album only got to 12. The single &#8220;5am&#8221; got to number 25. It&#8217;s been quite a while since we&#8217;ve had so many albums that actually came with hit singles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>8. The Style Council &#8211; &#8220;Long Hot Summers &#8211; The Story of the Style Council&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1CAzwewVjZ0?start=118\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The forgotten part of Paul Weller&#8217;s (and Mick Talbot&#8217;s) back catalogue gets a retrospective. The title track was their biggest hit, reaching number 3 in 1983. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>10. Amy Macdonald &#8211; &#8220;The Human Demands&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N26S2beV1I8?start=118\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a three and a half year gap, this is the first Amy Macdonald studio album to miss the top 5. But as I&#8217;ve said, it&#8217;s a busy week &#8211; and five straight top 10 albums over 13 years is pretty good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>11. Black Stone Cherry &#8211; &#8216;The Human Condition&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0x6Cm3Qmu0E?start=118\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Black Stone Cherry normally make the top 10 with studio albums, but the same caveat applies &#8211; they&#8217;d have done it again in a more typical week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>13. Dizzee Rascal &#8211; &#8220;E3 AF&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HtOJfipHcdo?start=118\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the first Dizzee Rascal album not to produce any hit singles, as he makes the transition into being a legacy album act. In a 17-year career, he&#8217;s only placed one album lower than this &#8211; and remarkably, it was his 2003 breakthrough &#8220;Boy in Da Corner&#8221;, which for all its critical acclaim, only got to number 23 and spent six weeks on the top 40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>15. Wizkid &#8211; &#8220;Made in Lagos&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/veIK9yEabNc?start=118\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wizkid is from Nigeria, and technically he has a number one hit single to his credit &#8211; he&#8217;s on Drake&#8217;s &#8220;One Dance&#8221;, which was number 1 interminably in 2016. He also appeared on a Krept &amp; Konan single that got to number 28. But this is his first appearance on either chart on his own power. It&#8217;s his fourth album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>23. Camelphat &#8211; &#8220;Dark Matter&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of those albums that&#8217;s more of a singles compilation &#8211; it includes &#8220;Cola&#8221;, &#8220;Panic Room&#8221; and &#8220;Breathe&#8221;, all of which made the singles top 40 as long ago as 2017-18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>24. Jane McDonald &#8211; &#8220;Cruising with Jane McDonald &#8211; Volume 2&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HUgUw0AeuTM?start=118\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Easy listening standards from her, er, travel show for Channel 5. I&#8217;ve never seen the show but that sounds like a strange format. McDonald had a number 1 album in 1998 when she had the good fortune to be the cruise ship singer featured in <em>The Cruise<\/em>, an early BBC reality show &#8211; but she also successfully used that as a springboard to a wider career in music and daytime TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>27. U2 &#8211; &#8220;All That You Can&#8217;t Leave Behind&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/co6WMzDOh1o?start=118\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">20th anniversary reissue. It was (obviously) number 1 on its release in 2000, albeit only for a week; it stayed on the top 40 for 34 weeks, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>32. David Bowie &#8211; &#8220;Ouvrez le Chien&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A live album from 1995, which was released on streaming platforms back in July. No videos for this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>37. Eels &#8211; &#8220;Earth to Dora&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xGjAA8Q9VG8?start=118\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hmm. Their 2018 album &#8220;The Deconstruction&#8221; made the top 10, so this has to rank as a rather disappointing position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>39. Elvis Costello &#8211; &#8220;Hey Clockface&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-6z2eR05lMk?start=118\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elvis Costello hasn&#8217;t had consistent top 40 albums for quite some time, which always amazes me. He does have them from time to time, generally for collaborative albums&#8230; but this is not one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not many people want to take their chances against Ariana Grande on the singles chart. 1. Ariana Grande &#8211; &#8220;Positions&#8221;9. Ariana Grande &#8211; &#8220;34+35&#8221;16. 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