{"id":5950,"date":"2020-11-28T21:13:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T21:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5950"},"modified":"2020-11-28T21:13:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T21:13:38","slug":"charts-27-november-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=5950","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 27 November 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s a month to Christmas, and you all know what that means. But regular service hasn&#8217;t quite packed in just yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tcYodQoapMg\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tcYodQoapMg\">1. Ariana Grande &#8211; &#8220;Positions&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s five weeks, though the margins are getting smaller. <strong>&#8220;34+35&#8221; <\/strong>is already being promoted as the next single; it climbs 17-13 this week, though it already made the top 10 as an album track in the week of release. Not quite her longest &#8211; &#8220;Thank U, Next&#8221; managed six. The top 3 is static, with Billie Eilish at 2 and Little Mix at 3. <strong>&#8220;Levitating&#8221; by Dua Lipa<\/strong> climbs 10-5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8. Miley Cyrus featuring Dua Lipa &#8211; &#8220;Prisoner&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0ir1qkPXPVM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Ah, Miley Cyrus videos &#8211; never knowingly subtle. This continues the 80s throwback approach of &#8220;Midnight Sky&#8221;, which is still sitting in the top 10 at number 7. And <strong>Dua Lipa&#8217;s &#8220;Levitating&#8221;<\/strong> climbs to 5. Miley Cyrus&#8217;s singles chart record is patchy &#8211; the occasional huge hit and a whole load of middling places &#8211; but this style seems to be working for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong>9. Shawn Mendes &amp; Justin Bieber &#8211; &#8220;Monster&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MPbUaIZAaeA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the second single from Mendes&#8217; upcoming album, and thanks to the high profile guest, it comfortably outperforms lead single &#8220;Wonder&#8221; (which peaked at 20, and is currently at 25). Not especially memorable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>10. BTS &#8211; &#8220;Life Goes On&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-5q5mZbe3V8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>The South Korean boy band are now regular fixtures in the UK singles chart, though they tend to be an old-fashioned fanbase act whose records enter high and crash out. But their previous single &#8220;Dynamite&#8221; was an exception &#8211; it entered high at number 3, dropped ten places the following week, and then hovered around number 20 for ten weeks. (It re-enters this week at number 37.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Life Goes On&#8221; is a bold choice of single for this market, being a mid-paced number in Korean, aside from a few lines of English in the chorus. But who listens to verse lyrics? It&#8217;s their second top ten hit, at any rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The parent album <strong>&#8220;Be&#8221;<\/strong> enters the album chart at number 2 &#8211; they&#8217;ve had two previous number 1s, and I&#8217;d have expected this to be a third, but apparently this week&#8217;s number one album was just too fearsome a competitor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Whoopty&#8221; by CJ <\/strong>climbs 24-12, and <strong>&#8220;All I Want for Christmas is You&#8221; by Mariah Carey<\/strong> climbs 31-14. At least we&#8217;re less than a month from Christmas now. <strong>&#8220;Paradise&#8221; by Meduza featuring Dermot Kennedy<\/strong> climbs 20-18 and here we go for 2020&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>20. Wham &#8211; &#8220;Last Christmas&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E8gmARGvPlI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally a number 2 hit in 1984 (when it spent five weeks stuck behind &#8220;Do They Know It&#8217;s Christmas&#8221;). It&#8217;s been back every year since 2011, and made the top three in the last three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Number 24 is <strong>&#8220;Get Out My Head&#8221; by Shane Codd<\/strong>, climbing from 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>26. The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl &#8211; &#8220;Fairytale of New York&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j9jbdgZidu8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally the Christmas number 2 in 1987 (behind the Pet Shop Boys&#8217; version of &#8220;Always On My Mind&#8221;), and returning to the chart for the sixteenth consecutive year. Bear in mind, a lot of that was during the pre-streaming era when people actually had to <em>buy it<\/em> each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Fairytale of New York&#8221; is now also accompanied by the annual grumbling from right wing columnists about the BBC&#8217;s radio edit. The correct position on this is straightforward. &#8220;Fairytale&#8221; wasn&#8217;t intended as a family singalong. It&#8217;s performed in character. The language is in character. But it&#8217;s language that would get muted on daytime airplay in any new release and it doesn&#8217;t get a pass just because it&#8217;s &#8220;Fairytale of New York&#8221;, which has drifted into a festive standard role for which it was never designed. The radio edit is mildly weaker but only very mildly. And the complaints involve a wilful conflation of censorship with daytime radio edits, which would lead to the logical conclusion that we ought to be playing the uncensored version of &#8220;WAP&#8221; in daytime because it&#8217;s better. (It is, but that&#8217;s not the point.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Golden&#8221; by Harry Styles <\/strong>climbs 29-27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>30. Post Malone featuring Swae Lee &#8211; &#8220;Sunflower&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ApXoWvfEYVU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally a top 10 hit over Christmas 2018, but that&#8217;s a coincidence &#8211; it&#8217;s here because of a TikTok meme connected with the release of the new Spider-Man game on PS5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>33. Shakin&#8217; Stevens &#8211; &#8220;Merry Christmas Everyone&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N-PyWfVkjZc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Tragically, this video has been remastered to remove the painful, awkward tract of silent travel at the start, which was always the best bit. &#8220;Merry Christmas Everyone&#8221; was the Christmas number 1 in 1985, and it&#8217;s charted every year since 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Number 34 is <strong>&#8220;Loading&#8221; by Central Cee<\/strong>, which first entered at 37 a few weeks back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>35. Michael Bubl\u00e9 &#8211; &#8220;It&#8217;s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QJ5DOWPGxwg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>This made the top 40 for the first time (years after its release) in 2016, and reached number 7 in 2018. Doggedly, it still doesn&#8217;t have a video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>38. Band Aid &#8211; &#8220;Do They Know It&#8217;s Christmas&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j3fSknbR7Y4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>The Christmas number one of 1984. It&#8217;s made the top 40 annually since 2015, and it reached the top 10 in the last three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>39. Fumez the Engineer, A92 &amp; Offica &#8211; &#8220;Plugged In Freestyle&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I2YFJ2b_WEQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Chart debut for all these guys. A92 are an Irish drill collective, not a scene with which I can claim any familiarity. I&#8217;m not quite sure why Offica gets a separate chart credit, since he&#8217;s a member of A92. (He&#8217;s the guy in the impractical mask.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the album chart&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1. Michael Ball &amp; Alfie Boe &#8211; &#8220;Together at Christmas&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FnndVA6clHI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, this beat BTS. Hardly surprising &#8211; it&#8217;s their third number one as a duo, the others being &#8220;Together&#8221; (2016) and &#8220;Together Again&#8221; (2017). And 2019&#8217;s &#8220;Back Together&#8221; reached number 2. Nothing like a good strong brand, is there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Number 2 is BTS. In one of those canary-in-the-mineshaft signs about the state of the album market, number 4 is <strong>&#8220;Folklore&#8221; by Taylor Swift<\/strong>, which spent three weeks at number 1 in August and was still just clinging on at the bottom end of the top 40. It leaps 37-4 because of its belated vinyl release. Doesn&#8217;t take much these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5. Neil Diamond &amp; The London Symphony Orchestra &#8211; &#8220;Classic Diamonds&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_HM5FOXWeBo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>No, not another of those albums where old vocal tracks are smothered in strings &#8211; this one features new vocals from Neil Diamond, making it more of a legitimate orchestral greatest hits album. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>7. Iron Maiden &#8211; &#8220;Nights of the Dead &#8211; Legacy of the Beast&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9WiMR43eemU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Live album recorded in Mexico City last year. They regularly get studio albums into the top 10, but it&#8217;s still quite impressive to get there with a live album<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>13. Pink Floyd &#8211; &#8220;Delicate Sound of Thunder&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tepWRMseQiM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Box set reissue of their 1988 live album (which originally got to number).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>18. Nick Cave &amp; The Bad Seeds &#8211; &#8220;Idiot Prayer &#8211; Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6lWJjvc07oU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite sure why the artist credit includes the Bad Seeds, because this is indeed a release of the live streamed solo performance that Nick Cave gave back in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>19. The Cribs &#8211; &#8220;Night Network&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m_eAE8sSRho\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Ooh, ouch. The Cribs haven&#8217;t missed the top 10 with a studio album since 2007, so this is lower than you&#8217;d have predicted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>24. Josh Groban &#8211; &#8220;Harmony&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SBNwmPiMZbQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Also surprisingly low &#8211; Groban&#8217;s last three albums made the top 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>27. Tim Minchin &#8211; &#8220;Apart Together&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jfNfkYvh214\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Tim Minchin is best known as a comedian, and for comedy songs, but his debut studio album is completely straight. Naturally, an existing profile with musical associations doesn&#8217;t hurt him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>31. Jamie Cullum<\/strong> <strong>&#8211; &#8220;The Pianoman at Christmas&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XJuAm9TX0RM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Miles below his normal position (which would be low teens), but it&#8217;s a Christmas album, so that&#8217;s to be expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>39. Loski &#8211; &#8220;Music Trial &amp; Trauma &#8211; A Drill Story&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NY5CYuVujLM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>London rapper. This guy&#8217;s been around for years and keeps just missing the top 40 on both the singles and album charts &#8211; his previous album got to 41, his last single got to 43. This time he scrapes over the line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a month to Christmas, and you all know what that means. But regular service hasn&#8217;t quite packed in just yet. 1. 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