{"id":6229,"date":"2021-02-02T21:06:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T21:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=6229"},"modified":"2021-02-02T21:06:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T21:06:43","slug":"charts-29-january-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=6229","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 29 January 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;re getting back to a normal number of new entries on the singles chart, as the post-Christmas promotional cycle gets back into the swing of things. Whether the records themselves are normal&#8230; well, that&#8217;s a separate matter.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1 Olivia Rodrigo &#8211; &#8220;Drivers Licence&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three weeks, and it&#8217;s not even close &#8211; she beats the number 2 single by three to one. That number 2 track is\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Without You&#8221; by The Kid Laroi<\/strong>, climbing from 5. And then&#8230;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3. Nathan Evans featuring 220Kid &amp; Billen Ted &#8211; &#8220;Wellerman&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KvJDEQbH5Rc\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><!--more--><\/p>\r\n<p>Sea shanties, then. This is the 19th century New Zealand whaling song that went viral on TikTok. Nathan Evans is an amateur &#8211; he works for the Post Office &#8211; but it seems that the zeitgeist of early 2021 is all about the sea shanties. Seems a bit\u00a0<em>Sugar Ape <\/em>to me, but then I&#8217;m not a social media sensation. A straight version of the song by the Longest Johns &#8211; recorded before the song went viral &#8211; reached number 37 last week. The Nathan Evans version is also\u00a0available in the original form, but officially the lead version is the above remix by 220 Kid &amp; Billen Ted which&#8230; well, it&#8217;s better than you&#8217;d expect from a cash-in remix of a viral sea shanty, at least. It&#8217;s also under two minutes, which is wise.\u00a0220 Kid has had a hit before &#8211; &#8220;Don&#8217;t Need Love&#8221; reached number 9 last spring. Production duo Billen Ted weren&#8217;t credited as artists on that record, but apparently had a hand in it.<\/p>\r\n<p>It&#8217;s a long way down to the next new entry, so deep breath&#8230;\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Paradise&#8221; by Meduza featuring Dermot Kennedy<\/strong> climbs 6-5. That&#8217;s enough to make it Kennedy&#8217;s highest-placed single (beating &#8220;Outnumbered&#8221;). \u00a0<strong>&#8220;Good Days&#8221; by SZA<\/strong> climbs to 13 after two weeks at 14.\u00a0<strong>&#8220;The Business&#8221; by Tiesto<\/strong> climbs 16-14 &#8211; that&#8217;s enough to make it his highest placed single since &#8220;Jackie Chan&#8221; in 2019.\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Streets&#8221; by Doja Cat<\/strong> climbs 20-18.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>20. Fredo &#8211; &#8220;Back to Basics&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6am8HtXsrHo\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the lead single from his next album, which is produced by Dave. And I do like the beat. The album is out this week, and the midweeks indicate that he&#8217;ll have three completely different tracks on the singles chart as a result. Maybe not the best choice of single, then, but it doesn&#8217;t really matter in the long run.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>28. Sabrina Carpenter &#8211; &#8220;Skin&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6RYMCWAb5Wc\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are broadly two angles being used to promote Olivia Rodrigo&#8217;s &#8220;Driver&#8217;s Licence&#8221;. One is that the song is a universally appealing classic. The other is that it plays into the soap opera lives of Olivia Rodrigo and other people you&#8217;ve never heard of from the Disney Channel. According to that narrative, the boy who dumped her is her\u00a0<em>High School Musical: The Musical: The Series<\/em> costar Joshua Bassett, and the other girl (&#8220;You&#8217;re probably with that blonde girl \/ Who always made me doubt \/ She&#8217;s so much older than me \/ She&#8217;s everything I&#8217;m insecure about&#8221;) is Disney alumnus Sabrina Carpenter. Officially, Rodrigo&#8217;s line is not to comment, but she&#8217;s also said that the song was inspired by an actual break-up, and she&#8217;s only 17, so it&#8217;s not like there&#8217;s a long list of candidates.<\/p>\r\n<p>And so we&#8217;re getting answer records from Bassett and Carpenter, both of whom also affect to claim that their records are not about anyone in particular. Bassett&#8217;s &#8220;Lie Lie Lie&#8221; &#8211; which surprisingly missed the midweek charts on Monday &#8211; is a more general exercise in disputing an ex&#8217;s version of a messy break-up. &#8220;Skin&#8221; is specifically about being the subject of somebody else&#8217;s song, which makes it very hard to read independently of &#8220;Driver&#8217;s Licence&#8221;. But it doesn&#8217;t work on that level either, because what Carpenter has ended up releasing is a record in which she repeatedly insists that she won&#8217;t let things get under her skin, while whingeing at length about a record that only mentioned her in passing. If this is a pre-existing song, then pressing it into service for this purpose was ill-advised.\u00a0The midweeks have it dropping out of the top 40 next week.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>35. Billie Eilish &amp; Rosalia &#8211; &#8220;Lo Vas A Olividar&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8TsWkuWWXgc\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Spanish-language song is from the soundtrack of HBO show\u00a0<em>Euphoria<\/em>, and it&#8217;s a pretty good showcase for both artists as singers. Making her debut in the UK singles chart, Rosalia is a big star in her native Spain, where she&#8217;s had six number 1s since 2018. The language barrier has limited her appeal in the rest of Europe, but she&#8217;s also had a number one in Argentina and Mexico, and a track last year with Travis Scott did quite well in non-Anglophone markets. The midweeks have this dropping straight out of the top 40 next week, which suggests that Billie Eilish&#8217;s name will sell a track in Spanish, but only up to a point.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>37. Riton x Nightcrawlers featuring Mufasa &amp; Hypeman &#8211; &#8220;Friday&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-BkcictxDCA\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is set to climb &#8211; the midweeks have it at 23. Riton had top 20 hits in 2016 and 2019. The higher one is &#8220;Turn Me On&#8221;, which got to 12. This track is based on a sample from &#8220;Push the Feeling On&#8221; by the Nightcrawlers, which reached number 3 in 1995. As usual, the version being sampled is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7-BnB3xxUoA\">the Mark Kinchen remix<\/a> (the one that was pushed as the lead mix in the UK and featured in the video), which bears very little resemblance to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A4tZiThZPdE\">the original Nightcrawlers track<\/a>. Kinchen is still active under the name &#8220;MK&#8221;, and has had several hits over recent years.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>38. Glass Animals &#8211; &#8220;Heat Waves&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mRD0-GxqHVo\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This indie track has been out for\u00a0<em>months &#8211;\u00a0<\/em>I&#8217;ve posted this video before, when the parent album &#8220;Dreamland&#8221; reached number 2 in the summer. At the time, it only reached number 63 as a single. It&#8217;s having a resurgence after becoming a hit in Australia, though the midweeks suggest it&#8217;s not getting much further.<\/p>\r\n<p>The video was filmed in the height of the first lockdown, as you might guess from the last minute &#8211; the conceit for the rest of it was to ask all the neighbours to film the singer walking through the streets on their phones, and contribute the footage.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>40. Raye &amp; Rudimental &#8211; &#8220;Regardless&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dmhqDfsOVV4\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And finally, this. It&#8217;s a bit of a departure for Rudimental, based on the sampled hook from iio&#8217;s &#8220;Rapture&#8221; (number 2 in 2001). The title does indeed appear in the chorus, and is not a knock at Raye&#8217;s previous collaborator Regard. The midweeks have it hanging around, but not making much more progress.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over on the album chart, the number 1 is\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Post Human: Survival Horror&#8221; by Bring Me The Horizon<\/strong>, which reached number 5 last October, but has now been given a physical release. Hardly a sign of a healthy album market when you can get to number one with a months-delayed physical release, is it?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2. Bicep &#8211; &#8220;Isles&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Govg_XmORLE\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only other new entry this week is from Northern Irish duo Bicep, whose previous album only got to number 20 &#8211; it&#8217;s worth a play.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re getting back to a normal number of new entries on the singles chart, as the post-Christmas promotional cycle gets back into the swing of things. Whether the records themselves are normal&#8230; well, that&#8217;s a separate matter. 1 Olivia Rodrigo &#8211; &#8220;Drivers Licence&#8221; Three weeks, and it&#8217;s not even close &#8211; she beats the number [&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-6229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229","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=6229"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6342,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229\/revisions\/6342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}