{"id":6406,"date":"2021-02-19T21:33:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T21:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=6406"},"modified":"2021-02-19T21:33:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T21:33:12","slug":"charts-19-february-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=6406","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 19 February 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the busiest week on the singles chart for ages. Serenely undisturbed by it all is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Olivia Rodrigo &#8211; &#8220;Drivers Licence&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;which remains number 1 for a sixth week. But it&#8217;s close this time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Lil Tjay &amp; 6LACK &#8211; &#8220;Calling My Phone&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zzd4ydafGR0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the strongest challenge that &#8220;Drivers Licence&#8221; has had yet &#8211; it holds on, but by a margin equivalent to 1,700 sales. That&#8217;s beatable. It&#8217;s not an obvious challenger, either. Lil Tjay&#8217;s only previous appearance in the top 40 was as a guest on Pop Smoke&#8217;s &#8220;Mood Swings&#8221; (number 5 last year) &#8211; until now, his own singles have always missed the chart. 6LACK &#8211; it&#8217;s pronounced &#8220;black&#8221;, which would be more obvious if it was written in lower case &#8211; hasn&#8217;t had a hit single in the UK either, though he&#8217;s got an album into the top 20. It&#8217;s a surprising chart record (or lack thereof) considering that he&#8217;s been around for years and has several Grammy nominations under his belt.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The Business&#8221; by Tiesto\u00a0<\/strong>climbs 7-6, and\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Goosebumps&#8221; <\/strong>climbs to number 9, with its artist credit now altered to<strong>\u00a0Travis Scott &amp; HVME<\/strong>.\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Friday&#8221; by Riton \u00a0x Nightcrawlers featuring Mufasa &amp; Hypeman<\/strong> climbs 16-10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>12. Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;Love Story (Taylor&#8217;s Version)&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aXzVF3XeS8M\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So this is a little unusual. &#8220;Love Story&#8221; was Taylor Swift&#8217;s first UK hit, reaching number 2 in 2009. This was the time when she was still being presented in the UK as a country crossover artist. She didn&#8217;t have another hit on that scale until &#8220;We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together&#8221;, three years later. Back in 2019, she announced that after the master tapes for her first six albums were sold to Scooter Braun, she intended to re-record the lot of them, release new versions, and encourage everyone to buy the new versions instead. And indeed, this single is trailing the re-recorded version of parent album &#8220;Fearless&#8221;, which is out in the spring. &#8220;Fearless&#8221; isn&#8217;t her debut album &#8211; that would be her self-titled album from 2005, which did absolutely nothing in the UK, and so it&#8217;s perhaps understandable that she&#8217;s going with the international breakthrough album first. As a record&#8230; well, it&#8217;s Taylor Swift doing a straight cover of one of her own songs, though this version has less of an eye on country radio airplay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Save Your Tears&#8221; by the Weeknd<\/strong> climbs 15-13,\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Latest Trends&#8221; by A1 &amp; J1<\/strong> climbs 19-17, and\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Your Love (9pm)&#8221; by ATB, Topic &amp; A7S<\/strong> climbs 23-21.<\/p>\n<p><strong>23. Central Cee &#8211; &#8220;Commitment Issues&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WbHGtGSwoGA\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>His second hit, following &#8220;Loading&#8221;, which reached number 20 last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25. Dua Lipa &#8211; &#8220;We&#8217;re Good&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jr47YisIsz8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the single promoting the special edition reissue of her album &#8220;Future Nostalgia&#8221;. It&#8217;s on the low side for one of her new entries, but she\u00a0<em>has<\/em> climbed from lower than this before, and the song may be more of a grower. The video is weirdly elaborate for this sort of release.<\/p>\n<p><strong>27. The United Kingdolls &#8211; &#8220;UK Hun&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PubwxgMYa98\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From the second series of\u00a0<em>RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race UK<\/em>. They released a single in the first series as well, &#8220;Break Up Bye Bye&#8221;, which was simply credited to &#8220;Cast of RuPaul&#8217;s Drag Race&#8221; &#8211; thus allowing them to release two different versions by competing teams and have them both count towards the same chart place. That got to number 35. This time they&#8217;ve given the teams separate credits, and the leading version gets to 27. The other version, credited to Bananadrama, is&#8230; er, nowhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;My Head &amp; My Heart&#8221; by Ava Max<\/strong> climbs 35-29, and\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Arcade&#8221; by Duncan Laurence<\/strong> climbs 39-33.<\/p>\n<p><strong>35. Headie One feauring Burna Boy &#8211; &#8220;Siberia&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qp3c6yqn93I\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another promotional single for an expanded album reissue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>39. Slowthai featuring Skepta &#8211; &#8220;Cancelled&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7bDtD6bowww\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ah, this dovetails nicely. The bottom track on the single chart is from Slowthai&#8217;s album <strong>&#8220;Tyron&#8221;<\/strong>, which enters the album chart at number 1 this week. Slowthai&#8217;s previous album &#8220;Nothing Great About Britain&#8221; got to number 9,\u00a0\u00a0but this is his first appearance in the singles chart. Obviously, a guest appearance by Skepta helps &#8211; the next highest tracks got to 71 and 72 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the video is violent enough that you won&#8217;t see it getting much daytime airplay, but it&#8217;s not especially graphic.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart&#8230; well, we just did number one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. The Pale Waves &#8211; &#8220;Who Am I&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j0tD-2C9vsw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sophomore indie album, though radio-friendly enough that you&#8217;d think the singles would get a bit more traction. Its predecessor came out in 2018 and got to number 8.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. The Pretty Reckless &#8211; &#8220;Death By Rock &amp; Roll&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9W-nlfhh8Uo\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Pretty Reckless&#8217;s only significant hit single in the UK was &#8220;Make Me Wanna Die&#8221;, which reached number 16 in 2010 (they did get another track to 39 later in the year). They&#8217;ve done better on the album chart, with two previous top ten albums. They hadn&#8217;t released anything since 2016, and I must admit I was surprised to learn they were still a going concern.<\/p>\n<p><strong>16. David Bowie &#8211; &#8220;Look at the Moon &#8211; Live Phoenix Festival&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BiB356hH0L0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The fourth in a planned series of six Bowie live albums from the 90s. Ultimately, they&#8217;re going to be a box set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the busiest week on the singles chart for ages. Serenely undisturbed by it all is&#8230; 1. Olivia Rodrigo &#8211; &#8220;Drivers Licence&#8221; &#8230;which remains number 1 for a sixth week. But it&#8217;s close this time. 2. 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