{"id":6443,"date":"2021-02-27T21:16:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T21:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=6443"},"modified":"2021-02-27T21:16:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T21:16:43","slug":"charts-26-february-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=6443","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 26 February 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not budging.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Olivia Rodrigo &#8211; &#8220;Drivers License&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s seven weeks. So it&#8217;s time to start paying attention to the records. Two records managed six weeks last year: Ariana Grande&#8217;s &#8220;Positions&#8221; and Joel Corry &amp; MNEK&#8217;s &#8220;Head &amp; Heart&#8221;. &#8220;Drivers License&#8221; now overtakes them both. The next step is a big challenge, though &#8211; &#8220;Dance Monkey&#8221; by Tones &amp; I, which lasted 11 weeks at number 1 in 2019. I don&#8217;t see Rodrigo making it that long &#8211; she&#8217;s had one close call already. But we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the top 3 is static, with &#8220;Calling My Phone&#8221; by Lil Tjay &amp; 6LACK at 2, and Nathan Evans&#8217; &#8220;Wellerman&#8221; at 3. And it&#8217;s a long, long way down to the first new entry.\u00a0<strong>&#8220;The Business&#8221; by Tiesto<\/strong> climbs 6-4, becoming his highest placing single since 2014.\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Friday&#8221; by Riton x Nightcrawler featuring Mufasa &amp; Hypeman<\/strong> climbs 10-7.\u00a0Remarkably,\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Save Your Tears&#8221; by the Weeknd<\/strong> continues to climb despite having been available as an album track for months, and now moves 13-11.\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Latest Trends&#8221; by A1 &amp; J1<\/strong>, which entered at 19 and climbed to 17 last week, gathers momentum by climbing to 12.\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Your Love (9pm)&#8221; by ATB, Topic &amp; A7S<\/strong> climbs 21-5.\u00a0<strong>Cardi B&#8217;s &#8220;Up&#8221;<\/strong> climbs 22-17.\u00a0<strong>Central Cee&#8217;s &#8220;Commitment Issues&#8221;<\/strong> climbs 23-18.\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Heat Waves&#8221; by Glass Animals<\/strong> climbs 26-23.\u00a0<strong>&#8220;My Head &amp; My Heart&#8221; by Ava Max<\/strong> climbs 29-25, which coincidentally leaves it one place above &#8220;Head &amp; Heart&#8221;, still hanging in there months after it left number 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>28. Ella Henderson &amp; Tom Grennan &#8211; &#8220;Let&#8217;s Go Home Together&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8g_cDtjM0aY\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One of those rather generic love songs that takes on a bit more weight in the Covid era by going with a &#8220;falling in love in the pub&#8221; video that would normally be very obvious, but stands for something currently available to the general public. Leaving that aside, it&#8217;s fine &#8211; it&#8217;s got a decent chorus &#8211; but nothing out of the ordinary. It&#8217;s strong enough to pick up some attention after she performed it on the Graham Norton show, though.<\/p>\n<p>Ella Henderson crops up fairly regularly as a guest singer, but she hasn&#8217;t had a hit as the lead credited artist since 2014. A big part of that is that she hasn&#8217;t\u00a0<em>released<\/em> anything as a lead artist since 2014, though a single called &#8220;Take Care of You&#8221; came out last summer and sank. This is apparently a remake of a song originally recorded for a projected second album in 2016, at which point James Arthur took the male role.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Grennan makes his first appearance in the singles chart, though his 2018 debut album made the top 5. He has a new album due out in March.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Arcade&#8221; by Duncan Laurence<\/strong>, the Eurovision track unearthed by Tiktok, continues to climb, now moving 33-29.<\/p>\n<p><strong>32. Tom Grennan &#8211; &#8220;Little Bit of Love&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SsdkvYdSzlg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Apparently there&#8217;s some spillover effect for Grennan&#8217;s own single, which has been out for over a month without previously charting. It&#8217;s a pretty decent song but the production is a bit too FM, and it winds up sounding like a bit too much like\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> fodder.<\/p>\n<p><strong>33. Navos &#8211; &#8220;Believe Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WkJ9dGF3pbQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We seem to be getting more old-school dance records in the chart at a time when there are no clubs open. Perhaps that&#8217;s no coincidence; maybe people are listening to them on chart-counting channels precisely\u00a0<em>because<\/em> they can&#8217;t hear them in clubs. At any rate, Navos is a DJ from Liverpool via Soundcloud, and this is his first hit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>35. Masked Wolf &#8211; &#8220;Astronaut in the Ocean&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MEg-oqI9qmw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Australian rap. It&#8217;s quite good, though that video is\u00a0<em>really<\/em> shoestring. The track is two years old, and it&#8217;s had some support from TikTok, but mainly it&#8217;s a reissue after signing to a bigger label.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3kZ52YxzW2E\"><strong>36. Digga D &#8211; &#8220;Toxic&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, this can&#8217;t be embedded because the video is age-restricted. It&#8217;s&#8230; not subtle. His other current single, with AJ Tracey, is at 19 this week (having peaked at 5). I don&#8217;t see this getting the airplay to match it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>38. Ariana Grande &#8211; &#8220;Test Drive&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1zNYZd94ui8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a bonus track from the deluxe edition of her &#8220;Positions&#8221; album, which came out this week and duly rebounds to number 5 on the album chart (from 33). It&#8217;s not officially a single.<\/p>\n<p>Over on the album chart&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Mogwai &#8211; &#8220;As the Love Continues&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VWjzlJEmmxM\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Scottish post-rock band have been around since the 1990s, but didn&#8217;t have a top 10 album until 2014. Their 2017 album did slightly better, and now they get to number 1 with their tenth studio album, released on the 25th anniversary of their debut single.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Ghetts &#8211; &#8220;Conflict of Interest&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_M_4xbgZaoI\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a huge improvement from his previous albums, in 2014 and 2018, which got to 23 and 30 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>And there is one other new entry on the album chart this week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>27. The Reytons &#8211; &#8220;May Seriously Harm You and Others Around You&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DSEUTLCR3dY\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re an indie band from Sheffield, and this is a six-track EP that scrapes into qualifying for the album chart. I quite enjoyed the single.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not budging. 1. Olivia Rodrigo &#8211; &#8220;Drivers License&#8221; That&#8217;s seven weeks. So it&#8217;s time to start paying attention to the records. Two records managed six weeks last year: Ariana Grande&#8217;s &#8220;Positions&#8221; and Joel Corry &amp; MNEK&#8217;s &#8220;Head &amp; Heart&#8221;. &#8220;Drivers License&#8221; now overtakes them both. 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