{"id":6716,"date":"2021-05-21T23:12:50","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T22:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=6716"},"modified":"2021-05-21T23:12:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T22:12:50","slug":"charts-21-may-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=6716","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 21 May 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J Cole has an album out, then.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gYPX5juKBvg\"><strong>1. Tion Wayne &amp; Russ Millions &#8211; &#8220;Body&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three weeks, and still with a comfortable lead &#8211; it&#8217;s about 25% ahead of the number 2 single.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Olivia Rodrigo &#8211; &#8220;Good 4 U&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gNi_6U5Pm_o\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A final single from her album before its release today. She&#8217;s now released three singles complaining about her ex&#8217;s new girlfriend, but there&#8217;s certainly a range of genre &#8211; this time, she&#8217;s Paramore. &#8220;Deja Vu&#8221; climbs to a new peak of number 11 this week as well, and &#8220;Drivers Licence&#8221; is at number 35.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>13. J Cole featuring 21 Savage &amp; Morray &#8211; &#8220;m y . l i f e&#8221;<br \/>\n15. J Cole featuring Lil Baby &#8211; &#8220;p r i d e . i s . t h e . d e v i l&#8221;<br \/>\n16. J Cole &#8211; &#8220;a m a r i&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w3333Fo6ufY\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The maximum permitted three tracks from his album <strong>&#8220;The Off-Season&#8221;<\/strong>, which enters at number 2 this week. That matches his previous best, set by its predecessor &#8220;KOD&#8221; in 2018. He&#8217;s never been that significant a presence in the singles chart; his all-time best is number 9 for &#8220;Middle Child&#8221; in 2019. The lead single from this album, &#8220;i n t e r l u d e&#8221;, got to 25 &#8211; and gets shouldered aside this week by the three-song rule.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0<em>isn&#8217;t<\/em> the &#8220;Fall Off&#8221; album that Cole has been working on since 2018. For whatever reason, that album never gets cancelled, just continually pushed back in favour of other studio albums.<\/p>\n<p><strong>37. Bella Poarch &#8211; &#8220;Build a Bitch&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FLGCGc7sAUw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s not subtle. But catchy! Decent debut hit.<\/p>\n<p>Bella Poarch is another crossover from social media; she currently holds the record for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/foryou?lang=en&amp;is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;item_id=6862153058223197445#\/@bellapoarch\/video\/6862153058223197445\">the most-liked video on TikTok<\/a>. Currently at 49.2 million likes. It&#8217;s pointless, but it&#8217;s\u00a0precise.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s\u00a0her lipsynching to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FSjvlnneEto\">&#8220;Soph Aspin Send&#8221; by Millie B<\/a>, a notoriously inept diss track from the BG Media stable of Blackpool-based YouTube rappers, released back in 2016. If you want to know more about how &#8220;Soph Aspin Send&#8221; was received, when it came out, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ftU8YIZnRsM\">this is fairly illustrative<\/a>. Poarch&#8217;s snippet kind of loses how <em>bad\u00a0<\/em>the original track is, if you don&#8217;t know it already, since she&#8217;s chosen the competent bit. (Even Millie B describes it as <a href=\"https:\/\/readdork.com\/features\/gettingtoknow\/getting-to-know-millie-b\/\">&#8220;my least favourite track that I&#8217;ve made&#8221;<\/a>.) As for <em>this\u00a0<\/em>track, this&#8230; certainly isn&#8217;t subtle, but it&#8217;s undeniably catchy, and she\u00a0<em>can<\/em> sing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be honest, though, I disappeared down a rabbit hole of reading up on M to the B. Escaped my notice until now. Quite something.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers&#8230; are few in number.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Black Hole&#8221; by Griff<\/strong> climbs 35-23. It re-entered last week after the Brit Awards and now easily beats its previous peak of 33.<\/li>\n<li>And&#8230; yeah, that&#8217;s it. Quiet week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Paul Weller &#8211; &#8220;Fat Pop&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Iu9A4zRdnZg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>His sixth solo number 1. It&#8217;s here overwhelmingly on the basis of physical sales. The single grows on you, and the video has a couple of nice moments in it (though it feels like an idea that hasn&#8217;t quite been developed enough to fill the running time).\u00a0If you count his records with the Jam, Weller has now had number 1 albums in the 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s.<\/p>\n<p>Number 2 is J Cole, as already mentioned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. St Vincent &#8211; &#8220;Daddy&#8217;s Home&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VQ9iAlm-sJ8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s her highest position to date &#8211; her previous album, 2017&#8217;s &#8220;Masseducation&#8221;, reached number 6, and none of other albums made the top 20.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. The Black Keys &#8211; &#8220;Delta Kream&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aVMa9TpRxk4\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their tenth album, and their fourth top consecutive top 10 hit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. Jorja Smith &#8211; &#8220;Be Right Back&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1XjOSNdalsc\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Her second top 10 album; the first one reached number 3, but top 10 in a busy week isn&#8217;t bad. Officially this\u00a0<em>isn&#8217;t <\/em>an album, it&#8217;s an EP &#8211; which is to say, it&#8217;s only 25 minutes long. Good laid back single, worth a play.<\/p>\n<p><strong>19. Nicki Minaj &#8211; &#8220;Beam Me Up Scotty<\/strong><strong>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PMZ5s7o2F88\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a re-issue of her 2009 mixtape (her third). As you can tell from that video, the budget was lower in those days. She didn&#8217;t start having hits until the following year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>20. Myles Kennedy &#8211; &#8220;The Ides of March&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hAD_82BD7k4\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, I guess that&#8217;s &#8230; technically a video, yes. I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s been done before back in the day when there was something <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vr6IicMnQNo\">vaguely transgressive about getting something so dull on MTV<\/a>, but I can&#8217;t place it right now. Myles Kennedy is the lead singer of Alter Bridge; this is his second solo album. He&#8217;s also charted with two of his collaborative albums with Slash.<\/p>\n<p><strong>31. Deno &#8211; &#8220;Boy Meets World&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And finally, this UK rap debut album. The single &#8220;Circles&#8221; managed a week at number 36 last summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J Cole has an album out, then. 1. Tion Wayne &amp; Russ Millions &#8211; &#8220;Body&#8221; Three weeks, and still with a comfortable lead &#8211; it&#8217;s about 25% ahead of the number 2 single. 2. Olivia Rodrigo &#8211; &#8220;Good 4 U&#8221; A final single from her album before its release today. 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