{"id":6897,"date":"2021-07-11T11:54:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T10:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=6897"},"modified":"2021-07-11T11:54:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T10:54:52","slug":"charts-9-july-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=6897","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 9 July 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what you call a dead week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=orJSJGHjBLI\"><strong>1. Ed Sheeran &#8211; &#8220;Bad Habits&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks. And for our highest new entry we find ourselves going all the way down to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>32. Brent Faiyaz featuring Drake &#8211; &#8220;Wasting Time&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KJViHi-dSxY\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is the first top 40 hit for Brent Faiyaz. Gosh, I wonder what could account for that? Well, it&#8217;s not\u00a0<em>just<\/em> the fact that Drake&#8217;s on it. Drake guest appearances are incessant, and they don&#8217;t always chart. Two of them have missed the top 40 in the last two months. So you do need something more than just his name, and in this case there&#8217;s also a production by the Neptunes. It goes on a bit, but I like the vibe.<\/p>\n<p>Faiyaz is from Maryland, and he is the first Brent ever to have a UK hit single, unless you count Tony Brent, who had a string of top 20 hits in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>36. Fat Les &#8211; &#8220;Vindaloo&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/va6nPu-1auE\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So there&#8217;s football on at the moment, and England are doing well, and that means we have the football back catalogue in the charts. Now &#8220;Three Lions&#8221;, I like. It works as a chant, it works as a song about fandom.\u00a0&#8220;Vindaloo&#8221; &#8211; number 2 in 1998 &#8211; I absolutely detest. Not only is it a bunch of self-righteous creative types doing their &#8220;I imagine this is what the working folk are like&#8221; (though admittedly that never seems to have limited its appeal), it embodies a combination of celebratory and threatening that makes football stadiums so very avoidable on match day. It captures something about football, I suppose. I&#8217;ll give it that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. D-Block Europe &amp; Lil Pino &#8211; &#8220;Kevin McCallister&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bY4FsK0M5Vw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Kevin McCallister is the main character in\u00a0<em>Home Alone<\/em>. 95% of D-Block Europe singles sound the same, and this is one of them. It&#8217;s not a bad single, it&#8217;s just that they&#8217;ve made it so many times by now.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Heartbreak Anthem&#8221; by Galantis, David Guetta &amp; Little Mix<\/strong> climbs 4-3. That makes it Galantis&#8217;s biggest hit &#8211; overtaking &#8220;Runaway&#8221; and &#8220;Peanut Butter Jelly&#8221; from 2015\/6.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;3 Lions&#8221; by David Baddiel, Frank Skinner &amp; The Lightning Seeds<\/strong> climbs 22-4 in a frenzy of English enthusiasm. Bearing in mind that it&#8217;s permanently downweighted as an older track, you have to wonder where it would be otherwise &#8211; though it made it to number 1 in 2018 despite that handicap. Since the \u00a0tournament ends on Sunday, three days into a chart week, it&#8217;ll be challenging for it to get any higher than this, though.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;By Your Side&#8221; by Calvin Harris featuring Tom Grennan<\/strong> climbs 10-9.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Remember&#8221; by Becky Hill &amp; David Guetta<\/strong> climbs 16-13. It&#8217;s now her highest placing single since 2019, though only marginally.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Fly Away&#8221; by Tones &amp; I<\/strong> climbs 33-25 &#8211; so not just a technical second hit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Leave Before You Love Me&#8221; by Marshmello &amp; The Jonas Brothers<\/strong> climbs 35-28.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart,\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Sour&#8221; by Olivia Rodrigo<\/strong> returns to number 1 for its third run, and its fourth week in total. It&#8217;s been out for seven weeks now, and has yet to dip below 2. A 40th anniversary reissue leads to\u00a0<strong>Queen&#8217;s &#8220;Greatest Hits&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; a hardy perennial which never goes away &#8211; rebounding 13-2. It&#8217;s spent a total of 273 weeks in the top 40 by now, and hasn&#8217;t been away since Christmas 2019.\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Inside (The Songs)&#8221; by Bo Burnham<\/strong> is also hanging around unexpectedly well, and climbs to a new peak of number 5 after spending its first three weeks at number 6.<\/p>\n<p><strong>12. Bobby Gillespie &amp; Jehnny Beth &#8211; &#8220;Utopian Ashes&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/52MA--ueeRo\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the frontman of Primal Scream, and the former lead singer of the Savages. It&#8217;s a country soul album, and it&#8217;s unexpectedly good. Definitely worth a play, this one. It&#8217;s the first top 40 album for either artist as a solo act.<\/p>\n<p><strong>21. Laura Mvula &#8211; &#8220;Pink Noise&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CJohzGzstag\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Laura Mvula&#8217;s third studio album lands at exactly the same position as its 2016 predecessor. This 1980s carwash isn&#8217;t what I was expecting at all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what you call a dead week. 1. Ed Sheeran &#8211; &#8220;Bad Habits&#8221; Two weeks. And for our highest new entry we find ourselves going all the way down to&#8230; 32. 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