{"id":6938,"date":"2021-07-23T22:55:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T21:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=6938"},"modified":"2021-07-23T22:55:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T21:55:45","slug":"charts-23-july-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=6938","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 23 July 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of those singles charts that would be dead if it wasn&#8217;t for the spillover from album releases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Ed Sheeran &#8211; &#8220;Bad Habits&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Four weeks. It&#8217;s still not growing on me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>14. Pop Smoke featuring Dua Lipa &#8211; &#8220;Demeanor&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M-_jnCvyA3s\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the lead single from\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Faith&#8221;<\/strong>, which enters the album chart at number 3. It&#8217;s his third album, two of which were posthumous. Posthumous albums are a dubious exercise at the best of times, at least when they go beyond completing a final product to pillaging the archives for material that the artist consciously chose not to release during life. This single is perfectly fine on its merits, but it&#8217;s hard to look past the fact that it&#8217;s essentially an unreleased Pop Smoke fragment plastered over a Dua Lipa track.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It does seem likely that Dua Lipa&#8217;s name is helping the chart position &#8211; the next highest track from the album is &#8216;Tell the Vision&#8221; at number 55, and that&#8217;s got Kanye West on it! &#8211; but this\u00a0<em>is\u00a0<\/em>a track which is being officially promoted as a single, not just a case of cherrypicking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9Iv3N4JDsrA\"><strong>24. KSI featuring Lil Durk &#8211; &#8220;No Time&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>33. Anne-Marie, KSI &amp; Digital Farm Animals &#8211; &#8220;Don&#8217;t Play&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pY4B2WrGq2w\"><strong>40. KSI featuring Jay1 &amp; Deno &#8211; &#8220;Gang Gang&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>KSI also has his new album out this week, <strong>&#8220;All Over The Place&#8221;<\/strong>, which gives him his first number 1. (Its predecessor, &#8220;Dissimulation&#8221;, got to 2.) KSI&#8217;s now five years into his music career and has incontrovertibly made the transition from being a social media star who releases records, to a pop star who got started on YouTube. The Anne-Marie collab &#8220;Don&#8217;t Play&#8221;, which reached number 2 back in January, appears on this album and re-enters from outside the top 100, but the chart compilers seem to be treating it as principally an Anne-Marie track, as it&#8217;s not counting towards KSI&#8217;s three-song limit &#8211; &#8220;Holiday&#8221;, his current single, is still in the top 10 at number 7. The other two tracks are just cherrypicked album tracks, though &#8220;Gang Gang&#8221; in particular would be a fairly obvious choice of single.<\/p>\n<p><strong>34. Central Cee &#8211; &#8220;Little Bit of This&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wRWs3V-vTko\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is Central Cee&#8217;s fourth top 40 hit since making his chart debut last November. It&#8217;s his first new material since releasing his mixtape in March, which makes a number 34 debut slightly surprising&#8230; but then it has only been a few months. It&#8217;s got a strong enough hook to go further, though.<\/p>\n<p><strong>37. Sigala &amp; Rita Ora &#8211; &#8220;You for Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/drzHwf4X_b0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is Rita Ora&#8217;s first appearance in the top 40 since 2019, when she appeared on a Tiesto track that got to number 24. That&#8217;s not for want of trying &#8211; a stand-alone single called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FS07b8EUlCs\">&#8220;How to be Lonely&#8221;<\/a> bombed out at 57 last year, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fe-GrSOrg1o\">&#8220;Big&#8221;<\/a> reached number 53 earlier this year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-london-55840764\">She has <em>not\u00a0<\/em>had a good pandemic<\/a>, and that may not have helped her cause.\u00a0Bluntly, she really needs a hit, and she needs this to go higher.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it for new entries. The climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Stay&#8221; by Kid Laroi &amp; Justin Bieber<\/strong> climbs 5-2. That matches the peak of Kid Laroi&#8217;s big hit &#8220;Without You&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Heartbreak Anthem&#8221; by Galantis, David Guetta &amp; Little Mix<\/strong> climbs 6-3. That&#8217;s now Galantis&#8217;s biggest hit, beating the number 4 peak of two singles in 2015\/6.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Black Magic&#8221; by Jonasu<\/strong> enters the top 10, climbing 11-4.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;I Wanna Be Your Slave&#8221; by M\u00e5neskin<\/strong> climbs 7-5 (where it&#8217;s been before), and\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Beggin'&#8221; by M\u00e5neskin<\/strong> climbs 8-6 (which is a new peak). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yOb9Xaug35M\">&#8220;Slave&#8221; has a video now.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Remember&#8221; by Becky Hill &amp; David Guetta<\/strong> climbs 15-10. This is only Becky Hill&#8217;s third top ten hit &#8211; the others were appearances on a Sigala track, &#8220;Wish You Well&#8221;, in 2019, and on Oliver Helden&#8217;s number 1 &#8220;Gecko (Overdrive) in 2014.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Fly Away&#8221; by Tones &amp; I<\/strong> climbs 26-16, so it&#8217;s more than just a token second hit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Talk About&#8221; by Rain Radio &amp; DJ Craig Gorman<\/strong> climbs 40-21, which is a huge jump in this day and age. It&#8217;s going to do well.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Summer 91 (Looking Back)&#8221; by Noizu<\/strong> re-enters at 32 (technically, a 60-place rebound from 92), because it&#8217;s being used on\u00a0<em>Love Island<\/em>. It peaked at 19 earlier in the year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart,\u00a0the KSI album is number 1. (Last week&#8217;s number one, by Inhaler, drops all the way to 19, so very much a core audience record.) Pop Smoke is 3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. John Mayer &#8211; &#8220;Sob Rock&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cOVUiqTN6eY\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>His joint highest placed album, equalling 2012&#8217;s &#8220;Born and Raised&#8221; and 2013&#8217;s &#8220;Paradise Valley&#8221;. He&#8217;ll be pleased about that, because the intervening album &#8211; 2017&#8217;s &#8220;The Search for Everything&#8221; &#8211; only got to 16. It&#8217;s&#8230; very eighties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>17. The Foo Fighters &#8211; &#8220;The Dee Gees: Hail Satin&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p4DeaXf1FzE\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Originally a Record Store Day release, but now available digitally. Basically it&#8217;s half an album of Dave Grohl doing Bee Gees covers, rounded out with some live versions of tracks from the last proper Foo Fighters album.<\/p>\n<p><strong>37. Stephen Fretwell &#8211; &#8220;Busy Guy&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LgfWhCoLiLM\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>His fourth album, only the second to make the top 40. The other was 2005&#8217;s &#8220;Magpie&#8221;, which reached number 27 &#8211; that one included &#8220;Run&#8221;, which was used as the theme tune to\u00a0<em>Gavin &amp; Stacey<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of those singles charts that would be dead if it wasn&#8217;t for the spillover from album releases. 1. Ed Sheeran &#8211; &#8220;Bad Habits&#8221; Four weeks. It&#8217;s still not growing on me. 14. Pop Smoke featuring Dua Lipa &#8211; &#8220;Demeanor&#8221; This is the lead single from\u00a0&#8220;Faith&#8221;, which enters the album chart at number 3. 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