{"id":7010,"date":"2021-08-07T21:24:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T20:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7010"},"modified":"2021-08-07T21:24:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T20:24:26","slug":"charts-6-august-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7010","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 6 August 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those weeks when everyone gets out of the way of a major album release, so we get a quiet chart. But first!<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Ed Sheeran &#8211; &#8220;Bad Habits&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I still don&#8217;t think much of this, but Britain evidently disagrees. That&#8217;s six weeks at number 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. Billie Eilish &#8211; &#8220;Happier Than Ever&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sQUNW7qI9zY\"><strong>28. Billie Eilish &#8211; &#8220;Getting Older&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fcd8UbutjIg\"><strong>32. Billie Eilish &#8211; &#8220;Oxytocin&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5GJWxDKyk3A\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The album\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Happier Than Ever&#8221;<\/strong> enters at number 1, giving her a second number 1 album. Predictably, it maxes out its three-song allocation. The earlier singles from this album have performed patchily &#8211; &#8220;Therefore I Am&#8221; and &#8220;Your Power&#8221; both made the top 5, but &#8220;Lost Cause&#8221; and &#8220;NDA&#8221; missed the top 10 and vanished quickly.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Happier Than Ever&#8221; is an official single. Nonetheless, it&#8217;s the sort of track you record as an album centrepiece and wouldn&#8217;t even consider releasing as a single, since it&#8217;s five minutes long and takes so long to kick into high gear that it&#8217;ll test the patience of most radio stations. As a top ten hit, it&#8217;s a delightful oddity. &#8220;Getting Older&#8221; is a travails-of-fame ballad which she&#8217;s done as a live track in promotion. &#8220;Oxytocin&#8221; is the upbeat one, at least within the parameters of Billie Eilish.<\/p>\n<p>Normally I&#8217;d double back here to cover the over new entries on the top 40. But there aren&#8217;t any. It&#8217;s nothing but Billie Eilish, so far as new entries in the top 34 is concerned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>35. PinkPantheress &#8211; &#8220;Pain&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/REzdbqfiN9o\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one and a half minutes long, and the last half minute is an extended fade. Yes, it&#8217;s another one from our good friends at TikTok, giving bedroom producer PinkPantheress her first hit. The sample, of course, is &#8220;Flowers&#8221; by Sweet Female Attitude (number 2 in 2000).<\/p>\n<p><strong>38. Skepta featuring J Balvin &#8211; &#8220;Nirvana&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cg14EVOxiuQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the lead single from a five-track EP called &#8220;All In&#8221;, and I&#8217;m not quite sure who it&#8217;s aimed at. The Spanish vibes say &#8220;bid for chart success&#8221;, the entire verse in Spanish says &#8220;but not in this country&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>39. Sleepy Hallow &#8211; &#8220;2055&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y1xZ_kAhjMc\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another chart debut, a few months after the single came out &#8211; again, TikTok seems to have a hand in this one. He&#8217;s a New York rapper, Jamaican by birth.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers are&#8230; not notable.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Black Magic&#8221; by Jonasu<\/strong> climbs 5-3.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Remember&#8221; by Becky Hill &amp; David Guetta<\/strong> climbs 10-7.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Industry Baby&#8221; by Lil Nas X &amp; Jack Harlow<\/strong> climbs 13-11.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Talk About&#8221; by Rain Radio &amp; DJ Craig Gorman<\/strong> climbs 18-17, so it&#8217;s levelling out after a strong initial climb.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Need to Know&#8221; by Doja Cat<\/strong> climbs 29-22.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Leave Before You Love Me&#8221; by Marshmello &amp; The Jonas Brothers<\/strong> climbs 25-24.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;You For Me&#8221; by Sigala &amp; Rita Ora<\/strong> climbs 33-29.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart,\u00a0Billie Eilish is number 1, as mentioned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Prince &#8211; &#8220;Welcome 2 America&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/febeHW4EO4o\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A previously-unreleased album recorded back in 2010. Quite why it was shelved &#8211; even after promotion had started &#8211; is a little obscure. The reviews indicate that it&#8217;s not his best work, but certainly holds up respectably with the material he\u00a0<em>was<\/em> releasing at that stage in his career. As an actual completed and unreleased album, it&#8217;s one of the more defensible posthumous releases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. Unknown T &#8211; &#8220;Adolescence&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nt8gaY0FofE\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>His second album chart appearance (this is technically a mixtape), and his first in the top ten.<\/p>\n<p><strong>13. Creeper &#8211; &#8220;American Noir&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rxfQhnkQvPw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A technical appearance on the album chart, this is actually an EP that falls just short of 20 minutes. It&#8217;s their third album chart appearance, after &#8220;Sex Death &amp; The Infinite Void&#8221; reached number 5 last year. Didn&#8217;t these guys used to be goth? They&#8217;ve gone a bit 80s retro.<\/p>\n<p><strong>26. Kyle Falconer &#8211; &#8220;No Love Songs for Laura&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9j5OgaViZS8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Kyle Falconer is the lead singer of the View; his previous solo album, 2018&#8217;s &#8220;No Thank You&#8221;, reached number 40, making this a big improvement. The single&#8217;s a bit Maroon 5, to be honest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>27. The Overtones &#8211; &#8220;10&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WaPAKrGdQi8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Overtones are a vocal harmony group celebrating ten years of activity; their first four albums made the top 10, but they&#8217;re still doing respectably enough. Their Wikipedia page <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Overtones\">has some of the most blatant cutting and pasting from a press release that I&#8217;ve ever seen<\/a>, and evidently flies beneath the radar of regular editors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>31. Big Big Train &#8211; &#8220;Common Ground&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M2eu2SPjdb4\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Prog. It&#8217;s their thirteenth studio album, but only the second to make the top 40 (following its predecessor, which got to 35).<\/p>\n<p><strong>37. Erasure &#8211; &#8220;The Neon Remixed&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bSc6a4gFzTo\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Remixes of tracks from last year&#8217;s album &#8220;The Neon&#8221;, which entered at number 4 (and dropped straight out of the top 40 the next week).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those weeks when everyone gets out of the way of a major album release, so we get a quiet chart. But first! 1. Ed Sheeran &#8211; &#8220;Bad Habits&#8221; I still don&#8217;t think much of this, but Britain evidently disagrees. That&#8217;s six weeks at number 1. 7. 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