{"id":7056,"date":"2021-08-24T22:11:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T21:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7056"},"modified":"2021-08-24T22:11:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T21:11:54","slug":"charts-20-august-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7056","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 20 August 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gosh, this is late. Let&#8217;s hope it&#8217;s a quiet week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Ed Sheeran &#8211; &#8220;Bad Habits&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eight weeks. To give the sales a boost, this week adds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z7DbZS6l6Vk\">a remix with Tion Wayne and Central Cee<\/a>. The midweeks have it sticking around for week nine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Digga D featuring ArrDee &#8211; &#8220;Wasted&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x0cVWyFd1hQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not\u00a0<em>quite\u00a0<\/em>Digga D&#8217;s highest placing single &#8211; &#8220;Bringing it Back&#8221; got to number 5 earlier this year, but that was a collaboration with equal billing for AJ Tracey. ArrDee gets his second hit after &#8220;Oliver Twist&#8221; reached number 6 earlier this year; Radio 1 was still playing it to death the last I heard. The midweeks have this sticking around at 9.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>18. Joel Corry x Jax Jones featuring Charli XCX &amp; Saweetie &#8211; &#8220;Out Out&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zqyEwjFid0c\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Joel Corry isn&#8217;t the most groundbreaking producer but there&#8217;s no denying he&#8217;s consistent. The midweeks have this climbing into the top 10, which would give him a clean sheet of top ten hits. And, like it or not, it&#8217;s probably the time to start releasing songs about going out on the town again. Commercially, at any rate.<\/p>\n<p>Charli XCX is a name we haven&#8217;t seen in a while. Heavily tipped in around 2013\/14, her technical biggest hit is Icona Pop&#8217;s number one &#8220;I Love It&#8221; (which she wrote, and on which she got a featuring credit in the UK); her actual biggest hit of her own is &#8220;Boom Clap&#8221;, which made a very respectable number 6. But somehow she never really became the star people predicted and she hasn&#8217;t had a top ten hit since 2015. We haven&#8217;t seen her in the top 40 at all since 2018, when &#8220;1999&#8221; got to number 13. This could well be the record to get her back there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>20. Lizzo featuring Cardi B &#8211; &#8220;Rumors&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4P9XUrniiK4\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lizzo&#8217;s best known in this country for tracks like &#8220;Juice&#8221; and &#8220;Good as Hell&#8221;, so this &#8211; which is leaning more in Cardi B&#8217;s direction &#8211; is a bit outside her established following. We&#8217;ll see how it does. It&#8217;s Lizzo&#8217;s first release since &#8220;Good as Hell&#8221;, which was in 2019. Nothing like striking while the iron&#8217;s hot&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>26. Doja Cat &#8211; &#8220;Woman&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2V_uAAAH-_Q\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the opening track from her album &#8220;Planet Her&#8221;, picking up enough interest to chart in its own right. Meanwhile,\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Need to Know&#8221;<\/strong> climbs 21-12.<\/p>\n<p><strong>33. Elton John &amp; Dua Lipa &#8211; &#8220;Cold Heart (Pnau remix)&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qod03PVTLqk\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From Pop Smoke to Elton John in a month, Dua Lipa certainly has range when it comes to collaborators. It&#8217;s a mash-up of various Elton John songs remixed by Pnau, with Dua Lipa chipping in on the vocals &#8211; basically the same sort of thing Pnau did with his back catalogue on their 2012 album &#8220;Good Morning to the Night.&#8221; This isn&#8217;t simply an exercise in recognisable hooks.\u00a0The &#8220;Cold Heart&#8221; bit is immediately recognisable as the verse of &#8220;Sacrifice&#8221;, a number 1 hit in 1990, and everyone knows &#8220;Rocket Man&#8221; is in there too. But not many people will remember &#8220;Kiss the Bride&#8221; (a number 20 hit from 1983) let alone &#8220;Where&#8217;s the Shoorah?&#8221; (an album track from 1976).<\/p>\n<p><strong>36. Pinkpantheress &#8211; &#8220;Just for Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7xVUg9GmDfg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An immediate follow-up to &#8220;Pain&#8221;, which is still on the chart at 38. It&#8217;s another two-minute TikTok-friendly fragment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. Clean Bandit &amp; Topic featuring Wes Nelson &#8211; &#8220;Drive&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zrB8wB49z7c\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Clean Bandit songs have sometimes entered low and climbed before &#8211; &#8220;Tick Tock&#8221; entered at 36 but made the top 10 and hung around forever. Still, &#8220;Drive&#8221; seems to be struggling. It&#8217;s been out for three weeks now, and it&#8217;s only just making the top 40. The midweeks have it climbing to 34, so you never know. It&#8217;s not the best thing they&#8217;ve ever released, but you&#8217;d think it&#8217;d have more traction than this.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s (other) climbers, in quite a busy week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Remember&#8221; by Becky Hill &amp; David Guetta<\/strong> climbs 5-3. This is Hill&#8217;s biggest hit since &#8220;Gecko (Overdrive)&#8221; reached number 1 in 2014.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Industry Baby&#8221; by Lil Nas X &amp; Jack Harlow<\/strong> climbs 11-7.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Talk About&#8221; by Rain Radio &amp; DJ Craig Gorman<\/strong> climbs 14-9.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Fly Away&#8221; by Tones &amp; I\u00a0<\/strong>climbs 19-11, so it&#8217;s more than just a technical second hit at this point.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Kiss My (Uh Oh)&#8221; by Anne-Marie &amp; Little Mix<\/strong> climbs 20-14 despite having the worst title of the year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Essence&#8221; by Wizkid featuring Tems<\/strong> climbs 35-17.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Let Them Know&#8221; by Mabel<\/strong> climbs 23-19.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;2055&#8221; by Sleepy Hallow<\/strong> climbs 30-21, though the midweeks suggest that&#8217;s as far as it&#8217;s getting.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;You for Me&#8221; by Sigala &amp; Rita Ora<\/strong> climbs 28-23.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. The Killers &#8211; &#8220;Pressure Machine&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9UinEpwdGcA\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their seventh studio album, all of which have gone to number 1. Frontman Brandon Flowers has also released a couple of solo albums, and both of them went to number 1 too. These aren&#8217;t just one-week wonders, either &#8211; last year&#8217;s &#8220;Imploding the Mirage&#8221; had by far their shortest run on the chart, and it still managed six weeks in the top 40.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Jungle &#8211; &#8220;Loving in Stereo&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7-lWzQd_xeQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their third album, all top tens, and this is their highest position so far. Takes a while to get going, this single, but it picks up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>27. Jade Bird &#8211; &#8220;Different Kinds of Light&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZtXjBMQjpLk\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And finally, the follow-up to Jade Bird&#8217;s self-titled 2019 debut, which reached number 10&#8230; so this is a big drop off. There aren&#8217;t any\u00a0<em>proper\u00a0<\/em>videos for this album, but there&#8217;s a live performance of a track above, and it&#8217;s pretty great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gosh, this is late. Let&#8217;s hope it&#8217;s a quiet week. 1. Ed Sheeran &#8211; &#8220;Bad Habits&#8221; Eight weeks. To give the sales a boost, this week adds a remix with Tion Wayne and Central Cee. The midweeks have it sticking around for week nine. 6. Digga D featuring ArrDee &#8211; &#8220;Wasted&#8221; Not\u00a0quite\u00a0Digga D&#8217;s highest placing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7057,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056\/revisions\/7057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}