{"id":7110,"date":"2021-09-04T20:30:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T19:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7110"},"modified":"2021-09-04T20:30:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T19:30:48","slug":"charts-3-september-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7110","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 3 September 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please go away. Please.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Ed Sheeran &#8211; &#8220;Bad Habits&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s ten weeks. If he&#8217;s past his peak, the chart rules will downweight him next week and he&#8217;ll be on his way. If not, and he manages an eleventh week, that&#8217;ll be the longest run at the top since &#8220;Dance Monkey&#8221; in late 2019. It heads up a static top four, for the second week running &#8211; &#8220;Stay&#8221; by Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber has been stuck at number 2 for five weeks now and would clearly have been a number one single against any normal competition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. Kanye West &#8211; &#8220;Hurricane&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IviYsgJXG5k\">11. Kanye West &#8211; &#8220;Jail&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EbDMNjT-QpI\">15. Kanye West &#8211; &#8220;Off the Grid&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bPjZmQAvk_8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The maximum three permitted tracks from his new album\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Donda&#8221;<\/strong>, which enters at number 1. It&#8217;s only his third number 1 album in the UK, the others being 2007&#8217;s &#8220;Graduation&#8221; and 2013&#8217;s &#8220;Yeezus&#8221;, but his last two albums both made number 2, so this hardly ranks as a surprise. There are no official singles from this album, and the only track with a video is &#8220;Come to Life&#8221; (which is just footage from one of his album playback events).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Why are these three leading the pack? For the first two, it&#8217;s probably the guest stars, even though they don&#8217;t get a credit on the chart. &#8220;Hurricane&#8221; has vocals from the Weeknd. It&#8217;s actually a track originally recorded for the album that became &#8220;Jesus is King&#8221;. It&#8217;s also pretty good. &#8220;Jail&#8221; has a verse by Jay-Z. (Not to be confused with &#8220;Jail, Part 2&#8221; later on the album, which is the one with the controversial guest stars.) It has no percussion and it&#8217;s not something that would normally be seen as a single, though it\u00a0<em>is<\/em> quite attention-grabbing. &#8220;Off the Grid&#8221; is more likely to be here purely on its own merits, since the guests are Playboi Carti and Fivio Foreign, neither of whom is a particularly big deal in chart terms in this country.<\/p>\n<p>Next week, we&#8217;ll have the same thing with Drake, most likely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>36. Becky Hill &amp; Topic &#8211; &#8220;My Heart Goes (La Di Da)&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R4kRgIkpTxQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It took Becky Hill a while, but over the last couple of years she&#8217;s established herself as at least a regular presence in the top 40.\u00a0<em>The Voice\u00a0<\/em><em>UK\u00a0<\/em>found an actual star after all, it was just several years early. The song is&#8230; fine? It&#8217;s a dance record, it&#8217;s got a calculatedly catchy chorus, it&#8217;s fine.<\/p>\n<p>The parent album,\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Only Honest On The Weekend&#8221;<\/strong>, enters the album chart at 7 &#8211; a big improvement on her 2019 debut album, awkwardly titled &#8220;Get To Know&#8221;, which could only reach 20.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. David Guetta x Mistajam x John Newman &#8211; &#8220;If You Really Love Me (How Will I Know)&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2aJfC8JR2No\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Similarly, you know what you&#8217;re getting with David Guetta. The other two names on this track are more of a surprise &#8211; John Newman had three number one hits singing with the likes of Rudimental and Calvin Harris between 2012 and 2014, but he hasn&#8217;t charted since 2016. I believe health problems may have contributed to that. Mistajam, making his chart debut, is a club DJ and radio presenter, but isn&#8217;t particularly known for actually making records. The chorus here is based around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m3-hY-hlhBg\">&#8220;How Will I Know&#8221; by Whitney Houston<\/a>, a number 5 hit in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Industry Baby&#8221; by Lil Nas X &amp; Jack Harlow<\/strong> climbs 7-5.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Out Out&#8221; by Joel Corry, Jax Jones &amp; Charli XCX<\/strong> climbs 10-6. It&#8217;s now Charli&#8217;s biggest hit since &#8220;Boom Clap&#8221; back in 2014.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Kiss My (Uh Oh)&#8221; by Anne-Marie &amp; Little Mix<\/strong> climbs 14-10, finally reaching the top ten after spending five weeks floating around the bottom half of the top 20.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Heat Waves&#8221; by Glass Animals<\/strong> surprisingly re-enters at 18, which is a new peak for it (it got to 19 back in May). I gather a Netflix show used it, and it&#8217;s given it a second lease of life on TikTok.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)&#8221; by Elton John &amp; Dua Lipa<\/strong> climbs 35-23. Christmas aside, Elton John hasn&#8217;t been this high up the chart since 2009, when he got a featured artist credit for being sampled on Ironik&#8217;s &#8220;Tiny Dancer&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart, Kanye West is number 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Maisie Peters &#8211; &#8220;You Signed Up For This&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UpNPyxskt6k\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Debut album. She&#8217;s a songwriter who came up through YouTube, and she&#8217;s signed to Ed Sheeran&#8217;s label. This feels like a single that was intended to chart, and it climbs from 72 to 57 this week. Maybe it&#8217;ll go further. You never know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. CHVRCHES &#8211; &#8220;Screen Violence&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/du4kNAyjVCg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their fourth straight top 10 album, matching the peak of 2015&#8217;s &#8220;Every Open Eye&#8221;. Great, aren&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Halsey &#8211; &#8220;If I Can&#8217;t Have Love, I Want Power&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Azv0G85lh8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is Halsey&#8217;s highest-placed album, though not by much &#8211; it beats last year&#8217;s &#8220;Manic&#8221; by one place. Unusually, the first single from this album (above) has only just come out. It&#8217;s currently sitting at number 72 on the singles chart in its first week, but it could certainly climb from there.<\/p>\n<p>Number 7 is the Becky Hill album covered above.<\/p>\n<p><strong>19. The Beach Boys &#8211; &#8220;Feel Flows &#8211; The Sunflower &amp; Surf&#8217;s Up Sessions 1969-1971&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HGhvYTG-Nao\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>5-CD box set archive release of material recorded for &#8220;Sunflower&#8221; (number 29 in 1970) and &#8220;Surf&#8217;s Up&#8221; (number 15 in 1971). It&#8217;s a copyright extension release, basically.<\/p>\n<p><strong>22. Toyah &#8211; &#8220;Posh Pop&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nIgwC9UB3FM\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Gosh. Toyah Wilcox hasn&#8217;t had a top 40 album since 1985. Admittedly, she stopped releasing albums regularly in the mid-90s, but she\u00a0<em>has<\/em> released one every few years. Quite why this has suddenly appeared in the top 30, I have no clue. The video above is majestically inexpensive. There are several videos for tracks on this album and they&#8217;re all like this.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fm7yXF7FhBs\">&#8220;Summer of Love&#8221;\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0is particularly memorable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>28. Supergrass &#8211; &#8220;In It For The Money&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UnXrrOxzZCE\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Remastered reissue of their second album, which reached number 2 in 1997.<\/p>\n<p><strong>30. OneRepublic &#8211; &#8220;Human&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nym5stAJAt8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Troubled Project alert. This album was originally due for release in 2019, got delayed into 2020, got delayed again due to Covid, and now finally slinks out to a dismal number 30 chart placing. Bear in mind OneRepublic&#8217;s last two albums made the top ten. They&#8217;ve released six singles for this album over two years, none of which have made the top 40 &#8211; the first time that&#8217;s happened to them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. The Kooks &#8211; &#8220;Inside In \/ Inside Out&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-1pfBw53amc\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>15th anniversary deluxe reissue of their debut album, which reached number 2 in 2006. Their last studio album, 2018&#8217;s &#8220;Let&#8217;s Go Sunshine&#8221;, still got to number 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please go away. Please. 1. Ed Sheeran &#8211; &#8220;Bad Habits&#8221; Well, that&#8217;s ten weeks. If he&#8217;s past his peak, the chart rules will downweight him next week and he&#8217;ll be on his way. If not, and he manages an eleventh week, that&#8217;ll be the longest run at the top since &#8220;Dance Monkey&#8221; in late 2019. 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