{"id":7332,"date":"2021-11-19T23:17:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T23:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7332"},"modified":"2021-11-19T23:17:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T23:17:06","slug":"charts-19-november-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7332","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 19 November 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, the singles chart has to thank the album market for providing it with some activity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Adele &#8211; &#8220;Easy On Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s five weeks, her joint biggest hit. &#8220;Someone Like You&#8221; also managed five weeks total, with a week&#8217;s interruption. The record that knocked it off for a week was &#8220;Don&#8217;t Hold Your Breath&#8221; by Nicole Scherzinger, which I haven&#8217;t thought about for over ten years until I looked it up just now.<\/p>\n<p>Adele&#8217;s album is out today, so we can assume she&#8217;ll have two more singles on next week&#8217;s chart.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;All Too Well (Taylor&#8217;s Version)&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-mrC5tRkxrY\">18. Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;State of Grace (Taylor&#8217;s Version)&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R_rUYuFtNO4\">22. Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;Red (Taylor&#8217;s Version)&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tollGa3S0o8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here we are again with Taylor Swift&#8217;s project of re-recording her back catalogue. At the start of the year, she released a re-issue of &#8220;Fearless&#8221;, her 2009 album; &#8220;Love Story&#8221; got to 12, &#8220;Mr Perfectly Fine&#8221; to 30. &#8220;Wildest Dreams&#8221;, released out of sequence as a single, got to 25. But now we&#8217;ve reached the second album release, &#8220;Red&#8221;, which was her first number 1 album in 2012, and the start of an uninterrupted run of number one albums that continues this week with&#8230; er,?<strong>&#8220;Red (Taylor&#8217;s Version)&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All Too Well&#8221; is the lead single from this album; it wasn&#8217;t a single the first time round, but it&#8217;s widely regarded as one of her best songs. Whether it really benefits from being extended to 10 minutes to become the soundtrack of a 15-minute short film, I&#8217;m not quite so sure, but to be fair, it&#8217;s really intended more to be watched as a film. (The album also includes a straight remake of the original.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;State of Grace&#8221;?<em>was<\/em> a single the first time round, but it only got to number 36 in the UK. &#8220;Red&#8221; was also a single, and got to number 26. As for why these two tracks have wound up being singled out&#8230; well, they?<em>are<\/em> the first two tracks on the album, but that doesn&#8217;t usually make much difference. Still, they&#8217;re very much fan choices rather than the obvious ones from this album &#8211; the original &#8220;Red&#8221; album had four top ten hit singles on it, and these aren&#8217;t among them. (They were &#8220;We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together&#8221;, &#8220;I Knew You Were Trouble&#8221;, &#8220;Everything Has Changed&#8221; and &#8220;22&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>25. Juice WRLD &#8211; &#8220;Already Dead&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uZckHv1j2uw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a track from his upcoming second posthumous album &#8220;Fighting Demons&#8221;, which in turn serves as the soundtrack to a documentary about him. The words &#8220;second posthumous album&#8221; normally signal that barrel-scraping has begun, but this track is very good and absolutely deserved a release.<\/p>\n<p><strong>35. Little Mix &#8211; &#8220;No&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9SqX5Hp44Do\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the second bonus track from their greatest hits album <strong>&#8220;Between Us&#8221;<\/strong>. The first one only managed a week at 33 as well, which is a bit underwhelming. The album itself enters at number 4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. Gayle &#8211; &#8220;ABCDEFU&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NaFd8ucHLuo\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Or GAYLE, if you must. She&#8217;s a teenager from Nashville and this is her first UK hit. The title kind of gives you the idea (the fact that she&#8217;s from Nashville is very much a red herring here). She is the first Gayle to have a top 40 hit, unless you count Crystal Gayle and Michelle Gayle, but then again even Wikipedia only lists a total of three Gayles (as distinct from Gails).<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, no Gails have had top 40 hits either. There have been three top 40 hit singles by Abigails, though:?<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E5rbTo8UhN8\">&#8220;I Just Can&#8217;t Get Enough&#8221; by Herd &amp; Fitz featuring Abigail Bailey<\/a>, a generic dance track that reached number 11 in 2005;?<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sWwuwaYXXGA\">&#8220;Smells Like Teen Spirit&#8221; by Abigail<\/a>?(Abigail Zsiga), a dance version which reached number 29 in 1994 (it&#8217;s better than you&#8217;re probably imagining), and?<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W47Vxd1O4lU\">&#8220;Full Metal Jacket (I Wanna Be Your Drill Instructor)&#8221; by Abigail Mead &amp; Nigel Goulding<\/a>, which reached number 2 in 1987 and is absolutely insane. It&#8217;s way odder than I remember it being.<\/p>\n<p>And even Abigail Mead wasn&#8217;t a real Abigail &#8211; it&#8217;s a pseudonym for Vivian Kubrick. Anyway, the moral is, if you want to have a hit single in the UK, don&#8217;t be called Abigail. Or join a band.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Seventeen Going Under&#8221; by Sam Fender<\/strong> climbs 22-9. giving him his first top ten hit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Coming for You&#8221; by SwitchOTR featuring A1 &amp; J1<\/strong> climbs 14-10.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Smokin&#8217; Out the Window&#8221; by Silk Sonic?<\/strong>climbs 28-12, while the album?<strong>&#8220;An Evening With<\/strong><strong>&#8220;<\/strong> enters at number 9.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Do It To It&#8221; by Acraze featuring Cherish<\/strong> climbs 36-24.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Ghost&#8221; by Justin Bieber<\/strong> climbs 35-32<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart&#8230; we&#8217;ve already had Taylor Swift at 1 and Little Mix at 4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Rod Stewart &#8211; &#8220;The Tears of Hercules&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pLIu3ahDiy8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Gosh. That&#8217;s&#8230; a very odd video. There&#8217;s actually some good stuff in this song, but some, er, questionable choices too. Anyway, the last two Rod Stewart albums both reached number 1, but it&#8217;s a busy week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Idles &#8211; &#8220;Crawler&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cw7jOq0op5E\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s album got to number 1, so on paper we&#8217;re going backwards but&#8230; again, busy week. I really like the editing of stock footage in that video.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. Damon Albarn &#8211; &#8220;The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/211BAFRoQHk\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>God, Damon Albarn is 53. This is his third solo album, the second to chart &#8211; the other was &#8220;Everyday Robots&#8221;, which reached number 2 in 2014. (The one that didn&#8217;t chart was his 2012 opera about John Deed, which is fair enough, really.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. The Wanted &#8211; &#8220;Most Wanted &#8211; The Greatest Hits&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2ggzxInyzVE\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sure, why not? The Wanted were never Take That, but they had three top ten albums, ten top ten singles, two number ones &#8211; that merits a greatest hits album.<\/p>\n<p>Number 9 is Silk Sonic. Number 10 is a re-entry for <strong>Kylie Minogue&#8217;s &#8220;Disco&#8221;<\/strong>, which was a number 1 just last year, but is being re-issued in an expanded edition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11. The Reytons &#8211; &#8220;Kids Off The Estate&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9jpjJJpjEVQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yorkshire indie band. It&#8217;s their debut album. They managed to sell out the O2 in Sheffield as an unsigned band, which is pretty impressive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>15. Ronan Keating &#8211; &#8220;Songs From Home&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IPWH_R-s6uo\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s quite low for a Ronan Keating album &#8211; his previous four albums all made the top 5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>31. Courtney Barnett &#8211; &#8220;Things Take Time Take Time&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NUXvlpS0TvE\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ouch, that&#8217;s low. Her last album, in 2018, reached number 9. So this is&#8230; seriously disappointing, to be honest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>34. Red Rum Club &#8211; &#8220;How To Steal The World&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p3UNnKdM8vw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re from Liverpool. It&#8217;s their third studio album, but the first time they&#8217;ve made the album chart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, the singles chart has to thank the album market for providing it with some activity. 1. Adele &#8211; &#8220;Easy On Me&#8221; That&#8217;s five weeks, her joint biggest hit. &#8220;Someone Like You&#8221; also managed five weeks total, with a week&#8217;s interruption. 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