{"id":7605,"date":"2022-02-12T17:39:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T17:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7605"},"modified":"2022-02-12T17:39:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T17:39:36","slug":"charts-11-february-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7605","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 11 February 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this just isn&#8217;t going anywhere, is it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bvWRMAU6V-c\"><strong>1. Carolina Gaitan, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero &amp; Stephanie Beatriz &#8211; &#8220;We Don&#8217;t Talk About Bruno&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are still three\u00a0<em>Encanto<\/em> songs in the top 10, with\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Surface Pressure&#8221;<\/strong> climbing to 3, and\u00a0<strong>&#8220;The Family Madrigal&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>hanging in there at 9.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. ArrDee &amp; Aitch &#8211; &#8220;War&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SnaHMFvhNwQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That matches the peak of ArrDee&#8217;s last single &#8220;Flowers&#8221;, and two of his other 2021 singles peaked at 6. He&#8217;s certainly consistent. Aitch gets his first hit of the year, and returns to the top 10 for the first time since spring 2020. It&#8217;s not bad at all, but I&#8217;ve heard better Aitch singles.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>18. Liam Gallagher &#8211; &#8220;Everything&#8217;s Electric&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JVHZXWn64ws\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The lead single from his new album. He performed it on the Brit Awards, which will help &#8211; but there&#8217;s no sign of anything else that was promoted on that show, and its midweek scheduling means it didn&#8217;t have much chance to have an impact.\u00a0Liam Gallagher can usually get the first single from an album into the high 20s, so number 18 isn&#8217;t that out of the ordinary for him.<\/p>\n<p>Technically it&#8217;s his highest placing solo single, but only if you take a very strict definition of &#8220;solo&#8221;. He got to number 14 in 2002 as the guest vocalist on &#8220;Scorpio Rising&#8221; by Death in Vegas. And in 1999, he and Steve Cradock of Ocean Colour Scene got to number 6 with a cover version of the Jam&#8217;s &#8220;Carnation&#8221;, released as a double A-side with a Buffalo Tom track from the same Jam covers album.<\/p>\n<p><strong>24. Tate McRae &#8211; &#8220;She&#8217;s All I Wanna Be&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uS_y_65CcpA\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tate McRae has released several singles since 2020&#8217;s &#8220;You Broke Me First&#8221;, but this one finally gets her back in the top 40. It sounds nothing like her previous hit; we&#8217;re in guitar pop territory here. The video quite naturally takes advantage of her dancing background.<\/p>\n<p><strong>31. Nicki Minaj &amp; Lil Baby &#8211; &#8220;Do We Have A Problem&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yrGR11TDRYM\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The actual song starts about three and a half minutes in.<\/p>\n<p>Nicki Minaj had a top 5 hit last year as a guest on Jesy Nelson&#8217;s solo debut (which dropped out of the top 20 within two weeks). This is the first single she&#8217;s released as lead artist since 2020; she took some time off after the birth of her son. It&#8217;s not the most commercial thing she&#8217;s released and giving it a nine minute video feels bloated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>37. Juice WRLD &#8211; &#8220;Cigarettes&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sis_JJZoAfQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Juice WRLD is what you might call a posthumously prolific artist, but this is an unusual one, since it&#8217;s been floating around as a leaked track since 2018. Since it&#8217;s a perfectly decent track that&#8217;s in wide circulation anyway, you can see why the estate thought they might as well stick it on streaming services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>38. Em Beihold &#8211; &#8220;Numb Little Bug&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9mVXPLlnSu4\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Em Beihold is a Californian songwriter and this seems to be another track brought to us by TikTok &#8211; though in this case it&#8217;s a new release. A bit cutesy, but it&#8217;s not bad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. Jax Jones featuring MNEK &#8211; &#8220;Where Did You Go&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1NFv_tZOonw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I like the retro lyric video. The ITV Chart Show used to be full of this sort of thing. Anyway, Jax Jones has now had a hit in every calendar year since 2016 (and one in 2014 too). MNEK remains one of those serial collaborators who can&#8217;t seem to have hits on his own.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Surface Pressure&#8221; by Jessica Darrow\u00a0<\/strong>climbs 4-3.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Make Me Feel Good&#8221; by Belters Only featuring Jazzy<\/strong> climbs 9-8.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Packs and Potions&#8221; by Hazey<\/strong> climbs 15-11.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Enemy&#8221; by Imagine Dragons X JID<\/strong> climbs 18-17; it first reached 18 five weeks ago and it&#8217;s been hovering around there ever since.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Ghost&#8221; by Justin Bieber<\/strong> climbs 21-19.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Motto&#8221; by Tiesto &amp; Ava Max<\/strong> climbs 26-22<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Sweet Talker&#8221; by Years &amp; Years and Galantis<\/strong> climbs 28-26. This has taken forever to get going &#8211; it came out before Christmas and it entered the top 40 at number 36 five weeks ago &#8211; but it seems to be building momentum now.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Pushin P&#8221; by Gunna, Future &amp; Young Thug<\/strong> climbs 30-28.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Anyone for You&#8221; by George Ezra<\/strong> climbs 32-30.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The seven tracks that drop out of the top 40:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Stay&#8221; by Kid Laroi &amp; Justin Bieber<\/strong> &#8230; again. It&#8217;s been flitting in and out of the bottom end of the chart for a few weeks now.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Flowers (Say My Name)&#8221; by ArrDee<\/strong>, which drops from 14 to 44 &#8211; I assume it hit the downweighting rule this week. It peaked at 5.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Do It To It&#8221; by Acraze featuring Cherish<\/strong>, last week&#8217;s number 40. It managed 12 weeks in the top 40, peaking at 9.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Retail Therapy&#8221; by Central Cee<\/strong>, which peaked at its debut position of 21 but still managed four weeks.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Make You Smile&#8221; by D-Block Europe featuring AJ Tracey<\/strong>, dropping from 19 to 53. This has almost certainly been hit by the downweighting rule, since it&#8217;s ten weeks out &#8211; the first week the rule can hit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;I Drink Wine&#8221; by Adele<\/strong>, dropping from 39 to 75. It peaked at 4 in its first week and spent 9 weeks in the top 40.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;My Universe&#8221; by Coldplay &amp; BTS<\/strong>, dropping from 35 all the way to 89. Again, that sort of drop is almost certainly due to being far enough past its peak to trigger the downweighting rule.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Over on the album chart&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Bastille &#8211; &#8220;Give Me the Future&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RgrndTeoJFA\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their fourth album and their third number one (2019&#8217;s &#8220;Doom Days&#8221; only got to 4).<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Black Country, New Road &#8211; &#8220;Ants From Up There&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yjC4qXiBRu4\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their 2021 debut &#8220;For the First Time&#8221; was nominated for the Mercury and got to number 4; this does marginally better. Frontman Isaac Wood left the group just before the album&#8217;s release, citing mental health problems. The rest of the group are continuing under the same name, but apparently don&#8217;t intend to play material from the first two albums live.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. The Divine Comedy &#8211; &#8220;Charmed Life &#8211; The Best Of&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KUjSTufGVq0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Career retrospective, obviously. Their last album, from 2019, still got to number 5. (I say &#8220;their&#8221; &#8211; the Divine Comedy is basically Neil Hannon and whoever&#8217;s currently in his live band.) Their biggest hit single was 1999&#8217;s &#8220;National Express&#8221;, which got to number 8, but let&#8217;s go with &#8220;Certainty of Chance&#8221;, which missed the top 40 in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;National Express&#8221;\u00a0<em>is<\/em> on the album, by the way, but there are some interesting omissions &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t have &#8220;The Frog Princess&#8221;, or 1999&#8217;s &#8220;Pop Singer&#8217;s Fear of the Pollen Count&#8221;, or (perhaps more understandably) their techno version of &#8220;I&#8217;ve Been to a Marvellous Party&#8221;, all of which were top 20 hits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Mitski &#8211; &#8220;Laurel Hell&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cNwy1Th4NYo\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hmm. This is Mitski&#8217;s sixth studio album, but the first one to chart at all in the UK &#8211; making it all the more odd that it lands at number 6. She&#8217;s a Japanese-American songwriter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. Korn &#8211; &#8220;Requiem&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Aupnj1KpjCg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s their highest placed album since 2002, but only very slightly &#8211; their previous two albums both landed at 9. And finally&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>17. Saxon &#8211; &#8220;Carpe Diem&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pjcgHPsvFVY\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now\u00a0<em>that&#8217;s<\/em> an Old Rockers video. Bless &#8217;em. Their last regular studio album, 2018&#8217;s &#8220;Thunderbolt&#8221;, got to number 29, so it&#8217;s not hugely surprising for them to chart. (Last year&#8217;s &#8220;Inspirations&#8221; missed the top 40, but it was a covers album.) Number 17, though, is enough to be their highest-placed album since &#8220;Power and the Glory&#8221; in 1983. Of course, as I say all the time, legacy acts tend to have audiences who still like the album format.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this just isn&#8217;t going anywhere, is it?&#8221; 1. Carolina Gaitan, Mauro Castillo, Adassa, Rhenzy Feliz, Diane Guerrero &amp; Stephanie Beatriz &#8211; &#8220;We Don&#8217;t Talk About Bruno&#8221; There are still three\u00a0Encanto songs in the top 10, with\u00a0&#8220;Surface Pressure&#8221; climbing to 3, and\u00a0&#8220;The Family Madrigal&#8221;\u00a0hanging in there at 9. 5. 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