{"id":7858,"date":"2022-05-07T23:04:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T22:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7858"},"modified":"2022-05-07T23:04:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T22:04:18","slug":"charts-6-may-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7858","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 6 May 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, at least someone released an album.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H5v3kku4y6Q\">1. Harry Styles &#8211; &#8220;As It Was&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Five weeks, still leading by quite some margin, though it <i>is<\/i> trending downward. It&#8217;s not in any danger from the records in the rest of the top 10, though, all of which have been there for a while. Except for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. Future featuring Drake &amp; Tems &#8211; &#8220;Wait for U&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rP09GUQFDFk\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Feels like more of a mood than a song, but oddly pleasant. It&#8217;s the current single from Future&#8217;s album\u00a0<strong>&#8220;I Never Liked You&#8221;<\/strong>, which enters the album chart at 2 &#8211; his highest place to date, though his previous solo album, &#8220;High Off Life&#8221;, got to 5.<\/p>\n<p>Future&#8217;s track record on the singles chart is decidedly mixed; he&#8217;s been around for a decade plus, but this is only his second top ten hit. The other one was &#8220;Life is Good&#8221;, which reached number 3 in 2020 &#8211; and that had Drake on it too. That said, it&#8217;s not just a case of getting in a guest star with a bigger fan base; there are plenty of guest verses by Drake that go nowhere. (He&#8217;s also on &#8220;Bubbly&#8221; by Young Thug, for example, and that got to number 60.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Future&#8217;s only had four other top 40 hit singles. He&#8217;s a guest on &#8220;Way 2 Sexy&#8221;, which reached number 11 last year for&#8230; er, Drake. He does a guest verse on a Maroon 5 single from 2017. He&#8217;s on Gunna&#8217;s &#8220;Pushin&#8217; P&#8221; from earlier this year. And there&#8217;s his lone true solo UK hit, &#8220;Mask Off&#8221;, which got to number 22 in 2017 &#8211; and, to be fair, spent 13 weeks in the top 40.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qa1IaUywiO8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As for Tems, that&#8217;s a sample credit, for the use of her single &#8220;Higher&#8221;. She&#8217;s a Nigerian singer, and this is her second top 40 appearance after guesting on Wizkid&#8217;s &#8220;Essence&#8221; last year. The original is probably better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>15. Lizzo &#8211; &#8220;About Damn Time&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IXXxciRUMzE\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This has taken a few weeks to pick up &#8211; it entered at 60 two weeks ago &#8211; but it&#8217;s now her second biggest hit. &#8220;Good as Hell&#8221; is the biggest, getting to number 7; surprisingly, &#8220;Juice&#8221; only got to number 38.<\/p>\n<p><strong>21. Benson Boone &#8211; &#8220;In The Stars&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2n5GKLdrTfk\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Debut hit. He&#8217;s a teenager from Washington with a background on TikTok, plus some exposure from last year&#8217;s\u00a0<em>American Idol<\/em> (perhaps wisely, he apparently had second thoughts after the audition stages). He&#8217;s been signed to a major label, and his first single &#8220;Ghost Town&#8221; performed decently in parts of Europe &#8211; it was a number 1 in Norway.<\/p>\n<p><strong>39. Diplo &amp; Miguel &#8211; &#8220;Don&#8217;t Forget My Love&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KLu7QyEpdBM\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This has been out for nine weeks and it&#8217;s been a painfully slow climb from the lower reaches just to get this far &#8211; it&#8217;s a climber from 41, so it&#8217;s not as if it&#8217;s having a sudden surge of interest. It&#8217;s a pretty generic dance pop record, so it&#8217;s easy to see how it got lost even in a quiet period. Miguel Pimentel has been around for over a decade, but this is only his second appearance on the UK top 40 &#8211; the other was when he guested on Mariah Carey&#8217;s &#8220;Beautiful&#8221; way back in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Only two Miguels have ever had UK top 40 hits (as solo artists under that name, at any rate). The other was Miguel R\u00edos, a Spanish star who had a top 20 hit in 1970 with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nn_Xb-9Z3eg\">his Beethoven-based global easy listening smash &#8220;Song of Joy&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers are an underwhelming bunch:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Bam Bam&#8221; by Camila Cabello featuring Ed Sheeran<\/strong> climbs 8-7, just one place below &#8220;Peru&#8221; by Fireboy DML &amp; Ed Sheeran.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;2Step&#8221; by Ed Sheeran<\/strong> climbs 12-11.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Big Energy&#8221; by Latto x Mariah Carey featuring DJ Khaled<\/strong> climbs 33-28.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The four songs leaving the top 40 this week are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Melody&#8221; by Sigala<\/strong>, which spent five weeks in the 30s.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Glad U Came&#8221; by Liilz featuring ZieZie<\/strong>, which managed a respectable seven weeks on chart and a peak of number 15.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Do It To It&#8221; by Acraze featuring Cherish<\/strong>, which presumably gets hit back the downweighting rule and plummets from 38 to 99; it only managed a single week in the top 10, but spent 21 weeks in the top 40.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Numb Little Bug&#8221; by Em Beihold<\/strong>, which drops straight out of the top 100, presumably for the same reason; it peaked at 25 but spent 11 weeks in the top 40.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Blossoms &#8211; &#8220;Ribbon Around the Bomb&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KZjCoMrciss\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Four studio albums, three number ones. The other one got to four. There&#8217;s also a lockdown-era live album, which got to 5. You&#8217;d think they were commercial enough to pick up some hit singles too, but they never have.<\/p>\n<p>Number 2 is the Future album, already mentioned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Rammstein &#8211; &#8220;Zeit&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EbHGS_bVkXY\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You know what you&#8217;re getting with Rammstein. It matches 2019&#8217;s self-titled album to be their joint biggest album. The title track was a number one hit in Germany.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Thunder &#8211; &#8220;Dopamine&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8UGK9Uuqh3I\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their fifth consecutive studio album to make the top 10. Thunder debuted back in 1990, and are hanging in there better than you&#8217;d expect in the winter of their career. For example, they can apparently sell more albums than&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. Bloc Party &#8211; &#8220;Alpha<\/strong> Games&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Y86GEcmcnw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a better position than their previous album, though &#8211; 2016&#8217;s &#8220;Hymns&#8221; got to number 12, and became their first studio album to miss the top 10. So back on track, in that sense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>20. Reef &#8211; &#8220;Shoot Me Your Ace&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9_5jopNz71o\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Blimey, they&#8217;re looking their age. It&#8217;s been four years since the last Reef album, which followed an 18 year gap and got to 26; this does a little better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>26. Let&#8217;s Eat Grandma &#8211; &#8220;Two Ribbons&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kh8breFdFZI\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their third studio album, the second to chart, and it does two places better than its predecessor. A band called Let&#8217;s Eat Grandma is either going to be very noisy, or it&#8217;s going to be the sort of band who would have been played late at night by Mark Radcliffe, and this bunch are in the second camp.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, at least someone released an album. 1. Harry Styles &#8211; &#8220;As It Was&#8221; Five weeks, still leading by quite some margin, though it is trending downward. It&#8217;s not in any danger from the records in the rest of the top 10, though, all of which have been there for a while. Except for&#8230; 8. 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