{"id":7898,"date":"2022-05-25T20:33:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T19:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7898"},"modified":"2022-05-25T20:33:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T19:33:34","slug":"charts-20-may-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7898","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 20 May 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of me complaining about the singles chart being moribund, this is a bit more like it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H5v3kku4y6Q\"><strong>1. Harry Styles &#8211; &#8220;As It Was&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not that it&#8217;s shifting Harry Styles, admittedly. But it was close. He holds on by the equivalent of 4,300 sales, and he&#8217;s lucky to do that. The CD single of &#8220;As It Was&#8221; was offered for pre-order a while back, intended for the hardcore fans. Due to production problems, it didn&#8217;t ship until this week, at which point the 9,000 odd pre-orders were added to his total. If it had shipped on time, those sales would have been credited to an earlier week, and he wouldn&#8217;t be number one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Sam Ryder &#8211; &#8220;Space Man&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/udsMTb2NIak\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the UK entry for this year&#8217;s Eurovision Song Contest. We have a tradition in this country of entering records we don&#8217;t like, don&#8217;t buy and don&#8217;t listen to, and then sulking when the Germans agree with us. This time we&#8217;ve entered a record we actually like, and it came second. And considering that nobody was beating Ukraine in a public phone vote in 2022, that&#8217;s pretty good.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sam Ryder is a guy who started out doing covers on TikTok; he&#8217;s signed to a major label, but boldly chooses to launch his career by taking on a task which normally brands the hapless act as an irrelevance. It&#8217;s really quite good, and it&#8217;s nice to see that get rewarded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Kendrick Lamar &#8211; &#8220;N95&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lx3MGrafykU\">7. Kendrick Lamar featuring Blxst &amp; Amanda Reifer &#8211; &#8220;Die Hard&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tvNSXS4x9nc\"><strong>14. Kendrick Lamar &#8211; &#8220;United in Grief&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zI383uEwA6Q\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a\u00a0<em>great<\/em> video. I mean, it&#8217;s from the random barrage of images school of video making, but that&#8217;s how you do it.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, these are the maximum three tracks from his album\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Mr Morale &amp; The Big Steppers&#8221;<\/strong>, which enters the album chart at&#8230; at 2, actually, which is a surprise. His previous album &#8220;Damn.&#8221; also got to number 2, though he does have a UK number one &#8211; 2015&#8217;s &#8220;To Pimp a Butterfly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;N95&#8221; is the official single. It&#8217;s not quite his biggest hit in the UK &#8211; &#8220;All the Stars&#8221; reached number 5 in 2018, and he&#8217;s also guested on top 5 hits for Maroon 5, Sia and Taylor Swift.\u00a0&#8220;Die Hard&#8221; is a relatively straight album track that would have been a safe choice of single. It&#8217;s the first hit for rapper Blxst, who just missed the top 40 with a single last year. Amanda Reifert gets her first solo top 40 credit, but she&#8217;s the lead singer of Cover Drive, who had three top 10 hits in 2012, including the number one &#8220;Twilight&#8221;. &#8220;United in Grief&#8221; is&#8230; an absolutely insane track to have in the singles top 40, so that&#8217;s excellent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>16. Tion Wayne &amp; La Roux &#8211; &#8220;IFTK&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1nONX7VqIko\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a sample credit rather than a collaboration, based on La Roux&#8217;s 2009 number 2 hit &#8220;In For The Kill&#8221;. (Which is what the title of this track stands for.) They do show up for the video, though. La Roux followed up &#8220;In for the Kill&#8221; with the number one hit &#8220;Bulletproof&#8221; later that year, but the following single only got to number 27. Their 2014 sophomore album only managed to get its lead single to 63.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25. Post Malone featuring Roddy Ricch &#8211; &#8220;Cooped Up&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WABOrIYhR94\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yup, that&#8217;s a Post Malone single.<\/p>\n<p><strong>35. D-Block Europe &#8211; &#8220;Black Beatles&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IjNZtr4ZSeg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yup, that&#8217;s a D-Block Europe single. It has nothing to do with the Rae Sremmurd single of the same name that reached number 2 in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>37. My Chemical Romance &#8211; &#8220;The Foundations of Decay&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V2kWUJkRvVs\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their first single in eight years, though you have to go back to 2010 for the last time they made the top 40 &#8211; when &#8220;Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)&#8221; got to number 31. For a proper hit, you&#8217;re going back to &#8220;Teenagers&#8221; in 2007. Officially they broke up in 2013, but they&#8217;ve been doing reunion tours for a couple of years now, pandemic permitting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>38. Kalush &#8211; &#8220;Stefania&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z8Z51no1TD0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Eurovision winner. We don&#8217;t get much Ukrainian folk-rap in these parts, but &#8220;Stefania&#8221; did actually deserve to do well quite aside from the war. Kalush is a rap group; the artist credit used in the Eurovision Song Contest, &#8220;Kalush Orchestra&#8221;, is a side project with more folk music elements. However, the charts have Kalush as the credited artist, and that does indeed seem to be how it&#8217;s listed on streaming services, so fair enough.<\/p>\n<p>The Eurovision Song Contest officially doesn&#8217;t allow political songs, but obvious metaphor is fine. Apparently this really\u00a0<em>was<\/em> written as a song about his mother before the war, too. The video, filmed in devastated Ukrainian towns liberated from the Russians, was held back until after the contest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. Tom Grennan &#8211; &#8220;Remind Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pldBRhJjOKE\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This has bene climbing from the lower reaches since the end of March, so it&#8217;s been struggling to get momentum.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers are fewer in number, given the unaccustomed influx of new blood:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Green Green Grass&#8221; by George Ezra<\/strong> climbs 31-22.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Je M&#8217;Appelle&#8221; by<\/strong> Benzz climbs 34-26.<\/li>\n<li>And that&#8217;s it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ten (!) tracks leaving the top 40 this week are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Balling&#8221; by Vibe Chemistry.<\/strong> Seven weeks in the top 40 without ever getting above 35. Quite an achievement.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Freaky Deaky&#8221; by Tyga &amp; Doja Cat.<\/strong> Four weeks on chart, all of them between 36 and 38.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Down Under&#8221; by Luude featuring Colin Hay<\/strong> has been hit by the downweighting rule. It spent 19 weeks in the top 40, ten of them in the top 10, peaking at 5.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Thousand Miles&#8221; by the Kid<\/strong> <strong>Laroi.<\/strong> Entered at 21 and only lasted three weeks. A bit disappointing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Anyone for You&#8221; by George Ezra<\/strong>, which got to 12 and spent 15 weeks in the top 40.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Dua Lipa&#8221; by Jack Harlow<\/strong>, which got a week at number 33 as an album track.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Motto&#8221; by Tiesto and Ava Max<\/strong>, evidently hit by downweighting. It managed 18 weeks on the top 40 but could never get above 12.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Run&#8221; by Becky Hill &amp; Galantis<\/strong>, another record triggering the downweighting rule. Eleven weeks on the top 40 without quite reaching the top 20.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Heart &#8211; Part 5&#8221; by Kendrick Lamar<\/strong>, last week&#8217;s number 25, which will have been disqualified under the three song rule.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Light Switch&#8221; by Charlie Puth<\/strong>, which eventually managed 13 weeks on the chart, but never got past 25.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Over on the album chart&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Florence &amp; The Machine &#8211; &#8220;Dance Fever&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h9CNGPy11Jc\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Her fifth studio album, her fourth number one. The exception was its predecessor, 2018&#8217;s &#8220;High as Hope&#8221;, which got to number 2. There&#8217;s also an &#8220;MTV Unplugged&#8221; album that got to 27, but that doesn&#8217;t really count.<\/p>\n<p>Kendrick Lamar is number 2, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. The Black Keys &#8211; &#8220;Dropout Boogie&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KKSmHOUaqaQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their eleventh studio album, their fourth consecutive top five place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Bear&#8217;s Den &#8211; &#8220;Blue Hours&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S4Cs9PynKrA\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their joint highest position, alongside 2016&#8217;s &#8220;Red Earth &amp; Pouring Rain&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>19. The Smile &#8211; &#8220;A Light for Attracting Attention&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CXbncoiKLn8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s surprisingly low, considering that the Smile are a Radiohead side project &#8211; it&#8217;s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, plus drummer Tom Skinner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>24. The Rolling Stones &#8211; &#8220;Live at the El Mocambo&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-AtKLERQTvI\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>1977 live album recorded in a Toronto club. One of those cases of a record that&#8217;s so widely bootlegged that you might as well just release the damn thing yourself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>38. N-Dubz &#8211; &#8220;Greatest Hits&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nxq-wCf5G8o\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Um&#8230; okay. This 2011 collection only managed a week at number 38 the first time round, but I guess people have been prompted to stream a few of the songs by the announcement of their reunion tour. Maybe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of me complaining about the singles chart being moribund, this is a bit more like it. 1. Harry Styles &#8211; &#8220;As It Was&#8221; Not that it&#8217;s shifting Harry Styles, admittedly. But it was close. He holds on by the equivalent of 4,300 sales, and he&#8217;s lucky to do that. 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