{"id":8101,"date":"2022-07-30T14:49:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T13:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8101"},"modified":"2022-07-30T14:49:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T13:49:04","slug":"charts-29-july-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8101","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 29 July 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, activity!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EPVdGy9SBHI\"><strong>1. LF System &#8211; &#8220;Afraid to Feel&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not here, admittedly. That&#8217;s four weeks. It&#8217;s way past its peak so in theory it&#8217;s vulnerable to challengers. Speaking of which&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Central Cee &#8211; &#8220;Doja&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_VuJA-VQRcY\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mmm. Well, that&#8217;s&#8230; not for me. More of a fragment than an actual song (it&#8217;s 1:37), it&#8217;s still Central Cee&#8217;s highest placed single to date. His previous peak was number 4, with last year&#8217;s &#8220;Obsessed With You&#8221;. The sample is from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wt88GMJmVk0\">&#8220;Let Me Blow Your Mind&#8221; by Eve featuring Gwen Stefani<\/a>, which is now over 20 years old (it got to number 4 in 2001). It&#8217;s (presumably) the first single from his next album, even though the previous one only came out in February.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s the highest new entry we&#8217;ve had in ages&#8230; and it remains an outlier, as we now head all the way down to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>23. Billie Eilish &#8211; &#8220;TV&#8221;<br \/>\n33. Billie Eilish &#8211; &#8220;The 30th&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_JGGLJMpVks\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/onT3z0lCZz8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is essentially a double A-side, though it&#8217;s billed as a two-track EP called &#8220;Guitar Songs&#8221;. You&#8217;d have thought it would place a bit higher than this, considering it&#8217;s the first new thing she&#8217;s released in 2022 &#8211; and they&#8217;re both really good, too. Maybe the EP format isn&#8217;t the best way of promoting tracks, and winds up marking something as a folk side project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>26. Rosa Linn &#8211; &#8220;Snap&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gVqGKkm7xBE\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, I don&#8217;t think this has happened before. &#8220;Snap&#8221; was the Armenian entry for this year&#8217;s Eurovision Song Contest, which didn&#8217;t make much of an impact at the time &#8211; it came 20th. That&#8217;s normally the end of the road for Eurovision songs, but this vaguely Mumford &amp; Sons track has resurfaced as viral hit, and started charting around western Europe. It&#8217;s pretty decent, actually, and I&#8217;m surprised it didn&#8217;t do better at the time. Obviously, it&#8217;s Linn&#8217;s debut hit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>37. Luude &amp; Mattafix &#8211; &#8220;Big City Life&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p55LUUnaNS0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Luude is the DJ whose version of &#8220;Down Under&#8221; reached the top 5 earlier this year. This is a remix of Mattafix&#8217;s &#8220;Big City Life&#8221;, hence their co-credit. Mattafix were a production\/vocal duo from London, but &#8220;Big City Life&#8221; was their only hit in the UK, and it only got to number 15 in 2005. It did better internationally, and reached number 1 in several European countries.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4mtfnfQoAco\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To be honest, they didn&#8217;t really manage to follow it up in Europe either, though a track called &#8220;Living Darfur&#8221; did get to number 2 in Italy. Singer Marlon Roudette did have a few solo hits in Europe, and had a top 10 hit in 2015 with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BLRgaU9uUnA\">&#8220;When The Beat Drops Out&#8221;<\/a>. He&#8217;s also written a few recent hit singles, for people like Mabel and Jax Jones.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;I Ain&#8217;t Worried&#8221; by OneRepublic<\/strong> climbs 13-12.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Stay the Night&#8221; by Sigala &amp; Talia Mar<\/strong> climbs 15-14. Yes, it&#8217;s one of those weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Bad Habit&#8221; by Steve Lacy<\/strong> climbs 25-18, which is a bit more like it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Stay With Me&#8221; by Calvin Harris featuring Justin Timberlake, Halsey &amp; Pharrell Williams<\/strong> climbs 29-22, so maybe it&#8217;s just taking a while to get momentum.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Ferrari&#8221; by James Hype &amp; Miggy Dela Rosa<\/strong> climbs 40-36.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The five records leaving the top 40 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Bad Habits&#8221; by Ed Sheeran<\/strong>, after 52 weeks in the top 40. Don&#8217;t worry, he still has a single in the top 40 &#8211; he&#8217;s on Burna Boy&#8217;s &#8220;For My Hand&#8221;, still at number 32. It is a law of nature that there must always be an Ed Sheeran single in the top 40.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Remember&#8221; by Becky Hill &amp; David Guetta<\/strong>, which peaked at number 3.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Hold My Hand&#8221; by Lady Gaga<\/strong>, which got to 24.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Hello Mate&#8221; by ArrDee featuring Kyla<\/strong>, which got a week at number 37.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Heat Waves&#8221; by Glass<\/strong> <strong>Animals<\/strong>, which has spent a total of 60 weeks in the top 40 by this point.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Jamie T &#8211; &#8220;The Theory of Whatever&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O6kZ2xUaqxQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s his first number one, though his previous four albums all placed between 2 and 4, so it&#8217;s hardly surprising that he got one in the end. It&#8217;s been six years since the last album.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Jack White &#8211; &#8220;Entering Heaven Alive&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jv6Fc04ragc\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jack White albums always place in the top 5 &#8211; well, except for 2016&#8217;s &#8220;Acoustic Recordings &#8211; 1998-2016&#8221;, but what do you expect? &#8211; so no surprise here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>22. Bananarama &#8211; &#8220;Masquerade&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ho097oBrfuw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bananarama, in this context, being Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward, two of the three founding members. This is their 40th anniversary album, but they already released a comeback album in 2019 (which got to 29). Technically their highest placed album is their 1988 greatest hits collection, which got to number 3, but their highest placed\u00a0<em>studio<\/em> album was their 1983 debut, the magnificently titled &#8220;Deep Sea Skiving&#8221;. Which is the one with &#8220;Really Saying Something&#8221; and &#8220;Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye&#8221; on it, so fair enough, really. The single above it&#8230; much better than I was expecting, to be honest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>26. Gilbert O&#8217;Sullivan &#8211; &#8220;Driven&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uizIk7EVfbQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Sullivan&#8217;s previous self-titled album from 2018 got to number 20, which was his first appearance in the album chart (other than with greatest hits collections) since 1974. Apparently it wasn&#8217;t a fluke.<\/p>\n<p><strong>34. The Kooks &#8211; &#8220;10 Tracks to Echo in the Dark&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CMVwC2vTMWw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Uh-oh. The Kooks have never placed lower than 16 with a studio album, and their previous album &#8211; 2018&#8217;s &#8220;Let&#8217;s Go Sunshine&#8221; &#8211; made the top 10. Something&#8217;s gone wrong here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, activity! 1. LF System &#8211; &#8220;Afraid to Feel&#8221; Not here, admittedly. That&#8217;s four weeks. It&#8217;s way past its peak so in theory it&#8217;s vulnerable to challengers. Speaking of which&#8230; 2. Central Cee &#8211; &#8220;Doja&#8221; Mmm. Well, that&#8217;s&#8230; not for me. More of a fragment than an actual song (it&#8217;s 1:37), it&#8217;s still Central Cee&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8102,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101\/revisions\/8102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}