{"id":8166,"date":"2022-08-09T20:07:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T19:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8166"},"modified":"2022-08-09T20:07:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T19:07:25","slug":"charts-5-august-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8166","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 5 August 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In which Beyonc\u00e9 has an album out. But first&#8230;<\/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>That&#8217;s five weeks, but it only holds on by the equivalent of about 3,000 sales. Still, even past its peak, it&#8217;s able to keep Beyonc\u00e9 at bay.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iz1rIp1-b-Y\">2. Beyonc\u00e9 &#8211; &#8220;Break My Soul&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n14. Beyonc\u00e9 &#8211; &#8220;Cuff It&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>16. Beyonc\u00e9 &#8211; &#8220;Alien Superstar&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yrtWLyp5gLI\" 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\/e_aT9pAGQo8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the maximum three tracks from her album\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Renaissance&#8221;<\/strong>, which enters the album chart as her fourth UK solo number one. ( &#8220;Cuff It&#8221; and &#8220;Alien Superstar&#8221; are just album tracks; &#8220;Break My Soul&#8221; is the trailer single, which has been on the singles chart for seven weeks now, mostly hovering between 4 and 6.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This sort of thing might seem like a foregone conclusion, but it&#8217;s not quite that clear. It&#8217;s been six years since her last studio album &#8220;Lemonade&#8221;, and while it\u00a0<em>did<\/em> get to number one, its profile wasn&#8217;t helped by being exclusive to Tidal on streaming for the first three years. None of the singles from that album made the top 10. Number 2 is Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s highest singles chart position since she appeared on Lady GaGa&#8217;s &#8220;Telephone&#8221; thirteen years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, I&#8217;m surprised she didn&#8217;t get a couple of tracks into the top 10 from this, particularly in another quiet week. The only other new entry on the singles top 40 this week is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>38. JAE5 featuring Dave &amp; BNXN &#8211; &#8220;Propeller&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IEasConTI0I\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>JAE5 is a producer who&#8217;s worked with the likes of Dave, J Hus and Burna Boy, but this is his first time being credited as an artist. It&#8217;s a really good production job, mind you. Also getting his first hit is BNXN, a Nigerian Afrobeat singer who used to be called Buju but changed his name this year to something much more confusing. It&#8217;s pronounced &#8220;Benson&#8221;, somehow.<\/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 12-10, finally giving them a fifth top 10 hit. The last one was &#8220;Love Runs Out&#8221; from 2014.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Bad Habit&#8221; by Steve Lacy<\/strong> climbs 18-17.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Ferrari&#8221; by James Hype &amp; Miggy Dela Rosa<\/strong> climbs 36-25, which is more like it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Big City Life&#8221; by Luude &amp; Mattafix<\/strong> climbs 37-28.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And&#8230; that&#8217;s it. There are the three new entries listed above, plus a Becky Hill single re-entering at 39 (which has just been hovering around the fringes of the top 40). The four records leaving the top 40 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;TV&#8221; and &#8220;The 30th&#8221; by Billie Eilish<\/strong>, which drop straight out after a single week at numbers 23 and 33. Clearly labelling two perfectly good songs as an acoustic EP is not the way to go.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Elegant &amp; Gang&#8221; by D-Block Europe and Ghost Killer<\/strong>, which entered at 18 a couple of months back and has been slowly drifting down ever since.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Heat Waves&#8221; by Glass Animals<\/strong>, which has been around <em>forever<\/em>, peaking at number 5.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart, Beyonc\u00e9 is number 1&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Maggie Rogers &#8211; &#8220;Surrender&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Da6AvsegGs\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Her second proper album (discounting a couple of self-released early records); the first got to number 25, but it was a number 2 hit in America, and the UK seems to agree this time round. She&#8217;s the one who went viral based on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FAM1N1APk80\">video of Pharrell Williams reacting to one of her songs<\/a>\u00a0during a masterclass.<\/p>\n<p><strong>13. The Cribs &#8211; &#8220;Men&#8217;s Needs Women&#8217;s Needs Whatever&#8221;<br \/>\n20. The Cribs &#8211; &#8220;The New Fellas&#8221;<br \/>\n23. The Cribs &#8211; &#8220;The Cribs&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NUUO9F3KnSM\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is an unusual approach &#8211; re-issuing your first three albums in the same week. Their 2004 self-titled debut and 2005&#8217;s &#8220;New Fellas&#8221; are charting for the first time, but &#8220;Men&#8217;s Needs Women&#8217;s Needs Whatever&#8221; somehow manages to land at exactly the same place as it did back in 2007.<\/p>\n<p><strong>19. Orbital &#8211; &#8220;30 Something&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S6Gq50dDKMs\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finally, this career retrospective album &#8211; mostly in new mixes based on the current live versions of the tracks. It was originally due out in 2019, which\u00a0<em>would<\/em> have been the 30th anniversary of the group forming, in which case the title would have made sense &#8211; they had their first hit single in 1990 with &#8220;Chime&#8221;. There are also a handful of new tracks including the above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which Beyonc\u00e9 has an album out. But first&#8230; 1. LF System &#8211; &#8220;Afraid to Feel&#8221; That&#8217;s five weeks, but it only holds on by the equivalent of about 3,000 sales. Still, even past its peak, it&#8217;s able to keep Beyonc\u00e9 at bay. 2. Beyonc\u00e9 &#8211; &#8220;Break My Soul&#8221; 14. Beyonc\u00e9 &#8211; &#8220;Cuff It&#8221; 16. 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