{"id":8347,"date":"2022-10-03T20:57:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T19:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8347"},"modified":"2022-10-03T20:57:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T19:57:31","slug":"charts-30-september-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8347","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 30 September 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four number 1s in as many weeks? It&#8217;s like the old days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Sam Smith &amp; Kim Petras &#8211; &#8220;Unholy&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uq9gPaIzbe8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now this was close. They were behind in the midweeks and wound up taking it by about a 2% margin. Still, it&#8217;s another new number one, shoving David Guetta back down to number 2.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Smith&#8217;s chart career started with guest vocals for the likes of Disclosure and Naughty Boy, but over time it was the ballads that tended to be the big hits. This is a big swerve back in a much more camp and theatrical direction, and it clearly works. To put that in context, it&#8217;s Sam Smith&#8217;s eighth number one hit, but the others came between 2013 and 2018. The 2020 album &#8220;Love Goes&#8221; was not especially successful by their standards, failing to get any singles into the top 10 and only going gold where its predecessor had gone double platinum. A good time for a rethink, then.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>German singer Kim Petras makes her first appearance in the singles chart here and thus goes straight onto the one hit wonders list. She&#8217;s been around a few years releasing records of assorted degrees of kitsch, some of which have attracted a degree of controversy due to her willingness to work with Dr Luke after the allegations directed at him by Kesha (though she&#8217;s hardly the only artist to do that).<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s trans, and given that the Official Charts Company is normally happy to announce that something is the first number one released by a female soloist born on a Thursday, it&#8217;s curious that they haven&#8217;t made more of that fact. I can&#8217;t think of any other openly trans acts who have had number one hits in the UK &#8211;\u00a0Dana International&#8217;s &#8220;Diva&#8221; only got to number 11 &#8211; but for whatever reason the OCC seem reluctant to say that in terms. Hence, here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metroweekly.com\/2022\/09\/sam-smith-and-kim-petras-make-history-as-they-hit-no-1-in-the-u-k\/\">Metro Weekly describing her<\/a> as &#8220;either the first or one of the first openly transgender musicians to hit No. 1 in the UK&#8221;. It seems odd that nobody appears to know for sure, particularly if we&#8217;re limiting ourselves to people who were openly trans at the time of their number one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>12. Stormzy &#8211; &#8220;Mel Made Me Do It&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2litzsFCwkA\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Clocking in at over seven minutes, you&#8217;d think this would be one aimed at the hardcore audience. Didn&#8217;t stop them bringing in some truly unlikely celebrity guests for the video, though, which is so long that YouTube shows you adverts during it. &#8220;Mel&#8221; is his stylist, Melissa Holdbrook-Akposoe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>23. D-Block Europe &#8211; &#8220;4 The Win&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PF1wvh-ogoQ\"><strong>30. D-Block Europe featuring Burna Boy &#8211; &#8220;She&#8217;s Not Anyone&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TgqpwITiJLM\"><strong>39. D-Block Europe &#8211; &#8220;Conor McGregor&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jNmL0cTDMQ0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The maximum three track from their new album\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Lap 5&#8221;<\/strong>, which enters the album chart at number 2 &#8211; matching the 2020 peak of &#8220;The Blue Print &#8211; Us vs Them&#8221;. They&#8217;ve never had a number 1 album, but it&#8217;s their sixth top ten album since 2019. What they lack in range they certainly make up for in output. &#8220;4 The Win&#8221; is the official single, and sounds exactly as you&#8217;d expect. &#8220;She&#8217;s Not Anyone&#8221; is more of an Afrobeat track, as you might expect with the guest, and does deviate from the formula. And Conor McGregor is&#8230; a name, I guess?<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Under the Influence&#8221; by Chris Brown<\/strong> climbs 8-7.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Big City Life&#8221; by Luude &amp; Mattafix<\/strong> climbs 9-8.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Bad Habit&#8221; by Steve Lacy<\/strong> climbs 11-9, entering the top 10 in its 11th week on the top 40.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Psycho&#8221; by Anne-Marie &amp; Aitch<\/strong> climbs 16-13 in its second week.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Cuff It&#8221; by Beyonc\u00e9\u00a0<\/strong>climbs 20-14, matching the peak of its first week back in August.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;For My Hand&#8221; by Burna Boy featuring Ed Sheeran<\/strong> climbs 21-20. This has been making painfully slow progress &#8211; it&#8217;s taken 12 weeks to get here, the last few running 25-25-24-24-22-21-20.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;2 Be Loved (Am I Ready)&#8221; by Lizzo<\/strong> climbs 28-21.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Calm Down&#8221; by Rema<\/strong> climbs 32-25.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are also a couple of minor re-entries at the very bottom of the chart &#8211; &#8220;Words&#8221; by Alesso &amp; Zara Larsson at 36, and &#8220;Atlantis&#8221; by Seafret at 38. That makes a total of seven singles leaving the top 40:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Break My Soul&#8221; by Beyonc\u00e9<\/strong>, which reached number 2 and spent 9 weeks in the top 10.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Shut Down&#8221; by Blackpink<\/strong> after a week at 24.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;LA Leakers Freestye&#8221; by Central Cee<\/strong> after a week at 40.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;No Excuses&#8221; by Bru-C<\/strong>, which has clearly been hit by the downweighting rule, since it plunges straight out of the top 20; it peaked at 14.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Pink Venom&#8221; by Blackpink<\/strong>, which briefly revisited the top 40 last week.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Mary on a Cross&#8221; by Ghost<\/strong>, which managed four weeks peaking at number 28 &#8211; not bad at all for an archive EP track that wasn&#8217;t even being promoted.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Hot In It&#8221; by Tiesto &amp; Charli XCX<\/strong>, which spent 11 weeks on the top 40 without ever making it past 24.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. 5 Second of Summer &#8211; &#8220;5SOS5&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1SsZ1KJ8TXM\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of the more unlikely bands to make the transition to the album market, but they undoubtedly have done &#8211; aside from a live album in 2014, all of their albums have placed within the top 3, and this is their third number 1.<\/p>\n<p>Number 2 is D-Block Europe, and we covered that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Sports Team &#8211; &#8220;Gulp&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/42R1aCIPJCY\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Arch indie guitars. Only one space short of their 2020 debut &#8220;Deep Down Happy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Mark Owen &#8211; &#8220;Land of Dreams&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5DfLNA0WSEY\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been nearly a decade since Take That&#8217;s Mark Owen released a solo album. During Take That&#8217;s wilderness years, his 1996 album &#8220;Green Man&#8221; produced a few hit singles but could only get to number 33. A 2003 follow-up failed to make the top 40, and 2013&#8217;s &#8220;The Art of Doing Nothing&#8221; got to 29. So this is&#8230; way better than any of those. He&#8217;s fifty this year and he was always a decent enough songwriter; it&#8217;s time he got to have a reasonably successful album in his own name.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10. Editors &#8211; &#8220;EBM&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ODvAgBnjEac\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Veteran guitars. This is their lowest placing studio album, but it maintains a clean sweep of top 10 studio albums dating back to 2005. (&#8220;Studio&#8221; because their greatest hits collection only got to 28.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>27. Beth Orton &#8211; &#8220;Weather Alive&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JkSBgl8278E\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;ll be pleased with that. Her 2006 and 2012 albums both landed around here, but 2016&#8217;s &#8220;Kidsticks&#8217; crashed out at 40. This is more like it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>36. Alice in Chains &#8211; &#8220;Dirt&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nco_kh8xJDs\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>30th anniversary reissue. &#8220;Dirt&#8221; didn&#8217;t actually make the top 40 on its original release, despite producing four top 40 hit singles, so this is actually a new entry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>38. Kid Kapichi &#8211; &#8220;Here&#8217;s What You Could Have Won&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oNBOCejGiTU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Punk band from Hastings; it&#8217;s their first time in the top 40.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four number 1s in as many weeks? It&#8217;s like the old days. 1. Sam Smith &amp; Kim Petras &#8211; &#8220;Unholy&#8221; Now this was close. They were behind in the midweeks and wound up taking it by about a 2% margin. Still, it&#8217;s another new number one, shoving David Guetta back down to number 2. 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