{"id":8679,"date":"2023-01-21T20:29:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T20:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8679"},"modified":"2023-01-21T20:29:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T20:29:08","slug":"charts-20-january-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8679","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 20 January 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I never got around to doing last week&#8217;s column, so let&#8217;s jump direct to yesterday&#8217;s chart and pick up the other new entries as we go along. In fact, we&#8217;ve missed an entire number one, because\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Pointless&#8221; by Lewis Capaldi<\/strong> was at the top last week. And this is&#8230; probably something the chart would prefer not to think about.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HlNGI4LbAto\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Basically, Capaldi hyped himself to number one for a single week the old fashioned way &#8211; in the worst possible sense of that concept &#8211; by encouraging his fanbase to order heavily discounted copies of the CD single, of all things. There&#8217;s some silly story about too many having been ordered, or something like that, which I assume we&#8217;re not meant to actually believe. At any rate, the upshot is that Capaldi got himself a week at number one on the back of physical sales to hardcore fans, with a chart record that reads 20-43-40-60-15-1-12. This is silly.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It is his fourth number one single &#8211; the others are &#8220;Someone You Loved&#8221;, &#8220;Before You Go&#8221; and &#8220;Forget Me&#8221; &#8211; but let&#8217;s be blunt. It doesn&#8217;t really count.<\/p>\n<p>What about this week, then?<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Miley Cyrus &#8211; &#8220;Flowers&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G7KNmW9a75Y\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ah, you can always rely on Miley Cyrus for a subtle video. The music continues to get better, though. She&#8217;s figured out what works for her voice and that she&#8217;s better off with a song that has something to actually sell.<\/p>\n<p>This is the lead single from her eighth album &#8220;Endless Summer Vacation&#8221;. It&#8217;s apparently a diss track directed at her ex-husband (it was released on his birthday), though the lyrics are also a riff on Bruno Mars&#8217; &#8220;When I Was Your Man&#8221;, a maudlin dirge in which Bruno regrets all the things he didn&#8217;t do for his ex-girlfriend. The idea of the chorus here &#8211; if you get the reference &#8211; is that none of these services were required in the first place and they were not the point.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s her third number one, but the others both came in 2013 &#8211; &#8220;We Can&#8217;t Stop&#8221; (no, I&#8217;d wiped it from memory too) and &#8220;Wrecking Ball&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11. Miguel &#8211; &#8220;Sure Thing&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q4GJVOMjCC4\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hello again, TikTok. This entered at 14 last week, but it&#8217;s a climber, so let&#8217;s deal with it now. Since it&#8217;s never previously charted in the UK, this counts as a new entry, but it was released back in 2011, and recorded a few years before that. In America, it scraped the bottom end of the top 40 on initial release. It&#8217;s maybe worth flagging here that although the chart compilers do cover YouTube plays, they don&#8217;t include TikTok &#8211; when the songs show up on the top 40, it&#8217;s because TikTok users were motivated to go and listen to them somewhere else. I don&#8217;t have a problem with the volume of material TikTok seems to get into the chart &#8211; they&#8217;re organic hits, if nothing else.<\/p>\n<p>Miguel has had two other top 40 hits in the UK, but both were as guest vocalists. He was on Mariah Carey&#8217;s &#8220;Beautiful&#8221; (number 22 in 2013), and last year he was on Diplo&#8217;s &#8220;Don&#8217;t Forget My Love&#8221; (number 30). So this is his biggest UK hit by some margin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>23. Mimi Webb &#8211; &#8220;Red Flags&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5xvRopbTEXw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something about Mimi Webb that doesn&#8217;t work for me, and I can&#8217;t quite put my finger on it. Maybe I find her stuff more trope-y than sincere. Anyway, this immediately matches the peak of her previous single &#8220;Ghost of You&#8221; (which, to be fair, hung around for quite a while).<\/p>\n<p><strong>27. Libianca &#8211; &#8220;People&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rJWdfDPZ9Ck\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the debut hit for Libianca Fonji, who was a contestant in the US version of\u00a0<em>The Voice<\/em>, but that&#8217;s not particularly relevant here. The track is pleasantly Afrobeat-influenced, which seems to be now firmly established as a regular feature of the chart. Libianca is American, but she spent most of her childhood in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>28. Skrillex, Fred again.. &amp; Flowdan &#8211; &#8220;Rumble&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7z25ZZ3DHds\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This entered at 19 last week, so it&#8217;s not sticking around. It&#8217;s a weird list of collaborators, but a nice little oddity to have in the chart. Strangely, this is Fred again..&#8217;s highest placing single, though I suspect it won&#8217;t hang around as long as some of his other tracks. Skrillex hasn&#8217;t been this high up since he worked on a Justin Bieber single in 2015 &#8211; in fact, his only other appearance since then was a track that got to number 34 in 2020. And Kanye West was on that one. Flowdan gets his first solo chart credit, but he was a member of Roll Deep, who had two number 1 hits back in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><strong>30. Fredo &#8211; &#8220;Dave Flow&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FQgoQoNh0Jc\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Three of Fredo&#8217;s five biggest hits had Dave on them. He isn&#8217;t on this record, but his name appears twice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>31. Bizarrap &amp; Shakira &#8211; &#8220;BZRP Music Sessions &#8211; vol 53&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CocEMWdc7Ck\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>No, that&#8217;s not an EP title. That&#8217;s what the track is called. It&#8217;s another diss track directed at an ex-husband, apparently, which has given it some initial viral traction &#8211; though since it&#8217;s entirely in Spanish, that&#8217;s unlikely to be a major part of the appeal for UK audiences. Shakira hasn&#8217;t had a UK hit since &#8220;Empire&#8221; reached number 25 in 2014. Bizarrap is an Argentinian producer getting his first UK chart credit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>36. Hotel Ugly &#8211; &#8220;Shut Up My Moms Calling&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HVmpI3d11oM\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Climbing from 38 last week. It&#8217;s another track boosted by TikTok, though in this case they&#8217;ve seized on a Houston duo who released the track in mid 2021 to little notice.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Creepin'&#8221; by Metro Boomin, the Weeknd &amp; 21 Savage<\/strong> climbs 11-7.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Sure Thing&#8221; by Miguel<\/strong> climbs 14-11, but we&#8217;ve covered that.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;10:35&#8221; by Tiesto &amp; Tate McRae<\/strong> climbs 18-16 &#8211; I thought this had crashed and burned back in November but apparently it&#8217;s been biding its time all through Christmas waiting for the quiet season.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Lionheart (Fearless)&#8221; by Joel Corry &amp; Tom Grennan<\/strong> rebounds 24-18, which is a new peak &#8211; it got to 22 before Christmas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Golden Hour&#8221; by JVKE<\/strong> climbs 23-19.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Shut Up My Moms Calling&#8221; by Hotel Ugly<\/strong> climbs 38-36<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are five new entries plus a re-entry for Metro Boomin&#8217;s &#8220;Superhero&#8221; at 39 (which is just hovering around the 40 mark right now). The six tracks making way for them are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Forget Me&#8221; by Lewis Capaldi<\/strong>, a former number 1.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;I Ain&#8217;t Worried&#8221; by OneRepublic<\/strong>, which got to 3.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;All For You&#8221; by Cian Ducrot<\/strong>, which reached 19.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Life Me Up&#8221; by Rihanna<\/strong>, which peaked at 3.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Just Wanna Rock&#8221; by Lil Uzi Vert<\/strong>, which got to 32.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;B.O.T.A. (Baddest of Them All)&#8221; by Eliza Rose &amp; Interplanetary Criminal<\/strong>, another former number 1.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. The Courteeners &#8211; &#8220;St Jude&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YC8FET-EGVM\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the 15th anniversary reissue of an album that reached number 4 in 2008. All of the Courteeners&#8217; albums have made the top 6, and the last one reached number 2, so it&#8217;s not an enormous shock that they could eventually make number 1&#8230; but doing it with an anniversary reissue is unusual, even in the shaky state of the modern album market.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Clavish &#8211; &#8220;Rap Game Awful&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Debut mixtape. One of the singles, &#8220;Rocket Science&#8221;, made number 9 just before Christmas (because it features D-Block Europe).<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Gaz Coombes &#8211; &#8220;Turn the Car<\/strong> Around&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vNYsbyZpXuk\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The former lead singer of Supergrass. This is his fourth solo album, and the highest placing &#8211; though the previous two both made the top 20.<\/p>\n<p><strong>15. Circa Waves &#8211; &#8220;Never Going Under&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/14FJYjT7Y9g\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their fifth album. The first three all placed at 10 or 11, and the fourth &#8211; 2020&#8217;s &#8220;Sad Happy&#8221; &#8211; got to number 4, so this is on the low side.<\/p>\n<p><strong>18. Joesef &#8211; &#8220;Permanent Damage&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1HY4AKAmod0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scottish soul pop. It&#8217;s his debut album. I guess &#8220;Joesef&#8221; is one way of making sure you&#8217;re searchable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>33. Belle &amp; Sebastian &#8211; &#8220;Late Developers&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dgao0WD5g48\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hmm. It&#8217;s been less than a year since the previous Belle &amp; Sebastian album, &#8220;A Bit of Previous&#8221;, which got to number 8. This album, which is more synthpop, was recorded at the same time, and I can only assume that either it&#8217;s been massively underpromoted, or the fans have dismissed it as a side project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I never got around to doing last week&#8217;s column, so let&#8217;s jump direct to yesterday&#8217;s chart and pick up the other new entries as we go along. In fact, we&#8217;ve missed an entire number one, because\u00a0&#8220;Pointless&#8221; by Lewis Capaldi was at the top last week. 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