{"id":8750,"date":"2023-02-07T23:15:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T23:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8750"},"modified":"2023-02-07T23:15:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T23:15:53","slug":"charts-3-february-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8750","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 3 February 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a fairly quiet week. The top 5 is static, which means the number 1 is still&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G7KNmW9a75Y\"><strong>1. Miley Cyrus &#8211; &#8220;Flowers&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; which has double the points of the number 2 single as it spends a third week at number one. It&#8217;s a good record but I&#8217;m surprised it&#8217;s doing quite <i>this<\/i> well &#8211; it&#8217;s certainly not simply Miley&#8217;s star power, since her previous number 1 was back in 2013. It\u00a0<em>does<\/em> stand out, genre-wise, in the current chart, which can&#8217;t hurt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11. KSI featuring Oliver Tree &#8211; &#8220;Voices&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jOqVRruoIcU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, that remix thing finally gave Oliver Tree a mainstream hit, so let&#8217;s have a go at capitalising! And that means&#8230; a collaboration with KSI? Okay, then. It actually enters one place below &#8220;Miss You&#8221;, which is still in the top 10 after a total of 11 weeks. The song itself is fairly conventional; the video is &#8211; well, Oliver Tree&#8217;s an idiosyncratic director, and he&#8217;s evidently not minded to shift on that. I can see this making the top ten, though. And it doesn&#8217;t have any of that awkwardness of cloning a bootleg remix&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>18. The Kid Laroi &#8211; &#8220;Love Again&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mc-wFcieEmU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is Kid Laroi&#8217;s biggest hit since &#8220;Stay&#8221; reached number 2 in 2021 &#8211; and that track re-enters at number 37. The vocal processing really doesn&#8217;t do this any favours, even if it has been dialled back a bit, but the song&#8217;s actually not bad, and the video is a cute concept.<\/p>\n<p><strong>23. Sam Smith featuring Calvin Harris &amp; Jessie Reyez &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m Not Here to Make Friends&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hYjHhqLSiN4\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the release week single from <strong>&#8220;Gloria&#8221;<\/strong>, which enters at number 1 to be Smith&#8217;s third number one from four albums. (And the other one got to 2.) Considering that &#8220;Unholy&#8221; was a four week number 1 in October\/November last year, and it&#8217;s stil hanging around at 26, I&#8217;d say this was a surprisingly low position. Apparently the video is being hyped as controversial, which&#8230; meh? The bigger issue for me is that the actual music is just way too polite to carry off the visuals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>32. Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;Lavender<\/strong> <strong>Haze&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h8DLofLM7No\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This song already reached number 3 as an album track, and lasted a respectable six weeks on the top 40 at that point &#8211; so promoting it as a full scale single in its own right is either follow the market&#8217;s lead, or a bit late now. This is it climbing back from the lower reaches as the promotion kicks in. I do like the song, though.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. Pink &#8211; &#8220;Never Gonna Not Dance Again&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iqYK79jCssA\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This has been hovering around in the lower reaches since November and finally gets a week at the bottom end of the chart. They&#8217;ve actually given up on promoting it and moved on to the next single by this point, but okay. It&#8217;s a retro disco track, which makes sense at this point in Pink&#8217;s career. Honestly, it&#8217;s the sort of thing I&#8217;m used to seeing as the lead single from legacy acts on the album chart. Pink didn&#8217;t have a top 40 hit in 2022, but she did have a top 10 hit with Rag&#8217;n&#8217;Bone Man in 2021 (and got one of her own tracks to 39 last year too). She&#8217;s a survivor &#8211; her first hit was in 2000, a generation ago now.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Sure Thing&#8221; by Miguel<\/strong> climbs 10-6.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;10:35&#8221; by Tiesto &amp; Tate McRae<\/strong> climbs 14-13.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Players&#8221; by Coi Leray<\/strong> climbs 26-19.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Red Flags&#8221; by Mimi Webb<\/strong> climbs 21-20.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Ready to Fly&#8221; by Sub Focus &amp; Dimension<\/strong> climbs 40-35.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a re-entry at number 36 for Tory Lanez, so we have six records leaving the top 40 &#8211; mostly an undistinguished bunch.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Mockingbird&#8221; by Eminem<\/strong>, reactivated by TikTok, spent six weeks between 31 and 40.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Bloody Mary&#8221; by Lady Gaga<\/strong>, ditto, got to number 22.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Rumble&#8221; by Skrillex, Fred again.. and Flowdan<\/strong> peaked at 19 in week one.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Boy&#8217;s a Liar&#8221; by PinkPantheress<\/strong> got a week at 38.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Superhero (Heroes &amp; Villains)&#8221; by Metro Boomin, Future &amp; Chris Brown<\/strong> never got above 34.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Nonsense&#8221; by Sabrina Carpenter<\/strong> got a week at 32.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;We Caa Done&#8221; by Popcaan featuring Drake<\/strong> got a week at 37.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart it&#8217;s very quiet.\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Gloria&#8221; by Sam Smith<\/strong> is number 1, but we&#8217;ve done that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. Bob Dylan &#8211; &#8220;The Bootleg Series Vol. 17: Fragments &#8211; Time Out Of Mind Sessions (1996-1997)&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3t2su8xEDEU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a remix of his 1997 album &#8220;Time Out Of Mind&#8221; (which only got to number 10 on release) coupled with a disc of alternate versions and outtakes, basically. Dylan is the sort of artist who can routinely place this stuff in the top 10 &#8211; all his &#8220;Bootleg Series&#8221; releases since 2018 have managed it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11. Ava Max &#8211; &#8220;Diamonds &amp; Dancefloors&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ijS_orLb6VU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ulp. Her previous album, &#8220;Heaven &amp; Hell&#8221;, reached number 2 in 2020; none of the singles from this album charted. Not a great sign.<\/p>\n<p><strong>32. Lil Yachty &#8211; &#8220;Let&#8217;s Start Here&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/igFtut_1drQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And finally, Lil Yachty&#8217;s fifth studio album finally gets him into the top 10. This doesn&#8217;t actually include his recent hit &#8220;Poland&#8221;, possibly because that was more of a throwaway fragment that randomly got a video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a fairly quiet week. The top 5 is static, which means the number 1 is still&#8230; 1. Miley Cyrus &#8211; &#8220;Flowers&#8221; &#8230; which has double the points of the number 2 single as it spends a third week at number one. It&#8217;s a good record but I&#8217;m surprised it&#8217;s doing quite this well &#8211; [&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-8750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750","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=8750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8751,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8750\/revisions\/8751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}