{"id":8789,"date":"2023-02-26T17:23:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T17:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8789"},"modified":"2023-02-26T17:23:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T17:23:46","slug":"charts-24-february-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8789","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 24 February 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rest of the top 10 is starting to free up &#8211; mostly due to older records being cleared out under the downweighting rules &#8211; but there&#8217;s no shifting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G7KNmW9a75Y\"><strong>1. \u00a0Miley Cyrus &#8211; &#8220;Flowers&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;just yet. It\u00a0<em>is<\/em> comfortably past its peak, so the end is in sight, but in the meantime it gets a sixth week at number one. This matches the run of Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8220;Anti-Hero&#8221; in November\/December, but it&#8217;s not especially out of the ordinary yet &#8211; 2022 saw three other number 1s with longer runs than this (&#8220;We Don&#8217;t Talk About Bruno&#8221;, &#8220;As It Was&#8221; and &#8220;Afraid To Feel&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>There\u00a0<em>is<\/em> movement in the top 10, but none of it involves new entries, so we move on to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>18. Niall Horan &#8211; &#8220;Heaven&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4G9LwTTnn_k\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the lead single from his third album. By the standards of One Direction members who aren&#8217;t Harry Styles, Niall Horan&#8217;s solo career is entirely respectable. It&#8217;s been three years since his previous album, and so it&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve had him on the singles chart (he also popped up on an Anne-Marie single in 2021).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Horan can lay claim to two top 10 singles and two top 3 albums, which is not bad at all. By comparison:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Liam Payne only released one album, in 2019 &#8211; it did produce two top 10 singles, but it only got to number 17.<\/li>\n<li>Louis Tomlinson hasn&#8217;t had a hit single since 2016 &#8211; though he did release a number 1 album last year.<\/li>\n<li>Zayn Malik got off to a strong start as the first to go solo, but the hits tailed off after earl 2018. His second album, &#8220;Icarus Falls&#8221;, missed the album top 40 entirely, though its follow-up &#8220;Nobody is Listening&#8221; &#8211; and dear god, what do those titles say about his state of mind? &#8211; reached 17.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So Payne is doing\u00a0<em>fine<\/em> &#8211; his albums sell, and he can still get his singles into the chart. &#8220;Heaven&#8221; is&#8230; not bad at all, in fact. It&#8217;s a solid enough single that might find a niche in the retro thing that seems to be one of the minor chart trends this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>23. Mae Stephens &#8211; &#8220;If We Ever Broke Up&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qnZ5sMeeONI\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Chart debut. This is the <em>other<\/em> sort of hit spawned from TikTok &#8211; a teenager who built an audience of her own over there. It&#8217;s not bad, though I&#8217;d have thought twice about embedding TikToks in the lyric video.<\/p>\n<p><strong>36. Ayra Starr &#8211; &#8220;Rush&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/crtQSTYWtqE\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another chart debut. And more Nigerian pop &#8211; like K-pop, this is no longer an occasional visitor to the UK singles chart but a regular presence. In fact, Nigerian hits tend to be more organic than the K-pop ones, which are still heavily based on first-week fan audiences. Starr\u00a0<em>is<\/em> being promoted to the UK market, but this isn&#8217;t her current single &#8211; it&#8217;s one from four months ago that&#8217;s belatedly taken off on TikTok. Once again, TikTok is right &#8211; this is great. True, large chunks of the lyrics won&#8217;t mean a thing to UK audiences, but enough of the chorus does, and that&#8217;s all you need.<\/p>\n<p><strong>37. The Weeknd &#8211; &#8220;Die For You&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uPD0QOGTmMI\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of TikTok&#8230; this is a track from the Weeknd&#8217;s 2016 album &#8220;Starboy&#8221; which got reactivated by TikTok last year and became a hit in the US. That&#8217;s one of the reasons why it has a video &#8211; the other was supposedly to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the album&#8217;s release. It&#8217;s now being seriously promoted as a single, and a remix with Ariana Grande is due out, so it&#8217;s likely to climb.<\/p>\n<p><strong>38. Beabadoobee &#8211; &#8220;Glue Song&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y1cBhJLNNXU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another track for the vaguely retro category (cutesy division). Technically this is Beabadoobee&#8217;s second hit, as she&#8217;s credited as the featured artist on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jJPMnTXl63E\">Powfu&#8217;s &#8220;Death Bed (Coffee For Your Head)&#8221;<\/a> (number 4 in 2020). But that&#8217;s because a sped-up sample of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C6CeA6vRtW4\">her song &#8220;Coffee&#8221;<\/a> plays through the whole song. This is the first time she&#8217;s charted with one of her songs in the form she wrote it.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Boy&#8217;s a Liar&#8221; by PinkPantheress<\/strong> climbs 3-2.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Kill Bill&#8221; by SZA<\/strong> climbs 4-3, matching her guest appearance on Doja Cat&#8217;s &#8220;Kiss Me More&#8221; as her biggest hit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Calm Down&#8221; by Rema<\/strong> climbs to 5, after spending 7 weeks hovering between 6 and 8.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Players&#8221; by Coi Leray<\/strong> climbs 12-7.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;10:35&#8221; by Tiesto &amp; Tate McRae<\/strong> climbs 11-8. And there was me thinking this track had bombed when it entered at 39 in November and vanished. It&#8217;s Tiesto&#8217;s fifth top 10 hit, and McRae&#8217;s second.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Ceilings&#8221; by Lizzy McAlpine<\/strong> climbs 21-9. As I said when it charted a couple of weeks ago, this is a track which has been out for months and has taken off over the last few weeks. Very sensibly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2bpMSpFTdzM\">a proper video has now appeared<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Us Against the World&#8221; by Strandz<\/strong> climbs 27-12.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;People&#8221; by Libianca<\/strong> climbs 15-13.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Trustfall&#8221; by Pink<\/strong> climbs 35-14, and\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Never Gonna Not Dance Again&#8221;<\/strong> climbs 40-19. This ties in with the release of the album this week, so more on that below.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Red Flags&#8221; by Mimi Webb<\/strong> climbs 17-15.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;ll Be Waiting&#8221; by Cian Ducrot<\/strong> climbs 19-16. That overtakes his previous (and only other) hit &#8220;All For You&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Lavender Haze&#8221; by Taylor Swift\u00a0<\/strong>climbs 30-22.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Ready to Fly&#8221; by Sub Focus &amp; Dimension<\/strong> climbs 34-29.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are five new entries this week, plus a couple of re-entries from records hovering around the 40 mark. The seven tracks making way for them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Cuff It&#8221; by<\/strong> <strong>Beyonc\u00e9<\/strong>, which has been hovering in and out of the top 40 since the new year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Lost&#8221; by Linkin Park<\/strong>, which got a week at 18; it was always likely to be a fanbase record.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Pointless&#8221; by Lewis Capaldi<\/strong>, a former number 1.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Me &amp; You&#8221; by Central Cee<\/strong>, after a single week at 31. That&#8217;s a bit surprising.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Golden Hour&#8221; by JVKE<\/strong>, which peaked at 19 and managed 9 weeks in the top 40 in total &#8211; it would have been longer if it hadn&#8217;t been shunted aside during Christmas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Psycho&#8221; by Anne-Marie &amp; Aitch<\/strong>, which peaked at 5.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Call Me What You Like&#8221; by Lovejoy<\/strong>, after a week at number 32.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart, all this week&#8217;s new entries are in the top 10:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Pink &#8211; &#8220;Trustfall&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This has actually produced two hit singles, which is pretty impressive for someone whose first hit &#8220;There You Go&#8221; was in 2000. It&#8217;s her fourth number 1 album &#8211; her previous two studio albums also made number 1, as did 2008&#8217;s &#8220;Funhouse&#8221;. But all her studio albums since 2002 have made the top 5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Inhaler &#8211; &#8220;Cuts &amp; Bruises&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zWpMYRWwJp8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The follow-up to 2021&#8217;s number 1 debut &#8220;It Won&#8217;t Always Be Like This&#8221;. They were a bit unlucky to go up against Pink, really.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Those Damn Crows &#8211; &#8220;Inhale\/Exhale&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bCjsWJsCNpQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their third album. The first didn&#8217;t chart, the second made number 14.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Orbital &#8211; &#8220;Optical Delusion&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DNxGpMySziQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A little surprisingly, this is the highest placing Orbital album since 1999&#8217;s &#8220;The Middle of Nowhere&#8221; &#8211; in fact, they haven&#8217;t made the top 10 since then. There are some oddities on this one &#8211; a collaboration with Sleaford Mods, and the above track with the Mediaeval Baebes singing &#8220;Ring a Ring a Roses&#8221; in some sort of Covid thing. (No, I didn&#8217;t know the Mediaeval Baebes were still going either.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rest of the top 10 is starting to free up &#8211; mostly due to older records being cleared out under the downweighting rules &#8211; but there&#8217;s no shifting&#8230; 1. \u00a0Miley Cyrus &#8211; &#8220;Flowers&#8221; &#8230;just yet. It\u00a0is comfortably past its peak, so the end is in sight, but in the meantime it gets a sixth [&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-8789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789","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=8789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8790,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789\/revisions\/8790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}