{"id":8939,"date":"2023-04-04T17:20:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T16:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8939"},"modified":"2023-04-04T17:20:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T16:20:12","slug":"charts-31-march-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=8939","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 31 March 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing if not predictable&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Ed Sheeran &#8211; &#8220;Eyes Closed&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u6wOyMUs74I\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the lead single from his next album, predictably entitled &#8220;-&#8221; (or &#8220;Subtract&#8221;, if you must insist on saying it out loud). It&#8217;s an Ed Sheeran ballad single in the fairly well established mould. It is worth saying that it only reached number 1 thanks to first-week sales of the fan-marketed CD single, which is obviously a one-off &#8211; but that doesn&#8217;t mean it won&#8217;t gain in actual streaming next time round. Sheeran tracks tend to have staying power.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s his fourteenth number one single, which is the joint third highest total for any artist &#8211; the Beatles had 17, and Elvis Presley had 21. Sheeran is now tied with, um, Cliff Richard and Westlife. It seems inevitable that he&#8217;ll beat them, and I&#8217;d give him a strong chance of overtaking the Beatles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Flowers&#8221; by Miley Cyrus drops to number 2 after ten straight weeks at number 1, and most of the top 10 is uneventful. However&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>8. Jimin &#8211; &#8220;Like Crazy&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nOI67IDlNMQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A second solo hit for the BTS member, after &#8220;Set Me Free &#8211; Part 2&#8221; reached number 30 last week. This one has had a bit more of a push from the record company, in the sense that it&#8217;s available in multiple editions to encourage multiple purchases from the fans, which is precisely what happened. That means its position is artificially boosted in week one and it&#8217;s unlikely to be sustained&#8230; but you never know. It&#8217;s a pretty good record.<\/p>\n<p>After that, we head on down to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>29. Paris Paloma &#8211; &#8220;Labour&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jvU4xWsN7-A\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s a songwriter from London and this is her first hit. Musically, it&#8217;s something you&#8217;d expect to find on the album chart, but it&#8217;s a very strong record and it&#8217;s had some traction on TikTok.<\/p>\n<p><strong>35. Bakar &#8211; &#8220;Hell N Back&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BdrNvQ4YCng\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another debut hit, but this has been out since 2019 and has just been exhumed by TikTok. The parent album &#8220;Nobody&#8217;s Home&#8221; came out a year ago and managed a week at number 31. It&#8217;s a curious, slightly off-kilter record which took a while to grow on me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>39. FLO featuring Missy Elliott &#8211; &#8220;Fly Girl&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3tQNiQHON3E\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another debut. This is basically an attempt to launch a new girl band, and logically there should indeed be a gap in the market for this &#8211; Little Mix and the Sugababes have both shut up shop, after all. FLO were being heavily pushed at the turn of the year as a Next Big Thing, but there is the awkward fact that they released four singles last year, none of which made the top 75. The jury&#8217;s out on whether this is their long-awaited breakthrough or just the last roll of the dice.<\/p>\n<p>Missy Elliott hasn&#8217;t been on a hit single single 2013, when she guested on Little Mix&#8217;s &#8220;How Ya Doin'&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers are uneventful.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;People&#8221; by Libianca<\/strong> climbs 5-4.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;If We Ever Broke Up&#8221; by Mae Stephens<\/strong> climbs 17-16. It has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TbGT3d0pHgo\">a proper video now<\/a>, though one that&#8217;s firmly in the &#8220;ah, it turns out this idea doesn&#8217;t fill three minutes after all&#8221; camp.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Whistle&#8221; by Jax Jones &amp; Calum Scott<\/strong> climbs 25-22.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;React&#8221; by Switch Disco &amp; Ella Henderson<\/strong> climbs 32-26. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2nIJjFBfguc\">also has a video now<\/a>, made on the reasonable principle that you can&#8217;t go\u00a0<em>that<\/em> far wrong by pointing a camera at people doing gymnastics.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Can&#8217;t Tame Her&#8221; by Zara Larsson<\/strong> climbs 38-36.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Here&#8221; by Tom Grennan<\/strong> climbs 39-37.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The five tracks leaving the top 40 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Home For My Heart&#8221; by Arrdee and Cat Burns<\/strong>, after just two weeks, peaking at 35.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Jaded&#8221; by Miley Cyrus<\/strong>, which got to 27, but was never seriously in competition with &#8220;Flowers&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;ll be Waiting&#8221; by Cian Ducrot<\/strong> got to 16 and had 12 weeks on the top 40.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Set Me Free &#8211; Part 2&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>by Jimin<\/strong> got a single week at 30 (which doesn&#8217;t exactly bode well for this week&#8217;s single).<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Hide &amp; Seek&#8221; by Stormzy<\/strong> peaked at 7 back before Christmas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The album chart is busy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Lana Del Rey &#8211; &#8220;Did you know that there&#8217;s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IuY54A3bOmg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Apparently Lana Del Rey doesn&#8217;t do videos any more. Or conventional title capitalisation. Anyway, this is her sixth number 1 album. All of her regular albums have reached number 1 or 2. (The word &#8220;regular&#8221; is there to screen out &#8220;Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass&#8221;, a spoken word side project that only got to 25.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Depeche Mode &#8211; &#8220;Momento Mori&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iIyrLRixMs8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another case of veteran acts with album sales continuing to hold up as the format fades. Depeche Mode consistently got their studio albums into the top 10, though number 2 is still at the top end for them, particularly in a busy week. Despite being around forever, they&#8217;ve only had two number one albums &#8211; 1993&#8217;s &#8220;Songs of Faith and Devotion&#8221; and 1997&#8217;s &#8220;Ultra&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Fall Out Boy &#8211; &#8220;So Much (For) Stardust&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oBrkbWSB3Ls\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their last three studio albums got to number 2, so they&#8217;re consistent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Pink Floyd &#8211; &#8220;The Dark Side of the Moon &#8211; Live At Wembley 1974&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>17. Pink Floyd &#8211; &#8220;The Dark Side of the Moon&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-0kcet4aPpQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Two releases for the 50th anniversary. I&#8217;m a little surprised to see the live album do better, but I guess everyone who cares about &#8220;The Dark Side of the Moon&#8221; owns it already. The album reached number 2 in 1973; Pink Floyd did have five number one albums between 1970 and 1995, and picked up a sixth in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Luke Combs &#8211; &#8220;Gettin&#8217; Old&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aoJwvnDuAR0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Country doesn&#8217;t travel very well to Europe, but Luke Combs&#8217; previous album got to 9, so he&#8217;s evidently an exception.<\/p>\n<p><strong>32. Babymetal &#8211; &#8220;The Other One&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MqSvRh6kXxU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s way down from their last two albums, which reached 15 and 19 respectively. You&#8217;ve got to respect a band so committed to metal tropes that they release a partially illegible lyric video, though.<\/p>\n<p><strong>33. Elton John &#8211; &#8220;Honky Chateau&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DtVBCG6ThDk\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>50th anniversary reissue. The album reached number 2 on release in&#8230; (checks notes) &#8230; June 1972. Okay then. It was his fifth album, but it&#8217;s the point in his career where he starts having consistent hits. (Though his first hit single was &#8220;Your Song&#8221;, which was on its predecessor.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>35. Katie Melua &#8211; &#8220;Love &amp; Money&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HqcUMXYjL7A\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And finally&#8230; erk. Katie Melua has never missed the top 10 with a studio album &#8211; something has gone off the rails here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing if not predictable&#8230; 1. Ed Sheeran &#8211; &#8220;Eyes Closed&#8221; This is the lead single from his next album, predictably entitled &#8220;-&#8221; (or &#8220;Subtract&#8221;, if you must insist on saying it out loud). It&#8217;s an Ed Sheeran ballad single in the fairly well established mould. 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