{"id":9287,"date":"2023-07-29T15:23:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T14:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=9287"},"modified":"2023-07-29T15:23:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T14:23:29","slug":"charts-28-july-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=9287","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 28 July 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hope you like pink.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pSY3i5XHHXo\"><strong>1. Dave &amp; Central Cee &#8211; &#8220;Sprinter&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s eight weeks. Still two weeks to go before they match &#8220;Flowers&#8221; from earlier in the year. &#8220;Vampire&#8221; by Olivia Rodrigo remains stuck at number 2 for a fourth week, and after that we have the march of the <em>Barbie<\/em> soundtrack, with Billie Eilish at 3, Dua Lipa at 4 and Nicki Minaj &amp; Ice Spice at 5. Apparently, this is the first time a single movie soundtrack has produced three simultaneous top 5 hits. (Three simultaneous top 10 hits has been done before, by <em>Encanto<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Grease<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Saturday Night Fever<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>But the three song rule only applies to artists, not compilation albums. It applied to\u00a0<em>Encanto<\/em> because even though individual tracks were credited to different actors, the chart treated it as a single album by The Cast of\u00a0<em>Encanto<\/em>.\u00a0<em>Barbie<\/em>&#8216;s album is a true compilation of unrelated acts, which means the whole lot can chart if people listen to it all. So&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>19. Charli XCX &#8211; &#8220;Speed Drive (From\u00a0<em>Barbie The Album<\/em>)&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TxZwCpgxttQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Charli XCX hasn&#8217;t had a top 20 hit of her own since &#8220;1999&#8221; in 2018 (though she did guest on a Joel Corry track in 2021). This is the one which interpolates the hook from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0aqLwHP4y6Q\">&#8220;Mickey&#8221; by Toni Basil<\/a> (number 2 in 1982, and yes, it&#8217;s her only UK hit). &#8220;Mickey&#8221; is actually a gender-swapped cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cQv7IgGPXLY\">a 1979 album track by Racey<\/a>, originally called &#8220;Kitty&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s a Chinn\/Chapman song. But the original version doesn&#8217;t have the cheerleader chant that &#8220;Speed Drive&#8221; lifts &#8211; that&#8217;s Toni Basil&#8217;s contribution. Racey are almost entirely forgotten now, but they had two top 5 hits in 1978-9.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>23. Stormzy &amp; Raye &#8211; &#8220;The Weekend&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/094vNTaMtXw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The last Stormzy single, &#8220;Toxic Trait&#8221;, entered at 11 and departed rather quickly. This could be a more commercial choice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>24. Travis Scott, Bad Bunny &amp; The Weeknd &#8211; &#8220;K-Pop&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_kS7F4VpJa0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sounds absolutely nothing like the title might suggest. Travis Scott doesn&#8217;t have regular hit singles in the UK &#8211; this is his first top 40 hit since 2021, when &#8220;Escape Plan&#8221; got a single week at number 23. Bad Bunny is huge internationally but his only two UK hits were in 2018. So it&#8217;s probably fair to say that the Weeknd is helping to draw attention here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25. Ryan Gosling &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m Just Ken&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wwux9KiBMjE\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More\u00a0<em>Barbie<\/em>, and a surprise debut hit for Ryan Gosling. He&#8217;s done musicals in the past, but it&#8217;s fair to say that six months ago you wouldn&#8217;t have bet on him getting a hit single with a song that only really makes sense in the context of the\u00a0<em>Barbie<\/em> film.<\/p>\n<p><strong>32. Noah Kahan &#8211; &#8220;Dial Drunk&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tGVRsIDNuKU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Post Malone is on this, but for some reason he doesn&#8217;t get a chart credit. It&#8217;s basically a country record, which means a rare sighting of Post Malone without the autotune. He should do it more often. It&#8217;s Kahan&#8217;s debut hit, though he did have a top 20 album last year. He&#8217;s on to his third album by this point. He&#8217;s the first Noah to have a UK hit single, unless you count the band Noah &amp; The Whale, who did not have any Noahs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>36. Zayn &#8211; &#8220;Love Like This&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/918oGJFtjjw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the lead single from Zayn Malik&#8217;s next album. He hasn&#8217;t had a hit single since &#8220;Let Me&#8221; in 2018, and his last album was perhaps unwisely called &#8220;Nobody is Listening&#8221;. The record&#8217;s actually alright.<\/p>\n<p><strong>39. Lizzo &#8211; &#8220;Pink (From\u00a0<em>Barbie The Album<\/em>)&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8uIxoCs7iv8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s six\u00a0<em>Barbie<\/em> soundtrack songs in one chart. This is&#8230; perhaps the one closest to what you&#8217;d have expected from the\u00a0<em>Barbie<\/em> soundtrack album if you didn&#8217;t know anything about the film.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. Aqua &#8211; &#8220;Barbie Girl&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZyhrYis509A\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Huh. This isn&#8217;t even on the soundtrack album, except as a sample. But it&#8217;s&#8230; well, it&#8217;s &#8220;Barbie Girl&#8221; &#8211; number 1 for 4 weeks in 1997 and still a bizarre cultural touchstone. Quite how it came to be seen as a celebration of Barbie when it&#8217;s, um, well,\u00a0<em>listen to it<\/em>&#8230; Once again, I&#8217;ll direct to you Todd in the Shadows for an excellent discussion of this track (from the US perspective where they were indeed one hit wonders). Yes, I know it&#8217;s half an hour long, but it&#8217;s worth a watch.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cqE9B1_9TpQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;What I Was Made For&#8221; by Billie Eilish<\/strong> climbs 10-3, making it her biggest hit since &#8220;Therefore I Am&#8221; in 2020. You&#8217;ll note that Billie Eilish, for some reason, doesn&#8217;t have to put &#8220;From\u00a0<em>Barbie the Album<\/em>&#8221; in her title. She&#8217;s Billie Eilish, goddammit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Dance the Night (From\u00a0<em>Barbie the Album<\/em>)&#8221; by Dua Lipa<\/strong> climbs 15-4 to become her 9th top 5 hit. I still don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s great, but maybe it works better in the film.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Barbie World (From\u00a0<em>Barbie the Album<\/em>)&#8221; by Nicki Minaj &amp; Ice Spice featuring Aqua<\/strong> climbs 20-5. Since Ice Spice didn&#8217;t get a chart credit for her PinkPantheress remix, this is easily her biggest UK hit. As for Nicki Minaj, she hasn&#8217;t seen the inside of the top 5 since she guested on an Ariana Grande track in 2016.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Talibans&#8221; by Byron Messia<\/strong> climbs 29-12. I&#8217;m guessing that the reason for this is the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vrUGcGkPxP0\">a new mix with Burna Boy<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Disconnect&#8221; by Becky Hill and Chase &amp; Status<\/strong> climbs 25-17.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Closer&#8221; by Bou featuring Slay<\/strong> climbs 34-27.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eight records leave the top 40:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Calm Down&#8221; by Rema<\/strong> finally bids farewell after 45 weeks in the top 40, peaking at number 3.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;React&#8221; by Switch Disco &amp; Ella Henderson<\/strong> peaked at 4 and 19 weeks in the top 40.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Militerian&#8221; by J Hus featuring Naira Marley<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Masculine&#8221; by J Hus featuring Burna Boy<\/strong> got single weeks at 23 and 24 respectively.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Trojan Horse&#8221; by Dave &amp; Central Cee<\/strong> peaked at 12 and lasted 7 weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Until I Found You&#8221; by Stephen Sanchez<\/strong> peaked at 14 and managed 9 weeks in the top 40.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Cold Heart&#8221; by Elton John &amp; Dua Lipa<\/strong> spent four weeks in the chart, peaking at 30.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Karma&#8221; by Taylor Swift<\/strong> had a single week&#8217;s re-entry at 32.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The departure of &#8220;Calm Down&#8221; means that the longest running track in the top 40 is now &#8220;Flowers&#8221; by Miley Cyrus, still around after 28 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The album chart is fairly quiet:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Blur &#8211; &#8220;The Ballad of Darren&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OwReCTWEotU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their seventh number 1 album &#8211; the list comprises all of their studio albums since &#8220;Parklife&#8221; in 1994.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. Greta Van Fleet &#8211; &#8220;Starcatcher&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SFFKed1Dt4I\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their third album, matching the position of its predecessor from 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11. As December Falls &#8211; &#8220;Join the Club&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JERjT9KSdpU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Pop-punk from Nottingham. Early Paramore, basically. It&#8217;s their first album. Curiously, they only seem to have an entry on Spanish Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>15. NewJeans &#8211; &#8220;2nd EP &#8216;Get Up'&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ArmDp-zijuc\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Finally, K-pop &#8211; and yes, according to the chart compilers, that&#8217;s the title. It&#8217;s their first chart appearance, though the single &#8220;Supershy&#8221; got to number 52. For some reason K-pop labels like to put on the record the reasoning behind the choice of group name, which usually does nobody any favours. This time round, <a href=\"https:\/\/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com\/2022\/07\/22\/entertainment\/kpop\/korea-ador-newjeans\/20220722130551032.html\">&#8220;We named the group NewJeans because people never get tired of wearing jeans, and we hope that the group will become a new icon in this era. It also has the goal of becoming &#8216;new genes.'&#8221;<\/a> Really, guys, this stuff is usually better not explained. The single itself is pretty good, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope you like pink. 1. Dave &amp; Central Cee &#8211; &#8220;Sprinter&#8221; That&#8217;s eight weeks. Still two weeks to go before they match &#8220;Flowers&#8221; from earlier in the year. &#8220;Vampire&#8221; by Olivia Rodrigo remains stuck at number 2 for a fourth week, and after that we have the march of the Barbie soundtrack, with Billie Eilish [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287","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=9287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9290,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287\/revisions\/9290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}