{"id":9964,"date":"2024-03-31T11:03:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T10:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=9964"},"modified":"2024-03-31T11:03:28","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T10:03:28","slug":"charts-29-march-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=9964","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 29 March 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of those weeks when the singles chart gets invaded by a couple of major album releases. But not right at the top.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Oa_RSwwpPaA\"><strong>1. Benson Boone &#8211; &#8220;Beautiful Things&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks, and a comfortable lead over everything else. &#8220;Lose Control&#8221; by Teddy Swims is at 2, but it&#8217;s been there before a month ago. He&#8217;s been in the top 10 since mid January, though, so he&#8217;s unfortunate not to reach the very top. His new single &#8220;Slow It Down&#8221; enters at number 42 this week, but you have to figure it has a good chance of making the top 40 in due course.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N9bKBAA22Go\">6. Future &amp; Metro Boomin featuring Kendrick Lamar &#8211; &#8220;Like That&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>18. Future &amp; Metro Boomin featuring Travis Scott &amp; Playboi Carti &#8211; &#8220;Type Shit&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=onP2eoO7byc\">20. Future &amp; Metro Boomin featuring Travis Scott &#8211; &#8220;Cinderella&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I0fgkcTbBoI?si=zfsGy9FkUXZiu4Ji\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the maximum three singles from the album <strong>&#8220;We Don&#8217;t Trust You&#8221;<\/strong>, which enters at number 2. Future&#8217;s last solo album, 2022&#8217;s &#8220;I Never Liked You&#8221;, also got to number 2; Metro Boomin&#8217;s &#8220;Heroes &amp; Villains&#8221; reached number 3 in the same year. So it&#8217;s no surprise that their shared album does well. &#8220;Like That&#8221; does best, probably because it&#8217;s new Kendrick Lamar material. And honestly, aside from his verse, this is pretty dreary stuff.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>8. Hozier &#8211; &#8220;Too Sweet&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aezstCBHOPQ?si=rik4xRfacIC_BshJ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hozier is one of those acts who feels like a one-hit wonder when he technically isn&#8217;t. His big hit, &#8220;Take Me To Church&#8221;, was a hit back in 2015, when it spent nearly a year on the top 40 including four weeks at number 2. (It spent most of that time stuck behind Ellie Goulding&#8217;s &#8220;Love Me Like You Do&#8221;.) He had a number 19 hit the same year, and resurfaced with a track that got to number 22 last year, but this gets him back into the top 10 for the first time in 9 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10. Olivia Rodrigo &#8211; &#8220;Obsessed&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W-PGNyhmSKA\"><strong>24. Olivia Rodrigo &#8211; &#8220;So American&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QXcjPySjdJU?si=eMH11_aoQQmLljoN\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Two tracks from the special edition of &#8220;Guts&#8221; &#8211; a third, &#8220;Stranger&#8221;, lands outside the top 50, but then &#8220;Obsessed&#8221; is the official single here, and gets a video. (Which&#8230; Olivia Rodrigo is 21. How many ex-girlfriends does her boyfriend have?!?) The album duly returns to number 3, but it&#8217;s never actually dropped out of the top 20.<\/p>\n<p><strong>13. Artemas &#8211; &#8220;I Like the Way You Kiss Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ODDRRXMi22E?si=zALhHrOthlLcFXJL\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Debut hit for Artemas Diamandas. Alt-pop, basically &#8211; the sort of &#8220;notionally pop&#8221; record that traditionally doesn&#8217;t actually make the chart. That&#8217;s not him in the video, if you were wondering. He&#8217;s from Oxfordshire. This has had some international traction &#8211; it&#8217;s in the top ten in Germany and it got to number 1 in Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p><strong>27. Charli XCX &#8211; &#8220;Von Dutch&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This dropped out of the top 40 last week, but immediately re-enters on the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mD5O1RzJeVI\">a remix<\/a> and a physical version. I don&#8217;t expect it to stick around very long.<\/p>\n<p><strong>30. Rudimental &amp; Skepsis featuring Charlotte Plank &amp; Riko Dan &#8211; &#8220;Green &amp; Gold&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p2Mfr50zwVs?si=bhVUOEfw8olVswOn\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This has been climbing from the lower reaches for a month. Rudimental already have a single in the top 40 &#8211; they&#8217;re credited as featured artists on Ella Henderson&#8217;s &#8220;Alibi&#8221;, currently at 12. Charlotte Plank had her biggest hit last year on Rudimental&#8217;s &#8220;Dancing is Healing&#8221;, which made the top 40. Her other (minor) hit single was a collaboration with Skepsis &#8211; &#8220;Rave Out&#8221;, which got a week at number 37. Riko Dan hasn&#8217;t had a solo credit on a top 40 hit before, but he&#8217;s a member of Roll Deep, who had hits in, um, 2005 and 2010.<\/p>\n<p><strong>32. Jungle &#8211; &#8220;Back On 74&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q3lX2p_Uy9I?si=8WYW6S-wa-PsYg6P\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is odd. &#8220;Back on 74&#8221; was a mid-table hit in October when it got to number 25. It seems to have been reactivated as a result of a performance on the Brit Awards, but that was three weeks ago &#8211; unusually, it seems to have sparked some lasting interest in the track which eventually led to it just missing the top 40 over the last two weeks and re-entering now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. The Blessed Madonna featuring Clementine Douglas &#8211; &#8220;Happier&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ul374tRTFi8?si=FTqnQecOZB3dm0Wv\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>House music. We haven&#8217;t had much of this in a while either. The Blessed Madonna technically has a previous hit to her credit &#8211; &#8220;Marea (We&#8217;ve Lost Dancing)&#8221; by Fred again.., a pandemic-era track which samples a conversation with her about Covid-19 and gives her a vocal credit as a result. She did a remix of Dua Lipa&#8217;s &#8220;Levitating&#8221; with high profile guest stars that did okay too, but she didn&#8217;t get a chart credit for that. So this seems to be her first appearance as an actual artist. It&#8217;s pretty good when it hits its stride.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a second hit for Clementine Douglas, who reached the top 10 last year with Sonny Fodera and MK on &#8220;Asking&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Not many climbers this week, because of all those album tracks pushing stuff down.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Scared to Start&#8221; by Michael Marcagi<\/strong> climbs 10-9.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Birds in the Sky&#8221; by NewEra<\/strong> climbs 34-23. Really? Huh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Still, that&#8217;s 11 new entries and re-entries. The tracks making way for them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Fri(end)s&#8221; by V<\/strong> drops straight out after a single week at number 13 &#8211; K-pop does tend to do the first-week fan base thing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Going Home (Theme from Local Hero)&#8221; by Mark Knopfler&#8217;s Guitar Heroes<\/strong> got a single week at 18 &#8211; again, that&#8217;s a charity record which people were encouraged to buy in release week.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Redrum&#8221; by 21 Savage<\/strong> got to 11 and lasted a respectable 10 weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Kitchen Stove&#8221; by Pozer<\/strong> had four weeks, peaking at 22.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Worth It&#8221; by Raye<\/strong> got three weeks, peaking at 33, off the back of the Brit Awards.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Nothing Matters&#8221; by the Last Dinner Party<\/strong> peaked at 16 and lasted 8 weeks in the top 40 &#8211; an extraordinary performance for their genre these days.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Murder on the Dancefloor&#8221; by Sophie Ellis-Bextor<\/strong> had five weeks at number 2 on the back of <em>Saltburn<\/em>, and lasted 12 weeks in its current run.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Homesick&#8221; by Noah Kahan &amp; Sam Fender<\/strong> entered at 5 and dropped from there, but still lasted 8 weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Evergreen&#8221; by Richy Mitch &amp; The Coal Miners<\/strong> had two weeks, peaking at 37, but bear in mind that&#8217;s the high point of a very, very long run in the lower reaches &#8211; it might yet be back.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Praise Jah in the Moonlight&#8221; by YG Marley<\/strong> peaked at 5 and lasted 8 weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Lil Boo Thang&#8221; by Paul Russell<\/strong> never got past 20, but it&#8217;s been on the top 40 since the start of the year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The longest running track on the top 40 is <em>still<\/em> <strong>&#8220;Greedy&#8221; by Tate McRae<\/strong>, hanging in there at number 31 after 28 uninterrupted weeks.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Elbow &#8211; &#8220;Audio Vertigo&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B0zYKdfu6Zo?si=y_jPxGsNhRMAZwvw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their fourth number 1 album &#8211; by no means a foregone conclusion, since its predecessor only reached number 7.\u00a0 Turns out that that was a blip, since the three albums before that were all number 1s. Good single!<\/p>\n<p>Number 2 is Future &amp; Metro Boomin, and number 3 is Olivia Rodrigo. We&#8217;ve covered both of those, so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. The Jesus &amp; Mary Chain &#8211; &#8220;Glasgow Eyes&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fD0HwKM-Wwo?si=wgSmeKKwT3YQUeeV\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Blimey, I didn&#8217;t know the Jesus &amp; Mary Chain were still going. Well, it has been seven years since their last album, and this is only the second album they&#8217;ve released this century. The album chart being what it is, this is their highest placing album since &#8220;Darklands&#8221; reached number 5 in 1987.<\/p>\n<p><strong>19. Tyla &#8211; &#8220;Tyla&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Debut album. The single &#8220;Water&#8221; reached number 4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25. Starsailor &#8211; &#8220;Where The Wild Things Grow&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6iK_dS8kvv0?si=MgPNuTccPX94a-uv\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of bands that I didn&#8217;t know were still going: Starsailor had a couple of number 2 albums in 2001-2003, and apparently they&#8217;ve been around for all but a couple of years in the interim. It&#8217;s been seven years since their last album, and the 15 since the one before that, but all three place at roughly the same level.<\/p>\n<p><strong>26. Fletcher &#8211; &#8220;In Search of the Antidote&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4paMNQf1b2o?si=fW5Ku9_YejhoyhOR\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Her second album, the first to chart in the UK. One of those odd cases of an act clearly targeted at the singles chart but ending up here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>32. The Staves &#8211; &#8220;All Now&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NFAed18vxQw?si=D8ek4D11-2LhHQQ7\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Staves are usually billed as a folk act, so if that video above is anything to go by, they&#8217;ve had a change of direction. It hasn&#8217;t done their chart positions any good &#8211; their previous two albums got to 13 and 14. I quite like it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>35. Adrianne Lenker &#8211; &#8220;Bright Future&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5yoJH_rmy8c?si=spKxrH1oy16r1o9K\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Her sixth solo album, the first to chart in the UK. She&#8217;s a member of Big Thief, whose last two albums did chart &#8211; the most recent, in 2022, reached number 15.<\/p>\n<p><strong>38. Waxahatchee &#8211; &#8220;Tiger&#8217;s Blood&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YL3iHhERWJw?si=7YsSSblNGoK5kZk2\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Waxahatchee is basically songwriter Katie Crutchfield. This is her sixth album under this name, and the first to chart; she&#8217;s also released albums as members of PS Eliot and Plains, none of which charted in the UK either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of those weeks when the singles chart gets invaded by a couple of major album releases. But not right at the top. 1. Benson Boone &#8211; &#8220;Beautiful Things&#8221; Two weeks, and a comfortable lead over everything else. &#8220;Lose Control&#8221; by Teddy Swims is at 2, but it&#8217;s been there before a month ago. 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