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Dexton's Top 40 (08/05/2017) (Week 52)



Huzzah! Ariana finally climbs to #1 after being stuck behind Avicii for two weeks, giving her her first chart topper here with No Tears Left To Cry. Avicii's Friend Of Mine featuring Vargas & Lagola falls to #2 with strong competition from Billie Eilish & Khalid's lovely which debuts at #3. Whilst this is Billie's first entry in my chart, Khalid is quite the regular here with Lovely giving him his 6th consecutive Top 5 hit. Blossoms claim their highest charting song to date as the very long-titled There's A Reason Why (I Never Returned Your Calls) shoots up to #4 from #13, leap frogging their previous single I Can't Stand It (8-14). Shawn Mendes' In My Blood spends a second week in the Top 5 (3-5).

George Erza's Paradise (5-8) falls out of the Top 5 for the first time in 8 weeks, which funnily enough is the same amount of time Justin Timberlake's Filthy spent in the Top 5 before also falling to #8. Two huge songs of the year for me both looking at a high end-of-year placing, but who will come out on top in 7 months time? Emma Blackery released another single on Friday titled Agenda, much in the same vein as Dirt but inherently better I think and an actual bop. Her Reputation-esque era has been great so far and Agenda is probably my favourite release from her already, bring on the album Amy Shark also earns her first Top 10 hit with I Said Hi (37-10) which coincidentally happens to be exactly 1 year after Adore peaked at #13 here (see the retro top 10 below).

Other notable climbers this week are Kendick Lamar's Love featuring Zacari (19-12), Cash Cash's Finest Hour featuring Abir (27-17), George Ezra's Shotgun (28-21), Palais' Instant Crush featuring Your Girl Pho (38-27), Blossoms' Cool Like You (38-29), and Duke Dumont's Inhale featuring Ebenzer (39-33). Finest Hour is Cash Cash's 3rd consecutive Top 20 hit, after All My Love featuring Conor Maynard and Jewel featuring Nikki Vianna peaked at #15 and #9 respectively.

A total of 9 (!) new entries make an appearance in the chart this week including Billie Eilish & Khalid and Emma Blackery in the Top 10. Robinson's Nothing to Regret (#19), Dennis Lloyd's Nevermind (#31), Cardi B's I Like It featuring J Balvin & Bad Bunny (#35), Labrinth, Sia, & Diplo's Genius (#36), Liam Payne & J Balvin's Familiar (#37), Childish Gambino's This Is America (#39), and Post Malone's Spoil My Night featuring Swae Lee (#40) make up the almost all-star cast of new entries this week. Cardi B has been very hit & miss for me - I thought I'd warm to her over time but only the odd song from her I find myself going back to. I Like It also gives J Balvin his first hit here whilst also grabbing his second as his Liam Payne collaboration Familiar debuts in the same week! Collaborations are abundant this week but none are quite like the joint project of Labrinth, Sia, & Diplo who have released their first single Genius under the alias/project name 'LSD'. The name itself isn't the most creative especially compared to Diplo's other projects but Genius is... genius and should definitely climb here. Childish Gambino's big comeback soon-to-be hit This Is America came equipped with a brilliant music video to suit the song like not many other music videos do. It's no Redbone, at least not yet, but it's definitely something I recommend to anyone out there.

Over in the album chart we have an entirely stagnant Top 5 although for good reason as I'm enjoying everything here a lot. Blossoms' Cool Like You remains at #1 as the British band quickly become one of my favourite modern-day bands behind the likes of Bastille, The Killers, Imagine Dragons, Paramore, and a handful of others I stan. Bastille cemented themselves for me with Wild World and with a new single coming very very very soon (but not soon enough) they will be in for a sucessful era on my chart. Last year their Green Day cover of Basket Case peaked at #10, whilst the single release of Glory made it to #15 - if not for me overplaying it to death on the album's release it could've been higher to be fair. They also achieved their first #1 here late last year on Craig David's I Know You - which also spent 8 weeks in the Top 5 to jump back a few paragraphs Although with a chart run sliced in half by Near Years Craig David won't be as high on my end of year as George or Justin!

Thanks for reading!


Top 40 Songs (#51)



01 02 Ariana Grande — No Tears Left To Cry [2-2-1]
02 01 Avicii — Friend Of Mine (feat. Vargas & Lagola) [1-1-2]
03 00 Billie Eilish & Khalid — Lovely [3]
04 13 Blossoms — There's A Reason Why (I Never Returned Your Calls) [13-4]
05 03 Shawn Mendes — In My Blood [37-23-13-10-6-3-5]
06 07 Anne-Marie — 2002 [10-7-6]
07 04 Drake — Nice for What [1-3-4-7]
08 05 George Ezra — Paradise [23-6-1-1-1-1-2-3-5-5-8]
09 00 Emma Blackery — Agenda [9]
10 37 Amy Shark — I Said Hi [37-10]
11 06 Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa — One Kiss [1-2-4-6-11]
12 19 Kendrick Lamar — Love (feat. Zacari) [26-19-14]
13 12 Banx & Ranx & Ella Eyre — Answerphone (feat. Yxng Bane) [18-17-15-17-22-16-12-13]
14 08 Blossoms — I Can't Stand It [17-8-6-5-5-6-6-11-8-14]
15 09 The Wombats — Cheetah Tongue [20-18-12-9-15]
16 11 Panic! At The Disco — Say Amen (Saturday Night) [40-4-3-4-7-11-16]
17 27 Cash Cash — Finest Hour (feat. Abir) [37-27-17]
18 10 Lauv — Chasing Fire [29-22-15-9-10-18]
19 00 Robinson — Nothing to Regret [19]
20 16 Sam Smith — Pray (feat. Logic) [33-24-16-20]
21 28 George Ezra — Shotgun [6-12-23-31-39-28-21]
22 17 David Guetta & Sia — Flames [39-27-24-21-17-22]
23 14 Years & Years — Sanctify [21-7-7-5-8-14-23]
24 18 Khalid & Normani — Love Lies [20-13-4-3-5-9-13-18-24]
25 15 Luke Million — Hypnotised (feat. Last Dinosaurs) [25-22-15-25]
26 25 Client Liaison — World Of Our Love [38-29-25-26]
27 38 Palais — Instant Crush (feat. Your Girl Pho) [38-27]
28 20 Marshmello & Anne-Marie — Friends [7-1-3-4-7-11-15-19-25-28-32-20-28]
29 36 Blossoms — Cool Like You [36-29]
30 21 The Wombats — Lemon To A Knife Fight [37-29-22-21-16-13-14-12-14-21-30]
31 00 Dennis Lloyd — Nevermind [31]
32 22 Taylor Swift — Delicate [29-22-16-15-13-19-22-32]
33 39 Duke Dumont — Inhale (feat. Ebenezer) [39-33]
34 23 Paramore — Rose-Colored Boy [39-36-33-9-8-7-15-23-34]
35 00 Cardi B — I Like It (feat. J Balvin & Bad Bunny) [35]
36 00 Labrinth, Sia, & Diplo — Genius [36]
37 00 Liam Payne & J Balvin — Familiar [37]
38 26 MAX — Lights Down Low (feat. Gnash) [40-38-22-11-11-18-26-38]
39 00 Childish Gambino — This Is America [39]
40 00 Post Malone — Spoil My Night (feat. Swae Lee) [40]

Drop Outs:
George Ezra — Don't Matter Now [2-6-9-17-25-35]
Flight Facilities — Need You (feat. NÏKA) [2-4-8-20-29]
Post Malone — Psycho (feat. Ty Dolla $ign) [40-39-14-10-19-23-28-32]
The Killers — Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters [10-14-23-31]
Virtual Self — Ghost Voices [16-17-24]
Shawn Mendes — Lost In Japan [38-34-26-33-40]
Bebe Rexha — 2 Souls on Fire (feat. Quavo) [32-27-34]
MoStack — What I Wanna [38-30]
Pink — Whatever You Want [40-33]

Longest Running:
Marshmello & Anne-Marie — Friends (13 Weeks)

#1's of 2018:
02/01 | RAYE — Decline (feat. Mr Eazi) [2]
09/01 | Justin Timberlake — Filthy
16/01 | Justin Timberlake — Filthy [2]
23/01 | Justin Timberlake — Filthy [3]
30/01 | Vera Blue — Regular Touch
06/02 | Justin Timberlake — Filthy [4]
13/02 | Justin Timberlake — Filthy [5]
20/02 | Marshmello & Anne-Marie — Friends
27/02 | Ofenbach vs. Nick Waterhouse — Katchi
06/03 | Ofenbach vs. Nick Waterhouse — Katchi [2]
13/03 | George Ezra — Paradise
20/03 | George Ezra — Paradise [2]
27/03 | George Ezra — Paradise [3]
03/04 | George Ezra — Paradise [4]
10/04 | Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa — One Kiss
17/04 | Drake — Nice For What
24/04 | Avicii — Friend Of Mine (feat. Vargas & Lagola)
01/05 | Avicii — Friend Of Mine (feat. Vargas & Lagola) [2]
08/05 | Ariana Grande — No Tears Left To Cry


Top 10 Albums (#30)



01 01 Blossoms - Cool Like You [1-1]
02 02 Anne-Marie - Speak Your Mind [2-2]
03 03 Post Malone - Beerbongs & Bentleys [3-3]
04 04 George Ezra - Staying At Tamara's [1-1-1-1-4-4-4]
05 05 Avicii - True [1-5-5]
06 07 Justin Timberlake - Man Of The Woods [1-1-1-2-1-1-1-3-2-5-3-5-7-6]
07 09 The Wombats - Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life [4-5-5-9-10-10-4-5-8-9-7]
08 10 Vance Joy - Nation of Two [1-2-2-4-6-6-7-8-10-8]
09 06 Avicii - Avici (01) [2-3-4-3-5-xx-8-10-xx²²-2-6-9]
10 08 Avicii - Stories [3-8-10]

Drop Outs:
None!

Longest Running:
Justin Timberlake - Man Of The Woods 14 Weeks

#1 Albums of 2018:
02/01 | Eminem - Revival [3]
09/01 | Eminem - Revival [4]
16/01 | Camila Cabello - Camila
23/01 | Camila Cabello - Camila [2]
30/01 | Camila Cabello - Camila [3]
06/02 | Justin Timberlake - Man Of The Woods
13/02 | Justin Timberlake - Man Of The Woods [2]
20/02 | Justin Timberlake - Man Of The Woods [3]
27/02 | Vance Joy - Nation Of Two
06/03 | Justin Timberlake - Man Of The Woods [4]
13/03 | Justin Timberlake - Man Of The Woods [5]
20/03 | Justin Timberlake - Man Of The Woods [6]
27/03 | George Ezra - Staying At Tamara's
03/04 | George Ezra - Staying At Tamara's [2]
10/04 | George Ezra - Staying At Tamara's [3]
17/04 | George Ezra - Staying At Tamara's [4]
24/04 | Avicii - True
01/05 | Blossoms - Cool Like You
08/05 | Blossoms - Cool Like You



Bonus: Retro Top 10
01 00 Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee — Despacito (feat. Justin Bieber) [1]
02 00 One Republic — No Vacancy [2]
03 00 Wale — My Love (feat. Major Lazer, Dua Lipa, & Wizkid) [3]
04 00 Jon Bellion — Overwhelming [4]
05 00 Disciples — On My Mind [5]
06 00 Gorillaz — The Apprentice (feat. Rag'n'Bone Man, Zebra Katz & RAY BLK) [6]
07 00 Mura Masa — 1 Night (feat. Charli XCX) [7]
08 00 Becky Hill — Rude Love [8]
09 00 Imagine Dragons — Whatever It Takes [9]
10 00 Shawn Mendes — There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back [10]

13 00 Amy Shark — Adore [3]
16 00 Paramore — Hard Times [3]
17 00 French Montana - Unforgettable (feat. Swae Lee) [17]
20 00 Calvin Harris — Rollin (feat. Future & Khalid) [3]

So it's been one whole year since I began my chart! I've mostly stuck to the schedule too although I do post on Mondays most of the time which is easier for me A year since One Republic were denied a #1, and also the first time Whatever It Takes charts here before re-peaking earlier this year. Daddy Yankee, Wale, Wizkid, Jon Bellion, Gorillaz, Rag'n'Bone Man, Zebra Katz, Mura Masa, and Becky Hill are yet to return to my chart although to be fair Jon and Gorillaz' new singles will be welcomed back with open arms

This post has been edited by Dexton: May 7 2018, 02:20 PM