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Bré Forté 2.0 / 77 / 18/06/2020

01 02 02 / Run The Jewels - JU$T (feat. Pharrell Williams and Zack De La Rocha) / 2-1-
02 01 03 / ROSALÍA and Travis Scott - TKN / 8-1-2-
03 03 02 / Run The Jewels - walking in the snow / 3-3-
04 04 05 / Everything Everything - Arch Enemy / 6-2-1-4-4-
05 08 08 / Everything Everything - In Birdsong / 1-1-2-1-1-2-8-5-
06 05 02 / Vacant - Hidden / 5-6-
07 ** 01 / Jorja Smith - Rose Rouge / 7-
08 09 04 / Foster The People - Lamb's Wool / 18-7-9-8-
09 07 03 / Alec Benjamin - Match In The Rain / 6-7-9-
10 ** 01 / Woodkid - Pale Yellow / 10-

11 06 02 / Run The Jewels - never look back / 6-11-
12 15 03 / Juice WRLD and Trippie Redd - Tell Me U Luv Me / 19-15-12-
13 12 03 / Run The Jewels - yankee and the brave (ep. 4) / 28-x⁹-12-13-
14 ** 01 / Pearl The Girl - Long Way Back / 14-
15 ** 01 / m-flo and chelmico - RUN AWAYS / 15-
16 18 04 / 100 gecs - stupid horse (Remix) (feat. GFOTY and Count Baldor) / 19-18-18-16-
17 37 03 / Polo G - Flex (feat. Juice WRLD) / 39-37-17-
18 10 04 / Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande - Rain On Me / 6-3-10-18-
19 13 05 / Charli XCX - detonate / 17-8-5-13-19-
20 ** 01 / Fontaines D.C. - I Don't Belong / 20-

21 ** 01 / BÖ - Karantinam (feat. Elisha) / 21-
22 11 03 / BROCKHAMPTON - chain on / hold me (feat. JPEGMAFIA) / 15-11-22-
23 17 08 / Juice WRLD - Righteous / 14-3-1-4-5-14-17-23-
24 22 02 / Run The Jewels - a few words for the firing squad (radiation) / 22-24-
25 ** 01 / Legowelt - Disco Rout / 25-
26 24 05 / Charli XCX - visions / 7-4-17-24-26-
27 14 03 / Lady Gaga and Elton John - Sine From Above / 4-14-27-
28 ** 01 / Jehnny Beth - We Will Sin Together / 28-
29 ** 01 / Kiesza - Love Me With Your Lie / 29-
30 ** 01 / SAINt JHN - Trap (Rompasso Remix) / 30-

31 ** 01 / Netta - Cuckoo / 31-
32 16 04 / BROCKHAMPTON - downside (feat. Ryan Beatty) / 9-13-16-32-
33 ** 01 / Sidhu Moose Wala and Amrit Maan - Bambiha Bole / 33-
34 23 03 / Lady Gaga - Plastic Doll / 12-23-34-
35 ** 01 / Biffy Clyro - Tiny Indoor Fireworks / 35-
36 ** 01 / Gorillaz - Friday 13th (feat. Octavian) / 36-
37 ** 01 / Lil Baby - The Bigger Picture / 37-
38 19 02 / Lone - Sword 1 / 19-38-
39 ** 01 / S1mba - Rover (feat. DTG) / 39-
40 ** 01 / Tekno - Sudden / 40-

xx 20 01 / Terrace Martin - Pig Feet (feat. Denzel Curry, Daylyt, Kamasi Washington and G Perico) / 20-x
xx 21 05 / Headie One - Rose Gold / 17-9-3-11-21-x
xx 25 02 / Lady Gaga - Alice / 22-25-x
xx 26 01 / Ghostly Kisses - Stay / 26-x
xx 27 05 / Sad Money and Kaskade - Come Away (feat. Sabrina Claudio) / 30-25-15-20-27-x
xx 28 02 / JPEGMAFIA - CUTIE PIE! / 38-28-x
xx 29 01 / Wardruna - Lyfjaberg / 29-x
xx 30 05 / Jessie Ware - Save A Kiss / 9-14-14-23-30-x
xx 31 01 / Migos - Need It (feat. YoungBoy Never Broke Again) / 31-x
xx 32 02 / Moaning - Fall In Love / 9-32-x
xx 33 01 / Jme - Badman Walking Through (feat. Shakka and P Money) / 33-x
xx 34 03 / Polo G - Wishing For A Hero (feat. BJ The Chicago Kid) / 16-24-34-x
xx 35 01 / Meek Mill - Otherside Of America / 35-x
xx 36 01 / Run The Jewels - holy calamafuck / 36-x
xx 38 02 / MASTER BOOT RECORD - BAYAREA.BMP / 10-38-x
xx 39 06 / IC3PEAK - Plak-Plak / 27-19-12-7-21-39-x
xx 40 01 / Two Door Cinema Club - Tiptoes / 40-x

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THIS WEEK'S #1



After narrowly missing out in its first week, Run The Jewels' 'JU$T' (feat. Pharrell Williams and Zack De La Rocha) rises a place to #1 in its second week. This marks the first #1 for all three artists in the Bré Forté 2.0 era but it's RTJ's second #1 overall following 'Oh My Darling Don't Cry' and the 6th for Pharrell, all but one of which have been features (he previously guested on #1s from Swedish House Mafia ('One (Your Name)'), Daft Punk ('Get Lucky'), Robin Thicke ('Blurred Lines'', also featuring T.I.) and Missy Elliott ('WTF (Where They From)'), while also hitting #1 with his own 'Marilyn Monroe'). I am long overdue making a full update to the list of artists with the most #1s in my chart but piecing together from the last time I updated the list in January 2016 I believe only Coldplay and Lorde beat this (with 7 each), while Chase And Status and Kanye West each also have 6 #1s. Run The Jewels continue to hold two of the top 3 this week as 'walking in the snow' is a non-mover at #3.

IN THE TOP 10

ROSALÍA and Travis Scott slip to #2 after a week at the top with 'TKN'. Everything Everything resume having two songs in the top 5, as 'Arch Enemy' holds at #4 while 'In Birdsong' climbs back up three places to #5 in its 8th week in the top 10. As such there are only three different lead artists in the top 5, which was also the case two weeks ago (though with 2 Lady Gaga songs rather than 2 Run The Jewels songs). Vacant falls one place to #6 with 'Hidden' (thankfully another qualifier in BJSC, yay), Foster The People move back up one place to #8 with 'Lamb's Wool' and Alec Benjamin falls three to #9 with 'Match In The Rain'.

THIS WEEK'S HIGHEST NEW ENTRY



Jorja Smith has always been a somewhat hit or miss artist for me but she has a clear hit (for me, not in real life x) this time around with her newest release 'Rose Rouge', a cover of a 2000 song by jazz artist St Germain, which has been released as the lead single from a forthcoming compilation of jazz covers on Blue Note Records. Really loving the smooth classy vibe of the track and I think Jorja's voice fits the style perfectly, would love to see her go down a more jazzy direction for her own next album if this is anything to go by. The song debuts at #7 to claim this week's highest debut, a big splash for what is actually Jorja's first ever appearance in one of my personal charts (as her best previous material came out at a time when I wasn't doing charts).

OTHER NEW AND RETURNING ENTRIES

There is one further new entry in the top 10, as Woodkid (of 'Run Boy Run' fame) launches at #10 with the cinematic 'Pale Yellow', also making his first chart appearance in the Bré Forté 2.0 era after the previous single 'Goliath' fell just short of my top 40. There aren't any album bombs this week but two songs do make debuts following the BJSC 125 semi-final results as they sadly DNQed - Fljótavík's entry 'Long Way Back' by Pearl The Girl (our 12 pointer in the semi-final) debuts at #14 while Skall's Legowelt goes in at #25 with 'Disco Rout'.

Other new entries this week: WEDNESDAY CAMPANELLA-esque zany Japanese dnb/rap banger 'RUN AWAYS' by m-flo and chelmico (of recent BJSC entry 'Easy Breezy' fame) debuts at #15; Irish post-punk favourites Fontaines D.C. make their first breakthrough in my charts with the moody 'I Don't Belong' in at #20; two former Jadakissnia BJSC artists make their chart debuts with BÖ debuting at #21 with trap banger 'Karantinam' (feat. Elisha) while their contest winning artist Rompasso appears at #30 remixing 'Trap' by SAINt JHN in a clear attempt to recreate the virality of the 'Roses' remix by Imanbek, certainly it's not as good as 'Roses' but still a solid banger; Jehnny Beth, frontwoman of Savages, debuts at #28 with 'We Will Sin Together', another cinematic track which gives her a chart debut after just missing out with a couple of previous singles from her debut solo album; Kiesza finally makes the chart at #29 with 'Love Me With Your Lie', my new favourite of the singles from her forthcoming new album (the previous ones all missed out with only 'All Of The Feelings' even coming particularly close); former Eurovision winner Netta debuts at #31 with the surprisingly mature Sia-alike 'Cuckoo'; Punjabi star Sidhu Moose Wala gets a second top 40 hit (following the #2 hit and actual UK top 20 single '47' with MIST and Steel Banglez feat. Stefflon Don) entering at #33 with Amrit Maan collab 'Bambiha Bole'; Biffy Clyro make a slightly belated splash at #35 with 'Tiny Indoor Fireworks' following the music video release, so they are now 3 for 3 on making the top 40 with singles from their new album though none have yet made the top 20; Gorillaz enter at #36 with 'Friday 13th' (feat. Octavian) which is an improvement on the non-charting 'How Far?' but a way off the top 10 peaks of the three previous Song Machine singles; Lil Baby's 'The Bigger Picture', another song released in response to the George Floyd situation and going into some much deeper territory than your average Lil Baby song, debuts at #37; S1mba's big UK hit 'Rover' (feat. DTG) finally makes a very belated debut at #39 as I've given in to it being quite a big earworm even if it is a pretty by the numbers afroswing track; and finally Nigerian singer Tekno enters at #40 with the lowkey but vibey 'Sudden', giving him a second top 40 hit following 'DON'T JEALOUS ME' (with Yemi Alade and Mr Eazi) from 'The Lion King: The Gift'.

NEW PEAKS OUTSIDE THE TOP 10

The late Juice WRLD, typically an artist who's had very short chart runs even by my chart standards, actually continues to make progress as his two songs that hit new peaks last week both climb again this week, 'Tell Me U Luv Me' (with Trippie Redd) up three places to #12 and his feature on 'Flex' by Polo G rocketing up 20 places to #17. With this Juice reclaims an impressive record of reaching the top 20 with all of his chart appearances, as 'Flex' remains the lowest peaking of his 12 top 40 hits for me to date. There's also a small new peak for the slow burning remix of 100 gecs' 'stupid horse' (feat. GFOTY and Count Baldor), moving up two places to #16 in its fourth week in the top 20. A full album of gecs remixes is on its way in the very near future so watch out for a potential album bomb there.