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[Popchartfreak]

19th April 2020

It's 2 weeks on top for Levitating as Dua Lipa makes a Billie Eilish sandwich with her INXS-inspired Break My Heart at 3. When we reflect back on Lockdown in years to come, for me it'll be Dua Lipa that brightened it up. It's a quiet chart generally, as I'm not getting to hear my itunes purchases in the car in beautiful surround-sound - not getting out and about, while my home CD player is faulty and PCWorld is shut, doh! Plus I want to chop it down to 75 anyway, almost there this week.

Two big climbers into the 40 from Nerina Pallot and Kygo, and new entries from LEON returning with a goodie pop number, as The Goodies return in tribute to the late Tim Brooke-Taylor - Wild Thing was a B side (and excerpt from a TV episode) and a cover of The Troggs classic, both amusing and about as cool as they got musically, as they parodied the mid-70's music scene. Blossoms return, James Blunt gets a 5th track off his album in my charts as his previous single remains top 20, Florence + The Machine return with a Lockdown present, while Ali Campbell covers the already-charting late Bill Withers classic Lean On Me for NHS charity causes, and giving the UB40 brand a chart career of exactly 40 years since Food For Thought went top 3, and at least the 4th version of Lean On Me to chart.

Bob Dylan also returns with a new track. He doesn't quite have the chart span of The Scaffold (a few months short for new material, a mere 51 years give or take), and he's never been consistent with new material (though some of his classic 60's period have charted over the years, notably Like A Rolling Stone), a mere 5 chart entries solo, the last of them 30 years ago. That would normally make a notable comment for the entry of I Contain Multitudes after such a lengthy gap, were it not for The Scaffold and Deep Purple already having pissed all over that gap at 52 years and 49 years, respectively, in the chart. Bob, of course was a Traveling Wilbury too, and had some chart hits with his mates, and oodles of covers of his songs over the decades from the likes of Bryan Ferry, Adele, The Rolling Stones, and many others.

1 1 1 4 LEVITATING Dua Lipa 402100
2 2 2 10 NO TIME TO DIE Billie Eilish 538500
3 6 3 4 BREAK MY HEART Dua Lipa 177400
4 3 1 8 SAY SO Doja Cat 651600
5 5 5 6 CAUTION The Killers 197550
6 9 6 8 MISTAKES Jonas Blue & Paloma Faith 184700
7 7 4 8 THE WHOLE 9 Marina Kaye 363100
8 8 1 11 TEARS OF GOLD Faouzia 922000
9 10 9 7 MURPHY’S LAW Roisin Murphy 191300
10 4 1 11 I’M GONNA LOVE YOU JUST A LITTLE MORE BABY Barry White 1236000

11 14 11 7 LOST AT SEA Cashier No.9 141150
12 20 12 6 GOLIATH Smith & Thell 102300
13 13 13 3 LEAN ON ME Bill Withers 89000
14 11 6 9 MODERN LONELINESS Lauv 287500
15 18 15 7 WHO Lauv featuring BTS 110900
16 17 16 5 WHO I AM Melanie C 99500
17 21 17 4 DANCING NEXT TO ME Greyson Chance 61400
18 12 2 11 HALFWAY James Blunt featuring Ward Thomas 482700
19 23 19 7 ALL OF THE FEELINGS Kiesza 118050
20 27 20 4 SPOTLIGHT Jessie Ware 58050

21 16 9 8 THE OTHER SIDE SZA, Justin Timberlake 236300
22 15 10 10 ONE OF A KIND Ronan Keating & Emeli Sande 210800
23 28 23 5 YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE Gerry & The Pacemakers 80250
24 33 24 10 LA VIE EN ROSE Louis Armstrong 136600
25 34 25 5 LIMITLESS Bon Jovi 55550
26 30 26 3 LOVELY DAY Bill Withers 54300
27 29 27 4 BLUE SKIES Music from Star Trek: Picard featuring Isa Briones 58800
28 24 4 12 YOU ARE THE ONE Pet Shop Boys 435800
29 19 3 5 STAY Rihanna featuring Mikky Ekko 254200
30 26 3 12 THERAPY Duke Dumont featuring Sharlene Hector 509500

31 22 14 8 COME ON OUTSIDE Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds 135800
32 37 32 4 ANTISOCIAL SOCIALITES Kyan Palmer, nicopop & Yuri Joness 48300
33 46 33 7 LOOK AFTER YOU Aron Wright 75650
34 43 34 7 SOMETIMES Kodaline 70400
35 39 35 6 CRASHING Illenium featuring Bahari 74750
36 40 36 5 THROW MY BONES Deep Purple 50800
37 25 25 5 100 WAYS Jackson Wang 76150
38 73 38 3 HOLD ON, WE’RE GOING HOME Nerina Pallot 26200
39 74 39 3 I’LL WAIT Kygo & Sasha Sloan 23800
40 32 1 20 BLINDING LIGHTS The Weeknd 1376450

41 44 41 6 HARVEST MOON Neil Young 61050
42 36 24 8 YOU SHOULD BE SAD Halsey 123850
43 31 8 12 PHYSICAL Dua Lipa 292950
44 35 16 9 WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU The Avalanches featuring Blood Orange 156600
45 62 45 3 THE MAN Taylor Swift 23600
46 54 46 6 KINGS & QUEENS Ava Max 51550
47 50 47 7 MAMA Genesis 67200
48 56 48 6 I’M TOAST Sparks 43900
49 45 14 11 ROSES Adam Lambert & Nile Rodgers 227100
50 52 35 11 I DON’T WANNA Pet Shop Boys 132550

51 38 12 9 BROKEN SLEEP Agnes Obel 206300
52 41 17 9 INSTANT DESTINY Tame Impala 140400
53 42 36 8 STUPID LOVE Lady Gaga 82650
54 55 54 5 I’M IN LOVE Danny Dove featuring The Flirtations 37600
55 49 1 17 FADES AWAY Avicii featuring Mishcatt 1148100
56 51 4 13 WILL-O-THE-WISP Pet Shop Boys 458900
57 67 57 4 BOYFRIEND Mabel 23300
58 65 58 5 FREAKS Fisher 33400
59 47 39 7 THE STEPS HAIM 80350
60 68 60 5 NO JUDGEMENT Niaill Horan 27600

61 48 20 9 CUZ I LOVE YOU Lizzo 147550
62 71 62 4 IN YOUR EYES The Weeknd 21800
63 78 63 4 STORM The Fizz 15500
64 64 64 5 IS EVERYBODY GOING CRAZY? Nothing But Thieves 29400
65 69 65 4 GHOST TOWN The Specials 24600
66 79 66 4 LIMITLESS Richard Marx 14400
67 66 1 34 NOBODY ELSE The S.L.P. 1260100
68 83 68 4 RESERVATION The Fizz 12000
69 NEW 69 1 WHO YOU LOVIN’ LEON 6200
70 81 70 4 I LOVE YOU’S Hailee Steinfeld 12300

71 NEW 71 1 I LOVE YOU NOW CHANGE Twinnie 5800
72 NEW 72 1 IF YOU THINK THIS IS REAL LIFE Blossoms 5600
73 77 73 5 FALLING Harry Styles 16900
74 NEW 74 1 JUST THE TWO OF US Grover Washington Jr & Bill Withers 5200
75 NEW 75 1 THE GREATEST James Blunt 5000
76 NEW 76 1 LIGHT OF LOVE Florence + The Machine 4800
77 85 77 2 THANK U VERY MUCH FOR THE NHS The Scaffold 7600
78 NEW 78 1 LEAN ON ME UB40 featuring Ali Campbell & Astro 4400
79 NEW 79 1 I CONTAIN MULTITUDES Bob Dylan 4200
80 NEW 80 1 WILD THING The Goodies 4000

DROP OUTS
53 17 9 KNOW YOUR WORTH Khalid & Disclosure 129150
57 25 8 SIX DAYS IN JUNE The Fratellis 115500
58 58 7 SECOND CHANCE The Shapeshifters featuring Kimberly Davis 45200
59 59 4 THE SUN RISING The Beloved 25700
60 33 6 DEAD WEIGHT PVRIS 87500
61 16 12 LONELY Joel Corry featuring HARLEE 209300
63 5 12 AND IT’S STILL ALRIGHT Nathaniel Rateliff 374300
70 3 12 FOREVER Will Young 412100
72 2 7 DRIVER’S SEAT Sniff ‘n’ The Tears 252200
75 75 2 KEEP ON MOVIN’ Five 8400
76 30 8 GREAT UNKNOWN X Ambassadors 108050
80 80 2 TOUCH TOO MUCH Arrows 6600
82 58 6 REVIVAL Gregory Porter 39800
84 21 10 REACT Pussycat Dolls 143150