Olivia Rodrigo gets a second week at number one in both the singles and albums charts
Olivia Rodrigo spends a second week at the top of both charts.
Olivia Rodrigo gets a second week at number one with Good 4 U. Once again she has three songs in the top ten with Deja Vu slipping one place to number five. Her third top ten song provides another example of the absurdities caused by the chart rules. Last week her previous chart-topping single Drivers License crashed out of the chart as a result of a combination of the three-song limit and the fact that it was on the Accelerated Chart Ratio (ACR) meaning that its streams were only half as valuable as the streams of all her other songs. That move on to ACR caused the song to crash to number eighteen after nine weeks at number one. However, as its streams increased substantially following the release of Rodrigo’s album, it is now back on the standard ratio. As a consequence, it re-enters at number six.
Tion Wayne and Russ Millions spend a second week at number two with Body while Doja Cat and Sza move back up to number three with Ki9ss Me More. The Weeknd’s Save Your Tears climbs to a new peak of number four in its 21st week in the top forty. The Weeknd also has a re-entry at number 35 as Blinding Lights gets a 69th week in the top forty.
Little Mix have two songs in the top ten, each of which reaches a new peak this week. Confetti is at number nine, one place below Heartbreak Anthem on which they are featured artists alongside Galantis and David Guetta.
Dion Lizzy, using the assumed name of Stay Flee Get Lizzy, had a minor hit in 2018 with Ay Caramba. Three years on he makes his second appearance in the top forty with Meant To Be at number seventeen. The song features Fredo, who also appeared on Ay Caramba, and Central Cee who didn’t.
The appearance of Måneskin’s Zitti E Buoni in the singles chart last week was already an increasingly rare event. Not many Eurovision winners make the charts these days and it is even more unusual for a foreign language winner to do so. Nevertheless, Måneskin took their winning song to number seventeen last week. This week, something even more unlikely has happened. The band, runners-up in Italy’s X Factor in 2018, have got a second song in the chart with the English-language (and, in my opinion, superior) I Wanna Be Your Slave entering at number 24, one place above Zitti E Buoni’s new position. Both songs are on their second album Teatro d’Ira - Volume 1 which was released in March and entered the UK top 100 for the first time last week.
The list of Eurovision winners from outside the UK and Ireland to have had other hit singles in the UK is very short. If you exclude acts whose Eurovision song wasn’t a hit in the UK then the list is even shorter as Celine Dion (who won for Switzerland in 1988) wouldn’t count. With Dion excluded, the number of non-British or Irish acts to achieve significant chart success in the UK is just four letters long - Abba.
It is a feature of the charts of today that a song can spend significant time in the top 100 without ever breaking into the top forty. The most extreme current example of that phenomenon is Polo G’s Martin & Gina. The song entered the top 100 last September and, apart from a few weeks over Christmas, remained in the chart until dropping out this week. In its 33 weeks in the top 100, it never climbed any higher than number 48.
Some songs, on the other hand, do finally break into the top forty after spending two months or more lower down the chart. One such is Marea (We’ve Lost Dancing) by Fred Again and The Blessed Madonna which jumps to number 36 in its tenth week in the top 100. It is the first top forty success for both artists who were born Fred Gibson and Marea Stamper.
Blinding Lights and Drivers License are two of six re-entries in the top forty this week. The most significant is Noizu’s Summer 91 (Looking Back). That slipped out of the top forty last week after a week each at numbers 39 and 40 but jumps back in this week at number 29. There is also a new peak for Nathan Dawe, Anne-Marie and Mostack’s Way Too Long which is at number 37, a month after spending a week at number 38. ATB’s Your Love (9pm) is back at number 38 and Joel Corry’s Head & Heart returns at number 40.
The following sentence contains a phrase that hasn’t been seen in these parts for nearly a year. Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour stays at the top of the albums chart for a second week. It is the first album to spend a second successive week at the summit since Taylor Swift’s Folklore had a three-week run last August. The two previous albums to hold on for a second week were also by female solo artists. The last male to do so was Rod Stewart at the end of 2019.
The only other album to have spent at least two weeks at number one since last August was Taylor Swift’s other release Evermore which returned to the top for a week in January after topping the chart the previous month. That album was released on vinyl last Friday which sees it re-enter at number four.
It is reasonable to say that some parts of the UK are known for producing a long line of successful musical acts while other twins and cities have done rather less well. Leicester falls firmly into the latter category; most music fans would struggle to go beyond Showaddywaddy and Kasabian if asked to list bands from that city. One of the bands who might hope to join them one day are Easy Life who featured on the BBC’s Sound Of 2020 list. They enter at number two this week with their first full studio album Life’s A Beach. They previously entered the albums chart in January last year with their mixtape Junk Food.
Glasgow, being somewhat larger than Leicester, has produced rather more major bands with Primal Scream, Travis, Deacon Blue and Franz Ferdinand (only one of whose members is actually Scottish born and bred) among them. In the 1980s, Altered Images had a brief spell of success with their jolly singles such as Happy Birthday. One of the members of Altered Images was Johnny McElhone who went on to form Texas with Sharleen Spiteri. That band enter at number three with their tenth studio album Hi. It is their highest chart position since The Hush topped the chart in 1999.
Staying with both Glasgow and Texas, Del Amitri are at number five with Fatal Mistakes, their first new album for nearly twenty years. The Glaswegian band’s singer Justin Currie has released a number of solo albums, one of which was recorded in Texas.
After reaching the top ten in the albums chart with three EPs, Bugzy Malone released his first full-length album in 2018 and took that into thye top ten as well. He revives his career this week with the appropriately-named The Resurrection at number seven.
The release of collections of material from David Bowie’s archives continues apace with The Width Of A Circle which comprises material recorded between the release of The Man Who Sold The World (1970) and Hunky Dory (1971), albums which didn’t enter the charts until 1972. The Width Of A Circle becomes Bowie’s 65th top forty album at number fifteen.
Among David Bowie’s most famous songs is Heroes, released as a single in 1977. A version of that song (with vocals from Mindy Jones) appears on Moby’s latest project Reprise. The album is largely a collection of re-recordings of some of his most famous songs such as Natural Blues, Porcelain and Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad accompanied by the Budapest Art Orchestra. It enters at number 21, his best chart position since Hotel reached number eight in 2005. Moby’s most recent charting single (at number 43 in 2006) was New York New York, a duet with Debbie Harry of Blondie who have also recorded a version of Heroes.
This week’s new entries list is completed by American rock band Blackberry Smoke’s You Hear Georgia at number seventeen.
Bob Marley’s Legend collection returns at number 25, bringing it up to 263 weeks in the top forty. Becky Hill’s Get To Know re-enters at number 36, Juice Wrld’s Goodby And Good Riddance says hello again at number 38 and Maroon 5’s Singles collection is back at number 40.
Published on: 2021-06-04 by BuzzJack.com Suedehead2 || 6801 Views
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