Sabrina Carpenter's Taste is number one for a fifth week. Blossoms get a fourth number one album.
Sabrina Carpenter stays at the top of the singles chart once again. Blossoms have another number one album.
There’s still no stopping Sabrina Carpenter in the singles chart as Taste gets a fifth week at number one. It thereby matches the initial run by Espresso. However, that song returned to the top (after a five week absence, three of them courtesy of another Carpenter song, for a further two weeks. She has now spent seventeen weeks at number one since she had her first chart-topping single in May. She is also at number three with Espresso and number five with Please Please.
Chappell Roan’s Good Luck Babe is at number two. Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars climb one place to number four with Die With A Smile.
Alex Warren’s Carry You Home entered at number 36 two weeks ago before slipping a few places last week. This week it climbs to a new peak of number 32. Furthermore, he has a second song in the chart as Burning Down enters at number 35.
Earlier this year it seemed that almost half of the new entries each week had titles that were food and drink related. Even now, one such song is at number one. Now we have another one in the shape of Addison Lee’s Diet Pepsi at number 37. Sadly, the song itself is incredibly dull. I thought it was over when it started to fade after two-and-a-half minutes, but it started up again for another 30 seconds or so of dullness.
Jimin’s pretty dreadful Who entered the chart at number four at the beginning of the summer. It had a very noughties chart run, lasting just four weeks in the top forty. For some reason it is back this week at number 40. Also returning, and even less welcome, is Kid laroi’s Nights Like This at number 38.
Stockport’s finest Blossoms get their fourth number one from five releases with Gary. Overall, I was rather disappointed with the album. It doesn’t have the same sort of stand-out tracks that their previous albums have had. That said, it’s still a decent effort. Gary replaces last week’s number one from Snow Patrol fronted by Gary Lightbody.
Sabrina Carpenter’s Short ‘n’ Sweet is at number two, one place ahead of Chappell Roan’s The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess.
While I had expected the Blossoms album to be my favourite new album released last week, it actually ended up as only my third favourite. In second place was Tom Walker’s I Am which enters at number four. It is a very personal album with many references to Walker's mental health struggles.
Jamie XX is at number five with Waves, his second top ten album away from his band The XX.
Katy Perry lands at number six with 143. The tittle is apparently a reference to the number of letters in I Love You. Perry also claims that 143 is her angel number, whatever an angel number is. They certainly weren’t covered in my maths lessons at school or in my maths degree.
My favourite album of last week also provides this week’s epizeuxis slot, coming as it does from Greater Manchester band Ist Ist. Their 2023 album Protagonists agonisingly missed out on a top forty spot by one place. That makes the number 25 debut for Light A Bigger Fire even more satisfying.
Some of the weirdest genre descriptions come from the Nordic countries. As an example Finnish band Nightwish describe their music as symphonic metal. Their tenth studio album Yesterwynde enters at number twenty. It is their fourth top forty album and the second to reach the top twenty, landing at number twenty.
Rock band Terrorvision had their first top 40 album in 1994 with How To Make Friends And Influence People. The following two albums followed suit, but the next one missed out, as did a Best Of Collection. They finally get a fourth top forty album with We Are Not Robots at number 29.
Future is at number eleven with his latest mixtape Pluto. Whether it is named after a celestial body, a cartoon dog or something else, I know not.
Published on: 2024-09-27 on BuzzJack by Suedehead2 | Views: 917
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