Suedehead2 Chart Commentary 1st August 2025: The K‘s slay on singles & albums: KPop Demon Hunters and The K’s.

Suedehead2 Chart Commentary 1st August 2025: The K‘s slay on singles & albums: KPop Demon Hunters and The K’s.

Justin Bieber’s Jack Johnson-ish ballad might have been expected to hang on to the top spot after just one week reigning, but Daisies was up against repeat viewings of the KPop Demon Hunters by little kids. Children have a voracious appetite to repeat play faves so I’m putting the climb to the top spot for Golden down to that. I look forward with dread to future pop quiz questions asking who had the number one hit in 2025 with Golden - there’s no way I will remember HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast so kudos to those of you who have already memorised it! That pushes Daisies, sorry, DAISIES in shouty text, down to 2, and a fashion brand to 3 for MK and Chrystal. The other two Demon Hunters songs both climb too, meanwhile, as the boy demons singing Soda Pop climb to 11 as Your Idol just hangs on to a higher spot at 10.

Highest new entry at 4 comes from Drake and Central Cee. I won’t bother quoting their new massive totals of top 10 hits as that will no doubt change again in a fortnight and be out of date. Which One they enquire, This trap-rap (rhyming slang) sees Drake sounding even more disinterested as the two of ‘em brag about girls they can pull, and go into some detail about how they do it all. Being rich never looked more attractive, I think we can all agree. I would enjoy the track a lot more if it were an instrumental. Pretty sure Sabrina Carpenter would have something to say to them as the rather good Manchild holds at 5. Other top 10 slots are occupied by Ed Sheeran’s good Sapphire climbing back up to 7, and Disco Lines & Tinashe breaking in at 18. Blessings is at 6 for Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas and Alex Warren is Ordinary at 9 as t’other ballad plummets from 3 out of the top 10 - Eternity not quite living up to its name...

Paranoid climbs into the top 20 at 20 for Black Sabbath 6 weeks short of its 55th anniversary, its third run as Ozzy Osbourne tributes continue to impact with Crazy Train entering at 25. The track was Ozzy’s first solo single in 1980 but fell short of the top 40. 45 years on, it finally makes it, and I finally get to listen to it being as Radio One never playlisted it at the time, and it’s more upbeat than I was expecting and hooray for a guitar solo being in an actual 2025 chart. sombr is meanwhile back in the top 40 for a 4th time with new track 12 to 12, a bit more of a bop than previous singles and hopefully will climb from entry slot of 31. It also bizarrely gives sombr 3 tracks adjacent each other, and the even odder thing is Oasis and the KPop Demon Hunters have 2 tracks side by side. As does Lola Young who is also returning, with a 3rd top 40 track at 34, D£aler, sounding as if making sensible life choices is something she could do with a hand with. Fingers-crossed it all works out! Finally, Coldplay’s old album track Sparks returns to the top 40 at a 39 peak. I was hoping it would be Sparks with a new track called Coldplay, but hey ho, not to be.

Over on albums, Merseyside-band The K’s easily outsold the competition, virtually all 23,000 of them paid-for, and improves on the previous peak of 3 for 2024 album number one, as Pretty On The Internet easily lands on top. I would like to say that sounds like special K’s, but wouldn’t want to risk alienating Kellogg’s for a bit of cheap wordplay. Time Flies, Oasis’ hits package, is going nowhere, up to 2, with Morning Glory holding up at 3. Paul Weller has a new covers album out new in at 5, the best track may be his cover of 1974’s Brian Protheroe minor hit Pinball. With The Jam and The Style Council, Paul has been charting albums for 48 years. Finding El Dorado is incredibly his 18th consecutive top 10 solo studio album in 33 years, and 29th top 40 solo album including hits packages and live albums. Bung in previous groups and he’s on 34 top 10’s.

In a bumper crop of new entries this week, we have: Alice Cooper: The Revenge Of Alice Cooper in at 9, the first album since 1973 to apparently be credited to the group Alice Cooper as opposed to solo star Alice Cooper. Either way it’s the 9th studio album to go top 10, and the only decade Alice failed to grab a top 10 was the Noughties since the early 70’s in 54 years of charting. Tim Minchin, Aussie comedian, actor, poet and musician/musical creator is new in at 11 with Time Machine - I bet the OCC use a long word for his creativity - his second album to chart in 5 years. Madonna enters the chart with virtually no fanfare or PR that I’ve noticed so it can’t be a studio album at 23 named Veronica Electronica. Google confirms it’s a remix project intended to come out as a Ray Of Light companion circa 1998/9 but never actually released. There’s one unreleased song on it, Gone Gone Gone, which is not bad at all. It’s her first compilation/remix album in 3 years to chart and only her 7th in total, but it’s the first album not to go top 10 except for live albums.

Talking of live albums... Gary Numan has one out, new at 34, A Perfect Circle (Live at OVO Arena Wembley. It’s his 19th top 40 album in total, dating back to Tubeway Army in 1979. Black Sabbath Paranoid enters the top 40 at 38 for the first time in decades, just as their Ultimate Collection hits a new peak of 14, and Ozzy Osbourne’s Memoirs Of A Madman returns at 32. We get to more-current acts down the bottom end with Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist at 28 with Alfredo 2 - I say more-current, but USA act Freddie is in his 40’s and has been rapping albums since 2013, but this is his first Top 40 UK album. Fellow US veteran The Alchemist is even older at 47 and also has his first UK hit album. Nice to see older acts making it, if nothing else.

Suedey is still en vacances so see ya next week, but it may be a little delayed as I may be out at a concert. I couldn’t possibly say who, but I might be under the moon of love.