Suedehead2’s Substitute Chart Commentary 15th Aug 2025: Demon Hunters back slaying and Time Flies on albums.

Suedehead2’s Substitute Chart Commentary 15th Aug 2025: Demon Hunters back slaying and Time Flies on albums.

This substitute European heatwave special comes from sweltering Gran Canaria. Other baking venues are available.

Back up on top after the Chappell Roan surprise release dethroned them for one week, we find The KPop Demon Hunters clan still going Up Up Up with Golden. That makes 2 weeks on top for the movie cast, varied and many, with Soda Pop holding at 6 and Your Idol up to 7. Note spelling, it’s not an accusation: You’re Idle. Previous movie-related golden chart-hits include Shirley Bassey’s Goldfinger and the UK number one about the Gold Rush of the American West: Lee Marvin’s 1970 smash Wand’rin Star. That Leaves The Subway down to 2 for Chappell Roan, Dior holds at 4 for MK and Chrystal and No Broke Boys at a new peak of 3 for Disco Lines and Tinache, with Daisies rounding off the top 5 with Justin Bieber, but YUKON climbs to a new peak of 12 so good-news/bad-news for Beliebers.

Ed Sheeran is at his happiest with multiple chart entries, but the latest is more modest: the Sapphire bop is at 9 while he adds A Little More at 18 for a fourth top 20 of 2025. If I hadn’t lost one vital point in a quiz last night due to me not recognising South Of The Border I would be more pre-disposed to his habitual entire-album charting tendencies: Play is not even out yet! sombr is up a measly two places to a new peak of 17 with the good 12 to 12, and Oasis have yet another 3rd-track syndrome new entry as Cigarettes & Alcohol pops back in over 30 years on at 34. It peaked at 7, hung around in and out of the top 100 for years, and yet this is only the 4th top 40 chart week for it. I was hoping for a Demon Hunter link: The Importance Of Being Idol would have been better for that. Sparks is up to 30 for Coldplay amongst all the ancient tracks yo-yoing as per the norm in the streaming age, and Lola Young lifts her s£aler to 31, while Sammy Virji x Skepta hit a new peak of 36 with Cops & Robbers. There are 2 new entries from tracks I know nothing about coming up.

TAKEDOWN by TWICE is FROM is A kpop TRACK new at 35. Sorry, no more shouty text! It features in the Demon Hunters movie along with another version, so I’m assuming as the song is also on TWICE’s album it qualifies under that for a 5th charted Demon Hunters song. It’s Down Down Down rather than Up Up Up but just as hyper-active. Sit child in front of TV, add sugary treats and they will be on a high for a couple of hours. Parental Advisory Warning gifted from recent experience. You’re welcome! Denon Reed and Cru2 are new at 37 with Let Him Go, it’s a dance track debut from Birmingham DJ Denon, who sounds like a jeans brand, and Cru2 which is actually a brand designed to reviving bassline events. It’s hyper enough to feature in Demon Hunters if they expanded the genres a bit.

Over on albums it’s a low-sales week allowing Oasis to return to the top spot with Time Flies. I bought it for a couple of quid in a pre-owned pile so that will never have counted as a sale, nor will my playing of it. Streaming, however lifts it high so the 900th album number one grabs a third week on top as Morning Glory rises to 3, and Definitely Maybe ponders number 7. So in that climate, congrats to The Royston Club getting overt 8,000 punters to shell out cash on Songs To The Spine. The Welsh rock band’s second album goes 12 places higher than their debut did and grab their first top 5, but also new at 2 and the highest of the week is lost americana from mgk - formerly known as Machine Gun Kelly - and it’s his 4th top 40 hit and third top 5 in a row. Shhh nobody mention the Bad Boy label, Interscope have dropped it. A bit like the former name, then. Alex Warren is still Alright, Kid at 5. Gunna, meanwhile, debuts The Last Wun at 9. It’s his 6th album in 6 years, all charting, which shows consistency for the Atlanta rapper if nothing else. We get to number 10 before we have a familiar name entering the chart, and it’s Craig David on his 25th year of album charting with his 9th consecutive top 40 album, Commitment. Craig has 10 in all, including Greatest Hits compilations. Six of the tracks have already been out as singles, including some I’ve bought like In It With You, a collab with JoJo which I rather like.

New in at 12 with a second top 20 album Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You is US singer-songwriter Ethel Cain. Nice to see Ethel back in use as a name after Ray Stevens did his bit to make it unfashionable in The Streak - “Don’t Look Ethel!”. At 16, it’s Halestorm, sounding like a superhero name in this spelling version, and new album Everest which didn’t quite make the summit. The Pennsylvania rock band are just missing their 4th consecutive top 10 album, dating back to 2015. Just behind at 17 BABYMETAL enter with METAL FORTH, shouty text sneaking back in again. The Japanese female Metal band have been around for 11 years, as Metal Forth becomes their 4th top 40 album in a row. Like Craig, there have been 6 singles ahead of album release, one of which I am partial to - Ratatata a collab with Electric Callboy is a right old romp.

That concludes this jaunt and I hope everyone is staying cool and hydrated!