October 15, 20215 yr 26 | | 13th week Sam Fender Seventeen Going Under 1st single from Seventeen Going Under Released: 7th July 2021 Label: Polydor Records Chart Statistics NE (22/07/2021) | 44-62-70-60-61-57-57-60-54-60-65-68-x RE (21/10/2021) | 26 Sales: 90k+ Certification: - Status: Standard Chart Ratio 27 Sales 85 Audio Streaming __ Video Streaming Video WAifgn2Cvo8 Biography Melding urgent, melodic indie rock with the heart of a singer/songwriter and socially conscious lyrics, Newcastle native Sam Fender rose to British acclaim in late 2017 when he appeared on the coveted BBC Sound of 2018 list and was subsequently signed to Polydor Records. His first album, Hypersonic Missiles, arrived in 2019. Born and raised in North Shields, just outside of Newcastle, Fender came from a musical family. After gigging locally, he was discovered by Ben Howard's manager, who helped pave the road for Fender's debut single, "Play God." Moody in tone and socially conscious, it was followed by two more singles, "Greasy Spoon" and "Millennial," before the BBC named Fender along with acts like Sigrid and Lewis Capaldi for their Sound of 2018 list. Tours with Hozier and Catfish and the Bottlemen followed, as did 2018 singles like "Leave Fast" and "That Sound," both of which later appeared on his EP Dead Boys, released by Polydor in November of that year. At the beginning of 2019, Fender entered his own studio in his hometown of North Shields to record his debut album with friend and producer Bramwell Bronte. He won the Brit Awards' Critics' Choice honor and made his U.S. television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live! before Interscope/Polydor issued the resulting Hypersonic Missiles in September of 2019. - iTunes Top 100 Chart History 2019 89 Play God -1- 2019 48 Hypersonic Missiles -2- 2019 43 Will We Talk? -3- 2019 59 The Borders -IG- 2021 26 Seventeen Going Under -1- 2021 92 Get You Down -2- 2021 89 Spit Of You -IG- 0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 0 x Top 10 | 0 x Top 20 | 1 x Top 40 | 7 x Top 100 Social Media Sam Fender http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
October 15, 20215 yr FENDER!!!!! So pleased he has finally got a Top 40 hit... and this song is just immense!!
October 15, 20215 yr Not a fan of him but this song is actually decent tbh, pleased it’s got him his first top 40 hit!
October 15, 20215 yr This is sounding better than I remember (from the one play I gave it at the time it came out :lol:)! Good for Sam to get a top 40 at last.
October 15, 20215 yr Absolutely chuffed that Sam Fender has achieved a top 40 hit for the first time!! :wub: I was obsessed with 'Play God' two years ago but I think this is my favourite that he's released since.
October 15, 20215 yr This thread is in terminal decline. There is barely any discussion blame it on Adele :kink: I'm listening but just can't bother much talking considering I'm not liking that much any of the songs played so far, so I don't want to sound like a broken record. I'm here though to potentially celebrate Elton/Dua #1 :cheer:
October 15, 20215 yr 25 | 25 | 10th week The Weeknd Take My Breath 1st single from forthcoming studio album Released: 6th August 2021 Label: The Weeknd XO Chart Statistics NE (19/08/2021) | 13-15-17-21-27-27-23-25-25-25 Sales: 100k+ Certification: - Status: Standard Chart Ratio 05 Sales 20 Audio Streaming 11 Video Streaming Video rhTl_OyehF8 Biography Nobody makes feeling bad sound as good as The Weeknd. Even the singer’s sunniest tracks (“Can’t Feel My Face,” “Starboy”) feel anchored by darkness—the sense that pleasure is pain and beauty decays and you can’t have the night without the morning after. The brainchild of Toronto singer Abel Tesfaye, the project took off in 2011 with a string of mixtapes (later collected as 2012’s Trilogy) that forged cavernous, falsetto-driven R&B with narratives drenched in drugs, sex, and other regrettable decisions—a sound both sensuous and detached, featherlight and dead heavy. One of the earliest musicians to find his footing on the internet, Tesfaye originally offered his music through YouTube and free downloads, a move that felt radical then but is common now. Ethiopian by heritage (his parents immigrated to Canada in the late ’80s, just before he was born), Tesfaye—out from behind the mask of making art online—has since come to represent the changing face of Toronto, rooting himself not just in an international musical community but in a specific diasporic experience. Like the work of collaborator Lana Del Rey or early booster (and fellow Toronto native) Drake, Tesfaye’s music has become a symbol of hedonism pushed to bleak excess, with a series of albums—including 2015’s Grammy-winning Beauty Behind the Madness, 2016’s multiplatinum Starboy, and 2020’s dense and atmospheric After Hours—whose narrators can’t seem to say no even if they hate themselves for it later. And though his music has gotten a little brighter over time, the prevailing mood remains heavy, even unsettling—the ride you want more of even when you’ve had too much. Speaking to Apple Music about the persona behind his songs, Tesfaye said, “I’m a chill person. That guy is who I am, but it is who I am to myself and in my writing. Sometimes you take him and then you create more, and then it becomes this beast. You add more to him, and then it’s uncontrollable—its own character. It’s like Scarface, the villain: It’s horrible, but you can’t stop looking at it.” - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2012 37 Crew Love (Drake feat. The Weeknd) 2014 48 Love Me Harder (Ariana Grande & The Weeknd) 2015 04 Earned It -OST/2- MILLIONAIRE 2015 64 Where You Belong -OST- 2015 03 The Hills -4- MILLIONAIRE 2015 03 Can't Feel My Face -3- MILLIONAIRE 2015 65 Often -1/6- 2015 72 Real Life -AT- 2015 74 Tell Your Friends -AT- 2015 78 Prisoner (feat. Lana Del Rey) -AT- 2015 90 Acquainted -AT- 2015 91 Losers (feat. Labrinth) -AT- 2015 92 Dark Times (feat. Ed Sheeran) -AT- 2015 48 In The Night -5- 2016 84 FML (Kanye West feat. The Weeknd) 2016 35 6 Inch (Beyoncé feat. The Weeknd) 2016 02 Starboy (feat. Daft Punk) -1- MILLIONAIRE 2016 51 False Alarm -IG- 2016 09 I Feel It Coming (feat. Daft Punk) -2- MILLIONAIRE 2016 17 Party Monster -3- 2016 26 Rockin' -4- 2016 30 Sidewalks (feat. Kendrick Lamar) -AT- 2016 39 Reminder -AT- 2016 43 Six Feet Under -AT- 2016 47 Secrets -AT- 2016 53 A Lonely Night -AT- 2016 55 True Colours -AT- 2016 68 Love To Lay -AT- 2016 73 Stargirl Interlude (feat. Lana Del Rey) -AT- 2016 74 Die For You -AT- 2016 76 All I Know (feat. Future) -AT- 2016 78 Attention -AT- 2016 79 Ordinary Life -AT- 2016 81 Nothing Without You -AT- 2017 83 Comin Out Strong (Future feat. The Weeknd) 2017 38 Lust For Life (Lana Del Rey feat. The Weeknd) 2017 51 A Lie (French Montana feat. The Weeknd & Max B) 2017 78 Curve (Gucci Mane feat. The Weeknd) 2018 11 Pray For Me (The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar) -OST- 2018 07 Call Out My Name -1- 2018 17 Try Me -AT- 2018 18 Wasted Times -AT- 2019 09 Lost In The Fire (Gesaffelstein & The Weeknd) 2019 91 Price On My Head (NAV feat. The Weeknd) 2019 45 Power Is Power (SZA, The Weeknd & Travis Scott) -OST- 2019 10 Heartless -1- 2019 01 Blinding Lights -2- MILLIONAIRE 2020 20 After Hours -IG- 2020 17 In Your Eyes -3- 2020 23 Smile (Juice WRLD & The Weeknd) 2020 33 Over Now (Calvin Harris & The Weeknd) 2021 02 Save Your Tears -4- MILLIONAIRE 2021 09 You Right (Doja Cat & The Weeknd) 2021 13 Take My Breath -1- 1 x #1 | 6 x Top 5 | 12 x Top 10 | 18 x Top 20 | 26 x Top 40 | 54 x Top 100 Social Media The Weeknd http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
October 15, 20215 yr Wow Sam Fender getting a top 40 hit? :o I'm kinda surprised the occ allowed a reset for this, I figured they wouldn't want any scary indie rock in their top 40
October 15, 20215 yr I find odd this is his first ever top 40 single. :o So its you whos number ends in 509???
October 15, 20215 yr 24 | 26 | 11th week Dermot Kennedy Better Days 1st single from forthcoming studio album Released: 28th July 2021 Label: Riggins Recording / Interscope Records / Island Records Chart Statistics NE (29/07/2021) | 49-46-50-53-53-41-40-35-31-26-24 Sales: 90k+ Certification: - Status: Standard Chart Ratio 06 Sales 44 Audio Streaming __ Video Streaming Video 3gqbE9jDI1g Biography Dermot Kennedy’s rip-roaring, free-flowing folk-pop grew out of years singing over rowdy crowds at local bars and open mics and in the streets of Dublin. Born in 1991, the singer/songwriter was raised in the small Irish village of Rathcoole, where he began writing songs as a teenager before studying classical music at Maynooth University and forming folk band Shadows and Dust. He soon set off on his own, busking on Dublin’s Grafton Street, the same spot favored by famous street musicians like Glen Hansard, The Frames frontman and Once actor. Kennedy built up his raspy, throat-ripping howls on the pavement, but found his largest following online after he self-released romantic ballads like 2015’s “An Evening I Will Not Forget” and 2016’s “After Rain”. A larger audience exposed him to a few key producers, including Stephen Kozmeniuk (Koz) and Mike Dean, both of whom have helped enhance the poetic intimacy of Kennedy’s songwriting with rumbling beats and expansive electronic production. Finding a delicate balance between soaring folk and understated hip-hop has been the key to Kennedy’s sound, starting with his 2019 debut album, Without Fear. His strengths come in turning quiet melodies into rousing anthems, including “Power Over Me”, a propulsive paean that captures the intoxicating rush of becoming enraptured, and “Outnumbered”, which feels almost gospel-like in its cathartic chorus. Meanwhile, his voice—a slightly weathered mix of grit and gravel—ties it all together, bringing the raw intensity he learned as a busker to pop charts around the world. - Apple Music Top 100 Chart History 2019 06 Outnumbered -2- MILLIONAIRE 2019 27 Power Over Me -1/3- 2019 89 All My Friends -AT- 2020 12 Giants -4- 2020 05 Paradise (Meduza feat. Dermot Kennedy) 2020 77 Don't Cry (Bugzy Malone & Dermot Kennedy) 2021 24 Better Days -1- 0 x #1 | 1 x Top 5 | 2 x Top 10 | 3 x Top 20 | 5 x Top 40 | 7 x Top 100 Social Media Dermot Kennedy http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png
October 15, 20215 yr Great to see Sam finally getting a Top 40 hit, amazing it took this long but that's streaming for you!
October 15, 20215 yr Shame this didn’t make top 20 this week like it looked like it might in the first look
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