February 4th 2022

3 weeks on top of singles for Encanto’s Bruno and Don Broco debut at 1 on albums.

 

It’s a 3-week run for Disney’s We Don’t Talk About Bruno, ironically people are talking about the earworm, and the movie, and Bruno, who’s not even in the first half of Encanto. Well, technically he is, because walls have ears. That means Fireboy DML (who is very close to a DC Comics Legion Of Super Heroes lawsuit viz Fire Lad and Sun Boy) and Ed Sheeran (who is not close to a DC Comics lawsuit unless they try and go for Spider Girl with the long ginger hair that can captivate people), and Gayle remain at 2 and 3. Sorry, GAYLE. Jessica Darrow is also not moving at 4 despite the Surface Pressure from Lost Frequencies and Calum Scott’s catchy Where Are You Now up to 5. Encanto’s The Family Madrigal almost equals the 1978 movie record of 3 simultaneous Top 5’s (Grease is the word) but rests at 7 for now achieving 3 top 10’s instead.

 

D Block Europe still refuse to take Central C Overseas, and climb to 6, while dance tune Make Me Feel Good is up to 9 for Belters Only & Jazzy. Jazzy not to be confused with Faithless’ Maxi Jazz nor Soul II Soul’s Jazzie B. Nor Grand Theft Auto’s pimping Jizzie B come to that. Meanwhile Luude and Colin Hay return Down Under to the top 10 39 years since it was last there while I was doing afternoon photograph deliveries driving round Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Men At Work in 1983, so to speak, who I saw in Nottingham. Ey Up Duck, Col!

 

HAZEY, against the odds is up again, to 15, as Packs & Potions and Scouse Rap clearly catching on week on week, while Imagine Dragons are back in the top 20 as Enemy hits a new peak of 18. Meanwhile, the second-highest new entry is Charlie XCX and Rina Sawayama, who take Beg For You to 29 - Charlie’s 7th top 40 as lead artist (12th including features) since her debut I Love It 10 years ago. There’s been a lot of hit songs since then, not all featuring Charlie! Rina gets her first top 40 appearance.

 

Another week, another Central Cee new entry, the highest of the week. Just when you get your hopes raised that a chart might be giving Cee the Cold Shoulder, he bungs another new track out to the streaming stations. Lyrically an improvement, as he explains he doesn’t need riches, remembers being poor and sleeping on sofa’s, and is prioritising family. And then he goes and spoils it calling out his ex’s, and reminiscing about the old days working as a gardener. At least I think that’s what he means when he talks about his old hoes. New at 25. Tiesto & Ava Max are slightly up again, to a new peak of 26, and George Ezra debuts his typically jolly and singalong Anyone For You at 32 for an 8th top 40 hit in 9 years, since Budapest introduced his first of many songs to karaoke bars across the world. Well, Gran Canaria at least, I regularly hear them there. Lastly, Ghost is back up to it’s peak of 21 for Justin Bieber, helped no end by a lot of Radio 2 plays, and ditto also on radio 2 Sweet Talker is up to a new peak of 28 for Years & Years and Galantis, while not on radio 2 Gunna and Future climb one place with Pushin P to 30. Say no more....!

 

 

On albums I got some excitable Chart Show Stop Press Emails about Don Broco entering at one. After I’d calmed myself down I googled what a Don Broco was, cos it sounds like a polite Spanish gentleman horse to me. Give or take the letter “n”. Turns out they are a British band, good to see that though bands might be dead in the singles charts, albums can still get sold, and they also started up at Nottingham University around 2009. Ey up lads! Amazing Things, their 4th top 40 album, actually came out last October but peaked at a lowly 91. It’s now available physically, which I think tells you the difference between rock-based fans of music and digital and streaming fans of other genres that are more-laid-back about supporting artists at HMV.

 

This is all bad news for Jamie Webster who enters at 3, pipped in the physical sales department by Don Broco - the folk singer-songwriter’s Moments is his 2nd top 10, following on from 2020’s We Get By which peaked at 6. He has 2 things in his favour - he supported Cast on tour, so yay for Jamie and Cast, and he’s from Liverpool and started off singing in pubs there. I was last in a Liverpool pub a couple of years before Lockdown, so prob around the time he was gigging. Doh! Just missed him! The Weeknd meanwhile is back up to 2 with Dawn FM, with Ed Sheeran holding at 4 and Adele’s 30 back up to 5.

 

New at 9, Jethro Tull aka Ian Anderson, is back for a 53rd year. Picture this: 11-year-old John, the Summer of ’69, gets excited about new chart-topper In The Year 2525, Doctor Who showing Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury’s final episodes, and a brand new exciting series called Star Trek suddenly appearing on TV. In the middle of this a great flute-based folk tune Living In The Past is in the charts. John becomes aware of Jethro Tull, and now here he is commenting on them turning up with The Zealot Gene, their first new studio album in 20 years, their 20th top 40 studio album since they debuted in 1968, and their 23rd top 40 album in all. Funny ol’ world.

 

Scarlet Rebels are new at 7 with See Through Blue, the Welsh band hoping for a good showing for their 2nd album (after their 2019 debut fell short of the top 40), ex-Mansun singer Paul Draper gets a solo album hit over 25 years on from Mansun’s heyday, with Cult Leader Tactics in at 22, the fabulous Eels are at 37 with Extreme Witchcraft, some 26 years on from Beautiful Freak becoming the first of their now-14 top 40 albums - though “their” is for most of their chart history these days it’s “his” as there is only founder Mark Oliver Everett in the “band”. Finally, Saint PHNX (that’s Phoenix to you and I) arrive, the Scottish band score a number 39 album with Happy Place, their first chart entry in the UK. And that concludes the Chart results, bar the usual chart bouncing about for albums that have already peaked at higher positions, some of them decades ago. Thank you!

You may have to explain the concept of "photograph deliveries" to our younger members :lol:

Well I knew who Don Broco were, from Radio 1 playlisted single 'Hold On' back in 2013 which I really liked, the verses are funky, a bit like Spandau Ballet's Chant No 1, definitely quite early 80s new-wave sounding. I listened to their new album and was a bit disappointed to hear they seem to have changed their sound to more standard indie/heavy rock since then.

Edited February 4, 20223 yr by mdf

You may have to explain the concept of "photograph deliveries" to our younger members :lol:

:lol:

 

Ah those were the days when it was perfectly acceptable to say i spent a lot of time in darkrooms with friends and colleagues with a red light on to see what develops..., :lol:

Well I knew who Don Broco were, from Radio 1 playlisted single 'Hold On' back in 2013 which I really liked, the verses are funky, a bit like Spandau Ballet's Chant No 1, definitely quite early 80s new-wave sounding. I listened to their new album and was a bit disappointed to hear they seem to have changed their sound to more standard indie/heavy rock since then.

I like the sound of it being like chant no 1 - best thing spandau did! Less impressed by indie heavy rock, but that def has a biggerfanbase than funk...

I like the sound of it being like chant no 1 - best thing spandau did! Less impressed by indie heavy rock, but that def has a biggerfanbase than funk...

 

Well half like chant no 1, mostly in the verses, the chorus is a bit of heavy rock too.

Well half like chant no 1, mostly in the verses, the chorus is a bit of heavy rock too.

That could still work for me! :D