I wasn’t expecting to see Meghan get a top 3 hit in 2022. It should go #2 in two weeks if Sam gets hit by ACR

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02 | 02 | 9th week

 

Sam Smith and Kim Petras

Unholy

 

 

2nd single from Gloria

Released: 22nd September 2022

Label: Capitol Records UK / EMI

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (06/10/2022) | 1-1-1-1-2-2-2-2-2

 

Sales: 400k+

Certification: Gold

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

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01 Audio Streaming

04 Video Streaming

 

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Biography

 

Sam Smith

It’s hard to think of many artists in 21st-century pop who could match the vulnerability of Sam Smith. “I’ve never shied away from telling the truth in my music,” the singer told Apple Music in 2020. “Music is literally my best friend; it’s a release, a form of diary and therapy.”

 

Born in London in 1992 and raised in Cambridge, Smith first began gaining significant traction in 2012 with a pair of dance hits—Disclosure’s “Latch,” and Naughty Boy’s “La La La” the following year. They revealed that elastic falsetto, but didn’t quite hint at the sadness that would define the outrageous success to come. That arrived with 2014’s Grammy-winning In the Midnight Hour, an exquisite meditation on unrequited love, and its followup, the heartbreak-inspired The Thrill of It All. This second album saw Smith—by then an Oscar winner for 2015’s Bond theme “Writing’s on the Wall”—open up about instant fame and embrace their status as a gay role model, against a backdrop of stirring, gospel-infused balladry. It has always been clear that Smith’s power lies as much in that voice as in an unwavering bravery to put their innermost feelings—loneliness, confusion, desperation, desire—on full public view.

 

By the run-up to album three, however, Smith was also ready to have a little more fun. The aching melancholy of love, loss, and yearning for someone to spend their days with was still present, but this time, it was all being mined for invigorating music to help dance the blues away. That third LP should have arrived in early 2020 in the form of To Die For, but, amid the global pandemic, it was delayed, reworked, and renamed with the more sensitive title Love Goes. The album, Smith said ahead of its release, allowed them to heal after their first true breakup. But it also heralded freedom. “I felt at one point that I was going to be trapped onstage wearing a suit and singing ballads for the rest of my life,” said Smith. “When I look back at Love Goes, it reminds of the courage it took. A lot of my life, probably because of a lot of internalized queerphobia, and queerphobia around me, I felt ashamed of myself and not being able to fully be myself through my music. Each time I make an album, I learn to like myself a little more. The more I make music, the closer to myself I feel.” - Apple Music

 

Kim Petras

Kim Petras has spawned an entire generation of bunheads (as her fanbase is called) with her brand of hook-heavy, hedonistic synth-pop. Born in Cologne, Germany in 1992, Petras had aspirations of international stardom from an early age, writing her first songs at 13 and inspired by pop stars like Britney Spears and Spice Girls. Though she released minor works in the late 2000s, it was 2017’s “Unlock It,” the singer’s attention-grabbing collaboration with scene queen Charli XCX, that served for many as a gateway into her world. Petras' Era 1 collection of endorphin-popping bangers, elevated by her virtuosic vocal range, solidified her status as pop music royalty. Songs like 2017’s sugar-baby anthem “‎I Don't Want It At All” and 2018’s criminally catchy “Heart to Break” showcased her singer/songwriter prowess through a neon glow of ‘80s-infused dance pop. An indie artist at heart, Petras has released the bulk of her work on her own BunHead Records imprint. Her official full-length debut, Clarity (2019), found her eschewing some of the blithe spirit of her early songs in favor of a greater vulnerability in songs like “Icy” and “Broken,” where materialism becomes an escape from the emotional void of heartbreak. The hyper-sexualized Slut Pop arrived in 2022. Petras’ success has also turned her into a role model for the broad swath of her fanbase who identify as LGBTQ, celebrating her as a pioneer for transgender representation in the genre. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

Sam Smith

2012 11 Latch (Disclosure feat. Sam Smith) MILLIONAIRE

2013 01 La La La (Naughty Boy feat. Sam Smith) MILLION SELLER

2013 86 Safe With Me -EP-

2013 82 Nirvana -EP-

2014 01 Money On My Mind -2- MILLIONAIRE

2014 15 Lay Me Down -1/6-

2014 01 Stay With Me -3- MILLIONAIRE

2014 03 I'm Not The Only One -4- MILLIONAIRE

2014 09 Like I Can -5- MILLIONAIRE

2014 53 Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas -NAS-

2015 01 Lay Me Down (feat. John Legend) -7-

2015 13 Omen (Disclosure feat. Sam Smith)

2015 01 Writing's On The Wall -OST-

2017 01 Too Good At Goodbyes -1- MILLIONAIRE

2017 26 Pray (feat. Logic) -3-

2017 63 Burning -IG-

2017 27 One Last Song -2-

2018 01 Promises (Calvin Harris & Sam Smith) MILLIONAIRE

2019 63 Fire On Fire -NAS-

2019 03 Dancing With A Stranger (Sam Smith & Normani) -1- MILLIONAIRE

2019 07 How Do You Sleep? -2-

2019 76 I Feel Love -PS-

2020 18 To Die For -3-

2020 20 I'm Ready (Sam Smith & Demi Lovato) -4-

2020 43 My Oasis (feat. Burna Boy) -5-

2020 11 Diamonds -6-

2020 89 Kids Again -AT-

2020 72 The Lighthouse Keeper -NAS-

2022 52 Love Me More -1-

2022 01 Unholy (Sam Smith & Kim Petras) -2-

 

8 x #1 | 10 x Top 5 | 12 x Top 10 | 18 x Top 20 | 20 x Top 40 | 30 x Top 100

 

Kim Petras

2022 100 Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) -NAS-

2022 01 Unholy (Sam Smith & Kim Petras)

 

1 x #1 | 1 x Top 5 | 1 x Top 10 | 1 x Top 20 | 1 x Top 40 | 2 x Top 100

 

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01 | 01 | 5th week

 

Taylor Swift

Anti-Hero

 

 

1st single from Midnights

Released: 21st October 2022

Label: Taylor Swift

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (03/11/2022) | 1-1-1-1-1

 

Sales: 200k+

Certification: Silver

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

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01 Audio Streaming

01 Video Streaming

 

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Biography

 

The country world feigned surprise when, after three albums of Music Row-indebted songcraft, Taylor Swift formally embraced pop on 2012’s Red. But no one should have been shocked: Any 14-year-old capable of persuading her parents to move from suburban Pennsylvania to Nashville for her career clearly has ambition to burn. And the thrill of following Swift’s rise has been watching her execute it flawlessly, largely because her melodic intelligence is equal to that ambition. Her early, youthful love songs heralded 2010's newly self-possessed Speak Now—which showed off her scathing wit—and evolved into knowing, ironclad pop fare that held its own against boisterous Max Martin production on 1989, her fifth album, titled after her birth year. Throughout, her songwriting has blurred the lines between the public and private, burying enough real-life clues (about, say, scarves and Starbucks) to make clear that only Swift can own her narrative, thank you very much, while still retaining a lyrical elegance. Though 2017’s reputation might have been perceived as a gorgeously constructed piece of dramatic theater—its attendant heroes and villains all real-life characters from Swift's public feuds—all that spectacle proved an attention-grabbing cover for her most romantic album yet. She turned up the romance even more on 2019’s Lover, but it was 2020’s folklore and its companion, evermore—ruminative, relatively lo-fi albums written and recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic—that earned her the Apple Music Award for Songwriter of the Year. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

2009 02 Love Story -1- MILLIONAIRE

2009 60 White Horse -AT-

2009 51 Teardrops On My Guitar -2-

2009 100 Crazier -OST-

2009 30 You Belong With Me -3-

2010 57 Today Was A Fairytale -OST-

2010 30 Mine -1-

2012 67 Safe & Sound (feat. The Civil Wars) -OST-

2012 70 Eyes Open -OST-

2012 22 Both Of Us (B.o.B feat. Taylor Swift)

2012 04 We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together -1- MILLIONAIRE

2012 30 Begin Again -PS-

2012 26 Red -PS-

2012 02 I Knew You Were Trouble. -2- MILLIONAIRE

2012 36 State Of Grace -PS-

2012 07 Everything Has Changed (feat. Ed Sheeran) -4-

2013 09 22 -3-

2013 45 Sweeter Than Fiction -OST-

2013 25 The Last Time (feat. Gary Lightbody) -5-

2014 02 Shake It Off -1- MILLIONAIRE

2014 39 Welcome To New York -IG-

2014 04 Blank Space -2- MILLIONAIRE

2015 21 Style -3-

2015 04 Bad Blood (feat. Kendrick Lamar) -4-

2015 40 Wildest Dreams -5-

2016 05 I Don't Wanna Live Forever (ZAYN & Taylor Swift) -OST- MILLIONAIRE

2017 01 Look What You Made Me Do -1- MILLIONAIRE

2017 07 ...Ready For It? -2-

2017 15 Gorgeous -3-

2017 29 Call It What You Want -IG-

2017 49 End Game (feat. Ed Sheeran & Future) -4-

2018 45 Delicate -5-

2019 03 ME! (feat. Brendon Urie) -1-

2019 05 You Need To Calm Down -2-

2019 43 The Archer -IG-

2019 14 Lover -3-

2019 21 The Man -4-

2019 27 Cruel Summer -AT-

2019 44 Christmas Tree Farm -NAS-

2020 57 Only The Young -NAS-

2020 06 cardigan -1-

2020 08 exile (feat. Bon Iver) -AT-

2020 10 the 1 -AT-

2020 03 willow -1-

2020 15 champagne problems -AT-

2020 19 no body, no crime (feat. HAIM) -AT-

2021 12 Love Story (Taylor's Version) -1-

2021 52 You All Over Me (Taylor's Version) (feat. Maren Morris) -2-

2021 30 Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor's Version) -3-

2021 52 You Belong With Me (Taylor's Version) -AT-

2021 73 Renegade (Big Red Machine feat. Taylor Swift)

2021 25 Wildest Dreams (Taylor's Version) -1*-

2021 03 All Too Well (Taylor's Version) -1-

2021 18 State Of Grace (Taylor's Version) -AT-

2021 22 Red (Taylor's Version) -AT-

2022 02 The Joker And The Queen (Ed Sheeran feat. Taylor Swift)

2022 88 the lakes -AT-

2022 42 This Love (Taylor's Version) -2*-

2022 77 Don't Blame Me -AT-

2022 63 Carolina -OST-

2022 78 august -AT-

2022 01 Anti-Hero -1-

2022 03 Lavender Haze -AT-

2022 04 Snow On The Beach (feat. Lana Del Rey) -AT-

 

2 x #1 | 16 x Top 5 | 22 x Top 10 | 29 x Top 20 | 44 x Top 40 | 64 x Top 100

 

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I think Meghan could potentially do a Gayle in the new year and get #1!

I think Meghan could potentially do a Gayle in the new year and get #1!

That’s if Taylor manages to get hit by ACR when she’s due for it

Is unholy move acr

:thinking: Future chart hit? :thinking:

 

Stormzy

Tracks from This Is What I Mean

 

 

Released: 25th November 2022

Label: 0207 Def Jam

 

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Biography

 

Grime attracts big personalities, but even by the genre’s imposing standards, Stormzy isn’t so much a rapper as a force of nature: a 6’5” lyrical whirlwind boasting a powerhouse voice and one of the most impressive ascents in pop music, stepping up to headline Glastonbury within five years of his debut EP. Born Michael Ebenazer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Jr. in 1993, Stormzy was still a boy when grime was in its infancy, and he came up battling fellow teens at youth centers in his native Croydon, London. By the time he was 20, he had launched his “WickedSkengMan” series, uploading freestyles over classic grime beats, and he swiftly developed a rep for his tough staccato flow and pugnacious attitude. Fittingly, Stormzy performed his 2015 single “Shut Up,” one of his earliest hits, at a heavyweight boxing match. “I set trends, dem man copy/They catch feelings, I catch bodies,” he raps on the song, and it’s true that when he throws down the gauntlet, he tends to make history: 2015’s “WickedSkengMan 4” was the first freestyle ever to break into the UK Top 40, and in 2017, his debut album, Gang Signs & Prayer, was the first grime album to go to No. 1 in the UK charts, 14 years after Dizzee Rascal’s Mercury Prize-winning Boy in da Corner first carved out a space in UK pop for the upstart underground genre. But Stormzy quicky proved himself interested in more than just besting his rivals, instead using his platform to become the voice of conscience for young and marginalized people across the UK. At Glastonbury 2017, he delivered a moving tribute to the victims of that summer’s Grenfell Tower fire; at the 2018 BRIT Awards, he aimed a scathing freestyle at Prime Minister Theresa May, whose government he accused of negligence after the fire. Musically, too, Stormzy has shown a willingness to push beyond grime’s traditional limits, dipping into R&B and gospel as he vacillates between taunts and introspection. “I would be a bit fake if I just gave you pure grime albums,” Stormzy told Apple Music. “I’m going to embrace my musicality because that is true to me as well. I love melody and I love R&B and I love pop music. Bruv, I’m going to do whatever I like.” - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

2015 49 Know Me From -NAS-

2015 18 WickedSkengMan 4 -NAS-

2015 08 Shut Up -1- MILLIONAIRE

2015 49 Dude (Lethal Bizzle & Stormzy)

2017 06 Big For Your Boots -2- MILLIONAIRE

2017 21 Cold -3-

2017 22 Bad Boys (feat. Ghetts & J Hus) -AT-

2017 25 First Things First -AT-

2017 29 Mr Skeng -AT-

2017 30 Cigarettes & Cush (feat. Kehlani & Lily Allen) -AT-

2017 48 Velvet / Jenny Francis (Interlude) -AT-

2017 53 Return Of The Rucksack -AT-

2017 07 Blinded By Your Grace, Pt. 2 (feat. MNEK) -4- MILLIONAIRE

2017 58 100 Bags -AT-

2017 59 Blinded By Your Grace, Pt. 1 -AT-

2017 63 Don't Cry For Me (feat. Raleigh Ritchie) -AT-

2017 65 21 Gun Salute (Interlude) (feat. Wretch 32) -AT-

2017 68 Lay Me Bare -AT-

2017 100 Crazy Titch (Interlude) -AT-

2017 06 Power (Little Mix feat. Stormzy) MILLIONAIRE

2017 30 Ask Flipz (Krept & Konan feat. Stormzy)

2018 34 Let Me Down (Jorja Smith feat. Stormzy)

2019 01 Vossi Bop -1- MILLIONAIRE

2019 13 Shine Girl (MoStack feat. Stormzy)

2019 04 Crown -2-

2019 01 Take Me Back To London (Ed Sheeran feat. Stormzy) MILLIONAIRE

2019 20 Sounds Of The Skeng -NAS-

2019 22 Wiley Flow -PS-

2019 01 Own It (feat. Ed Sheeran & Burna Boy) -3- MILLIONAIRE

2019 06 Audacity (feat. Headie One) -IG-

2019 09 Lessons -AT-

2020 21 Still Disappointed -NAS-

2020 07 I Dunno (Tion Wayne feat. Dutchavelli & Stormzy)

2020 54 Real Life (Burna Boy feat. Stormzy)

2020 02 Ain't It Different (Headie One feat. AJ Tracey & Stormzy)

2020 43 Flavour (Loski & Stormzy)

2021 50 Skengman (Ghetts feat. Stormzy)

2021 02 Clash (Dave & Stormzy)

2022 61 Die Hard (Knucks & Stormzy)

2022 12 Mel Made Me Do It -NAS-

2022 07 Hide & Seek -1-

2022 26 Firebabe -IG-

 

3 x #1 | 6 x Top 5 | 14 x Top 10 | 18 x Top 20 | 28 x Top 40 | 42 x Top 100

 

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Is unholy move acr

It should be on ACR in next weeks chart if they haven’t avoided it that is

thank God for Taylor and Anti-Hero, the top 10 has 2 of the worst songs in the history of music with Anne Marie and Meghan

Alan Jones confirmed in the sales report that Unholy is going to ACR.

deserved for anti hero!

Ew at 'PSYCHO' still in the Top 10 I feel sick

Looks like Meghan could challenge Taylor for #1 next week with the latter unfortunately stalling at #2

Alan Jones confirmed in the sales report that Unholy is going to ACR.

That's fantastic, chart news of the month for me.

There are 15 Christmas songs in the chart this week:

 

18. Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You

23. Wham! - Last Christmas

40. Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmas

42. Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree

49. Michael Bublé - It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

54. Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone

55. Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me

57. The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York

62. Kelly Clarkson - Underneath The Tree

63. Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?

69. Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock

76. Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas

82. Andy Williams - It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year

84. Elton John - Step Into Christmas

96. Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime

Edited November 25, 20223 yr by daniellovesmusic

Fairytale of New York features twice in the Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas Special so it may get a boost from that so will definitely(?) be top 40 next week.

Yay for Taylor grabbing another week. I'd imagine she'll make 8 or 9 weeks now depending on any other competition which looks to be extremely slim.

Would love Anti-Hero to be this year's Christmas number 1, such an amazing song!

Would love Anti-Hero to be this year's Christmas number 1, such an amazing song!

Me too actually. Also helps it's got that jingle sound at the end too.

 

Hope 'Christmas Tree Farm' can sneak top 40 this year but probably won't.

Edited November 25, 20223 yr by Roba!

Don’t forget Shake It Off is now a million seller and not millionaire now :D