this almost sounds like a 60s song, very retro

Really like Until I Found You - hope its recent Spotify collapse proves to have been just a glitch.

Nice big climb for this! I wasn't sure where it was heading after mysteriously plummeting on Spotify yesterday.

Oddly, the two songs I've really started liking this week are

 

Rumble... and... Until I Found You.

 

Diverse taste in music, me thinks.

Edited January 13, 20233 yr by CJK

Until I Found You is another one that has something about it that makes it stand out and sound different.

 

I'm not personally massive on this one but really loving to see more variety of sounds in the top 40, may this continue.

15 | 17 | 12th week

 

Stormzy

Hide & Seek

 

 

1st single from This Is What I Mean

Released: 14th October 2022

Label: 0207 Def Jam

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (27/10/2022) | 7-7-7-10-8-8-7-23-42-44-x

RE (12/01/2023) | 17-15

 

Sales: 200k+

Certification: Silver

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

08 Sales

09 Audio Streaming

01 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

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 05 Firebabe (feat. Debbie) -2-

2022 32 This Is What I Mean (feat. Black Sherif, Amaarae & Ms Banks) -AT-

 

3 x #1 | 7 x Top 5 | 15 x Top 10 | 19 x Top 20 | 29 x Top 40 | 43 x Top 100

 

Social Media

 

Stormzy

 

http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png

H&S can go away

Playing the FLO remix! My first time hearing this version.

H&S can go away

 

Like Firebabe did after Alexa's Christmas influence expired. :kink:

Yes this H&S is really dull although marginally better acoustic

FLO getting a play on the chart show *.*

Like Firebabe did after Alexa's Christmas influence expired. :kink:

Yet R1 still have it on their playlist

14 | 83 | 2nd week

 

Miguel

Sure Thing

 

 

2nd single from All I Want Is You

Released: 30th November 2010

Label: JIVE Records

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (12/01/2023) | 83-14

 

Sales: -

Certification: -

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

00 Sales

39 Audio Streaming

00 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

Miguel’s sound evolves every time he encounters a new way to express love—and as one of pop’s friskiest experimentalists, that means his career is a study in subverting the very notion of a conventional R&B star. The singer/songwriter born Miguel Jontel Pimentel (Los Angeles, 1985) was drawn to music’s insider/outsiders from the beginning, mimicking the moves of Michael Jackson at family gatherings at age three, and later drawing both artistic and sartorial inspiration from the likes of David Bowie, Prince, and Jimi Hendrix. So when it came time for his 2010 debut, All I Want Is You, Miguel flouted tradition by moving elegantly, sexily, both within and beyond his assigned genre. In back-to-back tracks, he slid from boom-bap soul to vulnerable a cappella to uptempo electro-funk. His confidence found composure on 2012’s Kaleidoscope Dream, which sounds as Technicolor and wondrous as the title suggests. Single “Adorn” merged timeless soul and modern production as seamlessly as it did deep love and physical longing, while songs like “P**** Is Mine” flipped expectations by casting Miguel as one of his partner’s many lovers, begging for validation. On 2015’s Wildheart, he dove deeper into psych rock, incorporating his own guitar and a Lenny Kravitz cameo into raw, grinding cuts that also supported Kurupt rapping and Miguel singing in Spanish. By 2017’s War & Leisure, he seemed to be flitting across genres just to prove he could: The sunny, pop-adjacent “Pineapple Skies” fit him just as snugly as the trippy, Travis Scott-assisted “Sky Walker.” That latter track seems to best capture the man as he coos out lyrical flexes both winkingly self-aware and genuinely braggy. Chameleon though he may be, Miguel is always Miguel—humorous, smart, and full of passion—no matter the setting. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

2013 46 Power Trip (J. Cole feat. Miguel)

2013 22 #Beautiful (Mariah Carey feat. Miguel)

2013 49 Adorn -1-

2015 56 Everyday (A$AP Rocky feat. Miguel, Rod Stewart & Mark Ronson)

2015 97 Coffee (feat. Wale) -1-

2017 86 Lost In Your Light (Dua Lipa feat. Miguel)

2018 69 Remind Me To Forget (Kygo & Miguel)

2022 30 Don't Forget My Love (Diplo & Miguel)

2023 14 Sure Thing -1-

 

0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 0 x Top 10 | 1 x Top 20 | 3 x Top 40 | 9 x Top 100

 

Social Media

 

Miguel

 

http://i.imgur.com/1SERq1f.png

Yes Miguel. I don’t have an issue with old songs being given a reset if it means that it’s certain to gain a new peak

Final rest Miguel

Seems that post Kate Bush everyone can get a reset. Wonder when Neighbourhood will get theirs?

Again, weird to have something that sounds so of its time back in the chart but not complaining.

 

Decent enough song and again contributing to the variety of different sounds in this chart.

Seems that post Kate Bush everyone can get a reset. Wonder when Neighbourhood will get theirs?

 

My 100th obligatory complaint about 505 never getting reset

Stormzy needs to grow some balls and make some proper music again

I'm happy for Miguel getting an overdue hit on his own.

 

This is alright, but 'Adorn' is so much better.