The Suedehead2 Sub Chart Commentary 12th May 2023

 

Calvin & Ellie’s 5th Miracle week and Ed Sheeran’s 6th album No. 1

 

It’s 5 weeks on top for Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding’s Miracle, managing to hold off a challenge from David Kushner who still sits in the Daylight at 2. With his new album out (-) Ed Sheeran rises back up to 3 with Eyes Closed, with (yawn) Libianca and Rema still rounding off the top 5. Fifty Fifty rise 2 to 8 with Cupid which is one behind the position the classic Sam Cooke song of the same name reached in the UK chart in 1961. Johnny Nash’s cover version hit 6 in 1969 and the Detroit Spinners’ mash-up hit 4 in 1980, so the girls still have some more peaking to do.

 

New in at 9 is a The Krown Jewelz and their happy little ditty, Stop The Monarchy. They usually wait for Xmas to release singles under a regular alias. I could be wrong, but I get the impression they are peeved about lots of stuff. Who knows, maybe it will make all the difference in the 2024 General Election. Ed Sheeran is Minus 2 big hits, and it’s probably safe to change the chart rules again, as it’s Curtains for Ed at 16 and and his sunken Boat manages to keep afloat bobbing about a bit for a week at 15 after failing to go top 40 as a Grat track the other week. Plus side, he won his court case on the grounds that Marvin Gaye’s family erroneously seem to think they own every note of music that Marvin Gaye borrowed from previous songwriters. As all songwriters do - it’s called “genres” and “being inspired by”. Still, only another 45 years or so before the majority of Gaye-written songs fall out of copyright forever, so better get those court cases in soon!

 

Tyler The Creator and Kali Uchis are up to a new peak of 21 with See You Again, and Florence + The Machine are returning at 27 with a surprise boost for Dog Days Are Over, thanks to the key spot in the rather good Guardians Of The Galaxy Volume 3. Classic Florence is always welcome to me, never not good, so yay for Marvel going for a great track right after I’d almost finished furtively wiping away all the tears when I saw the film.

 

Bring Me The Horizon are new at 29 with LosT, which will please at least one member of my family. Not me, necessarily, but it’s the UK Rock Band’s 3rd top 40 single since 2014’s Drown hit 17. Given, y’know, streaming-era, that’s quite an achievement for a rock act. Rudimental are also returning, at 33, with Dancing Is Healing, a sentiment I can agree with as a general aim, though not if you have a broken leg. It’s 11 years since they debuted with the first of 3 chart-toppers Feel The Love, and 11 years later they grab their 13th top 40 hit, aided and abetted by Charlotte Plank, and Vibe Chemistry who gets a 2nd top 40 credit.

 

Someone else is Healing, and it’s Tion Wayne at 35, or Dennis as his family call him, who is on his 10th top 40 hit, including one UK number one with Body 2 years ago. That leaves a Jazzy number 38, Giving Me a new entry comment to write about a repetitive Irish House (it says here) dance number with the immortal line “yer givin me rat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat tat ta”. Apologies if I over-did the tat’s, it’s hard to keep count. I’ve assumed she’s seeing a Tattoo artist she met at the club and took back for some free artwork. It’s Jazzy’s debut hit single, and she’s young and from Ireland.

 

And onto albums, it was a no-brainer that Minus (-) was going to be Ed Sheeran’s 6th number one with the highest physical sales figure and total sales for any week so far in 2023. That’s still less than 100,000 though, so I would guess the low-key nature of the album’s mood has made his fans less keen to overplay it just yet. Not to worry though, they’ve been inspired to play the recharting = and divide. I can’t use the symbol for divide as my laptop is an old Mac from the 00’s and we were too poor to afford all Maths symbols on keyboards in those days. Nines, meanwhile holds at 2 with Crop Circle 2, The Weeknd’s Highlights still can’t get to number one, so settles for 3, and Taylor Swift’s Midnights is at 5, leaving a new entry at 4 for Tunde on his First Lap. Sadly not the same Tunde from the Lighthouse Family, this one’s the rapper involved in a firearms altercation, which of course clearly never hurts career development in this genre of music.

 

Tom Meighan is new at 17 with The Reckoning, the former Kasabian lead singer debuting his first solo album just outside the top 10 which he can add to the 7 actual top 10‘s Kasabian achieved. Therapy? Yes, indeed, chart Therapy at 29 with Cold Hard Fire which sounds like a double oxymoron to me. The Northern Ireland band have been knocking about for 32 years now and are on their 8th top 40 album, but their first studio album to go top 40 since 1998! So, a bit of a comeback. That concludes the album new entry shortlist after last week’s invasion, unless I mention Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream returning at 38 following the King’s Coronation Concert. It first charted at the start of the last decade when downloading was all the rage and vinyl was old hat.

but it’s the UK Rock Band’s 3rd top 40 single since 2014’s Drown hit 17

 

It's actually their fifth! Parasite Eve, Obey, Teardrops, Maybe (as a feature), and now this.

oops obviously didnt scroll down far enough...! Thanks for the info...