August 21, 20232 yr Jazzy’s new song at #48. I hope it scrapes into the top 40 come Friday and stops Rema or Rudimental from re-entering
August 21, 20232 yr 'How Does It Feel' and 'Talibans' on ACR, shame 'Unhealthy' can't get higher in the top 20 :(
August 21, 20232 yr Hozier very safe for number 1 on Friday with those sales. Hopefully Birdy can move up to 2 but top 3 would still be great for her.
August 21, 20232 yr It's been released on vinyl for the first time Hopefully it can hold on to get a top 75 re entry but it's probably unlikely.
August 21, 20232 yr Gross that both those country songs are so high up. Nothing against country music but they are the absolute pits as representation.
August 21, 20232 yr Ooh didn't know that Erasure GH was being released on vinyl, just gave them another sale :P
August 21, 20232 yr Not a great week for the singles chart where we're looking to only get one new entry and one that R1 are very unlikely to give airtime too
August 21, 20232 yr Lol at Dua doing cassettes too 😭 kinda iconic tbh. The only cassettes I buy is if there’s a cd/cassette/ signed art card bundle tbh. My cd player can play cassettes but the sound quality is so bad so I have a handful for collection purposes. Cool to see two #1 singles beck to beck with probably quite substantial cassette sales to them! Side note, ew at Oliver Anthony music being so high up 🤢
August 21, 20232 yr Why is Oliver Anthony referred to as “Oliver Anthony Music”? Like “Oliver Anthony Music has debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100” - tis weird. Sad for Birdy. Edited August 21, 20232 yr by Megan_x
August 21, 20232 yr Because that's what his music is tagged as on every streaming service. You'd have to ask him why. x
August 21, 20232 yr 'How Does It Feel' and 'Talibans' on ACR, shame 'Unhealthy' can't get higher in the top 20 :( This! I was sure ‘Unhealthy’ would go Top 10 at a minimum!
August 21, 20232 yr 1 Hozier - Unreal Unearth (14,641) [12,523 physicals, 1,656 downloads, 462 streaming]* 2 The View - Exorcism of Youth (4,113) * 3 Birdy - Portraits (3,126) Excellent for Hozier - it’s a brilliant album and a real return to form. I was expecting slightly better for Birdy - she seems to have done a lot with signings etc., - still a great result but I thought she might have shifted a bit more.
August 21, 20232 yr I dance the Night is the most substantial sang of the year, full of meaning and hidden-depth, encapsulating how people feel, dancing heartbroken in the club, their worlds crumbling, as they dance away, poueing their essence into the act of dance. This works as both a literal representation of dancing in a club to mask your worries, and also on a metaphorical level: how you can "dance" through your problems in life, adopting a zen approach to everything, and throwing yourself into life, even as your world crumbles around you. Moreover, it is also a analogue of Sia'a Chandelier, with the facile, superficial veneer of pop brought to the fore, whilst the hidden depths of Chandelier - partying to mask problems, putting on a party, or any type of, face to the world, whilst you have hidden pressures beneath, a world unknown - play out underneath. Also, the lyrics match he existential crisis that, really, is the meat of the Barbie's character. This is, of course, how Barbie buries her troubles under a facade of flawlessness. It is also a treatsie on the most typical cultural zeitgeist response to economic crisis: music that relates to partying, creating a disconnect between reality as is and reality as is portrayed in music, aka an idealised world juxtaposed against the world of boom and bust, bubble-bursting capitalism. I see you’ve discovered AI.
August 21, 20232 yr 29 Joel Corry - Another Friday Night The fact this is charting and it’s simply listed as a playlist on Spotify :lol: It’s essentially a Greatest Hits - a CD and vinyl release is coming but it’s going to be a 100+ week running smash platinum ‘album’ ala Becky Hill and Mabel.
August 21, 20232 yr 24 Oliver Anthony Music - Rich Men North of Richmond * Makes me physically sick to see this racist & antisemitic song this high. This is why the internet can be the pits at times.
August 21, 20232 yr So proud of Dua for creating the first ever real cassettes sold in the history of mankind ❤️
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