Sabrina Carpenter has the top two singles for a third week. Taylor Swift is back at the top of teh albums chart.
Sabrina Carpenter competes with herself at the top of the singles chart again. Taylor Swift is back at the top of the albums chart.
Sabrina Carpenter’s Please Please Please gets a third week at the top of the singles chart. As in the past two weeks, she beats herself to the top spot with Espresso remaining at number two for a fifth week in total. She is the first female artist to occupy the top two places in the singles chart for three successive weeks.
Shabooey remains at number three with A Bar Song (Tipsy). Chappell Roan’s Good Luck Babe climbs three places to number four in its twelfth week in the top forty. Billie Eilish slips back one place to number five with Birds Of A Feather.
Kid Laroi enters at number 30 with Nights Like This, his seventh top forty single. The best thing about it is that it is only about ninety seconds long although it feels like longer. It is the very epitome of a song that doesn’t go anywhere.
This week’s prize for crimes against proper writing goes to the trio of Bl3ss. CamrinWatsin and bbyclose. How are we supposed to teach children to write properly when they see illiterate nonsense like this presented as a legitimate set of names? The song Kisses, a new entry at number 35, is a bit of throwaway nonsense.
In another week lacking in big new releases Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department climbs back to number one once again. Unsurprisingly, it is the best-selling album of the yer so far at the half-way point of 2024. Noah Kahan’s Stick Season is the best-selling song so far.
Bilie Eilish climbs back up to number two with Hit Me Hard And Soft. Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism soars back up 24 places to number three after her headlining performance at Glastonbury last weekend. Two other Dua Lipa albums re-enter the chart and go straight back in to the top ten. Future Nostalgia is at number eight and her eponymous 2017 debut is at number ten. She also returns to the singles chart at number 38 with Houdini.
In chart terms, Imagine Dragons’ claim to fame is that they have spent 77 weeks in the top forty without ever making it into the top ten. Radioactive is responsible for 27 of those weeks. Furthermore, Believer has spent a full 34 weeks in the top 100 without managing a single week in the top forty. Their albums have performed rather better, in terms of peak position at least with each of them reaching the top teen. Even so, their debut set Night Visions spent a total of 59 weeks in the top forty without making it to the top. Their run of top ten albums successes continues this week as Loom enters at number five.
There is only one other new entry in the top forty. Camilla Cabello is at number twenty with C XOXO. It is, so far at least, her lowest peak in the albums chart.
When Johnny Cash died in 2003, he was enjoying a late renaissance in his career, due to the success of a 2002 album containing cover versions of songs such as Personal Jesus (Depeche Mode) and, most famously, Hurt (Nine Inch Nails). The album saw him return to the UK top forty albums chart after an absence of 30 years. His 1990s albums failed completely in the UK and made little impact on the charts in his native USA.
Given that history, it is not particularly surprising that there are unreleased recordings from the 1990s in the archives. What is rather more surprising is that many of the songs on the newly-released Songwriter are great. They range from the fun of Well Alright to the near spoken word storytelling reminiscent of old songs such as A Boy Named Sue or One Piece At A Time. Sadly the album didn’t quite make the top forty, finishing at number 42.
Published on: 2024-07-06 on BuzzJack by Suedehead2 | Views: 1326
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