Official Singles Chart on 1/3/2019

Why have you taken the printable link away, I used to print them every week

Oh great, another generic piano ballad, as if we don't have enough of those already! There's nothing special or original about "Someone You Loved", it'll be forgotten about before the end of the year.

I am glad to have finally a HIT, A BOMB at number 1, well deserved! Also Pink is good!

No # 1 in our hearts = Deekline - Be Happy (VIP)

This week there are three songs with a number as their title: 365, 187, 2002, another 5 songs with a number in their title: 7 RINGS, ONE KISS, 11 MINUTES, 18HUNNA, A MILLION DREAMS and 6 artists with names that include (or are) numbers: MAROON 5, 1975, HEADIE ONE, 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER, 21 SAVAGE, 6IX9INE. Just saying!

congrats to Pink! from the few that left from the old generation and still charts to the top10

Enjoy
https://youtu.be/J3_CMs7Ilrk

My thoughts & observations on the UK charts as always…

- ‘Someone You Loved’ becomes Lewis Capaldi’s first ever #1 single! This week, it accumulated 58,000 combined sales, which includes 6 million audio streams.

- With ‘Giant’ by Calvin Harris & Rag’n’Bone Man at #2, it marks the first time since November 2011 that Scottish acts have occupied the Top 2 spots of the singles chart in the same week.

- Lewis Capaldi is also the first male artist to hit #1 in 2019, which is the longest wait in a calendar year for men to reach the top spot since 2009 (‘Right Round’ by Flo Rida was the first male #1 of that year on 7th March).

- ‘Dancing With A Stranger’ by Sam Smith & Normani is #1 on the national radio airplay chart for a fifth consecutive week.

- ‘7 Rings’ by Arana Grande, does however, return to #1 on the YouTube chart with 2.78 million weekly views (a 13.7 percent decrease from the week before). She has replaced herself at #1 on this chart for a second week in a row.

- P!NK – WALK ME HOME (#8)
I’ll be totally honest, despite her closing the BRITs & getting the Outstanding Contribution To Music award, I thought this would still drop fast throughout the week due to its struggling streams. Thankfully, radio & sales held up well & it was definitely deserved! If there’s one thing I’ve always enjoyed about P!NK as a singer, it’s that she rarely holds back when it comes to belting vocals & here’s another example of that! Although, despite her powerful voice & the stomping beat, she actually seeks comfort from a lover at the end of the day & she’s apprehensive about being alone with all of the trouble that’s happening around her. I still think I’ll almost always prefer her classic pop-punk eras more than anything she’ll do in this lane, but that honestly doesn’t mean a lot here, because I really like this regardless! Solid 8/10.

- YNW MELLY – MURDER ON MY MIND (#31)
Yeah, just looking at the title of this, I immediately had a bad feeling about it… turns out I was right! Even if we put aside the horrifying coincidence that he very recently got charged with killing two people to the title of the song, it’s ultimately just another disposable & irritating trap song! The grainy trap beat & the heavily autotuned vocals are bad enough just by themselves, so why did anyone thinking combining them would improve matters? It really doesn’t! I mean, there’s at least a good idea of a piano line, but it’s so oddly placed in the mix that it kills any trajectory this song was trying to take. Also, I can kind of see how people would find this song menacing, but YNW Melly quickly goes off-topic to flexing. So yeah, the artist might be bad for his current legal situation, so I guess it’s fitting in a way that his first charting UK is also not worthy of success too. I’m thinking a 3/10!

- DAVE – BLACK (#40)
This had every reason to chart this week, with Dave announcing details of his upcoming debut album, all of his tracks flooding the Top 40 without warning recently & this song even getting some controversy among listeners. You know what though, I’m so glad the Radio 1 DJ’s were on Dave’s side here, because I totally agree with what Annie Mac said about this being an important & thought provoking message to spread, with Dave giving his beliefs on what being “black” actually means to him. You can also tell that he sung this with more passion than ever, even if the choppy flow & scattered production kind of killed the suspense for me a bit. Overall, I don’t know if I’m going to engage this song too much & artists like Kendrick Lamar for example do hits like this better, but you know what, it’s nice to see Dave bring anti-racism to the charts & contextually, we need more singles about other people’s cultures. For now, I’m thinking a solid 7/10 for this!

- On the albums chart, ‘Thank U, Next’ by Ariana Grande is #1 for a third consecutive week, with a lead of 5,000 combined sales.

- The rest of the Top 5 is: ‘The Greatest Showman [Soundtrack]’ (stationary at #2), ‘A Star Is Born [Soundtrack]’ (stationary at #3), ‘Bohemian Rhapsody [Soundtrack]’ (stationary at #4) & ‘Staying At Tamara’s’ by George Ezra (stationary at #5). Despite last week’s BRITs, it’s the first time the Top 5 of the albums chart hasn’t changed since the first week of August last year.

- Looking ahead to next week, these songs could enter the Top 40 for the first time: ‘Sucker’ by The Jonas Brothers, ‘Nobody’ by Martin Jensen & James Arthur, ‘Saint’ by Alexis Ashley, ‘Juice’ by Lizzo, ‘Flux’ by Ellie Goulding, ‘Rule The World’ by 2 Chainz ft Ariana Grande, ‘Robbery’ by Juice WRLD & maybe even more.

- Thanks for reading everyone! I hope you all have a good weekend. :)

- My latest Crown Note chart: http://crownnote.com/charts/piran-delves/pirans-top-40-118