Official Singles Chart Top 40 on 15/10/2021

After some help finding an artist.
Saw a video the other day, can't remember what channel on tv, there was a young woman with blue hair coming out of a display that looks like Night at the Museum, I can only remember the word "Stay" in the title and I think the artist began with a "T"..... Can anyone help? TIA

off-topic but has anyone here watched squid game? i just started binging it this week cause i kept hearing about it on the internet, and it is brilliant. it’s very brutal though...

tell me something good is awful. i think it’s one of the worst songs i’ve heard this year. i literally thought my ears were bleeding when i heard it lol. anyways, how has everyone’s weekend been? hoping alone with you climbs!

Can't believe the amazing new single by Kylie and Years&Years "a second to midnight" didn't crack the top 100...shameless, on the other hand, so happy to see Grace Davies first top 100 entrance with Roots, being she all alone on promoting and sharing her music

So glad to see Grace Davies with roots finally in the official chart's she deserves its taken 4 years and no label as a independent artist her fan base got her here and now many more to come. Congratulations Grace.

Best #100 we’ve had in weeks 🙊

Money continues it's form. It seems to have blown all over the world lately

And to all those that want to see Dance Monkey go, they'll have to wait at least a week because it's still hanging on at 100. But you have to appreciate the fact that this song has been held down on the charts since 2019. I also recommend checking other songs from Tones and I for those who hated Dance Monkey. She's a really talented artist and there's so much to her other than this song

Love Tonight goes to the top 20. I already looked this song, but the Robin Schulz remix just makes me love it more. Such nice stuff 😁

So happy to see Lisa climbing higher in the charts 😍

Well. Jesy Nelson has done well to get to number 4 with Boyz. It is dreadful! Why is she singing with that horrible voice in the verses? And the lyrics!! Lol! Sorry Jesy but you need to go back to the drawing board. Nice to see Elton and Dua at number 1. Interested to see how Maneskin do with their new song Mammamia. Could be a slow burn like their previous hit Beggin?

Easy On Me - Adele doing Adele, doing what Adele does. If you like what's come before, you'll love it. If you want a little variety, then perhaps the album might have it. That said, 33M Youtube Views in 20 hours? Most streamed song on Spotify in history for one day? (according to Wiki). Fair to say quite a bit of on interest in it. Be fascinating to see if it can close to 259K paid sales of Hello (wk1) in this day and age.

Boyz - There are some curious choices made here. And it seems not many have landed perhaps as intended.

Cold Heart - It's effectively a Megamix, isn't it? But the combination of canny mixing, guest current superstars, classic songs most know, and a video making the most of the concept is a superb bit of marketing approach. Given the dancefloor friendly groove, and Christmas coming, a bigger seller this way comes. Gotta give it to Elton, that's how you maintain a career presence. Will we ever see that again?

My chart review:

🔴 Bad:
1) Drive falls. It's such a great song at I'm really annoyed that it didn't get past 33.
2) rumors falls again. It's my favourite rap collaboration of 2021.
3) Friday isn't in the chart.
4) meet me at our spot climbs. It's just the genre of rock that I hate as a whole so nothing personal towards the Song.

💛 Medium:
1)I guess I'm in love is still in the top forty; however, it's falling so I'm happy about that.
2) alone with you and life goes are both on the charts. They are both alright songs and I think life goes on has potential to climb.

🍏 Good
1) cold heart number 1. I've said alot about it already but it's a great song and I think Dua deserved it so much.
2) love tonight getting into the top 20. It's so great to see EDM songs doing well in the charts again.
3) happier than ever falls, which is pleasing because I think the vocals aren't great in it.
4)Boyz is the highest new entry. It's really growing on me even though it sounds like it was from sometime around 2005 and Nicki Minaj barely says anything.
5) Tell me something good finally gets into the top 40. It's another great advert for EDM
6) Dance monkey hanging in the top 100
7) Driver's license not in the chart

Just proves how streaming is to blame for making a very stagnant top 100.
There are quite a few singles which have been inside the top 100 for at least a year.
This prevents new material to come along.
This would never have happened in a physical format age because typically once someone's bought the single it peaks within a few weeks and drops away a few weeks later meaning new singles came into the chart keeping it fresh and active.
But because fans now use Spotify for example as their player it causes songs to stay in the charts for many months sometimes over a year, and in one or two cases 2 years.
This is very very sad to me.
Just browse the charts and see how many weeks each single has been over 52 weeks and you will be shocked, or I was anyway.

Fantastic to see Grace Davies get into the official Top 100. As an independent artist with no PR machine or record label to promote her, she thoroughly deserves more exposure than she is getting. C’mon BBC and other radio stations, get her on your stations playlists. She can’t offer free drinks at a record label bash but she can offer true talent.

The reign of terror by Ed Sheeran has finally come to and end.

So bit of a shame that the Kylie/Years and Years song didn't hold on in the 100 from the update chart. But pleased to see Lost Frequencies and Calum Scott enter, Whitney climb and the underrated Sam Fender start to get the success he deserves.

Combined sales for the Top 10:

1) Elton John, Dua Lipa, PNAU - 'Cold Heart (PNAU Remix)’ (63,928)
2) Ed Sheeran - 'Shivers’ (59,865)
3) CKay - 'love nwantiti (ah ah ah)’ (37,031)
4) Jesy Nelson ft. Nicki Minaj - 'Boyz’ (34,693)
5) Glass Animals - 'Heat Waves’ (31,620)
6) Central Cee - 'Obsessed With You' (31,095)
7) Lil Nas X ft. Jack Harlow - 'INDUSTRY BABY' (28,454)
8) Ed Sheeran - 'Bad Habits' (27,687)
9) Joel Corry, Jax Jones ft. Charli XCX, Saweetie - 'OUT OUT’ (27,420)
10) Billie Eilish - ‘Happier Than Ever’ (25,228)

woman is the best song on the chart

Cold Heart at #1 ayyy, it's been long overdue 🔥

cold heart is aight

WEEKLY CHART REVIEW (15/10/2021 – 21/10/2021)

🔴 (Negative)

1) ‘Boyz’ inevitably ends up as the new entry of the week, inside the Top 3! Man, I really like Jesy Nelson in general as a singer, but this kind of song just doesn’t work for her, at all. The thing is, I’m not all surprised that she decided to go solo, since she recently revealed in interviews how out of place she felt compared to the other Little Mix girls despite all the support that they gave her, but I’ve always thought of her as the member who always brought the most swagger & sass to the group’s singles! Here, for a song that’s meant to be attracting a rebellious guy, her vocals sound incredibly thin & weak in the verses, while the hook feels way too overcompressed & monotonic for it to sound anywhere close to flirty or enticing. The verse from Nicki sounds so phoned in too, to the point where I don’t remember any of it literally by the end of the song hardly a minute later! Again, Jesy absolutely doesn’t deserve all the hate she’s been getting on social media about her appearance or straying away from Jade, Leigh-Anne & Perrie, but for as much as I respect her as a person for having to put with all of that abuse for years, if she keeps releasing songs as dated & derivative as this, then the hype isn’t going to last! We saw it happen with ZAYN a few years ago, I really don’t want to see the same thing with Jesy. :/

2) Radio 1 continue to choose the same songs to play & they really disappointed me again! Seriously, the first one makes me sad for personal reasons (‘I Guess I’m In Love’) & the two that followed give me a splitting headache (‘Bad Day’ & ‘Life Goes On’).

3) ‘Wid It’ drops out of the Top 40 this week! I don’t get why this soured on so many people so fast, but ‘Wasted’ has completely stabilised.

🟠 (Mixed)

1) Arz gained a few places with ‘Alone With You’! It’s growing on me slightly, but whenever I hear this, I’m always reminded of how underrated ‘Hostage’ (the Billie Eilish song that it samples) is.

2) ‘Clash’ is the biggest ACR victim this week! Two of my favourite British rappers feature on this, but it still had a very good run, so I’m not too disheartened about it leaving.

🟢 (Positive)

1) I already wrote a completely separate post about this, but ‘Cold Heart’ as the new #1 single is so good to see that it has to be mentioned twice! It’s really satisfying seeing an older artist still being able to top this chart in an era dominated by streaming & while I’ll always be disappointed inside that Dua Lipa never got here with a song from ‘Future Nostalgia’, this at least mostly makes up for it.

2) Relating to the above point, Ed Sheeran’s 15 consecutive weeks at #1 are finally over! Again, I don’t even mind either of the songs he’s recently been at the top with, but seeing the same artist at the top of the charts for this long was always going to get boring, no matter who it is.

3) ‘Love Tonight’ enters the Top 20! This definitely stands out in terms of EDM hits that we’ve had in 2021, whether it’s the original or any of the remixes by some of those, massive DJs, e.g. David Guetta, Robin Schulz, etc.

4) ‘Meet Me At Our Spot’ also entered the Top 20 this week, continuing an incredibly successful year for rock or at the very least rock-influenced music! Willow’s & Tyler Cole’s vocals are an amazing fir for one another, so it’s awesome that Radio 1 are all over this right now.

5) Despite being narrowly denied a place in the region last week, ‘Tell Me Something Good’ has finally broken into the Top 40! The soulful vocals from Chaka Khan’s original version were always going to be a massive selling point for me, but I particularly love how it’s juxtaposed over the bubbling, rolling bass. I’m not sure how I feel about the sharp stabs of the rave synths in places, but they’re yet another feature of the production that really ramps up the energy behind this without taking away much of the funkiness from the song of the same name from 37 years ago! Older listeners or those who aren’t into EDM very much might not feel that this take on it does the original 1974 hit any justice, but to everyone else, it’s a lot of fun & I’d highly recommend it.

6) ‘Seventeen Going Under’ goes Top 40 thanks to the album boost! Honestly, Sam Fender sounds absolutely incredible here & the instrumentation that he’s belting over makes his voice even more impressive. Glad that he finally makes the region for the first time in his career!

7) Speaking of which, the parent album for the same name easily debuts at #1 on the albums chart! I actually haven’t ‘Seventeen Going Under’ in full yet, but I’ve either liked or loved every track from it that’s been getting at least some airplay, so that has to be a promising sign, right?

8) I’ll save my full commentary on this until next week, but man, the nearly six years we’ve been waiting for Adele to release new music was definitely worth it! I don’t think ‘Easy On Me’ is her strongest of lead singles by any means & I think it would’ve worked better as an album closer (which is very unlikely for the first song to be officially released from it), but it still has all the classic features of an Adele ballad that we all know & love, so I’m really glad that we’re continuing to hear that side of her in this. Probably a light 9/10 & that’s not even after 24 hours yet, so expect that score to go up before next Friday!

My latest personal chart (replace the * with an “o”): www.crownnote.c*m/charts/piran/pirans-top-50-11

Glad Elton is number 1 fr.
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Hopefully LIZZO will come out with a new single soon! Really was expecting RUMORS to have a better success in both the UK and the USA!!

Also worth mentioning that Elton John has made chart history tonight by becoming the first ever artist to have Top 10 singles in six different decades. :)

How come the beautiful new single from MANESKIN is only at 53??!!

Great to see Elton John at number 1 and Sam fender in the top 40. Asides that, this charts feels dated

was hoping for GRIFF to reach the Top 40 this week as she had a huge climb in the chart last week!!

Congrats Elton & Dua!

TOM GRENNAN is such a talented artist!! What an amazing voice.. So pleased to see him climbing again this week with "DON'T BREAK THE HEART"...

Elton John back at number one. Cold Heart being at number one technically means Sacrifice has topped the chart twice.

Hopefull MIMI WEBB "24/5" can reach a new peak once her hugely awaited 1st LP comes out next week.

FINALLY!!! someone other than the ginger pleb at number 1!! beautiful sight, isn’t it? 😍

my lovely DOJA CAT is spending her 5th week at 14 this week! So close week after week to reach the Top 10!! 5 consecutive weeks at 14, that may be a first?

Dermot at 24..was expecting BETTER DAYS to reach the Top 20 this week but still glad to see him climbing the chart this week!

BECKY HILL is having another great week! Do hope for another Top 10 for her soon?

Okay, since it’s almost certainly going to be #1 next week, what’s everyone’s thoughts on ‘Easy On Me’?

Let’s find out if the huge hype for Adele’s comeback on here after nearly six years was worth it! (Spoiler: Much to nobody’s surprise, I think it definitely was, haha.)

Welcome back, Adele! 👑

So happy to see ELTON JOHN at number 1! I never expected the single to top the chart!!

A cold heart? That’s what you get after having shivers for a whole month! ;)

hi guys! how are you today?

Honestly, this has been a very rough week for me personally, but man, Scott Mills announcing ‘Cold Heart’ as the UK’s biggest song a few minutes ago has cheered me up massively. :)

It’s so refreshing to see not only a global music icon back at #1 in the singles chart, but he’s also accompanied by genuinely one of the brightest & freshest talents in pop music of the past few years in my opinion, all with an amazingly groovy & upbeat disco anthem to boot.

Congratulations Elton & Dua! ❤️