Official Singles Chart Top 40 on 13/10/2023

I'm really upset that Doja Cat has been trying for ages to get no #1 and then Kenya Grace comes out of nowhere and goes straight to number 1. First Chart that has made me sad since 2020 😭😭😭

my top 20 (15.10. 2023.)

1. (3) X-PRESS 2 ft KELE OKEREKE – phasing you out

2. (1) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB – turn the world on (2weeks at No.1)

3. (2) NICHOLAS CANGIANO – falling behind

4. (4) KULA SHAKER – waves

5. (6) DJ SHADOW – you played me

6. NEW – TOM ODELL – black Friday

7. (29) THE NATIONAL – deep end (Paul's in pieces)

8. (13) JOHNNY MARR – somewhere

9. (32) TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB – sure enough

10. (35) GIRL AND GIRL – strangers (fight night )

11. (14) NATION OF LANGUAGE – surely I can't wait

12. (16) INCOGNITO ft NATALIE DUNCAN – keep me in the dark

13. (9) THE KILLERS – your side of town

14. (11) SAMPHA – only

15. (5) THE NATIONAL – alphabet city / space invader (2weeks at No.1)

16. (10) KUNGS ft SHADOW CHILD – changes

17. (8) THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS ft BECK – skipping like a stone (2weeks at No.1)

18. (34) JAZZY – NRG

19. (12) PURPLE DISCO MACHINE ft DUKE DUMONT & NOTHING BUT THIEVES – something on my mind

20. (7) ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK – Bauhaus staircase

............new songs at chart (top 45)..........

33. NEW – GUS GUS ft VOK – when we sing

34. NEW – ROMY – she's on my mind

36. NEW – SUFJAN STEVENS – a running start

39. NEW – ROYEL OTIS – fried rice

41. NEW – THE UNDERCOVER DREAM LOVER – sink or swim

Olivia Rodrigo's music's . Be good if she dropped dead

Its all completely hopeless.

Well every time I look onto the top 40 half the songs are absolute bang average and way too overrated. Most of those songs shouldn't even be on the list at all. Olivia Rodrigo has such an average voice and I know girls personally that sing better than her, the music is always the same style and there is absolutely no star quality about her compared to female legends in the music industry, same goes for Dua Lipa, Lana del rey, etc, they may as well all be sisters living in the same house. 

Don't get me wrong some of them are good and deserve to be up there but its really underwhelming of what the British public rate as "music hits"

Taylor Swift makes better music than all them female artists just mentioned combined, however she is NOT famous to the levels of Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury, Elvis, Madonna, Britney Spears, Adele, and never will be. Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Madonna are better than her. She is NO where near Michael Jackson famous. If you think she is then you do not know anything about music and u should pursue a hobby outside of music and give ur head a wobble.

Even Harry Styles is far better and successful than Taylor Swift.

I love seeing classics on there from the 80's and 90's making comebacks. I hope to see Thriller get up to the top 10 in the week of halloween. 70's to 90's artists are under appreciated by the younger generation. Most artists that have the titles of "King or Queen" changed the music industry and current artists today should thank them because half the artists would not exist today if it wasn't for our music legends. 

Overall, the UK's taste of what "music hits" are in this day and age is absolutely appalling and it's embarrassing. We need more throwbacks to reach the charts again. 

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OMG THESE MAKE ME HAVE UNNATURAL REACTIONS TIER:

Olivia Rodrigo - bad idea right?

Fred Again../Obongjayar - adore u

Jungle - Back On 74

QUITE THE EXPERTISE, EH? TIER:

Doja Cat - Paint The Town Red

Olivia Rodrigo - vampire

Peggy Gou - (It Goes Like) Nanana (enjoy it while it lasts)

Olivia Rodrigo - get him back!

Becky Hill/Chase & Status - Disconnect

Chase & Status ft. Do I Even Need To Make The Joke? - Baddadan (leave plz)

A GOOD TIME ALL ROUND TIER:

Dua Lipa - Dance The Night

Sonny Fodera/MK - Asking

Issey Cross - Bittersweet Goodbye

Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer (anyone hyped for 1989 (TV)? I know I am.)

Calvin Harris & Sam Smith - Desire

Chase & Status/Hedex ft. ArrDee - Liquor & Cigarettes

Tyla - Water

Billy Gillies ft. Hannah Boleyn - DNA (Loving You)

•-• TIER:

SZA - Snooze

Lovejoy - Normal People Things (this reminds me of The Vaccines back when they were actually relevant)

Troye Sivan - Rush

Tate McRae - greedy

Burna Boy - City Boys

Noah Kahan - Stick Season (this is O-Rod's fault)

SUICIDAL-IDOL - ecstasy (and Radio 1 sticks marshmallows in its eardrums)

cassö/RAYE/D-Block Europe - Prada

COULD'VE BEEN SO MUCH BETTER TIER:

Nines ft. Bad Boy Chiller Crew - Toxic

Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine

Nines ft. GRM Daily - Daily Duppy

Drake ft. Yeat - IDGAF

Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For?

WELP. THIS TIER:

Jung Kook ft. Jack Harlow - 3D 

Kenya Grace - Strangers

Nines ft. Tunde & Mugzz - I Do (I swear these bottom tiers keep getting bigger)

Zach Bryan ft. Kacey Musgraves - I Remember Everything

Drake ft. J. Cole - First Person Shooter

REMOVE THESE SONGS FROM MY HIPPOCAMPUS RIGHT NOW TIER:

Dave & Central Cee - Sprinter

JENNIE - You & Me

Drake - Virginia Beach (23 songs I'm not a fan of. One of those weeks, eh?)

Rema - Calm Down

Miley Cyrus - Used To Be Young (says a lot that this song is still at the bottom)

Chart Review 13/10/23

Well this just .

Another No.1 bites the dust, and we all have to embrace whatever madness is contained within the next chart-topper, making the rest of the songs feel like garbage in comparison. A bit of a shame that after all these fabulous rulers we've had over the past couple of months, we're officially back to clutching at straws. Not that I hate the new No.1 or anything, but it still feels a little wrong. Streaming champion she is, now potentially crowned the greatest lady in the UK for a week. Step forward, Kenya Grace.

The success of Strangers has made everybody go into raptures about how top notch she is, and how she can TOTALLY not be a 1-hit wonder. I get the hype and all, but I would prefer it if you made better songs, Kenya. That way I wouldn't be writing this review in a sulk. Then again, none of the Top 3 screams imaginative. Runner-up for the first time is the less than admirable Ferrari Horses remake that is Prada, with cassö deciding he may as well be anonymous for all the love RAYE and D-Block Europe get. Oh, and Tate McRae's stuck at 3. Make your own bottlejob joke, I've run out of creative things to say about songs like this. More length, more substance I say.

But alas. Drake happened. And that's not the kind of thing anybody hypes themselves up for. Another chart-topping album in the form of For All The Dogs means that 3 new "hits" predictably squawk their way into the Top 10, with First Person Shooter landing at 4, IDGAF at 5 (not the Dua Lipa song), and Virginia Beach at 6. None of them are particularly memorable in any way. That's it. Can I go now? Can I stop talking about the mundane nature of these tracks? PLEASE!?

Drake wasn't the only guy to stick an album out and watch the money roll in. Nines for some reason decided to make ANOTHER CROP CIRCLE LP, just in case the last one didn't force you to drink. Having said that, Crop Circle 2 did produce a Top 10 song in the form of Tony Soprano 2, but the chart positions of the hits from Crop Circle 3 leave a lot to be desired. His Daily Duppy I don't remember rises back up to 23, and can be joined by I Do at 35 (which didn't get picked for Radio 1 duty), and Toxic at 37 (which DID get picked). Again, trying to find anything constructive to say about these drives me to drink, so let's just move on with our lives and never talk about this again.

Bit of a shame that Doja Cat got officially screwed over by the laws and physics of ACR, which sees her relatively safe status suddenly plummet to 12th place in the chart. Not exactly giving us anything to smile about there, are you. This does mean that my over-confident support of Sonny Fodera and MK can finally pay off, as Asking glides into the Top 10 with little pressure. Given the upper end of the chart now looks like the kind of chart that wouldn't have been thinkable back in the stale world of February, this couldn't be any more deserved. Now to start getting my back behind Jungle, who crawl up to 30 this week in a not-too awful fashion. Even though that ecstasy song is also in the Top 30 now. And still not getting played.

There are some HUGE falls in the chart this week though. O-Rod witnesses vampire FINALLY succumb to ACR at the 15th attempt, with Tom Odell also suffering an unexpected slip out the 40 today. Jung Kook also crashed down to 22 this week, but come on. That was expected. You knew this was going to happen the second last week's chart ended. It probably won't even be in the CHART by the time his solo album comes out next month, and that is saying a HECK of a lot. Still, at least he has last week to fall back on. The fraud.

The other 3 new entries hardly inspire any confidence in me, especially when one of them is a BLACKPINK member. And look, if the K-Pop fanbases weren't so vicious, we'd probably have a better life, but NOOOOO. Instead, here's You & Me, the work of JENNIE from the band, but is so bland and unmemorable that I honestly forgot what the song sounded like the second it concluded on the Radio 1 Chart Show. And I didn't like Jisoo's FLOWER in high regard either, so you know you've messed up. Then again, Radio 1 is still playing Usher songs some 10 years after he was last relevant, so maybe I should've expected this.

Also giving people like me the shivers whenever they do anything are Lovejoy, who clock up a 2nd hit of the year with Normal People Things, the kind of song that I would probably like more if they weren't lead by Wilbur Soot. And anything that hias his name on it I just can't trust. The mental scars from Your New Boyfriend still run way too deep in my veins. Also making it 2 Top 40 efforts is Noah Kahan, or Kanah, or however you say that surname. I know I can't ;). Anyways, Stick Season suddenly rockets up about 40 places to sit at 28, and you can put most of it down to O-Rod tearing it apart in Radio 1's Live Lounge last week. No other reason I can find as to why it's done this well, but he too has his biggest hit yet. And I couldn't care less.

Also here this week is the latest No.41 award winner, Me & You by African superstar TEMS, Campbell & Alcemist clearly don't want me to have any fun with their reworking of that trumpet song from 1998. Especially given that Caity Baser is involved. And that just isn't a good sign, given how atrocious Pretty Boys was. Joel Corry's 2 month old set of streaming playlists were finally etched onto iTunes and the like, meaning that he FINALLY has a hit album to his name. Even though he clearly can't get a hit to save his life nowadays, the absolute flop. And just remember, that no matter how hard he tries, James Arthur just isn't relevant anymore. If he didn't make lame ballads like it's 2017 all over again, he'd probably do better than 81. You could realy learn something from Bring Me The Horizon, bro.

Speaking of BMTH, they have a new song out now for next week, along with a bunch of other rejects. Troye Sivan, Bad Bunny and Holly Humberstone have albums out, PinkPantheress, Ice Spice and Fred Again.. are out here to prove a point, and the world holds it's breath to see if Loreen can actually follow up her Eurovision success this time. 'Cause it didn't work in 2012, and it presumably won't here. Or maybe I'm just hedging my bets. BYE.

(P.S. Make your own ending joke about Ed Sheeran, or Rema, or blink-182, or any old artist I can think of. It would probably give me more Brownie points to spend on Skittles and M&Ms. Or is that not how Brownie points work.)

Cannot believe the brilliant JAZZY is already out of the chart with FEEL IT!! 

and the track only managed to reach 35 in the UK and 22 in Ireland: such a great track!!

Love "WOULD YOU GO TO BED WITH ME" and that song reminds of another singer singing that song years ago but i forgot who that artist is!!?

Just discovered YOU and ME by JENNIE and loving it!!

Great chorus and very nice voice!!

So happy to see 2 of my favorite singers climbing this week: STICK SEASON up 41 places!! Love NOAH and what an amazing voice!!

Same goes for the brilliant ZACH BRYAN like NOAH who is having a blast in the single and album chart in the US!!

Nice to see WATER and ASKING climbing this week and hopefully both records will get new peak next week!!

I really hope PRADA could be our new number 1 ..soon...

And hopefully it won't get to ACR next week!!

I may be the only one of that forum who really cannot stand STRANGERS!!

I have tried to like it after listening to the track a few times but i still find the song to be so BORING!!

Sad to see DOJA CAT already on ACR after only 10 weeks!! 

Wish she could have stayed a bit longer at number 1...

My Top 20:

1) Travis Scott - 'I KNOW ?' (+1) [2nd non-consecutive week at #1]
2) Giggs ft. Dave - 'Incredible Sauce' (-1) [1-week #1]
3) Dave, Tiakola - 'Special' (=) [3-week #1]
4) Travis Scott ft. James Blake, 21 Savage - 'TIL FURTHER NOTICE' (=) [2-week #1]
5) Jorja Smith - 'GO GO GO' (=)
6) Dave, Tiakola - 'Meridian' (=) [1-week #1]
7) Travis Scott ft. The Weeknd, Swae Lee - 'CIRCUS MAXIMUS' (+2)
8) Diddy, The Weeknd, French Montana ft. 21 Savage - 'Another One Of Me' (+4)
9) Jorja Smith - 'Little Things' (-2)
10) Jorja Smith - 'Backwards' (-2)
11) Travis Scott - 'HYAENA' (+3)
12) Jorja Smith - 'Make sense' (-2)
13) Travis Scott ft. Kid Cudi - 'LOOOVE' (+3)
14) Jorja Smith - 'Falling or flying' (+1)
15) Nines ft. Skrapz, OURAA - 'Only One' (Debut)
16) Jorja Smith ft. J Hus - 'Feelings' (-5)
17) Oxlade ft. Dave - 'INTOXYCATED' (=) [2-week #1]
18) Jorja Smith - 'Try Me' (-5)
19) Dave, Central Cee - 'Sprinter' (+3) [4-week #1]
20) Drake, Central Cee - 'On The Radar Freestyle' (+1) [1-week #1]

Albums:

1) Jorja Smith - 'falling or flying' (=) [2nd consecutive week at #1]
2) Travis Scott - 'UTOPIA' (=) [8-week #1]
3) Nines - 'Crop Circle 3' (Debut)
4) Fredo - 'Unfinished Business' (-1)
5) Headie One, K-Trap - 'STRENGTH TO STRENGTH' (-1)

https://www.crownnote.com/charts/foxes/6th-october-2023-12th-october-2023

my top 10 this week:

1) Strangers - Kenya Grace (=) (4th week at #1)

2) Only in my mind - Kenya Grace (New)

3) Stick season - Noah Kahan (+2)

4) Greedy - Tate Mcrae (+4)

5) She calls me back - Noah Kahan & Kacey Musgraves (New)

6) Off the record - IVE (New)

7) Wes Anderson - Claire Rosinkranz (+11)

8) Call your mum - Noah Kahan & Lizzy Mcalpine (-5)

9) You're gonna go far - Noah Kahan (=)

10) Better things - Aespa (-4)

My Top 10 Songs Of The Week:

#1: Dylan Conrique – When I Go (=)   [2nd consecutive week at No.1] 🇺🇸

#2: Olivia Rodrigo – Pretty Isn’t Pretty (+1) 🇺🇸

#3: Griff – Vertigo (-1) 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

#4: Kenya Grace – Only In My Mind (debut) 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

#5: Kenya Grace – Strangers (=) 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

#6: Annalisa – Ragazza Sola (+12) 🇮🇹

#7: Hannah Diamond – Poster Girl (=) 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

#8: Zach Bryan ft Kacey Musgraves – I Remember Everything (-2) 🇺🇸

#9: Sonny Fodera & MK ft Clementine Douglas – Asking (+1) 🇦🇺 / 🇺🇸 / 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

#10: Annalisa – Gommapiuma (-6) 🇮🇹

Climbers:

#13: Olivia Rodrigo – Ballad Of A Homeschooled Girl (+10) 🇺🇸

Debuts (below Top 10):

#22: Ed Sheeran – Plastic Bag 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

#23: Hannah Diamond – Staring At The Ceiling 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

#28: Jamie Miller – Only Place 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿)

#38: Tyla – Water 🇿🇦

#39: Hannah Diamond – Flashback 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

#40: Charlotte Plank & Hybrid Minds – Lights 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

#47: Sigrid – Ghost 🇳🇴

#50: Campbell & Alcemist – Would You (Go To Bed With Me?) 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

Re-entries:

#30: Joel Corry ft Mabel – I Wish 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

#33: Joel Corry ft MNEK – Head & Heart 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

#44: Joel Corry & Becky Hill – History 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

#49: Hannah Diamond – Affirmations 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

Full chart on Crown Note: https://www.crownnote.com/charts/piran/pirans-top-50-191

Full chart on BuzzJack: www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=266600

Happy one year anniversary (as of tomorrow) of these Excel rankings! 🎂

Can’t believe it’s been that long already! More than 7.5 years since my first ever OCC review too now.

Top 40 Rankings: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3764b2986a03a10ee40dcda3548f5b9e207ef4f8c9121667455cc0decf840c12.png

She calls me back at #95 and stick season in the top 40 omg 😍

Good to see ‘Stick Season’ entering the Top 40.

It’s not on the level of ‘Dial Drunk’ for me, but I’m glad Noah Kahan has another song gaining recognition in the UK. He’s definitely one of my favourite breakthrough artists of 2023 so far! 😊

great number 1

Nah, the way we have songs called ‘You & Me’ and ‘Me & U’ debuting two spots in the same week! 😭

The way that ‘My Love Mine All Mine’ still reached a new peak despite the Drake takeover above it.

I have a strong feeling this could become Mitski’s first Top 10 hit later in the month which would be insane but awesome! 😍

Congratulations to Kenya Grace on her first UK #1 single! 😁

I’ve been a massive fan of this style of dance music for a while now, so it’s amazing to see it doing incredibly well in the charts, especially with a song as gentle yet vibey as ‘Strangers’.