![]() ![]() Marshmello & Jonas Brothers climb six with Leave Before You Love Me (26), Doja Cat’s Ain’t Shit (29) lifts nine rungs, and Noizu’s Summer 91 (Looking Back) (32) returns to the Top 40 after zooming 60 places. Tones & I zooms ten places to 16 with Fly Away, and Rain Radio & DJ Craig Gorman’s Talk About rockets 19 spots to 21. The song, which features on the late rapper’s second posthumous studio album is his eighth Top 40 and Dua’s 19th. Rounding off the Top 10, Becky Hill & David Guetta’s Remember travels up five to a new peak at Number 10 – Becky’s fourth Top 10 single (and first as the headline artist) and David Guetta’s 26th.įurther down, Pop Smoke claims the highest new entry with Demeanor ft. Lil Durk, brand new at 24, Don’t Play with Anne-Marie & Digital Farm Animals, which re-enters at 33, and Gang Gang ft. ![]() KSI’s Holiday rebounds three places to 7 following the release of his new album All Over The Place, while three more tracks from the album enter the Top 40: No Time ft. Meanwhile, Heartbreak Anthem by Galantis, David Guetta and Little Mix rebounds three places to its previous peak of Number 3, while Black Magic by Jonasu charges up seven spots to Number 4 to land the German producer his first ever Top 10 single. Thundercat & Tame Impala – No More Lies A collaboration that sounds like a perfect meeting of minds: Thundercat’s elastic funk bass and penchant for yacht rock seamlessly combines with Tame Impala’s smooth electronic psychedelia.With 101,000 chart sales, including 11.4 million streams, Bad Habits outperforms his closest competition by more than double – The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber’s Stay, which jumps three places to Number 2. But it’s also the first Ed Sheeran album since his debut for which you can’t confidently predict eye-watering commercial success. Furthermore, its emotional tone is bound up with Sheeran’s story and it’s unclear how invested in his story his audience actually is: he is famously #relatable – a nice, ordinary bloke – but whether that means fans are fascinated by Sheeran per se, or merely Sheeran as a cipher for nice, ordinary people, is an interesting question: perhaps tellingly, the album’s second single, Boat, is his lowest-charting single in a decade. But Sheeran occupies the dead centre of the mainstream, where people want to know exactly what they’re getting: witness the relatively muted response to Adele’s only moderately different-sounding 30. Subtract should not be the stuff of fan-scaring reinvention. ![]() Meanwhile, on the forlorn End of Youth, you can hear him veering towards the hip-hop-influenced vocals familiar from Shape of You, but he never actually breaks into rapping, settling on a style with propulsive energy but none of the novelty aspect. The Hills of Aberfeldy is faux Celtic folk, but those alert to the danger of Sheeran slipping once more into Galway Girl’s fiddle-de-de should be relieved that – like the folky melodies of Life Goes On and Salt Water – it feels darker and grittier, suggestive not of Sheeran courting a theme pub audience but tapping into a buried aspect of his musical DNA: around 2011, he was given to performing an a cappella version of the 19th-century folk song Wayfaring Stranger onstage. There’s none of the gimlet-eyed fixation on trends that created 2021’s Bad Habits, a hit evidently modelled after the Weeknd’s record-breaking Blinding Lights. Beyond Eyes Closed, presumably included as a commercial safe bet, Sheeran’s crowd-pleasing excesses are nowhere to be seen.
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