SINGLES CHART
If you're new to the Squash then you'll quickly pick up that this is a carousel of musical madness and this week, as is generally the standard, around 25% of the songs are new entries meaning a just as many are seeing the boot after a single week. Ouch. The biggest casualties here being DADARAY's Gals surprisingly nosediving from #6 to OUT and SQ Nugu Snail Mail losing not one but two songs from the W1 chart. Luckily for her, they're replaced with the title track from her sophomore album, Valentine (#26) so it's not a complete heartbreaker.
Receiving opposite fortunes, Karencici and Tilly Birds gain one more song in the SQ40 this week (333, #36 and Can't Keep Up ลู่วิ่ง, #20 respectively) with the former still bopping in the Top 10 with Do Do Do (#4). Among the other newcomers to the dancefloor, we have Finland vixen Evelina's new era kickstarter Kyynelii (#8) a mere year after her SQ chart debut, FKA Twigs drunk-crying in a sexy fashion alongside The Weeknd on Tears in the Club (#9) and a conga line of returnees in the sensual stylings of Raveena (Rush, #25), the pagan melodrama of AURORA (Heathens, #32) and LGBT champion Keiynan Lonsdale (Gods of the Disco, #31).
The top position of the week is also a new entry but not a nugu as Hoang Thuy Linh, the Spearhead of melding traditional Vietnamese culture with BANGERS, wishes us good fortune in this Covid-riddled world with the beyond catchy penny spinner Gieo Que. HTL had a particularly success breakout year in 2019 with her self-titled album and has seemingly skirted back to what she does best after a 2 year absence. Den is also on this (he made a faceless appearance in Vietnamese compatriot Min's huge 2020 puss puss hit Vi Yeu Cu Dam Dau) but we don't give kudos to rent-a-rappers here so suffer.
ALBUM CHART
Whilst the single chart endlessly revolves like a rubix cube in a 90's kid commercial, the album chart stays relatively stable. Karencici's excellently-titled 99% Angel perches atop the #1 mark for second week only challenged by FKA Twigs's new release (supposedly a mixtape but basically her 3rd album) CAPRISONGS (#2). Twigs has a particularly strong album legacy at SQ: even though the album chart didn't exist at that point, LP1 was a prominent album from 2014 and the follow-up 2019's MAGDALENE, reached even greater heights being a 4-week #1 and Album of the Year nominee. Time will tell if CAPRISONGS will mark another leap higher for the English auteur.
- Number 1 DebutPeak1 (for 1 weeks)Weeks1
- Number 2 Up by 7Peak2Weeks2
- Number 3 Down by 2Peak1 (for 1 weeks)Weeks2
- Number 4 Down by 2Peak2Weeks2
- Number 5 Down by 1
Read My Mind
Rebecca Black ft. featuring Slayyyter
Peak4Weeks2 - Number 6 Down by 1Peak5Weeks2
- Number 7 Up by 14
Smokin Out The Window
Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak, & Silk Sonic
From the album: An Evening With Silk Sonic
Peak7Weeks2 - Number 8 DebutPeak8Weeks1
- Number 9 DebutPeak9Weeks1
- Number 10 Up by 4Peak10Weeks2
- Number 11 Up by 26Peak11Weeks2
- Number 12 Up by 4Peak12Weeks2
- Number 13Peak1 (for 1 weeks)Weeks6
- Number 14 Down by 3Peak11Weeks2
- Number 15 Up by 4Peak15Weeks2
- Number 16 Down by 6Peak10Weeks2
- Number 17 Down by 5Peak12Weeks2
- Number 18 Down by 11
New Shapes
Charli xcx ft. featuring Christine and the Queens & Caroline Polachek
From the album: CRASH
Peak7Weeks2 - Number 19 Down by 11Peak8Weeks2
- Number 20 DebutPeak20Weeks1
- Number 21 Up by 4Peak21Weeks2
- Number 22 Up by 18Peak22Weeks2
- Number 23 Re-EntryPeak9Weeks8
- Number 24 Down by 21Peak3Weeks2
- Number 25 DebutPeak25Weeks1
- Number 26 DebutPeak26Weeks1
- Number 27 Up by 9Peak27Weeks2
- Number 28 Down by 13Peak15Weeks2
- Number 29 Down by 6Peak23Weeks2
- Number 30Peak30Weeks2
- Number 31 DebutPeak31Weeks1
- Number 32 DebutPeak32Weeks1
- Number 33 Up by 5Peak33Weeks2
- Number 34 Down by 10Peak24Weeks2
- Number 35 Down by 3Peak32Weeks2
- Number 36 DebutPeak36Weeks1
- Number 37 DebutPeak37Weeks1
- Number 38 DebutPeak38Weeks1
- Number 39 Down by 22Peak17Weeks2
- Number 40 Down by 18Peak22Weeks2
- Number 6 DropoutPeak6Weeks1
- Number 18 DropoutPeak18Weeks1
- Number 20 DropoutPeak20Weeks1
- Number 26 DropoutPeak26Weeks1
- Number 27 DropoutPeak27Weeks1
- Number 28 DropoutPeak28Weeks1
- Number 29 DropoutPeak29Weeks1
- Number 31 DropoutPeak31Weeks1
- Number 33 DropoutPeak33Weeks1
- Number 34 DropoutPeak34Weeks1
- Number 35 DropoutPeak35Weeks1
- Number 39 DropoutPeak39Weeks1
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