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Forbes
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Tame Impala's Comeback Hit Falls Just Shy Of No. 1
Tame Impala is back with new music, beginning what looks to be the start of another era – one that fans of the act have been waiting patiently for. The Australian psychedelic pop-rock band returns to several of the United Kingdom's charts this week with 'End of Summer,' which becomes a fast win for the group. The song nearly opens at No. 1 on one of the most competitive lists of the week, but it misses the top spot by just a single space. 'End of Summer' Nearly Leads the Vinyl Chart 'End of Summer' launches at No. 2 on the Official Vinyl Singles chart. It's Tame Impala's first top 10 hit — and first placement at all — on the ranking. The track comes close to ruling, but is kept from the summit by English rock band Wunderhorse, whose 'The Rope' debuts at No. 1. Fourth Top 10 on the Physical Singles List On the Official Physical Singles chart, 'End of Summer' starts at No. 3. The entry marks Tame Impala's fourth top 10 on the tally, and serves as the group's milestone tenth hit. Beyond its lofty starting positions on those two lists, the cut also arrives at No. 87 on the Official Singles chart, No. 13 on the Official Singles Sales ranking, and No. 17 on the Official Dance Singles roster. Currents Continues Its Chart Run While 'End of Summer' makes a splash upon its arrival, Tame Impala's Currents is still present on a trio of U.K. album rankings. The Grammy-nominated act sits at No. 51 on the Official Albums Sales chart, No. 47 on the Official Physical Albums ranking, and No. 38 on the Official Vinyl Albums tally with the beloved project. In each instance, Currents falls from where it sat last week, despite all the excitement around 'End of Summer.' Kevin Parker's Return to His Own Music Kevin Parker, the man behind Tame Impala, took a step back from his own project in recent years. In 2023 and 2024, he was heavily involved in producing Radical Optimism, Dua Lipa's most recent album. Tame Impala's last full-length, The Slow Rush, arrived in 2020, and fans have been eagerly awaiting a follow-up ever since.
Forbes
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Dua Lipa's Tour Pushes Her Latest Album Back To The Charts
Dua Lipa's Radical Optimism reenters five U.K. charts after her concerts in London and Liverpool, as ... More the underperforming project returns. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 04: Dua Lipa attends the 66th GRAMMY Awards at Arena on February 04, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo byfor The Recording Academy) Throughout the latter part of June, Dua Lipa brought her Radical Optimism Tour to the United Kingdom, where she remains one of the biggest pop stars of all time. The singer touched down for two shows at Wembley Stadium in London on June 20 and 21, then moved to Liverpool before flying to Ireland for one night in Dublin, all before taking some time off. Her return to the U.K. reignited interest in Radical Optimism, which has become a major hit on the charts once more. Thanks to all the excitement generated by her concert trek, the full-length appears on five charts in the U.K. at the moment. It didn't claim a spot on any of them just days ago, but it manages to reenter all five at the same time. Radical Optimism Returns to the Top 40 Among all five of those tallies, Radical Optimism only reaches the top 40 on one list, the Official Album Downloads ranking, where it breaks back in at No. 28. The set returns in similar positions on the Official Albums Sales, Official Albums Streaming and Official Physical Albums charts, where it comes in at Nos. 46, 47, and 50, respectively. Dua Lipa's Shortest-Charting Album Most of Lipa's albums have spent hundreds of weeks on the rankings, but Radical Optimism easily stands out as her worst performer. The singer's most recent project has not managed a year on any tally, and may never make it to that milestone. The full-length has only pushed past half a year on a few lists, as the set has experienced the shortest stay of her career. Dua Lipa's Album Hit No. 1 Almost Everywhere While it hasn't held on for very long, Radical Optimism was a quick win. The full-length reached No. 1 on all but the Official Albums Streaming chart, where it missed the mark by just one spot. Dua Lipa's Entire Discography Rises As Radical Optimism enjoys an impressive comeback, both of the Grammy winner's other two full-lengths also rise. Dua Lipa and Future Nostalgia appear on the same trio of tallies – the Official Albums, Official Albums Streaming and the Official Album Downloads charts, soaring in some instances and returning in others.
Yahoo
29-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sabrina Carpenter's ‘Manchild' Reclaims U.K. No .1 Single From Alex Warren
Sabrina Carpenter's 'Manchild' has reclaimed the No. 1 spot on the U.K.'s Official Singles Chart (June 27) for its second non-consecutive week at the summit. The song debuted in the top spot earlier this month (June 13) before Alex Warren's 'Ordinary' dethroned her a week later for his 13th non-consecutive week at No. 1 (June 20). 'Manchild' is Carpenter's fourth U.K. No. 1 single following 'Espresso,' 'Please Please Please' and 'Taste.' More from Billboard Sabrina Carpenter Unveils Alternate 'Man's Best Friend' Cover — and This Time, It's 'Approved by God' 'Let's Get Sexy': Cardi B Hits LadyLand Stage After Surprise Guest Scarlet Envy Brings the Drama Adrian Quesada's Psychedelic Journey: How the Black Pumas Co-Founder Delved Into Latin America's Romantic Past Warren has been on a chart-breaking run in the U.K. with his song 'Ordinary.' At 13 weeks, he became the longest running No. 1 in the 2020s so far, and the song is one place behind Ed Sheeran's 'Shape of You' and Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' in the all-time rankings (14 weeks). 'Ordinary' finishes the week at No. 9. Michigan DJ MK hits No. 2 with his Chrystal collaboration 'Dior,' his highest-ever placing on the chart with original material; he previously hit the No. 1 spot in 2013 with a remix of Storm Queen's 'Look Right Through.' Ravyn Lenae's 'Love Me Not' places at No. 3, and Fred again.., Skepta and PlaqueBoyMax score the week's highest new entry, with 'Victory Lap' closing at No. 4. Chappell Roan's 'Pink Pony Club' completes the top five. Following their live performance together at London Stadium, Sam Fender and Olivia Dean's 'Rein Me In' vaults 80 places to close the week at No. 8. Black Eyed Peas' 2009 smash 'Rock That Body' continues its ascent, up four to No. 31 this week. The track, lifted from the group's The E.N.D. (THE ENERGY NEVER DIES) album, previously peaked at No. 11 back in 2010, and recently inspired a viral dance trend. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Four Decades of 'Madonna': A Look Back at the Queen of Pop's Debut Album on the Charts Chart Rewind: In 1990, Madonna Was in 'Vogue' Atop the Hot 100
New Statesman
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New Statesman
Jarvis Cocker at 61: Is this hardcore?
Photo byAre we in the era of the Mature Reunion Album? long hoped for but largely unexpected album releases lately by Blur, Everything But The Girl, Stereolab, and now Pulp, measuring the middle-age of both artist and audience. More, released on 6 June 2025, is the eighth Pulp album (their seventh came out just weeks after 9/11.) On Friday they re-united at the O2 and, fittingly, the album topped the UK Charts that night: Pulp's audience wanted More. When Pulp take to the stage, it is in front of a red velvet backdrop, the now expanded eight-piece band augmented by string section. Jarvis Cocker ascends the stage alone on a podium. The age-appropriate indie chug of opener 'Spike Island' is uplifting, but a little more ordinary than their 1990s material, which fused together two distinctly Yorkshire traditions: Alan Bennett observational comedy and specifically Sheffield electronic futurism. Cocker, 61, dressed in a dark, double-breasted suit, addresses the audience with the ease and command of a broadcaster. 'Once we're alive,' says the frontman early in the set, 'we have to grow up. The first step of growing up is clapping in time.' He invites the audience to join him in this 'developmental milestone', a neat bit of crowd control that tees up Mature Reunion Album track 'Grown-Ups', and one of tonight's surprise themes. Pulp's intergenerational appeal is apparent across the stadium. Older parents now bring grown-up children. Though their audience is noticeably broad – only a few lone aesthetes adopt the frontman's signature specs and vintage suits – Cocker remains the patron saint of people who hate stag do's and visit charity shops long after their salaries have stopped necessitating that. More than this, Pulp endure as cool, evidenced by Charli XCX's recent on stage call for a 'Pulp summer' at Coachella Festival in a way that impossible to imagine her doing for Blur. On the London stage, each of Pulp's Mature Reunion Album tracks have an unconscious double in their earlier work. 'Farmer's Market', a ballad Cocker says tonight is about how he met his wife, in the audience – hustling her phone number at the car park of an organic food bazaar – obsesses over the same questions of chance and fate as 1995's 'Something Changed', which tonight is delivered acoustic by the four nucleus Pulp members (happily, viewed together, they still look more like a departmental meeting than an arena rock group.) Ditto new song 'Tina' is a pen portrait of late middle-aged lust on a commuter train (which also contains a good reference to Mrs Thatcher's TINA acronym.) It's a greyer haired update of 'Disco 2000', their 1995 glam rock stomp about the memory of teenage sexual obsession. Listening to Pulp's greatest hits CD on my early teenage paper round in the 2000s, I remember feeling so scandalised and compelled by all the sex in their work that I worried I should keep this enjoyment private (lest it reveal something inadvertently awful about myself). There is less of this side of Pulp tonight, their more subversive songs about tragedies in reservoirs or exacting sexual revenge against West Londoners have been temporarily retired, to be our-age appropriate. This dulls some of Pulp's weird appeal. Subscribe to The New Statesman today from only £8.99 per month Subscribe Cocker's best writing was first as a misfit outsider in his native Sheffield, then as a geographical and class outsider in 90s media London. But that success made him something of an insider, which his writing has never really reckoned with. Cocker is one of his generation's cultural luminaries. He is a longstanding BBC broadcaster, a Meltdown curate and broadsheet arts fave whose collected lyrics are published by Faber. Now, the albums he infrequently releases seldom examine what exactly this type of life is like. Pulp's last big statement forms the unexpected high point of tonight's set. Introducing 'This Is Hardcore', the title track of their 1998 album, Cocker sits at the top of a small illuminated staircase (metaphor klaxon), splayed across a leather Mastermind chair and sipping an espresso, which is brave at 9PM. Against a seedy, dramatic loop, which repeats and throbs like erotic fixation, Cocker purrs about wanting it now, wanting it bad. The song's lyrics were written to compare the singer's experience of fame to what he termed his 'revulsion and attraction' to pornography, all with the subtext of his then escalating cocaine use. I had to get a little past paper round age to learn to love that part of the hits CD. Tonight, four songs come from This Is Hardcore, and it's in this material that Cocker delivers his most captivating performances of the night. Perhaps now that the album's chief obsessions of fame, pornography and cocaine have all accelerated in the 2020s, it has widened that album's appeal. The final third of the set runs through their big, 1990s hit singles. The biggest of which is 'Common People'. 'Common People' was conceived as a fanfare, but looking around tonight it's something of a requiem for a period when strange, five-minute songs about class somehow topped the charts. But it's never typically the biggest songs that get you in arena shows. Earlier, during 'Help The Aged', another This Is Hardcore cut, Cocker invites the audience to sing a falsetto refrain that he can seemingly no longer summon as his baritone has grown older, and the line 'funny how it all falls away' flashes on the screens for our benefit. Like 'Eleanor Rigby', 'Help The Aged' is one of those rare songs that peers out from pop's cult of youth, and is alarmed by what it finds there. 'Old age isn't a battle,' wrote Philip Roth in 2006's Everyman, 'old age is a massacre.' Guitarist Mark Webber's scuzzy, vengeful guitar part sounds suitably blood-shedding. There's a line in the song about dying your hair: the one thing you can change as time bulldozes on. As the line is delivered, a woman in front of me smiles at her partner, ruffles his grey hair, and cuddles up to him. Pulp's work has found a new theme. Something scary, something you might view with revulsion and attraction, something really hardcore: getting old. [See more: The rise of the west] Related
The Independent
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Pulp score first UK number one album in 27 years with More
Indie rockers Pulp have achieved their first UK number one album in 27 years with More, the Official Charts Company said. The last time the Sheffield-based group topped the UK album charts was in 1998 with This Is Hardcore which followed on from their best-known studio album, Different Class, released three years prior and their only other chart-topping LP. More, which was released last Friday, is the band's first studio album since 2001's We Love Life. The album is also named the biggest record of the week on wax, topping the Official Vinyl Albums Chart. The band are playing a number of gigs throughout the summer, including sets at Montreux Jazz Festival in July and Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival in August. The veteran rockers have a gap in their schedule between June 21 and July 10, which has fuelled speculation that they could be among the secret acts currently listed as 'TBA' in the line-up for Glastonbury Festival, which is taking place later this month. Elsewhere in the albums chart the eponymous debut album of US pop star and TikTok sensation Addison Rae has landed at number two. The record contains the hit singles Diet Pepsi, Headphones On, and Fame Is A Gun, which have all made it into the top 40 of the singles chart. Another new entry is Lotus by British rapper Little Simz, which has landed at number three, a personal best for the London-born music star whose Mercury Prize-winning album Sometimes I Might Be Introvert peaked at number four back in 2021. Lotus also debuts at number one on the Official Record Store Chart, the most popular LP of the week in UK independent record shops. Rounding out the top five is Sabrina Carpenter's Short N' Sweet at number four and Ed Sheeran's Mathematics Tour Collection compilation album at five. Over in the singles chart, US popstar Carpenter has knocked Alex Warren from the top spot with her new single Manchild. The 26-year-old recently announced the release of a new studio album, Man's Best Friend, which will be released in August. The Official Charts Company said Carpenter has banked the most consecutive weeks in the albums chart top five out of any other female solo artist. The rest of the top five sees Warren at number two with Ordinary, Love Me Not by Ravyn Lenae at number three, Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club at number four, and Sombr's Undressed at number five.
