Don’t sleep on Lizzo’s ‘About Damn Time’ though: after 12 weeks in the chart, the song has reached a new peak at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. The edge here obviously goes to Styles, whose ‘As It Was’ continues to be one of the most durable number one songs of recent memory. The partnership that we all want will probably never happen, but this week we get to witness the two close compadres duke it out for pop chart supremacy. May we also refer back to the iconic moment when Lizzo and Styles held hands at the 2020 Brits? Olivia Wilde better watch her back. UK Singles Top Ten (Week of July 6th, 2022): So, LF System, what’s it going to be? Are you The Chemical Brothers or Spacedust? Show us what you’ve got, but I swear to god if it’s another ‘Afraid to Feel’ remix I’m going to go ballistic. The constant tempo fluctuations aren’t exactly what I go for in my house music, but hey, I can see the summer jam qualities that poke out of ‘Afraid to Feel’.Īnonymous electronic duos have a solid history on the UK Singles Chart, with the likes of Shanks & Bigfoot, Spacedust, Doop, Oxide & Neutrino, Madison Avenue, Modjo, The Outhere Brothers and The Chemical Brothers all landing number ones between the late-1990s and early-2000s. ‘Afraid to Feel’ is just a speed-treated version of the 1979 song ‘I Can’t Stop (Turning You On)’ by Silk (not the ’90s R&B group that took ‘Freak Me’ to number one in America. Class act, that Kate Bush is.īut now we’ve returned to number one songs actually being contemporary hits. And she was incredibly gracious to LF System when they knocked her out of the top spot.
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To have a song gestate for nearly four full decades before hitting number one is quite the accomplishment, and it couldn’t have happened to a more iconic artist who deserved another number one on her long list of accomplishments. That formula didn’t hit with their first single, ‘Dancing Cliché’, but it definitely did on their second try.īy the way, one final bit of kudos to Bush – she accomplished something legendary that likely won’t be replicated on the charts for a long time.
So who are these titans of chart success that managed to knock the mighty Kate Bush out of the number one spot? I hate to disappoint, but they’re just a Scottish production duo who take older R&B songs, remix them, and throw them out into the world. Well, now I look like an idiot because LF System have the number one song in the UK. I went so far as to say that I wasn’t even sure if they were real. Current UK Number One: ‘Afraid to Feel’ – LF SystemĪ few weeks ago, I made the bold claim of not having a single goddamn idea who LF System was. All that and more as we round up all the best chart news of the modern-day and recent past.
We also take a look at the heartwarming friendship between the artists at numbers one and two in America and scratch our heads to figure out how Electric Light Orchestra only managed a single number one hit throughout their legendary career. This week, we see a passing of the torch as LF System land at number one with their wonky remix ‘Afraid to Feel’. Shocker of all shockers, ‘Master of Puppets’ didn’t chart on either side of the Atlantic when it was first released as a single back in 1986, but now it’s getting some major pop chart legs under it 36 years later. Munson, ‘Master of Puppets’ managed to land at number 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 47 on the UK Singles Chart. We’ll just have to see what happens, because after some awesome shredding from one Mr.
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