UK Top 100 Music chart summary w/e September 21st 2017

Sam Smith goes straight in at No.1, in the UK Top 100 Music chart summary w/e September 21st 2017, with Too Good At Goodbyes, another godawful drippy ballad, similar to Spectre‘s The Writing’s On The Wall, which made me ears bleed.

As such, Taylor Swift drops to No.2 with Look What You Made Me Do. It’s as bland as anything else she’s put out, but her fans will be pleased as after over ten years of releasing music, this is her first UK No.1. There’s something in the video with a phone call about how “The old Taylor can’t come to the phone right now because… she’s dead”, so she’s trying to revamp herself. Madonna, she ain’t.

Released this week is a brand new track from Weezer, with Beach Boys. Can it be as good as last decade’s Buddy Holly, as it might just harken back to the ’60s? It’s certainly a more modern sound – even if it does have an ’80s feel to it in terms of those tracks which I used to love but which didn’t get into the Top 40, thus all making it a great song to boot, but there’s still a place in my heart for Buddy Holly.

The Top 10 singles are as follows:

• 1 (-) Sam Smith – Too Good At Goodbyes
  
• 2 (2) Dua Lipa – New Rules
  
• 3 (1) Taylor Swift – Look What You Made Me Do
  
• 4 (3) Pink – What About Us
  
• 5 (-) Zayn Malik – Dusk Till Dawn (feat. Sia)
  
• 6 (4) Justin Bieber and BloodPop® – Friends
  
• 7 (6) CNCO and Little Mix – Reggaetón Lento
  
• 8 (8) James Hype – More Than Friends (feat. Kelli-Leigh)
  
• 9 (7) Taylor Swift – Ready For It?
  
• 10 (11) Camila Cabello – Havana (feat. Young Thug)

There are new entries in the Top 40 for:

• 1 (-) Sam Smith – Too Good At Goodbyes
  
• 5 (-) Zayn Malik – Dusk Till Dawn (feat. Sia)
  
• 16 (41 RE) Logic – 1-800-273-8255 (feat. Alessia Cara and Khalid)
  
• 28 (50 RE) Stefflon Don – Hurtin’ Me (feat. French Montana)

Lower entries outside the Top 40 are as follows:

• 81 Kelly Clarkson – Love So Soft
  
• 85 George Michael – Fantasy (feat. Nile Rodgers)
  
• 88 Hailee Steinfeld and Alesso – Let Me Go (feat. Florida Georgia Line and watt)
  
• 89 Nothing But Thieves – Sorry
  
• 92 U2 – You’re The Best Thing About Me
  
• 93 MK – 17

In the album charts, The National go straight in at No.1 with Sleep Well Beast, knocking The Script down to No.5 with Freedom Child. The full Top 10 is as follows:

• 1 (-) The National – Sleep Well Beast
  
• 2 (-) Nothing But Thieves – Broken Machine
  
• 3 (2) Ed Sheeran – ÷
  
• 4 (8) Rag’N’Bone Man – Human
  
• 5 (1) The Script – Freedom Child
  
• 6 (-) Neil Young – Hitchhiker
  
• 7 (-) Sparks – Hippopotamus
  
• 8 (-) Waterboys – Out Of All This Blue
  
• 9 (5) Queens Of The Stone Age – Villains
  
• 10 (9) Dua Lipa – Dua Lipa

And the new entries are:

• 1 The National – Sleep Well Beast
  
• 2 Nothing But Thieves – Broken Machine
  
• 6 Neil Young – Hitchhiker
  
• 7 Sparks – Hippopotamus
  
• 8 Waterboys – Out Of All This Blue
  
• 16 Tori Amos – Native Invader
  
• 25 Nick Mulvey – Wake Up Now
  
• 28 Alvvays – Antisocialites
  
• 36 Alter Bridge – Live At The O2 Arena + Rarities
  
• 37 Arch Enemy – Will To Power
  
• 46 Jack Johnson – All The Light Above It Too
  
• 54 Thomas Rhett – Life Changes
  
• 79 Gregg Allman – Southern Blood
  
• 90 Threshold – Legends Of The Shires
  
• 93 Susanne Sundfør – Music For People In Trouble
  
• 97 Khalid – American Teen
  
• 98 Mount Kimbie – Love What Survives
  
• 99 ODESZA – A Moment Apart

The new release dates for singles and albums can be found HERE.