Olivia Rodrigo is contending for her second Number 1 on the Official Irish Singles Chart with new song Good 4 U.
The third single from Olivia s upcoming album SOUR (released May 21), Good 4 U s throwback pop-rock styling, angsty lyrical content and Princess Diaries-inspired video have resonated with the Irish public, who have downloaded and streamed it to Number 2 on today (May 17) s midweek sales flash.
Good 4 U is less than 200 sales behind Tion Wayne & Russ Millions Body, which has reigned at Number 1 for the past fortnight. While Body has an edge on audio and video streams, Good 4 U has the edge out of the two on downloads.
Rag n Bone Man Rules U.K. Albums Chart With Life by Misadventure
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The Human hitmaker is back atop the albums chart in the United Kingdom as he scores the biggest opening sales week for a British musician so far this year. May 16, 2021
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Rag n Bone Man has returned to the top of the U.K. albums chart as Life by Misadventure debuts at number one.
Fans snapped up a staggering 33,000 copies of the release on vinyl towards a 42,000 total to give the Brighton, England-based singer/songwriter the biggest opening sales week for a British musician so far this year. Life by Misadventure has outsold the rest of the new top five combined and the album s success comes three days after Rag n Bone Man closed out the BRIT Awards on Tuesday (11May21) with a show-stopping
Three tracks from J. Cole’s new album The Off-Season are heading for big debuts on this week’s Official Singles Chart.
On the midweek Official Chart: First Look, the North Carolinian rapper is locked on for the highest new entry with 9 5 . S O U T H at Number 9, which would mark his second UK Top 10 single.
Other album highlights set for singles chart success are M Y . L I F E ft. 21 Savage & Morray at 10, and A M A R I at 11. The album’s lead single I N T E R L U D E reached 25 on last week’s Top 40.
In Body, Russ Millions (pictured above) and Tion Wayne rap: ‘Free Big A, he’s too militant’ which online followers of the singers have interpreted to be a reference to a gang member currently in prison on firearm offences
Stab first then talk.On flight-mode when we walk.Chest or back we’ll rip his face offI’ll put holes in your back.’
The lyrics are brutal and the music is ‘drill’ a raw and aggressive form of British rap with accompanying videos that feature balaclava-wearing men waving weapons and detailing the bloody reality of life on the streets.
For Sharon Kendall, the words of the song Dip First (‘dip’ being slang for ‘stab’), by a drill rapper associated with a gang in the Rayners Lane area of North-West London, the lyrics were heart-wrenchingly close to home.
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