Joseph's Hit 40

In a relatively quiet week for my chart, there's only one new song in this week's top 10. British singer/songwriter Declan McKenna jumps 15 places up to #3, scoring his very first chart hit. Humongous is the seventh (!) single from Declan's debut album What Do You Think About the Car?, which spends a second week at #1 on my album chart, but his very first hit in my chart. It follows Brazil, Paracetamol, Bethlehem, Isombard, The Kids Don't Wanna Come Home, and a Brazil re-issue. Brazil actually makes a belated impact this week, debuting at #20 - it's worth noting that I hadn't heard it before his album so I'd have likely charted it sooner had I known it!

It's rare that the highest new entry isn't within my top 10, only happening a handful of times each year, but this is one of those weeks. Four new songs are in this week's top 20 but none made the top 10. Two of them come from former Fifth Harmony member Camila Cabello, who enters at #13 with Havana and #15 with OMG. They make for her fifth and sixth chart hits, and the second time this year she has had concurrent top 20 hits, after Crying in the Club and I Have Questions both made the top 10 in the same week, at #4 and #9 respectively. Havana makes for the first chart appearance of Young Thug, while OMG is the third chart hit for Quavo.

Elsewhere in the chart, we have debuts from Joey Bada$$ and Yxng Bane, the latter of whom featuring on Bestie with Yungen. Yungen is riding high in this week's chart, as his track Hands with KStewart is a non-mover at #2. They fail to unseat Louis Tomlinson, who ties the record for most weeks at #1 in 2017 with bandmate Harry Styles, whose Sign of the Times also spent three weeks at the top.

In the album chart, Kesha debuts at #2 with Rainbow. It's her second #2 album after Warrior, although considering it had less than 24 hours to impact when I typed up my chart on Friday night (11th August), it's looking like a strong contender for next week's #1.