{"id":56607,"date":"2023-10-23T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2023\/10\/23\/kenya-grace-retains-u-k-chart-crown-with-strangers\/"},"modified":"2023-10-23T03:03:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T07:03:00","slug":"kenya-grace-retains-u-k-chart-crown-with-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2023\/10\/23\/kenya-grace-retains-u-k-chart-crown-with-strangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Grace Retains U.K. Chart Crown With\u00a0\u2018Strangers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/kenya-grace\/\">Kenya Grace<\/a> is no<em> stranger <\/em>to the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/charts\/singles-chart\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.K. chart summit<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe South Africa-born, U.K.-based artist enters a second week at No. 1 with \u201cStrangers\u201d (via FFRR), her breakthrough, drum \u2018n\u2019 bass-backed tune and first through a major label. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cStrangers\u201d is, once again, the most-streamed track in the U.K. with 4.8 million plays, the Official Charts Company reports, as it holds off the challenge of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/casso\/\">Cass\u00f6<\/a>\u2019s \u201cPrada\u201d (Ministry of Sound) featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/raye\/\">RAYE<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/d-block-europe\/\">D-Block Europe<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe leader at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/casso-raye-d-block-europes-prada-uk-chart-race-1235444480\/\">midweek point<\/a>, \u201cPrada\u201d finishes the week at No. 2, less than 800 chart units adrift.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAs previously reported, Grace is just the second U.K. female artist ever to write, produce and record a No. 1 single entirely by herself, following Kate Bush whose \u201cRunning Up That Hill\u201d completed a mission impossible last year, hitting the top some 37 years after its initial release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/tate-mcrae\/\">Tate McRae<\/a>\u2019s \u201cGreedy\u201d (Ministry of Sound) rounds off an unchanged top 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMeanwhile, another South African artist is making her move on the Official U.K. Singles Chart \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/tyla\/\">Tyla<\/a>. Born and raised in Johannesburg, Tyla (full name: Tyla Laura Seethal) enjoys a new peak with her breakthrough \u201cWater\u201d (RCA), rising 7-4. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tClose behind is Chase &amp; Status, Bou, Flowdan, IRAH, Trigga and Takura\u2019s \u201cBaddadan\u201d (EMI), up 11-5 for its peak position, while Sonny Fodera, MK and Clementine Douglas\u2019 \u201cAsking\u201d (Solotoko) is up 10-7, a new high. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tU.S. alternative pop artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/mitski\/\">Mitski<\/a> enjoys her first U.K. top 10 single with \u201cMy Love Mine All Mine\u201d (Dead Oceans), improving 13-8. Prior to her latest, viral number, Mitski had never even nudged the singles tally, though two of her seven studio albums have impacted the top 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/fred-again\/\">Fred Again<\/a> snags a second top 20 solo sentry with \u201cTen\u201d (Atlantic), featuring U.S. artist and songwriter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/jozzy\/\">Jozzy<\/a>. It\u2019s new at No. 16, for the highest debut on the latest tally, published Friday, Oct. 20. That\u2019s the fifth top 40 entry for the hot producer and artist, and the first appearance on the chart for Jozzy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFinally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/ren-first-uk-albums-chart-title-sick-boi-1235450006\/\">Troye Sivan<\/a> enjoys a hattrick of top 40 appearance on the latest chart, led by \u201cOne Of Your Girls,\u201d new at No. 17, followed by lead single \u201cRush\u201d (34-28) and \u201cGot Me Started\u201d (reentering at No. 36), lifting his career tally to seven U.K. top 40 singles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAll three tracks appear on Sivan\u2019s third and latest LP <em>Something To Give Each Other <\/em>(via Polydor), which debuts at No. 4 on the national albums tally, for a new career high.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/kenya-grace-retains-uk-chart-crown-strangers-1235451787\/\">Aller \u00e0 la source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya Grace is no stranger to the U.K. chart summit. The South Africa-born, U.K.-based artist enters a second week at No. 1 with \u201cStrangers\u201d (via FFRR), her breakthrough, drum \u2018n\u2019 bass-backed tune and first through a major label. \u201cStrangers\u201d is, once again, the most-streamed track in the U.K. with 4.8 million plays, the Official Charts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}