The Chart Show: Cuz We Love Lizzo
by Mark Wheat
October 03, 2019
Back at the top of our chart for the 6th week with the song that's stuck in my head, "Like A Girl", the rest of the nation has "Truth Hurts" stuck in theirs, as it stayed on top of Billboard's Hot 100 for the fifth week. She broke the record for most straight weeks at #1 for a female rap artist last week and is now setting the new record for everyone else to aim for!
Probably the first time that both of the top two songs on our chart have deep local connections. Bon Iver will be at Xcel Energy Center Thursday, with Feist opening the show, and they'll probably be a VERY long guest list, because of all the collaborators Justin has worked with in the past from these parts.
Happy Birthday to Brittany!! Ms. Howard, the biggest climber this week to #5, turned 31 today (Wed). But she was already in celebratory mood on 9/19 when she put on a sparkling show at The Palace which we streamed for you.
Second biggest climbers are The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, up ten to seven. They'll be playing on Bonfire Night (in the UK) November 5th at the Fitzgerald Theater.
Wilco are inducted to the Chart Hall of Fame for the 5th time, taking them to number twenty-nine on The All Time Hall of Fame Chart.
In town for their gig at First Avenue, The New Pornographers stopped in for a session with Looch yesterday. Leader A.C. Newman explained how keyboardist Kathryn Calder's yoga study helps calm the band and how Lizzo being at the First Ave show would "freak him out!"
Highest new entry this week is from The Avett Brothers, who just played a well received show at Treasure Island with Trampled By Turtles. Cunningly timed to coincide with their new album's release Scott Avett has his first visual art show opening in Raleigh, NC next week.
Formed in El Paso, TX in 2008 and now based in Brooklyn, Cigarettes After Sex, new at nineteen are also BIG in California! They just started their tour with three sold out shows in and around L.A. And will be at First Avenue next Sunday.
Frank Turner's "No Man's Land" album is literally that, it's all about famous and overlooked women through history. Like the subject of the basement hit this week, "Sister Rosetta". He'll play a solo set of these songs and a full band set October 18 at The Pantages Theater.
Submit your Chart Show ballot this week for a chance to win tickets to see Sleater-Kinney at the Palace Theatre in St. Paul, MN on October 15, 2019.