The Chart Show: Have Ya Heard The Bird?
by Mark Wheat
May 14, 2020
Andrew Bird is back in the basement space this week fresh off a big virtual gig at NYC's City Winery, for Mother's Day with Billy Bragg, Stephin Merritt and more.
Our friends at NPR did their monthly feature about what songs Public Radio Can't Stop Playing. It included a little blurb from me about the UK trio Shopping, who crash into the nineteen spot.
Local luminaries Atmosphere down to #14 this week have released a video for the title track from their "Whenever" album which features Murs, Gifted Gab, Haphduzn and Slug in a hazmat suit planting seeds!
Another 'local' legend Bob Dylan also falls to eleven, but has announced a new album of original material, the first in over 8 years, which apparently will feature a 54 year old photo from a London club.
The Killers are one of the biggest upward movers, seven places to 7 and they chatted with our own Mac Wilson this week, about Lyndsey Buckingham, working from home and ...fake viral videos?!
Mac also rightly claims Car Seat Headrest to be, "the sound of Indie Rock in 2020, for better or for worse." They're about to be inducted to our Chart Hall of Fame, remaining at eight and it's the Album of the Week.
Submit your Chart Show ballot this week for a chance to win Rhino Records' ten classic album digital giveaway. Giveaway includes full album mp3 downloads of: David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name, Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III, Little Feat - Waiting For Columbus, Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark, The Monkees - Good Times, John Prine - John Prine, The Replacements - Let It Be, Wilco - A.M., and Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon.
| TW | LW | Wks | The Current Chart Show | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artist | Song | |||
| 1 | 1 | 6 | Nathaniel Rateliff | Time Stands |
| 2 | 5 | 3 | Fiona Apple | Shameika |
| 3 | 9 | 6 | Waxahatchee | Lilacs |
| 4 | 3 | 7 | Pearl Jam | Superblood Wolfmoon |
| 5 | 7 | 3 | Christine and the Queens | People ...I've Been Sad |
| 6 | 17 | 7 | The Psychedelic Furs | Don't Believe |
| 7 | 14 | 4 | The Killers | Caution |
| 8 | 8 | 9 | Car Seat Headrest | Can't Cool Me Down |
| 9 | 10 | 9 | Phoebe Bridgers | Garden Song |
| 10 | 18 | 2 | Gorillaz | Desole |
| 11 | 4 | 3 | Bob Dylan | I Contain Multitudes |
| 12 | 6 | 5 | Mavis Staples | All In It Together |
| 13 | 11 | 3 | Heart Bones | Little Dancer |
| 14 | 12 | 8 | Atmosphere | Love Each Other |
| 15 | 15 | 3 | Bon Iver | PDLIF |
| 16 | 2 | 8 | HAIM | The Steps |
| 17 | 19 | 2 | Florence and the Machine | Light Of Love |
| 18 | X | 1 | Phantogram | Mister Impossible |
| 19 | X | 1 | Shopping | initiative |
| 20 | X | 1 | Andrew Bird | Capital Crimes |
