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The Chart Show: Gambino Hits the Top

Donald Glover in Childish Gambino's 'This Is America' video.
Donald Glover in Childish Gambino's 'This Is America' video.Donald Glover via YouTube

June 04, 2020

This week we The Current bids farewell to our dear comrade Mark Wheat. Mark hosted The Chart Show since it began in 2009, and we will miss him dearly. You can read Mr. Wheat's final note here - as he would say, "Stay safe and be peaceful to one another."

This week on The Chart Show, Childish Gambino climbs to #1 with "32.22" as Fiona Apple still holds a top spot on the chart with The Killers and Waxahatchee. The Psychedelic Furs reach the Chart Show Hall of Fame after 10 weeks with the lead single from their first album in decades, and we lost Nick Caves' version of T. Rex's "Cosmic Dancer." Laura Marling also fell off the chart this week making room for new entries from Michael Kiwanuka at #7 with "Rolling." The Beths make their chart debut with their irresistibly catchy new song at #19.

Picking up a debut this week was Phoebe Bridgers' "Kyoto". She'll be live on Instagram with DIY Magazine at 1pm CDT on Thursday June 4. "Time Stands" from Nathaniel Rateliff fell to #11 in its ninth week, last week Rateliff played a benefit show for the Colorado Music Relief fund.

Lucinda Williams also picked up a debut with "Big Black Train" at #20, from her record Good Souls Better Angels which David Safar wrote, "Decades after the emergence of the genre, Lucinda Williams continues to be at the center of Americana," for his Album of the Week review.

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.