Tuesday, 7 January 2025

UK Number 40s: Paul Weller - Early Morning Rain (2005)

 


The Top 40 career of Paul Weller is known to be The Jam in the late 70s/early 80s, The Style Council for the remainder of the 80s and then as a solo artists as part of the Britpop movement of the 90s.

What perhaps isn't as well known is that he had just as many solo Top 40 hits in the 21st century as he did in the 90s and also the same number of solo hits in the 21st century as he had with The Style Council. That number of Top 40 hits is 15.

In 2004 he released the album "Studio 150" which was an album full of covers. This was the fourth and final Top 40 hit from that album. It was a cover of a record by Gordon Lightfoot. 

By this point in his career Paul Weller had enough of a following that he didn't really bother to promote his music. This approach worked for him from a Top 40 perspective until 2010 when he charted with his 30th and final solo Top 40 hit to date "No Tears To Cry / Wake Up The Nation" which was also the last double a-side to make the Top 40. 

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