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Charts – 10 May 2015

Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2015 by Paul in Music

Pretty uneventful week.  Running late anyway.  Let’s get going.

38.  Fetty Wap – “Trap Queen”

This is number 2 in the US at the moment, and it’s been climbing from the lower reaches of the top 100 for several weeks.  I assume that’s due to some international spillover.  Fetty Wap is a rapper from New Jersey, and while his Wikipedia entry does offer an explanation of his name, I confess to not actually understanding it.  I prefer to believe that it’s a piece of morris dancing terminology which is especially meaningful to him.  His missing eye is due to childhood glaucoma, if you were wondering.

36.  Ariana Grande – “One Last Time”

That’s a Max Landis video, and quite the literal interpretation of the song it is too. This is the fifth single from her album “My Everything” (which came out last September, so she’s not exactly rushing here).  David Guetta has a co-writing credit on it.  It’s pretty good, in fact, and it’s going to climb next week.

Despite having two number 1 hits to her name, Grande does not have consistent hits in this country – those two number 1s were “Problem” with Iggy Azalea, and “Bang Bang” with Jessie J and Nicki Minaj, all collaborators with higher profiles than her.   In fact, since “Bang Bang”, two other singles have missed the top 40 entirely.  (Granted, one of them was a Christmas release that was barely promoted in this country.  But one wasn’t.)  She could use a big hit in her own right.

29.  Mumford & Sons – “Believe”

Re-entering on the back of the album release.  Originally number 20 in March.

17.  Tove Lo – “Talking Body”

Her third hit, after “Stay High” and the Alesso collaboration “Heroes”.

“Now if we’re talking body / You got a perfect one / So put it on me / Swear it won’t take you long.”  Interesting approach there.

4.  Blonde featuring Alex Newell – “All Cried Out”

This week’s obligatory dance anthem, which in the absence of any real competition winds up as the highest new entry.  Nothing you haven’t heard before, but it does the formula well enough.  It’s the follow-up to “I Love You”, which got to number 7 last December.  Alex Newell is the actor from Glee, technically getting his first hit – though he was also an uncredited singer on Clean Bandit’s current single.

1.  OMI – “Cheerleader”

Second week.  He won’t manage a third, but this is still enough to keep up the year’s encouraging trend of avoiding one-week wonders at the top.

On the album chart:

  • “Wilder Mind” by Mumford & Sons at 1.  Third album, second number 1.  (The debut got to 2.)  As already mentioned, the single re-enters at 29.
  • “Integrity>” by JME at 12.  London rapper finally charting on his third album.  He’s not exactly fast, this guy – the first two albums were in 2008 and 2010.  He’s never had a hit single in his own right, but has cropped up as a guest for the likes of Wiley, Skepta and Lethal Bizzle.  Single: “Taking Over?  (It Ain’t Working)”.
  • “Born Under Saturn” by Django Django at 15.  Their first album got to 33 and was nominated for the Mercury Prize, so it’s unsurprising that the chart position is up this time.  Single: “Reflections”.
  • “We Are” by Lucy Spraggan at 22.  Yes, the one with the guitar who was in X Factor in 2012.  This is her third album (counting her pre-X Factor indie release “Top Room At The Zoo”, which charted on the back of her TV appearances).  She seems to have gone a bit MOR.  Single: “Unsinkable”.
  • “Danger in the Club” by the Palma Violets at 25.  Second album.  The first got to 11, but then the hype has moved on.  Single: “English Tongue”.

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