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Charts – 7 July 2013

Posted on Wednesday, July 10, 2013 by Paul in Music

We now return you to your regularly scheduled weekly turnover of number one singles.

40.  Russ Chimes – “Turn Me Out”

First up, though, the debut hit for a London producer.  This sort of thing was ten a penny twenty odd years ago, which I guess means it must be due for a revival.  The video’s probably more memorable than the track, but it’s a pleasant enough little throwback.

The sample is from “Turn Me Out” by Praxis featuring Kathy Brown, a 1995 single that scraped the bottom end of the top 40 on reissue in 1997.

35.  Spark Productions – “Wake Me Up”

A knock-off cover of the upcoming Avicii single, in which the Swedish DJ broadens his palette a bit. In practice that means it starts off sounding like a remix of a country track before turning into an Avicii track, but still.  The single proper is in the top 20 on iTunes on the strength of pre-orders right now, so it’s clearly going to be big when it comes out.

Usually when this happens, the release of the original gets brought forward.  But for whatever reason, Avicii’s label are sticking to their guns – with the odd result that this dodgy knock-off is actually climbing in the midweeks.

31.  Mumford & Sons – “I Will Wait”

They headlined the Glastonbury Festival last week, and their album “Babel” jumps sixteen places to return to the top of the album chart.  This track returns to the singles chart as a spillover.  It’s their biggest hit single, making number 12 last year.

14.  The Saturdays – “Gentleman”

This was number 8 in the midweeks and winds up at 14 on Friday.  The midweek charts show it plunging to 30.  It’s a bit of a flop, really.  But then it’s a song that doesn’t quite work.  It’s basically a “why aren’t there proper gentlemen any more” song, except for some unfathomable reason the lyric keeps coming back to hammering the idea that gentlemen were readily obtainable in 1995 and 1999.  Since when were the mid-nineties a bastion of gentlemanliness?  That’s not just a rhetorical question.  It’s such a bizarre and out of place reference point that the song simply becomes confusing.

6.  Gabz – “Lighters (The One)”

Gabrielle Gardiner is a teenage songwriter who entered Britain’s Got Talent this year and made the final with this.  It’s pretty much what you’d expect from that pedigree, though with an added dash of awkward imitation of older artists.  “Put your lighters in the sky / If you’re sleeping alone tonight / Because you’ve lost the one”?  You’re fifteen!  You live with your parents!  You damn well ought to be sleeping alone!  There are laws!  And why do you own a lighter anyway?

1.  John Newman – “Love Me Again”

John Newman was the singer on Rudimental’s number 1 hit “Feel The Love” last year, and also appeared on follow-up “Not Giving In”.  This is his first solo release, and if you loved Newman with Rudimental, you’ll… like him with this slightly more restrained, Mark Ronson-y number.  It’s perfectly alright, but it’s not Rudimental.

He’s on course for a single week at the top.

On the album chart, it’s fairly quiet, aside from a few re-entries sparked by appearances at Glastonbury, which I shan’t bother you with.

  • Mumford & Sons, “Babel” at number 1, as noted.
  • “The Weight of Your Love” by Editors at 6.  The Editors had a top ten hit back in 2007 (“Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors”), but we haven’t seen them on the singles chart since 2009.  Like a lot of guitar bands, they seem to have migrated over to the albums chart; the lead single from this album was “A Ton of Love”,  which didn’t chart.
  • “Sticky Wickets” by the Duckworth Lewis Method at 32.  Remarkably, this is the second album by the Duckworth Lewis Method, a side project of Neil Hannon and some other bloke, which produces exclusively songs about cricket.  Because the world needed two albums of that.   (For the benefit of puzzled Americans, the Duckworth Lewis method is a notoriously complicated way of scoring a cricket match cut short by rain.)  Lead single “It’s Just Not Cricket” has a video.  Just.
  • “Sistrionix” by Deap Vally at 38.  Debut album from a guitar/drums duo.  Here’s the video for “End of the World”.

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