{"id":1330,"date":"2012-03-24T11:17:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T11:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2012-03-24T11:17:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T11:17:01","slug":"charts-18-march-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1330","title":{"rendered":"Charts – 18 March 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Goodness, we really are<\/em>\u00a0behind here, aren’t we?<\/p>\n

So – let’s cover last week’s chart, and then we’ll do two weeks of comics tomorrow. \u00a0Then all will be right with the world.<\/p>\n

1. \u00a0Gotye ft Kimbra – “Somebody That I Used To Know”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Yes, it’s still there. \u00a0That’s a total of five weeks, but with several major releases this week, it seems pretty much certain that this will be the end of the line – the midweeks have a trio of new entries shouldering it down to 4. \u00a0Five weeks is a very good run, mind you.<\/p>\n

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3. \u00a0Alexandra Burke feat. Erick Morillo – “Elephant”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The 2008 X-Factor<\/em>\u00a0winner starts the promotion of her second album – the first one came out way back in 2009, but boy, she milked it for singles for as long as she could. \u00a0Even so, she’s had nothing out in over a year. \u00a0“Elephant” is a bit of a change in direction, as she lurches off in the direction of dance music, embracing that annoying autotune effect that everyone else seems to have given up on. \u00a0(How long has this album been in the pipeline, exactly?)<\/p>\n

It’s actually not such a bad record if you can live with the production, which does get a little more tolerable when it’s not being used on every second track. \u00a0Although you’ll note that the video director seems to have had no idea what to do with the thing, and has resorted to the old favourite “party in a warehouse”, despite the total lack of connection to the lyrics. \u00a0The reaction to the track has been a bit divided, and the midweeks show it swan diving straight out of the top 10.<\/p>\n

This is the first hit for Colombian producer Erick Morillo under his own name, but he’s been around for years under various pseudonyms. \u00a0While he’d thank you to forget it, given the work he’s done since to rebuild his credibility in dance music circles, he remains best known for his mid-90s run under the name Reel 2 Real. \u00a0Surprisingly, this is actually his biggest UK hit – 1994’s “I Like To Move It”<\/a> peaked at number 5.<\/p>\n

Bizarrely, “I Like To Move It” was previously his joint-biggest hit, if you count his production work on “Them Girls Them Girls” by Zig & Zag. \u00a0Yes, that was him too. \u00a0If you’re too young or too foreign to remember Zig & Zag – well, this probably won’t shed much light on them. \u00a0(Basically<\/em>, they were puppets from Irish TV, and the joke at this point was that they had inexplicably convinced themselves that they were a dancehall act. \u00a0Hence the tortured Irish\/Jamaican accents.)<\/p>\n

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Simon Cowell also had a hand in this track, and for some reason it seems to be the officially sanctioned song that other judges on his UK shows are allowed to tease him about – even though it’s actually no worse than a lot of regular dance records of the time. \u00a0In the same way, you’ll note that Ant & Dec are always mocked about the perfectly harmless novelty single “Let’s Get Ready to Rhumble”<\/a> and not, say, their failed third album where they were trying to be serious artists<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

13. \u00a0Swedish House Mafia – “Greyhound”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This is an advert for Absolut vodka. \u00a0Seriously. \u00a0It’s not just product placement – the video is literally intended as a three-and-a-half minute Absolut advert, and “Greyhound” is its soundtrack. \u00a0We saw something similar to this with “Louder” by DJ Fresh (the video for which was essentially a Lucozade advert with the product shots taken out), and if you’ve got an audience who don’t object to an advert connection, it’s kind of mutually beneficial for both parties.<\/p>\n

16. \u00a0Jason Mraz – “I Won’t Give Up”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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You may remember Jason Mraz from his 2008 single “I’m Yours”, which only reached number 11, but hung around on the chart forever (more than half a year in the top 40). \u00a0He released three other singles from that album, but they all sank without trace. \u00a0This is the lead track from his fourth album, and he finally shakes the one-hit-wonder tag. \u00a0The midweeks show it climbing slightly.<\/p>\n

24. \u00a0Azealia Banks featuring Lazy Jay – “212”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ooh, minimal video-making. \u00a0This is the debut UK single from a New York rapper who crops up on a lot of those “ones to watch in 2012” lists, though the video’s actually been around for six months. \u00a0The backing track is sampled from Belgian producer\u00a0Lazy Jay’s “Float My Boat”<\/a> (though frankly, it wouldn’t be too far off to say that she’s just rapping over the top of it), hence his co-credit.<\/p>\n

30. \u00a0LMFAO – “Sorry for Party Rocking”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The fourth single from the current album, or at least it will be in April. \u00a0It’s charting at the moment as an album track download on the strength of advance radio play. \u00a0The video is, naturally, another of their seven minute epics – the actual song starts at around 2:20.<\/p>\n

40. \u00a0Tyga – “Rack City”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This made the top ten in America, but it’s pretty much stiffed here in Britain – it’s taken eight weeks to climb to number 40, and it’s nowhere to be seen on the midweeks. \u00a0This may be because it’s dreadful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Goodness, we really are\u00a0behind here, aren’t we? So – let’s cover last week’s chart, and then we’ll do two weeks of comics tomorrow. \u00a0Then all will be right with the world. 1. \u00a0Gotye ft Kimbra – “Somebody That I Used To Know” Yes, it’s still there. \u00a0That’s a total of five weeks, but with several […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}