{"id":1420,"date":"2012-05-28T21:48:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T20:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2012-05-28T21:48:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T20:48:17","slug":"charts-27-may-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1420","title":{"rendered":"Charts – 27 May 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the second week running, this was supposed to be a nice clear run at the top for the new single from a major pop group. \u00a0And once again, it hasn’t quite happened.<\/p>\n

1. \u00a0fun featuring Janelle Monae – “We Are Young”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This has been out for weeks, originally entering at 7 and moving 3-3-3-5-2-1 to get to the top. \u00a0It’s an unexpected result because it was 10,000 copies behind in the midweeks, but boy bands do<\/em>\u00a0have a tendency to flare out after their initial sales surge.<\/p>\n

Fun probably won’t have a second week at the top – they’re already down to 3 on iTunes – but a single week is still fine as the climax of seven weeks’ climbing. \u00a0The question is now is whether they go down as one-hit wonders – though the follow-up single “Some Nights”\u00a0has already charted in a couple of territories, so their chances are reasonable.<\/p>\n

Notable climbers this week: “Remedy” by Professor Green from 27 to 18, “Princess of China” by Coldplay & Rihanna from 30 to 20, and “Bangarang” by Skrillex from 32 to 24.<\/p>\n

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2. \u00a0The Wanted – “Chasing The Sun”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Number one in the midweeks, but it really tailed off. \u00a0iTunes already has it down at 7. \u00a0To be fair, the Wanted have a reasonable track record for releasing singles that gain a second wind later on, when a broader audience hear them on the radio. \u00a0It’s always possible the same could happen here, though I wouldn’t rate this as one of their better singles.<\/p>\n

The Wanted have two previous number ones – “All Time Low” in 2010 and “Glad You Came” in 2011. \u00a0This song is co-written by Example, which you might well have guessed just by listening to it. \u00a0Rather bizarrely, it is also from the soundtrack of Ice Age: Continental Drift<\/em>. \u00a0American audiences will know the Wanted from their single “Glad You Came”, which reached number 3 on the Billboard chart last year – though they’ve yet to land any follow-up.<\/p>\n

7. \u00a0Paloma Faith – “Picking Up The Pieces”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Paloma Faith Blomfield is an English singer-songwriter who had a couple of middling hits back in 2009 from her first album, “Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful”. \u00a0The bigger one was “New York”<\/a>, which only reached 15, but did spend 7 weeks on the chart, and got a fair amount of radio play. \u00a0The remaining singles from that album didn’t chart, and she hasn’t had anything out since. \u00a0But the album did make number 9, and eventually went platinum. \u00a0Hence increased interest in the lead single from her second album. \u00a0Fortunately, it’s also probably the strongest single she’s released to date. \u00a0It’s holding up alright on the iTunes chart, so this might yet stick around for a while. \u00a0I see her as mainly an albums act anyway, so a top 10 single is probably just a welcome bonus for her.<\/p>\n

11. \u00a0Jennifer Lopez ft Pitbull – “Dance Again”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Believe it or not, the record industry has decided that this week, the world needs two<\/em>\u00a0new Pitbull singles. \u00a0This is one of them. \u00a0Obviously, it’s terrible. \u00a0It’s not from any of Lopez’s existing albums; there’s supposedly still some doubt as to whether it’s going on a greatest hits album or on an upcoming studio album.<\/p>\n

Lopez and Pitbull previously appeared together on the 2011 number one “On The Floor”, which was similarly dreadful.<\/p>\n

23. \u00a0Pitbull – “Back In Time”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Yeah, because when they decided to commission a throwaway pop-rap single to promote\u00a0Men In Black 3<\/em>, I’m sure the first<\/em> person they asked was Pitbull… \u00a0Mind you, it’s better than the Jennifer Lopez single. \u00a0Just about. \u00a0The dubstep break at 2:55 is pretty unforgivable, even so.<\/p>\n

The sample is from\u00a0“Love Is Strange” by Mickey & Sylvia<\/a>; in Britain, the Everly Brothers’ version of the song is better known, and reached number 11 in 1965. \u00a0“Love is Strange” was itself a case of proto-sampling, since the guitar riff was recycled from “Billy’s Blues” by Billy Stewart (though he didn’t write it; that was Jody Williams).<\/p>\n

27. \u00a0Gavin DeGraw – “I Don’t Want To Be”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Um, yes. \u00a0Gavin DeGraw has had a few hits in America, but in Britain, he’s pretty much unknown. \u00a0This is the theme to One Tree Hill<\/em>, and has been since 2003. \u00a0It spent a single week at number 38 in 2005, and until now, that was the whole of DeGraw’s chart record in this country. \u00a0This seems<\/em>\u00a0to be back in the chart because E4 finally got around to airing the last episode of One Tree Hill<\/em>\u00a0in the previous week.<\/p>\n

31. \u00a0Kylie Minogue – “Timebomb”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This was released on Friday, so the number 31 placing is not bad. \u00a0It’s promoting a bunch of things that Minogue is doing to commemorate 25 years in the music industry, including such oddities as a tour where she’ll be playing exclusively B-sides. \u00a0And it’s exactly what we’ve come to expect from a Kylie Minogue lead single, though that’s no bad thing. \u00a0Kind of surprised they’ve just thrown it out there like this, but it’s going to climb big next week.<\/p>\n

36. \u00a0Martin Solveig – “The Night Out”\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This is Solveig’s fifth hit (the first two coming way back in 2004, but the best known is last year’s “Hello”). \u00a0Although the chart lumps all versions of the track together, most of the UK airplay has actually been for the remix by Madeon, the French production wunderkind who charted in his own right with “Icarus” in March. \u00a0It’s very shimmery and 80s.<\/p>\n

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