{"id":1483,"date":"2012-07-14T18:25:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T17:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2012-07-14T18:25:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T17:25:50","slug":"charts-8-july-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1483","title":{"rendered":"Charts – 8 July 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t get too comfortable, this won’t take long. \u00a0The week ending 8 July 2012 was utterly dead for new releases, resulting in a chart with only two new entries, both miles down the chart, and with only one major climber (“Pound the Alarm” by Nicki Minaj<\/a>, jumping 34-16).<\/p>\n

1. \u00a0Maroon 5 (feat Wiz Khalifa) – “Payphone”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Haven’t we been here before? \u00a0“Payphone” was number 1 two weeks ago, it got knocked off by will.i.am’s “This Is Love” (which drops to 3 this week), and now it’s back. \u00a0It’s probably not going to manage a third week, though you never know. \u00a0Judging from the video, the quality of aim among American gun-users has improved little since the days of the A-Team. \u00a0Also, it’s remarkably easy to just run out of a bank besieged by the cops.<\/p>\n

34. \u00a0Blur – “Under The Westway”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This is apparently a song written “especially for the Hyde Park 2012 Olympics Closing Ceremony Celebration Party” (though it’s also appearing as a bonus track on their upcoming compilation, and it was previously performed at a War Child benefit). \u00a0It was released without warning at the start of the week, but it’s more designed to remind us about Blur before the release of\u00a0Blur 21<\/em>, rather than actually sell in big quantities itself.<\/p>\n

Blur haven’t released a proper single since 2003 when “Good Song”<\/a> made number 22. \u00a0(They put out a song called “Fool’s Day” in 2010, but it was a limited edition of 1,000 7″ singles, so it was never going to chart. \u00a0It does<\/em> technically have a video, but since it consists entirely of a close-up of the 7″ single being played<\/a>, it barely counts.)<\/p>\n

A number 34 peak – and it isn’t going any higher – actually makes this Blur’s second-lowest chart placing for a proper single. \u00a0Their debut single “She’s So High”<\/a> only reached 48 back in 1990. \u00a0The 1992 single “Popscene”, omitted from their subsequent album and generally considered a commercial disaster at the time, actually made 32.<\/p>\n

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Still, “Under The Westway” gives Blur their 26th top 40 hit. \u00a0They’ve had two number 1 singles, neither of which really shows them at their best, but which do at least show their range – 1995’s “Country House”<\/a>, which was released as a high-profile chart battle against Oasis and was arguably one of the key points where Britpop started degenerating into self-parody, and the more low-key 1997 single “Beetlebum”<\/a>, a case of new material selling in the first few days before \u00a0plunging down the charts the next week.<\/p>\n

35. \u00a0Dappy – “I’m Coming (Tarzan Part 2)”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This is an odd release. \u00a0It is, officially, a “promotional single”, which apparently means that it has a video and it’s available as a single, but for some reason doesn’t count as a proper single. \u00a0In theory, Dappy is meant to be starting the promotion for his next single “Come With Me”, which is out in mid-August. \u00a0I suspect the idea here is to remind a segment of the audience that Dappy is, honest, a credible rapper. \u00a0Hmm.<\/p>\n

You’ll note that the video opens with a disclaimer stating that the original edit has been removed at the request of the artist. \u00a0This refers to the original opening caption, which read “Free Leo Chindamo”. \u00a0Leo Chindamo murdered head teacher Philip Lawrence in 1995 by stabbing him in broad daylight when he went to help a pupil who was being attacked by a gang outside his school. \u00a0Chindamo was actually released on licence in 2010, but he was recalled to jail for breaking the terms of his parole. \u00a0Calling for the release of Leo Chindamo is just plain bizarre.<\/p>\n

Dappy’s retraction also sets brave new standards in implausibility. \u00a0He claimed that “I honestly wasn’t aware he did that.” \u00a0You’d have thought even a moron like Dappy would bother asking why somebody was in jail before calling for their release, but Dappy is a very busy idiot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don’t get too comfortable, this won’t take long. \u00a0The week ending 8 July 2012 was utterly dead for new releases, resulting in a chart with only two new entries, both miles down the chart, and with only one major climber (“Pound the Alarm” by Nicki Minaj, jumping 34-16). 1. \u00a0Maroon 5 (feat Wiz Khalifa) – […]<\/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-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","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=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}