{"id":1594,"date":"2012-10-10T20:42:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T19:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2012-10-10T20:42:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T19:42:55","slug":"charts-7-october-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1594","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 7 October 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a podcast week, so don&#8217;t forget to check out the podcast thread one post below! \u00a0And now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Psy only managed one week at number 1, largely because he had the misfortune to run smack into a strong week for new releases &#8211; his sales actually went up from the previous week. \u00a0He winds up at an eminently respectable number 2, and he looks set to hang around the top 10 for a few weeks yet.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>37. \u00a0Adele &#8211; &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Make You Love Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B2vkohEhEAQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Adele has some actual, honest to god new material out this week! \u00a0But this isn&#8217;t it.<\/p>\n<p>No, this is a relatively obscure entry from her back catalogue\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/gdw9gOcEVAU\" target=\"_blank\">which was covered in the\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> &#8220;judge&#8217;s houses&#8221; shows last week<\/a>, and that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s suddenly in the chart. \u00a0It\u00a0comes from a live show she did for iTunes in 2011 (not the one above, but I&#8217;m sure they were broadly similar).<\/p>\n<p><em>X Factor\u00a0<\/em>has a habit of using relatively unknown songs and crediting them to high-profile artists who did cover versions, rather than to the people originally responsible. \u00a0&#8220;I Can&#8217;t Make You Love Me&#8221; is not an Adele song;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/nW9Cu6GYqxo\" target=\"_blank\">the original version is by Bonnie Raitt<\/a>, and it just missed the top 40 in 1991. \u00a0Raitt has always been a much bigger star in America than in the UK; her only top 40 hit in this country was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1ZLNYY-Sh8o\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;You&#8221;<\/a>, which made number 31 in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Technically, the song has been a hit before &#8211; it reached <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/XLl7RgkfP-A\" target=\"_blank\">number 3 for George Michael in 1997<\/a>\u00a0as a double-A-side with <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/rSpRxniHfaA\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Older&#8221;<\/a>. \u00a0But since everyone treated &#8220;Older&#8221; as the lead track, I&#8217;m not sure it really counts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>36. \u00a0The Other Tribe &#8211; &#8220;Skirts&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/COqltYFleuQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A throwback here to the days of indie\/rave crossover bands, with a fair chunk of 80s pop thrown in on the verses. \u00a0The Other Tribe were once voted the best live act in Bristol, apparently. \u00a0That&#8217;s Bristol for you. \u00a0It won&#8217;t be around next week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>26. \u00a0Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;Red&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZTxHzvabSK0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Swift is doing the increasingly fashionable thing of banging out album tracks as &#8220;promotional singles&#8221; in advance of her album release, without full-scale promotion. \u00a0This is one of them. \u00a0It&#8217;ll probably be gone next week, but that&#8217;s hardly the point. \u00a0The official single, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WA4iX5D9Z64\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together&#8221;<\/a>, is still in the top 10, and she&#8217;s now charting with tracks like this at the same time. \u00a0That&#8217;s a real step up in terms of her UK career. \u00a0There&#8217;s another one out this week, &#8220;I Knew You Were Trouble&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/QfqD9B4fhhE\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>20. \u00a0Nicki Minaj &#8211; &#8220;Va Va Voom&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This has been climbing from the lower reaches for a little while now. \u00a0It&#8217;s the promotional single from the deluxe edition of her album &#8220;Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded&#8221;. \u00a0It was originally planned as the lead single for the album proper only to be shelved and shunted to the deluxe edition at the last minute. \u00a0A video was supposedly filmed last year and should have been out by now, but doesn&#8217;t seem to be.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s your basic Nicki Minaj In Pop Mode track.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O1-4u9W-bns\" target=\"_blank\">11. \u00a0Jason Mraz &#8211; &#8220;I Won&#8217;t Give Up&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Climbing twelve places. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/6lTY5ccXAZM\" target=\"_blank\">That&#8217;ll be because\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> covered it two weeks running.<\/a> \u00a0(This sort of thing tends to stop now that the live shows are underway.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. \u00a0Ellie Goulding &#8211; &#8220;Anything Could Happen&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5hzgS9s-tE8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the lead single from Goulding&#8217;s second album. \u00a0She&#8217;s not exactly a consistent singles seller, but this is her third top five hit, after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fBf2v4mLM8k\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Starry Eyed&#8221;<\/a> and her cover of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D9AFMVMl9qE\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Your Song&#8221;<\/a>. \u00a0Interesting choice of single &#8211; not many acts lead off their album promotion with a mid-pace ballad, but then again, it&#8217;s got a sort of Eurythmics meets Florence and the Machine quality to it. \u00a0It&#8217;s also being used in a Beats By Dre commercial.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, Goulding&#8217;s only US hit was <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/0NKUpo_xKyQ\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Lights&#8221;<\/a>, which went triple platinum in the States, yet failed to reach the top 40 in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. \u00a0Adele &#8211; &#8220;Skyfall&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7HKoqNJtMTQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s other new entry for Adele, and the one we&#8217;re\u00a0<em>meant<\/em> to be talking about, is the theme to the new James Bond film. \u00a0This was only released on Friday in order to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first Bond movie (specifically, they released it at 0.07am&#8230;), so it&#8217;s effectively here on the strength of two days&#8217; sales. \u00a0Naturally, it looks to be in contention for number 1 next week.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a long tradition of Bond themes being hits in the UK &#8211; hell, we even sent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=867iyhVFyEw\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;You Know My Name&#8221; by Chris Cornell<\/a> into the top 10. \u00a0In fact, you have to go back to 1983 to find a Bond theme that flopped in the UK (<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/OE3oXVFKxpE\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;All Time High&#8221; by Rita Coolidge<\/a>, the theme from\u00a0<em>Octopussy<\/em>, made number 75, and was lucky to get that far). \u00a0Still, the consensus is that &#8220;Skyfall&#8221; is a pretty good one &#8211; even if it&#8217;s firmly from the Shirley Bassey playbook. \u00a0And it helps that it&#8217;s her first major new material in over a year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. \u00a0One Direction &#8211; &#8220;Live While We&#8217;re Young&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AbPED9bisSc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lead single from their second album. \u00a0This was number 1 on the midweeks, but it&#8217;s a real case of frontloaded sales from the fans &#8211; it was already down to number 3 on iTunes by the time those midweeks came out, and it&#8217;s at 7 on the current midweeks. \u00a0Still, One Direction records have been known to have a second wind once they reach an audience beyond their hardcore fanbase, and this is a perfectly inoffensive pop song.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kOGBIbqXwYE&amp;feature=share&amp;list=UU2xskkQVFEpLcGFnNSLQY0A\" target=\"_blank\">1. \u00a0Rihanna &#8211; &#8220;Diamonds&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No video for this. \u00a0It only got about a week of pre-release hype, but it&#8217;s the first single from her new album, so it was always going to sell. \u00a0I don&#8217;t expect it to manage a second week, but it&#8217;s a nice enough change of pace for her.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s her 7th number one, following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tg00YEETFzg\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;We Found Love&#8221;<\/a> (2011), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U0CGsw6h60k\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;What&#8217;s My Name&#8221;<\/a> (2010), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pa14VNsdSYM\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Only Girl (In The World)&#8221;<\/a> (2010), her guest vocal on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EwKgtpa4-tA\" target=\"_blank\">Jay-Z&#8217;s &#8220;Run This Town&#8221;<\/a> (2009), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J3UjJ4wKLkg\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Take a Bow&#8221;<\/a> (2008) and <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/CvBfHwUxHIk\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Umbrella&#8221;<\/a> (2007). \u00a0That&#8217;s a hard track record to argue with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a podcast week, so don&#8217;t forget to check out the podcast thread one post below! \u00a0And now&#8230; 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