{"id":1736,"date":"2013-01-08T18:12:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T18:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2013-01-08T18:12:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T18:12:35","slug":"charts-6-january-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1736","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 6 January 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen, what&#8217;s that sound? \u00a0Why, it&#8217;s the sound of tumbleweed, as virtually nothing happens on the top 40 for the second week running! \u00a0The result is a chart with no new entries whatsoever, and four re-entries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. \u00a0Rudimental featuring John Newman &amp; Alex Clare &#8211; &#8220;Not Giving In&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>36. \u00a0Ellie Goulding &#8211; &#8220;Anything Could Happen&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><b>35. \u00a0Florence + The Machine &#8211; &#8220;Spectrum&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>These are all just records that were still floating around outside the top 40, and thus move up to fill the space left by the Christmas singles. \u00a0Nothing more to be said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>15. \u00a0Calvin Harris featuring Tinie Tempah &#8211; &#8220;Drinking From The Bottle&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/20rVJmaeehE?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This, on the other hand, is very nearly a new single. \u00a0&#8220;Drinking From The Bottle&#8221; is the seventh (!) single from Harris&#8217; album &#8220;18 Months&#8221;, and it made number 17 as an album track download when the album was released in November. \u00a0That&#8217;s presumably because of Tinie Tempah&#8217;s fans &#8211; since he hasn&#8217;t released a single of his own since mid-2011, they&#8217;re rather starved for material, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s been promoted to a proper single complete with pretentious video (caution: video NSFW) that seems to think it&#8217;s exposing the dark underbelly of what is in fact just a straightforward party record. \u00a0A case can be made that <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/CqPU7NSVQwY\" target=\"_blank\">the lyric video<\/a> is actually better. \u00a0At any rate, you&#8217;ve heard it before, and Harris is not exactly displaying a huge amount of range these days, but if he&#8217;s taken to making endless iterations of the same hook, at least it&#8217;s a good one.<\/p>\n<p>Harris&#8217; album also returns to number one this week for some reason, climbing from number 7. \u00a0Perhaps it&#8217;s being discounted by one of the major stores.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mhj15W23IjA\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>1. \u00a0James Arthur &#8211; &#8220;Impossible&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With nothing much in the way of competition to worry about,\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> winner James Arthur gets a third week at number one. \u00a0(He won&#8217;t get a fourth). \u00a0A three week stint at number one would normally be a pretty good sign, but it&#8217;s actually not that uncommon for\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> winners, given that their coronation records tend to come out just before the industry goes to sleep. \u00a0It matches the coronation singles of Matt Cardle, Alexandra Burke, and, um, Leon Jackson. \u00a0(Leona Lewis and Shayne Ward&#8217;s singles managed four.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen, what&#8217;s that sound? 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