{"id":176,"date":"2010-01-13T20:57:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T20:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2010-01-13T20:59:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T20:59:12","slug":"number-1s-of-2010-10-january-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Number 1s of 2010 – 10 January 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Christmas period over and X Factor<\/em> out of the way at last, the charts finally return to business as usual, with 2010’s first wave of new releases.\u00a0 Apparently it was a fairly close-run thing this week, with new entries at numbers 1 and 2 running neck and neck over the week.\u00a0 But the first new number one of 2010 is “Replay” by Iyaz.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Iyaz is Keidran Jones, a singer from the Virgin Islands, and this is his debut single in the UK.\u00a0 His record company are trying to spin him as somebody that Sean Kingston discovered on MySpace; the reality seems to be that he got picked up internationally on the strength of his Caribbean radio hit “Island Girls.”<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Replay” already reached number two in America, and now it heads to Europe.\u00a0 It’s produced by JR Rotem, the man who brought you JLS’s “Everybody In Love” and a horde of equally banal R&B pop singles.\u00a0 This one is at least fairly catchy, and the autotune has been kept in sane boundaries, but that aside, it’s really just more of the same.\u00a0\u00a0It’s fine, it’s inoffensive, but I’m slightly surprised that it’s sold quite this well, when\u00a0it really doesn’t have all that much to mark it out from the crowd.<\/p>\n

The number 2 single is “Riverside (Let’s Go)” by Dutch producer Sidney Samson,\u00a0also making his UK chart debut.\u00a0 It’s\u00a0a\u00a0dance single which has been around for months, based heavily upon a sample of Tupac Shakur swearing in Juice<\/em>.\u00a0 Here’s the Dutch version of the single (with swearing intact, if you care).<\/p>\n

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The British label,\u00a0 however, has decided that this isn’t radio friendly enough, and so they’ve bang on a rap from Wizard Sleeve (no, me neither) to recycle a vocal from another single\u00a0entirely.\u00a0 The result is certainly more airplay friendly, but it’s not exactly the same record.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Purists aren’t exactly happy about this, apparently.\u00a0 Which is pretty trivial in itself, but oddly, the original version doesn’t seem to have been made available in Britain on iTunes – instead, your options are a bewildering array of vocal mixes.\u00a0 I can’t imagine what they were thinking there.<\/p>\n

Also entering the top 40 this week:<\/p>\n