{"id":1773,"date":"2013-02-05T23:02:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T23:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2013-02-05T23:03:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T23:03:34","slug":"charts-3-february-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1773","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 3 February 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week: basically nothing comes out, but some other records do climb! \u00a0Exciting, I know!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ys7-6_t7OEQ\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>33. \u00a0Justin Bieber (featuring Nicki Minaj) &#8211; &#8220;Beauty and a Beat&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Re-entry &#8211; this dropped out of the top 40 last week. \u00a0I&#8217;m going to hazard a guess that it&#8217;s picked up a few downloads from the version available on his &#8220;Believe Acoustic&#8221; album.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ozwKs_H789w\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>30. \u00a0Amelia Lily &#8211; &#8220;Shut Up (And Give Me Whatever You&#8217;ve Got)&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t normally mention fallers, but it&#8217;s worth flagging up that this drops 19 places on its second week &#8211; not a promising sign for \u00a0Xenomania&#8217;s latest attempt to find a new vehicle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>29. \u00a0Droideka &#8211; &#8220;Get Hyper&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pCKZFkZRaKA?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Droideka is Ellis Carter, a teenager from Cambridge named after <a href=\"http:\/\/starwars.wikia.com\/wiki\/Droideka\" target=\"_blank\">a relatively obscure Star Wars concept<\/a>, and this is a dubstep track that (as best I can figure out) he initially put out as a copyright-free track a year or so back. \u00a0This is a rather more polished version, though. \u00a0Bouncy little number, kind of sounds like something that might turn up on a Flash game soundtrack. \u00a0It&#8217;s been climbing from the lower reaches for a couple of weeks now but I&#8217;m not entirely sure why, to be honest.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->There&#8217;s no official video for this, though YouTube does turn up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0chOl6yKUC8\" target=\"_blank\">six minutes of people dancing to it while dressed as Teletubbies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>28. \u00a0Disclosure (featuring AlunaGeorge) &#8211; &#8220;White Noise&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FTwCgK-zTEs?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Released on 1 February, so it only has two days of sales counting to the chart. \u00a0Their previous single &#8220;Latch&#8221; is still hanging in at number 36. \u00a0This is along similar electrofunk lines, and it&#8217;s a strong track &#8211; it&#8217;s going to leap up the chart next week when it gets a full seven days of sales behind it. \u00a0No video for this one either. \u00a0It&#8217;s like they&#8217;re going out of fashion or something.<\/p>\n<p>AlunaGeorge is the less than imaginative name for singer Aluna Francis and producer George Reid &#8211; it&#8217;s their first appearance on the chart, but since they were on the BBC&#8217;s Sound of 2013 list, I assume they&#8217;ll have more material of their own in the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p><strong>21. \u00a0Ellie Goulding &#8211; &#8220;Explosions&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/miOEmyjpLkU?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Oh, hey, it&#8217;s got a proper video now. \u00a0Well, kind of. \u00a0It&#8217;s mostly based on the live performance I used last week, so I&#8217;m figuring it&#8217;s a bit of a rush job. \u00a0Anyhow, it&#8217;s up 12 places. \u00a0Quite the week for high climbers, as we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/uI6VfwBV8Gc\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>18. \u00a0Rita Ora &#8211; &#8220;Radioactive&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up 14. \u00a0And that&#8217;s still not the highest climber, either.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/D1gl46hh3sQ\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>14. \u00a0Dizzee Rascal &#8211; &#8220;Bassline Junkie&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up 10 &#8211; the second straight week that it&#8217;s climbed more than ten places. \u00a0Of course, part of this is that there&#8217;s not much in the way of major new releases this week, so records like this have more chance to gain traction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10. \u00a0Devlin (featuring Diane Birch) &#8211; &#8220;Rewind&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ydHTMVsTMtI?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/JJ4Khy_6mIY\" target=\"_blank\">(Lyric video here.)<\/a> \u00a0This week&#8217;s only other new entry, and at least he&#8217;s made a video. \u00a0It&#8217;s Devlin&#8217;s second top ten hit following &#8220;Watchtower&#8221; last summer; curiously, the follow-up &#8220;Off With Their Heads&#8221; crashed out entirely, and didn&#8217;t make it beyond number 62. \u00a0That at least tends to suggest this is selling on its merits rather than on the strength of a fan base &#8211; and I\u00a0have to admit that Devlin is the sort of artist who only ever impinges on my consciousness in the weeks when he has a new entry. \u00a0This is aiming for the same sort of &#8220;sincere rapping and rousing yet vulnerable chorus&#8221; formula that&#8217;s done well for Professor Green, which seems to be Devlin&#8217;s natural style too.<\/p>\n<p>The chorus is taken from &#8220;Rewind&#8221; by Diane Birch, a single from 2010 that I&#8217;ve never heard of. \u00a0According to Wikipedia, the parent album did alright in Italy. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the original &#8211; not exactly the most obvious rap sample fodder. \u00a0Pretty obscure too &#8211; this has been online for over two years and has under 10,000 views on YouTube. \u00a0And I&#8217;m not convinced the sample has a tremendous amount to do with the verses.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lwvAWcFnWmc?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Birch&#8217;s contribution here isn&#8217;t a sample, in fact; she thoughtfully turns up to re-perform the chorus (and probably raise her profile more than a sample licence would have done).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/QK8mJJJvaes\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>2. \u00a0Macklemore &amp; Ryan Lewis (featuring Wanz) &#8211; &#8220;Thrift Shop&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Viral hit alert. \u00a0That&#8217;s basically what happened with this track in America, and it&#8217;s repeating the performance in the UK. \u00a0After sitting on the digital shelves of iTunes unnoticed and unwanted for months, &#8220;Thrift Shop&#8221; suddenly appeared at number 24 last week, and now leaps very nearly to the top. \u00a0In fact, it&#8217;s been number one on iTunes for several days, and it&#8217;s got every prospect of getting to the top next Sunday. \u00a0But because it started off the week all the way down in the teens, it doesn&#8217;t quite get there this time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Bingo Players (featuring The Far East Movement) &#8211; &#8220;Get Up (Rattle)&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oave-jKePH0?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks at the top. \u00a0Who&#8217;d have thought it. \u00a0Rescue us, Macklemore.<\/p>\n<p>It does mean, though, that we&#8217;ve now had three number one singles in a row that have lasted two weeks at the top, which does the chart no harm.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><strong>Biffy Clyro, &#8220;Opposites&#8221;<\/strong> at number 1. \u00a0Their first number 1 album, though they&#8217;ve reached the top 3 twice before.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Justin Bieber, &#8220;Believe Acoustic&#8221;<\/strong> at number 5. \u00a0It&#8217;s exactly what it sounds like.<\/li>\n<li><b>Andrea Bocelli, &#8220;Passione&#8221;<\/b> at number 9. \u00a0This week&#8217;s obligatory Classic FM record.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Funeral for a Friend, &#8220;Conduit&#8221;<\/strong> at number 34. \u00a0Bearing in mind that these guys have gone gold in the past, this really isn&#8217;t very good.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week: basically nothing comes out, but some other records do climb! \u00a0Exciting, I know! 33. \u00a0Justin Bieber (featuring Nicki Minaj) &#8211; 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