{"id":1832,"date":"2013-03-13T21:35:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T21:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2013-03-13T21:35:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T21:35:16","slug":"charts-10-march-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1832","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 10 March 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pretty quiet week, to be honest, but there are a few points of interest in here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>30. \u00a0The Stereophonics &#8211; &#8220;Indian Summer&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qcguxHc4hiU?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hey, these guys are still going! \u00a0I always regarded the Stereophonics as meat-and-potatoes indie-rock plodders at the best of times, but they&#8217;ve been around since 1997, so they must be doing something right. \u00a0This is the lead single from their new album &#8220;Graffiti on the Train&#8221;, which enters the album chart this week at 3. \u00a0It seems to show them mutating into a lower-impact Bon Jovi. \u00a0Is this what they call &#8220;growing old gracefully&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Their biggest UK hit was &#8220;Dakota&#8221;, a number 1 from 2005 &#8211; and ironically also the last of their 11 top ten hits, showing how wonky the singles chart was in the immediate pre-download era.<\/p>\n<p><strong>24. \u00a0The 1975 &#8211; &#8220;Chocolate&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FfBKqaVk2Co?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The chart debut for a critically lauded indie band, and it&#8217;s not just a case of the fanbase propelling it into the chart &#8211; this has climbed 71-54-42-24, no doubt helped by Radio 1&#8217;s support. \u00a0The midweeks show it going a little further (but not much).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s catchy enough, I guess, but I can&#8217;t say it blows me away or anything. \u00a0There&#8217;s not a great deal to it lyrically either, not that it&#8217;s really aspiring to much in that department.<\/p>\n<p><strong>15. \u00a0Fleetwood Mac &#8211; &#8220;Everywhere&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uKSmskT3fPQ?rel=0\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Advert power! \u00a0The legendary 70s-80s rock-for-want-of-a-better-term band were last in the chart in 1988 when they reached number 4 with, well, with this. \u00a0It&#8217;s back now because it&#8217;s being used in <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Ekr05T9Iaio\" target=\"_blank\">an advert by the mobile phone company 3<\/a>, featuring a dancing pony. \u00a0Everyone likes a dancing pony! \u00a0And from an advertising standpoint it&#8217;s a good choice of song, because it&#8217;s a great song, but if you&#8217;re under 25 it&#8217;s probably going to be new to you. \u00a0And now you will associate it forever more with the dancing pony! \u00a0And whatever the dancing pony was advertising. \u00a0Butter, was it?<\/p>\n<p>The original Fleetwood Mac video is an adaptation of the Alfred Noyes poem\u00a0<em>The Highwayman<\/em>, which was still a standard school text in my day, but for all I know is equally unknown to The Young Folk Nowadays.<\/p>\n<p>Their biggest UK hit was the atypical proto-ambient instrumental\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Viqr6KHwJjc\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Albatross&#8221;<\/a>, a surprise number 1 in 1968. \u00a0In America, where radio play was essential to chart success, it made number 104.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. \u00a0Bridgit Mendler &#8211; &#8220;Ready or Not&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dPKG1-3LXBs?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s highest entry goes to another escapee from the Disney Channel, though given the competition, you&#8217;ve got to figure that&#8217;s more by default than anything else. \u00a0I suspect the hand of fandom in her Wikipedia entry, which assures me that critics have &#8220;praised heavily Mendler&#8217;s rapping skills, which have been compared to Cher Lloyd.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The song is okay, but I don&#8217;t see it establishing her beyond that audience. \u00a0Comic book connection: Mendler played the voice of Thorn in the\u00a0<em>Bone: The Great Cow Race<\/em> video game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/U41KPUfOSFk\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>1. \u00a0Justin Timberlake &#8211; &#8220;Mirrors&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s&#8230; still&#8230; too&#8230; long&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Still, the public clearly disagree with me. \u00a0That&#8217;s two weeks at number one, breaking the turnover at the top. \u00a0Will it make a third? \u00a0It&#8217;s possible. \u00a0The midweeks have &#8220;Boomerang&#8221; by Nicole Scherzinger at number 1, but that must have involved some hugely frontloaded sales, since as of right now she&#8217;s already dropped to 7 on iTunes. \u00a0That doesn&#8217;t bode well for her being number 1 on Sunday, in which case Justin&#8217;s endless trudge has a good shot of hanging on for three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">&#8220;Bad Blood&#8221; by Bastille<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"> is at number 1 &#8211; unsurprising after the success of the single &#8220;Pompeii&#8221; (which is still at 3). \u00a0Straight to the top with a debut album.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Graffiti on the Train&#8221; by the Stereophonics<\/strong> at number 3, as already noted. \u00a0The Stereophonics had five straight number 1 albums during 1999-2007, and then the next album missed the top ten. \u00a0So, return to form.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Girl Who Got Away&#8221; by Dido<\/strong> at 5. \u00a0Her first album in five years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Sing To The Moon&#8221; by Laura Mvula<\/strong> at 9. \u00a0Another debut release. \u00a0The single &#8220;Green Garden&#8221; climbs to 31 this week.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;People, Hell &amp; Angels&#8221; by Jimi Hendrix<\/strong> at 39. \u00a0A surprisingly low entry considering this is new material, albeit offcuts from the incomplete follow-up to &#8220;Electric Ladyland&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pretty quiet week, to be honest, but there are a few points of interest in here. 30. \u00a0The Stereophonics &#8211; &#8220;Indian Summer&#8221; Hey, these guys are still going! \u00a0I always regarded the Stereophonics as meat-and-potatoes indie-rock plodders at the best of times, but they&#8217;ve been around since 1997, so they must be doing something [&hellip;]<\/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-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832","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=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}