{"id":1912,"date":"2013-05-05T22:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2013-05-05T22:00:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T21:00:56","slug":"charts-5-may-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1912","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 5 May 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Tis the quietest of quiet weeks. \u00a0Seriously, this isn&#8217;t going to take long.<\/p>\n<p><strong>38. \u00a0Michael Molloy &amp; Alex Evans &#8211; &#8220;Rise And Fall&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mnfT4NXsTlA?rel=0\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Michael Molloy was an 18-year-old aspiring songwriter who was killed in a coach crash last year while returning from the Isle of Wight festival; this is a demo he had previously recorded with partner Alex Evans. \u00a0It&#8217;s quite good, in fact. \u00a0If you&#8217;re wondering, that&#8217;s apparently Evans singing; Molloy wrote the song and is playing the guitar.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Sales are hugely frontloaded because it&#8217;s been available for pre-order for weeks, and of course all those pre-orders counted as sales as soon as the download became available. \u00a0(It was at 26 in the midweeks.) \u00a0This is, I think, the second time inside a year that we&#8217;ve had a chart entry for a posthumous release by an amateur musician; another sign of how the internet era is levelling the playing field.<\/p>\n<p><strong>35. \u00a0Misha B &#8211; &#8220;Here&#8217;s To Everything (Ooh La La)&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nYx4YHXN4Ig?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last week Amelia Lily&#8217;s third single limped to number 40, and now here&#8217;s fellow <em>X Factor\u00a0<\/em>cast-off\u00a0Misha B following up last year&#8217;s &#8220;Home Run&#8221; (no 11) and &#8220;Do You Think Of Me&#8221; (no 9) with&#8230; well, a chart placing quite some way distant. \u00a0And as with Amelia, I&#8217;m not quite sure what&#8217;s gone wrong here, since the single itself is perfectly acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>The hook is recycled. \u00a0It&#8217;s best known from the Fugees&#8217; debut hit <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/_AvSUCgTgUs\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Fu-Gee-La&#8221;<\/a>, which made number 21 in 1996, though they in turn lifted it from <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/kSAmolPd3sw\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Ooh La La La&#8221;<\/a> by Teena Marie, a reasonably big hit in America that limped to a UK number 74 in 1988.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oABEGc8Dus0\"><strong>30. \u00a0Rudimental &#8211; &#8220;Feel The Love&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Re-entry, presumably because the album release has reminded people they&#8217;d like to own it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LAd729p38-8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>28. \u00a0Loveable Rogues &#8211; &#8220;What A Night&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t normally bother with fallers, but it&#8217;s worth mentioning that the Britain&#8217;s Got Talent signees plummet a massive 19 places in their second week out. \u00a0Maybe a rethink required here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NdYWuo9OFAw\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>12. \u00a0The Goo Goo Dolls &#8211; &#8220;Iris&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up from 39 last week. \u00a0There was a surge of sales following a performance on <em>Britain&#8217;s Got Talent<\/em> a week last Saturday &#8211; a few hours made it onto last week&#8217;s chart, most of it winds up here. \u00a0It&#8217;s already on its way back out of the iTunes top 40.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10. \u00a0Disclosure (featuring Eliza Doolittle) &#8211; &#8220;You &amp; Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W_vM8ePGuRM?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s highest new entry, and the only one inside the top 30. \u00a0Told you it was quiet.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the third hit for Disclosure, following &#8220;Latch&#8221; (no 11) and &#8220;White Noise&#8221; (2). \u00a0Takes a little while to hit its stride, but turns into another good little electropop song once it gets going.<\/p>\n<p>Eliza Doolittle is a name we haven&#8217;t seen in quite a while. \u00a0She had a couple of hits in 2010 &#8211; &#8220;Skinny Genes&#8221; and &#8220;Pack Up&#8221; &#8211; which positioned her as a whimsical quirk pixie. \u00a0(I mean, she&#8217;s called\u00a0<em>Eliza Doolittle<\/em>, for heaven&#8217;s sake.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qxqtnWwLxYI?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>She couldn&#8217;t be much less like Disclosure, so this single marks a pretty radical departure for her. \u00a0According to Wikipedia, she&#8217;s done pretty much nothing in the last two years aside from make an appearance on the Justice Collective charity single &#8211; and given that she has the sort of page that documents her appearances on\u00a0<em>Big Brother&#8217;s Little Brother<\/em>, that rather suggests there really has been nothing to report. \u00a0I can only assume she&#8217;s about to be relaunched with a drastic overhaul and that this single is the first step in reintroducing her. \u00a0Whether it&#8217;s a wise move in the long term to trade in what was at least a distinctive style for a new life as Katy B remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/5dbEhBKGOtY\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>6. \u00a0David Guetta (featuring Ne-Yo &amp; Akon) &#8211; &#8220;Play Hard&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leaping from 21 last week, as the single promotion takes hold. \u00a0It&#8217;s the seventh single from the (various versions of the) &#8220;Nothing But The Beat&#8221; album.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/RBumgq5yVrA\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>4. \u00a0Passenger &#8211; &#8220;Let Her Go&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Climbing from 11 to 4 as Britain belatedly decides that if the rest of Europe likes it, it must be okay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Daft Punk (featuring Pharrell Williams) &#8211; &#8220;Get Lucky&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5NV6Rdv1a3I?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks at the top, admittedly with no real competition, but it&#8217;s unlikely that anything would have been able to dethrone it. \u00a0This is now the fastest selling single of the year, having shifted 369,000 copies. \u00a0That also makes it Daft Punk&#8217;s highest selling UK single &#8211; it&#8217;s sold more copies in 16 days than &#8220;One More Time&#8221; sold in a little over 13 years. \u00a0It&#8217;s an\u00a0<em>enormous<\/em> hit.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still at number 1 on iTunes now, so it&#8217;s got every chance of making three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Over on the album chart, front-loaded sales watch: the Frank Turner album drops from 2 to 21 in its second week out. \u00a0New this week are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><strong>&#8220;Home&#8221; by Rudimental<\/strong> at number 1. \u00a0After two number one hits, a bit of a foregone conclusion that the album would do well.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Before I Sleep&#8221; by Bo Bruce<\/strong>\u00a0at number 10. \u00a0She was a contestant on season one of\u00a0<em>The Voice<\/em>, so the BBC will be very relieved that they can finally point to somebody else who&#8217;s actually launched a career off the back of that show &#8211; even if it isn&#8217;t the winner.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Roulette&#8221; 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