{"id":1921,"date":"2013-05-14T22:49:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T21:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2013-05-14T23:14:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T22:14:14","slug":"charts-12-may-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1921","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 12 May 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would have had this up earlier, but as you may have noticed, the hosting company has been down for the better part of two days. \u00a0Anyhow, the reign of Daft Punk continues, as does the comparative dearth of new entries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/WpYeekQkAdc\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>40. \u00a0The Black Eyed Peas &#8211; &#8220;Where Is The Love&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Er&#8230; yes. \u00a0A number 1 hit from 2003, I&#8217;m not entirely sure why this is back in the chart. \u00a0It&#8217;s\u00a0<em>supposedly<\/em> because a bunch of Black Eyed Peas fans had a brief spurt of buying the track after the British news media started reporting Fergie&#8217;s retirement (referring to the football manager Alex Ferguson), but, uh, that\u00a0<em>can&#8217;t<\/em> be true, can it?<\/p>\n<p>For whatever reason, it gives will.i.am three singles on this week&#8217;s chart, plus a fourth that he wrote. \u00a0We&#8217;ll come to that one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>39. \u00a0Mariah Carey featuring Miguel &#8211; &#8220;Beautiful&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oe1wtkkt9-E?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Whoops. \u00a0This is Mariah Carey&#8217;s first single in four years, and it was a surprise release, evidently anticipating an audience that would be thrilled and excited by the prospect of new Mariah Carey product. \u00a0So that number 39 position will be, to put it mildly, a disappointment. \u00a0It&#8217;s climbing the iTunes chart, but at time of writing it&#8217;s still only at 26.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, it&#8217;s actually one of her better songs. \u00a0I&#8217;ve never been a fan of Carey&#8217;s showy vocal gymnastics, but this is a rather sweet midpaced R&amp;B track, and the obnoxious hashtag in the title gives completely the wrong impression.<\/p>\n<p>Miguel Pimentel is reasonably well known in the USA &#8211; he had a couple of number 1s on the Billboard R&amp;B chart in 2011 &#8211; but he&#8217;s unknown in Britain, so having him sing the first minute and a half probably didn&#8217;t help with airplay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/PIh07c_P4hc\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>36. \u00a0John Legend &#8211; &#8220;Ordinary People&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Co-written by will.i.am, this is the second year running that it&#8217;s re-entered the chart on downloads. \u00a0Last year it was because of a cover on\u00a0<em>The Voice<\/em> (nothing like sucking up to the judges), and I&#8217;d hazard a guess it&#8217;s probably the same reason this year too. \u00a0It&#8217;s climbing on iTunes, so this was probably the result of a surge of sales on Saturday night before the chart week closed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>19. \u00a0Gabrielle Aplin &#8211; &#8220;Panic Cord&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LLdTcr98fSs?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is Aplin&#8217;s third hit, following the cover of &#8220;The Power Of Love&#8221; that made number 1 last November, and her own &#8220;Please Don&#8217;t Say You Love Me&#8221;, which reached number 6 in February. \u00a0It&#8217;s a bit of an Ed Sheeran-ish wistful post-break-up number, though jaunty enough to suggest she&#8217;s not all that bothered about it, really. \u00a0That&#8217;s two straight singles from her about annoyingly clingy men, incidentally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. \u00a0Armin van Buuren (featuring Trevor Guthrie) &#8211; &#8220;This Is What It Feels Like&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BR_DFMUzX4E?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Armin van Buuren is a Dutch trance producer who&#8217;s been around for years. \u00a0Strangely, he&#8217;s only had one previous UK hit &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/RSJvlMjWq18\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Communication&#8221;<\/a>, which made number 18 way back in 2000. \u00a0Persistence finally pays off, with this inoffensive pop crossover number.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also the first UK hit for Trevor Guthrie, who used to be the lead singer of the Canadian group Soul Decision. \u00a0Their single <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/C8ElS3eS0I8\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Faded&#8221;<\/a> was a number one in Canada in 1999, but from the looks of it they were never promoted over here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. \u00a0Chris Malinchak &#8211; &#8220;So Good To Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KrMl32cuC2A?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Summer&#8217;s here, then. \u00a0I guess this counts as more dance music, though it&#8217;s really more a gently soulful Sunday morning affair. \u00a0Chris Malinchak is a New York house producer, and this is his first UK hit. \u00a0As is often the case with dance records, the video seems to be something that was put together by the UK licensees Ministry of Sound. \u00a0It features a little girl looking for her lost pet. \u00a0Don&#8217;t worry, she finds it.<\/p>\n<p>The uncredited vocal is apparently constructed of samples of from &#8220;If This World Were Mine&#8221; by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, an album track from 1967. \u00a0Record contracts of the era being what they were, it seems Gaye doesn&#8217;t merit a credit here. \u00a0That said, Malinchak really has chopped this stuff out of context and turned it into a completely new song; here&#8217;s the original, which is virtually unrecognisable. \u00a0The samples mainly come from the last minute or so.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a4u8WPX7JZU?rel=0\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You will be pleased to hear, by the way, that this is not Marvin Gaye&#8217;s biggest hit &#8211; he had a number one hit with &#8220;I Heard It Through The Grapevine&#8221; in 1969.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/5NV6Rdv1a3I\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>1. \u00a0Daft Punk &#8211; &#8220;Get Lucky&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still number one on iTunes, and going nowhere, from the look of it. \u00a0That&#8217;s three weeks at the top, equalling Justin Timberlake&#8217;s &#8220;Mirrors&#8221; as the longest reign of the year. \u00a0If it manages four, that&#8217;ll be the longest reign at number one since &#8220;Call Me Maybe&#8221; a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and it&#8217;s sold in excess of 100,000 copies every week that it&#8217;s been at the top.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><strong>&#8220;The Shocking Miss Emerald&#8221; by Caro Emerald<\/strong> at number 1. \u00a0She&#8217;s a Dutch jazz singer, and her previous album &#8220;Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor&#8221; made number 4. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the lead single, &#8220;Tangled Up&#8221;. \u00a0It&#8217;s a different world, the album chart.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yjl890_qwf4?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Didn&#8217;t It Rain&#8221; by Hugh Laurie<\/strong>\u00a0at 3. \u00a0His second album; the first one made number 2.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Minutes&#8221; by Alison Moyet<\/strong> at \u00a05. \u00a0That&#8217;s her highest chart placing since 1987.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Golden&#8221; by Lady Antebellum<\/strong> at 7. \u00a0Their only UK hit single remains &#8220;Need You Know&#8221;, which makes periodic visits to the singles chart, peaking at 15.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Heart of Nowhere&#8221; by Noah and the Whale<\/strong> at 13. \u00a0They didn&#8217;t release a single in advance of this album.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Silence Yourself&#8221; by Savages<\/strong> at 19. \u00a0Debut album from the post-punk band.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Inform Educate Entertain&#8221; by Public Service Broadcasting<\/strong> at 21. \u00a0Bit of an oddity. \u00a0Imagine <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/rBLWDF2nfP8\" target=\"_blank\">Lemon Jelly<\/a> only with more live instruments and an obsession with sampling old newsreels and film dialogue. \u00a0Stuff like this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_u4Md_aXVJE?rel=0\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><strong>&#8220;Intense&#8221; by Armin van Buuren<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>at 37. \u00a0Unusual to see dance hit singles spilling over into the album chart like this<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"line-height: 13px;\">&#8220;Regardless&#8221; 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