{"id":1932,"date":"2013-05-23T22:45:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T21:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1932"},"modified":"2013-05-23T22:45:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T21:45:46","slug":"charts-19-may-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1932","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 19 May 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t just Eurovision this week! \u00a0 There&#8217;s also a batch of new entries, none of which is troubling Daft Punk in the slightest!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/PxNYvk_0Onw\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>38. \u00a0Gabrielle Aplin &#8211; &#8220;Please Don&#8217;t Say You Love Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was a number 6 hit in February. \u00a0It&#8217;ll be back because of a spillover effect from the release of her album this week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/OmLNs6zQIHo\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>36. \u00a0Birdy &#8211; &#8220;People Help The People&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was on\u00a0<em>The Voice<\/em>&#8230; er, two weeks ago. \u00a0Delayed effect? \u00a0Or was it just listed as a discount track on Amazon?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/oe1wtkkt9-E\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>27. \u00a0Mariah Carey (featuring Miguel) &#8211; &#8220;#Beautiful&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Climbing from last week&#8217;s 39, and it&#8217;s still climbing on iTunes &#8211; so perhaps this isn&#8217;t quite the dud it first appeared. \u00a0But the midweek chart doesn&#8217;t show it going much further.<\/p>\n<p><strong>23. \u00a0Tich &#8211; &#8220;Dumb&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J9XRfIILptE?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Tich is a 19-year-old songwriter who used to go by the name Rachel Furner, but who has been rebranded with what is claimed to be her lifelong nickname. \u00a0It&#8217;s nowhere to be seen on the midweeks, so I can&#8217;t imagine the record company will be thrilled. \u00a0The single itself isn&#8217;t bad, and I&#8217;d have expected it to do better. \u00a0But clearly something hasn&#8217;t quite connected here.<\/p>\n<p>She is not to be confused with Ian &#8220;Tich&#8221; Amey, the guitarist from 1960s band Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich.<\/p>\n<p><strong>18. \u00a0Olly Murs &#8211; &#8220;Dear Darlin'&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m20BTdy9FGI?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is going to be the third single from Murs&#8217; current album, and it suddenly started picking up downloads as an album track during the week &#8211; it was nowhere to be seen in the midweeks. \u00a0So as you can imagine, it&#8217;s set to climb next week. \u00a0Despite the awkwardly &#8220;endearing&#8221; title, it&#8217;s one of his better singles, vaguely gesturing in the direction of Massive Attack. \u00a0(Only vaguely, though.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>12. \u00a0Stooshe &#8211; &#8220;Slip&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0AqbL7o3ikE?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is more like it. \u00a0But the Motown-themed girl band are starting to look like a rather troubled project.<\/p>\n<p>Their album\u00a0<em>London with the Lights On<\/em> was originally due out last June, and it&#8217;s finally going to limp out at the end of the month. \u00a0They got off to a good start with last year&#8217;s &#8220;Love Me&#8221; (number 5) and &#8220;Black Heart&#8221; (number 3), but then an inexplicable cover version of TLC&#8217;s &#8220;Waterfalls&#8221; stalled at 21. \u00a0That seems to have been universally recognised as a bad idea &#8211; the band themselves <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/playlist\/view\/306855\/Stooshe-slam-own-single-and-rework-debut-album\/\" target=\"_blank\">publicly blamed the record company and disowned the track<\/a>, and then helpfully explained that the reason their album had been delayed was because they were fighting with the label over its content.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Slip&#8221; is a return to what worked for them on the first two singles, and it&#8217;s a shame they haven&#8217;t managed to get it into the top 10. \u00a0A number 26 place in the midweeks indicates makes clear that this won&#8217;t be a hit on the scale of their first two singles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10. \u00a0Sub Focus (featuring Alex Clare) &#8211; &#8220;Endorphins&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y3CYKXBEtf0?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The fourth and biggest hit for producer Nick Douwma, beating the number 12 peak of &#8220;Tidal Wave&#8221; from the tail end of last year. \u00a0The video is a hilariously heavy-handed &#8220;down with the man&#8221; job, and I don&#8217;t think comedy is what they were going for.<\/p>\n<p>Singer Alex Clare previously had hits as a guest on Rudimental&#8217;s &#8220;Not Giving In&#8221; and, of course, with &#8220;Too Close&#8221;. \u00a0Bizarrely, he seems to still be unsigned, having been dropped by his label in 2011 (before &#8220;Too Close&#8221; was used in an Internet Explorer advert and became an international hit).<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. \u00a0Wretch 32 (featuring Shakka) &#8211; &#8220;Blackout&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IG5bWsKIsQs?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rapper Wretch 32 (it&#8217;s pronounced &#8220;three two&#8221;) had three top five hits in 2011 &#8211; and then saw his next three releases scrape the bottom end of the top 40. \u00a0So there&#8217;ll be a lot of relief that this track sees a return to commercial form. \u00a0It&#8217;s quite good, in fact &#8211; the hook seems to be the result of somebody messing about with &#8220;wood block&#8221; and &#8220;gamelan&#8221; synth presets, but at least it stands out.<\/p>\n<p>Shakka&#8217;s a singer from London making the now-traditional debut as a guest on somebody else&#8217;s record.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. \u00a0Demi Lovato &#8211; &#8220;Heart Attack&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AByfaYcOm4A?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The first major UK hit for Demi Lovato, who started off on the Disney Channel&#8217;s <em>Camp Rock<\/em> before graduating to her own\u00a0show\u00a0<em>Sonny With a Chance<\/em>. \u00a0Disney Channel stars generally haven&#8217;t had great success in crossing over to the UK singles chart &#8211; with the obvious exception of Miley Cyrus, but she&#8217;s a special case. \u00a0Lovato has had a few minor hits before, but her previous best was her comeback single &#8220;Skyscraper&#8221;, which only made number 32.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Heart Attack&#8221; is maybe a little bit busy, but she&#8217;s certainly got a voice on her (her borderline hysterical vocal was the best thing about &#8220;Skyscraper&#8221;). \u00a0This is going to drop out of the top ten next week, but it&#8217;s already served its purpose of elevating her profile in this country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Daft Punk &#8211; &#8220;Get Lucky&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Four weeks at the top, all of them with sales of over 100,000. \u00a0That&#8217;s almost unheard of (in fact, for the last time it happened, you have to go back to Band Aid 20). \u00a0Daft Punk have now broken the half-million sales barrier, but with the album finally out this week and attention moving over there, it looks like this could be it.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><strong>&#8220;Time&#8221; by Rod Stewart<\/strong> at number 1. \u00a0Unexpected &#8211; Rod Stewart hasn&#8217;t had a number 1 album since &#8220;Greatest Hits vol 1&#8221; in 1979. \u00a0It&#8217;s not like this was a quiet week for new releases, either. \u00a0But he may well have the sort of audience that still buys physical product, and therefore still buys albums, period.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;English Rain&#8221; by Gabrielle Aplin<\/strong> at 2, which we already mentioned in passing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Modern Vampires of the City&#8221; by Vampire Weekend\u00a0<\/strong>at 3. \u00a0That equals the peak of their previous album &#8220;Contra&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;A&#8221; by Agnetha Faltskog<\/strong> at 6. \u00a0The blonde one from Abba released three albums in the 1980s, and another in 2004, but this is the first time she&#8217;s made the top 10.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;More Light&#8221; by Prima Scream<\/strong> at 12. \u00a0That&#8217;s the first time one of their studio albums has missed the top ten since their debut &#8220;Sonic Flower Groove&#8221; back in 1987.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Re Mit&#8221; by The Fall<\/strong> at 40. \u00a0That&#8217;s about usual for a Fall album, though there was a brief fit of national insanity in 1993 that led to them making the top 10 with &#8220;Infotainment Scan&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t just Eurovision this week! \u00a0 There&#8217;s also a batch of new entries, none of which is troubling Daft Punk in the slightest! 38. \u00a0Gabrielle Aplin &#8211; 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