{"id":1969,"date":"2013-06-11T22:44:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T21:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2013-06-11T22:44:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T21:44:29","slug":"charts-9-june-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1969","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 9 June 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week: <em>X Factor<\/em> alumni fall slightly short of expectations,\u00a0<em>Voice<\/em>\u00a0contestant does rather better. \u00a0It&#8217;s Reality TV Show Tales!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NdYWuo9OFAw\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>39. \u00a0The Goo-Goo Dolls &#8211; &#8220;Iris&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PIh07c_P4hc\" target=\"_blank\">38. \u00a0John Legend &#8211; &#8220;Ordinary People&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=93ASUImTedo\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>37. \u00a0Disclosure featuring Sam Smith &#8211; &#8220;Latch&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two of the now familiar perennials from reality TV, plus Disclosure, presumably because of the spillover effect from their album release. \u00a0This has become a routine phenomenon at the bottom end of the top 40, though with\u00a0<em>Britain&#8217;s Got Talent<\/em> over for another year, things should quieten down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>22. \u00a0Kodaline &#8211; &#8220;Love Like This&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IkAOasSJro0?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The follow-up to &#8220;High Hopes&#8221;, which made number 16 in March. \u00a0It&#8217;s basically Mumford &amp; Sons with added AOR.<\/p>\n<p><strong>21. \u00a0Afrojack (featuring Chris Brown) &#8211; &#8220;As Your Friend&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/stV2UD_vmxY?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, this is all very Calvin Harris, isn&#8217;t it? \u00a0It&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve had anything quite this blatantly School Of Harris, in fact, though it does have a couple of bits where it veers into something less radio-friendly. \u00a0Not that those bits are necessarily an improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Afrojack is Dutch DJ Nick van der Wall. \u00a0His previous biggest hit as a lead artist was &#8220;Take Over Control&#8221;, which made number 24 in 2010, but he also has a guest credit on &#8220;Give Me Everything&#8221; by Pitbull, a number 1 from 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Brown is Chris Brown, and I choose to pretend he isn&#8217;t happening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>16. \u00a0Leah McFall &#8211; &#8220;I Will Survive&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8AimnD68l-w?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ooh, now this is a surprise.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Voice UK<\/em> releases its performances on iTunes, just like\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> does. \u00a0Unlike\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em>, it hasn&#8217;t exercised the option to exclude them from the chart.<\/p>\n<p>Now, there&#8217;s a very good reason why <em>X Factor<\/em>\u00a0opts out of the chart &#8211; it makes it blatantly obvious who&#8217;s winning the phone votes. \u00a0Here&#8217;s Leah McFall, making number 16 based on one day&#8217;s sales \u00a0&#8211; a pretty remarkable achievement. \u00a0None of the other contestants are anywhere to be found. \u00a0So much for tension, then.<\/p>\n<p>But <em>The Voice UK<\/em> has its reasons for letting these tracks chart &#8211; principally, that season 1&#8217;s winner was a catastrophe, and they really need to establish that they&#8217;re capable of finding stars. \u00a0And if you&#8217;ve got a record that makes number 16 in one day, well, you&#8217;ve sent some kind of message that your show counts after all.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s continuing to sell, too &#8211; as of right now, the track remains in the iTunes top 10. \u00a0(It was at 3 on Sunday.)<\/p>\n<p>The actual song is a drastically re-arranged version of Gloria Gaynor&#8217;s 1979 number 1 hit &#8220;I Will Survive&#8221;, and it&#8217;s the sort of thing that does very well on talent shows &#8211; which is to say, it&#8217;s as much a technical showreel as an actual performance. \u00a0It&#8217;s striking, though, so if the aim was to get people talking about her, job done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. \u00a0Fuse ODG &#8211; &#8220;Antenna&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6LCoksSQMzs?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fuse ODG lives in London, but he&#8217;s Ghanaian by birth, and he&#8217;s been having hits over there for a couple of years now. \u00a0The ODG apparently stands for &#8220;Off Da Ground&#8221;, which was originally a collective of musicians. \u00a0His big hit abroad was 2011&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/GTUIlOudlHI\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Azonto&#8221;<\/a>, which is rather more explicitly Afrobeat. \u00a0&#8220;Antenna&#8221; is more of a hybrid with UK pop-rap, but an interesting enough record for all that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. \u00a0Union J &#8211; &#8220;Carry You&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GEEYhzaeNus?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Union J came fourth in\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> last year. \u00a0Like a lot of\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> bands, they were kind of sort of assembled during the audition stages. \u00a0Three of them &#8211; Josh Cuthbert, JJ Hamblett and Jaymi Hensley &#8211; originally applied as a trio under the undeniably logical name Triple J. \u00a0Then they had a chap called George added, so&#8230; yeah. \u00a0Union J.<\/p>\n<p>From the sound of this single, the record company fancy them as another Wanted. \u00a0That kind of makes sense, since One Direction have got their side of the boy band territory sewn up. \u00a0The Wanted, in comparison, are slight underachievers. \u00a0Unfortunately, the Wanted also tend to make slightly better records. \u00a0This is thoroughly okay, but it&#8217;s hard to see it having a massive appeal beyond their core fans.<\/p>\n<p>Sales on this tailed off rather quickly beyond the first few days, which is not a good sign &#8211; I&#8217;m sure the record company expected it to at least be in contention for number 1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/yyDUC1LUXSU\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>1. \u00a0Robin Thicke (featuring T.I. and Pharrell Williams) &#8211; &#8220;Blurred Lines&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Second week on top, and heading a virtually static top five. \u00a0Astonishingly, his sales actually went up, with 199,000 copies sold in the second week. \u00a0This thing is going to pass half a million in three weeks; it seems to be the summer of R&amp;B throwbacks.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Official Charts Company, this is the eighth straight week that the number 1 single has sold more than 100,000 copies. \u00a0If you discount charity singles, this hasn&#8217;t happened since 1999 (evidently a very different time, since the number 1 hits in that run included the largely forgotten &#8220;Lift Me Up&#8221; by Geri Halliwell, and &#8220;King of my Castle&#8221; by the Wamdue Project).<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart, Daft Punk are surprisingly no longer number 1&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><strong>&#8220;Settle&#8221; by Disclosure<\/strong> is number 1, following their string of hit singles.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Like Clockwork&#8221; by Queens of the Stone Age<\/strong> at 2, their highest placed album to date. \u00a0They&#8217;ve made number 4 twice, but that was a while back.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Forget Who You Are&#8221; by Miles Kane<\/strong> at 8. \u00a0The other one from Last Shadow Puppets. \u00a0This is his second solo album, and the first to make the top ten.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Super Collider&#8221; by Megadeth<\/strong> at 22. \u00a0Yes, 22. \u00a0That&#8217;s&#8230; really quite awful for a band of Megadeth&#8217;s status.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<strong>&#8220;The Hurry and the Harm&#8221; by City and Colour<\/strong> at 32. \u00a0City and Colour is Canadian songwriter Dallas Green, who used to be in Alexisonfire. \u00a0It&#8217;s his first album to make the chart.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Feel&#8221; by Sleeping with Sirens<\/strong> at 36. \u00a0An American post-hardcore band, making their first UK chart appearance too.<\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;Desire Lines&#8221; 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