{"id":2030,"date":"2013-07-17T18:51:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T17:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2013-07-17T18:51:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T17:51:58","slug":"charts-14-july-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2030","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 14 July 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a run of twelve weeks in which the number 1 single sold over 100,000, the charts finally run out of momentum and gives us, well, a number 1 by default&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>36. \u00a0Pink featuring Lily Allen &#8211; &#8220;True Love&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zsmUOdmm02A?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Well\u00a0<em>that<\/em> sure sounds like a healthy relationship, doesn&#8217;t it? \u00a0This is the fourth single from her album &#8220;The Truth About Love&#8221;, which has been out since September, so by this point in the promotional cycle it&#8217;s really a matter of reminding people the album&#8217;s still out there.<\/p>\n<p>The blatantly tacked on 20 seconds of Lily Allen in the bridge is&#8230; frankly odd, and weirdly out of place, not least because her segment looks likes the work of a director who had no idea what the rest of the video was going to look like or simply didn&#8217;t care. \u00a0She is on the album, though, and credited as co-writer (as &#8220;Lily Rose Cooper&#8221;, but evidently the record company decided to go for the better known name on the single release).<\/p>\n<p>Allen\/Cooper has two number ones to her name &#8211; &#8220;Smile&#8221; and &#8220;The Fear&#8221; &#8211; but she&#8217;s been on a hiatus from recording for quite some time now. \u00a0She hasn&#8217;t had a hit in her own right since 2009, though she appeared as a guest on Professor Green&#8217;s &#8220;Just Be Good To Green&#8221; in 2010, and got a featured artist credit when she was sampled on T-Pain&#8217;s &#8220;5 O&#8217;Clock&#8221; in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>This is climbing in the midweeks, as you&#8217;d expect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>27. \u00a0Sneakbo &#8211; &#8220;Ring A Ling&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7IjyvyLZVkM?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Follow up to &#8220;Zim Zimma&#8221;, which scraped the bottom end of the chart last year. \u00a0He also appears as a guest on some versions of D&#8217;Banj&#8217;s &#8220;Oliver Twist&#8221;. \u00a0The chorus is based on the 1992 single <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/wH_0_pijbZY\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Ting-a-Ling&#8221; by Shabba Ranks<\/a>\u00a0(Wikipedia says it&#8217;s a sample, but\u00a0the lyrics don&#8217;t match, so I suspect it&#8217;s a re-creation). \u00a0That&#8217;s a minimal dancehall track, so it&#8217;s been pretty wildly transformed here.<\/p>\n<p>This is actually pretty good, though it&#8217;s going no higher than this. \u00a0The video is a strange mixture of footage of Sneakbo doing stock hip-hop things (with zero apparent irony), and intercut footage of people wandering around a market town, and some dancers incongruously plonked in the main square of Waltham Abbey. \u00a0I&#8217;m assuming it&#8217;s\u00a0<em>meant<\/em> to look odd, but it could equally be a case of director and artist with, shall we say, wildly divergent visions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/tYiSsxggJK8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>26. \u00a0Spark Productions &#8211; &#8220;Wake Me Up&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Climbing nine places, making it a rare case of a dodgy cover lasting two weeks on the chart. \u00a0The Avicii original is now out and will inevitably be number one on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/2YcIgow6TDk\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>24. \u00a0Jay-Z featuring Justin Timberlake &#8211; &#8220;Holy Grail&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The title track from Jay-Z&#8217;s album, which enters at number 1 this week over on the album charts. \u00a0This isn&#8217;t a single, it&#8217;s just being cherrypicked. \u00a0In fact, there aren&#8217;t any official singles for this album &#8211; Jay-Z doesn&#8217;t need to bother with that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>Kind of leaves me cold, to be honest, but it&#8217;s climbing in the midweeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>21. \u00a0Katy B &#8211; &#8220;What Love Is Made Of&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tIsRLrJyOrU?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We haven&#8217;t heard from Katy B since since &#8220;Easy Please Me&#8221; made number 25 in 2011. \u00a0(Well, she had that Coca-Cola advert with Mark Ronson in 2012, but the track didn&#8217;t make the top 40.) \u00a0This is dropping sharply in the midweeks, which is disappointing &#8211; she&#8217;s been away for over two years and returned with her second-smallest hit to date. \u00a0She ought to be a good fit for the current wave of retro dance records, too. \u00a0Admittedly, though, this is lacking something.<\/p>\n<p><strong>13. \u00a0Iggy Azalea &#8211; &#8220;Bounce&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cI1A405jBqg?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to plunge next week, but as a follow-up to her number 17 debut hit &#8220;Work&#8221;, she should be happy enough with this. \u00a0I&#8217;d have said it&#8217;s a less obvious hit single anyway. \u00a0Not sure about the video, which doesn&#8217;t exactly help define her to a mainstream audience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. \u00a0Lawson featuring B.o.B. &#8211; &#8220;Brokenhearted&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jekHmNtLcig?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ah, the boy band with guitars. \u00a0It&#8217;s a niche, I guess. \u00a0It&#8217;s their fourth top ten hit, and an improvement on the number 13 peak of their last single &#8220;Learn to Love Again&#8221;, so they&#8217;re doing okay. \u00a0It&#8217;s promoting the special edition reissue of their album &#8220;Chapman Square&#8221;, which has been out for ages. \u00a0It&#8217;s actually not horrid as these things go, but it&#8217;s dropping ten places in the midweeks, which suggests it&#8217;s mainly the fanbase buying.<\/p>\n<p><b>3. \u00a0Sebastian Ingrosso, Tommy Trash &amp; John Martin &#8211; &#8220;Reload&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GuAtcpFQpMw?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Blizzards! \u00a0Dragons! \u00a0Volcanic eruptions! \u00a0The video is nothing if not epic in its ambition, and wholly unrelated to anything on the soundtrack as far as I can make out.<\/p>\n<p>This is Ingrosso&#8217;s second hit under his own name, following his collaboration with Alesso, &#8220;Calling (Lose My Mind)&#8221;, which made number 19 last year. \u00a0But he was also a member of the now apparently defunct Swedish House Mafia, who had six hits including the number 1 &#8220;Don&#8217;t You Worry Child&#8221;. \u00a0Like a lot of this week&#8217;s new entries, it doesn&#8217;t look to have much staying power, dropping to 8 in the midweeks.<\/p>\n<p>John Martin is the Swedish House Mafia&#8217;s regular singer, and had a previous credit on the aforementioned &#8220;Don&#8217;t You Worry Child&#8221;. \u00a0And Tommy Trash is an Australian producer who&#8217;s been making records since 2007 without crossing over to the charts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/zwT6DZCQi9k\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>1. \u00a0Robin Thicke featuring Pharrell Williams and T.I. &#8211; &#8220;Blurred Lines&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Returning to number one after two weeks away, sales are now starting to tail off but, well, it&#8217;s still doing over 80K, and that&#8217;s enough to fend off this week&#8217;s competition. \u00a0It won&#8217;t be there next week.<\/p>\n<p>Returning to number 1 after being interrupted by two different records is rare but not unknown. \u00a0It last happened in 2010 when Bruno Mars&#8217; &#8220;Just The Way You Are&#8221; returned to number 1 after being interrupted for three weeks by Tinie Tempah&#8217;s &#8220;Written in the Stars&#8221; and the Cee Lo Green track that the OCC like to call &#8220;Forget You&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Over on the album chart, Jay-Z is number one&#8230; er, and that&#8217;s it. \u00a0Nothing else new at all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a run of twelve weeks in which the number 1 single sold over 100,000, the charts finally run out of momentum and gives us, well, a number 1 by default&#8230; 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