{"id":2035,"date":"2013-07-23T11:27:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T10:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2013-07-23T11:27:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T10:27:55","slug":"charts-21-july-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2035","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 21 July 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After last week&#8217;s hiatus, the march of the massive number one hits resumes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>32. \u00a0Kings of Leon &#8211; &#8220;Supersoaker&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/64a15jJqFDk?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>YouTube is sparking some odd video clips these days. \u00a0That thing above is, obviously, not a video in the conventional sense &#8211; and it&#8217;s billed simply as an audio track &#8211; but by the same token it&#8217;s not a \u00a0lyric video, nor is it just a still. \u00a0It&#8217;s, well, over three and half minutes of various camera angles of a neon sign.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ETy1n4jm_Jw\" target=\"_blank\">When the Wildhearts did this, it was a TV-baiting anti-video.<\/a> \u00a0Here, it&#8217;s more a question of having something more interesting than a still photo to try and keep your attention on what&#8217;s basically an audio page for a little bit longer.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway&#8230; this was a midweek release, hence the rather lowly chart position. \u00a0It&#8217;ll climb next week, but probably not by a huge amount. \u00a0It&#8217;s their first hit since &#8220;Radioactive&#8221; reached the top 10 three years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>28. \u00a0Calvin Harris featuring Ayah Marar &#8211; &#8220;Thinking About You&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SlON8H2C970?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(Caution: video NSFW. \u00a0Though come to think of it, if you&#8217;re in the sort of job that lets you watch Calvin Harris videos of any description during work, god knows what their standards are.)<\/p>\n<p>Have you missed Calvin Harris&#8217; favourite hook? Well, good news, because it&#8217;s back. \u00a0This is the eighth and, we are assured, final single to be taken from his &#8220;18 Months&#8221; album. \u00a0Ayah Marar is a Jordanian singer who moved to London when she was 18, and who&#8217;s been floating around the dance circuit for a while now. \u00a0It&#8217;s her first top 40 hit. \u00a0Here&#8217;s one of her own self-released singles, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/6CMP3R2acpw\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Mind Controller&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; it&#8217;s along pretty similar lines, to be honest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>26. \u00a0Lucy Spraggan &#8211; &#8220;Lighthouse&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k9FCIyDh6_o?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Remember Lucy Spraggan? \u00a0She&#8217;s the\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> contestant who charted last autumn when the public suddenly realised that the self-penned song she&#8217;d performed in the auditions, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/8mgT8PDkTsA\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Last Night&#8221;<\/a>, was actually sitting on iTunes as part of her hitherto completely ignored album &#8220;Top Room at the Zoo&#8221;. \u00a0The track was hastily yanked from iTunes midweek, but she still got to number 11.<\/p>\n<p>Given the inevitable difficulty of shoehorning Spraggan, a semi-jokey folkster, into the\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> format, she went on to do the occasional original song and some odd semi-covers that blended existing choruses with original verses, and seemed to be doing quite well. \u00a0Part of that, of course, is the oddity of the format violation. \u00a0Her version of &#8220;Golddigger&#8221; (see below) kind of works on its own terms. \u00a0Her version of <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ufmgWs2SQNI\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Titanium&#8221;<\/a>&#8230; well, yeah, that&#8217;s just a mess.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/enG44JMUUZY?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>She ended up dropping out due to illness (<em>X Factor<\/em> will give you a bye for the first week, but not for two, for understandable reasons).<\/p>\n<p>This is her first proper release since escaping the\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> fold, and considering that it&#8217;s co-written by the bloke from the Ordinary Boys, it&#8217;s really quite decent. \u00a0It&#8217;s fairly obviously targeting the Mumford &amp; Sons audience, and it&#8217;s rather less distinctive than her previous single, but it&#8217;s got a good strong chorus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zsmUOdmm02A\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>22. \u00a0Pink featuring Lily Allen &#8211; &#8220;True Love&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Climbing 14 places as the promotion gathers pace. \u00a0It&#8217;s on course for the top 20 next week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2YcIgow6TDk\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>15. \u00a0JAY Z featuring Justin Timberlake &#8211; &#8220;Holy Grail&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Climbing 9 places, and again, on course for the top 20.<\/p>\n<p><strong>14. \u00a0Avril Lavigne &#8211; &#8220;Here&#8217;s to Never Growing Up&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sXd2WxoOP5g?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You remember Avril Lavigne, right? \u00a0Well, maybe you don&#8217;t, since this was at 10 in the midweeks, 14 on Sunday, and (at time of writing) has dropped to 31 on iTunes. \u00a0That still makes it her biggest hit since &#8220;When You&#8217;re Gone&#8221; in 2007, but that&#8217;s not saying much &#8211; her previous album only managed to place one single in the mid-teens. \u00a0It sounds like a typical generically-defiant Avril Lavigne single crossed with a bit of Taylor Swift. \u00a0Not a bad chorus, though.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. \u00a0Breach &#8211; &#8220;Jack&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m0EiujcV3Tg?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve had a house track this far up the chart. \u00a0Cute video, though, even if it does kind of run out of variations on the theme about a minute before the end. \u00a0Breach is DJ and sometime singer Ben Westbeech. \u00a0He&#8217;s British, but lives in Amsterdam these days. \u00a0This is his first hit, though he also co-wrote &#8220;Get Out My Head&#8221; by Redlight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. \u00a0Selena Gomez &#8211; &#8220;Come and Get It&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n-D1EB74Ckg?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yet another Disney Channel Princess working to reposition herself for a broader audience. \u00a0Gomez was in\u00a0<em>Wizards of Waverly Place<\/em>, but more recently she&#8217;s been working hard on that all-important demographic shift. \u00a0She recently cropped up in Harmony Korine&#8217;s film\u00a0<em>Spring Breakers<\/em>, which in career terms is more an exercise in loudly proclaiming that you aren&#8217;t on the Disney Channel any more, rather than making a film you expect many of your fans to actually see.<\/p>\n<p>Gomez had a previous hit single in 2010 with <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/a_YR4dKArgo\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Naturally&#8221;<\/a>, which made number 7, and actually wasn&#8217;t too bad. \u00a0But we haven&#8217;t heard from her since (and not for want of trying). \u00a0&#8220;Come and Get It&#8221; is a Stargate production, as if you couldn&#8217;t tell, and it&#8217;s a pretty solid one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Avicii &#8211; &#8220;Wake Me Up&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5y_KJAg8bHI?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Officially there&#8217;s no proper video for this track, and that&#8217;s just the lyric video above. \u00a0Not that you could tell the difference.<\/p>\n<p>The record company have been delaying the release of this one for weeks, which is why the dodgy cover by Spark Productions has been climbing from the lower reaches. \u00a0Naturally, it now vanishes without trace. \u00a0Meanwhile, &#8220;Wake Me Up&#8221; gets credited with the copies sold over two weeks of pre-sales (since the actual sale didn&#8217;t go through until last week), resulting in total sales of 267,000 copies. \u00a0That&#8217;s a staggering number &#8211; it beats Robin Thicke&#8217;s first week by over 70K. \u00a0It&#8217;s the highest single-week sale since the Hillsborough charity record last Christmas, and even that only beat it by a small margin. \u00a0In fact, to find a higher-selling record that was a regular release (i.e., not a charity record, an\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> winner&#8217;s single, or part of a race for Christmas number one), you have to go back to Cheryl Cole&#8217;s &#8220;Fight for this Love&#8221; in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>This is Avicii&#8217;s second number one, following &#8220;I Could Be The One&#8221; earlier in the year. \u00a0Like that track, it works his familiar rave hooks into a proper song, for which he&#8217;s got in a proper singer (an inexplicably uncredited Aloe Blacc) and sped him up a bit. \u00a0It&#8217;s probably going to be number one for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Over on the album chart:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Blurred Lines&#8221; by Robin Thicke<\/strong> debuts at number 1, to nobody&#8217;s surprise. \u00a0His only previous album to chart in the UK was &#8220;The Evolution of Robin Thicke&#8221;, which made number 30 six years ago.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Electric&#8221; by The Pet Shop Boys<\/strong> at number 3. \u00a0They haven&#8217;t made it this far up the album chart since 1995, when the B-sides compilation &#8220;Alternative&#8221; reached 2. \u00a0General consensus seems to be that this album represents a return to form. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the lead single, &#8220;Axis&#8221; (which didn&#8217;t chart).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IDCU17wXktY?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>And\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Surfers Paradise&#8221; by Cody Simpson<\/strong> at number 30. \u00a0Teenage Australian pop singer who really ought to be aiming at the singles chart, but has yet to have any impact over there. \u00a0Lead single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/EGDlVvIGTZk\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Pretty Brown Eyes&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After last week&#8217;s hiatus, the march of the massive number one hits resumes&#8230; 32. \u00a0Kings of Leon &#8211; &#8220;Supersoaker&#8221; YouTube is sparking some odd video clips these days. \u00a0That thing above is, obviously, not a video in the conventional sense &#8211; and it&#8217;s billed simply as an audio track &#8211; but by the same token [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}