{"id":2110,"date":"2013-08-12T18:06:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T17:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2013-08-12T18:06:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T17:06:30","slug":"charts-11-august-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2110","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 11 August 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another new number one, and yet again it&#8217;s selling comfortably over the 100K mark, as the trend towards high-selling number one singles continues.<\/p>\n<p>Five new entries this week. \u00a0Let&#8217;s dash through them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>35. \u00a0Le Youth &#8211; &#8220;C O O L&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mbVux6XUtZY?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Debut hit for Californian producer Wes James. \u00a0Radio 1 have been pushing this, and apparently it&#8217;s done awfully well on Soundcloud. \u00a0Sounds a bit pedestrian on a first listen, but it&#8217;s grown on me a bit. \u00a0Despite the lip-synching in the video, the uncredited vocals are in fact sampled (and pitch-shifted) from <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/sSOtIHUJbjk\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Me and U&#8221; by Cassie<\/a>, an icy R&amp;B track that made number 6 in 2006, and to which &#8220;C O O L&#8221; bears remarkably little resemblance. \u00a0Cassie Ventura had one follow-up hit &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/agNvdSIIkXA\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Long Way 2 Go&#8221;<\/a>, which got to 12 &#8211; and hasn&#8217;t made the top 40 since. \u00a0You&#8217;d have thought she&#8217;d get a credit for this, given the extensive sampling of her voice, but apparently not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/MC8QcaMMVQE\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>31. \u00a0Kings of Leon &#8211; &#8220;Wait For Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the &#8220;instant gratification&#8221; track for people pre-ordering the album &#8220;Mechanical Bull&#8221; online. \u00a0Technically it&#8217;s not a single, but you can also buy it as a free-standing track, and under the post-Bowie rule change, those sales now count towards the singles chart.<\/p>\n<p>It actually beats the number 31 peak of the\u00a0<em>actual<\/em> single &#8220;Supersoaker&#8221; from July. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/izzY55ACUQo\" target=\"_blank\">Incidentally, that track has a proper video now.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>29. \u00a0Justin Timberlake &#8211; &#8220;Take Back The Night&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DEzREJbln-o?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another &#8220;instant gratification&#8221; track, this time from &#8220;The 20\/20 Experience, 2 of 2&#8221;. \u00a0I don&#8217;t recall the original &#8220;20\/20 Experience&#8221; album being promoted as &#8220;1 of 2&#8221;, but it turns out it was. \u00a0Admittedly, in these days of &#8220;special edition&#8221; albums, it shouldn&#8217;t come as a surprise to anyone to find an entire second disc of material showing up a few months after. \u00a0As with &#8220;Wait for Me&#8221;, the chart is only counting sales to people who chose to buy the track as a free-standing download.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re wondering what happened to <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/07FYdnEawAQ\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Tunnel Vision&#8221;<\/a>, the track from the original album which got a video at the start of last month featuring lots of naked ladies, it was never officially promoted as a single. \u00a0It just had a video. \u00a0That&#8217;s a very important difference which the record company would like to stress, especially because it didn&#8217;t do very well. \u00a0By last week it had spluttered to number 61; with the emergence of &#8220;Take Back The Night&#8221; this week to steal its thunder, it drops to 97.<\/p>\n<p>And now a raft of substantial climbers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/sENM2wA_FTg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>23. \u00a0Imagine Dragons &#8211; &#8220;It&#8217;s Time&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Climbing 7, so it&#8217;s now their second-biggest hit behind &#8220;Radioactive&#8221;. \u00a0(That made 12.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/5TUIciKQzxI\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>20. \u00a0Disclosure &#8211; &#8220;F For You&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Climbing 8, giving them a clean slate of four consecutive top 20 singles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ghb6eDopW8I\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>19. \u00a0Of Monsters And Men &#8211; &#8220;Little Talks&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Climbing 15, so this run is apparently going to be a substantial one. \u00a0Its chart peak was at the start of last year when it made number 12.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/hbRU-HbsqUw\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>14. \u00a0Rudimental featuring Foxes &#8211; &#8220;Right Now&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Climbing 10. \u00a0Just like Disclosure, that means they&#8217;ve now had four straight top 20 hits. \u00a0I guess that&#8217;s an interesting coincidence?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/2YcIgow6TDk\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>7. \u00a0Jay Z featuring Justin Timberlake &#8211; &#8220;Holy Grail&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Climbing 4, giving Jay Z his twelfth top 10 hit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. \u00a0Tinie Tempah featuring 2 Chainz &#8211; &#8220;Trampoline&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6VOeQZ6Bi7I?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the lead single from the second Tinie Tempah album. \u00a0Not the most obviously radio-friendly thing in the world, but then it&#8217;s a Diplo production, and they never are. \u00a0Normally I&#8217;d say that number 3 was a slightly disappointing position for the first single from a Tinie Tempah album &#8211; the first one produced two number 1 singles, after all &#8211; but this seems like a track calculated more to send a message that he&#8217;s not simply a pop act, while still being essentially dancefloor friendly.<\/p>\n<p>2 Chainz gets his second UK hit, beating the number 6 peak of &#8220;We Own It (Fast and Furious)&#8221;. \u00a0It&#8217;s fair to say that both tracks had obvious selling points that were not 2 Chainz.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Miley Cyrus &#8211; &#8220;We Can&#8217;t Stop&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LrUvu1mlWco?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not so much a single as a step in a drastic rebranding. \u00a0Like all acts launched by Disney, Miley Cyrus faces the inevitable problem of how to transform herself into an adult performer, and like many of them, she&#8217;s chosen to rip off the sticking plaster. \u00a0The risk here is that she ends up turning herself into somebody who looks both generic and a bit desperate, and if you ask me, this track does fall into that problem. \u00a0I&#8217;ll grant that it grows on you with a few listens, but somehow it manages to be both underpowered and trying too hard.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the great British public evidently disagree. \u00a0While I don&#8217;t believe for a second that this is at number 1 purely on the strength of its musical merits rather than because it forms part of the entertainment industry soap opera, it&#8217;s also fair to say that this can&#8217;t be at number 1 solely on the strength of the Miley Cyrus fanbase. \u00a0She&#8217;s had seven previous hits (plus one as a guest vocalist on a will.i.am album track), but this is her first visit to the top 10, let alone to number one. \u00a0In fact, until this week, she had the fabulously frustrating record of having three singles peak at number 11 &#8211; &#8220;See You Again&#8221; from 2008, and &#8220;The Climb&#8221; and &#8220;Party in the USA&#8221; from 2009.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s not going to manage a second week, but she did shift a very respectable 128,000 copies in this one.<\/p>\n<p>Album chart:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><strong>&#8220;The Impossible Dream&#8221; by Richard and Adam<\/strong> spends a second week at number 1.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Civil Wars&#8221; by The Civil Wars<\/strong> at 2. \u00a0The second album by this American folk duo, whose presence this high up the chart has been credited by some papers to the endorsement of Adele. \u00a0Mind you, their previous album made number 13, so I wouldn&#8217;t make so much of that. \u00a0The duo have actually split, which should create some interesting promotional challenges. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the video for (part of) <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/h-FOpKZZ_1Q\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Inside Same Old Same Old&#8221;.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;#hits&#8221; by Example<\/strong> at 11. \u00a0This is a compilation album rounding off his record deal with Ministry of Sound. \u00a0He&#8217;s currently promoting a new single with his new label, but naturally it isn&#8217;t on this.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Where The Heaven Are We&#8221; by Swim Deep<\/strong> at 20. \u00a0Indie band from the West Midlands. \u00a0According to Wikipedia, they &#8220;have often been identified as part of the emerging Digbeth-based B-Town scene.&#8221; \u00a0The entry on B-Town suggests that B-Town is a label now being attached by the NME to anyone from within shouting distance of Birmingham regardless of what they actually sound like. \u00a0So now you know. \u00a0Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/a_dIYr1qI7I\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;King City&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;From Death to Destiny&#8221; by Asking Alexandria<\/strong> at 28. \u00a0Heavy metal band from York. \u00a0It&#8217;s their third album and their first to chart. \u00a0Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Xl1lS6B9pMc\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Death Of Me&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another new number one, and yet again it&#8217;s selling comfortably over the 100K mark, as the trend towards high-selling number one singles continues. 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