{"id":2126,"date":"2013-08-29T22:31:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T21:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2126"},"modified":"2013-08-29T22:44:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T21:44:12","slug":"charts-25-august-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2126","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 25 August 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five new entries, four of them in the top ten. \u00a0It&#8217;s a busy week at the top and a dead one at the bottom &#8211; though it&#8217;s also one of the increasingly rare weeks were the number one sold fewer than 100,000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>14. \u00a0Matt Cardle &amp; Melanie C &#8211; &#8220;Loving You&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j3sRdbaMwgk?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Some names we haven&#8217;t heard in a while. \u00a0Matt Cardle was the\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> winner in 2010. \u00a0He had the obligatory number 1 hit with his coronation single &#8220;When We Collide&#8221;, reached number 6 with &#8220;Run For Your Life&#8221; the next autumn, and then got unceremoniously dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Undeterred, Cardle signed to another label and released a second album in 2012, which didn&#8217;t spawn any hit singles, but did make the album top ten. \u00a0&#8220;Loving You&#8221; is the lead single from his upcoming third album. \u00a0This is an unusually MOR-oriented track to make it this far up the singles chart &#8211; that audience mainly buys albums these days &#8211; but it&#8217;s a good enough track within its genre, so fair play to him.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s duetting with Melanie Chisholm of the Spice Girls, who hasn&#8217;t had a solo chart credit since 2007. \u00a0She had one of the group&#8217;s more successful solo careers, including two number 1s in 2000 (&#8220;Never Be The Same Again&#8221; and &#8220;I Turn To You&#8221;, both of which are pretty good).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to plummet next week, but it&#8217;s exceeded expectations just by getting this far.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. \u00a0Naughty Boy featuring Emeli Sande &#8211; &#8220;Lifted&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Yi_o8iB0b0?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the fifth time Naughty Boy and Emeli Sande have been credited together on a hit single, which must be some sort of record for a duo who aren&#8217;t formally a duo. \u00a0The formula&#8217;s starting to sound a little bit familiar, and this doesn&#8217;t look set to stick around for very long, but it&#8217;s going for uplifting and epic and largely ticks the boxes. \u00a0It just does it in a way you&#8217;ve heard before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. \u00a0Sean Paul &#8211; &#8220;Other Side of Love&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zH1Z03rno4Y?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Wow, that&#8217;s a really annoying production they&#8217;ve done on his voice. \u00a0Ends up sounding thin and autotuned without going far enough to make it sound like a deliberate choice. \u00a0Hate it. \u00a0Shame, because there&#8217;s a half-decent chorus in there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. \u00a0DJ Fresh vs Diplo featuring Dominique Young Unique &#8211; &#8220;Earthquake&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UJ30WRNXBZ8?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>DJ Fresh versus Diplo. \u00a0And if we&#8217;re judging it in terms of how much it sounds like their other records, I&#8217;d call this a pretty emphatic victory for Diplo. \u00a0This doesn&#8217;t sound remotely like anything else DJ Fresh has put in the chart before. \u00a0It is, however, entirely at home in the\u00a0<em>Kick-Ass 2<\/em> soundtrack (hence the video, though it&#8217;s surprisingly light on the usual film clips).<\/p>\n<p>Diplo crops up more often as a producer than as a credited artist; his only previous top 40 hit was his collaboration with Tiesto, &#8220;C&#8217;Mon (Catch &#8216;Em By Surprise)&#8221;, which made number 13 (and sounded more like Tiesto). \u00a0 Rapper Dominique Clark gets her first hit too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. \u00a0Klangkarussell featuring Will Heard &#8211; &#8220;Sonnentanz (The Sun Don&#8217;t Shine)&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aiumJ_nDkhs?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Technically, that&#8217;s not the version in the charts. \u00a0&#8220;Sonnentanz&#8221; by the Austrian duo Klangkarussell has been a hit around Europe in the instrumental version above, but certain UK dance labels never saw a foreign instrumental that they didn&#8217;t think could be improved by dumping a vocal line over the top. \u00a0That&#8217;s where Will Heard and the brackets in the title come in.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the last thing this delicate little balance of spaced-out jazz-house needs is somebody singing over the top and distracting from the hook. \u00a0Heard&#8217;s vocal isn&#8217;t bad, but the songwriting is by numbers and the whole thing is a distraction that ruins the track. \u00a0It&#8217;s genuinely wretched. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/79YDgv_zWA4\" target=\"_blank\">See for yourself if you don&#8217;t believe me.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the instrumental original&#8230; yeah, that&#8217;s a lovely relaxing track. \u00a0Shame most people in Britain will be getting the wrong version.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CGyEd0aKWZE\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>1. \u00a0Ellie Goulding &#8211; &#8220;Burn&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Second week at number 1, looks to be on course for a third. \u00a0That&#8217;s as much because of a lack of genuinely strong challengers to match what we&#8217;ve seen for most of this year, but it&#8217;s still a significant hit.<\/p>\n<p>On the albums chart:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Impossible Dream&#8221; by Richard &amp; Adam<\/strong>\u00a0is still at number 1 and doesn&#8217;t seem to be going anywhere. \u00a0They&#8217;re benefitting from the fact that it really doesn&#8217;t take much to have a number 1 album these days.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Where You Stand&#8221; by Travis<\/strong> at number 3. \u00a0They haven&#8217;t had a hit single since 2007, but they&#8217;re still doing just fine in albums, as befits an act who&#8217;ve drifted into MOR territory. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the lead single <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/TjKmQmsRlBk\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Moving&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Paradise Valley&#8221; 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