{"id":2366,"date":"2014-01-20T21:44:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T21:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2014-01-20T21:44:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T21:44:42","slug":"charts-19-january-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2366","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 19 January 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new podcast up, and it&#8217;s one post down from here. \u00a0But this is ready too, so what the heck&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>37. \u00a0Beyonce &#8211; &#8220;XO&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3xUfCUFPL-8?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<!--more-->Every track from the current Beyonce album has a video, but not all of them were promoted on YouTube. \u00a0&#8220;Drunk in Love&#8221; was, and it&#8217;s been on the chart for a while. \u00a0(It drops to 12 this week.) \u00a0&#8220;XO&#8221; was too, but for some reason it took a little time to gather speed.<\/p>\n<p>The opening sample apparently caused a degree of controversy in the US, since it&#8217;s a seemingly random lift from the Challenger disaster. \u00a0I guess I see what they&#8217;re going for &#8211; general air of mortality and all that &#8211; but it does feel rather weirdly tacked on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>27. \u00a0Tinie Tempah featuring Labrinth &#8211; &#8220;Lover Not a Fighter&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a4vx0Cy5Hi4?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The third single from Tinie Tempah&#8217;s current album reunites him with the producer from his first hits. \u00a0The basic gist seems to be that he likes to love, not to fight, and that he is in the fortunate position of being so attractive and wealthy as to enable the swift replacement of overly fractious lady friends. \u00a0So a romantic ditty, then.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">It&#8217;s been quite a while since we heard from Labrinth &#8211; his last hit was &#8220;Beneath Your Beautiful&#8221;, a number 1 in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>18. \u00a0Vance Joy &#8211; &#8220;Riptide&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>13. \u00a0Busta Rhymes featuring Q-Tip, Kanye West &amp; Lil Wayne &#8211; &#8220;Thank You&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two records that entered low last week and make big climbs now. \u00a0(Kid Ink&#8217;s &#8220;Show Me&#8221; is up nine places as well, but that&#8217;s got Chris Brown on it, so I prefer to pretend it doesn&#8217;t exist.)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/o3VMyHr1gIg\" target=\"_blank\">11. \u00a0Shakira featuring Rihanna &#8211; &#8220;Can&#8217;t Remember to Forget You&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of those songs that doesn&#8217;t seem to want to be a duet, but it&#8217;s been awkwardly repurposed as one because somebody figured the record could use a high profile guest star. \u00a0And admittedly, they don&#8217;t come much more high profile than Rihanna. \u00a0Which makes the number 11 slot a bit of a surprise &#8211; particularly as it seems to be gracefully departing the iTunes top 20 as I write.<\/p>\n<p>All right, it was released at the start of the week without prior promotion, but it still had plenty of time on sale. \u00a0And yes, Shakira hasn&#8217;t had a hit in this country since 2010, but that&#8217;s because her Spanish language records don&#8217;t get promoted over here. \u00a0It&#8217;s not the best track either of them has made, but it&#8217;s got a pleasant enough ska thing in the verses. \u00a0It&#8217;s a bit of a disappointing performance, I suspect. \u00a0Perhaps it&#8217;ll pick up when they get the video into circulation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. \u00a0Elyar Fox &#8211; &#8220;Do It All Over Again&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TEvXkW6rlFA?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A right-side-of-serviceable pop single for Sony&#8217;s latest launch. \u00a0Fox is a teenage YouTuber and semi-professional self-promoter who apparently built up a following by filming his own efforts to get signed. \u00a0(Those videos seem to have been taken down now.) \u00a0Hence all the mildly irritating YouTube references in the video. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/5cc5ghQJVGk\" target=\"_blank\">His old YouTube channel still has a bunch of his bedroom cover versions<\/a>, which do at least confirm that he has a pretty respectable voice.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s on its way out of the top 10 already, so this is very much a case of front-loaded sales to his hardcore fan base. \u00a0Number 5 is basically Union J territory &#8211; 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