{"id":2384,"date":"2014-02-03T22:30:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T22:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2384"},"modified":"2014-02-03T22:30:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T22:30:03","slug":"charts-2-february-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2384","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 2 February 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we enter February, the release schedules are back to something approaching normal. \u00a0Of course, there&#8217;s always something odd going on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. \u00a0Dappy &#8211; &#8220;No Regrets&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This was the only solo number one for the N-Dubz bozo, back in 2011. \u00a0He was last in the chart in September 2012, and the only apparent reason for &#8220;No Regrets&#8221; to suddenly reappear now is his recent stint on\u00a0<em>Celebrity Big Brother<\/em>, the once-mighty Channel 4 ratings titan now eking out a living in reduced circumstances on Channel 5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>34. \u00a0Sophie Ellis-Bextor &#8211; &#8220;Young Blood&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Se_QtwTo_iI?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Sophie Ellis-Bextor has spent a decade plus making dance-pop. \u00a0After starting her career in indie band theaudience [sic] in the late 90s, she had a number 1 in 2000 as the guest singer on &#8220;Groovejet&#8221; by Spiller, and had a further six top ten hits in her own account in the early 2000s. \u00a0Now, she&#8217;s in her mid thirties, she hasn&#8217;t had a hit single since 2010, and it&#8217;s time to grow old gracefully. \u00a0Hence a successful run on\u00a0<em>Strictly Come Dancing<\/em>, and now this track, which swings wildly in the other direction &#8211; a Radio 2-friendly ballad co-written by Ed Harcourt that seems sure to earn a place in the collection of any DJ who does a lot of wedding anniversaries. \u00a0It&#8217;s a very solid song &#8211; maybe a little two obviously craftsmanlike for its own good &#8211; and a pleasant change of pace here at the low end of the chart.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ktvTqknDobU\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>32. \u00a0Imagine Dragons &#8211; &#8220;Radioactive&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Making another of its periodic returns to the chart. \u00a0It peaked at number 12 in 2001.<\/p>\n<p><strong>21. \u00a0The Weather Girls &#8211; &#8220;It&#8217;s Raining Men&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l5aZJBLAu1E?rel=0\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As a rather literal-minded child, I remember being quite puzzled by this song when it came out. \u00a0Surely the men plummeting from the sky would be hurt? \u00a0Why were the women so pleased?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">The Weather Girls are very close to being your classic one-hit wonder, a group known for a single song, which has somehow taken root in the national consciousness, albeit as a karaoke standard, gay anthem, and hen night soundtrack. \u00a0If you&#8217;re going with the UK Chart Company&#8217;s definition of a one-hit wonder, they don&#8217;t strictly qualify because they didn&#8217;t get to number 1 &#8211; &#8220;It&#8217;s Raining Men&#8221; only peaked at number 2 on its original release back in 1983. \u00a0But that&#8217;s a contentious definition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps more to the point, Martha Wash later resurfaced as the uncredited singer on most of Black Box&#8217;s hits (though not &#8220;Ride On Time&#8221;, which was cobbled together from Loleatta Holloway samples). \u00a0That lack of credit &#8211; and her replacement in the videos with a lip-synching model &#8211; sparked litigation which set a precedent that resulted in the &#8220;featuring&#8221; credits that are now familiar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s Raining Men&#8221; is back in the chart because of an online campaign in response to David Silvester, a local councillor from the UK Independence Party, Britain&#8217;s answer to the Tea Party, who claimed that the reason for the recent flooding in the UK was God&#8217;s anger at the legalisation of gay marriage, and appeared to mean it literally. \u00a0This is a bizarre opinion even by UKIP&#8217;s notoriously crank-friendly standards, which probably contributed to this campaign tailing off over the course of the week, as everyone realised that Silvester was so crazily marginal even among his own party that there really wasn&#8217;t much point continuing to pay attention to him after you&#8217;d finished laughing at him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>23. \u00a0Chris Malinchak &#8211; &#8220;If U Got It&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rp1rIrMLIpg?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The follow-up to &#8220;So Good To Me&#8221;, which made number 2 last May. \u00a0This track has been doing the round since 2012. \u00a0As with its predecessor, the vocals are a virtually unrecognisable set of samples &#8211; this time, they&#8217;re from <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/vI844RAJo58\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I&#8217;m Gonna Make You Love Me&#8221; by the Supremes and the Temptations<\/a>, a number 3 hit from 1969.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"><a style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/F9S-88WxPdE\" target=\"_blank\">19. \u00a0Katy Perry featuring Juicy J &#8211; &#8220;Dark Horse&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">This is actually a re-entry &#8211; back in September, it was released to US radio as a &#8220;promotional single&#8221; (whatever that means) after winning a fan vote, and duly spent a week at 21 before vanishing entirely. \u00a0It&#8217;s now being re-promoted as a proper single (though it still doesn&#8217;t have a video), and she performed it at the Grammies. \u00a0It&#8217;s number 1 on the Billboard chart right now, but honestly, I wouldn&#8217;t trust the Billboard chart as far as I could throw it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/dLa_ryRjC7M\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>11. \u00a0Onerepublic &#8211; &#8220;If I Lose Myself&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jumping 32-11 now that the Alesso mix in available.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. \u00a0Katy B &#8211; &#8220;Crying For No Reason&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BOboa27SHDE?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The closest Katy B has yet come to releasing a ballad, I think. \u00a0Even though it shifts back to something close to her regular arrangement about 90 seconds in, it&#8217;s still a ballad at heart. \u00a0It&#8217;s also her biggest hit since &#8220;Lights On&#8221; back in 2011. \u00a0And it&#8217;s holding up quite well on the iTunes chart, so she might be sticking around longer than usual.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. \u00a0Gorgon City featuring MNEK &#8211; &#8220;Ready For Your Love&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8B93tgRxMuE?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Gorgon City are a production duo from London. \u00a0They&#8217;ve released several previous singles (including one with Clean Bandit, oddly enough), but this is their first appearance on the chart. \u00a0It&#8217;s alright, I guess, but it feels like a fairly routine house track to me.<\/p>\n<p>MNEK is a 19-year-old singer songwriter who&#8217;s also getting his first chart credit. \u00a0He&#8217;s been floating around as a writer and producer for a few years, though; among other things, he co-wrote &#8220;Need U (100%)&#8221; by Duke Dumont, a number one hit last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. \u00a0will.i.am featuring Miley Cyrus, French Montana &amp; Wiz Khalifa &#8211; &#8220;Feelin&#8217; Myself&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VRuoR--LdqQ?rel=0\" height=\"225\" width=\"400\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s highest new entry is indeed a will.i.am single. \u00a0It&#8217;s terrible, of course. \u00a0The bassline ought to work, and there&#8217;s something eminently plausible about the idea of will.i.am gazing with tremendous satisfaction into the mirror, but it goes nowhere, and it&#8217;s just a string of guest stars who add nothing. \u00a0Miley Cyrus and Wiz Khalifa are familiar names (though was anyone <em>really<\/em> crying out to hear Miley rap?), while French Montana is a Moroccan born rapper who appears to be phoning it in. \u00a0The lyrics are, to be diplomatic, best ignored &#8211; isn&#8217;t will.i.am a bit off brand by telling us how he enjoys &#8220;banging hoes in the continental&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Of mild interest, the radio edit dutifully removes loads of stuff but leaves in two references to &#8220;mollies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/m-M1AtrxztU\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>1. \u00a0Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne &#8211; &#8220;Rather Be&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A second week at number one, with sales now totalling 200,000 copies. \u00a0This is a massive hit, and it doesn&#8217;t look to be under any real pressure next week either.<\/p>\n<p>On the albums chart, it&#8217;s alt-rock week!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Cavalier Youth&#8221; by You Me At Six<\/strong> at 1. \u00a0Their fourth album, their first number one. \u00a0The chart positions have been getting higher with every release, though. \u00a0The lead single <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/VxldtR106Sg\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Lived a Lie&#8221;<\/a> made number 11 back in September; the follow-ups didn&#8217;t chart.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Feels Like Home&#8221; by Sheryl Crow<\/strong> at 16. \u00a0A belated UK release for her ninth album, which came out in the US last autumn. \u00a0Her biggest UK hit was &#8220;All I Wanna Do&#8221;, which made the top 5 in 1994, but she hasn&#8217;t had a hit single in over a decade. \u00a0Lead single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ST7btkkoaNU\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Easy&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Restoring Force&#8221; by Of Mice &amp; Men<\/strong> at 17. \u00a0A US rock band on their third album, who&#8217;ve never previously charted in the UK. \u00a0Lead single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/iJ8wwoC9v3s\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;You&#8217;re Not Alone&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;None the Wiser&#8221; by the Rifles<\/strong> at 21. \u00a0An indie band from Chingford, apparently, now on their fourth album. \u00a0This is weird &#8211; I don&#8217;t recognise their name <em>at all<\/em>, yet they&#8217;ve been around since 2006 and they&#8217;ve had three top 40 singles. \u00a0Can&#8217;t have made much impact on me.\u00a0 Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/WWKZPR4980U\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Minute Mile&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Kill the Power&#8221; by Skindred<\/strong> at 28. \u00a0More rock, this time with a bit of raga chucked in. \u00a0This is their fifth album, and their first to chart. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/DSFnygzsLnk\" target=\"_blank\">Title track.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;In the Silence&#8221; 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