{"id":2554,"date":"2014-06-05T23:47:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T22:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2014-06-05T23:47:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T22:47:31","slug":"charts-1-june-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2554","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 1 June 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s getting late in the week\u2026 best get this one done, hadn&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<p>And we start with\u2026 good god, are this lot still going?<\/p>\n<p><strong>30. \u00a0M.A.D. &#8211; &#8220;Shotgun&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fijFu49xaIc?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Yes, it&#8217;s Britain&#8217;s lowest-budget boy band, this time standing next to a motionless truck in a field next to the A74. \u00a0There&#8217;s something genuinely a bit tragic about this bunch, to be honest. \u00a0Apparently the girl in\u00a0issue is &#8220;making my heart beat&#8221;, which suggests they may be confusing women with defibrillators.<\/p>\n<p><strong>22. \u00a0One Direction &#8211; &#8220;You and I&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_kqQDCxRCzM?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A fourth single from the &#8220;Midnight Memories&#8221; album seems to have had negligible impact beyond the diehards. \u00a0This was 12 in the midweeks, landed at 22 on Sunday, and will be gone next week. \u00a0It&#8217;s actually a surprisingly passable ballad.<\/p>\n<p>Simon &amp; Schuster evidently have faith in the\u00a0marketability of all things One Direction, having just\u00a0reportedly paid a six figure sum for the rights to Anna Todd&#8217;s serialised novel &#8220;After&#8221;, which, at least in its online form,\u00a0apparently consists largely of erotic Harry Styles fanfic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>21. \u00a0Lana Del Rey &#8211; &#8220;West Coast&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oKxuiw3iMBE?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Probably set to be another one-week visitor &#8211; it&#8217;s clinging on at 37 in the midweeks, but that doesn&#8217;t exactly bode well. \u00a0This is the lead single from her upcoming album &#8220;Ultraviolence&#8221;, and\u00a0it\u00a0does actually see her\u00a0broadening her musical palette a bit, even though the Lana Del Rey\u00a0persona remains pretty much the same as ever.<\/p>\n<p><strong>17. \u00a0Twin Atlantic &#8211; &#8220;Heart and Soul&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DlpZ8z1bNfk?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s a bit unexpected. \u00a0Twin Atlantic are a Glaswegian\u00a0rock band, who seem to be firmly in 80s FM mode on this track. \u00a0They&#8217;ve been\u00a0around for\u00a0<em>years<\/em> &#8211; their first single came out in 2007 &#8211; but they&#8217;ve had no previous chart impact whatsoever. \u00a0They had a minor international success with a track called &#8220;Free&#8221; in 2011, if by &#8220;success&#8221; you mean &#8220;got to number 33 on the Canadian rock chart&#8221;. \u00a0I like this, actually &#8211; this sort of thing has been out of fashion for so long that\u00a0I&#8217;m surprised\u00a0more people haven&#8217;t tried to dust off the sound. \u00a0It&#8217;s\u00a0increasingly unusual to see guitar bands of any sort in the top\u00a040, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. \u00a0Ellie Goulding &#8211; &#8220;Beating Heart&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wrNTOo4KH8c?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From the soundtrack of &#8220;Divergent&#8221;, this is a song which features lyrics like &#8220;the\u00a0departure lounge of disbelief&#8221;, presumably adjacent to the check-in desk of destiny and the\u00a0duty free shop of inspiration. \u00a0It&#8217;s very Ellie Goulding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. \u00a0Klingande &#8211; &#8220;Jubel&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b6vSf0cA9qY?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Klingande are a French\u00a0duo, and this track has been a hit for them across Europe. \u00a0For once, the UK is\u00a0getting\u00a0one of these pan-European chill-out tracks without a clumsy song vocal dumped over the top, which makes a pleasant change. \u00a0&#8220;Jubel&#8221; is apparently roughly equivalent to &#8220;cheers&#8221; in Scandinavian languages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Secondcity &#8211; &#8220;I Wanna Feel&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8wRW57nBLMI?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The endless turnover of number 1s continues with another dance track. \u00a0Rowan Harrington is\u00a0originally from Chicago, but he moved to the UK when he was 12, so he counts as one of ours. \u00a0It&#8217;s another of those tracks compiled from vocal samples from an old record &#8211; in this case, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/wIgOL21S98o\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;You&#8217;re Makin&#8217; Me High&#8221; by\u00a0Toni Braxton<\/a>, a number 7 hit in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart, a busy week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;In the Lonely Hour&#8221; by Sam Smith<\/strong> at 1. His single &#8220;Stay With Me&#8221; drops to 2 this week.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Me. \u00a0I Am Mariah\u2026 The Elusive Chanteuse&#8221; by Mariah Carey<\/strong> at 14. \u00a0Yes, that really is the title. \u00a0This long-delayed album has been in development since 2012 and a number 14 placing &#8211; particularly in the current market &#8211; is hardly impressive. \u00a0The lead single was &#8220;#Beautiful&#8221;, which you might remember from over a year ago.<\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;A Letter Home&#8221; by Neil Young<\/b> at 17. \u00a0His 35th album, a collection of covers recorded in a Voice-o-Graph booth in Tennessee. \u00a0Sounds like one for the completists, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Do It Again&#8221; by Royksopp &amp; Robyn<\/strong> at 20. \u00a0A five-track mini-album\u00a0(though a couple of those tracks are ten minutes long) from the\u00a0Norwegian duo who were big a decade ago, and the Swedish singer who&#8217;s big with pop cognoscenti. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/HIG7PVa8SS8\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Do It Again&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Big Night&#8221; by Peter Andre<\/strong> at 23. \u00a0It&#8217;s a Peter Andre swing album! \u00a0Who wouldn&#8217;t want that? \u00a0Mind you,\u00a0for all that\u00a0everyone treats his career as a running joke, it&#8217;s been doing for 21 years now, so maybe he&#8217;s getting the last laugh. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/z_OG7LlQPjg\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Big Night&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Are We There&#8221; by Sharon van Etten<\/strong> at 27. \u00a0A singer-songwriter from Brooklyn, now onto her fourth album, but charting\u00a0in the UK for the first time. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/80-_CpH07QQ\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Taking Chances&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Runes&#8221; by Bury Tomorrow<\/strong> at 34. \u00a0A metalcore band who&#8217;ve been nominated for &#8220;best British newcomer&#8221; at this year&#8217;s <em>Kerrang<\/em> awards; apparently even the rock specialist press didn&#8217;t notice their previous two albums. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/9ct8BgfhXvk\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Man on Fire&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Meteorites&#8221; by Echo and the Bunnymen<\/strong> at 37. \u00a0Their first new album in five years. \u00a0Echo is\u00a0currently a duo of founding members Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/nwRuIXuZ1jo\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Market Town&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Dance Again&#8221; by\u00a0Life Worship<\/strong> at 38. \u00a0Christian worship music making one of its rare appearances in the chart. \u00a0Musically, they&#8217;re quite listenable, but as with so many worship bands, they are yet to be convinced of the merits of subtext.\u00a0\u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/RSi3jEXU3Zg\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Dance Again&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s getting late in the week\u2026 best get this one done, hadn&#8217;t I? 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