{"id":2696,"date":"2014-08-19T22:13:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T21:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2014-08-19T22:13:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T21:13:41","slug":"charts-17-august-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2696","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 17 August 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This would have been a pretty dead chart, were it not for a couple of future hits poking their heads into the bottom of the top 40. \u00a0But hey! \u00a0Something manages to spend\u00a0a second week at number one!<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. \u00a0Sam Smith &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m Not The Only One&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nCkpzqqog4k?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The follow-up to the number 1s &#8220;Money on my Mind&#8221; and &#8220;Stay With Me&#8221;, which is still at 13. \u00a0This is going to be the fourth single from\u00a0Smith&#8217;s album &#8220;In the Lonely Hour&#8221; (the other one was &#8220;Lay Me Down&#8221;, a\u00a0small-scale promotional release that missed the top 40). \u00a0The official release of the single bundle isn&#8217;t until the end of the month,\u00a0but\u00a0it&#8217;s being downloaded an album track already. \u00a0An interesting choice of single,\u00a0playing\u00a0Smith up as a soul balladeer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>38. \u00a0The Saturdays &#8211; &#8220;What Are You Waiting For&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ahdmNS9Nkm0?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the\u00a0token new track on the\u00a0Saturdays&#8217; greatest hits album, which enters the album chart at 10 this week. \u00a0So it&#8217;s\u00a0<em>not<\/em> a case of early downloads of a future single &#8211; this is apparently as good as it gets for &#8220;What Are You Waiting For&#8221;. \u00a0And that&#8217;s\u00a0surprising. \u00a0Okay, it&#8217;s hardly their finest hour, but\u00a0they&#8217;ve been around since 2008,\u00a0and\u00a0their previous low was 22 (for &#8220;Work&#8221; in 2009). \u00a0The Saturdays have had 13 top 10 hits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>32. \u00a0Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora &#8211; &#8220;Black Widow&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u3u22OYqFGo?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another upcoming single. \u00a0I seriously question the wisdom of this choice, though. \u00a0This is co-written by Katy Perry &#8211; but that&#8217;s because it was bounced\u00a0from her last album. \u00a0And it&#8217;s pretty obvious why she\u00a0bounced it &#8211; because it&#8217;s far too similar to &#8220;Dark Horse&#8221; to appear on the same track listing.\u00a0\u00a0Besides,\u00a0should Iggy Azalea really be gunning for pop radio airplay quite this blatantly?<\/p>\n<p><strong>14. \u00a0Rizzle Kicks &#8211; &#8220;Tell Her&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jhSBocg1RsM?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This track first turned up as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/hrQLe-RpgRk\" target=\"_blank\">an Evian advert<\/a>\u00a0released to tie in with Wimbledon. \u00a0I suspect they&#8217;ve just banged it out as a single on the grounds that it exists now, so why not? \u00a0Actually, I&#8217;m not entirely sure why they&#8217;ve bothered making a second video for it, since the original advert was basically\u00a0a full length video to start with.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11. \u00a0Ed Sheeran &#8211; &#8220;Don&#8217;t&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Up 12 to be highest climber for the second week running.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. \u00a0Kiesza &#8211; &#8220;Giant in my Heart&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MDUoSpDKwXk?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The follow-up to the April number 1 &#8220;Hideaway&#8221;\u00a0&#8211; so Kiesza escapes the one hit wonder list in early course. \u00a0Her real name is Kiesa Ellestad; the unhelpfully-spelt recording name is apparently pronounced &#8220;Kaiser&#8221;. \u00a0At one point she was calling herself Kiesza Szosi, apparently in reference to\u00a0<em>The Usual Suspects<\/em>. \u00a0She&#8217;s written for people like Rihanna, but it&#8217;s taken her a while to settle on a formula for her own releases &#8211;\u00a0her 2012 single <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/3WhJiy_ohIY\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Oops&#8221;<\/a> is a perkily\u00a0grating\u00a0electropop song which she has since disavowed as a joke. \u00a0The 90s club diva routine seems to be working out a lot better for her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/bg1sT4ILG0w\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>1. \u00a0Nico &amp; Vinz &#8211; &#8220;Am I Wrong&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A second week! \u00a0It won&#8217;t manage a third, but it&#8217;s still\u00a0only the fourth record of the year to spend two consecutive weeks at the top.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;X&#8221; by Ed Sheeran<\/strong> spends its eighth week at number 1. \u00a0Three of its tracks are still in the top 40.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Get Hurt&#8221; by The Gaslight Anthem<\/strong> at 4. \u00a0New Jersey guitar band. \u00a0Modern AOR basically. \u00a0It&#8217;s their fifth studio album, and the third to make the\u00a0UK album chart. \u00a0The last one, &#8220;Handwritten&#8221;, got to 2. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/I_TI14Z5NNQ\" target=\"_blank\">Title track video.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;At The Movies&#8221; by Richard &amp; Adam<\/strong> at 5. \u00a0The House of Cowell brings us a third album of knocked-out cod-classical covers from the duo who came third in\u00a0<em>Britain&#8217;s Got Talent<\/em> two years ago, aimed squarely at the unadventurous listener.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a return to the top 10 after &#8220;The Christmas Album&#8221; stalled at 24, so I imagine they&#8217;ll be happy. \u00a0No\u00a0actual music videos on their\u00a0YouTube\u00a0channel, but <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/xLqAJlDkBLc\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s the advert<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Finest Selection &#8211; The Greatest Hits&#8221; by the Saturdays<\/strong> at 10. \u00a0Which is\u00a0pretty typical for a Saturdays studio album, oddly.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Lp1&#8221; by FKA twigs<\/strong> at 16. \u00a0Tahlilah Barnett\u00a0used to be a dancer (she&#8217;s in a Jessie J video, apparently) before\u00a0veering off to become an alt-R&amp;B act in her own right. \u00a0She used to be called just Twigs until another Twigs complained; the FKA stands for Formerly Known As. \u00a0Single (which is really good, actually): <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/3yDP9MKVhZc\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Two Weeks&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m Not Bossy, I&#8217;m\u00a0the Boss&#8221; by Sinead O&#8217;Connor<\/strong> at 22. \u00a0That&#8217;s her highest placing album since &#8220;Universal Mother&#8221; in 1994 &#8211; as I regularly note, veteran acts\u00a0tend\u00a0to see their album sales hold up rather better in the changing market. \u00a0Single (also quite good): <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/jMzY_KQIKjU\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Take Me To Church&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Yorktown Heights&#8221; by Grant Nicholas<\/strong> at 29. \u00a0Solo debut by the lead singer of Feeder. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/IdkVXRvoD2s\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Time Stood Still&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;This and That&#8221; by Loveable Rogues<\/strong> at 37. \u00a0These guys are\u00a0<em>Britain&#8217;s Got Talent<\/em> alumni who were signed by Syco and dropped after one single (&#8220;What A Night&#8221;, which made number 9 last year). \u00a0Hence this indie album. \u00a0Their post-Cowell singles are distinctly less punchable than &#8220;What A Night&#8221;, which is a pretty obvious clue of how that relationship went awry.\u00a0\u00a0Their Wikipedia page includes\u00a0such sentences as &#8220;The boys finished their first ever headline tour &#8216;The Talking Monkeys Tour&#8217; in March 2014 travelling across the UK to perform at different venues for their amazing fans.&#8221; \u00a0You know, in case you were unsure of what a tour was. \u00a0\u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/xuNhou5ocyA\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Love Sick&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This would have been a pretty dead chart, were it not for a couple of future hits poking their heads into the bottom of the top 40. \u00a0But hey! \u00a0Something manages to spend\u00a0a second week at number one! 40. \u00a0Sam Smith &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m Not The Only One&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}