{"id":2703,"date":"2014-08-27T23:39:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T22:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2014-08-27T23:39:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T22:39:42","slug":"charts-24-august-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2703","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 24 August 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was looking like a busy chart in the midweeks, but it\u00a0calmed down drastically by Sunday &#8211; once again, front loaded sales mean that three singles that looked on track to make the top 40 are gone by the\u00a0time of the chart proper, including one that was showing as high as 20. \u00a0We&#8217;re left with&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>34. \u00a0Saint Motel &#8211; &#8220;My Type&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IyVPyKrx0Xo?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This was at 18 in the midweeks, so plainly it isn&#8217;t sticking around long. \u00a0Saint Motel are an\u00a0indie-pop outfit from Los Angeles who&#8217;ve been around since 2009. \u00a0They&#8217;re finally charting because the song is in an advert &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/UucLMljiDHg\" target=\"_blank\">Phones4U<\/a>, to be precise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>17. \u00a0Sam Smith &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m Not The Only One&#8221;<br \/>\n15. \u00a0Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora &#8211; &#8220;Black Widow&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Climbing 23 and 17 places respectively, after last week&#8217;s relatively\u00a0slow starts. \u00a0Today&#8217;s midweeks show both of them set to go\u00a0further.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. \u00a0Union J &#8211; &#8220;Tonight (We Live Forever)&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bPaWyHuYNCE?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I see a potential chronological difficulty with that.<\/p>\n<p>Union J are <em>X Factor\u00a0<\/em>alumni &#8211; basically the Lidl One Direction &#8211;\u00a0and\u00a0this is the lead single from their second album. \u00a0The\u00a0first one spawned two singles that just missed the top 5, which isn&#8217;t really good enough in boy band terms, and\u00a0presumably got them dropped,\u00a0since they&#8217;ve jumped\u00a0from RCA to Epic. \u00a0Evidently Epic think there&#8217;s something in there with a bit of tinkering. \u00a0The chart placement of this single suggests there might\u00a0not be. Today&#8217;s midweeks show it dropping straight out of the top 40, which rather confirms the worst.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. \u00a0Wankelmut &amp; Emma Louise &#8211; &#8220;My Head is a Jungle&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/suxrIpFZOGk?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Wankelmut\u00a0is the guy whose remix of\u00a0Asaf Avidan&#8217;s &#8220;Reckoning Song&#8221; got it into the lower end of the chart two years ago. \u00a0He&#8217;s German. \u00a0Emma Louise is an Australian songwriter. \u00a0This track was a top ten hit in Italy last year. \u00a0All very multinational.<\/p>\n<p>The version shown above is the original, but what&#8217;s\u00a0actually being promoted in Britain is a remix\u00a0by the seemingly ubiquitous MK. \u00a0It has its own entirely different video &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/XRiNfHOLqec\" target=\"_blank\">here it is, for those interested<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; but I vastly prefer the original. \u00a0It&#8217;s a subtler affair, and it suits her voice much better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. \u00a0Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;Shake It Off&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nfWlot6h_JM?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0lead single from Swift&#8217;s next album was a Tuesday\u00a0release, and still made number 6 on the midweeks announced the next day. \u00a0Its eventual position at number 4 will raise a few eyebrows, since it was topping the iTunes chart for much of the week; the fact that it still wasn&#8217;t able to catch up with the top 3 is genuinely surprising. \u00a0As it is, her biggest UK hits remain &#8220;Love Story&#8221; (2009) and &#8220;I Knew You Were Trouble&#8221; (2012), both of which got to number 2.<\/p>\n<p>Swift has now dumped all remaining vestiges of\u00a0her roots as a country-pop artist, in favour of hooking\u00a0up with Max Martin. \u00a0It&#8217;s an\u00a0&#8220;I don&#8217;t care about the haters&#8221; song, which now seems to be settling in as one of the stock pop song themes of the 2010s,\u00a0but it&#8217;s\u00a0a good one. \u00a0(The trick with these things, aside from bothering to write a good chorus, is to make sure they&#8217;re vague enough to potentially apply to your audience too, so that you don&#8217;t come across as a famous person whining about Twitter.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0David Guetta featuring Sam Martin &#8211; &#8220;Lovers on the Sun&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BPiW0tkWfeg?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In which David Guetta has a stab at spaghetti western\u00a0crossed with\u2026 well, David Guetta. \u00a0This is the title track from his\u00a0upcoming album (which has already had another two singles in the chart &#8211; &#8220;Shot Me Down&#8221; and &#8220;Bad&#8221;). \u00a0It&#8217;s the chart debut for Sam Martin, a songwriter from Oregon who&#8217;s had a hand in some Maroon 5 songs and things of that nature.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a very odd record, lurching from\u00a0Ennio Morricone pastiche to mock-heartfelt chorus to bog-standard dance floor hook. \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure it works &#8211; I think it&#8217;s too close to novelty territory for the chorus to come off &#8211; but evidently enough people disagree with me to give Guetta his sixth UK number 1. \u00a0The others were &#8220;When Love Takes Over&#8221; (2009), &#8220;Sexy Chick&#8221; (2009), &#8220;Gettin&#8217; Over You&#8221; (2010), &#8220;Titanium&#8221; (2011), and his guest credit on Flo Rida&#8217;s &#8220;Club Can&#8217;t Handle Me&#8221; (2010).<\/p>\n<p>Over on the album chart, Ed Sheeran finally runs out of steam!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Stars&#8221; by Collabro<\/strong> is number 1. \u00a0They&#8217;re a musical theatre-themed boy band (no, seriously)\u00a0who won\u00a0<em>Britain&#8217;s Got Talent<\/em> this year, and the album is the usual Cowell-tastic cash-in cover collection (&#8220;Let It Go&#8221;, &#8220;All Of Me&#8221;, something from Les Mis\u2026). \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Z6djd1KKyps\" target=\"_blank\">Preview video here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Concrete Love&#8221; by the Courteeners<\/strong> at 3. \u00a0The indie group&#8217;s fourth album, all of which have made the top 10. \u00a0This is the highest placing, but only marginally. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ty8vkkzrOA4\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;How Good It Was&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Great Divide&#8221; by Twin Atlantic<\/strong> at 6. \u00a0The third album from the Glasgow rock band, but\u00a0the first to chart. \u00a0Their Wikipedia entry could maybe use a bit of loving attention &#8211; I doubt even the most devoted Twin Atlantic fan\u00a0<em>really<\/em> needs to know that they played a sold-out gig at Queen Margaret\u00a0Union in Glasgow on 7 March 2009. \u00a0The single <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/DlpZ8z1bNfk\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Heart and Soul&#8221;<\/a> made 17 in June.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Blacc Hollywood&#8221; by Wiz Khalifa<\/strong> at 27. \u00a0His first album to\u00a0chart in the UK. \u00a0He crops up on the singles chart as a guest star from time to time, but\u00a0his only solo hit single is 2011&#8217;s &#8220;Black and Yellow&#8221;. \u00a0Which was on the previous album. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/KxJLYM9XOT4\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Promises&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Hounds of Love&#8221; by Kate Bush<\/strong> at 29. \u00a0Re-entering on the strength of the publicity for her\u00a0current live shows &#8211; her first in 36 years. \u00a0The album made number 1 on its first release in 1985. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/VerK4zwMRQw\" target=\"_blank\">The title track<\/a> was a number 18 hit at the time.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Leave a Scar &#8211; Live in North Carolina&#8221; by Blackberry Smoke<\/strong> at 35. \u00a0Live album from the southern rock band whose last album charted earlier in the year. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ZKCKERcqbF0\" target=\"_blank\">An entire 90-minute concert documentary promoting the album is here.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Sparks&#8221; by Imogen Heap<\/strong> at 40. \u00a0Her fourth studio album and the second to chart &#8211; falling just short of her previous peak of 39. \u00a0Not exactly prolific, Heap has released four solo albums in sixteen years. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Afbvd8g5hMU\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Run-Time&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was looking like a busy chart in the midweeks, but it\u00a0calmed down drastically by Sunday &#8211; 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