{"id":2747,"date":"2014-09-24T22:31:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T21:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2014-09-24T22:31:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T21:31:27","slug":"charts-21-september-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2747","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 21 September 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty much a dead week on the singles chart &#8211; there really is almost nothing going on here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>35. \u00a0Hozier &#8211; &#8220;Take Me To Church&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PVjiKRfKpPI?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->We mentioned this last week when it just missed out on the UK top 40, but scraped the bottom end of the Scottish chart.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s climbing (slowly) on the midweeks, so it might be sticking around for a while after all. \u00a0One of those tracks\u00a0where a vaguely lo-fi arrangement disguises a song with a lot more mainstream appeal than might first appear. \u00a0It&#8217;s good to see this sort of thing showing up in the chart, though.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11. George Ezra &#8211; &#8220;Budapest&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>10. George Ezra &#8211; &#8220;Blame It On Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both climbing (8 and 10 places respectively). \u00a0Out of nowhere, the singles-buying public has suddenly decided it\u00a0<em>really<\/em> likes George Ezra. \u00a0Also, there&#8217;s literally nothing else happening on this week&#8217;s chart to\u00a0talk about. \u00a0I wasn&#8217;t kidding about it being dead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. \u00a0Professor Green featuring Tori Kelly &#8211; &#8220;Lullaby&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9rHiLAdMmss?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The lead single from\u00a0his\u00a0new album &#8220;Growing Up In Public&#8221;, the title of which is fairly self-explanatory. \u00a0It&#8217;s been quite a while\u00a0since his last album &#8211; &#8220;Read All About It&#8221; was number 1 back in 2011 &#8211;\u00a0and\u00a0the release date on this one has been delayed by several months. \u00a0&#8220;Lullaby&#8221; is Professor Green in emotional\u00a0mode, much like\u00a0his last major hit &#8211; it&#8217;s about his struggle with depression and the suicide of his father, so as you can imagine, it&#8217;s not a bundle of laughs. \u00a0It&#8217;s very sincere, but it&#8217;s also very much all there on the surface; I find it rather heavy-handed, but a part of me suspects this may be my problem rather than his.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the chart debut for Tori Kelly, \u00a0a\u00a0Californian\u00a0singer who&#8217;s got three years of records behind her, none of which have previously had any impact.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Sigma featuring Paloma Faith &#8211; &#8220;Changing&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oAeotgCHL3E?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The follow-up to &#8220;Nobody to Love&#8221; strikes Sigma&#8217;s name off the one-hit wonder list. \u00a0Since that\u00a0track was essentially a bootleg\u00a0remix of Kanye West&#8217;s &#8220;Bound 2&#8221;, Sigma\u00a0have little choice but to go in a different direction here. \u00a0That direction is, pretty much, &#8220;sounding like Rudimental&#8221;. \u00a0Rudimental do this sort of\u00a0production better, but\u00a0the song isn&#8217;t bad at all.<\/p>\n<p>Paloma Faith has had six previous singles, but gets her first number 1 here. \u00a0Previously, her biggest hits were &#8220;Picking up the Pieces&#8221; (2012) and &#8220;Only Love Can Hurt Like this&#8221; (2014), both of which got to 7.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s really not much more to be said about it. \u00a0It won&#8217;t make a second week at number one, but it&#8217;s going to hang around near the top.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s literally it for the singles chart. \u00a0Over in the albums:<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart, things are rather busier&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;No Sound Without Silence&#8221; by The Script<\/strong> at 1. \u00a0Their fourth album, their third number 1. \u00a0(The other one got to number 2.) \u00a0The single &#8220;Superheroes&#8221; got to 3 a couple of weeks ago.<\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;Partners&#8221; by Barbra Streisand<\/b> at 2. \u00a0Her 34th studio album &#8211; she&#8217;s been charting since 1966. \u00a0It&#8217;s a duets compilation, as the title might suggest. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/6t7bqGEw-C4\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;It Had To Be You&#8221;<\/a> (featuring Michael Buble).<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;X&#8221; by Chris Brown<\/strong> at 4. \u00a0Blech. \u00a0His sixth studio album, and the fourth to make the top 10. \u00a0The single &#8220;New Flame&#8221; got to 10 a couple of weeks ago.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;World on Fire&#8221; by Slash<\/strong> at 7. \u00a0His third solo album &#8211; and the highest charting, again showing how the decline of the album market\u00a0is leading to rock veterans getting slighter higher chart places. \u00a0It&#8217;s more that their sales are falling slower than everyone else&#8217;s. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/MZNH0sBmbRI\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;World on Fire&#8221;<\/a>. \u00a0(Which is the first time I&#8217;ve seen a lyric video with a nipple count.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Bulletproof Picasso&#8221; by Train<\/strong> at 9. \u00a0Their seventh studio album, and the fourth to chart in this country. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/POtv2wjoIHQ\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Angel in Blue Jeans&#8221;<\/a>. \u00a0Singer Pat Monahan is the voice of Driver Dan in the American dub\u00a0of\u00a0<em>Driver Dan&#8217;s Story Train, <\/em>which is the sort of thing that interests me these days. \u00a0(The\u00a0British version\u00a0is voiced by Peter Serafinowicz.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Balcony&#8221; by Catfish and the Bottlemen<\/strong> at 10. \u00a0Welsh rock band. \u00a0They&#8217;re apparently named after a busker, which\u00a0is sort of an explanation, but mainly just invites the question of why the hell the busker was called that. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Va75GaPv5jY\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Cocoon&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Somewhere Under Wonderland&#8221; by Counting Crows<\/strong> at 15. \u00a0About their usual chart position. \u00a0Their ninth hit album, though that does include a live album and a best of. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/8-tFkOBU1BQ\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Palisades Park&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Dream Your Life Away&#8221; by Vance Joy<\/strong> at 20. \u00a0Should have released the album when <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/uJ_1HMAGb4k\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Riptide&#8221;<\/a> was a hit in January. \u00a0He&#8217;s\u00a0put out a few other singles since then, but none made the top 75.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty much a dead week on the singles chart &#8211; 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