{"id":2769,"date":"2014-10-13T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T22:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2769"},"modified":"2014-10-13T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T22:00:07","slug":"charts-12-october-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2769","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 12 October 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unusually\u00a0top-heavy chart this week &#8211; basically dead from 40 through to\u00a021, which must have been a delight for the Radio 1 chart show producers. \u00a0It picks up after that. \u00a0Well, kind of.<\/p>\n<p><strong>20. \u00a0Brian Wilson &amp; Various Artists &#8211; &#8220;God Only Knows&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XqLTe8h0-jo?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Ah, this will take a bit of explaining to the Americans.<\/p>\n<p>This is a bunch of celebrities doing a cover version of &#8220;God Only Knows&#8221; to celebrate the BBC&#8217;s music coverage, with some other BBC personnel also cameoing in the video. \u00a0If you really want a blow-by-blow namecheck, I will oblige and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/scottybryan\/every-single-person-who-appeared-in-that-bbc-music-god-only#3mn0d6u\" target=\"_blank\">link to Buzzfeed<\/a>, despite my better judgment.\u00a0\u00a0The single is a charity release for the BBC&#8217;s\u00a0annual Children in Need appeal,\u00a0and yes, the listed artist credit is &#8220;Brian Wilson &amp; Various Artists&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But its main point is to be shown on the BBC itself as a promo for the BBC. \u00a0The not-so-subtle subtext here is &#8220;hey, people love the BBC, you wouldn&#8217;t want to mess with our funding, would you?&#8221; \u00a0It&#8217;s effectively a remake of <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/uN90xB7DswE\" target=\"_blank\">the BBC&#8217;s multi-artist version of &#8220;Perfect Day&#8221;<\/a> which was number 1 for 2 weeks in 1997. \u00a0Ironically, it was\u00a0knocked off the top\u00a0by another BBC release, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/FItP77HqV9c\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Teletubbies Say Eh-Oh!&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Perfect Day&#8221;\u00a0is a truly baffling record &#8211; a bunch of wildly disparate celebrities pay homage to the\u00a0licence fee by singing a Lou Reed song about heroin in utterly incongruous styles &#8211; but was indeed released due to genuine popular demand. \u00a0This is\u2026 an attempt to do that again.<\/p>\n<p>This is a midweek release, so it could have gone higher. \u00a0Judging from the iTunes chart, it won&#8217;t now. \u00a0The original was <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/AOMyS78o5YI\" target=\"_blank\">a number 2 hit for the Beach Boys in 1966<\/a> &#8211; not their biggest UK hit, as &#8220;Good Vibrations&#8221; and &#8220;Do It Again&#8221; both made the top.<\/p>\n<p><strong>18. \u00a0John Legend &#8211; &#8220;All of Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back up 11 places, with a truly extraordinary chart run of <span style=\"color: #000000;\">28-29-9-8-6-3-5-2-4-4-4-5-4-3-6-6-5-10-10-9-11-13-14-20-19-17-15-19-19-24-23-22-23-29-18. \u00a0<\/span>\u00a0I&#8217;m guessing somebody covered it on\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em>? \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/imQGtjFzPe4\" target=\"_blank\">Ah yes. \u00a0They did.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re into the live shows now, by the way, so brace yourself for the chart invasion. \u00a0Normally that comes in the form of covers,\u00a0even though the\u00a0<em>X Factor\u00a0<\/em>versions are made available for download. \u00a0Interestingly, this year the\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> downloads are showing up in the iTunes chart &#8211; previously they&#8217;ve opted to make them invisible\u00a0so as to avoid spoiling the surprise of who&#8217;s ahead. \u00a0Conventional wisdom is that\u00a0if people can see who&#8217;s selling, it kills the tension of the format.<\/p>\n<p>Does that mean they&#8217;re going to be\u00a0chart-eligible too? \u00a0If so\u2026 oww. \u00a0A barrage of one-week wonders from here until Christmas&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>16. \u00a0Usher featuring Nicki Minaj &#8211; &#8220;She Came To Give It To You&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U-93LzZM1y0?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I have no idea what the point is of the framing sequence on this\u00a0video, other than to make it look like something more than a straight performance\u00a0job. \u00a0Anyhow, this is the follow-up to &#8220;Good Kisser&#8221;, which made number 10 in July. \u00a0It&#8217;s\u00a0heavily based on <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/KTN4sQRlPj0\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Just Be Good To Me&#8221; by the S.O.S. Band<\/a>,\u00a0a number 13 hit in 1984, but probably better known in Britain from the\u00a01990 cover\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/G63RxyRzQhI\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Dub Be Good To Me&#8221; by Beats International<\/a>,\u00a0one of Norman Cook&#8217;s pre-Fatboy Slim projects.<\/p>\n<p>Nicki Minaj\u00a0makes three appearances on this week&#8217;s chart &#8211; one is &#8220;Bang Bang&#8221;,\u00a0and the other\u00a0we&#8217;ll come to. \u00a0Pharrell Williams is apparently on this record as an uncredited guest too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>13. \u00a0LuvBug featuring Talay Riley &#8211; &#8220;Resonance&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/csYUGJLtZnw?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yeesh, that&#8217;s a lousy video. \u00a0LuvBug are a trio of producers, and this is their debut single\u00a0following a stint\u00a0as remixers. \u00a0But they&#8217;re really best known for including\u00a0Marvin Humes, who used to be in JLS but has\u00a0apparently\u00a0now decided to\u00a0transition into late-career anonymity. \u00a0Singer Talay Riley is obscure, but he&#8217;s\u00a0charted before &#8211; he was the guest singer on <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/CuvyF6JRes4\" target=\"_blank\">Chipmunk&#8217;s &#8220;Look For Me&#8221;<\/a>, a rather terrible number 7 hit back in 2009. \u00a0We&#8217;ll probably be seeing him again next\u00a0week on a Wilkinson single.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10. \u00a0Ed Sheeran &#8211; &#8220;Thinking Out Loud&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lp-EO5I60KA?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This has been hanging around in the middle of the top 40\u00a0since July as an album track download, but it&#8217;s finally been promoted to\u00a0a full-scale single, climbing into the top 10 in its sixteenth week out. \u00a0The women he&#8217;s dancing with in the video is Brittany Cherry, who was a contestant on\u00a0<em>So You Think You Can Dance<\/em>\u00a0last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. \u00a0Ella Henderson &#8211; &#8220;Glow&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DKRRg150OYU?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The follow-up to &#8220;Ghost&#8221;, which made number 1 in June and is still hanging around the top 30. \u00a0Henderson is a Simon Cowell act\u00a0&#8211; she was signed after coming sixth in the 2012 season of\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> &#8211; and while this and &#8220;Ghost&#8221; are at the upper\u00a0end of quality where Cowell commissions are concerned, it&#8217;s still very much the\u00a0sort of mid paced power ballad we&#8217;ve come to expect from his\u00a0squadrons. \u00a0It&#8217;s perfectly alright,\u00a0but it&#8217;s not\u00a0going to replicate the success of &#8220;Ghost&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. \u00a0Jeremih featuring Y.G. &#8211; &#8220;Don&#8217;t Tell &#8216;Em&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There doesn&#8217;t appear to be a video for this. \u00a0It&#8217;s a semi-cover of <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/JYIaWeVL1JM\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Rhythm is a Dancer&#8221; by Snap<\/a>,\u00a0the\u00a0number 1 from 1992, as if anyone thought that was a great source of lyrics in need of recycling for\u00a0a new generation. \u00a0I can only guess that&#8217;s\u00a0what got it\u00a0so high up the chart, though, because it&#8217;s not as if the British have ever cared about Jeremih before. \u00a0His only previous chart appearances in the UK were with &#8220;Birthday Sex&#8221; (number 15 in 2009) and &#8220;Down On me&#8221; (number 30 in 2011 &#8211; and that one had 50 Cent on it).<\/p>\n<p>Rapper YG makes his\u00a0top 40 debut &#8211; it stands for &#8220;Young Gangsta&#8221;. \u00a0Other charting acts\u00a0with\u00a0&#8220;YG&#8221; in their names include\u00a0Tyga, Gorky&#8217;s Zygotic Mynci, Marcy Playground, and Max Bygraves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. \u00a0Nicki Minaj &#8211; &#8220;Anaconda&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LDZX4ooRsWs?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Say what you will about Nicki Minaj, but nobody could accuse her of an undue preoccupation with subtlety and good taste. \u00a0And let&#8217;s face it, if you&#8217;re going to go that route, you&#8217;d better commit. \u00a0Nobody could dispute the column inch-generating power of the video, and at the start of the week it looked as though it would have been an easy number one\u00a0but for\u00a0the\u00a0juggernaut du jour. \u00a0In fact, it turns out to have flared out by the end of the week &#8211; as of right now, it&#8217;s at 10 on iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>As if anyone needs to be told this, it&#8217;s based on <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/FlItMpGYQTo\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Baby Got Back&#8221; by Sir Mix-A-Lot<\/a>,\u00a0which was the second biggest selling record in the US in 1992 (the biggest was &#8220;I Will Always Love You&#8221;). \u00a0In the UK, it got to 56, but it&#8217;s still pretty well known.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Meghan Trainor &#8211; &#8220;All About The Bass&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks! \u00a0Two weeks! \u00a0It&#8217;s been\u2026 well, actually it&#8217;s been since &#8220;Prayer in C&#8221;, which wasn&#8217;t that long ago. \u00a0But iTunes has it still at the top, blithely fending off a new One Direction single,\u00a0so it could be on course for three. \u00a0That&#8217;ll be the longest run since Clean Bandit at the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart, another ludicrous bombardment of\u00a0new releases, most of which will have the chart life of a mayfly. \u00a0(Incidentally, Prince&#8217;s &#8220;Art Official Age&#8221;, which entered at 8 last week? \u00a039.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Wanted on Voyage&#8221; by George Ezra\u00a0<\/strong>spends a second week at number 1.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Hozier&#8221; by Hozier<\/strong>\u00a0is the highest new entry at 5. \u00a0The single &#8220;Take Me To Church&#8221; is at 32.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Our Love&#8221; by Caribou<\/strong> at 8. \u00a0The seventh\u00a0album by\u00a0Canadian producer Dan Snaith (the first two were released as &#8220;Manitoba&#8221;), and the first to chart. \u00a0No idea why\u00a0he&#8217;s suddenly selling. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/BI2Et19vDCM\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Can&#8217;t Do Without You&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Playland&#8221; by Johnny Marr<\/strong> at 9. \u00a0His second solo album after &#8220;The Messenger&#8221;, which\u00a0got to 10 last year. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/9_P5iSG_APE\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Easy Money&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Sirens&#8221; by Gorgon City<\/strong> at 10. \u00a0Debut album; the highest placing single was <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/8B93tgRxMuE\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Ready for your Love&#8221;<\/a>, which got to 4.<\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;Tracks of My Years&#8221; by Bryan Adams<\/b> at 11. \u00a0His first studio album since 2008. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/slZKHSKvQuY\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;She Knows Me&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;747&#8221; by Lady Antebellum<\/strong> at\u00a012. \u00a0You know, they did &#8220;Need You Now&#8221;, it gets covered on talent shows a lot. \u00a0It&#8217;s their fourth high-placing album, though. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/_rHuitW9xDc\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Bartender&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;24 Karat Gold &#8211; Songs\u00a0from the Vault&#8221; by Stevie Nicks<\/strong> at 14. \u00a0This is basically Stevie Nicks releasing proper versions of some demos that had been leaked anyway. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/1ua0XjC5JiE\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Lady&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Lower than Atlantis&#8221; by Lower Than Atlantis<\/strong> at 16. \u00a0They&#8217;re a\u00a0rock band from Watford. \u00a0This is their fourth album, and the second to chart (they got to\u00a025 last time). \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/E4g2LBzGbvw\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Emily&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Silhouette&#8221; by Ali Campbell<\/strong> at 18. \u00a0The singer from UB40. \u00a0Actually, there are two other ex-UB40 members on this album, so it&#8217;s basically a UB40 album. \u00a0Technically, though, it&#8217;s an Ali Campbell solo album, and his fifth to chart. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/20t-IZZztOk\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I Want You&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Interlude&#8221; by Jamie Cullum<\/strong> at 19. \u00a0About the same position as his last album. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/gDSNIBe5I6k?list=UUHBv1ELihl0UBS0qIOYrUZw\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Good Morning Heartache&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;You&#8217;re Dead!&#8221; by Flying Lotus<\/strong> at 24. \u00a0A producer and rapper on the Warp label. \u00a0His second album to chart. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/2lXD0vv-ds8\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Never Catch Me&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Gold &amp; Silver Days&#8221; by Foster &amp; Allen<\/strong> at 28. \u00a0Low-impact Irish trad-folk for nostalgic grannies. \u00a0These guys were mainstays of daytime TV adverts when I was\u00a0five. \u00a0Video\u00a0(yes, really): <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/-YMy2m_HmNs\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Working Man&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Standing in the Breach&#8221; by Jackson Browne<\/strong> at 31. \u00a0Always a much bigger star in\u00a0the US,\u00a0Jackson Browne hasn&#8217;t\u00a0made the top 40 albums chart since 1993, and he&#8217;s never got higher than 26. \u00a0Sample track: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/bEz1IDUyPO8\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Leaving Winslow&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Everything will be Alright in the End&#8221; by Weezer<\/strong> at 37. \u00a0The previous album didn&#8217;t make the top 40 at all, so that&#8217;s something. \u00a0Still\u2026 below Foster &amp; Allen. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/3H89GXU9OeU\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Back to the Shack&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unusually\u00a0top-heavy chart this week &#8211; basically dead from 40 through to\u00a021, which must have been a delight for the Radio 1 chart show producers. \u00a0It picks up after that. \u00a0Well, kind of. 20. \u00a0Brian Wilson &amp; Various Artists &#8211; &#8220;God Only Knows&#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-2769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","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=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2774,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions\/2774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}