{"id":2797,"date":"2014-11-05T22:19:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T22:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2014-11-05T22:19:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T22:19:03","slug":"charts-2-november-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2797","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 2 November 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mostly a quiet chart\u00a0this week &#8211; but the\u00a0new number 1 sets an actual, proper chart record&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0OWj0CiM8WU\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>38. \u00a0OneRepublic &#8211; &#8220;Love Runs Out&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A slightly surprising re-entry for a single that\u00a0previously got to number 3 in August, particularly as the main focus of their current promotion is on the record we&#8217;ll come to shortly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>37. \u00a0Idina Menzel &#8211; &#8220;Let It Go&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Climbing 18 places to re-enter the chart,\u00a0which I can only figure is the result of Robbie Williams&#8217; rather odd\u00a0decision to\u00a0release a video of himself singing the song to his wife in labour. \u00a0(The general consensus is that he doesn&#8217;t come out of it very well, but hey, Idina Menzel sold a few more records.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>29. \u00a0OneRepublic &#8211; &#8220;I Lived&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z0rxydSolwU?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This is the second\u00a0of the bonus tracks from the special edition of their &#8220;Native&#8221; album to be pushed as a single. \u00a0The combination of the band name and title pretty much tells you what you&#8217;re getting. \u00a0They lived! \u00a0They&#8217;re happy about it, but also somewhat soulful! \u00a0You know. \u00a0OneRepublic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>23. \u00a0Calvin Harris featuring Big Sean &#8211; &#8220;Open Wide&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zVzhpkFBFP8?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A second\u00a0&#8220;promotional single&#8221; for\u00a0his album &#8220;Motion&#8221;, which\u00a0was released on Monday. \u00a0The first one, &#8220;Slow Acid&#8221;, missed the top 75 entirely (in the UK &#8211; it\u00a0charted in Scotland). \u00a0 \u00a0&#8220;Promotional single&#8221;, at this point, seems to mean &#8220;we&#8217;ve made a video for it but we&#8217;re going to be a bit half-hearted about doing any other promotion for it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Open Wide&#8221; is actually a vocal version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tTRO4B0ld7M\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;C.U.B.A.&#8221;<\/a>, the instrumental B-side of Harris&#8217; recent number 1 &#8220;Blame&#8221;.\u00a0 Rapper Big Sean\u00a0is presumably there for the American market, since god knows he&#8217;s\u00a0never sold many records in this country. \u00a0His biggest hit, technically, was as a guest star on Jessie J&#8217;s &#8220;Wild&#8221; (number 5 last year), but that had Dizzee Rascal on it too. \u00a0He&#8217;s never had a UK hit in his own right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. \u00a0Parra for Cuva featuring Anna Naklab &#8211; &#8220;Wicked Games&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vh5j7zDpy-4?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s belated European dance import has been out for a year on the continent. \u00a0Parra For Cuva is German producer Nicolas Demuth, and Anna Naklab is his regular singer collaborator. \u00a0And yes, this is\u00a0a dance version of <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/WtfHk2hSlqA\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Isaak&#8217;s &#8220;Wicked Game&#8221;<\/a> (with an added S, for extra dancing). \u00a0Isaak&#8217;s version got to number 10 in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not as bad an idea as it might seem\u00a0&#8211; it&#8217;s a rather laid back acoustic take on the song. \u00a0but\u00a0not a patch on the original.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \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>Meghan Trainor\u00a0is removed from the\u00a0top after a four week run &#8211;\u00a0the joint longest of the year. \u00a0But\u00a0that doesn&#8217;t mean a return to the weekly turnover of new entries. \u00a0Instead, we have something quite extraordinary.<\/p>\n<p>This is Ed Sheeran&#8217;s second number 1 hit, the first being\u00a0&#8220;Sing&#8221; back in June. \u00a0What&#8217;s fascinating is that &#8220;Thinking Out Loud&#8221;\u00a0charted as an album track download\u00a0when the album was released\u00a0at the end of that month &#8211; and it&#8217;s never gone away. \u00a0The recent promotion for the single, and release of a video, have certainly pushed it to the top, no doubt because it&#8217;s got an appeal to a different audience who weren&#8217;t paying attention to it before now. \u00a0But it&#8217;s been on the chart since\u00a0the first week of July, without dropping out of the top 30.<\/p>\n<p>If you ignore records which dropped off the chart entirely before getting to number 1 on a reissue &#8211; which really isn&#8217;t the same thing &#8211; then the previous record for the longest trek to number 1 was set in 1995 when Celine Dion&#8217;s &#8220;Think Twice&#8221; reached the top in its 13th week on the top 40. \u00a0&#8220;Thinking Out Loud&#8221; shatters that record, having moved\u00a026-25-29-23-28-20-18-16-13-17-18-24-19-18-17-10-4-2-1\u00a0to finally top the chart in its <em>nineteenth<\/em> week. \u00a0Yes, he had an\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> appearance to push him over the top, but there&#8217;s no denying that this has been a slow-burn climber like none other &#8211; in an era when that&#8217;s not even supposed to happen any more.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, &#8220;Don&#8217;t&#8221; rebounds 8 places to number 14, and &#8220;Sing&#8221; climbs back to 22. \u00a0That, you can probably attribute to\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> &#8211; but the fact that he has three very long-running singles all still on the chart, plus the longest-running number 1 album of the year,\u00a0goes beyond the Cowell empire.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;1989&#8221; by Taylor Swift<\/strong> at number 1. \u00a0&#8220;Shake it Off&#8221; is still at number 3 on the singles chart.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Led Zeppelin IV&#8221;<\/strong> at 6. \u00a0Remastered version of the 1971 album. \u00a0It&#8217;s the one with &#8220;Stairway to Heaven&#8221; on it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Nostalgia&#8221; by Annie Lennox<\/strong> at 9. \u00a0A collection of Great American Songbook covers. \u00a0Arguably her\u00a0first proper album since 2007, depending on how you feel about 2010&#8217;s &#8220;A Christmas Cornucopia&#8221;. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/bKrKHOUcNvY\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;September in the Rain&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Houses of the Holy&#8221; by Led Zeppelin<\/strong> at 14. \u00a0Another 1970s reissue. \u00a0All the tracks on this album have their own Wikipedia entries, which is how\u00a0you know it&#8217;s a landmark. \u00a0Don&#8217;t know how they judged these things in the past. \u00a0Probably had to read\u00a0<em>Q<\/em> or something.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Asymmetry&#8221; by Mallory Knox<\/strong> at 16. \u00a0Rock band named after the character from\u00a0<em>Natural Born Killers<\/em>. \u00a0Their debut album got to 33 last year, so they&#8217;re heading in the right direction. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/txfFQozIz3w\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Shout at the Moon&#8221;.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Black Veil Brides&#8221; by the Black Veil Brides<\/strong> at 17. \u00a0Third (and highest-charting) album by the not-at-all overwrought\u00a0rock band. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/f-cxPIOAfSk\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Goodbye Agony&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Bridge Over Troubled Water&#8221; by Simon &amp; Garfunkel<\/strong> at 19. \u00a0I have no idea why this is re-entering &#8211;\u00a0is somebody discounting it? \u00a0Originally a number 1 album in 1970, anyway, when the title track also\u00a0became their only UK number 1 single. \u00a0(Strangely, Paul Simon never had a solo number 1 single, but Art Garfunkel had two.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Tell &#8216;Em I&#8217;m Gone&#8221; by Yusuf<\/strong> at 18. \u00a0Yusuf Islam is the former Cat Stevens, who quit recording in 1977 and resurfaced under his new name in 2006. \u00a0This is his third album since the comeback, all of which have placed respectably\u00a0in the top 20. \u00a0Sample track: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/yq8BJX0GhgI?list=UUWQZ8TaDxcwMNiKcFOZpa6g\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Dying to\u00a0Live&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Dead&#8221; by Young Fathers<\/strong> at 35. \u00a0The winners of this year&#8217;s Mercury Prize, so that&#8217;s\u00a0<em>really<\/em> flying off the\u00a0shelves for them. \u00a0They&#8217;re rappers from Edinburgh. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/eiMtr9QJHlY\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Low&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mostly a quiet chart\u00a0this week &#8211; but the\u00a0new number 1 sets an actual, proper chart record&#8230; 38. \u00a0OneRepublic &#8211; &#8220;Love Runs Out&#8221; A slightly surprising re-entry for a single that\u00a0previously got to number 3 in August, particularly as the main focus of their current promotion is on the record we&#8217;ll come to shortly. 37. \u00a0Idina [&hellip;]<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","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=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}