{"id":2802,"date":"2014-11-11T22:58:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T22:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2014-11-11T22:58:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T22:58:18","slug":"charts-9-november-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2802","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 9 November 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quiet week, mostly consisting of records that have flared out since the midweek and don&#8217;t have videos! \u00a0But hey, it&#8217;s November &#8211; that means it&#8217;s time for Christmas!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"&lt;iframe%20width=&quot;400&quot; height=&quot;225&quot; src=&quot;\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rAmAyQOUdAs?list=UUaum3Yzdl3TbBt8YUeUGZLQ&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>26. \u00a0Nicki Minaj featuring Drake, Lil Wayne &amp; Chris Brown &#8211; &#8220;Only&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A promotional single from Minaj&#8217;s upcoming album (hence no video). \u00a0After &#8220;Anaconda&#8221; &#8211; still hanging in at 24 &#8211; this is obviously the\u00a0less commercial one for the hardcore audience.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ZRNTOabGsDk\" target=\"_blank\">26. \u00a0The Script &#8211; &#8220;No Good In Goodbye&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is going to be (?) the second single from the Script&#8217;s current album, though as yet it only has a lyric video. \u00a0Their\u00a0YouTube channel also helpfully has the entire lyric in the info field. \u00a0Maybe they&#8217;ve missed the point of a lyric video. \u00a0Or maybe they&#8217;re just so proud of the wordplay that they don&#8217;t want to risk you missing any of it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>21. \u00a0Tom Odell &#8211; &#8220;Real Love&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iccscUFY860?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Welcome to Christmas. \u00a0And it&#8217;s time for that modern Christmas tradition, the sentimental John Lewis advert soundtracked by somebody\u00a0slightly more credible than you&#8217;d expect doing a cover version. \u00a0Last year it was\u00a0Lily Allen, overshadowing her actual single. \u00a0This year it&#8217;s songwriter Tom Odell, best known for\u00a0last year&#8217;s number 10 hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MwpMEbgC7DA\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Another Love&#8221;<\/a>, which he performs here to\u00a0accompany a boy and his lovesick CGI penguin.<\/p>\n<p>There is in fact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eZLYp-jgx-I\" target=\"_blank\">a\u00a0regular video for &#8220;Real Love&#8221;<\/a>, but it&#8217;s a\u00a0cheapie performance job, presumably knocked out to indulge the sensitivities of music channels that might baulk at\u00a0just running a two minute advert\u00a0without being paid for it.<\/p>\n<p>The advert is\u00a0already at 12 million\u00a0plus views on YouTube because dammit we&#8217;re British and we care about the annual John Lewis Christmas advert even in early\u00a0November. \u00a0The record\u00a0is a midweek release, charting here on three days of sales, so it will climb.<\/p>\n<p>The original\u00a0of &#8220;Real Love&#8221; is a John Lennon demo from the 70s which was dusted off in a 1988 film, and eventually\u00a0worked up for a full release by the remaining members of the Beatles in 1996. \u00a0I&#8217;ve never much cared for the Beatles version, which suffers from the inevitable problems of trying to whack a rather thin demo vocal over\u00a0a full studio recording. \u00a0Honestly, Odell&#8217;s version makes a better case for the song&#8217;s merits.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/MjEYCUJuh-g\" target=\"_blank\">6. \u00a0Calvin Harris featuring Ellie Goulding &#8211; &#8220;Outside&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This was a promotional\u00a0single in some other countries, but in the UK it&#8217;s just\u00a0a track being cherry picked from Harris&#8217; album &#8220;Motion&#8221;, which enters the album chart at number 2 this week. \u00a0&#8220;Outside&#8221; was at 14 in the midweeks,\u00a0so it&#8217;s gathering momentum. \u00a0It&#8217;s\u00a0the usual Calvin Harris formula, but one of\u00a0its better executions.<\/p>\n<p>Harris has three singles on this week&#8217;s chart, the others being &#8220;Blame&#8221; at 11 and &#8220;Open Wide&#8221; at 33. \u00a0The un-deletability of the download era is resulting in a lot of\u00a0multi-charting acts these days &#8211; others on the current top 40 are\u00a0Ed Sheeran (3), Nicki Minaj (3), Ariana Grande (2), Sam Smith (2), George Ezra (2), and the Script (2).<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. \u00a0John Legend &#8211; &#8220;All Of Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rebounding after he appeared on <em>X Factor<\/em> last weekend. \u00a0It was at 26 last week, and has now been hanging around the top 30 for 39 weeks. \u00a0It&#8217;s worth mentioning this sort of thing from time to time, because the format here is at risk of giving the impression that the UK chart is a frenzied turnover of new entries &#8211; to some extent it is, but a remarkable number of records these days\u00a0hang around forever. \u00a0(&#8220;Happy&#8221; has its one-year anniversary in sight, though it doesn&#8217;t look like it&#8217;s going to make it.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Cheryl &#8211; &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Care&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pAOHXSpE-v0?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s come to this &#8211; a record where Cheryl Who Used To Be Cole (and is now Fernandez-Versini, but she&#8217;s not exactly trying to persuade the public to memorise that) does swearing. \u00a0Still, it&#8217;s her second straight number 1, following &#8220;Crazy Stupid Love&#8221; in August, and\u00a0that&#8217;s the first time she&#8217;s got two singles to number 1 from the same album. \u00a0It&#8217;s\u00a0a bit of an ear worm\u00a0&#8211; the writers credits include John Newman and Bonnie McKee, who&#8217;s a regular writer for Katy Perry &#8211;\u00a0but it&#8217;s also a very\u00a0uninspired production. \u00a0Sales were seriously front loaded &#8211; right now it&#8217;s at 7 on iTunes. \u00a0Admittedly, that&#8217;s behind three One Direction tracks, since they&#8217;ve got a new album out and their fans are behaving weirdly again &#8211; next week&#8217;s chart could be a bit odd.<\/p>\n<p>The video is frankly terrible &#8211;\u00a0it&#8217;s woefully uninspired, and looks very much like it&#8217;s trying\u00a0to pretend it has a higher budget than it really does. \u00a0Look, we&#8217;ve hired\u00a0a boat! \u00a0Here she is on a beach in some knitwear!<\/p>\n<p>Cheryl&#8217;s other\u00a0previous number 1s were &#8220;Fight for\u00a0This Love&#8221; (2009) and &#8220;Promise This&#8221; (2010), so\u00a0her solo career now equals the four number ones she had with Girls Aloud. \u00a0(&#8220;Sound of the Underground&#8221;, &#8220;I&#8217;ll Stand By You&#8221;, &#8220;Walk This Way&#8221; and &#8220;The Promise&#8221;, if you were wondering &#8211; not all examples of their finest work.)<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;X&#8221; by Ed<\/strong> <strong>Sheeran, <\/strong>the album that will not die, returns to number 1.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Motion&#8221; by Calvin Harris<\/strong>\u00a0is the highest new entry at 2. \u00a0&#8220;18 Months&#8221; re-enters at 21.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Love in Venice&#8221; by Andre Rieu<\/strong> at 4. \u00a0Another collection of classical standards, giving him his sixth top ten album (to go with many more\u00a0further down the charts). \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Kvm2BRWD014\" target=\"_blank\">Sampler video.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;My Favourite Faded Fantasy&#8221; by Damien Rice<\/strong> at 7. \u00a0You know him from his 2003 single &#8220;Cannonball&#8221;, but he made other stuff too! \u00a0This is his third album, all of which have made the top 10. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FnzHOsiaJns\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I Don&#8217;t Want To Change You&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Big Music&#8221; by Simple Minds<\/strong> at 12. \u00a0Their sixteenth album &#8211; the band never split. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Pax-oSrfniQ\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Honest Town&#8221;<\/a>. \u00a0Better than I was expecting, actually, but\u00a0Jim Kerr&#8217;s voice isn&#8217;t up to it\u00a0these days.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Who Hits 50!&#8221;<\/strong> at 15. \u00a0Their 50th anniversary compilation album.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Basement Tapes Complete&#8221; by Bob Dylan &amp; The Band<\/strong> at 17. \u00a0A 6-disc compilation of\u00a0previously (officially) unreleased demos, for the sort of completists who really want to hear two\u00a0aborted takes of a parody of\u00a0&#8220;See You Later Alligator&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Storytone&#8221; by Neil Young<\/strong> at 20. \u00a0His 35th studio album, and second of this year &#8211; doubtless available in excellent audio quality for those who feel strongly about such things. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/NkiRR3T_3NY\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Who&#8217;s Gonna Stand Up&#8221;<\/a>. \u00a0It&#8217;s an environmental number, and be warned, it&#8217;s appalling.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Tina&#8221; by Fuse ODG<\/strong> at 25. \u00a0The title track is still at 14 on the singles chart.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Christmas&#8221; by Michael Buble<\/strong> makes its annual re-entry at 38.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Abandon Ship&#8221; by Knife Party<\/strong> at 39. \u00a0Australian duo\u00a0previously known for\u00a0&#8220;Antidote&#8221;, their collaboration with the Swedish House Mafia, which got to number 4 in 2012. \u00a0Largely because of the Swedish House Mafia. \u00a0This is\u00a0the first time they&#8217;ve charted in their own right. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/MQPK4q488c0\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Begin Again&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quiet week, mostly consisting of records that have flared out since the midweek and don&#8217;t have videos! \u00a0But hey, it&#8217;s November &#8211; 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