{"id":3053,"date":"2015-06-10T21:40:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T20:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3053"},"modified":"2015-06-10T21:40:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T20:40:13","slug":"charts-7-june-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3053","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 7 June 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A busy week on the album chart; another largely dead one for the singles. \u00a0The addition of streaming data really seems to be\u00a0helping to slow down the charts, for better or worse &#8211; probably better,\u00a0actually. \u00a0We&#8217;ll come to an example of why in a bit. \u00a0First&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>30. \u00a0The Weeknd &#8211; &#8220;The Hills&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yzTuBuRdAyA?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This is (presumably) the lead single from his second album. \u00a0It&#8217;s the follow-up to &#8220;Earned It&#8221;, from the\u00a0<em>Shades of Grey<\/em> soundtrack. \u00a0But of course, this isn&#8217;t from\u00a0<em>Shades of Grey<\/em>,\u00a0and\u00a0for the moment we&#8217;re back\u00a0in\u00a0his usual stomping grounds\u00a0at the bottom end of the top 40\u00a0(or just outside it). \u00a0The midweeks don&#8217;t show it going any further, but then &#8220;Earned It&#8221; was a slow burner, so who knows.<\/p>\n<p><strong>27. \u00a0Florence + The Machine &#8211; &#8220;Ship To Wreck&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B9v8jLBrvug?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The second single from her new album &#8220;How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful&#8221;. \u00a0This has been out since April, and it was bumping along the low end of the top 100 until now. \u00a0The release of the parent album &#8211; which naturally goes straight to number 1 &#8211; seems to have caused some belated interest in a track that&#8217;s at least had a reasonable amount of airplay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>19. \u00a0DJ S.K.T. featuring Rae &#8211; &#8220;Take Me Away&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9lW-aBt4chs?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Your\u00a0regular weekly club record. \u00a0DJ S.K.T. is a house producer who&#8217;s done plenty of remixes on high profile records. \u00a0Rae, the singer, is also a producer in her own right, and boy she doesn&#8217;t make Googling easy with a name like that. \u00a0Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tWC5KMOWATk?list=FLoJu29CVDJ9_xkRkkgI3fXQ\" target=\"_blank\">one of her other tracks<\/a>, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Unusually for dance music, this is an outright cover of an earlier club track, rather than just a sample or interpolation. \u00a0The original was credited to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Om4JhjvRN1U\">True Faith with Final Cut<\/a>\u00a0and got to number 51\u00a0back in 1991. \u00a0The chorus from their version crops up as a sample on\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4ec2csY2-_o\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Warriors Dance&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by the Prodigy, their final top ten hit from\u00a02009.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11. \u00a0Lawson &#8211; &#8220;Roads&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I-SOaSU0ieA?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a year and a half since we last saw Lawson,\u00a0the boy band with guitars &#8211; or, if you prefer, the guitar band who were marketed to the boy band audience. \u00a0This is the lead single from their second album, and moves a bit further into the latter category. \u00a0It&#8217;s not bad, actually. \u00a0It&#8217;s got a bit more energy than I remember from them, even if it still sounds like an unexpectedly good Slovenian Eurovision entry.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson are precisely the sort of band who are doing badly out of the inclusion of streaming data. \u00a0They&#8217;re basically a fan base act,\u00a0which means they have heavily front loaded sales, and their records don&#8217;t stick around long enough to build a wider audience and start to pick up streams. \u00a0If this was still a sales chart, Lawson would be at number 5; as it is, it misses the top ten. \u00a0(In contrast, five of the six singles from their first album made the top ten.)<\/p>\n<p>It drops to 28 in the midweeks, so\u00a0chances are it&#8217;ll be gone quickly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. \u00a0Natalie La Rose featuring Jeremih &#8211; &#8220;Somebody&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8zqdo_Umd5c?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Wow, that&#8217;s <em>really<\/em> 80s. \u00a0I mean, I know\u00a080s pop has been back in fashion as a template for a while, but this thing couldn&#8217;t be any more 80s if it was solving a\u00a0Rubik&#8217;s\u00a0Cube on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DfoZU8KaJfs\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Network 7<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0Parts of it are acknowledged lifts\u00a0from Whitney Houston&#8217;s &#8220;I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)&#8221;, a number 1 in 1987; other bits, less obviously, come from LMFAO&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/XNtTEibFvlQ\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Shots&#8221;<\/a>, which wasn&#8217;t a single in this country.<\/p>\n<p>La Rose is a Dutch singer signed to Flo Rida&#8217;s label. \u00a0Her Wikipedia entry includes the sentence\u00a0&#8220;Impressed with her confidence, the multi-platinum international\u00a0superstar invited her to the studio&#8221;, which makes her sound like something that&#8217;s escaped from bad Flo Rida fanfic, if there is such a thing, and\u00a0I sincerely hope there is.<\/p>\n<p>This was number 1 in the midweeks, but\u00a0again, sales seem to have been slightly front loaded. \u00a0It would have wound up at number 2 whether or not streaming data was included, and the midweeks have it dropping straight out of the top 5.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rClUOdS5Zyw\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>1. \u00a0Jason Derulo &#8211; &#8220;Want to Want You&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Second week at number 1, and while I don&#8217;t greatly care\u00a0for the record, I&#8217;m at least pleased to see the year&#8217;s unusually slow turnover of number 1s continuing after all. \u00a0We&#8217;re nearly halfway through the year and only Years &amp; Years spent a single week at number one.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful&#8221; by Florence + The Machine<\/strong> at 1. \u00a0Her third number 1 album. \u00a0&#8220;Lungs&#8221; re-enters at 18.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Act Two&#8221; by Collabro<\/strong> at 2. \u00a0A\u00a0musical theatre &#8220;boy band&#8221; from the House of Cowell, and not, as the name might suggest, a social network for bros. \u00a0It&#8217;s their second album, and if you&#8217;re looking for nice boys in suits singing covers ranging from\u00a0<em>Les Mis<\/em> songs through to the theme from\u00a0<em>Friends<\/em>, this is for you. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/iX5fyNvNOuk\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;A Thousand Years&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;In Colour&#8221; by Jamie xx\u00a0<\/strong>at 3. \u00a0Debut solo album from\u00a0the production guy\u00a0from the xx. \u00a0Single:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/TP9luRtEqjc\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Loud Places&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Big Love&#8221; by Simply Red<\/strong> at 4. \u00a0Their first\u00a0album of original material in 20 years, though they&#8217;ve fairly been churning out the covers since then. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qoEVRtVtxio\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Shine On&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Are You Satisfied?&#8221; by Slaves<\/strong> at 8. \u00a0Punk duo from Tunbridge Wells. \u00a0Better than that sounds. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VmtU-bLyReU\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Hunter&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Last\u00a0Of Our Kind&#8221; by The Darkness<\/strong> at 12. \u00a0Their second album since the original line-up re-formed in 2011. \u00a0They seem to be playing it a bit more straight these days. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UY7fZl9Rfn0\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Open Fire&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Everything Is 4&#8221; by Jason Derulo<\/strong> at 16. \u00a0Not an albums act, obviously. \u00a0The single is at number 1.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Peace Is The Mission&#8221; by Major Lazer<\/strong> at 25. \u00a0&#8220;Lean On&#8221; is still\u00a0in the top 10, currently at number 4.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Currency Of Man&#8221; by Melody Gardot<\/strong> at 31. \u00a0Gardot&#8217;s previous two albums made the top 20, so this is a bit disappointing. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gOwoE8XtPFU\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Preacherman&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Before We Forgot How To Dream&#8221; by SOAK<\/strong> at 37. \u00a0Folksy singer-songwriter from Derry. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yt_juevz9Qg\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;B a noBody&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A busy week on the album chart; another largely dead one for the singles. \u00a0The addition of streaming data really seems to be\u00a0helping to slow down the charts, for better or worse &#8211; 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