{"id":3123,"date":"2015-08-03T20:31:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T19:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2015-08-04T22:41:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T21:41:18","slug":"charts-31-july-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3123","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 31 July 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a podcast weekend, so check one post down for the latest episode (or, if you prefer, two posts down for another Chikara show). \u00a0Meanwhile,\u00a0the singles chart remains pretty quiet, though this looks to be the latest week in that vein.<\/p>\n<p><strong>29. \u00a0Disclosure featuring Sam Smith &#8211; &#8220;Omen&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fB63ztKnGvo?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This is the\u00a0second single from Disclosure&#8217;s upcoming\u00a0album &#8211; the first was &#8220;Holding On&#8221;, which surprisingly missed the top 40 entirely. \u00a0So here&#8217;s one with Sam Smith on it. \u00a0And it&#8217;s\u00a0pretty good, actually; Smith&#8217;s voice seems like a better fit for\u00a0this sort of material than it often does for\u00a0his own records. \u00a0Smith previously appeared\u00a0with\u00a0Disclosure on\u00a0&#8220;Latch&#8221;, which made number 11\u00a0in 2012, back at the start of both their careers. \u00a0It&#8217;s charting at this stage on streaming alone, so\u00a0it&#8217;ll climb next week when it has actual sales to add.<\/p>\n<p><strong>28. \u00a0Aston Merrygold &#8211; &#8220;Get Stupid&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uIJDD1Cldgc?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was bound to happen &#8211; one of JLS tries for a solo career. \u00a0Yes, Marvin\u00a0Humes is a member of LuvBug, but that was an attempt to subsume himself into an anonymous group, rather the the usual boy band solo approach.<\/p>\n<p>And it turns out that\u00a0the world\u00a0was not on tenterhooks for a solo single by one of JLS; number 28 is not great, and the midweeks show it on course to drop straight out of the top 40. \u00a0Besides,\u00a0something about this track doesn&#8217;t quite work; it&#8217;s trying for Mark Ronson, I guess, but feels a bit tinny.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25. \u00a0Foxes &#8211; &#8220;Body Talk&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VAerYplzZUE?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The lead single from Foxes&#8217; second album. \u00a0It&#8217;s good &#8211; Foxes does the 80s synthpop thing as an influence rather than a template, and makes the sort of record that they love on certain pop blogs. \u00a0But after her previous album got her into the top 20 three times, a number 25 debut is\u00a0backsliding badly. \u00a0This is an under-performer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>17. \u00a0The Weeknd &#8211; &#8220;Can&#8217;t Feel My Face&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KEI4qSrkPAs?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This has moved 34-33-34-37-25-26-17 as the promotion starts to pick up, and it&#8217;s going further. \u00a0Its move up the chart coincides with the release of the video, so apparently they do\u00a0still make a difference. \u00a0As for the actual content of the video, it&#8217;s basically\u00a0&#8220;Rock DJ&#8221; but\u00a0taken terribly seriously. \u00a0There was a time when if you made a video where you set yourself on fire (don&#8217;t worry, kids, not really), you&#8217;d be doing it for the\u00a0faux-controversy of getting your video banned from daytime TV. \u00a0In the YouTube era, these considerations no longer hold, so I\u00a0guess he just likes being on fire.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. \u00a0Sigma featuring Ella Henderson &#8211; &#8220;Glitterball&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DQF5aHVOW5s?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s highest new entry, which cements Sigma&#8217;s place as the Tesco Value Rudimental. \u00a0Sigma, you might recall, are the producers who got to number 1\u00a0last year with &#8220;Nobody To Love&#8221;, which was basically a bootleg remix of the radio-friendly bit from Kanye West&#8217;s &#8220;Bound 2&#8221;. \u00a0The follow-up &#8220;Changing&#8221;, with Paloma Faith, also got to number 1, and &#8220;Higher&#8221;, featuring Labrinth, got to number 12. \u00a0Now we have Ella Henderson lending her voice to one of their tracks. \u00a0The odd thing is that Sigma aren&#8217;t actually credited with\u00a0<em>writing<\/em> any of these\u00a0songs, so from the look of it they&#8217;re really just adding a fairly generic drum and bass production to the work of outside\u00a0songwriters. \u00a0But the midweeks have it climbing, so the formula works.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Little Mix &#8211; &#8220;Black Magic&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Third week. \u00a0It won&#8217;t manage\u00a0a fourth, One Direction have got a new single out.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Born in the Echoes&#8221; by\u00a0the Chemical Brothers<\/strong> at 1. \u00a0Every Chemical Brothers studio album has made number 1, except for their debut &#8220;Exit Planet Dust&#8221; back in 1995. \u00a0Like many bands of that vintage, they no longer need trouble themselves with hit singles. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/LO2RPDZkY88\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Go&#8221;<\/a>. \u00a0(It&#8217;s a Michel Gondry video, so worth a look.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;VII: Sturm und Drang&#8221; by Lamb of God<\/strong> at 7. \u00a0The highest they&#8217;ve ever got in the UK. \u00a0By some counts it&#8217;s\u00a0actually their eighth studio album, depending on whether you\u00a0count the first one, which they released under the name Burn The Priest. \u00a0(They don&#8217;t, obviously.) \u00a0Disappointingly mellow single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RNRsvFsY9qk\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Overlord&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;Walk With Me&#8221; by Bugzy Malone<\/b> at 8. \u00a0 Rapper\u00a0from Manchester, debut album. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RR8-b6pftEA\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Watch Your Mouth&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Amused to Death&#8221; by Roger Waters<\/strong> at 10. \u00a0Remastered reissue of\u00a0an album originally released in 1992. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YRWRRBX3TB0\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;What God Wants, Pt I&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Key Markets&#8221; by Sleaford Mods<\/strong> at 11. \u00a0Eight albums and eight years in, Sleaford Mods suddenly appear in the chart for the first time at number 11. \u00a0You couldn&#8217;t call this a commercial turn: see single <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/E-gvxxhcS8s\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Tarantula Deadly Cargo&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Shockwave Supernova&#8221; by Joe Satriani<\/strong> at 22. \u00a0His 15th studio album, and the first to make the top 40 since 1998. \u00a0Another case of the decline of the album market favouring the veterans. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/c_6qqyS2jRw\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;On Peregrine Wings&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a podcast weekend, so check one post down for the latest episode (or, if you prefer, two posts down for another Chikara show). \u00a0Meanwhile,\u00a0the singles chart remains pretty quiet, though this looks to be the latest week in that vein. 29. \u00a0Disclosure featuring Sam Smith &#8211; 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