{"id":3221,"date":"2015-11-04T21:28:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T21:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2015-11-04T21:28:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T21:28:57","slug":"charts-october-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3221","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; October 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five weeks. \u00a0Some of them very quiet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 October 2015: Sam Smith, &#8220;Writing&#8217;s On The Wall&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8jzDnsjYv9A?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This is, of course, the theme tune from the upcoming\u00a0Bond film\u00a0<em>Spectre<\/em>. \u00a0It&#8217;s Smith&#8217;s fifth number one in\u00a0a little over two years &#8211; the others are &#8220;La La La&#8221;, &#8220;Money on\u00a0my Mind&#8221;,\u00a0&#8220;Stay With Me&#8221;, and the charity single &#8220;Lay me Down&#8221;. \u00a0But it&#8217;s the first Bond theme to make number one, a piece of minor trivia that\u00a0gets some people unaccountably excited, even though most Bond themes make little impact on the chart. \u00a0There have been exceptions, and a couple of previous themes got to number 2 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7HKoqNJtMTQ\" target=\"_blank\">Adele&#8217;s &#8220;Skyfall&#8221;<\/a> in 2012, and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JXjnwXUN1Mg\" target=\"_blank\">Duran Duran&#8217;s &#8220;A View to a Kill&#8221;<\/a> in 1985.<\/p>\n<p>The general consensus is that it&#8217;s pretty middling &#8211; a largely forgettable song with some John Barry-isms nailed on. \u00a0Oddly, it\u00a0has a production credit for Disclosure, who are way out of their wheelhouse with this. \u00a0It makes number 1 in part through lack of competition, and it dropped to in its second week out. \u00a0By comparison, &#8220;Skyfall&#8221;\u00a0peaked in its second week behind <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1y6smkh6c-0\" target=\"_blank\">Swedish House Mafia&#8217;s farewell single<\/a> (its\u00a0first week\u00a0chart position was hurt by a midweek\u00a0release), and &#8220;View to a Kill&#8221; would undoubtedly have been a number 1 hit if hadn&#8217;t run into\u00a0the zeitgeist juggernaut of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b3LdMAqUMnM\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Hardcastle&#8217;s &#8220;19&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also that week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vl2a5tqFWUo\" target=\"_blank\">Rudimental featuring Ed Sheeran, &#8220;Lay It All On Me&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> at 16. \u00a0Rudimental\u00a0and Sheeran\u00a0previously collaborated on the\u00a0single mix of his song &#8220;Bloodstream&#8221;, which got to number 2 last year. \u00a0This is\u00a0more of a trailer for Rudimental&#8217;s next album, with no video, which might explain why it comes in so much further down. \u00a0Unusually, it&#8217;s hovered in the teens for five weeks now.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/i8JZyFh2dy8\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Brewer featuring Bibi Bourelly, &#8220;Talk to Me&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> at 19. \u00a0Chart debut for both. \u00a0Brewer is a rapper from Essex. \u00a0Bourelly has a co-writing credit on\u00a0&#8220;Bitch Better\u00a0Have My Money&#8221;. \u00a0The hook is from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_KztNIg4cvE\" target=\"_blank\">Crystal Waters&#8217; &#8220;Gypsy Woman&#8221;<\/a>, a number 2 hit from 1991. \u00a0It&#8217;s\u00a0one of the most recognisable dance records of its era, but its era was\u00a0nearly a quarter century ago now, so it&#8217;s fair game for sampling. The track dropped out of the top 40 after three weeks.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1WpoKRnoPRU\" target=\"_blank\">Little Mix, &#8220;Love Me Like You&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> at 21. \u00a0This is also available as an instant grat track from pre-ordering the album, which\u00a0might have split the sales. \u00a0Either that or it&#8217;s a flop. \u00a0It&#8217;s a 60s\u00a0girl group pastiche, but the\u00a0production is a bit half-hearted about it. \u00a0It dropped to 30 in its second week out and it&#8217;s been hovering around that point ever since.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fhshMjRNhs0\" target=\"_blank\">Sia, &#8220;Alive&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> at 30. \u00a0This is the lead single from Sia&#8217;s next album, but it didn&#8217;t have a video at the time of release, so I assume they&#8217;re doing a soft launch. \u00a0It dropped straight out of the top 40 after one week, so that went well. \u00a0There&#8217;s a &#8220;lyric video&#8221; now, though it&#8217;s bordering on a full scale affair.\u00a0 The song was written with Adele for\u00a0<em>her<\/em> upcoming album, but didn&#8217;t make the cut. \u00a0Rihanna didn&#8217;t want it either. \u00a0So Sia&#8217;s putting it out herself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DK_0jXPuIr0\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>9 October 2015: Justin Bieber, &#8220;What Do You<\/strong> <strong>Mean&#8221;.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is very unexpected. \u00a0The Vamps were number 1 in the midweeks, but they turn out to be even more of a fanbase act than people already thought they were, so their sales tanked after the start of the week. \u00a0So Justin Bieber returns to number 1 for a third run, and a fourth week in total. \u00a0Returning to number 1 is unusual; doing it twice in one run is almost unknown. \u00a0Three previous records have done it &#8211; &#8220;Happy&#8221; by Pharrell Williams (in 2014), &#8220;I Believe&#8221; by Frankie Laine (which was number 1 for a total of 18 weeks in 1953), and &#8220;Singing the Blues&#8221; by Guy Mitchell (in 1956, but with an asterisk, because its\u00a0third run was a tie with &#8220;The Garden of Eden&#8221; by Frankie Vaughan).<\/p>\n<p>More important, though, is the fact that Bieber is number 1 on\u00a0the strength of\u00a0streaming, and in a big way. \u00a0In\u00a0pure sales terms, he wouldn&#8217;t even have\u00a0been in the top 5. \u00a0Admittedly, the top end of the chart was\u00a0unusually tight, but even so, this looks a lot like a tipping point in the shift from sales to streams.<\/p>\n<p>So. \u00a0The highest new entry this week was\u00a0<strong>Philip George &amp; Anton Powers, &#8220;Alone No More&#8221;<\/strong>, at 4.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/suubZERJafc?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the follow-up to &#8220;Wish You Were Mine&#8221;, which made number 2 for George in January. \u00a0Powers is another producer; no idea who the\u00a0singer is. \u00a0It&#8217;s an unlikely cover version of <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/avl14kvAxDM\">&#8220;Be Alone No More&#8221;<\/a>, which reached number 6\u00a0in 1998 for the boy band Another Level. \u00a0The single\u00a0remix featuring a guest verse by Jay-Z, back when he wasn&#8217;t a megastar, and still had a hyphen. \u00a0(It&#8217;s at about two minutes in, and you can practically hear him glancing at his watch and thinking about lunch.)<\/p>\n<p>Also that week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/e12KryuLcbs\">The Vamps, &#8220;Wake Up&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> at 12. \u00a0\u00a0The lead single from their second album. The first\u00a0had five top ten hits. \u00a0This was number 1 in the midweeks. \u00a0But the shift to streaming has not been kind to acts whose appeal is limited to\u00a0a devoted fanbase. \u00a0A big chunk of its sales, unusually, comes from a CD single\u00a0expressly promoted as a fan collectible. \u00a0It dropped straight out of the top 40 in\u00a0its second week.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xCKxfxvJ9YE\">Natalie La Rose featuring Fetty Wap, &#8220;Around The World&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> at 14. \u00a0Follow up to &#8220;Somebody&#8221;, which reached number 2 in June. \u00a0Dropped to 40\u00a0the second week, so it&#8217;s a misfire. \u00a0Third hit this year for Fetty Wap, though.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GTyN-DB_v5M\">MNEK\u00a0&amp; Zara Larsson, &#8220;Never Forget You&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> at 32. \u00a0This is pretty good, actually. \u00a0It&#8217;s a slow-burner which had been floating outside the top 40 for three weeks, and has since climbed glacially to 11. \u00a0MNEK\u00a0guested on Gorgon City&#8217;s &#8220;Ready for Your Love&#8221; (number 4 in 2014) but hasn&#8217;t had a significant follow-up until now. \u00a0Larsson is a star in Sweden, where this was her\u00a0third number one. \u00a0She also won\u00a0<em>Sweden&#8217;s Got Talent<\/em>\u00a0(well,\u00a0<em>Taleng Sverige<\/em>) back in 2008, but that was a few years before she started having hits.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Y-lI_tgQMMk\">Jamie Lawson, &#8220;Wasn&#8217;t Expecting That&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> at 40. \u00a0Lawson\u00a0is a singer-songwriter from Plymouth, now on his fourth album, but newly endorsed by Ed Sheeran, who he sounds an awful lot like. \u00a0This song is actually back catalogue material,\u00a0which already got to number 3 in Ireland four years ago. \u00a0It vaulted into the top ten in its second week, and remains there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>16 October 2015:\u00a0<\/strong>Justin Bieber\u00a0remains number 1 (still on streams). \u00a0The\u00a0highest new entry &#8211; just, because Lawson leapfrogged from 40 to 6 &#8211; is\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Kiss Me&#8221; by Olly Murs<\/strong>, way down at 16.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K9OkpEK8GbE?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is\u00a0the bonus track single for the &#8220;special edition&#8221; of his last album. \u00a0 Derivative mid-paced 80s schlock. \u00a0Taio Cruz has a co-writing credit on it, which is pretty much the most interesting thing to be said about it, for a generous definition of &#8220;interesting&#8221;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kjzO4rTb2Xo\">The 1975, &#8220;Love Me&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> at 20 is the week&#8217;s only other new entry. \u00a0Lead single from their\u00a0upcoming second album &#8211; deep breath &#8211; &#8220;I Like It When You Sleep For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It&#8221;. \u00a0Their second-highest\u00a0chart position (after &#8220;Chocolate&#8221;, which got to 19 in 2013 and hung around for ten weeks). \u00a0The 1975 are a rare example these days of\u00a0an indie band that actually registers on the singles chart.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>23 October 2015: KDA featuring Tinie Tempah &amp; Katy B, &#8220;Turn The Music Louder (Rumble)&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vh44zE-hlL4?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bit of a one-week wonder, this &#8211; it dropped\u00a0to 6 in\u00a0its second week. \u00a0KDA is a DJ from London, and this is his first chart appearance. \u00a0The brackets in the title are a clue &#8211; this is <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cltRijif4mM\" target=\"_blank\">another of those instrumental dance tracks<\/a> that&#8217;s\u00a0been reissued with a vocal track to get it on pop radio. \u00a0It&#8217;s a pretty good fit, though, since the original hook was always a stone&#8217;s throw from Calvin Harris.<\/p>\n<p>This is Tinie Tempah&#8217;s fourth straight\u00a0number 1, following his guest appearances on &#8220;Tsunami&#8221; and &#8220;Crazy Stupid Love&#8221; in 2014, and his own &#8220;Not Letting Go&#8221; earlier this year. \u00a0In total, it&#8217;s his seventh number 1. \u00a0Katy B gets her first number 1, but she&#8217;s been having top 5 hits regularly since her debut in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Also that week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Ho32Oh6b4jc\" target=\"_blank\">One Direction, &#8220;Perfect&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>at 2. \u00a0A lyrically improbable attempt to portray themselves as bad boys. \u00a0The second single from their current album is a surprise runner-up to the dance record, but its own appeal seems limited, since it dropped to 9\u00a0the next week. \u00a0The international performance has been similar &#8211; lots of high chart placings, but\u00a0according to Wikipedia it&#8217;s only made number 1 in Ireland and Slovakia.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/71EnloViXmSKrQkrkaYFxF\" target=\"_blank\">Sleepy Tom &amp; Diplo, &#8220;Be Right There&#8221;<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0at 8. \u00a0Oddly, not available on YouTube in this country, so that&#8217;s a Spotify link. \u00a0Dropped to 15 the second week. \u00a0Sleepy Tom is a Canadian DJ making his first chart appearance. \u00a0Diplo is ubiquitous, with his previous hit (&#8220;Lean On&#8221;, as a member of Major Lazer) still hovering around\u00a0the 20s. \u00a0The\u00a0sample is from &#8220;Don&#8217;t Walk Away&#8221; a number 7 hit in 1993 for the R&amp;B trio\u00a0Jade.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zAnSr5N3c8E\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Haenow featuring Kelly Clarkson, &#8220;Second Hand Heart&#8221;<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0at 21. \u00a0This is the\u00a0guy who won\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> last year. \u00a0It&#8217;s\u00a0his first release since\u00a0his\u00a0coronation single &#8220;Something I Need&#8221; last year, and&#8230; yeah, well, 21. \u00a0Huh. \u00a0It&#8217;s climbing to 11 in the midweeks after he performed it on\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em>, but still. \u00a0Not promising.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IdneKLhsWOQ\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift, &#8220;Wildest Dreams&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> at 40. \u00a0Officially the fifth single from 1989, this has been floating around\u00a0the forties for weeks now and is finally edging its way into the chart. \u00a0They\u00a0<em>are<\/em> a long way into the promotional cycle for the album, and less-promoted Taylor Swift\u00a0tracks can sometimes get lost in the shuffle &#8211; &#8220;Welcome to New York&#8221; got to 39.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>30 October 2015: Adele, &#8220;Hello&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YQHsXMglC9A?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The first single from her upcoming third album. \u00a0It&#8217;s been four years since the last one, with the only new material in that time being &#8220;Skyfall&#8221; &#8211; which was three years ago. \u00a0No reinventing the wheel here\u00a0&#8211; it&#8217;s a\u00a0big dramatic ballad,\u00a0and\u00a0it showcases her voice. \u00a0But then Adele does have the knack of making a song sound like a classic.\u00a0\u00a0Looks like it&#8217;s going to hang around at the top for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Also that week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fRh_vgS2dFE\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Bieber, &#8220;Sorry&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> at 2. \u00a0That gives him two concurrent\u00a0top 10 hits, with &#8220;What Do You\u00a0Mean&#8221; still\u00a0in there after\u00a0nine weeks. \u00a0It&#8217;s a Skrillex production, but he&#8217;s really\u00a0mellowed from his bro-step days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five weeks. \u00a0Some of them very quiet. 2 October 2015: Sam Smith, &#8220;Writing&#8217;s On The Wall&#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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","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=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3257,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions\/3257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}