{"id":3265,"date":"2015-11-27T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2015-11-27T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T22:04:00","slug":"charts-november-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3265","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; November 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, let&#8217;s get this\u00a0month&#8217;s chart post out promptly! \u00a0Um&#8230; new\u00a0<em>Watch With Father<\/em> post probably over the weekend or early next week, \u00a0and some sort of state of the X-books\u00a0type thing\u00a0maybe in the pipeline too. \u00a0I know.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, hope you like the words &#8220;Justin Bieber&#8221;, because they&#8217;re going to be cropping up a lot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6 November 2015: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YQHsXMglC9A\" target=\"_blank\">Adele, &#8220;Hello&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A second week\u00a0at number one, and this is a juggernaut of a record. \u00a0Justin Bieber, stuck at number two for the second week, would normally have walked it to number one with his\u00a0sales of 48,000\u00a0and\u00a0his 4.41m streams. \u00a0But\u00a0Adele\u00a0shifted 121,000 and had streams of 5.78 million. \u00a0Nobody was going to match that. \u00a0And nobody really tried, with the highest new entry coming down at 10 for\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Focus&#8221; by Ariana Grande<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lf_wVfwpfp8?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Pleasant enough, I guess, but it&#8217;s a lot of production bells and whistles (and some neat brass hooks) trying to liven up a pretty average song. \u00a0Grande is in an odd position in the UK market &#8211;\u00a0she had two number 1 hits last year, but both come with an asterisk. \u00a0&#8220;Problem&#8221; had Iggy Azalea on it, and &#8220;Bang Bang&#8221; had Jessie J and\u00a0Nicki Minaj, all of whom have more consistent chart records than Grande does. \u00a0Without the big name stars, she&#8217;s never previously made it above number 16. \u00a0So in that sense, I guess she&#8217;s moving in the right direction. \u00a0This is the lead single from her next album, and the uncredited\u00a0male voice is Jamie Foxx. \u00a0It was outside the top 20 after four weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Also this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ilw-qmqZ5zY\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Reality&#8221; by Lost Frequencies and Janieck Devy<\/a><\/strong> at 29&#8230; oh, and that&#8217;s it. \u00a0Quiet week. \u00a0Lost Frequencies is the Belgian producer who had a number 1 with &#8220;Are\u00a0You With Me&#8221; in July. \u00a0That was a remix of a country track, and\u00a0this is\u00a0more of the same, except with an original song. \u00a0It dropped out of the top 100 after three weeks, but hey, at least it scores him off the one-hit wonder list. \u00a0Janieck Devy is a Dutch\u00a0singer and actor. \u00a0YouTube\u00a0brings up a surprising number of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cgwS8JPwzVA\" target=\"_blank\">live performances from the Dutch media circuit<\/a>,\u00a0which\u00a0is all very well if you&#8217;re the bloke with the guitar, but\u00a0requires a lot of gamely swaying from side to side from the producer himself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>13 November 2005: Adele, &#8220;Hello&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An entirely unsurprising third week\u00a0for Adele, with Bieber remaining stuck at 2. \u00a0The highest new entry &#8211; and boy, there\u00a0were loads\u00a0this week &#8211; is\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Sax&#8221; by Fleur East<\/strong> at 3.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UBRH4mFODwM?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fleur East was the runner-up in\u00a0last year&#8217;s\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> (and a member of a girl band who got eliminated in the first week back in\u00a0series 2). \u00a0As is the norm, she got signed anyway, and this is her first\u00a0single as a member of the\u00a0Cowell Empire. \u00a0It&#8217;s still in the top 5. \u00a0You might recall that last year&#8217;s actual winner, Ben\u00a0Haenow, could only get to number 21 with his single last month. \u00a0At least that track\u00a0managed five weeks in the top 40, but it&#8217;s pretty clear who the priority act is here.<\/p>\n<p>Unusually for an\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em>\u00a0act, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6Xm_5eIxJL0\" target=\"_blank\">she has some\u00a0prior\u00a0professional releases to her credit<\/a>, from a short stint signed to Strictly Rhythm in 2012. \u00a0\u00a0But that&#8217;s probably where the state of the unsigned talent pool has got to, twelve series in. \u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> is now\u00a0in the odd phase of its history where everyone knows that it&#8217;s in terminal decline, but it&#8217;s still big enough to merit its place in\u00a0the prime time line-up. \u00a0ITV recently picked up the rights to\u00a0<em>The Voice<\/em>, which\u00a0has never really worked on the BBC, but might have a better run without\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> around.<\/p>\n<p>Also this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/&lt;iframe width=&quot;400&quot; height=&quot;225&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0-hy92f00EE?rel=0&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;In2&#8221; by WSTRN<\/a><\/strong> at 4. \u00a0Trio from West London,\u00a0hence the name. \u00a0Debut single. \u00a0Not bad, actually.<\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/&lt;iframe width=&quot;400&quot; height=&quot;225&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SYKU7DfEJT4?rel=0&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Half the World Away&#8221; by Aurora<\/a><\/b>\u00a0at 11. \u00a0It&#8217;s November &#8211; it must be time for <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wuz2ILq4UeA\" target=\"_blank\">the\u00a0John Lewis Christmas Advert<\/a>\u00a0and its cover version soundtrack! \u00a0Aurora\u00a0is a teenager from Norway, and has no connection with the\u00a0dance act\u00a0of the same name that had four hits at the turn of the century, including a\u00a0number 5 cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FA39yqwnX98\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Ordinary World&#8221;<\/a>.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Tiqxn3iOmxY\" target=\"_blank\">The original of\u00a0&#8220;Half the World Away&#8221;<\/a> is the B-side to Oasis&#8217;s 1994 single &#8220;Whatever&#8221;; it&#8217;s now best known as the theme tune \u00a0to\u00a0the sitcom\u00a0<em>The Royle<\/em> <em>Family<\/em>.<em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>This\u00a0one is already nearly out of the top 40.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UsrpTrQ1x5Y\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Adventure of a Lifetime&#8221; by Coldplay<\/a><\/strong> at 14. \u00a0This is the lead single from\u00a0the next Coldplay album, and apparently they&#8217;ve been listening to a bit of Daft Punk. \u00a0Only a bit, though. \u00a0Number 14 might\u00a0seem\u00a0low, but\u00a0they&#8217;re an albums act now &#8211; the singles from the last album all clustered around here too.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KcNsCfAql2I\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Take Me Home&#8221; by Jess Glynne<\/a><\/strong> at 20. \u00a0This is the fifth single from her album, but it was\u00a0\u00a0released as a charity single for the BBC&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Children in Need<\/em>\u00a0appeal, which led to it jumping to 6 in its second week out.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PfGaX8G0f2E\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I&#8217;ll Show You&#8221; by Justin Bieber<\/a><\/strong> at 32. \u00a0A promotional single for the album, which came out the following week &#8211; more of that in a moment. \u00a0It climbed to 15 the following week. \u00a0The video\u00a0is simply Justin Bieber wandering around Iceland. \u00a0It also answers the question &#8220;What&#8217;s Dappy&#8217;s stylist up to these days?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xm2flv1cbRc\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;History&#8221; by One Direction<\/a><\/strong> at 37. \u00a0Album track, but it&#8217;s a track they&#8217;ve been doing on TV shows to promote the album. \u00a0It&#8217;s a fairly obvious &#8220;goodbye, fans&#8221; number.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>20 November 2015: Justin Bieber, &#8220;Sorry&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fRh_vgS2dFE?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After spending three weeks locked at number 2 behind Adele, Bieber\u00a0finally edged her out in streams, and made it to\u00a0the top. \u00a0Five years after he first charted, he got\u00a0his first two number ones\u00a0within two months of each other. \u00a0Partly, it&#8217;s that\u00a0he always had a big streaming audience and the change in chart methodology helps him. \u00a0But partly, his reinvention as a post-teen act has simply worked, and broadened his appeal. \u00a0His records used to flare out after all his fans bought them in week one; now he&#8217;s hanging on\u00a0behind Adele for a month.<\/p>\n<p>The album &#8220;Purpose&#8221; came out in this\u00a0week, and arguably becomes the first album of the streaming era to break the singles chart. \u00a0Three tracks from the album were already on the chart: there&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;Sorry&#8221;; there&#8217;s his\u00a0previous number 1 &#8220;What Do You Mean&#8221;, which is still\u00a0sitting at 5; and there&#8217;s &#8220;I&#8217;ll Show You&#8221;, climbing to 15. \u00a0They&#8217;re now joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/oyEuk8j8imI\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Love Yourself&#8221;<\/a> at 3, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/neSv8fjmDB0\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Company&#8221;<\/a> at 32, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kjUQjq1CBi0\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Mark My Words&#8221;<\/a> at 35, and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qYj4l5Xntt0\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Feeling&#8221;<\/a> at 38. \u00a0And &#8220;Where Are U Now&#8221; re-enters at 33.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s eight\u00a0singles on the top 40 at the same time. \u00a0The\u00a0record is 13,\u00a0but that was Michael Jackson after he died. \u00a0The last\u00a0<em>living<\/em> act to come close to\u00a0this was Elvis Presley, who managed to get seven different singles into the top 30\u00a0during one week in 1957. \u00a0(Would he have\u00a0beaten Bieber if the chart had gone down to 40 in those days? \u00a0Who knows?) \u00a0What&#8217;s more,\u00a0Bieber has three singles in the top 5, which hasn&#8217;t been done since 1981. \u00a0And again,\u00a0John Lennon had to die to do that.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously,\u00a0this doesn&#8217;t mean that Justin\u00a0Bieber has suddenly become an act on the par with a recently\u00a0deceased\u00a0Beatle. \u00a0The main reason so few artists have done this\u00a0is that record companies used to try to avoid it, by deleting earlier singles in order to avoid distracting from later ones. \u00a0So it&#8217;s only in the download era that this sort of scenario has\u00a0become possible again. \u00a0But that still goes back a good few years now, and we&#8217;ve not seen anything like this.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps because some of the audience was fractured into downloading\u00a0and streaming individual\u00a0tracks, the album itself actually enters at number 2. \u00a0Funny, that. \u00a0The other new entries from this week&#8217;s chart:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vKiRgcbB6sQ\" target=\"_blank\">Chunky&#8221; by Format:B<\/a><\/strong> at 29. \u00a0German dance record. \u00a0The sample is from\u00a0Huey Lewis &amp;\u00a0The News.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wf_ySBlZjKw\" target=\"_blank\">Eyes Shut&#8221; by Years &amp; Years<\/a><\/strong> at 40. \u00a0A remarkably slow start, given that their previous two singles got to 1 and 2. \u00a0It climbed the following week, but only to 32.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>27 November 2015: Justin Bieber, &#8220;Sorry&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A second week at number 1, and a fifth in the top two. \u00a0Meanwhile, &#8220;Love Yourself&#8221; climbs to 2, making Justin Bieber the first act to have concurrent number 1 and 2 singles since Madonna did it with &#8220;Into the Groove&#8221; and &#8220;Holiday&#8221; in 1985. \u00a0Oh, and album track &#8220;No Pressure&#8221; climbs from 42 to 38 to break the record he set last week and bring his total of concurrent chart hits to 9. \u00a0Meanwhile,\u00a0this week&#8217;s highest new entry is <b>&#8220;Over and Over&#8221; by Nathan Sykes<\/b> at 8.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7eiv5aElMZs?rel=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nathan Sykes was\u00a0a member of always-the-bridesmaid boy band The Wanted. \u00a0This\u00a0entirely pleasant piano ballad is his second solo single, following &#8220;Kiss Me Quick&#8221;, which got\u00a0his solo career off to an\u00a0unpromising start by entering at 14 and vanishing after a week. \u00a0This time he had the advantage of promoting it on\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em>,\u00a0but it&#8217;s also just a better single.<\/p>\n<p>Just one other new entry this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DDWKuo3gXMQ\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;When We Were Young&#8221; by Adele<\/a><\/strong> at 29. \u00a0It&#8217;s an album track, but it&#8217;s the one she&#8217;s been doing on TV, and there&#8217;s a live video\u00a0for it, so there you go.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, let&#8217;s get this\u00a0month&#8217;s chart post out promptly! \u00a0Um&#8230; new\u00a0Watch With Father post probably over the weekend or early next week, \u00a0and some sort of state of the X-books\u00a0type thing\u00a0maybe in the pipeline too. \u00a0I know. Meanwhile, hope you like the words &#8220;Justin Bieber&#8221;, because they&#8217;re going to be cropping up a lot. 6 November [&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-3265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265","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=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3276,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions\/3276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}