{"id":3495,"date":"2016-08-01T16:52:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T15:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2016-08-01T16:53:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T15:53:12","slug":"charts-29-july-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3495","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 29 July 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last time, Drake&#8217;s &#8220;One Dance&#8221; had\u00a0reached its fifteenth week at number one, just one week short of matching the all-time record held by Bryan Adams. \u00a0And&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Major Lazer featuring Justin Bieber &amp; M\u00d8 &#8211; &#8220;Cold Water&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a59gmGkq_pw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;it&#8217;s a bit of an anticlimax. \u00a0Because as I also pointed out last time, Drake only made it to fifteen weeks thanks to the boost from cutting the price on iTunes. \u00a0That was always going to make sixteen weeks a struggle, and so after all that time at number one,\u00a0&#8220;One Dance&#8221; drops straight to number five.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Which means the way would have been clear for pretty much anything. \u00a0In fact, we do have a relatively major release this week &#8211; which is lucky, as the chart is otherwise becalmed. \u00a0New entries in the top ten have become a rarity in the streaming era, but it can still be done &#8211; &#8220;Cold Water&#8221; tops both the sales and streaming charts with notional combined sales of 102K. \u00a0That would have been enough to dethrone Drake at any point since the start of June, and largely tends to confirm the theory that a major factor behind the length of his run was, quite simply, a dearth of competition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cold Water&#8221; is the lead single from the next Major Lazer album, and it&#8217;s their first number one &#8211; though they did get to number two with &#8220;Lean On&#8221; in March 2015, which also had M\u00d8 as a guest singer. \u00a0There&#8217;s not much of her on this track, though, and most of the credit for getting it straight to number one probably goes to Justin Bieber; we established his level of support among streaming listeners at the back end of last year when &#8220;What Do You Mean&#8221;, &#8220;Sorry&#8221; and &#8220;Love Yourself&#8221; reached number one\u00a0in quick succession. \u00a0That&#8217;s a level of chart success he&#8217;s only really achieved since the decision\u00a0to include\u00a0streams.<\/p>\n<p>It can&#8217;t hurt that this is also an Ed Sheeran song, and his audience is pretty well suited to the current charts as well. \u00a0It&#8217;s not an especially good Ed Sheeran song\u00a0&#8211; it&#8217;s got some of his recognisable flourishes but you can well see why he isn&#8217;t releasing it himself, and it was probably best palmed off on somebody who could bang a bit of a pop sheen on it. \u00a0The end result lands firmly in the realms of &#8220;okay&#8221;; it&#8217;s not the best record that anyone involved has made, and it&#8217;s not even the best M\u00d8 single currently in the top 40, but it&#8217;s a decent enough summer single with a couple of big names involved, which makes it number one without much challenge.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q31tGyBJhRY\">3. \u00a0Calum Scott &#8211; &#8220;Dancing On My Own&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s only one other new entry this week &#8211; we&#8217;ll come to it in a bit &#8211; but the chart does at least have a few climbers. \u00a0Most of them aren&#8217;t climbing by\u00a0<em>much<\/em>, admittedly, but there it is. \u00a0Calum Scott edges up one more place, continuing the slow climb that started at number 40 back in April.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lY2yjAdbvdQ\">6. \u00a0Shawn Mendes &#8211; &#8220;Treat You Better&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Climbing another 3.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/n49qi-dU9IE\">9. \u00a0Kent Jones &#8211; &#8220;Don&#8217;t Mind&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And climbing another one place, after two weeks locked at number ten. \u00a0All fairly uneventful.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZWCB3hpJDXM\" target=\"_blank\">15. \u00a0Bastille &#8211; &#8220;Good Grief&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a bit more significant &#8211; after five weeks hovering between 24 and 29, &#8220;Good Grief&#8221; suddenly jumps nine places into the top twenty. \u00a0No idea why,\u00a0but it&#8217;s relatively unusual for indie acts (to the extent that Bastille qualify for that description) to\u00a0slow-build like this, so it&#8217;s worth noting.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WUcXQ--yGWQ\" target=\"_blank\">17. \u00a0M\u00d8 &#8211; &#8220;Final Song&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The other and better M\u00d8 song edges up another 2. \u00a0Not to be confused with&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>25. \u00a0M.O. &#8211; &#8220;Who Do You Think Of&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WY6b7bjMt1Q\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;who are supposed to be M.O. as in Modus Operandi. \u00a0As I\u00a0mentioned last week, this\u00a0bunch have been around for years, starting in girl bands that never got off the ground. \u00a0Persistence really is paying off here, as this is the highest climber, up 10 places from last week. \u00a0The single&#8217;s\u00a0not bad at all,\u00a0and maybe they really can drive it further up the chart from here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9RBzsjga73s\"><strong>27. \u00a0Christine &amp; The Queens &#8211; &#8220;Tilted&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another slow burner I wouldn&#8217;t have predicted &#8211; this French synthpop track has now moved 40-42-40-29-27.<\/p>\n<p><strong>28. \u00a0Charlie Puth featuring Selena Gomez &#8211; &#8220;We Don&#8217;t Talk Anymore&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i_yLpCLMaKk\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This entered two weeks ago at number 30 and now edges up a couple of places. \u00a0It still doesn&#8217;t have an official video, but they&#8217;ve stuck a live performance on YouTube. \u00a0Gomez is still competing with her own single &#8220;Kill Em With Kindness&#8221;, which\u00a0bounces back to 36 this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>32. \u00a0Anne-Marie &#8211; &#8220;Alarm&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r3RXHOTMmLw\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The only other new entry this week. \u00a0It&#8217;s the debut hit for Anne-Marie Nicholson, who&#8217;s probably best known for working with Rudimental, though they used guest star singers for most of their big hits. \u00a0She\u00a0<em>did<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r0H7Ezsa69s\" target=\"_blank\">33. \u00a0Snakehips featuring Zayn &#8211; &#8220;Cruel&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Up\u00a0five places from last week, so it&#8217;s alive. \u00a0Still pretty weak for a One Direction solo single, though.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart, really not much going on at all.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;All Over The World &#8211; The Very Best of ELO&#8221;<\/strong> is number 1,\u00a0eleven years after it came out, because Jeff Lynne is touring right now. \u00a0That&#8217;s the 2016 albums market for you.\u00a0 It re-entered the top 10 at the end of June and it&#8217;s been hanging around ever since. \u00a0Randomly selected video: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1jUvhJ_Tgzw\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Confusion&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Red Earth &amp; Pouring Rain&#8221; by Bear&#8217;s Den<\/strong> at 6. \u00a0They&#8217;re from London and they&#8217;re loosely associated with Mumford &amp; Sons. \u00a0This is their second album, but the first didn&#8217;t chart. \u00a0Single:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/U2tdBAcxbBA\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Auld Wives&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Warm on a Cold Night&#8221; 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