{"id":3547,"date":"2016-09-19T22:58:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T21:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3547"},"modified":"2016-09-19T22:58:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T21:58:01","slug":"charts-16-september-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3547","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 16 September 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a nice change &#8211; a couple of relatively high new entries by big names. \u00a0See, it still happens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PT2_F-1esPk\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>1. \u00a0The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey &#8211; &#8220;Closer&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s three weeks at number 1, and it heads a static top four. \u00a0But moving on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. \u00a0Sia featuring Kendrick Lamar &#8211; &#8220;The Greatest&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GKSRyLdjsPA\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->We don&#8217;t get new entries in the top 10 often these days, so that&#8217;s noteworthy to start with. \u00a0Okay,\u00a0technically it&#8217;s\u00a0a climber from number 49 (where it landed as a midweek\u00a0release), but it&#8217;s still new to the top 40.<\/p>\n<p>This is the lead single from\u00a0Sia&#8217;s next album, &#8220;This is Acting&#8221;, and it&#8217;s squarely in the territory that gives Sia her biggest hits &#8211; anthems about rising above some unspecified adversity. \u00a0It&#8217;s pretty much a stock theme for 21st century pop, and one that can often feel a bit too Oprah &#8211; a sort of blithe assurance that we&#8217;re going to win cos we&#8217;re awesome. \u00a0With\u00a0Sia&#8217;s best songs, there&#8217;s more of a sense of unresolved struggle to the whole thing, which gives it some emotional weight and sincerity without ever pinning it down too closely to anything in particular. \u00a0She has a knack of implying that there <em>is<\/em> something specific but unstated in mind.\u00a0 Plus\u00a0she writes a great chorus.<\/p>\n<p>Once again,\u00a0Maddie Ziegler acts as\u00a0Sia&#8217;s surrogate in the video, and gets to be the optimistic energy fighting to make itself heard in a bleak-looking world. \u00a0And ultimately losing, rather more definitively than usual in a Sia video. \u00a0 The conventional wisdom is that the\u00a0video is intended as a reference to the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting, which\u00a0seems like a plausible reading.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SXiSVQZLje8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>8. \u00a0Ariana Grande featuring Nicki Minaj &#8211; &#8220;Side to Side&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up 16 places, so it&#8217;s now Grande&#8217;s biggest hit of the year. \u00a0It also has\u00a0Nicki Minaj on it, which is no\u00a0coincidence. \u00a0Number 8 is the highest for a Nicki Minaj single since &#8220;Anaconda&#8221; two years ago, largely because almost everything she&#8217;s released since then has been a guest shot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>12. \u00a0Lady Gaga &#8211; &#8220;Perfect Illusion&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oB94lvJbETE\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lady Gaga\u00a0hasn&#8217;t released a single since 2013 (though she did put out a duets album with Tony Bennett the following year).\u00a0 Her imperial phase\u00a0was arguably confined to her first album, and certainly didn&#8217;t get beyond the second &#8211; the third single didn&#8217;t get anything above number 5. \u00a0Now we have her entering at number\u00a012 with her return single. \u00a0To be fair, it would have been number 5 on the sales charts, but that&#8217;s as much a reflection of her becoming a fanbase act as anything else. \u00a0That said, Lady Gaga singles do have a habit of hanging around, and number 12 is a pretty decent debut position by today&#8217;s standards. \u00a0The record has enough radio appeal that I can see it getting higher, but don&#8217;t be surprised if it falls back a bit first, when the fans have all bought a copy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25. \u00a0James Arthur &#8211; &#8220;Say You Won&#8217;t Let Go&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0yW7w8F2TVA\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the guy who won\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> in 2012 and\u00a0got dropped after one album, in part thanks to his staggering lack of common sense when opening his mouth in public. \u00a0Columbia have given him another\u00a0shot, though, so this is the comeback single that leads the promotion for his second album. \u00a0Clearly they think there might be some\u00a0potential with the Ed Sheeran market, and I can understand why &#8211; the single is surprisingly good if you like that sort of thing. \u00a0It looks likely to climb next week, and it seems Syco has\u00a0already moved in to declare that all is forgiven and he can come home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0ur7NitR654\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>29. \u00a0Offaiah &#8211; &#8220;Trouble&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only record on the chart to actually reach a new peak this weak, moving 31-29.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart,\u00a0we&#8217;re busy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Wild World&#8221; by Bastille<\/strong> at 1. \u00a0Their second studio album and their second number 1. \u00a0(They also released a record billed as a mixtape during the interim, which got to number 45. \u00a0Funny old world.) \u00a0The single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZWCB3hpJDXM\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Good Grief&#8221;<\/a> rebounds to 20.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Skeleton Tree&#8221; by Nick Cave &amp; The Bad Seeds<\/strong> at 2. \u00a0This is the album where Cave&#8217;s son died during recording; there&#8217;s an accompanying documentary, in lieu of a traditional promotional tour. \u00a0It&#8217;s their\u00a0highest chart placing (with album sixteen), though the\u00a0previous two albums also made the top 5.\u00a0\u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BAMZYpZi_M4\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I Need You&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Live at the Hollywood Bowl&#8221; by the Beatles<\/strong> at 3. \u00a0Tying in with a documentary, this is an expanded\u00a0version of a\u00a01967 concert which was already released as a live album in 1977 and got to number 1 then. \u00a0I was going to say it&#8217;s the Beatles so there&#8217;s nothing to link to, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/5XfJmldgWzrc1AIdbBaVZn\" target=\"_blank\">but it turns out\u00a0they&#8217;re on Spotify now<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Braver Than We Are&#8221; by Meat Loaf<\/strong> at 4. \u00a0It reunites him with Jim Steinman, so you know what you&#8217;re getting. \u00a0Number 4 is actually about standard for a Meat Loaf album this decade (and this is the third).\u00a0 Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/40UB5HQ7oBd7NXPywNKYd7\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Going All The Way&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Kin&#8221; by KT Tunstall<\/strong> at 7. \u00a0The last album\u00a0was her first to miss the top 10, so this is a bit more like it (especially in a big week for new releases). \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/P7OeOGmbF64\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Hard Girls&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;GLA&#8221; by Twin Atlantic<\/strong> at 9. \u00a0Their second top 10 album. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wcqeM4KLqok\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;No Sleep&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Here&#8221; by Teenage Fanclub<\/strong> at 10. \u00a0This seems like\u00a0another example of how the fading album market is (in chart placing, at least) favouring a certain type of veteran act whose fans still buy albums &#8211; and Teenage Fanclub have been around long enough <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/C_XYLJ7xaO8\" target=\"_blank\">to have made videos like this<\/a>. \u00a0Despite releasing an album every few years, Teenage Fanclub haven&#8217;t made the top 30 since 1997. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FDOLKSp2AWU\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I&#8217;m In Love&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Acoustic Recordings &#8211; 1998-2016&#8221; by Jack White<\/strong> at 12. \u00a0Compilation, which is self-explanatory save for the fact that it also includes some\u00a0tracks originally released under the White Stripes name. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7Osqnf_0jkk\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;City Lights&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Schmilco&#8221; by Wilco<\/strong> at 25. \u00a0Wilco\u00a0<em>have<\/em>\u00a0made the album chart before, but this is their first visit to the top 30. \u00a0Again, they have the sort of audience that still buys\u00a0albums. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ICacxeEUa90\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Someone to Lose&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Transcendence&#8221; by the Devin Townsend Project<\/strong>\u00a0at 26. \u00a0Townsend is a\u00a0Canadian rock musician\u00a0who&#8217;s been around for ages &#8211;\u00a0this is his 17th solo album &#8211; but he&#8217;s charting for the first time. \u00a0There don&#8217;t seem to be any\u00a0singles, but <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/3C3x7g8DmzmnXd6Busxugp\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s the album on Spotify<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Straight to DVD 2 &#8211;\u00a0Past Present &amp; Future&#8221; by All Time Low<\/strong> at 40. \u00a0It&#8217;s a live album. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3XjElTw6FJc\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Take Cover&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a nice change &#8211; 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