{"id":3612,"date":"2016-12-07T22:21:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T22:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3612"},"modified":"2016-12-07T22:21:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T22:21:27","slug":"charts-2-december-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3612","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 2 December 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d planned to get another X-Axis review up by now, but it&#8217;s going to be another day or two. \u00a0Anyway, it&#8217;ll be the previous\u00a0<em>Old Man Logan<\/em> arc (since the book&#8217;s already on to the next\u00a0one, so&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the top 40. \u00a0Hope you like the Weeknd.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/papuvlVeZg8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>1. \u00a0Clean Bandit &#8211; &#8220;Rockabye&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>First,\u00a0a fourth week for Clean Bandit, which matches the run of &#8220;Rather Be&#8221;\u00a0two years ago. \u00a0(When, admittedly, four-week runs were rather less common.) The midweeks have it on course for a fifth week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. \u00a0The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk &#8211; &#8220;Starboy&#8221;<br \/>\n9. \u00a0The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk &#8211; &#8220;I Feel It Coming&#8221;<br \/>\n17. \u00a0The Weeknd &#8211; &#8220;Party Monster&#8221;<br \/>\n26. \u00a0The Weeknd &#8211; &#8220;Rockin'&#8221;<br \/>\n30. \u00a0The Weeknd featuring Kendrick Lamar &#8211; &#8220;Sidewalks&#8221;<br \/>\n39. \u00a0The Weeknd &#8211; &#8220;Reminder&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kBsycvSU6r8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry, he hasn&#8217;t died. \u00a0This is the result\u00a0of the album &#8220;Starboy&#8221; coming out, and getting unusually\u00a0heavy levels of streaming\u00a0for\u00a0an album. \u00a0The result is\u00a0that many of the individual tracks are registering enough streams to chart as singles &#8211; other Weeknd tracks\u00a0can be found at number 43, 47, 51, 53,\u00a055, 68, 73, 74, 76, 78, 79, and 81. \u00a0Technically &#8220;Starboy&#8221; is the official\u00a0single, and it rebounds this week, though it doesn&#8217;t quite recapture its number 2 peak from last month. \u00a0&#8220;I Feel It Coming&#8221; and &#8220;Party Monster&#8221; charted last week after being released as promotional tracks and appearing in the &#8220;MANIA&#8221; album\u00a0medley video above, but both climb this week. \u00a0And then there&#8217;s another three tracks on top of that, which are evidently the ones getting the replays. \u00a0I expect this will calm down next week, but who knows these days?<\/p>\n<p><strong>11. \u00a0Rag&#8217;n&#8217;Bone Man &#8211; &#8220;Human&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L3wKzyIN1yk\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Oh, now this is very good. \u00a0This guy has been releasing records since 2012,\u00a0and in fact the video above has been on YouTube since July, but the\u00a0music industry has him pencilled in for his big breakthrough at the start of next year. \u00a0The delivery is just fantastic, and it&#8217;s already been number 1 in several European countries. \u00a0It&#8217;s angsty stuff, but\u00a0seems to be more about buckling and going into denial under the pressure of responsibility &#8211; or, maybe, just resisting unjustified pressure and unreasonable expectations, depending on how you want to read it. \u00a0There&#8217;s a nice ambiguity to that. \u00a0I like it a lot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-cy78b9uvBs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>14. \u00a0Nevada featuring Mark Morrison &amp; Fetty Wap &#8211; &#8220;The Mack&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up another three.<\/p>\n<p><strong>15. \u00a0Jonas Blue featuring Raye &#8211; &#8220;By Your Said&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AQ4MQ_uhBSs\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This seemed to have peaked at number 19 three weeks ago, but it&#8217;s got a second wind. \u00a0It&#8217;s acquired a video since we last saw it &#8211; I assume that&#8217;s Iceland in the video. \u00a0The\u00a0woman isn&#8217;t Raye, in case you were wondering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8_OIkuwEGtg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>25. \u00a0Tom Zanetti featuring Sadie Ama &#8211; &#8220;You Want Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up nine places, so this could be going somewhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>29. \u00a0Mariah Carey &#8211; &#8220;All I Want For Christmas Is You&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yXQViqx6GMY\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first chart of December, what did you\u00a0<em>think\u00a0<\/em>was going to happen? \u00a0This\u00a0is the tenth straight year that &#8220;All I Want For Christmas Is You&#8221; has returned to the top 40 &#8211; it&#8217;s a\u00a0mainstay of the digital era and now firmly canonised alongside the big guns of yesteryear. \u00a0The midweeks show a load of other old faithfuls will probably be joining it on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NmCFY1oYDeM\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>33. \u00a0John Legend &#8211; &#8220;Love Me Now&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up four places from its\u00a0entry last week.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart&#8230;\u00a0oh, and if you want a sense of the health of the albums market,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/chart-news\/more-money-was-spent-on-vinyl-albums-in-the-uk-last-week-than-digital-downloads__17391\/\" target=\"_blank\">last week saw more albums sold on vinyl than as digital downloads<\/a>. \u00a0Think about that for a minute. \u00a0The Official Chart Company&#8217;s spin is &#8220;glorious resurgence of vinyl&#8221;. \u00a0And vinyl\u00a0<em>has<\/em> seen a resurgence in the last few years, but\u00a0come on now. \u00a0Think what this says about the health of the album download market.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Glory Days&#8221; by Little\u00a0Mix<\/strong> spends a surprising second week at number 1. \u00a0Who knew they were an albums band?<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Before The Dawn&#8221; by Kate Bush<\/strong> at 4. \u00a0This is the live album from her 2014 residency. \u00a0(The chart seems to be following general consensus in crediting it as a Kate Bush album, even though the record sleeve actually\u00a0says &#8220;The KT Fellowship Presents Before The Dawn&#8221;.) \u00a0Top 5\u00a0remains the standard for a Kate\u00a0Bush album this decade. \u00a0Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_256xd9N27o\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;And Dream Of Sheep&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Starboy&#8221; by The Weeknd<\/strong> 5. \u00a0Surprisingly low given its streaming success, but apparently he has a lot of fans who stream instead of buying. \u00a0Still,\u00a0last year&#8217;s album &#8220;Beauty Behind The Madness&#8221; got to number 1, so this is slightly disappointing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Falling In Love&#8221; by Andre Rieu &amp; His Johann Strauss Orchestra<\/strong> at 7. \u00a0What shall we get Granny for Christmas? \u00a0She likes proper music and reads the\u00a0<em>Daily Mail. \u00a0<\/em>Perhaps something by\u00a0Rieu&#8217;s stadium-classical outfit regularly (though not consistently) get their albums this high up the chart. \u00a0Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7RFjp3w-1k0\" target=\"_blank\">a highlight video from his recent concert<\/a>, which he is &#8220;incredibly excited&#8221; to share with us.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Chasing Dreams&#8221; by Bradley Walsh<\/strong> at 10. \u00a0Or perhaps this collection of standards by the presenter of ITV&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Chase<\/em>? \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6vJ7MslAxic\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s the advert.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Night Driver&#8221; by Busted<\/strong> at 13. \u00a0Yes, Busted. \u00a0They only made two studio albums during their\u00a0original run, and that was in\u00a02002-3, but here they are with the obligatory middle age comeback. \u00a0They now fancy themselves as disco, it seems. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7YQ_UY11uMw\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;On What You&#8217;re On&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Classic\u00a0House&#8221; by Pete Tong &amp; The Heritage Orchestra conducted by Jules Buckley<\/strong> at 16. \u00a0Remember that Hacienda classical album? \u00a0Well, now Pete Tong is having a go. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a version of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mKrP9JvT4hg\" target=\"_blank\">Fatboy Slim&#8217;s &#8220;Right Here Right Now&#8221;<\/a>,\u00a0which doesn&#8217;t sound that dissimilar to the original.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;A Wonderful World&#8221; by Susan Boyle<\/strong> at 22. \u00a0This is her sixth studio album, though diminishing returns are setting in. \u00a0It&#8217;s the usual collection of covers, with\u00a0the title track, &#8220;Mull of Kintyre&#8221;, &#8220;When You Wish Upon A Star&#8221; and&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/6xxM3FDEBRdnihHqKr8OQL\">&#8220;Like A Prayer&#8221;<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;4Ever&#8221; by Prince<\/strong> at 24. \u00a0It&#8217;s a\u00a0two-disc compilation, but I guess if you&#8217;re in the market for that, you probably have most of the tracks already. \u00a0There is actually one previously unreleased (i.e., previously only available as a bootleg) track, &#8220;Moonbeam Levels&#8221; &#8211; and hey, it&#8217;s the first Prince compilation to include &#8220;Batdance&#8221;, if that excites you. \u00a0Obviously, none of this is available anywhere to link to, because it&#8217;s Prince.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;This Girl&#8217;s In Love: A Bacharach &amp; David Songbook&#8221; by Rumer<\/strong> at 28. \u00a0That&#8217;s pretty low for a Rumer album; she was making the top three at the start of the decade. \u00a0Not to be confused with her 2010 EP <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rXlC4RxOG-0\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Rumer Sings Bacharach At Christmas&#8221;<\/a>.\u00a0 Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/oZVwkeoW_Xs\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;What The World Needs Now&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;One Voice At Christmas&#8221; by Aled Jones<\/strong> at 30. \u00a0His non-Christmas album &#8220;One Voice&#8221; got to number 3 earlier in the year, so apparently Christmas is a sales-loser for Aled Jones. \u00a0Includes <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/engSQve1CKU\" target=\"_blank\">a cover version of his own hit &#8220;Walking In The Air&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0where he duets with himself as a choirboy. \u00a0You don&#8217;t know this stuff exists unless you start wading down\u00a0to the bottom end of the album chart, and isn&#8217;t your life better for knowing it? \u00a0Since\u00a0people keep forgetting, a reminder that <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wQt6NmOKzYw\" target=\"_blank\">Jones&#8217;s original\u00a0version<\/a> is\u00a0<em>not<\/em> the one you can hear on\u00a0<em>The Snowman<\/em> &#8211; that was performed by <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xb-pX7sIjFY\" target=\"_blank\">an uncredited chorister called\u00a0Peter Auty<\/a> and it was recorded in 1982. \u00a0Jones&#8217;s version was a re-recording made\u00a0for an advert in 1985, by which time Auty&#8217;s voice had broken.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d planned to get another X-Axis review up by now, but it&#8217;s going to be another day or two. \u00a0Anyway, it&#8217;ll be the previous\u00a0Old Man Logan arc (since the book&#8217;s already on to the next\u00a0one, so&#8230;) Meanwhile, the top 40. \u00a0Hope you like the Weeknd. 1. \u00a0Clean Bandit &#8211; &#8220;Rockabye&#8221;\u00a0 First,\u00a0a fourth week for Clean [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612","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=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3614,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions\/3614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}