{"id":3684,"date":"2017-02-20T21:44:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T21:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3684"},"modified":"2017-02-20T21:44:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T21:44:13","slug":"charts-17-february-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3684","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 17 February 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is\u00a0a gloriously uneventful chart, so let&#8217;s bang through it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JGwWNGJdvx8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>1. \u00a0Ed Sheeran &#8211; &#8220;Shape of You&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s six weeks, though with the rest of the chart pretty much dead, it&#8217;s not exactly a surprise. \u00a0The logjam in the top 2 is broken, at least, as\u00a0&#8220;Castle on the Hill&#8221; finally drops to 3, with &#8220;Human&#8221; by Rag&#8217;N&#8217;Bone Man\u00a0returning to number 2. \u00a0That&#8217;s thanks to the\u00a0release of the parent album. \u00a0But wait &#8211;\u00a0Ed Sheeran has just released\u00a0<em>another<\/em> single! \u00a0So he could be at the top for some time to come, in one form or another.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7F37r50VUTQ\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>5. \u00a0Zayn &amp; Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades)&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up four.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. \u00a0Katy Perry featuring Skip Marley &#8211; &#8220;Chained to the Rhythm&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8gsGhdZDC-0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Presently a non-album single, but presumably it heralds the start of a campaign towards her next album.\u00a0It&#8217;s been a while &#8211; this her first top ten hit since &#8220;Dark Horse&#8221; back in 2013. \u00a0(You might remember her Olympics single &#8220;Rise&#8221; stalling at 25 last year.) \u00a0Skip Marley is Bob Marley&#8217;s grandson; the song is also co-written by Sia, who puts in an uncredited vocal appearance. \u00a0The song is\u00a0about\u00a0pop music as the opiate of the masses when\u00a0they ought to be thinking about\u00a0politics and stuff. \u00a0Lead-in times, eh?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mgI_pH8TOVY\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>9. \u00a0Dua Lipa &#8211; &#8220;Be The One&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up 1. \u00a0This is now her biggest\u00a0hit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/J5qWnG5RQTk\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>21. \u00a0Train &#8211; &#8220;Play That Song&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ugh. \u00a0Up four.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=57XGVrDF4FI\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>23. \u00a0Tinie Tempah featuring Tinashe &#8211; &#8220;Text From Your Ex&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up one more place. \u00a0No rush, mate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yU6gG-p5FZc\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>25. \u00a0Rag&#8217;N&#8217;Bone Man &#8211; &#8220;Skin&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>other<\/em> Rag&#8217;N&#8217;Bone Man track, which is supposed to be the current single, but made number 35 two weeks ago and\u00a0dropped straight out of the top 40. \u00a0Again, the album promotion helps it back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S-sJp1FfG7Q\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>30. \u00a0Migos &#8211; &#8220;Bad and Boujee&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>37-34-31-32-30. \u00a0That&#8217;s what I call painfully slow climbing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. \u00a0Anne-Marie &#8211; &#8220;Ciao Adios&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bu4VdK_IUo0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Technically her second hit following last year&#8217;s &#8220;Alarm&#8221;, but of course she was uncredited on Clean\u00a0Bandit&#8217;s &#8220;Rockabye&#8221;. \u00a0If the idea is to get her over as a singer, this feels overproduced, and doesn&#8217;t help the cause. \u00a0The song itself is not bad, and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZtePBKOhU9c\" target=\"_blank\">the BBC Live Lounge version<\/a> is much better than the record.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Human&#8221; by Rag&#8217;N&#8217;Bone Man<\/strong> at 1. \u00a0We&#8217;ve covered that.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Rip It Up&#8221; by Thunder<\/strong> at 3. \u00a0Not entirely shocking, since their previous album made the top 10 as well, but this is their second highest placing of all time &#8211; beaten only by 1992&#8217;s &#8220;Laughing on Judgement Day&#8221;. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gj_hLLhz36o\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s the title track.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;One Foot\u00a0Out&#8221; by Nines<\/strong> at 4. \u00a0That&#8217;s the UK rapper, not the Canadian power pop band. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/r2PpLRjaWT8\" target=\"_blank\">Single: &#8220;High Roller&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Devil In&#8221; by Devlin<\/strong> at 16. \u00a0You see what he did there? \u00a0More UK rap. \u00a0It&#8217;s his third album and the highest placing to date. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/TM_AglYnbKM\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Cold Blooded&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Waiting Game&#8221; by Una Healy<\/strong> at 28. \u00a0Because you demanded it, a solo album from one of the Saturdays, who have never\u00a0<em>officially<\/em> split, but haven&#8217;t\u00a0released anything\u00a0since 2013. \u00a0Even so, this seems to be more of a side project, at least in terms of the level of promotion it received in the UK. \u00a0Here she is doing <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/r1ZnPYJXpGU\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Staring At The Moon&#8221;<\/a> on the\u00a0Irish version of\u00a0<em>The Voice<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is\u00a0a gloriously uneventful chart, so let&#8217;s bang through it. 1. \u00a0Ed Sheeran &#8211; &#8220;Shape of You&#8221; That&#8217;s six weeks, though with the rest of the chart pretty much dead, it&#8217;s not exactly a surprise. \u00a0The logjam in the top 2 is broken, at least, as\u00a0&#8220;Castle on the Hill&#8221; finally drops to 3, with &#8220;Human&#8221; [&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-3684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684","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=3684"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3687,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions\/3687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}