{"id":3695,"date":"2017-03-07T21:29:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T21:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3695"},"modified":"2017-03-07T21:29:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T21:29:42","slug":"charts-3-march-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3695","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 3 March 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay&#8230; so, I was\u00a0<em>planning\u00a0<\/em>to review the <em>Extraordinary X-Men\u00a0<\/em>tie-in issues of\u00a0<em>Inhumans vs X-Men\u00a0<\/em>last week, but with one thing or another I haven&#8217;t got to that yet. \u00a0So we&#8217;d best do the chart post before it gets completely out of date. \u00a0Reviews soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Ed Sheeran &#8211; &#8220;Shape Of You&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mKGsRjbqhHo\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Eight weeks. \u00a0Since the previous number one, &#8220;Rockabye&#8221;, also managed eight (nine, in fact), this matches the all-time record for chart slowness. \u00a0We haven&#8217;t had two eight-week number ones in a row since the 50s, which is practically chart prehistory.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This week saw the release of two new mixes of &#8220;Shape of You&#8221; which are selling well in\u00a0their own right &#8211; one by Major Lazer, and one with Stormzy (a version of which is above &#8211; though it&#8217;s being described as a remix, it&#8217;s really just the same track with a guest verse). \u00a0The Stormzy version\u00a0was\u00a0performed on the Brit Awards as well, just before the start of the chart week. \u00a0Because the chart rules combine all versions of the same song by the same artist, the result is that in its\u00a0eighth week &#8220;Shape of You&#8221; is still pulling in over ten million streams. \u00a0&#8220;Castle on the Hill&#8221; rebounds to 4, while\u00a0&#8220;How Would You Feel (Paean)&#8221;, a little surprisingly, drops from 2 to 11 in its second week. \u00a0The\u00a0<em>previous<\/em> album, &#8220;x&#8221;, climbs back to 3. \u00a0The\u00a0<em>new<\/em> album\u00a0is now out and will be swamping the chart\u00a0on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. \u00a0The Chainsmokers &amp; Coldplay &#8211; &#8220;Something Just Like This&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4u6bWs-ZG0o\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Climbing 28 places, but that&#8217;s hardly surprising because it was only released right at the tail end of the previous chart week, and it was on the Brit Awards. \u00a0It now becomes Coldplay&#8217;s biggest hit single since &#8220;Paradise&#8221; made number 1 in 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. \u00a0Stormzy &#8211; &#8220;Big For Your Boots&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YwVqGAqvekQ\" target=\"_blank\">21. \u00a0Stormzy &#8211; &#8220;Cold&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/0ix3RUQ76mECOKP6LDPy66\" target=\"_blank\">25. \u00a0Stormzy &#8211; &#8220;First Things First&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/3DrMEiTE3yu3yyc6xBDEDz\" target=\"_blank\">29. \u00a0Stormzy &#8211; &#8220;Mr Skeng&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/7MhomISA7KRK6U7KzeV06v\" target=\"_blank\">30. \u00a0Stormzy featuring Kehlani &#8211; &#8220;Cigarettes &amp; Cush&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RqQGUJK7Na4\" target=\"_blank\">37. \u00a0Stormzy &#8211; &#8220;Shut Up&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G6uBpFWt65c\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Right&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So, &#8220;Big For Your Boots&#8221; rebounds \u00a0from 17 to 6 to reach a new peak, thanks partly to exposure on the Brit Awards, and partly to the release of the parent\u00a0album &#8220;Gang Signs &amp; Prayer&#8221;. \u00a0This now becomes his biggest hit single, overtaking the number 8 peak of\u00a0&#8220;Shut Up&#8221; in 2015. \u00a0But wait&#8230; there&#8217;s more. \u00a0Because it turns out that Stormzy is one of\u00a0those rare acts where people stream the entire album, and\u00a0<em>heavily<\/em>. \u00a0&#8220;Shut Up&#8221; re-enters at 37, four other tracks appear in the top 40, and\u00a0everything on the album at least makes the top 100.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t unprecedented. \u00a0Obviously, it wasn&#8217;t possible until the digital era allowed album tracks to qualify for the singles chart if they were getting enough downloads in their own right, and it only became seriously likely to happen once streaming came into play. \u00a0(You\u00a0<em>could<\/em> download all the tracks from an album individually, but why on earth would you want to?) \u00a0In that time, a handful of\u00a0artists have\u00a0seen their entire album make the top 100 singles in the week of release &#8211; Justin Bieber, Beyonce, and The Weeknd. \u00a0Perhaps\u00a0albums will find new life on streaming after all.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, this is going to happen against next week with Ed Sheeran &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.officialcharts.com\/charts\/singles-chart-update\/\" target=\"_blank\">the midweek chart speaks for itself<\/a> &#8211; which is the sort of thing that&#8217;s going to\u00a0raise questions about whether the chart rules are handling this situation properly. \u00a0If all the tracks on an album are being heavily streamed, do you really want them showing up on the singles chart? \u00a0Is that really what the singles chart is supposed to be measuring? \u00a0Or is the basic concept of a single just artificial in the streaming era &#8211; if\u00a0people are listening to all the tracks on an album, and listening to them individually rather than just playing the album the whole way through, why shouldn&#8217;t it swamp the chart?<\/p>\n<p><strong>10. \u00a0Calvin Harris featuring Frank Ocean &amp; Migos &#8211; &#8220;Slide&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WFQqAZBOwfQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The first of ten singles to be released\u00a0this year, which\u00a0basically means he&#8217;s releasing everything from his next album as a single. \u00a0Fair enough, he did that with the last one, and it worked well. \u00a0We&#8217;re off to a slow start here &#8211; his last single, &#8220;My Way&#8221;,\u00a0debuted at number 5 and\u00a0spent three weeks in the top 5. \u00a0But this really isn&#8217;t great. \u00a0Nothing wrong with Calvin Harris trying a different tack, but\u00a0he&#8217;s not somebody you turn to for soul, and Frank Ocean sounds\u00a0half-asleep.<\/p>\n<p>Migos are responsible for &#8220;Bad and Boujee&#8221;, which drops out of the top 40 this week; and Frank Ocean makes only his second appearance in the UK singles chart, the first being a guest appearance on &#8220;No Church In The Wild&#8221;, which scraped to number 37 in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yU6gG-p5FZc\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>18. \u00a0Rag&#8217;N&#8217;Bone Man &#8211; &#8220;Skin&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Climbing another two.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XatXy6ZhKZw\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>24. \u00a0Maroon 5 featuring Future &#8211; &#8220;Cold&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up eight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>33. \u00a0Zedd &amp; Alessia Cara &#8211; &#8220;Stay&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h--P8HzYZ74\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another one for the annals of overly elaborate lyric videos. \u00a0Zedd&#8217;s biggest UK hit was\u00a0in 2014 with &#8220;Stay The Night&#8221; featuring Hayley Williams, which got to number 2; he&#8217;s a couple of mid-table appearances since then, but nothing particularly significant. \u00a0Alessia Cara had a number 28 hit in 2015 with <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UKp2CrfmVfw\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Here&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; you might vaguely remember it for sampling <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4qQyUi4zfDs\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Glory Box&#8221;<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0but her 2016 follow-ups fails to make the\u00a0top 40, so this is something of a UK relaunch for her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ginBV6aeVlc\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>39. \u00a0Martin Jensen &#8211; &#8220;Solo Dance&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up 1, which is a bit more impressive than it sounds given the swarm of Stormzy tracks above it.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Gang Signs &amp; Prayer&#8221; by Stormzy<\/strong> is, obviously, number 1.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The\u00a0<em>Trolls<\/em> OST<\/strong> reaches a new peak of number 4, after twenty weeks on the chart. \u00a0Really. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ru0K8uYEZWw\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Can&#8217;t Stop The Feeling&#8221;.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Hndrxx&#8221; by Future<\/strong> at 21. \u00a0Yes, the same one from the Maroon 5 track above. \u00a0His sixth album, his fourth to chart in the UK; he&#8217;s made the top 10 once, but that was a\u00a0collaboration with Drake. \u00a0In his own right, hie previous best was number 15. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/2Ce5IyMlVRVvN997ZJjJJA\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Selfish&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Drunk&#8221; by Thundercat<\/strong> at 37.<strong> \u00a0<\/strong>He&#8217;s a bass player, probably best known from Suicidal Tendencies. \u00a0This is his third solo album, and the first to chart in the UK. \u00a0Sample track: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/62EmHhZSjEI\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Show You The Way&#8221;<\/a>, featuring Michael McDonald &amp; Kenny Loggins.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Freedom Highway&#8221; by Rhiannon Giddens<\/strong> at 39. \u00a0Folk music. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fxjYBfjwnXc\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Hey B\u00e9b\u00e9&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay&#8230; so, I was\u00a0planning\u00a0to review the Extraordinary X-Men\u00a0tie-in issues of\u00a0Inhumans vs X-Men\u00a0last week, but with one thing or another I haven&#8217;t got to that yet. \u00a0So we&#8217;d best do the chart post before it gets completely out of date. \u00a0Reviews soon. 1. \u00a0Ed Sheeran &#8211; &#8220;Shape Of You&#8221; 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