{"id":3767,"date":"2017-05-16T22:34:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T21:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3767"},"modified":"2017-05-16T22:34:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T21:34:17","slug":"charts-12-may-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3767","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 12 May 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll\u00a0start catching up\u00a0on reviews in the next couple of days. \u00a0But first&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Luis Fonsi &amp; Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber &#8211; &#8220;Despacito (Remix)&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kJQP7kiw5Fk\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->So this is the fifth week running that the number\u00a0one slot has changed hands. \u00a0That&#8217;s a bit more like it,\u00a0even if\u00a0the chart further down remains decidedly sluggish. \u00a0&#8220;Despacito&#8221; entered at 22 two weeks ago and climbed to 4 last week. \u00a0Until now\u00a0the chart has been listing the original\u00a0version, but the bulk of UK sales and streams have been of <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/72UO0v5ESUo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the version with\u00a0Justin Bieber<\/a>. \u00a0So the label has now officially designated that version as the\u00a0lead version of the track, which means that Justin gets his credit &#8211; though in practice\u00a0the chart\u00a0compilers are still counting all versions towards this placing.<\/p>\n<p>Bieber was also number one\u00a0<em>last<\/em> week, as a guest on DJ Khaled&#8217;s &#8220;I&#8217;m The One&#8221; (which drops to 2.) \u00a0If you want to count\u00a0guest shots, that\u00a0makes this\u00a0the second time he&#8217;s replaced himself at\u00a0the top &#8211; which hasn&#8217;t been done before.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the\u00a0remix, there&#8217;s still a lot of Spanish in this track, making it the first foreign-language number one since <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9bZkp7q19f0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Gangnam Style&#8221;<\/a> five years ago. \u00a0The last\u00a0number one in Spanish was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nLAWPrCUQQ0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;La Bamba&#8221;<\/a> in 1987. \u00a0Yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/AMT698ArSfQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;The Ketchup Song&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0had a week in 2002, and no, it doesn&#8217;t count, because the version released in the UK was a mixture of English, Spanish and gibberish. \u00a0(The chorus isn&#8217;t Spanish; the joke is meant to be that it&#8217;s a mangled version of\u00a0&#8220;Rapper&#8217;s Delight&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>Right, let&#8217;s bash through a bunch of climbers now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A7xzXDStQnk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>5. \u00a0Shawn Mendes &#8211; &#8220;There&#8217;s Nothing Holdin&#8217; Me Back&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up 2, after spending a fortnight stuck at 7. \u00a0It&#8217;s now his biggest hit since &#8220;Stitches&#8221; reached number 1 in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CTFtOOh47oo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>8. \u00a0French Montana featuring Swae Lee &#8211; &#8220;Unforgettable&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up four.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3rk6_Ax0mQo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>12. \u00a0J Hus &#8211; &#8220;Did You See&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up another five. \u00a0It&#8217;s been climbing from the lower reaches\u00a0every week since the end of March.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nfs8NYg7yQM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>16. \u00a0Charlie Puth &#8211; &#8220;Attention&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up fifteen, so it looks like the slow start last week was nothing for him to worry about.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z_1WcUAcbgQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>23. \u00a0Disciples &#8211; &#8220;On My Mind&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is making painfully slow progress &#8211; 34-31-28-27-23 &#8211; but it&#8217;s progress nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=exoWGjpx4UM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>24. \u00a0Cheat Codes featuring Demi Lovato &#8211; &#8220;No Promises&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up another two.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25. \u00a0Niall Horan &#8211; &#8220;Slow Hands&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nBmNcLBaPUE\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Highest new entry! \u00a0Niall Horan was in One Direction. \u00a0You might remember his debut single &#8220;This Town&#8221;, which made number 9\u00a0last autumn &#8211; and, to be fair, hung around the top 40\u00a0for two months. \u00a0Still,\u00a0there&#8217;s no doubt that\u00a0we&#8217;re a\u00a0notch below Harry Styles on the priority level here. \u00a0There&#8217;s something\u00a0weird about the production on this thing, which is trying to be somewhat gritty, but feels like\u00a0there are some really abrupt edits on Horan&#8217;s vocal that don&#8217;t fit with the tone at all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>29. \u00a0Jonas Blue featuring William Singe &#8211; &#8220;Mama&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.spotify.com\/?uri=spotify%3Atrack%3A4xlrALxuaCf9yZBHJeTSG6\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen Jonas Blue three times before. \u00a0This is the first chart appearance for William Singe, who started off as a member of <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Z_iEANWzJw0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Collective<\/a>, an Australian boy band who came third in the local version of\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> in 2012. There&#8217;s nothing much here to surprise anyone who&#8217;s heard Jonas Blue before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. \u00a0Kyle featuring Lil Yachty &#8211; &#8220;iSpy&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5XK4v2fgMPU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scraping a new entry by climbing from last week&#8217;s 41. \u00a0Kyle Harvey is a Californian rapper who was\u00a0of no particular\u00a0commercial significance until this track made the American top 5. \u00a0He is only the second Kyle ever to make the top 40, the first being Kyle Falconer, who guested on Mark Ronson&#8217;s &#8220;The Bike Song&#8221; in 2010.\u00a0 \u00a0Lil Yachty\u00a0<em>has<\/em> actually charted before, as a guest on Charli XCX&#8217;x &#8220;After The Afterparty&#8221; last year.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart, Ed Sheeran is not number one any more either!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;For Crying Out Loud&#8221; by Kasabian<\/strong> at 1. \u00a0Their fifth number one, and proud bearer of one of the worst record covers ever seen. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kimPUWSwxIs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;You&#8217;re In Love With A Psycho&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Pollinator&#8221; by Blondie<\/strong> at 4. \u00a0Their highest place since re-forming &#8211; in fact, their highest since &#8220;No Exit&#8221; reached number 3 in 1999. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gaL-G9zVxzk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Long Time&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0(which is, um, rather obviously in the shadow of the hits).<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Lovely Creatures &#8211; The Best of Nick Cave &amp; The Bad Seeds&#8221;<\/strong> at 8. \u00a0Self-explanatory. \u00a0Here&#8217;s their only top 40 hit single, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JquzYr-5bE4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Nature Boy&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Slowdive&#8221; by Slowdive<\/strong> at 16. \u00a0Yes, they&#8217;re back. \u00a0They were last in the\u00a0album chart in 1991 when &#8220;Just For\u00a0A Day&#8221; managed a week at number 32. \u00a0Single:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BxwAPBxc0lU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Sugar\u00a0For The Pill&#8221;<\/a>.\u00a0 (It&#8217;s pretty good, but boy, that&#8217;s a video aesthetic\u00a0I thought had gone out with the ITV Chart Show.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Lost On You&#8221; by LP<\/strong> at 17. \u00a0That&#8217;s singer Laura Pergolizzi, not to be confused with rapper El-P. \u00a0This is her fourth album but the first to make any headway in the UK. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hn3wJ1_1Zsg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Title track.<\/a>\u00a0 (Which is good.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Everybody&#8221; by Logic<\/strong> at 20. \u00a0The rapper,\u00a0making his first appearance on the album\u00a0top 40. \u00a0(His previous album stalled at 47.) \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sxjC4CNG3_c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Black SpiderMan&#8221;<\/a>. \u00a0No hyphen. \u00a0The\u00a0<em>monster<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;This Old Dog&#8221; by Mac Demarco<\/strong> at 21. \u00a0Marginally higher than the number 24 placing of his previous album. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rxaKVeiBiOE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;One\u00a0More Love Song&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;From A Room &#8211; Vol 1&#8221; by Chris Stapleton<\/strong> at 22. \u00a0Country. \u00a0This has glowing reviews, I see. \u00a0It&#8217;s his first chart appearance. \u00a0The entire album seems to be on\u00a0his YouTube channel, so let&#8217;s take the track with the most country-sounding title: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bi9iBKa0Xtw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Last\u00a0Thing I Needed, First Thing This Morning&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Inter Alia&#8221; by At The Drive-In<\/strong> at 30. \u00a0They re-formed\u00a0last year\u00a0after a 16-year break. \u00a0Their only previous chart appearance was with their\u00a0(hitherto) final album &#8220;Relationship of Command&#8221;,\u00a0which made number 33 in 2000. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JoNJ6AQhmFY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Hostage Stamps&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Turn Up The Quiet&#8221; 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