{"id":3837,"date":"2017-07-31T22:54:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T21:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3837"},"modified":"2017-07-31T22:54:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T21:54:20","slug":"charts-28-july-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3837","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 28 July 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah. \u00a0This looks familiar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kJQP7kiw5Fk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>1. \u00a0Luis Fonsi &amp; Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber &#8211; &#8220;Despacito&#8221;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Returning to number one for a third run, giving it\u00a0a total of ten weeks. \u00a0Last week, &#8220;Despacito&#8221; was hit by the new chart rule which downweights the streams of records which have been on the chart for at least ten weeks (&#8220;Despacito&#8221; has now been here for 15) and which peaked at least three weeks previously. \u00a0Even with that handicap, it was only marginally beaten by DJ Khaled&#8217;s &#8220;Wild Thoughts&#8221;, and now it regains the top spot. \u00a0This is a bit embarrassing all round. \u00a0If &#8220;Wild Thoughts&#8221;\u00a0didn&#8217;t have an asterisk next to it as a legitimate number one before, it certainly does now. \u00a0Returning to number one twice is rare, but not\u00a0totally unheard of in the modern era; Justin\u00a0Bieber did it in 2015 with &#8220;What Do U Mean&#8221;, and &#8220;Happy&#8221; by Pharrell Williams managed\u00a0it too.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing of note in the rest of the top ten. \u00a0<strong>&#8220;Power&#8221;<\/strong><b> by Little Mix<\/b>\u00a0climbs from 8 to 6; <b>&#8220;Pretty Girl&#8221; by Maggie Lindemann<\/b>\u00a0climbs 9 to 8. \u00a0\u00a0<b>&#8220;Sun Comes Up&#8221; by Rudimental featuring James Arthur<\/b>\u00a0climbs 16-10, which\u00a0makes it Rudimental&#8217;s biggest hit since &#8220;Bloodstream&#8221; in 2015. \u00a0And <b>&#8220;Crying in the Club&#8221; by Camila Cabello<\/b>\u00a0is up from 13 to 12.<\/p>\n<p><b>13. \u00a0Louis Tomlinson featuring Bebe Rexha &amp; The Digital Farm Animals &#8211; &#8220;Back To You&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-HjpL-Ns6_A\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This is the second solo chart appearance\u00a0for One Direction&#8217;s Louis\u00a0Tomlinson, the other being &#8220;Just Hold On&#8221;, his collaboration with Steve Aoki, which reached number 2 at Christmas. \u00a0Bebe Rexha has had four &#8220;featuring&#8221; credits but has yet to chart under her own power; even so, she&#8217;s clearly got far more charisma than Tomlinson and I&#8217;m not convinced that this pairing\u00a0does him any favours. \u00a0 Oh yes&#8230; the Digital Farm Animals. \u00a0That&#8217;s a songwriter and producer by the name of Nicholas Gale, and he&#8217;s signed to Simon Cowell&#8217;s label. \u00a0He charted once before last year, when he and Cash Cash took a version of &#8220;Millionaire&#8221; to 25.<\/p>\n<p>Tomlinson signed to Doncaster Rovers\u00a0as a developmental player in 2013-14 in what\u00a0was presumably a publicity stunt;\u00a0he did actually\u00a0play\u00a0a few charity games for their reserves, but that&#8217;s about it. \u00a0At any rate, that accounts for the otherwise baffling decision to film chunks of this video on the Doncaster pitch;\u00a0something tells me they&#8217;ll make a different edit for the internaitonal market.<\/p>\n<p><b>14. \u00a0Linkin Park &#8211; &#8220;In The End&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eVTXPUF4Oz4\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Originally a number 8 hit in 2001, this is here following the suicide\u00a0of singer\u00a0Chester Bennington. \u00a0It&#8217;s not actually their biggest UK hit &#8211; &#8220;What I&#8217;ve Done&#8221; managed a week at number 6 in 2007, and also hung around the chart for longer &#8211; but it&#8217;s clearly seen as the signature hit. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kXYiU_JCYtU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>&#8220;Numb&#8221;<\/b><\/a>\u00a0is at number 20 in its original version, which got to number 14 in 2003 &#8211; I don&#8217;t <em>think<\/em> that includes the version with Jay-Z, which has hitherto been listed separately on the grounds that it has a different artist credit, so there might be some vote-splitting going on there.\u00a0 The albums &#8220;Hybrid Theory&#8221;, &#8220;One More Light&#8221;, &#8220;Meteora&#8221;, &#8220;Minutes to Midnight&#8221; and &#8220;A Thousand Suns&#8221; re-enter the album chart at 4, 5, 7, 15 and 38 respectively.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Know No Better&#8221; by Major Lazer featuring Travis Scott &amp; Camila Cabello<\/b>\u00a0climbs 17-15.<\/p>\n<p><b>16. \u00a0Enrique Iglesias featuring Sean Paul &amp; Matt Terry &#8211; &#8220;Subeme La Radio&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9sg-A-eS6Ig\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This reeks of desperation. \u00a0Not the video above, mind. \u00a0The video above is for the original version of &#8220;Subeme La Radio&#8221;, by Enrique Iglesias featuring Descemer Bueno and Zion &amp; Lennox, a perfectly decent Spanish\/Puerto Rican hit. \u00a0For audiences freaked out by Spanish &#8211; even though\u00a0&#8220;Despacito&#8221; remains\u00a0flavour of the month(s) &#8211; there&#8217;s a Spanglish version which splices in Sean Paul. \u00a0That&#8217;s rarely a good move, but it&#8217;s the sort of\u00a0localisation that&#8217;s becomes relatively standard for non-English tracks with aspirations to cross over to the Anglophone market.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, however, the label\u00a0goes\u00a0a little further and shoehorns in a verse\u00a0by Matt Terry, the winner of last year&#8217;s X-Factor. \u00a0This is his first chart appearance since his winner&#8217;s single\u00a0and it\u00a0seems an odd choice, to put it mildly. \u00a0Now, true enough, the guest\u00a0appearance is a fairly common starting point for a new\u00a0singer &#8211; and it&#8217;s not like winner&#8217;s singles really count. \u00a0But they tried this\u00a0with 2015 winner Louisa Johnson, who\u00a0had a respectable top ten debut on Clean Bandit&#8217;s &#8220;Tears&#8221;. \u00a0Not much has come of it; her three solo singles reached 13, 48 (!) and 32. \u00a0Her\u00a0contractually obligated winner&#8217;s album has yet to appear and the whole thing is starting to look troubled. \u00a0It&#8217;s not\u00a0something Matt Terry should be racing to emulate.<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;New Rules&#8221; by Dua Lipa<\/b>\u00a0climbs 36-19, which is surprising for a single that comes along after the album was already out. \u00a0And\u00a0<b>&#8220;Chasing Highs&#8221; by Alma<\/b>\u00a0moves 25-24. \u00a0And below that, nothing of note.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart, aside from the aforementioned Linkin Park re-entries,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>&#8220;Lust for Life&#8221; by Lana Del Rey<\/b>\u00a0is 1. \u00a0Her third number one album (2015&#8217;s &#8220;Honeymoon&#8221; could only manage 2). \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/eP4eqhWc7sI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The title track<\/a> reached number 38 in May. \u00a0Incidentally, last week&#8217;s number 1 &#8211; &#8220;Night and Day&#8221; by the Vamps &#8211; proves to be an extreme example of a fanbase record, crashing to 35 in\u00a0week two.<\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;Crooked Calypso&#8221; by Paul Heaton &amp; Jacqui Abbott<\/b>\u00a0is 2. \u00a0This is the third album by the\u00a0former members of the Beautiful South;\u00a0all of them made the top 4. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/g74Fb55mPf4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;I Gotta Praise&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;Flower Boy&#8221; by Tyler the Creator<\/b>\u00a0is 9. \u00a0First time he&#8217;s made the top 10. \u00a0The single <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FUXX55WqYZs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Who Dat Boy&#8221; is here<\/a>, but to be honest I took one look at the still (which features somebody else&#8217;s face being sewn onto his) and\u00a0decided not to watch it.<\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;Raskit&#8221; by Dizzee Rascal<\/b>\u00a0at 10. \u00a0His first album in four years and\u00a0a return to the days when he wasn&#8217;t\u00a0blatantly chasing hit singles. \u00a0Predictably,\u00a0the result is that he hasn&#8217;t had any from this\u00a0album, but his credibility will have had a much-needed boost.\u00a0\u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8O0Spn2eaSk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Wot U Gonna Do?&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;What Do You Think About The Car&#8221; by Declan McKenna<\/b>\u00a0at 11. \u00a0Debut album. \u00a0He&#8217;s a teenage songwriter who won\u00a0Glastonbury&#8217;s Emerging Talent Competition\u00a0two years ago. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QHgh77iE6qc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Brazil&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;Wins &amp; Losses&#8221; by Meek Mill<\/b>\u00a0at 21. \u00a0He&#8217;s a rapper. \u00a0His\u00a02015 album got to 13, but 2016&#8217;s &#8220;DC4&#8221;\u00a0missed the album top 40. \u00a0Officially, though, that wasn&#8217;t an album, it was a mixtape. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/oI94HFA_HFk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Whatever You Need&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah. \u00a0This looks familiar. 1. \u00a0Luis Fonsi &amp; Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber &#8211; &#8220;Despacito&#8221; Returning to number one for a third run, giving it\u00a0a total of ten weeks. \u00a0Last week, &#8220;Despacito&#8221; was hit by the new chart rule which downweights the streams of records which have been on the chart for at least ten [&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-3837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837","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=3837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3839,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions\/3839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}