{"id":3853,"date":"2017-08-13T20:55:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T19:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3853"},"modified":"2017-08-13T20:55:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T19:55:51","slug":"charts-11-august-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3853","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 11 August 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Movement!<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Calvin Harris featuring Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry &amp; Big Sean &#8211; &#8220;Feels&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ozv4q2ov3Mk\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re a good way into August, and here&#8217;s the eighth number one of 2017. \u00a0And for the second time in a month, it&#8217;s number one with an asterisk, because\u00a0&#8220;Despacito&#8221; remains number 1 on both the sales and the streaming charts. \u00a0It&#8217;s purely the downweighting of &#8220;Despacito&#8221; streams (under the rule that applies to long-running hits which have passed their peak) that allows &#8220;Feels&#8221; to be number one. \u00a0But since &#8220;Despacito&#8221; drops to 4 this week on the main chart, it does looks like we&#8217;re finally rid of it. \u00a0&#8220;Feels&#8221; probably isn&#8217;t going to be here long either &#8211; it&#8217;s been out for two months, and it climbed 21-21-6-4-4-4-3-1 to get here, so it seems unlikely that a long run lies ahead of it. \u00a0But who knows, these days?<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This was the fourth single from Harris&#8217;s self-explanatory album &#8220;Funk Wav Bounces Vol 1&#8221;, which until now was looking like a bit of an underperformer on the singles chart &#8211; &#8220;Slide&#8221; peaked at 10, &#8220;Heatstroke&#8221; at 25, and the promotional single &#8220;Rollin&#8221; didn&#8217;t even make the top 40. \u00a0At one point, the idea was supposedly to release every track as a single and basically treat the album as a hits collection. \u00a0Sales did not justify this course. \u00a0But &#8220;Feels&#8221; is probably the most successful track to emerge from Harris&#8217;s MOR funk direction, and it gives him his eighth number one &#8211; the others being Dizzee Rascal&#8217;s &#8220;Dance Wiv Me&#8221; (2008), &#8220;I&#8217;m Not Alone&#8221; (2009), Rihanna&#8217;s &#8220;We Found Love&#8221; (2011), \u00a0&#8220;Sweet Nothing&#8221; (2012), &#8220;Under Control&#8221; (2013), &#8220;Summer&#8221; (2014) and &#8220;Blame&#8221; (2014). \u00a0So it&#8217;s been a while, but that&#8217;s a nine year span now.<\/p>\n<p>Pharrell Williams gets his third number one, after Daft Punk&#8217;s &#8220;Get Lucky&#8221; and his own &#8220;Happy&#8221;, both from 2013. \u00a0Katy Perry can probably count herself lucky for getting a technical fifth number one to add to &#8220;I Kissed A Girl&#8221; (2008), &#8220;California Gurls&#8221; (2010), &#8220;Part of Me&#8221; (2012) and &#8220;Roar&#8221; (2013). \u00a0And Big Sean gets his first number one, largely from being in the right place at the right time.<\/p>\n<p>Below this, it&#8217;s a quiet chart until we reach the very bottom. \u00a0A lot of climbers, but mostly incremental.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CTFtOOh47oo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>&#8220;Unforgettable&#8221; by French Montana featuring Swae Lee<\/strong><\/a> climbs 4-2. \u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k2qgadSvNyU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;New Rules&#8221; by Dua Lipa<\/a><\/strong> moves 9-5, for her first top five hit. \u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ts0znVDdzbw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Sun Comes Up&#8221; by Rudimental featuring James Arthur<\/a><\/strong> climbs 8-6.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9sg-A-eS6Ig\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>&#8220;Subeme La Radio&#8221; by Enrique Iglesias featuring Sean Paul &amp; Matt Terry<\/strong><\/a> is up 12-10, which gives Enrique Iglesias his first top ten hit in three years. \u00a0(At present, this is overwhelmingly a sales track &#8211; it&#8217;s only at 33 on streams &#8211; which suggests that the Matt Terry <em>X Factor\u00a0<\/em>fans are turning out.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-HjpL-Ns6_A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>&#8220;Back To You&#8221; by Louis Tomlinson featuring Bebe Rexha &amp; The Digital Farm Animals<\/strong><\/a> moves 14-12, thus overtaking 2016&#8217;s &#8220;Me Myself and I&#8221; as the biggest Bebe Rexha hit. \u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-MsvER1dpjM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Sorry Not Sorry&#8221; by Demi Lovato<\/a><\/strong> goes 16-14, while the rather better\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/MQXLpSl26q4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>&#8220;Instruction&#8221; by Jax Jones featuring Demi Lovato &amp; Stefflon Don<\/strong><\/a> goes 22-16. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-iA-MHxa8C8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>&#8220;Rain&#8221; by The Script<\/strong><\/a> climbs a more impressive 31-17, and I suspect it&#8217;s going further, since the Script can usually manage one top ten hit per album. \u00a0This is another sales-driven hit: 4 on sales, 55 on streams. \u00a0\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wnJ6LuUFpMo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Mi Gente&#8221; by J Balvin &amp; Willy William<\/a><\/strong> climbs 21-19. \u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9UQoHSo9-Io\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Bestie&#8221; by Yungen featuring Yxng Bane<\/a><\/strong> is up 30-24. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VcyFfcJbyeM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>&#8220;XO Tour Llife3&#8243;by Lil Uzi Vert<\/strong><\/a> moves 29-27. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SC4xMk98Pdc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>&#8220;Congratulations&#8221; by Post Malone &amp; Quavo<\/strong><\/a> is 37-29. \u00a0And\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qBB_QOZNEdc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Most Girls&#8221; by Hailee Steinfeld<\/a><\/strong> goes 38-34.<\/p>\n<p>Right. \u00a0Time for this week&#8217;s highest new entry!<\/p>\n<p><strong>35. \u00a0Charli XCX &#8211; &#8220;Boys&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mPRy1B4t5YA\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Charli XCX was for many years a strange anomaly in the music industry &#8211; somebody working in pop who gets good reviews, doesn&#8217;t have hits, and is still here anyway. \u00a0She has a technical number one to her name because she was given a &#8220;featuring&#8221; credit on the UK release Icona Pop&#8217;s &#8220;I Love It&#8221; (which she wrote). \u00a0She did manage two top ten hits from her previous album &#8211; &#8220;Boom Clap&#8221; and &#8220;Doing It&#8221;. \u00a0But the lead single from this album &#8211; &#8220;After the Afterparty&#8221; &#8211; couldn&#8217;t get past number 29, and that was back in January. \u00a0So it&#8217;s been more than six months between fully promoted singles for this album, and that&#8217;s not a huge sign of confidence. \u00a0A lot of celebrity supporters in the video, though, and it&#8217;s getting reviews. \u00a0She always does, though. \u00a0Personally, I get a lot of ironic distance from tracks like this, but that&#8217;s not how her supporters seem to view her.<\/p>\n<p><strong>36. \u00a0Duke Dumont &amp; Gorgon City featuring Naations &#8211; &#8220;Real Life&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rmwArYsGzdY\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>House music. \u00a0It&#8217;s&#8230; a cyberbullying video, I guess? \u00a0People spend a lot of time looking at their phones, I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve noticed. \u00a0Duke Dumont had a couple of number 1s in 2013-14 but this is the first time we&#8217;ve seen him in a couple of years; Gorgon City hasn&#8217;t been around since 2014 either. \u00a0Making their first appearance in the top 40, Naations is a duo consisting of producer Nicky Night Time and singer Nat Dunn &#8211; their own single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eitPEuktiVs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Alive&#8221;<\/a> is here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. \u00a0Martin Garrix &amp; Troye Sivan &#8211; &#8220;There For You&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pNNMr5glICM\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>School of Major Lazer, basically. \u00a0Garrix has had plenty of previous hits, including the 2013 number 1 &#8220;Animals&#8221; and this year&#8217;s Dua Lipa collab &#8220;Scared To Be Lonely&#8221;. \u00a0Troye Sivan is making his first top 40 appearance &#8211; he&#8217;s an Australian\/South African singer. \u00a0He played the young Wolverine in\u00a0<em>X-Men Origins: Wolverine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;\u00f7&#8221; by Ed Sheeran<\/strong>\u00a0returns to number 1 yet again, for its fourth run and its fifteenth total week. \u00a0It&#8217;s been out for 23 weeks now and it&#8217;s still never been lower than 3.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Adios&#8221; by Glen Campbell<\/strong>, which came out in June and was still hanging around the chart, rebound to a new peak of 2 following his death during the week.<\/li>\n<li>A 30th anniversary re-issue of\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Hysteria&#8221; by Def Leppard<\/strong> is 14. \u00a0Originally a number 1 in 1987. \u00a0The biggest hit single was <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ecFPU--vvf0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Animal&#8221;<\/a>, which reached number 6, and to be honest is better than I remembered it being.<\/li>\n<li>And <strong>&#8220;Pop Voodoo&#8221; by Black Grape<\/strong> is 15. \u00a0It&#8217;s a 20th anniversary reunion album. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/x6A96gcAL_I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">title track<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movement! 1. \u00a0Calvin Harris featuring Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry &amp; Big Sean &#8211; &#8220;Feels&#8221; We&#8217;re a good way into August, and here&#8217;s the eighth number one of 2017. \u00a0And for the second time in a month, it&#8217;s number one with an asterisk, because\u00a0&#8220;Despacito&#8221; remains number 1 on both the sales and the streaming charts. \u00a0It&#8217;s [&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-3853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853","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=3853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3856,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3853\/revisions\/3856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}