{"id":3882,"date":"2017-09-16T19:50:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T18:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2017-09-16T19:50:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T18:50:15","slug":"charts-15-september-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3882","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 15 September 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turnover at the top seems to be returning to something more normal. \u00a0After the epic runs earlier in the year, we&#8217;ve had six different number one singles in the space of ten weeks. \u00a0The latest being&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Sam Smith &#8211; &#8220;Too Good At Goodbyes&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AX8-YzMKZhQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>New entry at number one. \u00a0See, it still happens sometimes. \u00a0This is the lead single from Smith&#8217;s second album, and it&#8217;s already his\u00a0<em>sixth<\/em> number one. \u00a0That makes it sound like the first album was an unstoppable juggernaut, but in fact it&#8217;s a bit more complicated. \u00a02013&#8217;s &#8220;La La La&#8221; was a guest shot on a Naughty Boy single. \u00a02014&#8217;s &#8220;Money On My Mind&#8221; and &#8220;Stay With Me&#8221; were indeed regular singles from the album. \u00a02015&#8217;s &#8220;Lay Me Down&#8221; was a charity release. \u00a0And &#8220;Writing&#8217;s On The Wall&#8221;, later that year, was a non-album Bond theme. \u00a0Still, Bond themes don&#8217;t routinely go to number one, so that was a pretty clear sign that people were waiting for new Sam Smith material.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It&#8217;s number one on sales and two on streams, which is a decent balance. \u00a0It may have helped that Spotify had a video for it on their playlist, though I&#8217;m not sure if video plays actually count towards the singles chart, come to think of it. \u00a0The song is much what you&#8217;d expect from a Sam Smith ballad &#8211; bit middle of the road, but pleasantly plaintive for all that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. \u00a0Zayn featuring Sia &#8211; &#8220;Dusk Till Dawn&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tt2k8PGm-TI\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the lead single from Zayn Malik&#8217;s second album. \u00a0And if he spent the first album ostentatiously backing away from One Direction and trying to convince us that he&#8217;s a bad boy now, this is very much a tack in the other direction. \u00a0Given that the chart positions tailed off rather sharply after his number 1 debut &#8220;Pillowtalk&#8221;, perhaps that shouldn&#8217;t be a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>So for &#8220;Dusk Till Dawn&#8221;, Zayn has got in Sia. \u00a0And together they&#8217;ve&#8230; made a Sia record. \u00a0Thing is, Sia does big belting choruses and has a memorable voice, and Zayn Malik&#8230; used to be in One Direction. \u00a0It&#8217;s not a comparison that does him many favours. \u00a0But it&#8217;s an acceptable second-tier Sia single, I guess.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Havana&#8221; by Camila Cabello featuring Young Thug<\/strong> climbs 11-10, giving Cabello her first top 10 hit as a solo artist. \u00a0<strong>&#8220;Questions&#8221; by Chris Brown<\/strong> is up 16-13.<\/p>\n<p><strong>16. \u00a0Logic featuring Alessia Cara &amp; Khalid &#8211; &#8220;1-800-273-8255&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kb24RrHIbFk\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>1-800-273-8255 is the American National Suicide Prevention Hotline, so that pretty much tells you where this one is going. \u00a0It&#8217;s a good video, considering that in five minutes this sort of thing is always going to veer into melodrama. \u00a0I&#8217;m not entirely sure it&#8217;s the sort of song that calls for guest singers, but it&#8217;s 2017 and that&#8217;s the norm.<\/p>\n<p>Logic&#8217;s been around for a few years, and his album made number 20 in the spring, but this is his first appearance on the singles chart. \u00a0Alessia Cara&#8217;s only solo UK hit is last year&#8217;s number 28\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UKp2CrfmVfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Here&#8221;<\/a>, but she was also on Zedd&#8217;s &#8220;Stay&#8221;, which made the top ten in April. \u00a0Khalid is the same guy who made his chart debut guesting on\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Silence&#8221; by Marshmello<\/strong> when it entered at 39 last week (it climbs to 34 now).<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Bestie&#8221; by Yungen featuring Yxng Bane<\/strong> rebounds to 17 for a new peak (just). \u00a0<strong>&#8220;Lonely Together&#8221; by Avicii featuring Rita Ora<\/strong> is up 35-21, as it seems to be breaking from the pack on his current EP.<\/p>\n<p><strong>27. \u00a0Kelly Clarkson &#8211; &#8220;Piece by Piece&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LqCqYP7hDWI\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Kelly Clarkson only has sporadic hits in the UK, but she does still notch them up from time to time. \u00a0Her last appearance as lead artist was in 2015, when &#8220;Heartbeat Song&#8221; made the top 10. \u00a0Now she&#8217;s back with a new single. \u00a0It&#8217;s called <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Zy6vBxqlapw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Love So Soft&#8221;<\/a>, and it enters this week at number 81.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile&#8230; here&#8217;s a track that&#8217;s been out for over a year, and staggered to 95 on its original release. \u00a0Maybe it works better in America where people are more invested in her celebrity arc (even though the song is self-explanatory &#8211; it&#8217;s about her father leaving her as a child, and her husband restoring her faith in fathers, basically). \u00a0Then again, maybe it&#8217;s just the sort of thing which plays better as a talent show audition piece. \u00a0Which is why it&#8217;s here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yE3D9xt_kGE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">somebody did it on <em>X Factor<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It used to be more common for back catalogue material to chart on the back of an\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> cover, but it&#8217;s been less common of late. \u00a0The 2017 season has only just started, so time will tell if this is an anomaly or a return to previous levels of chart influence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>28. \u00a0Stefflon Don &amp; French Montana &#8211; &#8220;Hurtin&#8217; Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DNdLFbEZC2Y\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the same Stefflon Don who was on &#8220;Instruction&#8221; by Jax Jones, getting her first lead hit. \u00a0&#8220;Instruction&#8221; drops out of the top 40 this week, by the way. \u00a0French Montana&#8217;s &#8220;Unforgettable&#8221;, which had 15 weeks in the top 10 until the rules changes booted it on its way, is still hanging around just inside the top 20.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;If I&#8217;m Lucky&#8221; by Jason DeRulo\u00a0<\/strong>climbs 32-30, and we mentioned Marshmello already.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Sleep Well Beast&#8221; by The National<\/strong> is number 1. \u00a0It&#8217;s the seventh studio album by these indie throwbacks. \u00a0Only the last three charted in the UK, and this is their first number one. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GwZvip416NU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Day I Die&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Nothing But Thieves&#8221; by Broken Machine<\/strong> is number 2. \u00a0That pushes Ed Sheeran down to number 3, for only the second time since his album came out&#8230; twenty-eight weeks ago. \u00a0Anyway, this is more mildly-alt rock. \u00a0The debut album made number 7 a couple of years ago, so this is a step up. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/p9_BsjMi4bM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Sorry&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Hitchhiker&#8221; by Neil Young<\/strong> is number 6. \u00a0Technically this is his thirty-eighth studio album, but it was actually recorded in 1976 and rejected by his label at the time. \u00a0Most of the songs on it have been released elsewhere since then, but not in these\u00a0<em>exact<\/em> versions. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ETOIIWot-3Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Powderfinger&#8221;.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Hippopotamus&#8221; by Sparks<\/strong> is 7. \u00a0A new Sparks album, with a return to their arch art-pop style. \u00a0The Mael brothers haven&#8217;t had a top ten album since 1974 and they now have an average age of seventy. \u00a0Not that you&#8217;d know it from the single below.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oC0rzv1j8Zc\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Out of All This Blue&#8221; by the Waterboys<\/strong> is 8. \u00a0The Waterboys haven&#8217;t had a top 10 album since 1993, but they did make a bit of a chart comeback with their previous album &#8220;Modern Blues&#8221; (number 14 in 2015), so this is less surprising. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/u-1isPjgjjA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;If The Answer Is Yeah&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Sleep No More&#8221; by Jack Savoretti<\/strong> re-enters at 11, after originally making number 6 on release last year. \u00a0Not sure what that&#8217;s about. \u00a0Anyway, here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jEKmSuGQSzQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;We Are Bound&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Native Invader&#8221; by Tori Amos<\/strong> is 16. \u00a0This is Tori Amos in protest mode. \u00a0She was <em>going<\/em> to make an album about the musical traditions of North Carolina, but that was before the election and, well. \u00a0Number 16 is about normal for her these days. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VVx2jNxy8lM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Cloud Riders&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;In The Lonely Hour&#8221; by Sam Smith<\/strong> re-enters at 20, because the single has reminded everyone about him. \u00a0It spent a total of eight weeks at number 1 in 2014 and 2015.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Wake Up Now&#8221; by Nick Mulvey<\/strong>\u00a0is 25. \u00a0This is the guy who had a minor hit with &#8220;Cucurucu&#8221; from his previous album in 2014. \u00a0That album made the top 10, so diminishing returns. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vKIngOqVbBc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Mountain To Move&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Antisocialites&#8221; by Alvvays<\/strong> is 28. \u00a0Canadian indie. \u00a0It&#8217;s their second album, but the first to have any impact in Britain. \u00a0And it&#8217;s pronounced &#8220;always&#8221;. \u00a0I guess it&#8217;s easier to Google this way? \u00a0If you already know that&#8217;s how it&#8217;s spelt? \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZXu6q-6JKjA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Dreams Tonite&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Live at the O2 Arena + Rarities&#8221; by Alter Bridge<\/strong> is 36. \u00a0Self-explanatory.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Will To Power&#8221; by Arch Enemy<\/strong> is 37. \u00a0Swedish metal! \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mjF1rmSV1dM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&#8217;s the title track.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turnover at the top seems to be returning to something more normal. \u00a0After the epic runs earlier in the year, we&#8217;ve had six different number one singles in the space of ten weeks. \u00a0The latest being&#8230; 1. \u00a0Sam Smith &#8211; &#8220;Too Good At Goodbyes&#8221; New entry at number one. \u00a0See, it still happens sometimes. \u00a0This [&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-3882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882","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=3882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3884,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions\/3884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}