{"id":3895,"date":"2017-09-30T21:06:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T20:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2017-09-30T21:06:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T20:06:24","slug":"charts-29-september-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3895","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 29 September 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll warn you now, there&#8217;s nothing much happening until we reach the bottom end of the top thirty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/J_ub7Etch2U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>1. \u00a0Sam Smith &#8211; &#8220;Too Good at Goodbyes&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three weeks now, which is his longest run at the top, overtaking the Comic Relief re-issue of &#8220;Lay Me Down&#8221; which managed two weeks in 2015. \u00a0It&#8217;s very marginal, though &#8211; his lead was the equivalent of 693 sales &#8211; so he probably won&#8217;t be there much longer.<\/p>\n<p>And now, a long list of tracks which are climbing&#8230;<strong>&#8220;Rockstar&#8221; by Post Malone featuring 21 Savage<\/strong> moves 5-2. \u00a0<strong>&#8220;Havana&#8221; by Camila Cabello featuring Young Thug<\/strong> is up 7-4. \u00a0<strong>&#8220;Lonely Together&#8221; by Avicii featuring Rita Ora<\/strong>\u00a0goes from 10 to 8. \u00a0 \u00a0<strong>&#8220;1-800-273-8255&#8221; by Logic featuring Alessia Cara and Khalid<\/strong> is up from 17 to 12. \u00a0<strong>&#8220;Hurtin&#8217; Me&#8221; by Stefflon Don &amp; French Montana<\/strong> climbs from 20 to 14. \u00a0<strong>&#8220;What Lovers Do&#8221; by Maroon 5 featuring SZA<\/strong>&#8230; oh, hold on, this one&#8217;s got a video now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>18. \u00a0Maroon 5 featuring SZA &#8211; &#8220;What Lovers Do&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Wiio4KoGe8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This is the one that&#8217;s basically a (credited) re-write of &#8220;Sexual&#8221; by Neiked, and never really has a good answer to the obvious question: &#8220;why wouldn&#8217;t you just listen to the original, which was great&#8221;? \u00a0The video is insane, but in a rather charmless way. \u00a0This one actually entered at 23 three weeks ago and it&#8217;s been hovering in the upper twenties since.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Swish Swish&#8221; by Katy Perry featuring Nicki Minaj<\/strong> climbs 22-19. \u00a0<strong>&#8220;Glorious&#8221; by Macklemore featuring Skylar Grey<\/strong> is up from 31 to 23; the album is out this week. \u00a0<strong>&#8220;Silence&#8221; by Marshmello featuring Khalid<\/strong> moves 29-26. \u00a0And\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Heartline&#8221; by Craig David<\/strong> goes 35-28.<\/p>\n<p>Right. \u00a0New entries at last!<\/p>\n<p><strong>29. \u00a0Mabel featuring Kojo Funds &#8211; &#8220;Finders Keepers&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O3TDhPVx1Do\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the first chart appearance for Mabel McVey, though her first single came out in 2015. \u00a0This one doesn&#8217;t do much for me, but she certainly has pedigree &#8211; she&#8217;s the daughter of Neneh Cherry, whose own debut <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JWsRz3TJDEY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Buffalo Stance&#8221;<\/a> reached number 3 back in 1988. \u00a0Her father is Cameron McVey, who was the producer of that single. \u00a0Kojo Funds, also making his first appearance on the chart, is another Londoner, and he&#8217;s a leading light in the Afro-Swing genre.<\/p>\n<p><strong>30. \u00a0Big Shaq &#8211; &#8220;Man&#8217;s Not Hot&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The FULL Roadman Shaq <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FireInTheBooth?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FireInTheBooth<\/a> &#x1f525;&#x1f525;&#x1f602;&#x1f602; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelDapaah?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MichaelDapaah<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CharlieSloth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CharlieSloth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ting goes&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vXgKNhledw\">pic.twitter.com\/vXgKNhledw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BBC Radio 1Xtra (@1Xtra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1Xtra\/status\/905083118301757440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ah, a viral hit. \u00a0We haven&#8217;t had one of those in a while. \u00a0This started off as an appearance on Radio 1Xtra&#8217;s &#8220;Fire in the Booth&#8221; slot, which gives airtime for upcoming rappers to freestyle. \u00a0But Big Shaq &#8211; or Roadman Shaq, depending on who&#8217;s asking &#8211; is a character from Michael Dapaah&#8217;s YouTube series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCtbuBqecjAUJcm27GOJN4Tg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Somewhere in London<\/em><\/a>, which is a UK grime mockumentary. \u00a0The joke isn&#8217;t that Shaq can&#8217;t rap, more that he&#8217;s an plausible-sounding idiot with no self-awareness who takes himself and his image very seriously. \u00a0Some of this depends on you getting the references where he&#8217;s copying other rappers while missing the point, but it&#8217;s his extensive gunfire impersonation that really went viral.<\/p>\n<p>The version you can buy and stream is a re-recording which has been polished up a bit, but it&#8217;s still basically the same with some extra material at the end. \u00a0The backing track, both on the original and the record, is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/f10yTpZzuv4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Let&#8217;s Lurk&#8221; by 67 featuring Giggs<\/a>, which reached number 66 last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>34. \u00a0Ed Sheeran &#8211; &#8220;Perfect&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iKzRIweSBLA\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Re-entering the chart, now that it&#8217;s being promoted as the next official single from the &#8220;\u00f7&#8221; album. \u00a0&#8220;Perfect&#8221; already spent three weeks in the top 10 as an album track during the period when Sheeran swamped the top 40; quite what it means to push it as a single, in these circumstances, is less than clear.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth pointing out that when I say it&#8217;s back in the chart because it&#8217;s being\u00a0<em>promoted<\/em> as a single, I mean it. \u00a0Under the recent chart rule change, a track which is more than ten weeks old, and which has been losing sales faster than the market average for three straight weeks, has its streams downweighted in order to clear it out of the top 40. \u00a0But the rules also allow for a reset in cases like this, where the record previously charted as an album track and is now being promoted to single status. \u00a0That reset is at least a contributing factor to getting it back in the top 40.<\/p>\n<p><strong>36. \u00a0Paloma Faith &#8211; &#8220;Crybaby&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O3mKXSB9G6U\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is the lead single from her new album &#8220;The Architect&#8221;, which &#8211; in her own words &#8211; &#8220;questions whether global conflicts would cease to exist if men successfully dealt with their feelings&#8221;. \u00a0This is not readily obvious from the song itself, which is mainly her telling her man that it&#8217;s okay to cry. \u00a0It&#8217;s in the top 10 sales charts, but dead in the water where streaming is concerned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>37. \u00a0Cardi B &#8211; &#8220;Bodak Yellow&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PEGccV-NOm8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The current US number one, getting some spillover attention, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>On the album chart:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Wonderful Wonderful&#8221; by The Killers<\/strong> at 1. \u00a0Their fifth number one album. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/XO7JGfqPB0s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Run For Cover&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Roll With The Punches&#8221; by Van Morrison<\/strong> at 4. \u00a0The last album got to number 4 as well, so no great surprise here. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PuXJsEXJu7A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Transformation&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Spark&#8221; by Enter Shikari<\/strong> at 5. \u00a0Which is pretty much where Enter Shikari albums usually wind up, give or take a place. \u00a0They&#8217;ve been around for a decade now. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zSFSbZeShL0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Live Outside&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;BCCIV&#8221; by Black Country Communion<\/strong> at 7. \u00a0Fourth album for the rock supergroup (hence BCC IV) and the highest place to date. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KNFmtxlLU4w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Collide&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;V&#8221; by Horrors<\/strong> at 8. \u00a0Their fifth album! \u00a0I&#8217;m sensing a pattern here. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cbOMvegSPpc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Something to Remember Me By&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Death of a King&#8221; by Reverend &amp; The Makers<\/strong> at 11. \u00a0Just outside the top 10 is pretty much their usual territory. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Noe6hpqDdCk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Auld Reekie Blues&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Gemini&#8221; by Macklemore<\/strong> at 13. \u00a0I&#8217;ve mentioned the single already.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Shadows and Reflections&#8221; by Marc Almond<\/strong> at 14. \u00a0That&#8217;s unusually high for a Marc Almond solo album &#8211; aside from combined greatest hits albums with Soft Cell, his albums haven&#8217;t done that well, with the previous peak being number 22 for &#8220;Stories of Johnny&#8221; back in 1985. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/2F6RSMqIh3E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;How Can I Be Sure&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The F-Z of Pop&#8221; by The Fizz<\/strong> at 25. \u00a0This is one of the competing versions of Bucks Fizz, using a different name for legal reasons. \u00a0Single: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/E-aqh6Yh7X8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Dancing in the Rain&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Luciferian Towers&#8221; by Godspeed You! 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