{"id":4022,"date":"2018-01-27T21:06:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T21:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2018-01-27T21:06:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T21:06:31","slug":"charts-26-january-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=4022","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 26 January 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look who&#8217;s back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Drake &#8211; &#8220;God&#8217;s Plan&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/6T8cJz5lAqGer9GUHGyelE\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Drake, then. \u00a0I can&#8217;t honestly say Drake does a great deal for me. \u00a0 According to genius.com, this is &#8220;a feel good track that discusses Drake&#8217;s future&#8221;, which is interesting, because it feels to me like blearily meandering locked-groove ennui. \u00a0This is Drake&#8217;s third number one, following &#8220;One Dance&#8221;, which was number one forever in 2016, and his guest vocal on Rihanna&#8217;s &#8220;What&#8217;s My Name&#8221; back in 2010. \u00a0Not many people can have new entries at number one these days, but Drake is one of the rare few. \u00a0It probably does help a bit that &#8220;God&#8217;s Plan&#8221; isn&#8217;t on YouTube, which doesn&#8217;t count towards the chart, thus pushing people towards the streaming services, which do.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It&#8217;s from the &#8220;Scary Hours&#8221; EP which he released without prior warning last Friday, and which seems to be commonly described as his first new material in a year (so apparently we&#8217;re not counting his Louis Vuitton tie-in &#8220;Signs&#8221;, which got to number 14 last June). \u00a0&#8220;Scary Hours&#8221; only has two tracks on it, so it&#8217;s a bit of a stretch to call it an &#8220;EP&#8221;, but I guess if you&#8217;re bundling tracks in the digital era you&#8217;ve got to call it something.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s other new entries&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>21. \u00a0Drake &#8211; &#8220;Diplomatic Immunity&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/3tvkzvUTF0yoq3pdBi81I0\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The other track from &#8220;Scary Hours&#8221;, and I&#8217;m surprised it&#8217;s quite\u00a0<em>this<\/em> far behind. \u00a0It&#8217;s somewhat less commercial, but it&#8217;s a still a new Drake track (and I prefer it, but what do I know?). \u00a0Perhaps Drake has inadvertently re-invented the B-side.<\/p>\n<p><strong>32. \u00a0Mabel featuring Not3s &#8211; &#8220;Fine Line&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GJTtiYMdMtk\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The follow-up to &#8220;Finders Keepers&#8221;, which reached the top ten last year and only just left the top 40. \u00a0This is growing on me, though I could live without the Not3s verse, which plods all over the track&#8217;s liquid shimmering. \u00a0Mabel also guests on the single version of Not3s&#8217; current single &#8220;My Lover&#8221;, which is still around at 17 &#8211; though she doesn&#8217;t get a chart listing because the record company hasn&#8217;t nominated that mix as the lead version.<\/p>\n<p><strong>33. \u00a0Rudimental featuring Jess Glynne, Macklemore &amp; Dan Caplen &#8211; &#8220;These Days&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pjTj-_55WZ8\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Gospel-ish simple-pleasures track which is on the understated side by Rudimental&#8217;s standards, in as much as it resists the temptation to go for the usual celebratory stadium climax and sticks to where the song wants to go. \u00a0The video makes a decent stab of trying to sell us on Jess Glynne and Macklemore as a couple, though you can practically sense the director cursing that there are <em>three<\/em> voices on this track and he&#8217;s got to shoehorn Dan Caplen in somewhere. \u00a0Caplen&#8217;s been signed for a couple of years now, but this is his first chart appearance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>40. \u00a0The Chainsmokers &#8211; &#8220;Sick Boy&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eACohWVwTOc\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s not what I expected from a new Chainsmokers single. \u00a0They&#8217;ve gone a bit emo. \u00a0 This is&#8230; not bad, actually. \u00a0I hope it climbs, because it does deserve better than to wind up as the change-of-direction single that gets stuck at 40.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;IDGAF&#8221; by Dua Lipa<\/strong> climbs 14-4, and is now her second-biggest hit (after the number one &#8220;New Rules&#8221;, obviously)<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Tip Toe&#8221; by Jason Derulo featuring French Montana<\/strong> climbs 8-5.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;This is Me&#8221; by Keala Settle &amp; The\u00a0<em>Greatest Showman<\/em> Ensemble<\/strong> climbs 13-8, a rare top ten hit for a soundtrack single.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Breathe&#8221; by Jax Jones featuring Ina Wroldsen<\/strong> climbs 12-9. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uGhKqb2Ow3E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It has a video now<\/a>, with two dancers in the Natural History Museum at night.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Strangers&#8221; by Sigrid<\/strong> climbs 26-14. \u00a0This is the sales number one, but it&#8217;s struggling on streams.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Feel It Still&#8221; by Portugal. The Man<\/strong> climbs 25-20, finally reaching the top 20 after\u00a0<em>six months<\/em> on the top 100.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Bouff Daddy&#8221; by J Hus<\/strong> climbs 27-26.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Him &amp; I&#8221; by G-Eazy &amp; Halsey<\/strong> climbs 32-27.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Bad&#8221; by Steel Banglez featuring Yungen &amp; Mostack<\/strong> climbs 30-33.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Over on the album chart, the\u00a0<em>Greatest Showman<\/em> soundtrack gets a third week at number one. \u00a0Below that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. \u00a0Fall Out Boy &#8211; &#8220;M A N I A&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jG1JY0rt2Os\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their third number two album (the others were 2013&#8217;s &#8220;Save Rock And Roll&#8221; and 2015&#8217;s &#8220;American Beauty \/ American Psycho&#8221;). \u00a0They&#8217;ve never made it to number one. \u00a0I suspect the track above may not be representative of the album.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. \u00a0First Aid Kit &#8211; &#8220;Ruins&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wp3op-DYFG4\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Swedish folk duo have had two previous hit albums, but this is the first time they&#8217;ve made the top 10. \u00a0The song above is really good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>14. \u00a0Magnum &#8211; &#8220;Lost on the Road to Eternity&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F2dGUQvHNEE\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Veteran B-list rockers who&#8217;ve been around since the 70s and haven&#8217;t been this high up the album chart since 1990. \u00a0They sound much the same as they did then.<\/p>\n<p><strong>39. \u00a0The Go! 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