{"id":4035,"date":"2018-02-10T20:39:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T20:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=4035"},"modified":"2018-02-10T20:39:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T20:39:52","slug":"charts-10-february-2017-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=4035","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 10 February 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like we&#8217;re going through another quiet phase on the singles chart. \u00a0I&#8217;ll warn you now, the better stuff is mostly down in the middle reaches of the album chart this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Drake &#8211; &#8220;God&#8217;s Plan&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three weeks. \u00a0I still think it&#8217;s a bit of a dirge. \u00a0But the partner track &#8220;Diplomatic Immunity&#8221; drops out of the top 40 entirely this week, so evidently it&#8217;s not just Drake&#8217;s name selling this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>15. \u00a0The Weeknd &amp; Kendrick Lamar &#8211; &#8220;Pray For Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K5xERXE7pxI\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Moving on to the new entries, this is the Weeknd&#8217;s first new material since his last album came out at the tail end of 2016 (leaving aside a guest appearance on a Lana Del Rey track). \u00a0It&#8217;s from the soundtrack to <em>Black Panther<\/em>, but it certainly deserves to be here on its merits as a Weeknd track. \u00a0Soundtrack singles can often sound like random cast-offs, but the &#8220;lonely burden of the heroic leader&#8221; stuff here certainly seems fitting enough for the character. \u00a0It&#8217;s pitched a bit more angsty than I&#8217;d normally imagine Black Panther, but you can certainly imagine this being written specifically for his film.<\/p>\n<p>As fro Kendrick Lamar, he was on the chart already with &#8220;All The Stars&#8221;. \u00a0That jumps 37-28 this week, but I don&#8217;t imagine there&#8217;s a connection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>27. \u00a0B Young &#8211; &#8220;Jumanji&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JFlrNP6_I28\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Your random UK rap single of the week. \u00a0He&#8217;s from Hackney, and the song is by the numbers, but it&#8217;s a pleasantly summery track, I guess.<\/p>\n<p><strong>33. \u00a0Kojo Funds featuring Raye &#8211; &#8220;Check&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ncu3eYkmTxk\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After appearing on Mabel&#8217;s &#8220;Finders Keepers&#8221;, Kojo Funds get a hit of his own. \u00a0Not a million miles from the track above, actually, except this makes heavy use of a sample from Craig David&#8217;s &#8220;7 Days&#8221;. \u00a0That was a number one hit eighteen years ago &#8211; meanwhile, his current single &#8220;I Know You&#8221; drops back to 12. \u00a0As for this track, it probably works better if the sample is less familiar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>39. \u00a0Hailee Steinfeld &amp; Alesso featuring Florida Georgia Line &amp; Watt &#8211; &#8220;Let Me Go&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BQ_0QLL2gqI\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This came out in November and it&#8217;s been hovering just outside the top 40 for ages. \u00a0Alesso hasn&#8217;t had a hit since 2015, Steinfeld has struggled to follow up her top 5 hit &#8220;Starving&#8221; from 2016, and this sounds a bit last year. \u00a0It does form an unlikely vehicle for the top 40 debut of country duo Florida Georgia Line.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s climbers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;These Days&#8221; by Rudimental featuring Jess Glynne, Macklemore &amp; Dan Caplen<\/strong> climbs 11-2, so this is taking off much more than I expected. \u00a0Rudimental haven&#8217;t been this high up since 2015 (nor has Glynne, but then she hasn&#8217;t released anything since 2015), and Macklemore hasn&#8217;t been inside the top 10 since 2013.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;This Is Me&#8221; by Keala Settle &amp; The Greatest Showman Ensemble<\/strong> climbs 8-6.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Feel it Still&#8221; by Portugal. The Man<\/strong> climbs 13-9 as months of persistence finally seem to have reached a tipping point and caught the attention of new listeners.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;My Lover&#8221; by Not3s<\/strong> moves 16-14.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Rewrite the Stars&#8221; by Zac Efron &amp; Zendaya<\/strong>, another\u00a0<em>Greatest Showman<\/em> track, moves 19-16.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Fine Line&#8221; by Mabel featuring Not3s<\/strong> climbs 22-17.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Him &amp; I&#8221; by G-Eazy &amp; Halsey<\/strong> climbs 25-22 &#8211; I keep forgetting this exists, but it&#8217;s been on the chart for six weeks now and it&#8217;s still climbing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Bouff Daddy&#8221; by J Hus<\/strong> moves 27-26.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;All The Stars&#8221; by Kendrick Lamar &amp; SZA<\/strong> moves 37-28, which we&#8217;ve mentioned.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Bad&#8221; by Steel Banglez featuring Yungen, Mostack, Mr Eazi &amp; Not3s<\/strong> moves 30-29.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Over on the album chart,\u00a0<strong>the\u00a0<em>Greatest Showman<\/em> soundtrack<\/strong> gets a fifth week at number one. \u00a0<strong>&#8220;Man of the Woods&#8221; by Justin Timberlake<\/strong> enters at 2 on the back of middling reviews. \u00a0It&#8217;s been over four years since the last Justin Timberlake album, &#8220;The 20\/20 Experience Part 2&#8221;, which also got to number 2. \u00a0Of course, the album market has collapsed since then &#8211; a number 2 placing on the album chart takes less than 20,000 copies these days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. \u00a0Simple Minds &#8211; &#8220;Walk Between Worlds&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xD4jZQqTa4A\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is their eighteenth studio album and, with legacy acts seemingly less affected by the decline of the album format, it&#8217;s their highest charting since 1995. \u00a0Mind you, the single above is a lot better than I was expecting from a 2018 Simple Minds album.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. \u00a0Don Broco &#8211; &#8220;Technology&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GzuSruxHL2g\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Don Broco are a rock band from Bedfordshire, and they are suspicious about technology. \u00a0The video above has had a surprising amount of effort thrown at it for a band who don&#8217;t have hit singles, but the track settles into a rut quickly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>18. \u00a0Hookworms &#8211; &#8220;Microshift&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xufAOZiYF6c\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now there&#8217;s a band name, particularly considering that they started off as more of a psychedelic noise act. \u00a0With their third album (and the first to chart), they&#8217;ve dumped the distortion and made a turn towards accessibility. \u00a0The track above takes a while to get going, but it&#8217;s really good when it gets there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>20. \u00a0Rae Morris &#8211; &#8220;Someone Out There&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oNEkBWq5C1g\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The follow-up to &#8220;Unguarded&#8221;, which reached the top 10 in 2015 &#8211; making a number 20 placing a little disappointing. \u00a0Perhaps this falls between the two stools of the singles and album markets, but I&#8217;d have thought the track above could have been a hit with the right promotion (and a bit of luck). \u00a0It&#8217;s worth a play.<\/p>\n<p><strong>29. \u00a0Saxon &#8211; &#8220;Thunderbolt&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BXhXjKigrW0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of\u00a0<em>course<\/em> Saxon have made an album called &#8220;Thunderbolt&#8221;. \u00a0They&#8217;re Saxon. \u00a0It&#8217;s amazing they haven&#8217;t made an album called &#8220;Thunderbolt&#8221; before. \u00a0Previous albums include &#8220;Wheels of Steel&#8221;, &#8220;Crusader&#8221; and &#8220;Battering Ram&#8221;. \u00a0Saxon had an initial run from 1980 to 1988, and started release new albums again in 2013 &#8211; but this is the first time they&#8217;ve made the album top 40 since then. \u00a0For better or worse, they still sound like an 80s metal band, and why would you want them to sound like anything else?<\/p>\n<p><strong>30. \u00a0Field Music &#8211; &#8220;Open Here&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O44fNIhz1XY\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Their second album to make the chart, and a slight step up from the previous one (it got to 36). \u00a0I really need to listen to these guys more often, as I always suspect they&#8217;d repay a bit more effort on my part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like we&#8217;re going through another quiet phase on the singles chart. \u00a0I&#8217;ll warn you now, the better stuff is mostly down in the middle reaches of the album chart this week. 1. \u00a0Drake &#8211; 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