{"id":4133,"date":"2018-05-07T22:31:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T21:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=4133"},"modified":"2018-05-07T22:31:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T21:31:48","slug":"charts-4-may-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=4133","title":{"rendered":"Charts &#8211; 4 May 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of those weeks where we can feel thankful they changed the rules to stop Ed Sheeran&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Calvin Harris &amp; Dua Lipa &#8211; &#8220;One Kiss&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DkeiKbqa02g\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Three weeks, which makes it Dua Lipa&#8217;s biggest hit, since &#8220;New Rules&#8221; only stayed on top for two. \u00a0And it has a proper video now, too. \u00a0It&#8217;s number one in both sales and streams, so it could be here for a while. \u00a0It heads up a static top four, over Ariana Grande, Drake and Lil Dicky.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. \u00a0Post Malone &#8211; &#8220;Better Now&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>11. \u00a0Post Malone &#8211; &#8220;Paranoid&#8221;<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/7dt6x5M1jzdTEt8oCbisTK\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Time for another album release that would have swamped the charts if it wasn&#8217;t for the three-song cap that they introduced to stop Ed Sheeran spoiling it for everyone else. \u00a0These two tracks both come from Post Malone&#8217;s second album &#8220;Beerbongs &amp; Bentleys&#8221;, which enters at number 1. \u00a0They join the official current single &#8220;Psycho&#8221;, which rebounds to number 6. \u00a0(It peaked at 4 in March, but it&#8217;s been in the top 10 ever since.) \u00a0Clearly, the other album tracks would have swamped the top 40 if they&#8217;d been allowed to.<\/p>\n<p>These three tracks are at 5, 6 and 7 on the streaming chart; on the sales chart, they&#8217;re at 30, 81 and Nowhere. \u00a0That probably shouldn&#8217;t be surprising, since cherrypicking album tracks is much simpler on a streaming service, and this is a genre that does better in streaming to begin with.<\/p>\n<p><strong>28. \u00a0Paloma Faith &#8211; &#8220;Make Your Own Kind of Music&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LHey3FIyujQ\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In contrast, here&#8217;s a track that&#8217;s nowhere on streams, but number 4 on sales. \u00a0That&#8217;s where pure sales will get you. \u00a0The YouTube description tells us that this video is inspired by Paloma Faith&#8217;s life story; I had never realised that advertising Skodas had been such a central part of her life. \u00a0The song was written in the late sixties and has never previously charted in the UK, perhaps because a song about making your own kind of music doesn&#8217;t obviously lend itself to straightforward cover versions such as this one. \u00a0The <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/4ZaAmweDaiOpbkLPty81Zw?si=W7VC443PTYi8yLfzTbNEDQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">best known version is by Cass Elliot<\/a>, which scraped the bottom end of the Billboard top 40 in 1969; the original was recorded the previous year by the Will-O-Bees.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s it for new entries on the singles chart. \u00a0The climbers&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;2002&#8221; by Anne-Marie<\/strong> climbs 8-5. \u00a0Her debut album &#8220;Speak Your Mind&#8221; enters at a very respectable 3.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;I Like It&#8221; by Cardi B featuring Bad Bunny &amp; J Balvin<\/strong> climbs 20-15.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;German&#8221; by EO<\/strong> climbs 24-18 &#8211; this is showing more staying power than I thought it would.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Flames&#8221; by David Guetta featuring Sia<\/strong> finally gets noticed more widely after six weeks on release, and climbs 33-19.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Like I Do&#8221; by David Guetta, Martin Garrix &amp; Brooks<\/strong> climbs 32-29.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Familiar&#8221; by Liam Payne &amp; J Bavlin<\/strong> edges 34-31.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the album chart, we&#8217;ve already mentioned Post Malone at 1 and Anne-Marie at 3&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. \u00a0Blossoms &#8211; &#8220;Cool Like You&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nUx2WMPFIzg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Second album; the first was nominated for the 2017 Mercury and reached number 1. \u00a0This is Killers-adjacent indie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. \u00a0Janelle Monae &#8211; &#8220;Dirty Computer&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PaYvlVR_BEc\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Her first top 10 album, though 2013&#8217;s &#8220;Electric Lady&#8221; reached 14. \u00a0She was also on Fun&#8217;s 2012 number 1 single &#8220;We Are Young&#8221;, if you remember. \u00a0This entire album has a video&#8230; sorry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jdH2Sy-BlNE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;emotion picture&#8221;<\/a>. \u00a0The video above, for &#8220;PYNK&#8221;, has probably attracted more comment for the clothes, but it&#8217;s a good song too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>13. \u00a0DMA&#8217;s &#8211; &#8220;For Now&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_kbD61y6oWU\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Australians with an extensive collection of 80s and 90s British indie pop. \u00a0Their second album; the 2016 debut only reached 36, so this is a big step up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>27. \u00a0Van Morrison &amp; Joey DeFrancesco &#8211; &#8220;You&#8217;re Driving Me Crazy&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KBdreGU4Ds4\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Van Morrison does some more jazz standards, and some of his own back catalogue. \u00a0The reviews suggest it&#8217;s patchy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>26. \u00a0Skindred &#8211; &#8220;Big Tings&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9GkkR6-er4c\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Welsh metal band with a reggae influence &#8211; though this album is reportedly a tack towards radio friendliness. \u00a0Their third album in a row to place between 26 and 29. \u00a0The other two dropped straight out of the top 100 in week two&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>28. \u00a0Matt Cardle &#8211; &#8220;Time To Be Alive&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sRI640zVZTI\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 2010\u00a0<em>X Factor<\/em> winner, who&#8217;s been gone for five years after self-releasing an album in 2013 that made a respectable 11; he&#8217;s back with Sony again now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>30. \u00a0Neil Young &#8211; &#8220;Roxy &#8211; Tonight&#8217;s The Night Live&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reissued live set from 1973.<\/p>\n<p><strong>39. \u00a0Rod Stewart &#8211; &#8220;Handbags &amp; Gladrags &#8211; The Essential Rod Stewart&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZXMMAA6tcMg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not to be confused with &#8220;The Best of Rod Stewart&#8221; (1977), &#8220;Greatest Hits&#8221; (1979), &#8220;The Best Of&#8221; (1994), &#8220;The Story So Far &#8211; The Very Best Of&#8221; (2001), &#8220;Changing Faces &#8211; The Very Best Of&#8221; (2003), &#8220;The Seventies Collection&#8221; (2007), &#8220;The Best Of &#8211; The Great American Songbook&#8221; (2011), or &#8220;Storyteller &#8211; The Complete Anthology&#8221; (2011), though those might explain why most people who might otherwise be in the market for a Rod Stewart compilation have got one already. \u00a0Also, this is a 3-CD compilation, heavy on the personal favourites and missing some of his number one singles. \u00a0Nor does it find room for his 1974 number 12 single &#8220;You Can Make Me Dance Sing Or Anything (Even Take The Dog For A Walk, Mend A Fuse, Fold Away The Ironing Board, Or Any Other Domestic Shortcomings)&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of those weeks where we can feel thankful they changed the rules to stop Ed Sheeran&#8230; 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